The Stories of Britain
This Wednesday 14th September from 10-11am I will be talking about the Stories of Britain on Radio Maria England. Given the events of the last few days, I think it’s probably an appropriate time to be reflecting on our national stories. If you’d like to listen, the station is available on digital radio and the internet. It’s a call-in show, so please ring 01223 375 564 from 10.30 if you’d like to ask a question. (I think that’s the number but it might be worth tuning in and checking on the day.)
I’ll be giving a sneak preview of my next children’s novel and will probably mention these books, if only in passing:
Margery Morris – Stories of the Ancient Britons
R. J. Unstead – The Story of Britain
Pat Reid – My Favourite Escape Stories
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Hobbit
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien – The Letters of J. R. R. Tolkien
Tom Shippey – The Road to Middle-Earth
C. S. Lewis – That Hideous Strength
C. S. Lewis – Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Literature
C. S. Lewis – The Letters of C. S. Lewis to Arthur Greeves
R. M. Wilson – The Lost Literature of Medieval England
Kenneth Grahame – The Wind in the Willows
Mary Norton – The Borrowers
Clive King – Stig of the Dump
Geraldine McCaughrean and Richard Brassey – Britannia: 100 Great Stories from British History
Alan Garner – Treacle Walker
Geoffrey of Monmouth – The History of the Kings of Britain
Thomas Malory – Le Morte D’Arthur
The Mabinogion
Robert Graves – I, Claudius
Joseph Jacobs – English Fairy Tales
Kevin Crossley-Holland (ed.) – Folk Tales of the British Isles
Amy Jeffs – Storyland: A New Mythology of Britain
And next Sunday I will be joining Madeleine Carroll to speak about British saints at St Bede’s, Clapham Park. Details of the day are available here.