Audio Podcasts

Malorie Blackman's Noughts and Crosses series has won awards and acclaim for its intelligent and gripping combination of imaginative storytelling and contemporary relevance. Set in a futuristic dystopia where racism and terrorism prevail, Double Cross is the fourth novel in the series. Malorie was in Edinburgh for a Scottish Book Trust event and Jasmine Fassl took the opportunity to discuss the book with her, as well as asking how it feels to have had one of her books made into a play by the Royal Shakespeare Company.

The winners of the 2008 Royal Mail Awards for Scottish Children's Books were announced in a truly exciting ceremony at The Beach Ballroom in Aberdeen on 18th November. Paul Gallagher was on hand to speak to the winning authors, as well as interviewing a selection of the 600+ Scottish pupils in attendance. Listen to them all on our special podcast episode!

Listen to our exclusive interview at Edinburgh's Filmhouse with Neil Gaiman, the award-winning writer whose many works include the Sandman comics, novels American Gods and Neverwhere and screenplays for recent blockbusters Stardust and Beowulf. Gaiman spoke to Scottish Book Trust's Celia Richards about his new novel for children, The Graveyard Book, and they discussed the differences between writing for adults and children, how he first came up with the idea of The Graveyard Book and which type of 'undead' he would most like to be...

It's the meeting of two Chrises, as Scottish Book Trust's Chris Newton interviews the author/illustrator of the Something Wickedly Weird series Chris Mould, who talks about his recent Scottish Friendly Children's Book Tour of Argyll & Bute, and why he thinks it's important to scare children...

Bunker 10 author J. A. Henderson's funny and entertaining talk to a group of 12-16 year old readers as part of Scottish Book Trust's Royal Mail Awards events.

Listen to 4 pupils from Garnock Academy in North Ayrshire talking about their responses to Jan Henderson's Bunker 10 session, and revealing a morbid fascination with ways of dying!

An in-depth interview with Bunker 10 author J. A. Henderson, discussing the importance of meeting his readers, and his approaches to writing.