Podcast appearances and mentions of Frances Hardinge

Neo Nostromo #70 - Mercadeo con reliquias de Kaijus, posesiones superpop y terror de ojos negros En este episodio nos inclinamos hacia el terror y hacia fantasías algo oscuras: Álex nos habla de “Un lugar soleado para gente sombría”, de Mariana Enríquez, y de “La luz de las profundidades”, de Frances Hardinge. Miquel, por su parte, nos recomienda el libro de posesiones “Acércate”, de Sara Gran. ¡Esperamos que disfrutéis del programa!

Chris Riddell is a world-renowned illustrator and author of children's books and the political cartoonist for the Observer newspaper. He has collaborated with artists and writers such as Neil Gaiman, Phoebe Bridgers and Frances Hardinge. In 2018 he travelled to Aotearoa to speak at the Auckland Writers Festival. Most recently, Chris has released I Can't Remember What We Talked About, a slim volume of 24 poems. Beth and Chris chat about the creative process of art-making and poetry writing, love of nature, designing pop-up books for the backdrop of Phoebe Bridgers' tour and magical pear tree staffs. Chris reads some poems and they also speak about what it's like being a political cartoonist in the current political climate.

Instantly recognisable from her trademark collection of black hats, British author Frances Hardinge is one of the most acclaimed and inventive writers of her generation.  This month's edition features an interview with her.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Episode Summary: Alix and Kelly interview Laini Taylor—one of their favorite fantasy authors of all time—to discuss her books, inspiration, and what she's working on next!Guest Bio:Laini Taylor is the New York Times and Sunday Times bestselling author of the Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy, the Strange the Dreamer duology, and other books. She's been translated into over thirty languages, shortlisted for the National Book Award, and won a Printz Honor. You can find more about writing and a warm and active community of writers at all stages at her Patreon and Discord, where she meets with members on Zoom every week.Topics Discussed:[0:00] About Laini Taylor[0:28] DoSaB Special Edition[1:42] Becoming a Writer[2:54] Getting Published[6:12] Bringing Ideas to Life[11:13] Favorite Scenes to Write[17:35] Laini + LitJoy[22:45] Why the Gods Are Blue[24:27] All about Lazo[32:06] All about Minya[40:36] Inspiration for DoSaB?[44:56] Laini's Travels[51:57] Current Project[56:14] DoSaB Crossover with Strange the Dreamer?[57:38] Secret Projects![1:01:12] Final QuestionsBooks Mentioned in This Episode by Laini Taylor:Blackbringer (Faeries of Dreamdark) hardcoverLips Touch: Three Times audiobookDaughter of Smoke and Bone [LitJoy Special Edition Set]Strange the Dreamer Duology audiobookOther Books Mentioned in This Episode:Nettle & Bone by T.Kingfisher audiobookThe Vicious Grace by Emily Thiede audiobookThis Cursed Light by Emily Thiede audiobookLittle Thieves by Margaret Owen audiobookAuthor, Frances Hardinge's booksAdditional Resources:Laini Taylor's WebsiteWhat's New at LitJoy?Check out our LitJoy x Brandon Mull Fablehaven SeriesPreview the upcoming LitJoy x Marissa Meyer Heartless Annotated Special EditionShop the new Cassandra Clare Collection 2024Use the code PODCAST10 at litjoycrate.com/podcast for a 10% off discount! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on Cracked Spines, we discuss SO MANY BOOKS by British children's fantasy writer Frances Hardinge. Sarah gushes over the strange little girls and bizarre worlds of the books. Cyrus finds a character who is Tobias from Animorphs but somehow sadder and latches onto her instantly. We talk about what defines writing for children and come up with no real answers, but we do get relentlessly bullied by our cats this episode so our lack of conclusion is probably their fault. Books mentioned (all, obviously, by Frances Hardinge): The Lie TreeUnraveller DeeplightCuckoo SongA Skinful of ShadowsA Face Like Glass Support the show

Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio, the podcast for writers everywhere brought to you by Pen to Print   This month's interview is with novelist Frances Hardinge   Frances Hardinge came to widespread publication attention when her 2015 novel, The Lie Tree won the Costa Book Award. She has published nine novels and numerous short stories.  As well as the Costa award she has won the Carnegie Medal twice and the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel for Cuckoo Song.  We caught up with Frances for this month's interview.    The interviewer is Claire Buss.   You can find out more about Frances Hardinge by visiting her website http://www.franceshardinge.com/ And follow her on X, formerly Twitter here https://twitter.com/FrancesHardinge    We're always delighted to read your contributions so if you'd like to see your words in Write on! or hear them on this podcast please get in touch. Please submit to: https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/    Thank you for listening to Write On! Audio. This edition has been presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory. Write On! Audio is an Alternative Stories production for Pen to Print.   This podcast is produced using public funding from Arts Council England

Esperant el Cometa #11 - Els prejudicis cap a la literatura fantàstica (novembre 2023) Durada: 101 minuts. Benvinguts a l'onzé episodi d'Esperant el Cometa, el podcast de l'Associació Cultural El Bibiblionauta. Aquest episodi és presentat per en Miquel Codony, l'Edgar Cotes i en Pablo Mallorquí. Aquest programa, gravat el mateix dia que va acabar la tercera edició del Festival 42 de Gèneres Fantàstics de Barcelona, comença amb una petita ressenya del Festival i una revisió de les novetats de literatura fantàstica publicades a l'octubre de 2023. A la tertúlia ens acompanyen els biblionautes Enric Bassegoda (escriptor i professor) i Sara Martin (professora de filologia a la universitat experta en ciència ficció) per parlar de com funcionen i perquè existeixen els prejudicis cap a la literatura fantàstica, tant al món de l'acadèmia com entre part del públic i al món de la cultura en general. A la secció de ressenyes, en Miquel Codony ens parla de “Mònica”, el còmic de Daniel Clowes publicat recentment per l'Editorial Finestres; la Sara Martina ressenya “L'Àngel Cruel”, publicat per (sí, és ell) l'Edgar Cotes a Spécula; Enric Bassegoda ens explica d'on surt i com és el llibre “Figueres de Por”; i l'Edgar Cotes comparteix les seves impressions sobre la novel·la negra de ciència ficció “Caront”, escrit per en Jordi de Manuel i publicat a Crims.cat. Per acabar, la Júlia Baena ens porta la seva secció de literatura fantàstica juvenil per parlar-nos de tres grans autores contemporànies del gènere: la Maite Carranza, la Cornèlia Funke i la Frances Hardinge, amb una referència extra a Marina Tena Tena. Esperem que en gaudiu molt! Aquí podeu trobar l'estructura del programa: 00 minuts 00 segons: Valoració del Festival 42 12 minuts 30 segons: Les novetats d'octubre. 25 minuts 54 segons: Tertúlia: “Els prejudicis envers la literatura fantàstica”. Amb Enric Bassegoda i Sara Martin. 1h 12 minuts: Ressenyes. 1h 34 minuts: Literatura Juvenil amb Júlia Baena: “Grans autores contemporànies de fantàstic juvenil traduïdes al català” Esperant al cometa és una iniciativa de l'Associació cultural El biblionauta, una entitat sense ànim de lucre dedicada a la divulgació de la literatura de ciència-ficció i fantasia en llengua catalana. Si ens voleu ajudar al manteniment de l'associació us en podeu fer mecenes a elbiblionauta.com. Moltes gràcies i us esperem al següent episodi d'Esperant al cometa!

John, Alison and Liz read A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge. Please email your letters of comment to comment@octothorpecast.uk and tag @OctothorpeCast (on Twitter or on Mastodon) when you post about the show on social media. Content warnings this episode: Spoilers for the book Credits Cover art: “Little Baby Cheeses” by Alison Scott Alt text: Three cheeses sit on a shelf. The first cheese is thinking “FACE #1: CHEEZY GRIN”. The second is thinking “FACE #2: LONG SUFFERING ARTIST”. The third is thinking “FACE #3: FIVE EXPRESSIONS? YOU WERE LUCKY. YOU SHOULD TRY BEING CHEESE.” The words “Octothorpe 84” hang above them. Theme music: “Surf Shimmy” by Kevin MacLeod (CC BY 4.0)

This week, we're coming at you with another FANTASTIC author interview, this time with the brilliant and wonderfully unusual Frances Hardinge, the award-winning author of "A Face Like Glass", "Cuckoo Song", "The Lie Tree", "Deeplight", and, most recently, "Unraveller". Her books are, to use her own words, "fairly dark and invariably strange". A children's and YA maven whose works are both thematically complex and full of astounding prose, Frances chats with us about her process, her life, her origins as a writer, how to make your kids like reading, and her professional LARPing career. Jackie begs to examine Frances' brain to find out what goes on in there. Rachel assures us her house is built on solid ground and she is definitely not in danger of falling into a sinkhole.Regardless, be sure to check out Frances' website - it's an absolute TREAT. See if you can solve the puzzle while you're there! Find it at http://www.franceshardinge.com/ ★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★

This week, we lose the run of ourselves (verrrry slightly) as we sit down with an undisputed legend - Frances Hardinge. Frances is the author of ten acclaimed and brilliant novels for young adults, the winner of the Costa Book Award (only the second children's author to do so, besides Philip Pullman), and the wearer of an assortment of extremely excellent hats. We wish to put it on record that she wore her hat throughout our conversation - as is only right and proper! Come with us as we take a walk through the absolutely amazing literary landscape that has shaped and formed Frances and her books, and forgive our (alright, Sinéad's) excited fangirling. (She regrets nothing.)Books mentioned in this episode include Frances's own:Fly By NightTwilight RobberyGullstruck IslandVerdigris DeepA Face Like GlassCuckoo SongThe Lie TreeA Skinful of ShadowsDeeplightUnravellerThe stories that have shaped Frances include:The Hungry Caterpillar, by Eric CarleJames and the Giant Peach, by Roald DahlAlice in Wonderland, by Lewis CarrollThe Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas AdamsThe Colour of Magic, by Terry PratchettThe Time of the Ghost, by Diana Wynne JonesThe Thirteen Clocks, by James ThurberThe Moomintroll series of stories, by Tove JanssonWatership Down, by Richard AdamsThe Bear and the Nightingale, by Katherine ArdenThe Girl in the Tower, by Katherine ArdenHer Dark Wings, by Melinda SalisburyLeila and the Blue Fox, by Kiran Millwood Hargrave and Tom de FrestonAnd the collected work of H. Mills West (listen to the episode to find the touching reason why this writer's work is included.)Our podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ieIn the UK, check out our storefront on: https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyshaped. Disclaimer: If you buy books linked to our site, we may earn a commission from bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookshops. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Kicking off the new season, Hannah and Sam are joined by Frances Hardinge and Martin Brown to talk all things spooky. Get ready for a deep dive into curses and ghosts, and prepare yourself to hear the answers to questions such as 'which gentle children's classic terrified one of our guests?' 'why can adding colour to an illustration make it more scary?' and 'Just how many types of scary ARE there in children's books?'

