Nicholas Bowling is a Costa-shortlisted author, bookseller and former Classics teacher.

Interests include Norse mythology, dead people, writing.

Find him on Twitter: @thenickbowling

A reading list:

His own books Witchborn, In the Shadow of Heroes, Song of the Far Isles and The Undying of Obedience Wellrest. Find out more here.

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien, Tales of Norse Mythology by H. A. Guerber, We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson, Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke; Making the Monster: The Science Behind Mary Shelley's Frankenstein by Kathryn Harkup, Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut, The Dog of the South by Charles Portis, The Name of the Wind by Patrick Rothfuss, and anything by Cormac McCarthy, Virginia Woolf, Homer.

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