In this episode of Bookable Space with Yvonne Battle-Felton, we’re joined by Moira Darrell.

Moira reads to us from Selena and Her Mysteries and Messed Up Choices, and talks to us about questions, secrets, writing, and more.

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In this episode of Bookable Space host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Valerie Nieman. Valerie reads from Upon the Corner of the Moon: A Tale of the MacBeths. She talks to us about writing, researching, and imagining.

About the author:

Valerie Nieman is the author of Upon the Corner of the Moon, In the Lonely Backwater (Sir Walter Raleigh Award), five other novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books. A graduate of West Virginia University and Queens University of Charlotte, she has held NEA and regional writing grants.

About the book:

Deeply researched and thoughtfully constructed around themes of women's lives and spirituality, the power of storytelling, and the complex politics of northern Europe between the invasions of the Vikings and the Normans, Upon the Corner of the Moon is the first of two books telling the story of real people who’ve been rewritten into emblems of evil. “Steeped in the myth, mystery, politics, and culture of Celtic Scotland, Upon the Corner of the Moon presents the world of the young Lady Macbeth and Macbeth with authenticity, a deft hand, and a poet’s voice,” says Susan Fraser King, author of Lady Macbeth: A Novel.

At the dawn of the second millennium, two royal Scottish children are swept away from their families—Macbeth to the perilous royal court of his grandfather, Gruach to the remnants of the goddess-worshiping Picts. Macbeth learns that blood bonds are easily severed while Gruach finds her path only to lose it when she’s summoned back to the patriarchal world. They struggle with gaining and losing power, guided and misguided by prophecy and politics as their paths converge in a fiery bid for royal succession. Upon the Corner of the Moon separates literary legend from the reality of rulers who changed the face of Scotland. "Upon the Corner of the Moon is a haunting and bloody tale of Scottish history. It’s also a finger tracing along a set of scars, ones we already know are too deep to ever really heal,” said the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.

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In this delightful episode of Bookable Space, we're joined by Natalie Leon. Natalie reads from The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally and talks about travel, living seasonally, and believing in your projects.

About the Book: The Japanese Art of Living Seasonally, is a treasure trove of the traditional Japanese foods, flowers, festivals and folklore that have delighted and inspired me since I started travelling to Japan almost a decade ago, which has forever changed how I connect with the natural world and the seasons.

This beautiful guide unlocks the secrets of Japan's seasonal culture to help you relish the seasons wherever you are.

About the author: Natalie Leon is a British Japanologist and non fiction author based in London. She is a seasonality specialist and a practitioner of The Way of Tea. Passionate about slow living, traditional Japanese art, culture and tea.

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