Frances Hardinge is a British novelist whose debut novel, Fly by Night, won the Branford Boase Award in 2006 ( awarded to the writer and editor of the best debut children's novel).In 2015 she won the 2015 Costa Book Award for her novel The Lie Tree, the first time a children's book was awarded the overall category since Philip Pullman's The Amber Spyglass in 2001.Her latest novel, Unraveller, is an otherworldly story of curse making and breaking (the unravelling of the title). Reviewing the book for Just Imagine, Martin Galway writes:'It's a dark novel of dark themes and dark places. It explores the tensions of what it means to be human. It explores what it means to be no-longer-human or never human. It's in these tensions, and in the complexity of feelings of those that straddle the human/inhuman divide that the book offers the most satisfying food for thought.'Frances joined Nikki Gamble In The Reading Corner to tell us more.About Unravellern a world where anyone can cast a life-destroying curse, only one person has the power to unravel them. Kellen does not fully understand his unique gift but helps those who are cursed, like his friend Nettle, who was trapped in the body of a bird for years.She is now Kellen's constant companion and his closest ally. But the Unraveller carries a curse himself, and unless he and Nettle can remove it, Kellen is a danger to everything - and everyone - around him...

David and Perry discuss recent awards and nominations, say a sad farewell to a friend, and talk about their recent reading, several items of which seem to deal with the loss of memory. General News (07:25) Hugo Nominees (03:57) Philip K. Dick Award (00:26) Compton Crook Award (00:28) 2022 Shadows Awards (00:58) BSFWA Awards (01:03) RIP Christine Ashby (02:30) What have we been reading? (01:13:48) The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson (06:07) The Spare Room by Helen Garner (10:37) Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore (04:53) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (08:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (07:50) SFF Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 1) (14:12) Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Garth Powell (03:26) Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (02:58) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (03:03) Stone Sky, Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (05:07) SFF Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 2) (16:27) And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (01:42) Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden (02:20) Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (01:45) The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler (02:32) The Giants of the Violet Sea by Eugenia Triantafyllou (05:45) Windup (00:56) Illustration generated by Wombo.art

David and Perry discuss recent awards and nominations, say a sad farewell to a friend, and talk about their recent reading, several items of which seem to deal with the loss of memory. General News (07:25) Hugo Nominees (03:57) Philip K. Dick Award (00:26) Compton Crook Award (00:28) 2022 Shadows Awards (00:58) BSFWA Awards (01:03) RIP Christine Ashby (02:30) What have we been reading? (01:13:48) The Last Woman in the World by Inga Simpson (06:07) The Spare Room by Helen Garner (10:37) Metal Fish, Falling Snow by Cath Moore (04:53) The Housekeeper and the Professor by Yoko Ogawa (08:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (07:50) SF&F Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 1) (14:12) Light Chaser by Peter F. Hamilton and Garth Powell (03:26) Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor (02:58) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (03:03) Stone Sky, Gold Mountain by Mirandi Riwoe (05:07) SF&F Novellas from 2021 (Pt. 2) (16:27) And What Can We Offer You Tonight by Premee Mohamed (01:42) Sun-Daughters, Sea-Daughters by Aimee Ogden (02:20) Flowers for the Sea by Zin E. Rocklyn (01:45) The Necessity of Stars by E. Catherine Tobler (02:32) The Giants of the Violet Sea by Eugenia Triantafyllou (05:45) Windup (00:56) Click here for more info and indexes Illustration generated by Wombo.art

Our lucky 13th episode of Season 2 takes us to Oak Bay. At the confluence of school district land and municipal land, lies a section of daylighted and restored Bowker Creek. It's here that we met Sidney Hurst, proud builder of the 600th Little Free Library in the Greater Victoria Placemaking Network. While talking about the 600th little library - named "Bowker Creek Books" - was our initial reason for reaching out to her, it was refreshing to sit down with a such a knowledgeable, eager, and community-minded young person. To say that Sidney is passionate about books and literacy is a bit of an understatement - she's been writing a book review blog since she was 10yrs old! We haven't heard of many 10 year old bloggers, and especially about books. She also has a goodreads page. By the time she reached 15, she apparently didn't have enough of books, so she made her first little library in her front yard. She has diverse tastes in reading, so while her favourites may change, her go-to book is "The Lie Tree" by Frances Hardinge. As part of the BC Grade 12 curriculum, students are required to have a Capstone Project. It's an opportunity for students to demonstrate their cumulative learning in a particular topic they're interested in, and Sidney wanted something that reflected literacy and sustainability. She followed those interests and decided on a little library close to her school, Oak Bay High. After researching and learning the process involved, she worked with her school principal to install one in a tranquil spot next to Bowker Creek, between Oak Bay High, Oak Bay Recreation, and Oak Bay Public Works Yard. Tranquil yet busy, with connecting pathways and nearby sports: playing fields, tennis bubble, basketball court, skate park, running track, and rec centre! A Grade 12 student at Oak Bay High, Sidney is also taking UVIC classes, and volunteering in the community, with additional interests in literacy, sustainability, PoliSci, and law. Despite her interest in politics, she's not interested in running for political office herself at this time; “Never say never”. She is however, involved federally by volunteering, and encouraging young people to get involved in politics and the political system. What else is ahead for this bright young teen? She's looking forward to more placemaking that engages the community and the school. If you can't get enough of books, we highly recommend you check out Sidney's Instagram for books beautifully presented and descriptively reviewed. (Apologies for the uneven audio in a couple of places - we're still working on perfecting the lavalier mic.)

Perry and David discuss their recent reading, in particular Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and The Lost Daughter book and film. News (07:19) Locus Magazine recommended reading list (02:26) Dublin Literary Award longlist (01:30) Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Winners (03:13) What we've been reading (49:40) David on Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (03:46) Perry's take on Cloud Cuckoo Land (08:23) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (04:05) Last Stand in Lychford by Paul Cornell (03:19) All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton (03:21) Flames by Robbie Arnott (07:49) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (book) (04:02) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (movie) (14:25) Discussion with Lucy Sussex (27:05) The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore (04:29) I Hear the Mermaids Singing by Charmian Clift (03:01) A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (02:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (02:12) Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (00:52) A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam (05:23) Defiant Voices by Yvette Smith (01:34) Vandemonians by Janet McCalman (02:41) Enigma of China by Qiu Xiaolong (01:36) Windup (00:39) Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels

Perry and David discuss their recent reading, in particular Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr and The Lost Daughter book and film. News (07:19) Locus Magazine recommended reading list (02:26) Dublin Literary Award longlist (01:30) Victorian Premier's Literary Awards Winners (03:13) What we've been reading (49:40) David on Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr (03:46) Perry's take on Cloud Cuckoo Land (08:23) Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (04:05) Last Stand in Lychford by Paul Cornell (03:19) All Our Shimmering Skies by Trent Dalton (03:21) Flames by Robbie Arnott (07:49) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (book) (04:02) The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante (movie) (14:25) Discussion with Lucy Sussex (27:05) The Woman They Could Not Silence by Kate Moore (04:29) I Hear the Mermaids Singing by Charmian Clift (03:01) A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge (02:22) Deeplight by Frances Hardinge (02:12) Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge (00:52) A Long Way from Verona by Jane Gardam (05:23) Defiant Voices by Yvette Smith (01:34) Vandemonians by Janet McCalman (02:41) Enigma of China by Qiu Xiaolong (01:36) Windup (00:39) Click here for more info and indexes Photo by Magda Ehlers from Pexels

We round off Season 2 with another special guest - Lucia's good friend, Jessica. In this episode we discuss her book choice, which was 'A Face Like Glass' by Frances Hardinge. Join us to hear our thoughts on naive young protagonists, mad geniuses and the parallels that can be drawn between literature and current world affairs. Oh, and giggling - lots of giggling. Episode Timepoints: 00:00 - Intro 00:30 - An Introduction to our Special Guest 03:10 - An Introduction to the Author 05:50 - A Discussion of A Face Like Glass 54:15 - Outro Other books mentioned in this episode: Deeplight by Frances Hardinge The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge Skin Full of Shadows by Frances Hardinge Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas The Book of Lost Things by John Connelly Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow Links: Frances Hardinge on Goodreads Reading Materials on Goodreads Lucia on Goodreads Corrie on Goodreads Reading Materials on Instagram (run by Lucia with minimal input from Corrie!!) Thank you for listening! You can send your feedback, thoughts, questions and book recommendations to us at reading.materials.podcast@gmail.com.

To celebrate the announcement of the winner of the 2021 Costa Book of the Year Award this week, Read On will be looking back over some of the Costa highlights from previous years, including: Our interview with Hilary Mantel when ‘Bring Up the Bodies' won Best Novel in 2013. Ali Smith discussing her novel ‘How to Be Both'. A review of Frances Hardinge's brilliant story for Young adults ‘The Lie Tree'. And award-winning poet J.O. Morgan on recording his epic poem ‘Assurances' as a Talking Book. And of course we will also bring you the reaction of this year's winner, poet Hannah Lowe, on winning this most popular of British literary awards. 

Thank you for listening to the Write On! Audio January 2022 edition. As always, our presenter is Tiffany Clare and we have contributions from Arinola Araba, Lucy Kaufman, Mirable Lavelle and Bob Thompson with an interview with award-winning author Frances Hardinge. Our running order for this edition is · An inspirational moment from Arinola Araba · An introduction from our editor, Madeleine White · Writing tips, “A Year's Experiment in Writing” by Lucy Kaufman · An interview with Frances Hardinge. The interviewer is Claire Buss · This month's showcase is compiled and introduced by Mirabel Lavelle. The featured pieces are “Deceiving Appearances” by Vic Howard read by Chris Gregory, “Thank You To A Stranger” by Laura MacLennan and “Tram Shelter” by John Holmes both read by Sally Walker-Taylor · A short story “Carrion” by Bob Thompson Arinola Araba is an author, entrepreneur and Pen to Print regular. Lucy Kaufman writes drama for stage and screen. She has had 34 plays performed at venues around the UK and elsewhere and she teaches both stage and screen writing for Pen to Print. Frances Hardinge came to widespread publication attention when her 2015 novel, The Lie Tree won the Costa Book Award. She has published nine novels and numerous short stories. She has been shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal twice (not won it twice as we said in our presenter script) and won the Robert Holdstock Award for best fantasy novel for Cuckoo Song. Mirabel Lavelle is a writer working on her debut novel and an academic tutor at the University Of Sunderland. Bob Thompson won a Pen to Print Flash fiction competition in 2020 and has been writing, acting and directing since he was 16. He has completed two full-length stage plays: The Equestrianist and The Richest Jewel. His first published novel is Old Tom and his first screenplay, The Ghost Walk, is in pre-production. We'd like to draw our listeners attention to some of the writing courses and workshops being run by our parent organisation Pen To Print over the next few weeks. We have a full range of tuition in poetry, fiction and scriptwriting and you can learn about writing for comic books with Wallis Eates and writing the sense with Write On!'s Eithne Cullen. As usual you can find full details by visiting our events page here https://pentoprint.org/about/events/ If you've enjoyed the writing featured in this edition and would like the chance to hear some of your own words on the podcast please contact us via our email address pentoprint@lbbd.gov.uk to submit your work. Don't forget, thanks to our partnership with Bloomsbury, the first two pieces we feature, either as “Listener Contributions” or “Inspirational Moments”, will receive the newly published: A Writer's Journal by Lucy van Smit. Submit via the submission page here https://pentoprint.org/get-involved/submit-to-write-on/ Next month on Write On! Audio we'll bring you another selection of content for writers everywhere. Thank you for listening to this edition which is presented by Tiffany Clare and produced by Chris Gregory for Alternative Stories If you have enjoyed this podcast please subscribe in your favourite podcast app to be notified when new editions are released. We always appreciate rating and reviews, preferably in Apple Podcasts. Write On! Audio is part of the Write On! suite of publications, published by Pen to Print, an Arts Council England - National Portfolio Organisation, supported by Arts Council England and the London Borough of Barking and Dagenham.

