{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/66339c1419f78300126792d5/664744e9e1c7960012125e74?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"Shelf Life: Nicholas Bowling","description":"<p>Nicholas Bowling is a Costa-shortlisted author, bookseller and former Classics teacher.</p><p><br></p><p>Interests include Norse mythology, dead people, writing.</p><p><br></p><p>Find him on Twitter: <a href=\"https://x.com/thenickbowling\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@thenickbowling</a></p><p><br></p><p>A reading list:</p><p><br></p><p>His own books <em>Witchborn</em>, <em>In the Shadow of Heroes</em>, <em>Song of the Far Isles </em>and <em>The Undying of Obedience Wellrest. </em><a href=\"https://www.chickenhousebooks.com/authors/nicholas-bowling/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Find out more here.</a></p><p><br></p><p><em>Lord of the Rings </em>by JRR Tolkien, <em>Tales of Norse Mythology </em>by H. A. Guerber, <em>We Have Always Lived in the Castle </em>by Shirley Jackson, <em>Jonathan Strange &amp; Mr Norrell</em> by Susanna Clarke; <em>Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein</em> by Kathryn Harkup, <em>Slaughterhouse-Five</em> by Kurt Vonnegut, <em>The Dog of the South </em>by Charles Portis, <em>The Name of the Wind </em>by Patrick Rothfuss, and anything by Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Homer.</p><p><br></p><p>Shelf Life is presented and produced by Fleur Macdonald; exec-produced by Melissa Fitzgerald; while the music is by <a href=\"https://www.meforqueen.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Me for Queen</a> - thank you.</p>","author_name":"Fleur Macdonald"}