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Ali Baker and a guest discuss children's fantasy fiction. The guest chooses a favourite for Ali, and Ali chooses a complementing contemporary book. Jokes and the occasional swear word may ensue. Please contact fantasybookswap@gmail.com, @fantasyswap on Twitter or https://www.facebook.com/Fantasybookswap. Ask questions, make comments and join in the discussion!
Episodes
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Episode True 8- Virginia Preston, cricket, cake and nuns
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Sunday Oct 17, 2021
Antonia Forests’s The Cricket Term
Daisy May Johnson’s How To Be Brave
Fantasy Book Swap episode with Daisy
The Dickens novel that we couldn’t remember was Dombey and Son, where an annoying child does indeed die
The Worst Witch- Mildred unmasking the evil witches
Eva Ibbotson’s books: The Journey to the River Sea is set in the Amazon rainforest
Many of Angela Brazil’s books are on Project Gutenberg
Nicola and Rowan discuss Dorothy L Sayers’s Murder Must Advertise. A cricket match is the climax, foreshadowing the climactic cricket match in The Cricket Term
The Chalet School book where to the best of my memory, buried treasure is found
Join us at Reclamation2022!
Follow Virginia on Twitter
Thanks to Steve Vapour Trails for production assistance. Please check out his radio show! Also to Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track, Bliss.
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Tuesday Sep 28, 2021
Content warning for non-explicit discussion of sexual violence and mental health crises including sectioning.
Recorded live at FantasyCon, so there is background noise of 3D humans, including some sound bleed of the panel in the room next door. Let's call it atmosphere!
Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave- it is in fact a quintet, not a trilogy
James Clammer's Why I Went Back
I got Steve and Jimmy's friendship origin story wrong- Steve was friends at university with some of Jimmy's friends, but they actually met in Brighton. My story is better, though.
Find Tiffani here
Big thanks to Edward James and Jeremy Carter for audio support! Please check out Cast of Wonders, Katherine Inskipp and Jeremy's YA fiction podcast.
Thanks as always to Steve Vapour Trails for production support and Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his track Bliss. Your Letters of Comment are always welcome at Fantasybookswap@gmail.com,
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Episode 6 Fran Dowd: Puffin Club, Hobberdy Dick, The Wee Free Men and More!
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Saturday Sep 18, 2021
Show notes Episode 6
Hobberdy Dick song by Rod Anderson https://www.reverbnation.com/rodanderson
The Wee Free Men (from Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith album) https://youtu.be/ybsZpSn1grg
Sheffield Science Fiction and Fantasy Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2388189214
History of the Puffin Club https://puffinclub.co.uk/history
Link to K. M. Briggs’ papers and correspondence at University of Leeds https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6579
Terry Pratchett’s books for younger readers https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/book-series/younger-readers/
We also talked about The Little Grey Men by ‘BB’. More information here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Little_Grey_Men
Tony Keen’s course on London and the Fantastic https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/london-and-the-fantastic-individual-sessions-tickets-166044255839?aff=erelpanelorg (individual session on 22nd September)
Fran has read The Death of Grass by John Christopher as a result of discussion on Tony’s course https://app.thestorygraph.com/books/96de7be2-25f3-4799-b6d4-666eedafd275?fbclid=IwAR1icbdZ0Iv7JyDZOxB1NdKXBryXHU6uzHFdllCuhxoIh22xyABHFrV_CtU
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Monday Sep 06, 2021
Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties recording this episode, so it is slightly shorter than usual.
Quick correction: Nesbit’s relationship doesn’t seem to have been poly. It has been described as an open relationship, but her husband Hubert Bland’s affairs don’t seem to have been with her consent.
- Nesbit Five Children and It. My edition is the Puffin Classics one published in 2008, with the foreword by Quentin Blake, but really poor-quality reproductions of illustrations.
Hilary McKay The Time of Green Magic MacMillan’s Children’s Books.
Monday Aug 30, 2021
Monday Aug 30, 2021
CONTENT WARNING- this episode discusses racism and orientalism in the context of children’s comics.
Look and Learn Book of The Trigan Empire 1973- Some Trigan Empire books have been republished by Rebellion Publishers, owners of 2000AD https://2000ad.com/news/out-now-the-trigan-empire-vol-1/
Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Michael Moreci and Stephen Gilpin. We know that there is a film; we haven’t been able to bring ourselves to watch it.
The names of the characters in Die Hard are of course John McClane and Hans Gruber.
Peric’s daughter is called Salvia
Ming the Merciless; Zorth of Loka
Radio Lewes https://radiolewes.weebly.com/
Steve’s Vapour Trails website https://www.vapourtrails.org/
Follow Steve on Twitter @stevevapourtra1
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Episode 3 Alison Scott, Marianne Dreams and Tamarind and the Star of Ishta
Monday Aug 16, 2021
Monday Aug 16, 2021
In which Ali gets the name of the podcast wrong twice!
Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr
Tamarind and the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan, @jasinbath on Twitter
We also mention Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Catherine Storr's The Chinese Egg and Marianne and Mark, and Jasbinder Bilan's Asha and the Spirit Bird.
Alison's book recommendation list: https://www.facebook.com/alison.scott.3998/posts/10158236430174766
Octothorpe podcast (where news of Punctuation 3 is likely to be found!) https://octothorpe.podbean.com/
Escape into Night https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57eRt8kpS4Q&t=206s
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Ep 2 Phil Dyson Howl's Moving Castle and Strangeworlds Travel Agency
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
Tuesday Jul 27, 2021
In this episode, Phil and Ali discuss Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski.
Please note that we spoil some important points of both books!
Of course the first Chrestomanci book is Charmed Life! Please don't shout at me.
You can find Phil @phildyson on Twitter. Find out more about EasterCon 22 @reclamation2022 and https://reclamation2022.co.uk/. You email Phil via the site.
As always, Letters of Comment welcome via fantasybookswap@gmail.com
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
S1 Ep1 Helena McCallum Trees, libraries and dragons
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Wednesday Jul 14, 2021
Hello! Welcome to Fantasy Book Club's first episode, in which SFF conrunner, creative writing tutor and pandemic warrior Helena McCallum and Ali discuss childhood comfort reading, accessing books from libraries and jumble sales, Collins children's classics, punishment of unruly bodies in children's literature and the education of wizards. Enjoy!
With thanks to Helena McCallum (@adela_terrell).
Music- Bliss by Jack Sadler-Johnson, with many thanks
Production support by Steve Vapour Trails (@SteveVapourTra1)
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Trailer
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Thursday Jul 01, 2021
Trailer! Coming soon from a kitchen in Hove... chat, jokes, social justice and Mild Peril!