Highlights
Watch our favourite moments with authors at Big Book Weekend.
"Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
Greg Davies receives bibliotherapy advice from Ella Berthoud.
"I didn't realise how quietly rebellious I was being"
Grace Dent says she wants to write about food in a way that applies to everyone
"It was an all-consuming masculinity"
Russell Kane reflects on the legacy of growing up with an alpha male father
“Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
Candice Brathwaite wants to see black fatherhood positively uplifted in film, TV and books
"I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
Douglas Stuart spent 10 years working on writing that would became his novel Shuggie Bain
"I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
Jack Monroe wants to help people with little previous knowledge to learn how to cook.
"How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
Ayisha Malik recalls a startling encounter she and a friend had in a Dorset cafe
"This book presented another kind of representation"
Cry, the Beloved Country was an eye-opening O-Level English read for Sir Lenny Henry
"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
“It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
Alex Wheatle on how he learned to be comfortable with feelings of vulnerability as a man
"It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
Shahidha Bari, Naoise Dolan and Kate Davies discuss the impact of Fifty Shades of Grey
“Both me and him were in tears”
Frank Gardner reflects on meeting a real life hero, a doctor caring for Covid patients
"It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
Ian Rankin says what is most important is what crime fiction tells us about society.
"I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
Growing up in the 1980s, Douglas Stuart had little access to the wider gay culture
