You're Booked (Daisy Buchanan)

This week we're visiting Erin Kelly, the critically acclaimed author adored by hundreds of thousands of readers – she’s been topping bestseller lists since the publication of her debut, The Poison Tree. Her latest novel, Stone Mothers, is an addictive story about love, lies and secrets. Erin is a reading addict and a true scholar of fiction. We talked about writing ambitions, failures that lead to success and being mentored by Ruth Rendell from beyond the grave.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elaine Dundy - The Injured Party

Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Kerry Hudson - Thirst

Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me

Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jacqueline Wilson - Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson - The Suitcase Kid

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Lois Duncan - Stranger With My Face

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Stephen King - Carrie

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Virginia Andrews - Garden of Shadows

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Norton Anthology of English Literature

Shelley Harris - Vigilante

Carol Ann Duffy - Collected Poems

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Erin Kelly - The Burning Air

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

SJ Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

Andrea Newman - Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Andrea Newman - A Sense of Guilt

Andrea Newman -Three Into Two Won’t Go

Andrea Newman - A Share of the World

Daisy Johnson - Fen

Eley Williams - Attrib

Helen Simpson - Cockfosters

Anna Hope - Expectation

Anna Hope - The Ballroom

Sally Rooney - Normal People

JT Leroy - Sarah

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

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This week we are in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore to meet with Taylor Jenkins Reid! Taylor is the author of six books, the most recent being the smash hit Daisy Jones and the Six. We talked to her about rock memoirs, gift giving, influential reads and seeing your own book in the book shop.

BOOKS

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Byron Lane - A Star is Bored

Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York

James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews

Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon

Keith Richards - Life

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens

Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch

Sally Field - In Pieces

Scotty Bowers - Full Service 

Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Various - Little People Big Dreams

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming

Joan Didion - White Album

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient

Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle

Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Alexi Zentner - Copperhead

Tana French - Wych Elm

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Circe

Katherine Dunn - On Cussing

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

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We're delighted to bring you this frank, revealing and fascinating interview with the author and journalist Lisa Taddeo. Lisa's book Three Women is a Sunday Times #1 bestseller, winner of the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards and one of the most frequently spotted titles on the bookshelves of You're Booked guests. We talked to her about the negative effects of fame, Lucia Berlin, the genius of Elena Ferrante and the cinematic legacy of Anthony Hopkins.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Troubling Love

John Grisham - Camino Winds

Stephen King - Rose Madder

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Grace Paley - Collected Stories

Joy Williams - Visiting Privilege

William Trevor - Collected Stories

Natalia Ginzburg - Dry Heart

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

Barry Hannah - Long Last Happy

Nicholson Baker - House of Holes

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons dangereuses

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Kay Thompson - Eloise in Moscow

JM Barrie - Peter Pan

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Scott Stossel - My Age of Anxiety

David Foster Wallace - The Depressed Person

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden 

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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This week we are spending some time with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes. Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages, with the latest being the chart-topping Grown Ups. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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With around 300 million books sold in 97 countries and translated into 33 languages, who wouldn't want to know about the reading habits and writing tips of Jeffrey Archer? Since writing his first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, in 1974, Jeffrey has written nearly 50 titles, the latest being Hidden in Plain Sight, and is the only author to have been number 1 in fiction, non-fiction and short stories. We talked to him about his favourite author, being huge in India, being disappointed by book sales and prison reading.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jeffrey Archer - Hidden in Plain Sight

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Dickens - Christmas Carol

Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas - Three Musketeers

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Jeffrey Archer - Prison Diaries

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Lampedusa - Leopard

Jane Austen - Emma

Agatha Christie - Poirot

Jeffrey Archer - Clifton Chronicles

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves

Alberto Moravia - Woman of Rome

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Lissa Evans - V for Victory

Bill Bryson - The Body

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory

Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve 

Stefan Sweig - Farewell to Europe

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Jung Chang - Wild Swans

Richard Adams - Watership Down

CS Lewis - Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Roald Dahl - BFG

Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More

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This week, we know you are going to enjoy this wonderful, nourishing conversation with the author Robert Jones, Jr. Robert's first dazzling novel, The Prophets, is a New York Times bestseller that Marlon James described as "devastating and glorious". As you'll hear, Robert is a wonderful, knowledgable advocate for books, authors and life in general. We talked to him about James Baldwin, Book Brothers, empathy, rereading and Wonder Woman. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable click HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Mateo Askaripour - Black Buck

