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Greg Davies receives bibliotherapy advice from Ella Berthoud.

Grace Dent says she wants to write about food in a way that applies to everyone

Russell Kane reflects on the legacy of growing up with an alpha male father

Candice Brathwaite wants to see black fatherhood positively uplifted in film, TV and books

Douglas Stuart spent 10 years working on writing that would became his novel Shuggie Bain

Jack Monroe wants to help people with little previous knowledge to learn how to cook.

Ayisha Malik recalls a startling encounter she and a friend had in a Dorset cafe

Cry, the Beloved Country was an eye-opening O-Level English read for Sir Lenny Henry

Author Val McDermid on the huge role reading played in her childhood

Alex Wheatle on how he learned to be comfortable with feelings of vulnerability as a man

Shahidha Bari, Naoise Dolan and Kate Davies discuss the impact of Fifty Shades of Grey

Frank Gardner reflects on meeting a real life hero, a doctor caring for Covid patients

Ian Rankin says what is most important is what crime fiction tells us about society.

Growing up in the 1980s, Douglas Stuart had little access to the wider gay culture