Piers Torday, author of 'The Wild Before' - Children's author talks about bookshops, prequels, and being a magpie.

Writer's Routine

Dan Simpson

Arts, Hobbies, Books, Leisure

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🗓️ 7 October 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It's a BOOKSHOP DAY SPECIAL. Bookshop Day is on Saturday 9th October, and Books Are My Bag are encouraging you to spend time in your local bookshop, be it big or small.

This week, we're chatting to children's author Piers Torday. He's published 7 books, they've been translated into 14 languages, he's won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize, and been nominated for the CILIP Carnegie Medal.

His new book is 'The Wild Before'. It's a prequel to 'The Last Wild' trilogy, and tells the story of Little Hare who must round up all the other animals to help save the world. It's about climate change, standing up for your beliefs and working together.

We talk about the differences in writing for kids and adults, also about copying and being inspired, about planning, plotting and rhythm, and what bookshops mean to him.

You can get a copy of Piers' book here - https://amzn.to/3ApAd9v

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0:00.0	Hello, welcome along to writers' routine. This week, chatting to peers' tour day, mostly a children's author. We talk about how writing for kids is different and sometimes trickier than writing for adults. Also, all about his new book
0:22.3	The Wild before and what it's like writing a preview. And this week, it's a bookshop day special.
0:29.3	And you can hear about what bookshops mean to him. To this day, I literally cannot walk past a
0:34.8	bookshop without going in. And I very rarely leave a bookshop
0:38.5	like many people do without a pile of books because I just think it's your, there's no other
0:45.5	shop. And I think that's why bookshops, which have done so much, work so hard to survive this
0:51.4	pandemic and survive our changing high street, I think they will
0:54.7	endure because the ones that work, you go in and there is just opportunity and experience
1:02.5	piled high on every table. There is more on the way with Pears Tour Day in this week's
1:06.9	writer's routine.
1:20.2	Welcome along. It's writer's routine. This is where we take a look inside the working day of some of the most successful authors around. My name's Dan Simpson. Thank you for finding,
1:25.1	downloading, streaming, following us this week.
1:27.7	It's a bookshop day special. When this is released, if you're quick, bookshop day is tomorrow.
1:35.2	Saturday, the 9th of October. Maybe it's gone by the time that you're listening, but who knows?
1:39.5	Maybe bookshop day should be every day. It's just a chance to think about and maybe visit and spend some money
1:45.5	in the bookshop that's near you, bookshop's big or small. And we're joined by Pierce Tour Day to
1:50.8	celebrate. He loves a bookshop. Pretty much grew up in them. And you can hear how being
1:55.9	surrounded by words and magic when growing up has led him to become a writer now. Now, Pears has written seven
2:02.5	books. He's won the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize. He's been nominated for the Carnegie
2:06.7	Medal. His books have been translated into 14 languages. And his new one is The Wild
2:13.4	before. It's a prequel to the hugely successful The Last Wild trilogy. It's all about
2:19.7	Little Hair who needs to persuade all of the animals to help save the world. We talk about the
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