This is a book review of Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge

I’m interviewing Frances Hardinge! We talk about her novels including The Lie Tree and A Face Like Glass, her ideas and characters, unreliable landscapes, closed communities and islands, literary influences, and ghost stories. 00:06 preamble 01:02 Frances’ fiction (The Lie Tree, A Face Like Glass, research inc. cheese making) 21:56 Literary influences (and ghost stories…Read more 104: Interview with Frances Hardinge

Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge Intro 00:06 // Synopsis 01:00 // Remarks 10:21 (small communities, NPCs’ desires, surprise powers and downsides, the spirit world) // Media 19:58 (Amelie, Wonderfalls, Touch, Joan of Arcadia) Patreon Support this podcast on The Fictoplasm Patreon! Music Credits Music is by Chris Zabriskie: chriszabriskie.com // bandcamp // instagram // youtube…Read more 103: Verdigris Deep by Frances Hardinge

Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.  Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

Lygatréð eða The Lie Tree er ungmennafantasía eftir breska rithöfundinn Frances Hardinge sem hefur átt mikilli velgengni að fagna frá því að bókin kom fyrst út árið 2015. Lygatréð kom nýverið út hjá Partus forlagi í þýðingu Dýrleifar Bjarnadóttur. Við hringjum vestur um haf til Bandaríkjanna þar sem Dýrleif er búsett og kynnum okkur bókina betur. Óskar Guðjónsson saxófónleikari verður tekin tali um djass-hljómsveitina Move sem hann skipar ásamt Matthíasi Hemstock, Eyþóri Gunnarssyni og Valdimar Kolbeini Sigurjónssyni, en sveitin heldur tónleika í Kaldalóni Hörpu á miðvikudagskvöld. Í þætti dagsins verður einnig hugað að rykugum kössum. Nánar tiltekið gömlum tekistum fullum af segulböndum sem fundust í dánarbúi breska upptökustjórans Joe Meek og eru nú á leiðinni í útgáfu hjá plötufyrirtækinu Cherry Red Records. Og Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir kíkir í Hveragerði á þrjár sýningar, Rósku, Iðustreymi og Yfirtaka í Listasafni Árnesinga. Umsjón: Jóhannes Ólafsson og Tómas Ævar Ólafsson

Lygatréð eða The Lie Tree er ungmennafantasía eftir breska rithöfundinn Frances Hardinge sem hefur átt mikilli velgengni að fagna frá því að bókin kom fyrst út árið 2015. Lygatréð kom nýverið út hjá Partus forlagi í þýðingu Dýrleifar Bjarnadóttur. Við hringjum vestur um haf til Bandaríkjanna þar sem Dýrleif er búsett og kynnum okkur bókina betur. Óskar Guðjónsson saxófónleikari verður tekin tali um djass-hljómsveitina Move sem hann skipar ásamt Matthíasi Hemstock, Eyþóri Gunnarssyni og Valdimar Kolbeini Sigurjónssyni, en sveitin heldur tónleika í Kaldalóni Hörpu á miðvikudagskvöld. Í þætti dagsins verður einnig hugað að rykugum kössum. Nánar tiltekið gömlum tekistum fullum af segulböndum sem fundust í dánarbúi breska upptökustjórans Joe Meek og eru nú á leiðinni í útgáfu hjá plötufyrirtækinu Cherry Red Records. Og Ólöf Gerður Sigfúsdóttir kíkir í Hveragerði á þrjár sýningar, Rósku, Iðustreymi og Yfirtaka í Listasafni Árnesinga. Umsjón: Jóhannes Ólafsson og Tómas Ævar Ólafsson

This week, Pie and Lulu dive into two fantasy novels featuring dead gods: Deeplight by Frances Hardinge and Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor. We discuss world-building, portrayals of fantasy religions, and how these books use the concept of dead divinities to explore the power of belief and storytelling.   Other Media Mentioned: Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor The Queen's Thief Series by Megan Whalen Turner The Inheritance Trilogy by N.K. Jemisin The Midnight Lie by Marie Rutkoski Eragon by Christopher Paolini Daredevil (Marvel comics)   Content warnings: Discussions of murder, body horror, ableism, emotionally manipulative relationships, drowning, PTSD, slavery, genocide, infanticide, and rape.   You can learn more about Never the Twins Shall Meet at our website. 

Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.  Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

In this episode we have extended Plumb Crumble time and announce our next Patreon evening.Plumb crumblesOver The Wall which puts on camps for children with a range of limiting health conditionsNär livet inte följer manus by Sophie DowMorgan's Wonderland the world's first ultra-accessible theme park. Sadly (for most of us), in Texas...Gulliver's Kingdom a great entry-level theme park in Derbyshire, ideal for under-13s. The Body Shop especially Vitamin E Hydrating toner (Cat W) and Camomile Sumptuous Cleansing Butter and Oils of Life Intensely Revitalising Oil-In-Gel (Cat S)Deeplight by Frances Hardinge  'A magisterial maritime fantasy from the Costa Award-winning Frances Hardinge, Deeplight probes the treacherous undertow of obsession and greed. Wrapped tight in evocative prose and sinuous, slithering atmosphere, this is a marvel of construction and technique'. - WaterstonesSupport the show (https://www.patreon.com/theplumblinepodcast?fan_landing=true)

We learn how our canine companions can help us become better human beings, as Ericka Waller walks us through her novel 'Dog Days'. Robert Kirkwood discovers how a selection of 2000AD graphic novels, including Judge Dredd, have been transformed into audio. Bestselling children’s author, Frances Hardinge, gets darkly supernatural in her historical novel ‘A Skinful of Shadows’.And we return to Ericka Waller for the Books of Your Life.

Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge. Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

Amelinda Bérubé, author or spooky YA novels The Dark beneath the Ice and Here There are Monsters, shares her favourite plot twists, books and characters, her interest in unreliable narrators, and her love of the Canadian landscapes that inspire her stories. 20 minutes. All ages. A full transcript is available at CabinTales.ca. Show Notes [0:00] Intro [1:10] Interview with Amelinda Bérubé CA: Do you have advice to young writers on how to begin? AB: I think my best advice would be just get going…. And when you are looking for that place to come in…you want to get as close as you can to… the point where everything changes…   [2:45] CA: Do you have a favorite plot twist, either from your own work or from another work of fiction? AB: My favorite thing that I've come across lately is a book called Rules for Vanishing. …   [3:25] CA: And do you have any favorite techniques or something you could recommend to young writers for building tension? AB: One thing that I would recommend is look at a scary movie… what steps does it take to move from everyday life into this really heightened state of suspense?   [4:45] CA: Do you have a favorite first line? AB: … the opening paragraph of The Haunting of Hill House is just …] perfection. …   [5:00] CA: How do you feel about endings where the good guy loses, or sad endings? AB: … Here There are Monsters does not end happily. …. you can end in defeat, you can end in bittersweet or sad feelings, but you have to end with your character having a way out of the woods. … You can't just grind somebody into the dirt and leave them there.   [6:20] CA: Do you find yourself editing yourself while drafting or do you do a full draft and then go back and revise? AB: Mostly it's just a free for all when I first write. … I feel like I'm a much better rewriter than I am a writer. ... And I found owning that kind of liberating. … you don't have to like it; you just have to do it.   [8:20] CA: Do you have a favorite point of view to write from? AB: … For YA… I find I fall pretty naturally into a first-person present… especially for something spooky, what it really highlights is how subjective the experience is. …   [9:00] CA: Have you ever written an unreliable narrator? … AB: I feel like in a way, all first-person narrators are unreliable.… I don't think anybody clearly knows their own motivations … that's one of the things that I think fiction is all about, is sort of like exploring all the murky false consciousness that is involved in being a person.   [10:40] CA: Have you ever written about siblings? AB: … Here There are Monsters is … about sisters who kind of have a toxic relationship… And I have another book that I'm working on that also goes into that territory. …   [11:20] CA: And monsters, you've written about monsters. AB: Oh yes. … I find that monsters are a good way to talk about… the things that are really scary about people. They're sort of funhouse mirrors … they reflect back to us the things that we can't really talk about in ourselves.   [12:00] CA: Did you tell stories around a campfire as a kid or have another off the cuff storytelling experience? AB: … I've never been an off-the-cuff sort of person. …   [12:45] CA: Do you ever write short stories? AB: I've written exactly 1 short story since high school. …   [13:25] CA: And do you have a favorite scary story? … AB: … I really do love The Haunting of Hill House. … It's kind of surprising how scary it is, given the scary elements. …But I'd also talk about… Rules for Vanishing. …. And there's a Frances Hardinge book called Cuckoo Song which is really more of a dark fantasy than it is horror, but it's so scary. …   [15:00] CA: And do you like scary movies too? AB: I find as I get older, I'm too chicken for them. …   [16:25] CA: Do you have a favorite setting from fiction, either your own or another book you like? AB: I'm always most interested in the Canadian landscape. There's Eden Robinson. …Any place where you're in the spooky woods, I'm all about. But I love to recognize those woods. I love to know that this is, I guess, a place close to home. …if I look at like what I want my career to be as an author, and specifically as a Canadian author, like I just want to jet set around the country and find all the spooky places and write about them.   [17:30] CA: And characters, do you have a favorite fictional character from your own book or from another book that you love? AB: I think probably I mentioned Lois McMaster Bujold before. She has a series about this fellow named Miles Vorkosigan. .... He's so amazing. …   [18:40] CA: Finally, are there setting or character exercises that you might recommend to young writers to help develop those things? AB: … think of settings that you're familiar with, that you know well enough to describe in very concrete terms using all your five senses… first of all just describe the place in as fine detail as you can and try to sort of capture the feeling of the place. And then … make it spooky. … there's different things that you highlight for each mood….   [20:45] Amelinda Bérubé introduces herself AB: I'm Amelinda Bérubé. I have two books out at the moment. The first is The Dark Beneath the Ice and the second is Here there are Monsters. I write about ghosts and monsters and other things that go bump in the night. And I live in Ottawa. And I guess I like to read pretty much anything and everything, but I'm most attached to books that scare me, or books that make me cry or books that make me laugh. I guess basically I'm looking for anything that makes me feel something.   [21:30] Find out more about Amelinda Bérubé You can hear more creative writing advice from Amelinda Bérubé on Cabin Tales Episode 3: “Spooky Stories are all Around Us,” about getting ideas; on Episode Four: “Bad Things Happen,” about plotting; and on Episode 8, “The Never-ending Story,” about revision. You can find out more about Amelinda Bérubé and her books from her website at MetuiteMe.com…. Amelinda says she lives on Twitter, so follow her there @metuiteme. Or subscribe to her newsletter to keep up with all her latest news, insights, and reading recommendations.   [22:45] Thanks and coming up on the podcast I'll be back next week with leftovers from my interview with Wendy McLeod MacKnight, novelist for middle-grade readers who joins us from New Brunswick. I'm Catherine Austen. Thanks for listening. Credits: Music on the podcast is from “Stories of the Old Mansion” by Akashic Records, provided by Jamendo (Standard license for online use). Host: Catherine Austen writes books for children, short stories for adults, and reports for corporate clients. Visit her at www.catherineausten.com. Guest Author Amelinda Bérubé is a freelance writer and the author of the YA novels The Dark Beneath the Ice and Here There Are Monsters. A mother of two and a passionate gardener, she lives in Ottawa, Ontario, in a perpetual whirlwind of unfinished projects and cat hair. Find her online at www.metuiteme.com.  

