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Fantasy Book Swap

Ali Baker and a guest discuss children’s fantasy fiction. The guest chooses a favourite for Ali, and Ali chooses a complementing contemporary book. Jokes and the occasional swear word may ensue. Please contact https://www.instagram.com/fantasy_book_swap_podcast/, @alisonbaker01 on BlueSky or https://www.facebook.com/Fantasybookswap. Ask questions, make comments and join in the discussion!

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01:16:17

Ep 19: Fairytale retellings and socialist fantasy...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2022/03/18

Please note that there is mention of transphobia in this episode. Warning: there is mild swearing and a lot of cackling. Ali Williams’s book: Beauty by Robin McKinley Ali Baker’s book: Magyk by Angie Sage Robin McKinley’s website here Angie Sage’s website here This is Laurie Pink, Angie Sage’s child, who is an artist: https://mobile.twitter.com/lauriepink Ali Williams’s website: https://www.aliwilliams.org/ where you can find links to her lectures, Romancing the Discourse, her editing and

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01:05:25

Ep 18: Going Underground Joan Aiken’s Is and Frances...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2022/03/06

Aisha’s book: Is by Joan Aiken Ali’s book: A Face Like Glass by Frances Hardinge You can find out about all of Joan Aiken’s books here and follow her daughter, Lizza on Twitter. Aisha mentions The Harp of Fishbones, The Kingdom under the Sea and A Necklace of Raindrops with Jan Pienkowski’s illustrations, such as these ones You can hear LeVar Burton reading ‘Furry Night’ from The People in the Castle here Frances Hardinge’s website, Facebook fan page and Twitter Ali’s editions here and Aisha’s Dr

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50:14

Of Wolves and Birds with Damien Hine

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2022/02/23

Damien’s choice: Wolf Brother by Michelle Paver Ali’s choice: Asha and the Spirit Bird by Jasbinder Bilan Jasbinder Bilan wrote about the inspiration she got from a trip to India here You can find Damien Hine on Twitter here and Facebook. The audiobook of Out of Atlas can be bought here. Damien will be at the British SFF convention, EasterCon. You can buy membership here, but do it soon as prices will be rising at the end of the month. Fantasy Book Swap is Hugo-eligible! If you’re a member of

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47:51

Spooky Old Houses and Ghostly Mouses

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2022/02/13

This episode has a very special guest… my dad, Michael Baker, who was 84 yesterday. You can see him wearing his favourite hat here. This photo was taken last May, on my sister Kate’s belated 50th birthday. It was absolutely freezing! Our choices were: John Masefield's The Midnight Folk Chris Riddell's Ghost Girl and the Ghost of a Mouse During the podcast I mention John Masefield’s poem Sea Fever. You can read it here. I just found this poem, The Ship and Her Makers, which seems closer to his

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47:38

Episode 15: Crushing on Chrestomanci

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2022/01/27

Alice’s choice: Charmed Life by Diana Wynne Jones Ali’s choice: Who Let The Gods Out? by Maz Evans You can find Alice on Twitter, read her on Book Riot and read her webcomics here The most obvious example of an Agatha Christie novel with an unreliable narrator is The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. Alice mentions Robin Steven’s wonderful Murder Most Unladylike books, which I can’t recommend enough. Do you use Storygraph to log your reading? Follow me there, and see what is coming up on the

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10:19

Episode 14- Series 1 finale. Of spooks, skeksis and...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/12/29

Thank you, dear listeners, for your support and interest. Fantasy Book Swap has had 1000 downloads on Podbean! Look, I have the badge to prove it! This episode has the favourite winter reading of: Nicholas Jackson Danny DC so thank you all for your contributions! I very much enjoyed listening to them. Fantasy Book Swap is taking a break until the end of January, when I will be back with Fantasy Book Swap 2: Swap Harder. Thanks, as always, to Steve Vapour Trails for production support, and for Jack

