Ep 47: Worldbuilding Britain in historical fiction

Caroline's choice: Dawn Wind by Rosemary Sutcliff

Ali's choice (first read in 2022, not 2002!): The Short Knife by Elen Caldecott.

Tir na n'Nog book award 

Ken Slater and fan ac

Some books where a “commoner” becomes a prince:

The Prince and the Pauper by Mark Twain

The Prisoner of Zenda and Rupert of Hentzau by Anthony Hope

The Lost Prince by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Horse and his Boy by C. S. Lewis

Caroline’s Rosemary Sutcliff books

Elen Caldecott’s website and Leaf, the journal of writing for young people

Caroline’s fan writing Reflections in the Shards edited by Claire Brialey and Mark Plummer

Thanks as always to Steve Vapour Trails for production support. Why not go and give his radio show a listen?