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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