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01:02:23

Wolves are not the most dangerous creatures in this...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/12/21

Stef’s choice: The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper. Ali’s choice: Breadcrumbs by Anne Ursu. See one of Erin McGuire's illustrations for Breadcrumbs here You can find Stef on Twitter and Instagram, and buy her books here https://www.cynefinroad.co.uk/shop The next episode will be the last for a bit; I’m taking a break in January and will be back in early February. Do you use Storygraph to log your reading? Follow me there, and see what is coming up on the podcast

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55:35

Ep 12: Anne is not the Sansa Stark of the Famous...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/12/14

You can find Fiona on Twitter, and her blog here, where you can find links to her fiction and other work. You can buy Fiona’s book on Doctor Who: The Robots of Death here. Fiona’s tiny buildings can be found on Instagram and Beau Paddington’s wardrobe on Twitter. Fiona’s choice was Edward Eager’s Knight’s Castle, which easily available in secondhand editions. However, N. M. Bodecker’s illustrations are hard to beat, so try to find an edition including them. My favourite is here. Fiona mentions the

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00:42

Winter special trailer

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/12/04

Get involved! Email your voice recording introducing your favourite winter reads to fantasybookswap@gmail.com.

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01:02:54

Ep 11: Farah Mendlesohn, Fattypuffs and Thinifers and...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/11/26

Follow Farah on Twitter. Farah is also a co-chair for the Eastercon 2024 bid Farah co-authored Children's Fantasy Literature: An Introduction with Michael Levy, and is the author of The Intergalactic Playground: A Critical Study of Children's and Teens' Science Fiction Farah recommends The Tea Dragon Society Farah's choice: Fattypuffs and Thinifers by Andre Maurois Ali's choice: Lightfall by Tim Probert Please tell me your favourite Winter reads! Record a short voice note and email

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52:14

”More funny than Thomas Hardy”: John Coxon, Rebecca‘s...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/11/11

Rebecca’s World by Terry Nation As John states, there is an Audible audiobook of Rebecca’s World, read by Paul Darrow, who was indeed Avon from Blakes 7. Flora and Ulysses by Kate di Camillo. There is a Disney film based on the book; see the trailer here The Tale of Despereaux trailer on YouTube John mentions Groosham Grange by Anthony Horowitz Ali mentions The Eighteenth Emergency by Betsy Byars and You’re A Bad Man, Mr Gum! by Andy Stanton Octothorpe British SFF fandom podcast with Liz Batty,

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01:03:59

Ep.9 ”Not your average hawk”: Tamora Pierce‘s Tortal...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/10/30

Guest: my colleague Ruth Hunt. Find out more about Ruth and her research here Wild Magic by Tamora Pierce Tempests and Slaughter by Tamora Pierce The Tortall universe in chronological order- though new readers would be best off starting with Alanna: The First Adventure Tamora Pierce’s thinking about gender identity and sexuality has changed over time An interview with Tamora Pierce on Beyond the Trope podcast Ruth Hunt the Wild Mage’s wildlife photos here Thanks to Steve Vapour Trails for production

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57:22

Episode True 8- Virginia Preston, cricket, cake and nuns

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/10/17

Antonia Forests’s The Cricket Term Daisy May Johnson’s How To Be Brave Fantasy Book Swap episode with Daisy The Dickens novel that we couldn’t remember was Dombey and Son, where an annoying child does indeed die The Worst Witch- Mildred unmasking the evil witches Eva Ibbotson’s books: The Journey to the River Sea is set in the Amazon rainforest Many of Angela Brazil’s books are on Project Gutenberg Nicola and Rowan discuss Dorothy L Sayers’s Murder Must Advertise. A cricket match is the climax,

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Episode 7 ”No booty call for Merlin”: Tiffani Angus...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/09/28

