Bookylicious

Holly, Lara and Paul chat about some of the books they are reading and highlights of the 10th Wrexham Carnival of Words www.wrexhamcarnivalofwords.com

The Womens Prize for Fiction 2024 longlist also gets a mention https://womensprize.com/announcing-the-2024-womens-prize-for-fiction-longlist/

If you would like to download and read the University of Sheffield Creative Writing Society’s latest anthology edited by Holly you can find it here https://uoscreativewritingsoc.wordpress.com/our-anthology/

And yes! We do talk about blue cheese and Dorset Knobs, Thomas Hardy’s favourite snack. To order your own Dorset Knobs go to www.moores-biscuits.co.uk

As always you can find all the books we discussed on our Bookshop.org bookshelf here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-8-carnival-reads-and-blue-cheese?

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Lara and Paul talk to Paul Clifton about his new poetry collection ‘1988, a poetic diary of a Wrexham author’. They chat about the creative process, how do poems emerge and reach their final form and Paul reads some of his work.

If you would like to buy Paul’s work go here https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Paul-Clifton/author/B006VE1EFO?ref=ap_rdr&isDramIntegrated=true&shoppingPortalEnabled=true

Paul and Lara also mention ‘Les Miserables’ by Victor Hugo and ‘Strands’ by Jean Sprackland

Paul, Lara and Holly talk some more about audiobooks based on Patricia Bracewell’s recommendations. They also discuss Thomas Hardy’s women, is “romantasy” a genre, BB’s Little Grey men (gnomes) and nature writing and much more!

Go to our bookshelf for some of the books mentioned in this episode. https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-6-thomas-hardy-romantasy-gnomes-and-nature?

For the first time ever Paul, Holly and Lara gathered in the library stacks in Wrexham and not on Zoom to record this episode. That’s why it is a slightly longer episode than normal but the conversation was too good to cut! We cover everything including audiobooks, Les Miserables, whether Wombles and Moomins share the same DNA, the joys and pitfalls of genre fiction including sci-fi.

You will find the shelf with most of the books we discuss here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-5-wombles-moomins-audiobooks-and-sci-fi?

For more information about Wrexham Carnival of Words 2024 go here www.wrexhamcarnivalofwords.com

For more information about Mary Oliver and Upstream https://maryoliver.com/bio/

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In this episode Paul speaks to Dave McCall AKA author David Ebsworth about his latest book ‘Blood Among the Threads’ a murder mystery set in Wrexham in 1876. For more information about Dave, his books and to sign up to his mailing list go here https://www.davidebsworth.com/

Other authors we discuss are Robert Harris https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/575.Robert_Harris and Rosemary Sutcliff https://rosemarysutcliff.com/summaries-and-synopses-of-rosemary-sutcliff-books/

And if you are interested in the recent Slightly Foxed editions of Sutcliff’s works go here https://foxedquarterly.com/shop/a-set-of-rosemary-sutcliff-novels/

In this episode Paul and Lara chat about their Good Reads reading challenges for 2023 and select fiction and non-fiction favourites. They discuss their progress (or not?) Wrexham Carnival of Words long read for 2024 ‘Les Miserables’ by Victor Hugo. Plus a few suggestions for what Santa might consider bringing!

As always here is a bookshelf of some of the books we mention https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-3-2023-reading-challenge-review-les-miserable-and-christmas-wishes

Here are links for Slow Ways https://beta.slowways.org/ and Danny Robins Uncanny website https://www.dannyrobins.com/uncanny

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In this episode Paul interviews Sian hughes the Booker longlisted author of ‘Pearl’ in her beautiful bookshop Magpie Books in Malpas , Cheshire https://www.magpiebookshop.co.uk/

Sian talks about the long process of writing ‘Pearl, Old English poetry in the Cheshire dialect, being longlisted for the Booker prize, the Wales/Cheshire border and much more!

For more information about Sian here are a couple of sites with more information:

https://theindigopress.com/sian-hughes/

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/authors/sian-hughes

And as always here is our bookshelf.org bookshelf with some of the books we mention:

https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-2-sian-hughes

Apologies because this was recorded on location the sound levels are a little variable but hopefully this won’t spoil your enjoyment.

In this episode Paul talks to Dani Robertson the Dark Sky Officer for Prosiect Nos Dark Skies Partnership in North Wales. She is author of ‘All Through the Night’ a book highlighting the issues of light pollution and what we can all do about it. Here are some links about Dani and Project Nos

https://www.discoveryinthedark.wales/project-nos

https://darksky.org/news/dani-robertson-monthly-star/

https://darksky.org/news/dani-robertson-monthly-star/

As always you can see books we talked about in our bookshop.org bookshelf ⁠https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-3-episode-1-dani-robertson-all-through-the-night

In this episode Gwyn reviews Umberto Eco's 'The Name of the Rose' and Paul feeds back on his viewing of the 1986 film of the book and the 2019 TV series.

Paul recommends some Medieval monastic sleuths to follow on from 'The Name of the Rose'.

For details of the books mentioned please check our bookshelf here https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/bookylicious-series-2-episode-13-the-name-of-the-rose

In this show Paul and Holly chat about novels featuring libraries and librarians inspired by the Electric Literature reading list https://electricliterature.com/7-novels-that-reveal-librarians-behind-the-shelves/ From which emerges ‘The Name of the Rose’ by Uberto Eco as our book of the month.

Gwyn shares her favourite reads about magic and mysticism.

Paul and Holly discuss their current reads and hopefully we will inspire you in our varied choice!

All books mentioned can be found on our Bookshop.Org bookshelf https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/books-featuring-librarians-and-librarians-and-gwyn-explores-all-things-magical-and-mystical-bookylicious-series-2-episode-12

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