BookBanter

It’s April 15th and it’s time for a new episode of BookBanter.  And in episode 6 we have a very special interview with Amber Benson, author of the Albion series, the first of her new three-book series, Death’s Daughter, and she might’ve been the great actress to play Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer.

This episode features my review for Death’s Daughter, which is about Calliope Reaper-Jones who discovers that she is, unsurprisingly, Death’s Daughter, and must assume the mantle of her father.  However, she doesn’t just automatically get the job, but must pass some tests first.  The review is followed by my interview with the great author/actress/singer.  Then reviews for The Hunt for Planet X: New Worlds and the Fate of Pluto by Govert Schilling, Panorama: A Foldout Book by Fani Marceau and Joelle Jolivet, and finally Heroes of the Valley by Jonathan Stroud.

If you are interested in purchasing Amber Benson’s books, or others mentioned in this episode, simply click on the book covers below:

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For any questions or comments, or have an author you’d like to see interviewed on BookBanter, email me at alexctelander@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening to BookBanter and see you May 1st for Episode 7 with Mary Roach, author of Stiff, Spook, and now out in paperback: Bonk: The Curious Coupling of Science and Sex.

Have a good one!

Alex C. Telander.

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Welcome to Episode 5 of BookBanter and this month’s episode features my interview with bestselling historical fiction author Bernard Cornwell.  Some of his books include the successful Sharpe series, the Grail Quest series, and the Saxon Chronicles series.  His latest book, Agincourt, centers on the monumental battle of the Hundred Years War where the British miraculously beat the French against unbeatable odds.  Our hero is Nicholas Hook, a skilled archer, who at times just manages to scrape through with his life.

The episode begins with my review of Agincourt, followed by the interview with Bernard Cornwell.  This is followed by my reviews for: Contagious by Scott Sigler, The Black Mirror and Other Stories: An Anthology of Science Fiction From Germany and Austria edited by Franz Rottensteiner, I Saw You . . . Comics Inspired by Real-Life Missed Connections edited by Julia Wertz, The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer and translated by Burton Raffel, The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll be Dead by David Shields, and The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes.

If you are interested in purchasing any of Bernard Cornwell’s books, or other books that I have reviewed, simply click on any of the links below:

Bernard Cornwell:

Agincourt

The Last Kingdom

The Winter King

The Archer’s Tale

Sharpe’s Tiger

Contagious by Scott Sigler

The Black Mirror edited by Franz Rottensteiner

I Saw You . . . edited by Julia Wertz

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

The Thing About Life is That One Day You’ll be Dead by David Shields

The Somnambulist by Jonathan Barnes

Why don’t you get yourself on the BookBanter mailing list and get notified when a new episode is up and get all the news and info you need about BookBanter.  Just send an email to bookbanterpodcast@gmail.com and you’ll be all set.

For any questions or comments, or have an author you’d like to see interviewed on BookBanter, email me at alexctelander@gmail.com.

Thanks for listening to BookBanter and see you April 15th for Episode 6 with Amber Benson.

Best,

Alex C. Telander.

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