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"It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
Shahidha Bari, Naoise Dolan and Kate Davies discuss the impact of Fifty Shades of Grey
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    "It made it acceptable to talk about kinky sex"
  2. "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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    "I'd only read a handful of recipe books when I was asked to write one"
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  7. "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
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    "I spent a lot of my youth writing my mother's stories down"
  8. "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
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    "How you perceive things and how you are perceived can be at such odds"
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    A Big Book Weekend chat with Douglas Stuart
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