I recorded this episode after having Covid, which affected my asthma. Apologies for the audible wheezing.


 


Scott’s choice: A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin


Ali’s choice: Sabriel by Garth Nix


Buy from your local bookseller, such as Bert’s Books in Swindon!


The awful adaptation of A Wizard of Earthsea: Legend of Earthsea and a much better one: Tales from Earthsea


Vetch is indeed a plant.


HP Lovecraft Band’s song Country Boy and Bleeker Street


Scott mentions the Caryl Churchill play Vinegar Tom


Tim Curry narrates the audiobook of Sabriel


Authors that Scott mentions reading to his son:


Vashti Hardy
G. Leonard
Jakob Wegelius

We also talk about Chris Riddell’s Goth Girl discussed by my dad and me on episode 16, and L.D Lapinski’s Strangeworlds Travel Agency, discussed with Phil Dyson in episode 2. The final book in the Strangeworlds Travel Agency is now published- The Secrets of the Stormforest.


Find Scott on Twitter: @stumpyduck77 and on Instagram @doggerelg

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