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Piers Torday on the magic of children's books
Category: Arts
Duration: 00:37:59
Publish Date: 2019-12-11 09:19:54
Description:
In this week’s Book Club podcast, Sam's guest is the children’s writer Piers Torday, author of the Last Wild trilogy and, most recently, The Frozen Sea. Why is winter such a powerful thing in children’s writing? How come children’s books are such a booming publishing sector when so many people thought that screens would all but kill them off? Why do so many children’s writers have catastrophic personal lives? And how do the stories of today repurpose and live in the stories of the past?

Presented by Sam Leith.
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