From Harry Potter to Hag-Seed (S2E5)

In this episode Paul, Gwyn, Holly and Lara catch up on some of their latest good reads. Listener and author Patricia Bracewell raises the question “would there be Harry Potter without Susan Cooper’s The Dark is Rising sequence?” Gwyn champions Stephen King’s Fairy Tale as a great read; Holly and Lara both recommend Margaret Atwood’s Hag-Seed; and Paul delves into Victorian natural history with Isabella Tree’s The Bird Man: A Biography of John Gould. We also catch up on the most recent book group read by Amy Liptrot.

Lara recommends two Liverpool bookshops: News from Nowhere in Bold Street and Out of Print in Smithdown Road.

For a list of some of the books we talk about on the show go to our Bookylicious bookshelf.