Enjoy our presentation of Deeplight, written by Frances Hardinge and published by Macmillan. The gods are dead. Decades ago, they turned on one another and tore each other apart. When 15-year-old Hark finds the still-beating heart of a terrifying deity, he risks everything to keep it out of the hands of smugglers, military scientists, and a secret fanatical cult so that he can use it to save the life of his best friend, Jelt. But with the heart, Jelt gradually and eerily transforms. How long should Hark stay loyal to his friend when he's becoming a monster and what is Hark willing to sacrifice to save him?Deeplight is recommended for ages 12+. Please visit Goodreads for more information and reviews: http://bit.ly/DeeplightReviewsThis title is available in the following formats:Hoopla Ebook: http://bit.ly/Deeplight_HooplaEbookHoopla Audiobook: http://bit.ly/DeeplightHooplaAudioPlease visit www.calvertlibrary.info for more information.Music: Sad Clown (excerpt) by Orquesta Arrecife. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0 http://www.opsound.org/artist/orquestaarrecife/

Bonjour, Aujourd'hui je vous retrouve avec 3 romans dans le style fantastique qui seront parfaits dans l'ambiance qu'il dégage pour cette période d'Halloween.Dans l'ordre de présentation, je vous parle de : Le Chant du coucou de Frances Hardinge, Au bal des absents de Catherine Dufour, Bénies soient vos entrailles de Marianne Stern Bonne écouteElhyandra Pour plus de chroniques, suivez-moi sur mon blog Le monde d'Elhyandra et mon Instagram

Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times. Multiple award-winning author, editor, narrator, and radio personality Ellen Kushner chats with Gary about moving back to New York; ordering favorite children's and YA books from independent bookstores; reading Edward Eager, E. Nesbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, and Joan Aiken; the brilliance of Frances Hardinge; group reading Shakespeare with friends online; the University of Glasgow's new fantasy study center; and odd historical genres like “silver-fork novels.” Books mentioned include: The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken Night Birds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken Dido and Pa by Joan Aiken Deeplight by Frances Hardinge The Midnight Bargain by C.L. Polk Sorcerer to the Crown by Zen Cho The True Queen by Zen Cho Silk & Steel: An Adventure Anthology of Queer SF&F with High Femmes & Dashing Women edited by Janine A. Southard (forthcoming)  

In this episode, we review all the books we read over the summer. Starting with 'Black Flamingo' by Dean Atta (45), 'Starfish' by Akemi Dawn Bowman (2.15), 'Truly Devious' by Maureen Johnson (3.58), 'You See Me' by Libby Scott & Rebecca Westcott (5.21), 'Yes,no,maybe so' by Becky Alberti & Aisha Saeed (7.18), 'Girl, Boy, Sea' by Chris Vick (8.34), 'A Skinful of Shadows' by Frances Hardinge (10.38) and 'Children of Virtue & Vengeance' by Tomi Adeyemi (12.33). As always follow us on twitter @lounge_learning and subscribe!

Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.comSupport the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

Today we're discussing Deeplight by Frances Hardinge, a fantasy that blends 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea and Frankenstein. --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/cyns-workshop/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/cyns-workshop/support

In this episode, Claire and Sophie chat about Claire's LL Online creation. They then discuss what recent Covid 19 advice could mean for opening libraries. Did you know CILIP is hosting a course on just that? Then they dive into their book reviews (shoutouts to Suzanne Collins, MA Bennett and Teri Terry first). 7.53 review of 'Deeplight' by Frances Hardinge, 10.49 review of 'The Dresden Files: Stormfront' by Jim Butcher and brief mention of Slay by Brittney Morris at 13.36. Next week we will be interviewing the lovely Jess Butterworth! Chat to us on twitter @lounge_learning

In this episode, we chat about some of the fun & interesting things we found or took part in this week. We mention Booktrust, The Human Library and CILIP online courses. We then review our books from 6.12 - 'Nevertell' by Katharine Orton,' Rose Interrupted' by Patrice Lawrence, 'Checkmates' by Stewart Foster, 'The Star Outside My Window' by Onjali Q'Rauf, 'Ghost' by Jason Reynolds and 'Deeplight' by Frances Hardinge. On the 21st of May, we will be interviewing Jess Butterworth so stay tuned. Follow us on twitter @lounge_learning

Damaris Young, author of The Switching Hour talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale)

In this episode we chat about the books we have taken to keep us entertained if isolation occurs! During these times with schools closing and many having to self-isolate, reading can be the gateway you need to help with mental-health but also to keep you stimulated. We keep this episode light-hearted and hope you are all doing well during this time. Stay healthy and keep on reading. Books we mention and in order from 1.55 - Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, Evolution by Teri Terry, A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge, The Boxer by Nikesh Shukula, Frankly in Love by David Yoon, The Girl who came out of the Woods by Emily Barr, One of us is Next by Karen McManus, The Boy who came from Space by Ross Welford, Saving Midnight by Suzy Zail, The Star Outside my Window by Onjali Q Rauf, Booktrust Books, Sarah J Maas and Malorie Blackman. As always stay up to date with us on twitter @lounge_learning

In a murder hotel in Jersey City, author Cassandra Khaw joins the show to talk about her bad luck with AirBNBs, the root of her fixation on body horror, and how she settled on a cannibal chef for one of her main characters so she could (imaginatively) explore the concept of turning 180 or so pounds of human being into a fine meal. We get into her Food of the Gods series and her other supernatural horror books, her fascination with the aftereffects of violence, the influence of Lovecraft on her work, and the time she embarrassed herself in front of Frances Hardinge. We also talk about her work in the video-game industry and how she entered it by following the convention circuit, what writing games has taught her about storytelling, diversity in the gaming community, and the unique way that games can bring people into other lives and other modes of seeing. Oh, and we get into how she settled on her mythological name! • More info at our site • Support The Virtual Memories Show via Patreon or Paypal

In this episode we discuss our new podcast series 'Wider Reading'. This is an educational podcast that we run in school. We give you tips on how to set one up and increase the library's presence in school. Then we review the books we have read this week: 'White Rabbit Red Wolf' by Tom Pollock (5.26), 'Company of Eight' by Harriet Whitehorn (6.53), 'Devoted' by Jennifer Mathieu (7.53), 'City of Ghosts' by Victoria Schwab (10.55). Finally, shoutouts to Will Hill and Eliza Wass (8.08) and Frances Hardinge (11.26). As always get involved in the conversation on twitter @lounge_learning. Check out Independence Educational Publishers here -> https://www.independence.co.uk/

This week I just ramble about four fantasy authors and my favorite of their books. I chat about Frances Hardinge, Nancy Springer, Jeff Smith and Joe Abercrombie and what I like about my favorite books of theirs and not only just how good they are for reading but also how they might be inspirational for … Continue reading "Episode 20 – Some Fantasy Books I Recommend!"

Anindya Raychaudhuri discusses Kipling's Jungle Books with children's novelist Frances Hardinge and academic Sue Walsh, recorded in front of an audience at Imperial College Union. How does Kipling use language to create character and discuss identity? And can we separate the adventure and storytelling from the imperialist baggage of the Jungle Books? Producer: Luke Mulhall

Frances Hardinge revisits The English Civil War through her tale of dark inheritance: ‘A Skinful of Shadows’. (Starts at 1.00) A group of students from New College Worcester tell us what they look for in a good book. (17.50) The winner of this years CILIP Carnegie Medal considers the merits of literary awards. (24.00) Kwame Alexander extols the benefits of basketball in his novel, ‘Rebound’. (35.38) And we return to Frances Hardinge for the books of her life. (46.55)

We chat all about The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge - a feminist gothic read: 'Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances - her search for clues uncovers a strange tree. Whisper a lie to the tree, and the fruit, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered.' Wanna read along? You'll find the eBook and physical copies on our catalogue: https://onecard.network/client/en_AU/prospect/search/results?qu=the+lie+tree&te=&dt=list&rt=false%7C%7C%7CTITLE%7C%7C%7CTitle&rw= Credits: - Music: "I dunno" by grapes, 2008 - Licensed under Creative Commons Attribution (3.0)

15/06/2019: A debate with a number of different guests about the shortlist for one of the UK’s oldest and most prestigious children’s book awards. Which are the best and who will win? The CILIP Carnegie & Kate Greenaway Children’s Book Awards is now on its 82nd year and The Carnegie features eight books that explore universal ideas of loss and finding your way and purpose in a complicated world. Mary Rose Grieve, Rehan Khan, Rachel Hamilton discuss Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nichols, Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge and The House with Chicken Legs by Sophie Anderson.

In this episode we talk about how we celebrate World Book Night which is on Tuesday the 23rd of April. We then review our books; Things a Bright Girl Can Do by Sally Nicholls, The Land of Neverendings by Kate Saunders, Second best friend by Non Pratt, Heartstopper by Alice Oseman, Kick the moon by Muhammad Khan and A Skinful of Shadows by Frances Hardinge. We then let you know our Easter plans! Don't forget to follow us @lounge_learning and don't forget to follow Claire for those Vietnam Photos @MarrisCMarris We will be back on April 25th 2019.

