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Posts Tagged ‘The Good Books’

The Good Books, Angie Spoto: ‘I re-read The Hobbit and fell in love with it all over again’

By Ellie Forbes | September 19, 2024

Angie Spoto on the book she recommends to everyone, reading the books of her childhood to her son, and her favourite place to read.    The first book I remember reading: Tolkien’s The Hobbit and The Lord of Rings – I read them so fast when I was a kid. I couldn’t get enough of…

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The Good Books, J.D. Oswald: ‘Realising you can stop reading something you don’t enjoy and pick up something else is liberating’

By Ellie Forbes | September 12, 2024

J.D. Oswald on his memories of reading as a child, how he doesn’t enjoy Dickens and becoming addicted to audiobooks.    The first book I remember reading: I devoured books from the moment I was first able to read them myself, having been read to by my parents from a very early age. I have…

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The Good Books, Catherine Hokin: ‘I come from a working class background which prized education, our house was full of books’

By Ellie Forbes | September 9, 2024

Catherine Hokin on the books of her childhood, her best books of the year so far, and reading in rainy Glasgow.   The first book I remember reading: I’ve loved stories since as long as I can remember – I come from a working class background which prized education and our house was full of…

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The Good Books, Damian Barr: ‘James Baldwin’s voice is as urgent now as it ever was’

By Ellie Forbes | September 4, 2024

Damian Barr on reading for the Big Scottish Book Club, his love of Jackie Kay’s latest poetry and being inspired by James Baldwin.    The first book I remember reading: The answer to this shifts – like so many memories. Beyond Peter and Jane…it would be a memory of being read to. At primary school,…

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The Good Books, Ali Millar: ‘I’ve tried and tried to get into Jane Austen, but I just can’t’

By Ellie Forbes | August 26, 2024

Ali Millar on her best books of the year, why she can’t get into Jane Austen and being inspired by Rachel Cusk.   The first book I remember reading: I learnt to read very young, so I don’t remember reading specific books until I was about five. But I do remember my mother reading Jane…

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The Good Books, Margaret McDonald: ‘Jackie Kay is my absolute idol’

By Ellie Forbes | August 22, 2024

Margaret McDonald on her love of The Hunger Games, her favourite books of the year so far, and falling in love with Jackie Kay.    The first book I remember reading: Probably not the first books I ever read in my life, but it has to be Mates Dates by Cathy Hopkins. That entire series had me in…

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The Good Books, Lydia Travers: ‘Agatha Christie and anyone from the Golden Age of Detective Fiction was an inspiration’

By Ellie Forbes | August 6, 2024

Lydia Travers on her love of historical novels, her favourite books of the year so far, and being inspired by Agatha Christie.   The first book I remember reading: It would have been an Enid Blyton. She was hugely popular then. I can’t remember which was the first of hers I read, but I do…

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The Good Books, Daniel Aubrey: ‘I started writing crime fiction because of Harlan Coben. Damn, that man can write a plot twist’

By Ellie Forbes | July 30, 2024

Daniel Aubrey has been shortlisted for the Bloody Scotland Debut Prize with his crime fiction novel, Dark Island.    The first book I remember reading: It was a book called Time Rope. I must have been about eight or nine at the time, and I was absolutely hooked. It was a trilogy, I think, but…

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The Good Books, Heather Critchlow: ‘The moment I learnt to read still seems magical’

By Ellie Forbes | July 29, 2024

Heather Critchlow on learning to read as a child, reading until she falls asleep and the book she recommends to everyone.   The first book I remember reading: Little Bear Stories – I still remember the first two lines (It is cold. Look at the snow.) Every morning when I was learning to read, I’d…

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The Good Books, Helen Graham: I’ve read and loved all of Maggie O’Farrell novels, sometimes being moved to tears’

By Ellie Forbes | July 22, 2024

Helen Graham on being inspired by Maggie O’Farrell, her favourite books of the year, and her fascination with the world of plants and their healing properties.   The first book I remember reading: I can still feel the heft of a hardback copy of Alice in Wonderland I was given when I was about six.…

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