James Baldwin - Here Be Dragons

James Baldwin - Collected Essays

Toni Morrison - Sula

SS Prokofiev - Peter & the Wolf

Dr Seuss - Cat in the Hat

Terry McMillan - Mama

Deesha Philyaw - Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

RO Kwon - The Incendiaries

William Moulton Marston - Wonder Woman

Kelly Sue DeConnick - Wonder Woman Historia

NK Jemisin - Far Sector

Kiese Laymon - How To Slowly Kill Yourself and Others in America

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Kiese Laymon - Long Division

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Kola Boof - Sexy Part of the Bible

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gayl Jones - Healing

NK Jemisin - City We Became

Raven Leilani - Luster

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic 

Chloe Benjamin - Immortalists

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - In West Mills

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - We Cast a Shadow

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Bryan Washington - Memorial

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This week we are thrilled to present an illuminating chat with one of our favourite all-time writers: Olivia Laing! Olivia is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her novel Crudo was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and Gordon Burn Prizes and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her latest book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. We talked to her about Warhol’s wigs, Kathy Acker as a teenage totem, Jilly Cooper revelations and a Henry James slam courtesy of John Cheever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Olivia Laing - Everybody

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

William Burroughs - The Cat Inside

Kathy Acker - Great Expectations

JD Salinger - Nine Stories

TH White - Once and Future King

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Derek Jarman - Modern Nature

Derek Jarman - Chroma

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground

Olivia Laing - Trip to Echo Spring

Jessica Anya Blau - Mary Jane

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf

Andy Warhol - Diaries

Tina Brown - Diaries

Linda Rosenkrantz - Talk

Andy Warhol - A

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Margery Allingham - Crime at Black Dudley

Len Deighton - Ipcress File

Len Deighton - Horse Under Water

Len Deighton - SS-GB

Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The Waltz

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe

Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations

Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love

Henrietta Moraes - Henrietta

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

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This week we are investigating the reading habits of a genuine superstar. Kate Mosse OBE is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy and her latest novel City of Tears that is currently topping the bestseller charts. She is the co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction and a guest presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. We talked to Kate about the importance of libraries, vintage crime, meeting your public and the greatness of Toni Morrison.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

Ngaio Marsh - Collection

Josephine Tey - Daughter of Time

Margery Allingham - Tiger in the Smoke

Patricia Wentworth - Listening Eye

Agatha Christie - Body in the Library

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus 

Anna Burns - No Bones

Anna Burns - Milkman

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Eimear McBride - Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Madness of a Seduced Woman

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Ali Smith - Autumn

Margaret Atwood - Negotiating With The Dead

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Russell Ash - Readers Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain 

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We are in South Slope, Brooklyn this week to meet author and Instagram superstar Shelby Lorman! Shelby is the genius behind the Awards For Good Boys social media phenomenon, now a book of the same name. We talked to her about disappointing book endings (and letting the author know), marginalia, lending books you never see again and meeting (and befriending) your heroes.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Shelby Lorman - Awards For Good Boys

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Giuliana Bruno - Atlas of Emotion

Elizabeth Bishop - Poems

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Claudia Rankine - Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Alexander Chee - How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy

Lydia Davis - Collected Stories

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

David Hockney - Dog Days

NK Jemisin - Inheritance Trilogy

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

James Agee - Death in the Family

Garth Nix - Abhorsen

Leigh Bardugo - Ninth House

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Brittney Cooper - Eloquent Rage

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister The Serial Killer

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

Anne Carson - Plainwater

Mary Roach - Stiff

Anna Burns - Milkman

Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice

Ada Palmer - Too Like the Lightning

James Bridle - New Dark Age

James Corey - The Expanse

Liana Finck - Passing For Human

Liana Finck - Excuse Me

Samantha Irby - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

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This week we are delighted to spend some time with the author, playwright, screenwriter, performer and all-around inspiration Alex Wheatle MBE! Alex's first book was 1995's award-winning Brixton Rock and he has followed that with numerous critically acclaimed works for adults, young adults and children with the latest being Cane Warriors. We talked to Alex about the importance of music in his work, being inspired by the Beano, learning to love reading while in prison and the experience of having your life story turned into a film by the Oscar-winning Steve McQueen. You can find the Dialogue Books Black History Month reading list HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors

