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Born in Scotland at 318ppm CO2, Manda Scott was once a veterinary surgeon and is now a novelist, smallholder, contemporary shamanic trainer and host of the international chart-topping Accidental Gods podcast. Best known for the Boudica: Dreaming series, she’s been shortlisted for the Orange Prize, the Edgar and the Saltire Award, and won the McIlvanney Prize. With her wife, Faith Tilleray, she is co-creator of the Thrutopia Masterclass. Her new novel, Any Human Power is a Thrutopian political thriller woven through with Boudica-style dreaming: a new mythos for a new reality.

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Manda Scott trained and worked as a veterinary surgeon before becoming an author, columnist and podcaster.
Her debut novel, Hen’s Teeth, was shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Subsequent works were shortlisted for the Edgar and Saltire Awards and won the McIlvanney Prize, but it is for her Boudica: Dreaming series that she is best known. Weaving her shamanic spirituality into narratives of Britain’s pre-Roman past, these books bring alive a world in which people understand their inherent connection with the web of life.

More recently, she read for a Masters in Regenerative Economics at Schumacher, the experience of which led her to set up Accidental Gods podcast and Membership Programme. Each of these explicitly aims to bring humanity closer to emergence into a connected, regenerative system by offering practices of inter-becoming within the Membership and by giving voice to the many individuals working for systemic change in the podcast.

This year sees the publication of her sixteenth novel, Any Human Power, a ‘visionary’ contemporary political thriller that maps fictional – but plausible and workable – routes toward a future we’d all be proud to leave to the generations that come after us: human and more-than-human. Described by Lee Child as ‘Instantly immersive and compelling, rich and strange, human and humane’, the book weaves currents of shamanic mythology similar to those in the Boudica series through a ‘Thrutopian’ narrative of political upheaval and transformative change.

She is currently writing the sequel, while aiming to bring the podcast to a wider audience.  She lives with her wife, Faith Tilleray, live on a smallholding in the edge-zone between England and Wales.  One day, they’ll go home to Scotland…

Links

Manda Scott website https://mandascott.co.uk
Accidental Gods website: https://accidentalgods.life
Thrutopia Masterclass: https://thrutopia.life
Narrative Ark: https://narrativeark.net

Social Media

LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/mandascottauthor/
Facebook Page https://www.facebook.com/manda.scott.756/
Twitter/X https://twitter.com/MandaScott
Mastodon https://mastodon.scot/@Eceni
BlueSky https://bsky.app/profile/mandascott.bsky.social

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