In this engaging episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by Marcia Hutchinson reading The Mercy Step.

About the Author

After attending Oxford University and working as a lawyer in the City Marcia Hutchinson relocated back to Yorkshire where she founded and ran educational publishing company Primary Colours from 1997 - 2014. She was awarded an MBE for services to Cultural Diversity in 2010 and is now a full time writer.

About the book

The Mercy Step follows precocious child Mercy from birth to her relationships with her family in 1960's Bradford. If she had her way it would just be Mercy and her mother but her siblings and her fear-inducing father keep getting in the way. She responds by living in her imagination with her faithfull Dolly.

About the host

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an award-winning author, academic, editor, podcaster, host, creative producer, and writer. Her debut, Remembered (Dialogue Books, Blackstone Publishing) was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Yvonne has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird series. Yvonne is former Senior Commissioning Editor at Hachette’s John Murray Press and is the Academic Director of Creative Writing at Cambridge University. Winner of The Shirley Jackson Award (novel), Curdle Creek (2024 Dialogue Books, Henry Holt), a gothic horror inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is her second novel.

Yvonne is a podcaster, author, literary event organizer, event host, and lover of stories.

For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/

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In this episode of Bookable Space, host Yvonne Battle-Felton is joined by A.C. Adams reading from Chasing Shadows. It's a heartfelt discussion about family, fictions, writing, and more.

About the Book

When renowned professor Dr. Aidan Ryan vanishes without explanation, he leaves behind a haunting message revealing he has a new life and can never return. His devastated daughter Sofia embarks on a global search to uncover the truth behind her father’s disappearance. What she finds is more shocking than she could have imagined—a web of family secrets and lies that challenges everything she thought she knew.

BIO

A.C. Adams is the nom de plume of co-authors Anthony Leigh Adams and Christina Adams. They have written and produced film and television projects for studios including Disney, ABC, CBS, NBC, and OWN. For more information about Chasing Shadows and A.C. Adams’s other projects, visit adamsentertainment.com.

Links to Buy the Chasing Shadows Book and Audiobook

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Chasing Shadows Book Trailer

Author’s Website

http://adams-entertainment.com

About the host

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, editor, podcaster, host, creative producer, and writer. Her debut, Remembered (Dialogue Books, Blackstone Publishing) was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Yvonne has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird series. Curdle Creek (2024 Dialogue Books, Henry Holt), a gothic horror inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is her second novel and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards. Follow Yvonne on Substack on Why I Write: Yvonne Battle-Felton

For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/

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In this engaging episode, we’re joined by Kelechi Okafor. Kelechi reads to us from her debut novel, Awakened. We talk about adventures, writing future present, and more.

About the Author

Kelechi Okafor is a Nigerian-born, London-based writer of fiction, journalism, stage and screen. Her work explores global issues through an anti-colonial, anti-white supremacy, and anti-heteropatriarchy lens. In 2024, she launched her subscription platform, Keleidoscope, and opened ‘Child of Light’, a children’s home and resource centre in Nigeria. Known online as @Kelechnekoff and affectionately as ‘just a Baby Girl,’ Kelechi draws creative strength from writers like Toni Morrison, Octavia Butler, bell hooks and Audre Lorde, and deities including Oshun and Yemoja. Her voice echoes a legacy of radical storytelling.

About the book

In a near-future London where technology affects everything from our bodies to our politics, journalist Pels Badmus wants to make a difference. She’s desperate to solve a spate of disappearances of young Black children but her boss doesn’t want to hear it. Instead, he assigns her to cover protests linked to sacred Spirit Vine rituals in Benin. Pels finds herself in West Africa, agreeing to the assignment in the hope she can leverage it later. She’s also trying to ignore the strange, ethereal dreams she’s been having... and when Pels takes the Spirit Vine herself, she experiences something divine; something that points to an unfulfilled destiny that could change the course of her life.

About the host

Yvonne Battle-Felton is an author, academic, editor, podcaster, host, creative producer, and writer. Her debut, Remembered (Dialogue Books, Blackstone Publishing) was longlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction (2019) and the Not the Booker, and shortlisted for the Jhalak Prize (2020). Yvonne has six titles in Penguin Random House’s The Ladybird series. Curdle Creek (2024 Dialogue Books, Henry Holt), a gothic horror inspired by Shirley Jackson’s The Lottery, is her second novel and has been nominated for the Shirley Jackson Awards. Follow Yvonne on Substack on Why I Write: Yvonne Battle-Felton

For information about Yvonne's books, events, and more vist https://www.yvonnebattlefelton.com/ or sign up to Yvonne's Substack https://yvonnebattlefelton.substack.com/

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