Blake morrison

I don’t remember how I got into reading. Neither of my parents were big readers, and we didn’t have bookshelves at home – but I loved visiting the library. I could spend hours there, completely lost i

We’ve got a really close-knit family. My relationship with my parents has always been really good. Now I hold up my parents as models of how to raise my own children. My children are really young at t

I would give my younger self a cuddle and tell him it’s going to be OK. I had a very happy, normal childhood, but it’s a tough age, 16, isn’t it? You’re coming out of all that hormonal stuff and into

When I was aged 10, the farmers used to come round the schools to pick volunteers to work on the farms during the summer holidays, mainly to help bring in the harvest. The country was still building u

At 16 I was most interested in music and boys. I went to the BRIT School. So around 16, it was kind of that transition into, do I want to go to college for music? Or should I think about just leaving

If you’re mourning your youth, pick up a novel featuring a fierce woman of a certain vintage, says author Louise Candlish