"It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"

"Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"

"I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"

"It was an all-consuming masculinity"

鈥淏lack fatherhood is definitely something we don鈥檛 see enough鈥�

"I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"

"I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"

"How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"

"This book presented another kind of representation"

"The library was my salvation"

鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥�

鈥淏oth me and him were in tears鈥�

"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"

"I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"