For this episode, get ready to giggle! We had so much fun talking to Sabine Adeyinka, where we discuss boarding school stories from Nigeria to the UK, the brilliance of comics, the vital importance of curiosity, and the direct inspiration Sabine can draw between the stories that shaped her as a young reader and the creative work she has gone on to make. Settle down and join us for an hour of pure bookish happiness, and find out how Sabine is Storyshaped.

Books mentioned in this episode include Sabine's own:

Jummy at the River School

And the stories that shaped her include:

Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe

Malory Towers, by Enid Blyton

St. Clare's, by Enid Blyton

Aké: The Years of Childhood, by Wole Soyinka

The Beano comic

Tin Tin, by Hergé

Archie and Veronica (comic), created by Bob Montana and John L. Goldwater

The Wind in the Willows, by Kenneth Grahame; ill. Ernest Shepard, Arthur Ransome, Charles van Sandwyck

Becoming, by Michelle Obama

To Kill a Mockingbird, by Harper Lee

Go Set a Watchman, by Harper Lee

The books of Efua Traoré

Half of a Yellow Sun, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Bible

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