This week, we're sitting down (on a gorgeously tropical beach, no less) with debut YA author Sharada Keats. Sharada's book These Stolen Lives is a gripping, powerfully resonant story of colonisation, resistance, and whacking power across the head with truth - as well as humour, drama, family and found family, and a swoonsome romance. We had a hugely fun and illuminating chat with Sharada about her life, her career, her creative work (and where her writing is going next), and - if you're ready - you can settle back and listen to it all, right now. Sweet!
Books mentioned this week include Sharada's own:
The Poetical Institute's Particular Powers of Vegetables and Fruit
These Stolen Lives
This Shattered Promise (forthcoming)
And the books that shaped her include:
Arabella and Mortimer, by Joan Aiken
The work of Enid Blyton
The work of Roald Dahl
The work of Dick King-Smith
The work of Diana Wynne Jones, in particular Archer's Goon
Mrs Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, by Robert C. O'Brien
The Chronicles of Narnia, by CS Lewis
The Dark is Rising, by Susan Cooper
Blitzcat, by Robert Westall
A Wrinkle in Time, by Madeleine l'Engle
The Hobbit, by JRR Tolkien
The Halfmen of O, by Maurice Gee
I Like This Poem, published by Puffin
The Rattlebag, by Seamus Heaney
The Crone, by James Herbert Brennan
Dune, by Frank Herbert
The work of Iain M. Banks
The work of Andre Norton
The work of Orson Scott Card
The work of Jane Yolen
The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham
Hamlet, by William Shakespeare
Romeo and Juliet, by William Shakespeare
The Glass Menagerie, by Tennessee Williams
The work of John Steinbeck
Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Bronte
The work of Jane Austen
Anne of Green Gables, by LM Montgomery
Shitty First Draft, by Anne Lamott
Talks by Malorie Blackman and Patrice Lawrence
Towards Asmara, by Thomas Kenneally
The work of Langston Hughes
The work of Wole Soyinka
The work of Rabinadrath Tagore
The work of Maya Angelou
The work of John Agard
The work of Imtiaz Dharker
The work of Tracy Chapman
The work of Ted Hughes
The work of Seamus Heaney
The work of Michael Rosen
The work of Spike Milligan
The work of Roger McGough
The work of Wislawa Szymborska
The work of Andrei Voznesensky
The work of Miroslav Holub
The work of CP Cavafy
Sword of the Sun, by Sinéad O'Hart
The World Between the Rain, by Susan Cahill
People Like Stars, by Patrice Lawrence
Tidemagic, by Claire Harlow
Mission: Microraptor, by Philip Kavvadias
The Murderbot Diaries, by Martha Wells
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