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A literary podcast by English authors Lauren James and Lucy Powrie full of book recommendations and writing advice. Everything we discuss in the episode: Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine Spindle’s End by Robin McKinley Howl’s Moving Castle by Dianna Wynne Jones Stardust by Neil Gaiman The Gloaming by Kirsty Logan The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter The Tale of Despereux by Kate DiCamillo Ancient fairy tales - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35358487 The Chronicles of Narnia by C S Lewis https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/19/francis-spufford-pens-unauthorised-narnia-novel Joanna Harris said "Women write fanfic of all kinds for decades: no comment from literary world. Man writes Narnia fanfic: 'a sensitive and brilliant addition to the Narnia corpus by a major contemporary writer'." https://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-praise-spufford-s-narnia-fan-fiction-973456 Pride and Prejudice and Zombies by Seth Grahame-Smith https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/aug/31/pride-and-prejudice-and-zombies-author-sued-by-publisher-hachette-seth-grahame-smith Pride & Prejudice and Emma by Jane Austen The Lizzie Bennet Diaries (2012) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KisuGP2lcPs Clueless (1995) - Film Hogarth Shakespeare (http://hogarthshakespeare.com/) and The Austen Project (https://www.goodreads.com/series/113943-the-austen-project) Eligible and American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/7646946/Laura-Bush-speaks-about-car-crash-which-killed-friend.html https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/may/09/new-curtis-sittenfeld-novel-will-imagine-hillary-clintons-life-without-bill Gentleman Jack (2019) - TV The Secret Diaries of Anne Lister La Maupin Edgar Allan Poe’s Murder Mystery Party (2016) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jxRiP4GNiyM&list=PLs2T_dNZ-XW6UjWC-qUbZSWJyCLFmsdPP Circe and The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Under a Dancing Star by Laura Wood Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead (1966) - Play Lauren James is the Carnegie-nominated British Young Adult author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together series. Her most recent release is the novella The Starlight Watchmaker. https://laurenejames.co.uk | https://twitter.com/Lauren_E_James Lucy Powrie is the author of The Paper & Hearts Society, the first book in a new series for teenagers (11+). She is an award-winning book blogger and YouTuber, as well as the Brontë Society’s Young Ambassador for 2018 and 2019. http://lucythereader.com | http://youtube.com/lucythereader | https://twitter.com/lucythereader