Ep 41: Narnia Business with Katie Bruce

Katie’s choice: C.S. Lewis’s The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe.

Ali’s choice: David A. Robertson’s The Barren Grounds

Katie is just back from FantasyCon! Next year Brighton hosts World FantasyCon 2025; come and join us!

Neil Gaiman’s short story is called ‘The Problem of Susan’ and is in the collection Fragile Things (it is of course entirely up to you whether or not you wish to support Gaiman’s work by buying it new or second hand.)

Katie couldn’t continue with Robin Hobb’s Soldiers Sons trilogy because the food descriptions brought on morning sickness

Fiona Moore’s blog, where she cooks from SFF cook books so we don’t have to!

Lovely Gili Bar-Hillel introduced me to this brilliant piece of fan fic where Anthony Bourdain reviews Narnian hospitality. Read it, it’s perfect! https://archiveofourown.org/works/137185

The BBC 1988 adaptation of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Leeds Playhouse’s adaptation of The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe runs from 18^th November 2024- 25^th January 2025

Trailer for Greta Gerwig’s adaptation

Tilda Swinton’s White Witch tempts Edmund

I delivered a paper on orientalism in the Chronicles of Narnia at a Historical Fictions Network conference. You can read it here

David A. Robertson’s website

Scottish bannock recipe. Canadian First Nations Bannocks were adapted from Scottish recipes. I have not found a bison chili recipe; I assume that you first catch your bison.

The Little Bookshop, Leeds

City Books, Brighton

Find Katie online

AuthorAssist.co.uk

@Katiebruce.bsky.social on BlueSky

@Katiebrucecake on Instagram

I was a guest on Steve Vapour Trail’s radio show many moons ago with a selection of fantasy and science fiction-themed music. Enjoy the playlist here. Thank you to Danny for the idents, and to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track Bliss.