This week my guest is my friend novelist Piers Torday. Piers’s first book The Dark Wild won the Guardian’s Children’s Fiction Prize. His books include The Dark Wild trilogy, There May Be a Castle, A Wisp of Wisdom and Winter Magic. 

Piers' Books

• The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding, by Beatrix Potter: 1908

• The Swimming-Pool Library, by Alan Hollinghurst: 1988

• A Dance to the Music of Time, by Anthony Powell: 1951-1975

• The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, by Elizabeth Kolbert: 2014

• The Underground Railroad, by Coleson Whitehead: 2016

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