Content warning for non-explicit discussion of sexual violence and mental health crises including sectioning. Recorded live at FantasyCon, so there is background noise of 3D humans, including some sound bleed of the panel in the room next door. Let's call it atmosphere! Mary Stewart's The Crystal Cave- it is in fact a quintet, not a trilogy James Clammer's Why I Went Back I got Steve and Jimmy's friendship origin story wrong- Steve was friends at university with some of Jimmy's friends, but they

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01:09:08

Episode 6 Fran Dowd: Puffin Club, Hobberdy Dick, The...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/09/18

Show notes Episode 6 Hobberdy Dick song by Rod Anderson https://www.reverbnation.com/rodanderson The Wee Free Men (from Steeleye Span’s Wintersmith album) https://youtu.be/ybsZpSn1grg Sheffield Science Fiction and Fantasy Group https://www.facebook.com/groups/2388189214 History of the Puffin Club https://puffinclub.co.uk/history Link to K. M. Briggs’ papers and correspondence at University of Leeds https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/6579 Terry Pratchett’s books for

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39:29

Episode 5 Daisy May Johnson, Five Children and It and...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/09/06

Unfortunately, we had technical difficulties recording this episode, so it is slightly shorter than usual. Quick correction: Nesbit’s relationship doesn’t seem to have been poly. It has been described as an open relationship, but her husband Hubert Bland’s affairs don’t seem to have been with her consent. Nesbit Five Children and It. My edition is the Puffin Classics one published in 2008, with the foreword by Quentin Blake, but really poor-quality reproductions of illustrations. Hilary McKay The

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01:07:17

Episode 4 Steve Brooks The Trigan Empire and Eoin...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/08/30

CONTENT WARNING- this episode discusses racism and orientalism in the context of children’s comics. Look and Learn Book of The Trigan Empire 1973- Some Trigan Empire books have been republished by Rebellion Publishers, owners of 2000AD https://2000ad.com/news/out-now-the-trigan-empire-vol-1/ Eoin Colfer’s Artemis Fowl: The Graphic Novel by Michael Moreci and Stephen Gilpin. We know that there is a film; we haven’t been able to bring ourselves to watch it. The names of the characters in Die Hard are

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01:12:34

Episode 3 Alison Scott, Marianne Dreams and Tamarind...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/08/16

In which Ali gets the name of the podcast wrong twice! Marianne Dreams by Catherine Storr Tamarind and the Star of Ishta by Jasbinder Bilan, @jasinbath on Twitter We also mention Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier, Catherine Storr's The Chinese Egg and Marianne and Mark, and Jasbinder Bilan's Asha and the Spirit Bird. Alison's book recommendation list: https://www.facebook.com/alison.scott.3998/posts/10158236430174766 Stow Shirts on Etsy Octothorpe podcast (where news of Punctuation 3 is likely to be

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01:01:25

Ep 2 Phil Dyson Howl's Moving Castle and...

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/07/27

In this episode, Phil and Ali discuss Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones and Strangeworlds Travel Agency by L.D. Lapinski. Please note that we spoil some important points of both books! Of course the first Chrestomanci book is Charmed Life! Please don't shout at me. You can find Phil @phildyson on Twitter. Find out more about EasterCon 22 @reclamation2022 and https://reclamation2022.co.uk/. You email Phil via the site. As always, Letters of Comment welcome via fantasybookswap@gmail.com

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01:01:29

S1 Ep1 Helena McCallum Trees, libraries and dragons

Fantasy Book Swap ·

2021/07/14

Hello! Welcome to Fantasy Book Club's first episode, in which SFF conrunner, creative writing tutor and pandemic warrior Helena McCallum and Ali discuss childhood comfort reading, accessing books from libraries and jumble sales, Collins children's classics, punishment of unruly bodies in children's literature and the education of wizards. Enjoy! With thanks to Helena McCallum (@adela_terrell). Music- Bliss by Jack Sadler-Johnson, with many thanks Production support by Steve Vapour Trails

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