{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fmy-life-in-books.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2Fsara-sheridan-rCso1Beu","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"Sara Sheridan","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/c1f7074b-1a77-4fd0-b874-36e07b5a5765/6a7868c0-8f30-4c0f-90e4-bc7cba7e3d0d/my-life-in-books-1400x1400-podcast-cover.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"","height":200,"description":"Join writer, broadcaster and blind adventurer Red Széll for the latest episode of AMI-audio’s My Life in Books.\n\nEach fortnight, Red invites you to join him in conversation with a renowned author about their work and the books that inspired them to write.\n\nSara Sheridan is a Scottish author who writes historical novels based on the real-life stories of late Georgian and early Victorian explorers. She has also penned a highly successful series of cozy crime noir mysteries set in 1950s Brighton; and, in 2016, she founded a perfume brand called Reek, whose signature scent, Damn Rebel Bitches, has been called \"the first feminist fragrance.\"\n\n\"History is a treasure chest of stories,” she says, and her latest novel, The Fair Botanists, is built around a gem of a tale. Set in Edinburgh in 1822, it reimagines the suspense ahead of King George IV’s inaugural visit against the extraordinary background of a parade of full-grown trees being transported through the city on horse-drawn carts, from the old Botanical Garden to their new home.\n\nJoin Sara and Red as they discuss Enlightenment-era Edinburgh: a hotbed of new money, grinding poverty, shrewd women and botanical espionage\n\nMy Life in Books airs Mondays at 1 p.m. Eastern on AMI-audio, or download the podcast from your favourite provider via this link: https://www.ami.ca/My-Life-Books/recent_episodes"}