Tillsammans med barnbokskritikerna Lotta Olsson från Dagens Nyheter och Martin Hellström, lektor i barnlitteratur, tipsar vi om årets allra bästa titlar, från bilderböcker till ungdomsböcker. Med tanke på att 2017 års barnboksutgivning bestod av 2532 barnböcker och att trenden är att det blir fler titlar för varje år, så krävs experthjälp för att hitta rätt i utbudet. Vi har fått hjälp av Lotta Olsson, mångårig barnbokskritiker på Dagens Nyheter och Martin Hellström, kritiker och lektor i barnlitteratur på Linnéuniversitetet i Växjö. De tre första titlarna på varje lista är de som nämns i programmet, övriga är bonustitlar. Totalt är det ett sextiotal supertips! Varsågoda!  Vi går igenom böckerna kategori för kategori, tre stycken: Bilderböcker 0-6 år, kapitel- och mellanåldersböcker 6-12 år och ungdomsböcker 12+.   Årets bästa barnböcker enligt Lotta Olsson: Bilderböcker 0-6 år Dom som bestämmer av Lisen Adbåge:   Är du min bror? av Liu Hsu-Kung (övers. Anna Gustafsson Chen) Valdemar i Stora Skogen av Maria Jönsson EXTRA: Gropen av Emma AdBåge Om Orm av Sara Villius och Mari Kanstad Johnsen  De förlorade orden av Robert MacFarlane och Jackie Morris (övers. Rose-Marie Nielsen) Hemma hos Harald Henriksson av Uje Brandelius och Clara Dackenberg Det bästa jag vet av Ulf Stark Lilla Valdemar (och den tidigare Valdemar i världshavet) av Lennart Eng Ett sista brev av Antonis Papatheodoulou och Iris Samartzi   Årets bästa barnböcker enligt Martin Hellström: Bilderböcker 0-6 år "Gropen" av Emma Adbåge "Hundpromenaden" av Sven Nordkvist och med bilder av Kitty Crowther "Fastrarna" av Ebba Forslind  EXTRA: "Kom hem Laila" av Eva Lindström "Alban" av Barbro Lindgren (nyutgivning) "Regn" av Anders Holmer "Doris drar" av Pija Lindenbaum (nyutgivning) "Dom som bestämmer" av Lisen Adbåge "Chinos tjocka kinder" av Maria Nilsson Thore "I en pöl" av Karin Cyren   Kapitel- och mellanåldersböcker 6-12 år Årets bästa enligt Lotta Olsson: Det fina med Kerstin av Helena Hedlund Isdrottningen av Mårten Melin Den där Jonny Jonsson Johnsson av Elin Lindell EXTRA: Hjärtat är en knuten hand av Ingrid Ovedie Volden (övers. Mats Kempe) Mitt fönster mot rymden av Oscar Kroon och Josefin Sundqvist Ödesryttarna: Jorvik kallar av Helena Dahlgren PAX Draugen av Ingela Korsell, Åsa Larsson och Henrik Jonsson Comedy Queen av Jenny Jägerfeld Stora boken om träd av Wojciech Grajkowski och Piotr Socha: (övers. Thomas Håkansson) Natten lyser av Lena Sjöberg   Kapitel- och mellanåldersböcker 6-12 år Årets bästa enligt Martin Hellström: "Frallan räddar världen" av Sara Ohlsson, Lisen Adbåge, bild "Familjen Knyckertz och gulddiamanten" av Ander Sparring och Per Gustavsson "Fabler och andra berättelser av Lev Tolstoj", med Jockum Nordströms bilder  EXTRA: "Gruvan" av Sara Lövestam "Mitt fönster mot rymden" av Oskar Kroon och Josefin Sundqvist "Verkligen sant Ester?" av Anton Bergman och Emma Adbåge (bild) "Rymlingarna" av Ulf Stark och med bilder av Kitty Crowther   Ungdomsböcker 12+  Årets bästa enligt Lotta Olsson: Vi skulle segla runt jorden av Anna Sundström Lindmark och Elisabeth Widmark Ord i djupaste blått av Cath Crowley (övers. Ylva Spångberg) Gökungen av Frances Hardinge (övers. Ylva Kempe) EXTRA: Nordiska myter av Neil Gaiman: (övers. Kristoffer Leandoer, pocket) Kattvinden av Helena Öberg och Kristin Lidström Inuti huvudet är jag kul av Lisa Bjärbo Juliane och jag av Inger Edelfeldt: (nyutgåva) brun flicka drömmer av Jacqueline Woodson: (övers. Athena Farrokhzad) Lite kul måste man ha av Åsa Karsin Guldkompassen av Philip Pullman (övers. Olle Sahlin, pocket)   Ungdomsböcker 12+  Årets bästa enligt Martin Hellström: "Fågeln i mig flyger vart den vill" av Sara Lundberg (2017, Martin: okej, jag vet att den kom förra året, men  jag kan argumentera för att den ska vara med även på årets lista) "brun flicka drömmer" av  Jacqueline Woodson "Vi skulle segla runt jorden" av Anna Sundström & Elisabeth Widmark EXTRA:  "Som sparv som örn" av Per Nilsson "Comedy Queen" av Jenny Jägerfeld "Guldkompassen" av Philip Pullman (nyutgivning 2018) "Skuggan över stenbänken" av Maria Gripe (nyutgivning 2018) "Livet på en kylskåpsdörr" av Alice Kuipers (nyutgivning, pocket)   Programledare: Marie Lundström Producent: Nina Asarnoj

