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"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
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    "The library was my salvation"
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    "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
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    The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
  4. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
  5. "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
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    "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
  6. "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
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    "I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
  7. "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
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    "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
  8. “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
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    “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
  9. “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
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    “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
  10. A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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    A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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    "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
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