Uploaded August 2020 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago
Blue Peter Award winning children’s author Ali Sparkes examines the way Scotland has crept into four of her adventure novels and why she’s got a bit of a thing for the thistle (despite being born regrettably and persistently English).
Why DID she create an interdimensional wormhole inside a Scottish mountain (Shapeshifter series), allow massive alien grubs to eat their way through the Highlands (Night Terrors) and make one of her favourite characters a native Glaswegian (something she later came to regret when she had to read the audiobook for action thriller Car-Jacked)?
Join Ali as she tries to work out where her fixation has come from (it’s not just the shortbread and the butter tablet) and offer up your thoughts in a live Q&A afterwards, on her wranglings with the Weegie accent (be kind!) and what she should do with Scotland next…
Joining the live Q&A session is Glasgow’s own Paula McGuire (author of Must Try Harder and Ali’s dialect coach!).
THIS EVENT WAS LIVE ON: Saturday 29 August 2020 at 11am.
Blue Peter Award winning children’s author Ali Sparkes examines the way Scotland has crept into four of her adventure novels and why she’s got a bit of a thing for the thistle (despite being born regrettably and persistently English).
Why DID she create an interdimensional wormhole inside a Scottish mountain (Shapeshifter series), allow massive alien grubs to eat their way through the Highlands (Night Terrors) and make one of her favourite characters a native Glaswegian (something she later came to regret when she had to read the audiobook for action thriller Car-Jacked)?
Join Ali as she tries to work out where her fixation has come from (it’s not just the shortbread and the butter tablet) and offer up your thoughts in a live Q&A afterwards, on her wranglings with the Weegie accent (be kind!) and what she should do with Scotland next…
Joining the live Q&A session is Glasgow’s own Paula McGuire (author of Must Try Harder and Ali’s dialect coach!).
THIS EVENT WAS LIVE ON: Saturday 29 August 2020 at 11am.
