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"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
- "The library was my salvation"
- 鈥淏oth me and him were in tears鈥
- "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
- A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
- 鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
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