So, if we sound a bit giddy on this week's episode, that's because we were! Head-whirlingly, we got to speak to Patrice Actual Lawrence, who is one of the most accomplished authors around. Patrice has written for all age groups, from picturebooks right up to YA (with equal aplomb), and her journey to creating this masterful body of work is an interesting one. Come with us as she takes us through her Storyshaped life.

Books mentioned in this week's episode include Patrice's own:

Orangeboy

Indigo Donut

Eight Pieces of Silva

Needle

Rose, Interrupted

Is That Your Mama? illustrated by Diane Ewen

Elemental Detectives

People Like Stars

And the stories which shaped her include:

Pig-Heart Boy, by Malorie Blackman

Malory Towers, by Enid Blyton (and Patrice's own New Class At Malory Towers)

Rainbow Magic, by 'Daisy Meadows'

The work of John Agard

The work of Grace Nicols

The work of Julia Donaldson

The work of Agatha Christie, Arthur Conan Doyle, and Stephen King

The work of Jenny Downham, especially Before I Die

The story of Jonathan Strong, an enslaved man in 18thC London

The Rivers of London (series), by Ben Aaronovitch

Love in the Time of Cholera, by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Dr Dolittle, by Hugh Lofting

The Railway Children, by E Nesbit

Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott

The Secret Garden, by Frances Hodgson Burnett

The Diddakoi, by Rumer Godden

Our Beautiful Darkness, by Onjaki, ill. Antonio Jorge Goncalves, trans. Lyn Miller-Lachman

A Guest in the House, by Emily Carroll

100 Tales from the Tokyo Ghost Cafe, by Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

Before the Coffee Gets Cold, by Toshikazu Kawaguchi - the book Sinéad was trying to recall!

Tsunami Girl, by Julian Sedgwick and Chie Kutsuwada

The Pigman, by Paul Zindel

Rumblefish, by SE Hinton

The Body, Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption, Misery, Pet Sematary, all by Stephen King

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