You Inside Me by Tori Curtis   It'll be fun, he'd said. Everyone's doing it. You don't have to be looking for romance, it's just a good way to meet people. "I don't think it's about romance at all," Sabella said. She wove her flower crown into her braids so that the wire skeleton was hidden beneath strands of hair. "I think if you caught a congressman doing this, he'd have to resign." "That's 'cause we've never had a vampire congressman," Dedrick said. He rearranged her so that her shoulders fell from their habitual place at her ears, her chin pointed up, and snapped photos of her. "Step forward a little—there, you look more like yourself in that light."     Hello! Welcome to GlitterShip episode 57 for May 21st, 2018. This is your host, Keffy, and I'm super excited to share this story with you. GlitterShip is now part of the Audible afflilate program. What this means is that just by listening to GlitterShip, you are eligible to get a free audio book and 30 day trial at Audible to check out the service. If you're looking for more queer science fiction to listen to, there's a full audio book available of the Lightspeed Magazine "Queers Destroy Science Fiction" special issue, featuring stories by a large number of queer authors, including  John Chu, Chaz Brenchley, Rose Lemberg, and many others. To download a free audiobook today, go to http://www.audibletrial.com/GlitterShip and choose an excellent book to listen to, whether that’s "Queers Destroy Science Fiction" or something else entirely. Today I have a story and a poem for you. The poem is "Dionysus in London" by Tristan Beiter. Tristan Beiter is a student at Swarthmore College studying English Literature and Gender and Sexuality Studies. He loves reading poetry and speculative fiction, some of his favorite books being The Waste Land, HD’s Trilogy, Mark Doty’s Atlantis, Frances Hardinge’s Gullstruck Island, and Madeline Miller’s The Song of Achilles. When not reading or writing, he can usually be found crafting absurdities with his boyfriend or yelling about literary theory.   Dionysus in London by Tristan Beiter   The day exploded, you know. Last night a womanwith big bouffant hair toldme, “Show me a storywhere the daughter runs into a stopsign and it literally turns into a white flower.” I fail to describea total eclipse and the throneof petrified wood sankinto the lakebed. James made love to Buckinghamwhile I pulled the honeysuckleto me, made a flower crown forthe leopards flanking mewhile I watched redand white invert themselves, whitepetals pushing from the center of the signas the post wilted until allthat remained was a giant lotuson the storm grate waitingto rot or wash away. I let it stay there while the Scottishking hid behind the Scottish playand walked behind me, one eye outfor the mark left when locked in.You go witchy in there—or at leastyou—or he, or I—learn to be afraidof the big coats and brassbuttons, like the ones in every hallcloset; you never know if they will turn,like yours, into bats and bugs and gianttarantulas made from wire hangers. The woman showed meour reflections in the shop windowwhile one or the otherman in the palace polishedthe silver for his lover’s tableand asked me whoI loved; I decidedon the creamlinen, since the woolwas too close to the pea coatthat hung by your door.I suppose that the catis under the car; that’s probably where it fled toas we walked, knowingwe already found thatthe ivy in your hair was artificialas the bacchanal, or yourevasion, Sire, of the question(and of the serpents who are wellworth the welloffered to them with the wet waxon my crown). I suppose the car is under the cat,in which case it must be a very largecat, or else a very small car.I eat your teeth. I see brilliantine teeth floatingin her thick red lipstick. Jamestears apart the rhododendronchattering (about) his incisorsand remembering the fleshand—nothing so exoticas a Sphinx, maybe a dustmote or lip-marksleft on the large leather chaise.Teeth gleam from the shadowswhere I wait, thyrsusraised with the conealmost touching the roofof the forest, to drown in a peacockas it swallows (chimneyswifts?) the sun—orwas it son—or maybe it wasjust a grape I fed it soit would eat the spiderscrawling from the closet.It struts across the palace greenlike it owns the place, likeit will replace the hunting-grounds with fields of stragglingmint that the kingwould never ask for. The woman teasesup her hair before the mirror, fillingthe restroom with hairsprayand big laughs before walking backinto the restaurant, where wewait to make ourselvesover—the way the throne didwhen the wood crumbled under thepressure of an untold story,leaving nothing but crystals and dust. We argued for an hour overwhether to mix leaves andflowers, plants and gems,before settling on fourcrowns, one for each of us. Her hair mostly covers hers.The cats will love it though,playing with teeththat were knocked into your winein the barfight (why did youorder wine in a placelike that, Buck?) and yougot replaced with gold, like Iwear woven in my braidsas the sun sets on the daughterthat, unsurprisingly, noneof us have. But if we did, she would turn yieldsigns into dahlias andthat would be the signto move on with the leopardsand their flashing teeth andbrass eyes and listen.To the walls and rivers,to the sculpture that is farwhiter than me falling. Andto the peacock which has justeaten another bug so you don’t have tokill it. Get yourself a dresserand cover it with white enamelit’ll hold up, and no insectslive in dressers. Keep the ivy and the pineconein a mother-of-pearl trinket boxwith your plastic volumizing hairinserts and jeweled combs.And put a cat and dolphinon it, to remember.     Next, our short story this episode is "You Inside Me" by Tori Curtis Tori Curtis writes speculative fiction with a focus on LGBT and disability issues. She is the author of one novel, Eelgrass, and a handful of short stories. You can find her at toricurtiswrites.com and on Twitter at @tcurtfish, where she primarily tweets about how perfect her wife is. CW: For descriptions of traumatic surgery.       You Inside Me by Tori Curtis   It'll be fun, he'd said. Everyone's doing it. You don't have to be looking for romance, it's just a good way to meet people. "I don't think it's about romance at all," Sabella said. She wove her flower crown into her braids so that the wire skeleton was hidden beneath strands of hair. "I think if you caught a congressman doing this, he'd have to resign." "That's 'cause we've never had a vampire congressman," Dedrick said. He rearranged her so that her shoulders fell from their habitual place at her ears, her chin pointed up, and snapped photos of her. "Step forward a little—there, you look more like yourself in that light." He took fifteen minutes to edit her photos ("they'll expect you to use a filter, so you might as well,") and pop the best ones on her profile. Suckr: the premier dating app for vampires and their fanciers. "It's like we're cats," she said. "I heard you like cats," he agreed, and she sighed.     Hi, I'm Sabella. I've been a vampire since I was six years old, and I do not want to see or be seen by humans. I'm excited to meet men and women between the ages of eighteen and sixty-five. "That's way too big of an age range," Dedrick said. "You want to be compatible with these people." "Yeah, compatible. Like my tissue type." "You don't want to end up flirting with a grandpa." I'm excited to meet men and women between the ages of twenty and thirty-five. I'm most proud of my master's degree. You should message me if you're brave and crazy.     It took days, not to mention Dedrick’s exasperated return, before she went back on Suckr. She paced up the beautiful wood floors of her apartment, turning on heel at the sole window on the long end and the painted-over cast-iron radiator on the short. When she felt too sick to take care of herself, her mom came over and put Rumors on, wrapped her in scarves that were more pretty than functional, warmed some blood and gave it to her in a sippy cup. Sabella remembered nothing so much as the big Slurpees her mom had bought her, just this bright red, when she’d had strep the last year she was human. She wore the necklace Dedrick had given her every day. It was a gold slice of pepperoni pizza with “best” emblazoned on the back (his matched, but read “friends,”), and she fondled it like a hangnail. She rubbed the bruises on her arms, where the skin had once been clear and she'd once thought herself pretty in a plain way, like Elinor Dashwood, as though she might be able to brush off the dirt. She called her daysleeper friends, texted acquaintances, and slowly stopped responding to their messages as she realized how bored she was of presenting hope day after day.     2:19:08 bkissedrose: I'm so sorry. 2:19:21 bkissedrose: I feel like such a douche 2:19:24 sabellasay: ??? 2:20:04 sabellasay: what r u talkin about 2:25:56 bkissedrose: u talked me down all those times I would've just died 2:26:08 sabellasay: it was rly nbd 2:26:27 bkissedrose: I've never been half as good as you are 2:26:48 bkissedrose: and now you're so sick 2:29:12 sabellasay: dude stop acting like i'm dying 2:29:45 sabellasay: I can't stand it 2:30:13 bkissedrose: god you're so brave   (sabellasay has become inactive)     "Everyone keeps calling me saying you stopped talking to them," Dedrick said when he made it back to her place, shoes up on the couch now that he'd finally wiped them of mud. "Should I feel lucky you let me in?" "I'm tired," she said. "It's supposed to be a symptom. I like this one, I think she has potential." He took her phone and considered it with the weight of a father researching a car seat. "A perfect date: I take you for a ride around the lake on my bike, then we stop home for an evening snack." "She means her motorcycle," Sabella clarified. He rolled his eyes and continued reading. "My worst fear: commitment." "At least she's honest." "That's not really a good thing. You're not looking for someone to skip out halfway through the movie." "No, I'm looking for someone who's not going to be heartbroken when I die anyway." Dedrick sighed, all the air going out of his chest as it might escape from dough kneaded too firmly, and held her close to him. "You're stupid," he told her, "but so sweet." "I think I'm going to send her a nip."     The girl was named Ash but she spelled it A-I-S-L-I-N-G, and she seemed pleased that Sabella knew enough not to ask lots of stupid questions. They met in a park by the lakeside, far enough from the playground that none of the parents would notice the fanged flirtation going on below. If Aisling had been a boy, she would have been a teen heartthrob. She wore her hair long where it was slicked back and short (touchable, but hard to grab in a fight) everywhere else. She wore a leather jacket that spoke of a once-in-a-lifetime thrift store find, and over the warmth of her blood and her breath she smelled like bag balm. Sabella wanted to hide in her arms from a fire. She wanted to watch her drown trying to save her. Aisling parked her motorcycle and stowed her helmet before coming over to say hi—gentlemanly, Sabella thought, to give her a chance to prepare herself. “What kind of scoundrel left you to wait all alone?” Aisling asked, with the sort of effortlessly cool smile that might have broken a lesser woman’s heart. “I don’t know,” Sabella said, “but I’m glad you’re here now.” Aisling stepped just inside her personal space and frowned. “I’m sorry, I don’t mean to be rude,” she said, “but are you—" “I’m trans, yes,” Sabella interrupted, and smiled so wide she could feel the tension at her temples. Like doing sit-ups the wrong way for years, having this conversation so many times hadn’t made it comfortable, only routine. “We don’t need to be awkward about it.” “Okay,” Aisling agreed, and sat on the bench, helping Sabella down with a hand on her elbow. “I meant that you seem sick.” She looked uneasy, and Sabella sensed that she had never been human. Vampires didn’t get sick—she had probably never had more than a headache, and that only from hunger. “Yes,” Sabella said. “I am sick. I’m not actually—I mentioned this on my profile—I’m not actually looking for love.” “I hope you won’t be too disappointed when it finds you,” Aisling said, and Sabella blushed, reoriented herself with a force like setting a bone, like if she tried hard enough to move in one direction she’d stop feeling like a spinning top. “I’m looking for a donor,” she said. “Yeah, all right,” Aisling said. She threw her arm over the back of the bench so that Sabella felt folded into her embrace. “I’m always willing to help a pretty girl out.” “I don’t just mean your blood,” she said, and felt herself dizzy.     It was easier for Sabella to convince someone to do something than it was for her to ask for it. Her therapist had told her that, and even said it was common, but he hadn’t said how to fix it. “Please, may I have your liver” was too much to ask, and “Please, I don’t want to die” was a poor argument. “So, you would take my liver—" “It would actually only be part of your liver,” Sabella said, stopping to catch her breath. She hadn’t been able to go hiking since she’d gotten so sick—she needed company, and easy trails, and her friends either didn’t want to go or, like her mom, thought it was depressing to watch her climb a hill and have to stop to spit up bile. “So we would each have half my liver, in the end.” Sabella shrugged and looked into the dark underbrush. If she couldn’t be ethical about this, she wouldn’t deserve a liver. She wouldn’t try to convince Aisling until she understood the facts. “In humans, livers will regenerate once you cut them in half and transplant them. Like how kids think if you cut an earthworm in half, you get two. Or like bulbs. Ideally, it would go like that.” “And if it didn’t go ideally?” (“Turn me,” Dedrick said one day, impulsively, when she’d been up all night with a nosebleed that wouldn’t stop, holding her in his lap with his shirt growing polka-dotted. “I’ll be a vampire in a few days, we can have the surgery—you’ll be cured in a week.”) “If it doesn’t go ideally,” Sabella said, “one or both of us dies. If it goes poorly, I don’t even know what happens.” She stepped off the tree and set her next target, a curve in the trail where a tree had fallen and the light shone down on the path. Normally these days she didn’t wear shoes but flip-flops, but this was a date, and she’d pulled her old rainbow chucks out of the closet. Aisling walked with her silently, keeping pace, and put an arm around her waist. Sabella looked up and down the trail. Green Lake was normally populated enough that people kept to their own business, and these days she felt pretty safe going about, even with a girl. But she checked anyway before she leaned into Ais’s strength, letting her guide them so that she could use all her energy to keep moving. “But if it doesn’t happen at all, you die no matter what?” Sabella took a breath. “If you don’t want to, I look for someone else.”     Her mom was waiting for her when Sabella got home the next morning. Sabella’s mother was naturally blonde, tough when she needed to be, the sort of woman who could get into hours-long conversations with state fair tchotchke vendors. She’d gotten Sabella through high school and into college through a careful application of stamping and yelling. When Sabella had started calling herself Ravynn, she’d brought a stack of baby name books home and said, “All right, let’s find you something you can put on a resume.” “Mom,” she said, but smiling, “I gave you a key in case I couldn’t get out of bed, not so you could check if I spent the night with a date.” “How’d it go? Was this the girl Dedrick helped you find?” “Aisling, yeah,” Sabella said. She sat on the recliner, a mountain of accent pillows cushioning her tender body. “It was good. I like her a lot.” “Did she decide to get the surgery?” “I don’t know. I didn’t ask her to choose.” “Then what did you two do all night?” Sabella frowned. “I like her a lot. We had a good time.” Her mom stood and put the kettle on, and Sabella couldn’t help thinking what an inconvenience she was, that her mother couldn’t fret over her by making toast and a cup of tea. “Christ, what decent person would want to do that with you?” “We have chemistry! She’s very charming!” She examined Sabella with the dissatisfied air of an artist. “You’re a mess, honey. You’re so orange you could be a jack-o-lantern, and swollen all over. You look like you barely survived a dogfight. I don’t even see my daughter when I look at you anymore.” Sabella tried to pull herself together, to look more dignified, but instead she slouched further into the recliner and crossed her arms over her chest. “Maybe she thinks I’m funny, or smart.” “Maybe she’s taking advantage. Anyone who really cared about you wouldn’t be turned on, they’d be worried about your health.” Sabella remembered the look on Aisling’s face when she’d first come close enough to smell her, and shuddered. “I’m not going to ask her to cut out part of her body for me without thinking about it first,” she said. “Without giving her something in return?" her mom asked. "It's less than two pounds." “But it’s still her choice,” Sabella said. “I’m starting to wonder if you even want to live,” her mom said, and left. Sabella found the energy to go turn off the stovetop before she fell asleep. (Her mother had raised her responsible.)     12:48:51 bkissedrose: what happens to a dream bestowed 12:49:03 bkissedrose: upon a girl too weak to fight for it? 12:53:15 sabellasay: haha you can’t sleep either? 12:53:38 sabellasay: babe idk 12:55:43 sabellasay: is it better to have loved and lost 12:56:29 sabellasay: than to die a virgin? 