by Megan Leigh | June 23, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPlease be aware that we discuss some fairly heavy topics in this episode, including addiction, violence against children, and racially motivated violence. Also, less serious in nature but full disclosure: I reference...
by Megan Leigh | June 16, 2022 | Blog
In recognition of PRIDE month in the US, we thought we would go back through our extensive collection of podcasts (we have been going for SIX years now!) and pull out some of our favourites that featured trans and nonbinary authors, publishers, and books. We know that...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 12, 2022 | Discussion, Episodes
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSHave you ever wandered into a bookstore and found yourself baffled by the shelving of some books? Have you ever read a review that labeled a book written for adults as YA only to bemoan the amount of adult content?...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 28, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFairy tales are both timeless and personal. We see their themes and motifs repeated in stories spanning centuries.But while the characters and scenarios might be familiar, the morals change over time. The story’s...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 14, 2022 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhen Madeline Miller published Circe, it heralded the start of a new wave of feminist retellings, in which writers revisited well-known classics in order to tell the stories of those excluded from the dominant...
by Saarah Bhalwani | April 7, 2022 | Blog, Reviews
This fascinating novel, by P. DjèlÍ Clark, took me on a journey that I did not foresee enjoying so much: a detective-style novel that intertwines current social issues with traditional sci-fi tropes. P. Djèlí Clark is an American speculative fiction writer and...
