Close menu
BBC Scotland
Authors Live

Audio & Video

You must enable JavaScript to play content
How Books Start
Nikesh tells us how he gets ideas for books.
  1. How Books Start
    06:40
    How Books Start
  2. Two of David's novels
    05:49
    Two of David's novels
  3. The local library
    06:12
    The local library
  4. Imagination
    04:48
    Imagination
  5. The power of words
    05:31
    The power of words
  6. Starting as a writer
    03:55
    Starting as a writer
  7. Q&A with David Almond
    05:15
    Q&A with David Almond
  8. More Q&A with David Almond
    06:48
    More Q&A with David Almond
  9. What's Sputnik up to?
    00:32
    What's Sputnik up to?
  10. Storyboard
    03:26
    Storyboard
  11. Characters and Themes
    04:51
    Characters and Themes
  12. Discovering New Words
    03:16
    Discovering New Words
  13. Introduction to the Twitchers
    05:50
    Introduction to the Twitchers
  14. Cracking questions
    02:08
    Cracking questions
  15. Reluctant reader to avid writer
    08:03
    Reluctant reader to avid writer
  16. Read a long
    04:36
    Read a long
  17. Chris McQueer – reading
    03:07
    Chris McQueer – reading
  18. Drawing Bugbops
    10:18
    Drawing Bugbops
    19. Now playing
    Up next