1:00:18 bkissedrose: I guess I don’t know 1:01:24 bkissedrose: maybe it depends if they're good     “It’s nice here,” Aisling confessed the third time they visited the lake. Sabella and her mom weren’t talking, but she couldn’t imagine it would last more than a few days longer, so she wasn’t worried. “I’d never even heard of it.” “I grew up around here,” Sabella said, “and I used to take my students a few times a year." “You teach?” “I used to teach,” she said, and stepped off the trail—the shores were made up of a gritty white sand like broken shells—to watch the sinking sun glint off the water. “Seventh grade science.” Aisling laughed. “That sounds like a nightmare.” “I like that they’re old enough you can do real projects with them, but before it breaks off into—you know, are we doing geology or biology or physics. When you’re in seventh grade, everything is science.” She smiled and closed her eyes so that she could feel the wind and the sand under her shoes. She could hear birds settling and starting to wake, but she couldn’t place them. “They’ve got a long-term sub now. Theoretically, if I manage to not die, I get my job back.” Aisling came up behind her and put her arms around her. Sabella knew she hadn’t really been weaving—she knew her limits well enough now, she hoped—but she felt steadier that way. “You don’t sound convinced.” “I don’t think they expect to have to follow through,” Sabella admitted. “Sometimes I think I’m the only one who ever thinks I’m going to survive this. My mom’s so scared all the time, I know she doesn’t.” Aisling held her not tight but close, like being tucked into a bright clean comforter on a cool summer afternoon. “Can I ask you a personal question?” she said, her face up against Sabella’s neck so that every part of Sabella wanted her to bite. “Maybe,” she said, then thought better of it. “Yes.” “How’d you get sick? I didn’t think we could catch things like that. Or was it while you were human?” “Um, no, but I’m not contagious, just nasty.” Aisling laughed, and she continued, encouraged. “Mom would, you know, once I came out I could do pretty much whatever I wanted, but she wouldn’t let me get any kind of reconstructive surgery until I was eighteen. She thought it was creepy, some doc getting his hands all over her teenage kid.” “Probably fair.” “So I’m eighteen, and she says okay, you’re right, you got good grades in school and you’re going to college like I asked, I'll pay for whatever surgery you want. And you have to imagine, I just scheduled my freshman orientation, I have priorities." "Which are?" "Getting laid, mostly." “Yeah, I remember that.” “So I’m eighteen and hardly ever been kissed, I’m not worried about the details. I don’t let my mom come with me, it doesn’t even occur to me to see a doctor who’s worked with vampires before, I just want to look like Audrey Hepburn's voluptuous sister.” “Oh no,” Ash said. It hung there for a moment, the dread and Sabella’s not being able to regret that she’d been so stupid. “It must have come up.” “Sure. He said he was pretty sure it would be possible to do the surgery on a vampire, he knew other surgeries had been done. I was just so excited he didn’t say no.” Ash held her tight then, like she might be dragged away otherwise, and Sabella knew that it had nothing to do with her in particular, that it was only the protective instinct of one person watching another live out her most plausible nightmare. “What did he do to you?” “It wasn’t his fault,” she said, and then—grimacing, she knew her mother would have been so angry with her—“at least, he didn’t mean anything by it. He never read anything about how to adapt the procedure to meet my needs.” She sounded so clinical, like she’d imbibed so many doctors’ explanations of what had happened that she was drunk on it. “But neither did I. We both found out you can’t give vampires a blood transfusion.” "Why would you need to?" She shrugged. "You don't, usually, in plastic surgery." "No," Aisling interrupted, "I mean, why wouldn't you drink it?" Sabella tried to remember, or tried not to be able to, and tucked her cold hands into her pockets. "You're human, I guess. Anyway, I puked all over him and the incision sites, had to be hospitalized. My doctor says I'm lucky I'm such a good healer, or I'd need new boobs and a new liver." They were both quiet, and Sabella thought, this is it. You either decide it's too much or you kiss me again. She thought, I miss getting stoned with friends and telling shitty surgery stories and listening to them laugh. I hate that when I meet girls their getting-to-know-you involves their Youtube make-up tutorials and mine involves "and then, after they took the catheter out..." "Did you sue for malpractice, at least?" Ash asked, and Sabella couldn't tell without looking if her tone was teasing or wistful. "My mom did, yeah. When they still wanted her to pay for the damn surgery."     Aisling pulled up to the front of Sabella's building and stopped just in front of her driveway. She kicked her bike into park and stepped onto the sidewalk, helping Sabella off and over the curbside puddle. Sabella couldn't find words for what she was thinking, she was so afraid that her feelings would shatter as they crystallized. She wanted Ais to brush her hair back from her face and comb out the knots with her fingers. She wanted Ais to stop by to shovel the drive when there was lake effect snow. She wanted to find 'how to minimize jaundice' in the search history of Aisling's phone. “You’re beautiful in the sunlight,” Ais said, breaking her thoughts, maybe on purpose. “Like you were made to be outside.” Sabella ducked her head and leaned up against her. The date was supposed to be over, go inside and let this poor woman get on with her life, but she didn’t want to leave. “It’s nice to have someone to go with me,” she said. “Especially with a frost in the air. Sometimes people act like I’m so fragile.” “Ridiculous. You’re a vampire.” Her ears were cold, and she pressed them against Aisling’s jawbone. She wondered what the people driving past thought when they saw them. She thought that maybe the only thing better than surviving would be to die a tragic death, loved and loyally attended. “I was born human.” “Even God makes mistakes.” Sabella smiled. “Is that what I am? A mistake?” “Nah,” she said. “Just a happy accident.” Sabella laughed, thought you're such a stoner and I feel so safe when you look at me like that. "I'll do it," Ais said.  "What do I have to do to set up the surgery?" Sabella hugged her tight, hid against her and counted the seconds—one, two, three, four, five—while Ais didn't change her mind and Sabella wondered if she would.     "I have to stress how potentially dangerous this is," Dr. Young said. "I can't guarantee that it will work, that either of you will survive the procedure or the recovery, or that you won't ultimately regret it." Aisling was holding it together remarkably well, Sabella thought, but she still felt like she could catch her avoiding eye contact. Sabella had taken the seat in the doctor's office between her mother and girlfriend, and felt uncomfortable and strange no matter which of their hands she held. "Um," Ais said, and Sabella could feel her mother's judgment at her incoherence, "you said you wouldn't be able to do anything for the pain?" To her credit, the doctor didn't fidget or look away. Sabella, having been on the verge of death long enough to become something of a content expert, believed that it was important to have a doctor who was upfront about how terrible her life was. "I wouldn't describe it as 'nothing,' exactly," she said. "There aren't any anesthetics known to work on vampires, but we'll make you as comfortable as possible. You can feed immediately before and as soon as you're done, and that will probably help snow you over." "Being a little blood high," Ais clarified. "While you cut out my liver." "Yes." Sabella wanted to apologize. She couldn't find the words. Aisling said, "Well, while we're trying to make me comfortable, can I smoke up, too?" Dr. Young laughed. It wasn't cruel, but it wasn't promising, either. "That's not a terrible idea," she said, "but marijuana increases bleeding, and there are so many unknown variables here that I'd like to stick to best practices if we can." "I can just—" Sabella said, and choked. She wasn't sure when she'd started crying. "Find someone else. Dedrick will do it, I know." Aisling considered this. The room was quiet, soft echoes on the peeling tile floor. Sabella's mother put an arm around her, and she felt tiny, but in the way that made her feel ashamed and not protected. Aisling said, "Why are you asking me? Is there something you know that I don't?" Dr. Young shook her head. "I promise we're not misrepresenting the procedure," she said. "And theoretically, it might be possible with any vampire. But there aren't a lot of organ transplants in the literature—harvesting, sure, but not living transplants—and I want to get it right the first time. If we have a choice, I told Sabella I'd rather use a liver from a donor who was born a vampire. I think it'll increase our chance of success." "A baby'd be too weak," Aisling agreed. Her voice was going hard and theoretical. "Well, tell me something encouraging." "One of the first things we'll do is to cut through almost all of your abdominal nerves, so that will help. And there's a possibility that the experience will be so intense that you don't remember it clearly, or at all." Sabella's mother took a shaky breath, and Sabella wished, hating herself for it, that she hadn't come. Ais said, "Painful. You mean, the experience will be so painful." "If you choose to go forward with it," Dr. Young said, "we'll do everything we can to mitigate that."     Sabella had expected that Aisling would want space and patience while she decided not to die a horrible, painful death to save her. It was hard to tell how instead they ended up in her bed with the lights out, their legs wound together and their faces swollen with sleep. Sabella was shaking, and couldn’t have said why. Ais grabbed her by her seat and pulled her up close. “You said you couldn’t get me sick?” she asked. “No,” Sabella agreed. “Although my blood is probably pretty toxic.” Ais kissed her, the smell of car exhaust still stuck in her hair. “What a metaphor,” she murmured, and lifted her chin. “You look exhausted.” Sabella thought, Are you saying what I think you’re saying? and, That’s a terrible idea, and said, “God, I want to taste you.” “Well, baby,” Ais said, and her hands were on Sabella so she curled her lips and blew her hair out of her eyes, “that’s what I’m here for.” Sabella had been human once, and she remembered what food was like. The standard lie, that drinking blood was like eating a well-cooked steak, was wrong but close enough to staunch the flow of an interrogation. (She’d had friends and exes, turned as adults, who said it was like a good stout on tap, hefty and refreshing, but she thought they might just be trying to scandalize her.) Ais could have been a stalk of rhubarb or August raspberries. She moved under Sabella and held her so that their knees pressed together. She could have been the thrill of catching a fat thorny toad in among the lettuce at dusk, or a paper wasp in a butterfly net. She felt like getting tossed in the lake in January; she tasted like being wrapped in fleece and gently dried before the fire; her scent was what Sabella remembered of collapsing, limbs aquiver, on the exposed bedrock of a mountaintop, nothing but crushed pine and the warmth of a moss-bed. She woke on top of Ais, licking her wounds lazily—she wanted more, but she was too tired to do anything about it. “That’s better,” Ais whispered, and if she was disappointed that this wasn’t turning into a frenzy, she didn’t show it. They were quiet for long enough that the haze started to fade, and then Aisling said, “I couldn’t ask in front of your mother, but was it like that with your surgery? They couldn’t do anything for the pain?” Sabella shifted uncomfortably, rolled over next to Ais. “I was conscious, yes.” “Do you remember it?” It was a hard question. She wanted to say it wasn’t her place to ask. She tried to remember, and got caught up in the layers of exhaustion, the spaces between the body she’d had, the body she’d wanted, and what they had been doing to her. “Sounds and sensations and thoughts, mostly,” she said. Ais choked, and said, “So, everything,” and Sabella realized—she didn’t know how she hadn’t—how scared she must be. “No, it’s blurry,” she said instead. “I remember, um, the tugging at my chest. I kept thinking there was no way my skin wasn’t just going to split open. And the scraping sounds. They’ve got all these tools, and they’re touching you on the inside and the outside at the same time, and that’s very unsettling. And this man, I think he was the PA, standing over me saying, ‘You’ve got to calm down, honey.’” “Were you completely freaking out?” Ais asked. Sabella shook her head. Her throat hurt. “No. I mean—I cried a little. Not as much as you’d think. They said if I wasn’t careful, you know, with swallowing at the right times and breathing steady, they might mess up reshaping my larynx and I could lose my voice.” Ais swore, and Sabella wondered if she would feel angry. (Sometimes she would scream and cry, say, can you imagine doing that to an eighteen-year-old?) Right now she was just tired. “How did you manage?” “I don’t know,” she admitted. “I think just, it was worth more to me to have it done than anything else. So I didn’t ever tell them to stop.”     “Please don’t go around telling people I think this is an acceptable surgical set-up,” Dr. Young said, looking around the exam room. It reminded Sabella of a public hearing, the way the stakeholders sat at opposing angles and frowned at each other. Dr. Young sat next to Dr. Park, who would be the second doctor performing the procedure. Sabella had never met Dr. Park before, and her appearance—young, mostly—didn’t inspire confidence. Sabella sat next to her mother, who held her hand and a clipboard full of potential complications. Ais crossed her fingers in her lap, sat with a nervous child’s version of polite interest. Time seemed not to blur, but to stutter, everything happening whenever. “Dr. Park,” Sabella’s mother said, “do you have any experience operating on vampires?” Dr. Park grinned and her whole mouth seemed to open up in her face, her gums pale pink as a Jolly Rancher and her left fang chipped. “Usually trauma or obstetrics,” she admitted. “Although this is nearly the same thing.” “I’m serious,” Sabella’s mom said, and Sabella interrupted. “I like her,” she said. And then—it wasn’t really a question except in the sense that there was no way anyone could be sure—“You’re not going to realize halfway through the surgery that it’s too much for you?” Dr. Park laughed. “I turned my husband when we were both eighteen,” she said as testament to her cruelty. Sabella’s mom jumped. “Jesus Christ, why?” She shrugged, languid. Ais and Dr. Young were completely calm; Ais might have had no frame of reference for what it was like to watch someone turn, and Dr. Young had probably heard this story before. “His parents didn’t like that he was dating a vampire. You’ll do crazy things for love.” Sabella could see her mother blanch even as she steadied. It wasn’t unheard of for a vampire to turn their spouse—less common now that it was easier to live as a vampire, and humans were able to date freely but not really commit. But she could remember being turned, young as she had been: the gnawing ache, the hallucinations, the thirst that had only sometimes eclipsed the pain. It was still the worst thing that she’d ever experienced, and she was sure her mother couldn’t understand why anyone would choose to do it to someone they loved. “Good,” she said. “You won’t turn back if we scream.” Dr. Young frowned. “I want you to know you have a choice,” she said. She was speaking to Ais; Sabella had a choice, too, but it was only between one death and another. “There will be a point when you can’t change your mind, but by then it’ll be almost over.” Ais swore. It made Dr. Park smile and Sabella’s mom frown. Sabella wondered if she was in love with her, or if it was impossible to be in love with someone who was growing a body for them to share. “Don’t say that,” Ais said. “I don’t want to have that choice.”     The morning of the surgery, Aisling gave Sabella a rosary to wear with her pizza necklace, and when they kicked Sabella’s mom out to the waiting room, she kissed them both as she went. “I like your mom,” Ais said shyly. They lay in cots beside each other, just close enough that they could reach out and hold hands across the gap. “I bet she’d get along with mine.” Sabella laughed, her eyes stinging, threw herself across the space between them and kissed each of Ais’s knuckles while Ais said, “Aw, c’mon, save it ‘til we get home.” “Isn’t that a lot of commitment for you?” Sabella asked. “Yeah, well,” Ais said, caught, and gave her a cheesy smile. “You’re already taking my liver, at least my heart won’t hurt so much.” They drank themselves to gorging while nurses wrapped and padded them in warm blankets. Ais was first, for whatever measure of mercy that was, and while they were wheeled down the dizzying white hallway, she grinned at Sabella, wild, some stranger’s blood staining her throat to her nose. “You’re a real looker,” she said, and Sabella laughed over her tears. “Thank you,” Sabella said. “I mean, really, for everything.” Ais winked at her; Sabella wanted to run away from all of this and drink her in until they died. “It’s all in a day’s work, ma’am,” she said. It wasn’t, it couldn’t have been, and Sabella loved her for pretending. Ais hissed, she cried, she asked intervention of every saint learned in K-12 at a Catholic school. A horrible gelatinous noise came as Dr. Young’s gloves touched her innards, and Ais moaned and Sabella said, “You have to stop, this is awful,” and the woman assigned to supervise her held her down and said hush, honey, you need to be quiet. And the doctors’ voices, neither gentle nor unkind: We’re almost done now, Aisling, you’re being so brave. And: It’s a pity she’s too strong to pass out. Sabella went easier, hands she couldn’t see wiping her down and slicing her open while Dr. Park pulled Ais’s insides back together. She’d been scared for so long that the pain didn’t frighten her; she kept asking “Is she okay? What’s happening?” until the woman at her head brushed back her hair and said shh, she’s in the recovery room, you can worry about yourself now. It felt right, fixing her missteps with pieces of Ais, and when Dr. Young said, “There we go, just another minute and you can go take care of her yourself,” Sabella thought about meromictic lakes, about stepping into a body so deep its past never touched its present. END     "Dionysus in London" is copyright Tristan Beiter 2018. "You Inside Me" is copyright Tori Curtis 2018. This recording is a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license which means you can share it with anyone you’d like, but please don’t change or sell it. Our theme is “Aurora Borealis” by Bird Creek, available through the Google Audio Library. You can support GlitterShip by checking out our Patreon at patreon.com/keffy, subscribing to our feed, or by leaving reviews on iTunes. Thanks for listening, and we'll be back soon with a reprint of "The City of Kites and Crows" by Megan Arkenberg.  

