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Fairies and witches and toads, oh my!
Kit’s choice: The Stream that Stood Still by Beverley Nichols (who is a man! And he had quite the life).
Ali’s choice: Otherland by Louie Stowell. Louie’s very funny The Dragon in the Library was one of the books discussed in Episode 1, with Helena McCallum
Kit’s book, In the Heart of Hidden Things, can be bought as a hardback or ePub. Kindle edition here and audiobook via Audible here. You can see Jenna Barton’s artwork here.
Other books with terrifying fairy folk: Terry Pratchett’s The Wee Free Men, discussed with Fran Dowd in episode 6, and Peadar O’Guillin’s The Call and The Invasion. Be warned: these are brilliant books, but very much YA. There’s a lot of body horror involved. I talked about them at Dublin WorldCon and you can read my paper here.
You can follow Kit on Twitter here and #askafairysmith here.
Thanks, as always, to Steve Vapour Trails for production assistance and Jack Sadler-Johnson for the use of his beautiful track Bliss.
Ep 37: Totally Elemental with Esther MacCallum-Stewart, Chair of Glasgow 2024 WorldCon
Ep 36: Ghosts, machines and aliens with Kit Power
Ep 35: A Confusion of Susans with Juliet Kemp
34: Dragons and radical empathy with Trip Galey
Ep 33: A refreshing lack of Wizard Dads with SJ Groenewegen
Ep 32 Imaginary horse husbands with Kari Sperring
Ep 31 Getting rid of parents and grumpy magical helpers with Kate Towner
Ep 30: Hot Gladiators and Plague Gods
Moomintroll and a china rabbit with Laura Mauro at FantasyCon 2022
Ep 28: Two horse girls’ training montages with Caroline Mersey
Ep 27: The Anti-Reepicheep League with Ang Rosin
Ep 25: Timeslips and dreams with Tony Keen
Ep 24: Look into my eyes with Russell Smith
Ep 23 Sweet Polly Oliver goes Over The Hills: Sharpe and Monstrous Regiment
Ep 22: I’m just a teenage necromancer, baby
Episode 21: Fantasy Book Swap Live!!! at Reclamation 2022, with Tasha Suri
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Ep 19: Fairytale retellings and socialist fantasy with Ali Williams
Ep 18: Going Underground Joan Aiken’s Is and Frances Hardinge’s A Face Like Glass
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