Fantasy Book Swap alibaker68

Ali’s choice: The Boggart by Susan Cooper. Ali’s edition with cat tax.
Esther’s choice: Like a Charm by Elle McNicoll
Elle’s novel A Kind of Spark was adapted by CBBC. Several members of the cast are neurodiverse.
Information about dyspraxia here
Elle McNicholl’s website
Esther and Ali mention a lot of books and other media! Hilary McKay’s Casson family books, Terry Pratchett’s Only You Can Save Mankind, the spinning room in Poltergeist, You’re Wrong About… podcast on the Amityville horror and  the CBC podcast on the satanic panic.
The history of Castle Stalker with photos
Greyfriars Bobby monument and the story
Candlemakers Row. I think the red shop is the bookshop.
Glasgow Necropolis
Mary King’s Close, Edinburgh which features in Lari Don’s book First Aid for Fairies. It’s an injured centaur that Helen looks after first.
Andy The Highlander
Romance book recommendations
Olivia Dade
Talia Hibbert
Helen Hoang
Thanks so much to Esther! Find out more about Glasgow 2024 Worldcon here.
Thanks for listening! Thanks to Steve for the production assistance. Steve’s band, The Late Returns, are playing a gig supporting Bone Records at The Brunswick, Hove on Friday! Unfortunately, it’s sold out. Thanks to Danny for the idents and to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track Bliss.
Follow me on Instagram and Bluesky @alisonbaker01.

Kit’s choice: The Tripods by John Christopher
Ali’s choice: Wildspark by Vashti Hardy
Kit’s Patreon
Kit’s page on Amazon
 Kit reads his essay on The Tripods on his podcast feed
The British Fantasy Society award shortlist
Thanks as always to Steve Vapour Trails. Check out his radio show on Radio Lewes here! Thank you to Danny for the fresh new idents, and to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track Bliss.
I have signed up for Ko-Fi. For the month of September I have pledged to walk for 30 minutes a day in aid of the Trussell Trust, who both provide food banks and campaign for the end of food poverty. If you’d like to support me, please donate at https://ko-fi.com/alibb. I will post a screenshot daily from my Active 10 app onto my Instagram, and on 30th September will share how much I am donating!

Juliet’s choice: We Didn’t Mean to Go to Sea by Arthur Ransome. There is a small display related to the Swallows and Amazons at the Ruskin Museum in Coniston, in the Lake District. It’s not far from Hill Top, Beatrix Potter’s house near Ambleside.
Ali’s choice: The Strangeworlds Travel Agency: The Edge of the Ocean by L. D. Lapinski. I talked to Phil Dyson about the first book in the series, way back in episode 2!
Find links to Juliet’s social media and information about their books from their website. Check out their short fiction via the link, and also their non-fiction writing: I love this essay on capitalism in worldbuilding.
I talk about the amazing South Riding by Winifred Holtby. Read it; it’s an amazing piece of writing with an strong sense of place.
Please do like, review and recommend! It does satisfy my vanity- but it’s also great to know that people enjoy what I do. And it helps to bring in new listeners.
Thanks as always to Steve Vapour-Trails for production assistance and to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his track Bliss. Why not check out Steve’s radio show, Vapour Trails on Radio Lewes?

Trip’s choice: Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
Ali’s choice: How To Train Your Dragon by Cressida Cowell
The full list of Magic Shop books here
Cressida Cowell’s Wizard of Once books and new book, Which Way to Anywhere have more diverse casts.
My now 14-year-old as Hiccup when he was 5. He cosplayed Hiccup at his first Eastercon.
The note that Mr Elives gives Jeremy and the magical librarian Hyacinth Priest from the US edition of Jeremy Thatcher.  Illustrator: Gary A. Lippincott.
How To Train Your Dragon, the book within the book.
For more information about research into boys and reading, I recommend Boys Don’t Try? by Matt Pinkett and Mark Roberts. It’s available as an e-book as well as a paperback.
I recommend the audiobook of How To Train Your Dragon, read by David Tennent. Try using your local library app to borrow it!
Trip’s social media links here and Bona Books here
As always, thanks to Steve Vapour-Trails for production assistance. Check out his latest show on Radio Lewes!

Episode 33- A refreshing lack of Wizard Dads with S.J. Groenewegen
 
SJ’s choice: Andra by Louise Lawrence, with the ABC TV cover
 
Ali’s choice: Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao
 
SJ’s website: https://www.sjgroenewegen.co.uk Pre-order The Disinformation War here
 
 
@nyssa1968 – twitter
Reachingforthevoid - tumblr
https://mitpress.mit.edu/9781913380809/ - links to pre-orders/orders for the Disinformation War, out on 13 June.
 
SJ will be at Super Relaxed Fantasy Club on 13 June at Star of Kings, London, for readings and Q&A. https://www.facebook.com/groups/srfclondon/about
 
1990 was the dystopian TV series SJ couldn’t remember the title of, not 1991. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0075469/
 
Dangerous Visions and New Worlds: Radical Science Fiction, 1950 to 1985
Edited by Andrew Nette and lain McIntyre © 2021 PM Press ISBN: 9781629638836
Mentions Andra on a few pages, including the TV series. It quotes Kari Sperring about Louise Lawrence.
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empress_Wu_(TV_series) the TV show on SBS in the late 1980s in Australia.
 
The Untamed was my first Chinese drama show, and Ali kept thinking of it when reading Iron Widow.
 

Kari’s choice: The Silver Brumby by Elyne Mitchell
This is the edition that Kari has
We talk about the illustrations, by Ralph Thompson: Kookaburra and Wombat
Ali’s choice: Abyssinia by Ursula Dubosarsky
A doll’s dress at Rouse Hill Farm Estate, New South Wales
Other books mentioned in the episode
Marguerite Henry’s Misty of Chincoteague
The Pullein-Thompson sisters
Ruby Ferguson’s Jill books and sequels by Jane Badger, righting the wrongs of Jill being exiled from the world of ponies
The Follyfoot books by Monica Dickens. Please enjoy the brilliant TV show theme tune!
K.M. Peyton’s Flambards, which was also televised
Walter Farley’s Black Stallion books
Mary O’Hara’s My Friend Flicka
Rumer Godden’s Miss Happiness and Miss Flower
Helen Clare’s Five Dolls series
Enid Blyton’s Amelia Jane
Kari on Facebook and website. Buy her new book!