In the inaugural episode, BookClubbing Podcast host Grace Victory (aka gracefvictory)meets guest author Frances Hardinge to talk about the books that started their love affair with reading, Harry Potter, sausage dogs and more in honour of World Book Day.

Frances Hardinge har skrivit en ungdomsroman om feminism, religion och vetenskap. I det här avsnittet träffar vi henne! Dessutom hälsar vi på i Maria Nilsson Thores ateljé och får höra hur hennes bilderboksbilder blir till. Och så diskuterar vi bokmässan - vad händer med alla osexiga seminarier på plan 2 om mässan händelsevis går i graven? Bladen brinner handlar om böcker för barn och unga, men riktar sig till dig som är vuxen. Boktips! Intervjuer! Reportage! Vi som gör den heter Lisa Bjärbo och Johanna Lindbäck. Produceras av Fabel Kommunikation Musik av Håkan Lidbo

Lietuvos valstybinio pučiamųjų instrumentų kolektyvo „Trimitas“ naujas kūrybinis sezonas.Dienraščių kultūros puslapių apžvalga.Naujų knygų apžvalgoje – Isaaco Asimovo romanas „Fondas“ ir Frances Hardinge romanas „Melų medis“.Apie Tadą Kosciušką – pirmadienio viktorinoje.„Klasikos enciklopedjia“ – apie Sintros pilį (Portugalija).

Lietuvos valstybinio pučiamųjų instrumentų kolektyvo „Trimitas“ naujas kūrybinis sezonas.Dienraščių kultūros puslapių apžvalga.Naujų knygų apžvalgoje – Isaaco Asimovo romanas „Fondas“ ir Frances Hardinge romanas „Melų medis“.Apie Tadą Kosciušką – pirmadienio viktorinoje.„Klasikos enciklopedjia“ – apie Sintros pilį (Portugalija).

Young adult fiction is called a genre, a bookshop category, and more. It is a way of grouping books together based, usually, on the age of the protagonist. But a young adult protagonist does not mean that a book will only appeal to a younger audience, nor should it. And books that are written for […] The post In praise of YA with Frances Hardinge first appeared on Breaking the Glass Slipper.

Young adult fiction is called a genre, a bookshop category, and more. It is a way of grouping books together based, usually, on the age of the protagonist. But a young adult protagonist does not mean that a book will only appeal to a younger audience, nor should it. And books that are written for […] The post In praise of YA with Frances Hardinge first appeared on Breaking the Glass Slipper.

We talk to award-winning YA author Frances Hardinge about everything that young adult (YA) fiction has to offer both readers and writers. Full episode notes available at breakingtheglassslipper.com The post S02, E19: In praise of YA with Frances Hardinge first appeared on Breaking the Glass Slipper.

We talk to award-winning YA author Frances Hardinge about everything that young adult (YA) fiction has to offer both readers and writers. Full episode notes available at www.breakingtheglassslipper.com

Red finds out if Frances Hardinge's book 'The Lie Tree' lives up to the hype that surrounded it on release.

The Lie Tree By Frances Hardinge Read by Emilia Fox Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2015. The Lie Tree is a wonderfully evocative and atmospheric novel by Frances Hardinge, award-winning author of Cuckoo Song and Fly By Night. Faith's father has been found dead under mysterious circumstances, and as she is searching through his belongings for clues she discovers a strange tree. The tree only grows healthy and bears fruit if you whisper a lie to it. The fruit of the tree, when eaten, will deliver a hidden truth to the person who consumes it. The bigger the lie, the more people who believe it, the bigger the truth that is uncovered. The girl realizes that she is good at lying and that the tree might hold the key to her father's murder, so she begins to spread untruths far and wide across her small island community. But as her tales spiral out of control, she discovers that where lies seduce, truths shatter . . .

In this special episode, Katherine and Melissa are joined in the studio by the winner of the Costa Book Award, Frances Hardinge, as well as her editor at Macmillan Children's Books Rachel Petty to talk about The Lie Tree and the 'beautiful jungle' of children's literature.

As a children's novel is proclaimed Costa book of the year, and a new Guardian series sets out to identify the 100 best non-fiction books of all time, we investigate literary stature

► Frances Hardinge vince il Costa Book Award. ► È il Giorno della Memoria onoriamolo con una storia da non dimenticare. ► Pistoia Capitale della cultura nel 2017. ► Libricity, Cityteller: vanno forte le app dei libri… #BlisterNews le notizie in breve dal mondo dell’editoria

► Frances Hardinge vince il Costa Book Award.► È il Giorno della Memoria onoriamolo con una storia da non dimenticare.► Pistoia Capitale della cultura nel 2017.► Libricity, Cityteller: vanno forte le app dei libri…#BlisterNews le notizie in breve dal mondo dell'editoria

► Frances Hardinge vince il Costa Book Award.► È il Giorno della Memoria onoriamolo con una storia da non dimenticare.► Pistoia Capitale della cultura nel 2017.► Libricity, Cityteller: vanno forte le app dei libri…#BlisterNews le notizie in breve dal mondo dell’editoria

Colonel Tim Collins reviews the new Danish feature film A War which offers a foot soldiers' view of life on the frontline. Set in the recent military conflict in Afghanistan, the company commander makes a decision that has grave consequences for him and his family back home. Tobias Lindholm's film is Denmark's entry to the Best Foreign Language Film category at this year's Oscars.2016 sees the return of Inspector Maigret, both on screen and in print. John Simenon, son of Maigret's creator Georges Simenon, and crime writer Natasha Cooper discuss the French detective's enduring appeal.It's the musical that brought us Luck Be A Lady and Sit Down You're Rocking the Boat. David Benedict reviews Guys and Dolls, starring Sophie Thompson and David Haig, as the acclaimed Chichester Festival production opens in the West End before embarking on a UK tour.In Hong Kong the whereabouts of five missing booksellers remains a mystery, although they are widely suspected to have been detained by the Chinese authorities. As one major bookshop chain stops selling politically sensitive books in Chinese, Professor Gregory Lee, a specialist in Chinese cultural and literary studies, assesses the implications.Frances Hardinge, winner of the Costa Children's Book Award with The Lie Tree, discusses her tale of murder and deception set in Victorian England.

Picocon 32'de Frances Hardinge konusmasini kayit yapmamiza izin verdi. Gecen ay Cory Doctorow'un konusmasini yayinlamistik.   Frances Hardinge, Picocon 32'nin temasi olan Ikilem konusunu romanlarinda nasil isledigini anlatti.

Best of 2014's interviews: Gail Carriger, Nessa Aref and Alysson Hall, Frances Hardinge. All recordings are issued under official license from Fab Radio International. The Bookworm is a Truly Outrageous Production.