This episode, host Hannah MacInnes is in conversation with Katherine Rundell, shortlisted for the Book of the Year: Children’s Fiction for Impossible Creatures. In their conversation, they discuss why we conjure fantastical beasts, taking inspiration from Tolkein and the paragraph that Katherine rewrote perhaps thirty times to get it just right.
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