by Lucy Hounsom | November 19, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWe constantly discuss themes, stereotypes and assumptions in popular culture, but we don’t often stop to look more closely at the way those issues are expressed. I’m talking about language, and its ability to explore...
by Lucy Hounsom | October 22, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSJust in time for Halloween, we spoke to author Vivian Shaw about everyone’s favourite “monster” – the vampire! Immortal vampires have occupied the human imagination for centuries. Whether you...
by Sarah Deeming | October 15, 2020 | Blog, Reviews
Every four years, two children from the village of Gavaldon are stolen and forced to attend the School for Good and the School for Evil. Sophie is determined to go to the School for Good and become a princess; she is beautiful, after all, so where else would she go?...
by Sarah Deeming | September 17, 2020 | Blog, Reviews
We are not alone. There are other Earths in other dimensions where the dominant intelligent species of the planet rises before humanity, shaping their world to suit their needs, making it both similar and different to their own. Cracks are beginning to appear in the...
by Lucy Hounsom | September 10, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHumanity is intrinsically bound up with nature and the natural world. We are its creatures, we depend on it for survival, we fear it, love it, deify it…and we’ve become quite good at killing it. Ours is a...
by Megan Leigh | August 13, 2020 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSMany of our favourite narratives feature outsiders. They might be alone by virtue of the burden of prophecy, come from the wrong side of the tracks, or simply don’t adhere to behaviour and interests their society...
