Damaris Young author of The Switching Hour and The Creature Keeper talks about the book that inspired her - The Lie Tree by Frances Hardinge.    Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.com Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale ..read more

SF Said, author of the Varjak Paw books and Phoenix talks about the book that inspired him to become a writer, Watership Down by Richard Adams.    Read the accompanying article on tygertale.com Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale ..read more

Sophie Kirtley author of Stone Age adventure The Wild Way Home talks about the book that inspired her, Clive King’s Stig of the Dump.    Read an accompanying blogpost about Stig of the Dump on tygertale.com Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale ..read more

Howl’s Moving Castle with Katherine Rundell Katherine Rundell, author of the Rooftoppers books discusses Howl’s Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones. This beloved book from childhood helped stoke her passion for language and set her on a path of exploring hidden worlds both in stories and real life.    Katherine also talks here about Night Climbers of Cambridge, a guide to scaling ancient buildings and University colleges that informed her own real life rooftopping adventures and inspired characters like Matteo, the protagonist of her new book Skysteppers.    Skysteppers is p ..read more

Piers Torday talks about the book that influenced his children's novel The Frozen Sea - C.S. Lewis's The Silver Chair from the Chronicles of Narnia.    Read the accompanying blog post on tygertale.com Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale ..read more

Fleur Hitchcock talks about the book that made her realise not all heroines needed to be nice.    Night Birds on Nantucket by Joan Aiken is the third in a series that began with the Wolves of Willoughby Chase and the first to feature sparky street urchin Dido Twite as it's protagonist.    We also discuss the book's influence on her Clifftoppers series whose characters draw on Dido's pluck, invention and kindness. Explore Joan Aiken's books at bookshop.org Read the accompanying blog post at tygertale.com Support the show (http://patreon.com/tygertale ..read more