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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"
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
- “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
- "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
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- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
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- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
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- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
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