by Lucy Hounsom | September 30, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSFemale friendships tend to take a back seat in our narratives, so that when they are given the space to exist, they exist almost solely to discuss a man. Virginia Woolf once commented that “all the great women...
by Lucy Hounsom | July 1, 2021 | 5 Q's, Blog
She Who Became the Sun has been described as Mulan meets The Song of Achilles, but it’s better to drop all expectations these comparisons conjure up and go in expecting to be dazzled. I couldn’t wait to get Shelley on the blog to talk about this...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 24, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSS95 years after it was first published, the copyright on The Great Gatsby has expired. This great American novel has sold over 25 million copies since it was first published, despite initially disappointing sales. It...
by Lucy Hounsom | June 10, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSThe frontier. The edge of civilisation. So far from the central government that laws are more like ‘guidelines’. Where the sheriffs are crooked and the criminals ruthless; trains rarely go un-sacked and...
by Lucy Hounsom | May 27, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSOur identity is who we are. But for such a seemingly simple concept, our identities are extremely complex. We aren’t the only ones who decide our identities. Society places labels on us that we often don’t feel...
by Lucy Hounsom | April 29, 2021 | Episodes, Interview
Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSWhy do we need monsters in our fiction? Why do we want to be frightened? When they pick up a book, do readers enter into a pact with a writer, as Catriona Ward describes: a pact that says I share your fear,...
