It's not every day you get to talk to an author who's been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize, but today Susan and Sinéad get to do just that! We're welcoming Sam Thompson to the podcast, and we couldn't be happier about it. Sam's the author of the brilliant children's novels Wolfstongue and The Fox's Tower, but his first novel (Communion Town) was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize back in 2012. We talk shamanic spaces, the nature of deep time (especially as expressed in books), building roots into the unknown, the plays of Shakespeare, and the power of ambient stories, among many other brilliant things. Come and join us as we find out the answer to the question: Sam Thompson, are you Storyshaped?
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Books mentioned in this episode include Sam's own:
Communion Town (2012, Fourth Estate)
Jott (2018, John Murray)
Wolfstongue (2021, Little Island)
The Fox's Tower (2022, Little Island)
And Sam's Storyshaped books include:
Haunted House by Jan Pienkowski
Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
The Lord of the Flies by William Golding
The Tower by William Butler Yeats
The Magus by John Fowles
The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje
The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by the Pearl poet (14th Century); J.R.R. Tolkien did a good modern edition
The Tempest by William Shakespeare
Red Shift, Boneland and The Owl Service by Alan Garner
The Iron Man by Ted Hughes
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Wolves of Willoughby Chase by Joan Aiken
The Tripods by John Christopher
The novels of John Wyndham (including Day of the Triffids, The Midwich Cuckoos, and The Chrysalids)
A fascinating interview with Alan Garner about his Booker-prize shortlisted Treacle Walker
Mind out of Time: An Interview with Alan Garner
Treacle Walker: Alan Garner and Elizabeth Garner in Conversation
Our podcast bookshop in Ireland is Halfway Up the Stairs: www.halfwayupthestairs.ie
In 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.
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