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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"
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- How To Be A Man
- New Heroes: A Search For Role Models In Difficult Times
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- 鈥淚t wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out鈥
- 鈥淏lack fatherhood is definitely something we don鈥檛 see enough鈥
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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