Francesca Simon MBE | Local Legends #59: Carmarthenshire

The Three Ravens Podcast · Mar 21, 2026 · 1h 2m

For this week's Local Legends interview, Eleanor is chatting with author Francesca Simon MBE.

We were pretty amazed when Francesca agreed to join us - she's very well known, the author of over 60 books, including the award-winning Horrid Henry series.

Henry and his horrid exploits are hardly the only string to Francesca's bow, though.

She’s written a lot of other fiction too, often inspired by mythology, like The Sleeping Army and The Lost Gods. One of her books, The Monstrous Child, based on Norse mythology, was adapted into an opera which premiered at the Royal Opera House.

What a lovely…