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"The library was my salvation"
Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood
  1. "The library was my salvation"
    01:07
    "The library was my salvation"
  2. "This book presented another kind of representation"
    01:37
    "This book presented another kind of representation"
  3. "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
    02:38
    "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
  4. "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
    02:00
    "Audiobooks on the walk - tick!"
  5. "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
    02:06
    "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
  6. “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
    02:06
    “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
  7. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
    03:33
    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
  8. "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
    01:13
    "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
  9. “Both me and him were in tears”
    01:45
    “Both me and him were in tears”
  10. A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
    46:30
    A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
  11. A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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    A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
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