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Cardboard Cowboys reading
Brian reads from the opening chapter of Cardboard Cowboys.
  1. Cardboard Cowboys reading
    05:01
    Cardboard Cowboys reading
  2. Ghosts of Heaven
    02:56
    Ghosts of Heaven
  3. Spirals and cave art
    02:59
    Spirals and cave art
  4. The beginning of writing
    01:47
    The beginning of writing
  5. The teenage brain
    05:51
    The teenage brain
  6. Writing realistically
    01:59
    Writing realistically
  7. Reading
    03:16
    Reading
  8. Into a dark cave
    01:36
    Into a dark cave
  9. Questions near
    05:54
    Questions near
  10. Questions far
    02:42
    Questions far
  11. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  12. Relationship Behaviour
    01:57
    Relationship Behaviour
  13. Questions from schools
    06:15
    Questions from schools
  14. Where The Heart Should Be
    06:14
    Where The Heart Should Be
  15. Ideas
    03:35
    Ideas
  16. Manjeet’s writing process
    07:37
    Manjeet’s writing process
  17. Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
    02:52
    Enthusiasm for Scots and Gaelic
  18. Early drawings
    00:49
    Early drawings
  19. Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
    03:47
    Reading of The Squirrels Who Squabbled
  20. Working with young writers
    01:12
    Working with young writers
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