Ten minutes with... is a special series presented by Coode Street that sees readers and booklovers from around the world talk about what they're reading right now and what's getting them through these difficult times.

Gary is joined by multiple award-winning artist and illustrator Charles Vess, chatting about country living during the lockdown, working with authors such as Ursula K. Le Guin and Neil Gaiman (including a new collector’s edition of Stardust from Lyra's Books with new illustrations and handmade paper), and Charles’s own novel, The Queen of Summer’s Twilight, available on his Green Man Press website.

Books mentioned include:

Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

Honeycomb (forthcoming 2021) by Joanne Harris (ill. Charles Vess)

The Queen of Summer’s Twilight by Charles Vess

Flyaway by Kathleen Jennings

The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot by Robert McFarland

The Calculating Stars by Mary Robinette Kowal

The World that We Knew by Alice Hoffman

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

Reservation Blues by Sherman Alexie

The Mermaid and Mrs. Hancock by Imogen Hermes Gowar