Bookable Space is a reading podcast that celebrates books and introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Laura Gwendolyn Hill. Laura reads to us from The Saxon Sword: The Song of Artemis Book One

About the book:

On a remote Scottish island, a baby girl, Artemis, is born. As a child, she is determined to unravel the mystery of her father’s identity. As a young woman with the heart of a warrior, she leaves home to find her father and faces many dangers on the road.

Fate leads Artemis into the kingdom of Northumbria where Edwin reigns as High King of Britain. Artemis is oath-bound to protect a princess, but can she prove her worth in a man’s world? Is she worthy of wielding the Saxon Sword?

Bio

Laura Gwendolyn Hill is a Sheffield based author, musician, and mother. ‘The Saxon Sword’ is her debut novel.

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Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by C.C. Legault. C.C. reads to us from Who is Bobbie-Mae?

About the book:

Bobbie-Mae wakes up alone in a hospital room. In the aftermath of a life-threatening car accident, there is complete darkness in her recall. Unsure whether her memories will ever return, Bobbie-Mae starts to read her old journals with the hope that they will help her understand who she was so that she can discover who she wants to be.

Bio:

C.C. Legault lives in Canada with her husband, three children, and her dog Lulu. She is currently a teacher, but she has previously worked in a university, a library, a coffee shop, and a cemetery. People, stories, and music are her passions. Who Is Bobbie-Mae? is her debut novel.

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Bookable Space is a reading podcast that introduces readers to books we may have missed the first time around. In this episode of Bookable Space, Yvonne Battle-Felton, author of Curdle Creek, is joined by Victoria Bennett. Victoria reads to us from All My Wild Mothers.

About the book:

Weaving together memoir and herbal folklore, All My Wild Mothers is a story of motherhood, grief, and growing. At seven months pregnant, Victoria learns that her eldest sister has died in a canoeing accident. In that moment, her life changes. Five years later, and struggling with the demands of motherhood, grief and full-time care, Victoria and her family move to a new social housing estate in rural Cumbria. Here, in the rubble of a former industrial estate, she and her young son begin to grow a wild apothecary garden: daisy, for resilience; dandelion, for strength against adversity; sow thistle, to life melancholy, and borage, to bring hope in dark and difficult times. Stone by stone, seed by see, they discover that sometimes life grows, not in spite of what is broken, but because of it."

Victoria Bennett is a disabled writer, carer and mother. Her writing has received several awards for poetry and narrative non-fiction, including the New Writing North Debut Award. Her debut memoir, All My Wild Mothers: motherhood, loss and an apothecary garden, is published by John Murray Press (2023), and won the Nautilus Award for Memoir 2024, was shortlisted for the Lakeland Book of the Year, and long listed for the inaugural Nan Shepherd Prize. She lives in Orkney. When not juggling writing, care and chronic illness, she can be found where the wild things grow, tending her apothecary garden.

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