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"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 spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
- “Both me and him were in tears”
- "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- "I never knew more than the four streets that I lived on"
- "This book presented another kind of representation"
- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
- "It was an all-consuming masculinity"
- “It wasn't just one night that I cried my eyes out”
- "It doesn't bother me if people work out on page one who the killer is"
- “Black fatherhood is definitely something we don’t see enough”
Featured Collections
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- A Big Book Chat with Sir Lenny Henry
- A Big Book Chat with Val McDermid
- A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
- British Country Life: Heaven Or Hell?
- Digging In: How Our Food Shapes Our Lives
- How To Be A Man
- Is It Time To Bin The Books On Parenting?
- The Secrets Of Good Sex
- The Truth About Lies: Why We Love A Liar
- These Books Might Save Your Life: Brilliant Reads For Bleak Times