Get a fascinating insight into the world of teen/YA fantasy in this podcast with four amazing fantasy authors. Samantha Shannon, Sally Green, Lucy Saxon and Alwyn Hamilton talk world building, feminism, sex and why we need to stop comparing all female characters to Katniss Everdeen – however wonderful she is! Enter our signed fantasy books giveaway!
Apr 2016
Cecelia Ahern: ‘public shaming moved me to write Flawed’ - Guardian children's books podcast
Cecelia Ahern explains how she was moved to write her first YA novel, Flawed, by her dismay at society’s increasingly finger-pointing culture. Guardian children’s books site members Harriet, Amy and Rebecca grill her on the book, which is set in a powerfully realised society in w ... Show More
20m 5s
Apr 2016
Jacqueline Wilson for Guardian children's books podcast: 'This is a story competition about your imagination'
Jacqueline Wilson speaks to Michelle Pauli as she launches her creative writing competition for 7 – 12 year olds, where the prize is to have the winning story published in one of her books! Here she gives you tips about getting started, inventing characters and what the judges wi ... Show More
12m 16s
Feb 2024
Kendare Blake, reine de la Dark Fantasy
La saga "Three Dark Crowns" de Kendare Blake est un exemple emblématique de la dark fantasy, un sous-genre de la fantasy qui explore des thèmes plus sombres, complexes et souvent plus adultes que ceux typiquement trouvés dans la fantasy traditionnelle.
Entretien avec Morgane (en ... Show More
14m 3s
Aug 2022
Lady Mary Wroth - women writer to put back on the bookshelf
Author of the first prose romance published in England in 1621, her reputation at court was ruined by her thinly veiled autobiographical writing. Visit the family home, Penshurst Place in Kent, and you can see Lady Mary Wroth's portrait, but New Generation Thinker Nandini Das say ... Show More
14m 30s