Fantasy Book Swap19 Aug

Ep 57 Lost boys and celebrity rivers with Tajinder Hayer

Ali’s choice: The Borribles by Michael de Larrabeiti

Taj’s choice: The Blackthorn Branch by Elen Caldecott

Ebbs and Flows by Tajinder on Ragged Edge Productions’ website

Taj’s episode of Zog: The Great Gnome Games

Ali’s article on The Borribles, Punk and Protest can be read in this edition of Vector, the BSFA’s journal.

SUS laws

Media mentioned in this episode

The Warriors

Assault on Precinct 13

The Tribe

Mad Max: Beyond the Thunderdome

You can use the TfL Walking website to follow the route from Angel to Farringdon that Oliver Twist and the Artful Dodger walked to Fagin’s den.

Three Men in a Boat and The Wind in the Willows are two classics of leisurely life on the river. Former guest Sandra Bond’s Three Men in Orbit relocates Jerome K. Jerome’s characters in space!

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Watership Down by Richard Adams

The Snow Spider by Jenny Nimmo

Elidor by Alan Garner

Aru Shah and the End of Time I thoroughly recommend Sarwat Chadda’s Ash Mistry series as another brilliant use of Indian traditional stories for children’s fantasy.

The Mahabharata and Ramayana are key texts that are the basis of spiritual practices that originated in India

Edgelands by Paul Farley and Michael Symonds Roberts

Taj’s webpage at Lancaster University

My Buy me a coffee link buymeacoffee.com/alibaker68e

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Ep 58: A Real Boy with Gary Couzens

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Ep 56: Weird Science with Dr Annie Czajkowski

Annie’s choice:The Girl with the Silver Eyes by Willo Davis Roberts Ali’s choice: The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge A short piece by Willo Davis Roberts on writing mysteries for young people Annie has...

26 Jul 1h 21min

Episode 55: Time slips and haunting with Elen Caldecott

Elen’s choice: A Traveller in Time by Alison Uttley Ali’s choice: The Haunting of Aveline Jones by Phil Hickes Elen’s recently-published text book: Writing for Young People: Critical Readings and Disc...

5 Jul 1h 11min

Ep 54 Minisode British Fantasy Society Award shortlist

Hello friends! Fantasy Book Swap has been nominated for a British Fantasy Society Award for Best Audio- Non-Fiction. The others in the shortlist are: Breaking the Glass Slipper, a previous winner and ...

6 Jun 2min

Ep 53: Lord of the Rings, but with mice with C. L. McCartney

Chris’s choice: Mossflower by Brian Jacques Ali’s choice: The Spick and the Span by Pil Van Martin, longlisted for the Carnegie award Mossflower cover art for the 1989 Red Lion edition by Pete Lyon Ca...

17 Mai 1h 21min

Ep 52: Team Binabik with Stewart Hotston

Stewart Hotston is the chair of the BSFA. Stewart’s choice: Memory, Sorrow and Thorn by Tad Williams (First in the Dragonbone Chair trilogy. It is 5 1/2 cm deep. You can see the original cover on Tad ...

3 Mai 1h 11min

Ep 51: A snake out of water with Emily Tesh

Emily’s choice: Briar’s Book/ The Healing in the Vine by Tamora Pierce Ali’s choice: A Snake falls to Earth by Darcy Little Badger Darcie Little Badger's website EasterCon- the annual British fan-run...

11 Apr 1h 1min