We have the splendid pleasure of speaking with Sharon Gosling this week on the podcast - yes, only the author of one of our absolute favourite books of 2022, The Extraordinary Voyage of Katy Willacott! The stories that shaped Sharon are wide-ranging and exciting, and our chat with her was fun, informative, and full of brilliant books. Come along with us as we take a walk through Sharon's Storyshaped life, and who knows? You might find she's Storyshaped in just the same way as you.
Books mentioned in this episode include some of Sharon's own:
The Diamond Thief, winner of the Redbridge Children’s Book Award 2014
The Ruby Airship
The Sapphire Cutlass
The Golden Butterfly
House of Hidden Wonders
The Extraordinary Voyage of Katy Willacott.
Her adult books have included The House Beneath the Cliffs and The Lighthouse Bookshop
And the stories that shaped her include:
Little Grey Rabbit, by Alison Uttley
Meg and Mog, by Helen Nicoll and Jan Pienkowski
Boys' Best Adventures (any books that helped you to survive in the wild)
The Circus of Adventure, by Enid Blyton
Amazon Adventure, by Willard Price
Beaver Towers, by Nigel Hinton
When Marnie Was There, by Joan Robinson
The Girl Who Ran Away, by Joan Robinson
The Flight of the Doves, by Walter Macken
Trixie Belden series, by Julie Campbell Tathem and others
The Hardy Boys, by Franklin W. Dixon (collective pen-name)
Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott
The Animals of Farthing Wood, by Colin Dann
Twenty-Five Years in the Word Mines, by Graham Joyce
Why Be Happy When You Could Be Normal? by Jeanette Winterson
The novels of Terry Pratchett
Babel, by R.F. Kuang
The British Library collections of short stories
The novels and short stories of Shirley Jackson
The work of Kelly Link
Hag, edited by Carolyne Larrington
Folk, by Zoe Gilbert
Parnassus on Wheels, by Christopher Morley
A Necklace of Raindrops and Other Stories, by Joan Aiken
The Faithless Lollybird, by Joan Aiken
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