CLR James - Black Jacobins

Malcolm X - Autobiography

Alex Haley - Roots

Langston Hughes - Collected Poems

Chester Himes - Rage in Harlem

James Baldwin - Fire Next Time

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems

Marcia Williams - Baby Mother

Naomi King - OPP

Karline Smith - Moss Side Massive

Courttia Newland - The Scholar

Stephen Thompson - Toy Soldiers

Peter Kalu - Lick Shot

Alex Wheatle - Brixton Rock

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

EA Ritter - Shaka Zulu

Alex Wheatle - Liccle Bit 

Alex Wheatle - Crongton Knights

Danielle Jawando - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

Vivien M Goldman - Book of Exodus

Marlon James - Brief History of 7 Killings

Timothy White - Catch a Fire

Steve McQueen - Small Axe

Patrice Lawrence - Eight Pieces of Silva

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We're back in leafy North London to visit the lovely (if slightly damaged - as she explains) home of author Tracy Chevalier! Tracy is the enormously successful novelist behind such books as The Lady and the Unicorn, Burning Bright and, most famously, the mega-hit Girl with a Pearl Earring. We talked to Tracy about her latest book A Single Thread plus hardcore book organisation, emulating Margaret Atwood, gifts from fans and book resolutions.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Tracy Chevalier - A Single Thread

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent - The Reader on the 6.27

Susan Sontag - On Photography

Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

Tana French - Wych Elm

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot

JL Carr - A Month in the Country

Jan Morris - Venice

Judith Mackrell - Unfinished Palazzo

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

Margaret Drabble - The Needle’s Eye

Anne Tyler - Tin Can Tree

Mary Wollstonecraft- Original Stories

Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

Dylan Thomas - Poems of…

Tracy Chevalier - The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier - At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway

Helen Ellis - Southern Lady Code

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

EM Forster - Howards End

Jane Harris - The Observations

Jane Harris - Gillespie and I

Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore - Bark

Lorrie Moore - Self Help

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Norman Collins - London Belongs To Me

Margaret Atwood - Surfacing

Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man

Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America

Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna

Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken

Sjon - The Blue Fox

Sena Jeter Naslund - Ahab’s Wife

Carola Hicks - The Girl in the Green Gown

Hermione Lee - Edith Wharton

Lyndall Gordon - Lives Like Loaded Guns

Karen Armstrong - Bible: The Biography

Sarah Bakewell - How To Live

Craig Brown - Ma’am Darling

Bart van Es - The Cut Out Girl

Elaine Dundy - Life Itself!

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For this year's festive special, we are in the company of comedy royalty. It's the undisputed national treasure: Dawn French! As well as being part of the groundbreaking comedy duo French and Saunders, Dawn is the author of two books of memoir and four novels with the latest being the bestselling Because Of You. We talked to her about the funniest book she has ever read, fictional families, Ab Fab, Carrie Fisher, Beatrix Potter and unusual research methods.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Dawn French - Because of You

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit

Roald Dahl - The BFG

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Ruth Jones - Us Three

Dawn French - Dear Fatty

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Dawn French - Oh Dear Silvia

Robert McFarlane - Old Ways

John Williams - Stoner

Pete Paphides - Broken Greek

Jessica Mitford - Letters

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

Spike Milligan - Silly Verse For Kids

Jane Hirshfield - The Beauty

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Wordsworth - Letters

John Lanchester - Debt to Pleasure

John Berger - And our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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This week’s guest is the author, critic and journalist Hannah Beckerman, whose new novel If Only I Could Tell You has dazzled and captivated readers. Hannah is a professional book addict. She’s a critic for the Observer, the FT and the Sunday Express, as well as regularly contributing to Sara Cox’s BBC Radio 2 show. She’s a frequent judge, panel host and festival guest, and she’s spent time with Phillip Roth and Jackie Collins.

BOOKS (Click on titles for more)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Hannah Beckerman - If Only I Could Tell You

Bill Clegg - Did You Ever Have a Family?

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Liar

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Waking Lions

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Anne Digby - Trebizon

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Jackie Collins - The Santangelos 

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Noel Streatfeild - Apple Bough

Stephen Moss - Dynasties

Various - Explanatorium of Nature

Ruth Symons - Story of Life: Evolution

Gabrielle Balkan & Sam Brewster - Book of Bones

Allie Esiri & Zanna Goldhawk - A Poem for Every Day of the Year

Fiona Waters & Frann Preston-Gannon - I Am the Seed That Grew the Tree

Rebecca Reid - Perfect Liars

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Agatha Christie

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Audrey Hepburn

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Select Poems

Andrew Thomson & Heidi Postlewait - Emergency Sex

Various - Greek Island Hopping

Maggie O’Farrell - This Must Be The Place

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sigmund Freud - Collected Works

Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Sarah Waters - Tipping The Velvet

Phillip Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint

Phillip Roth - American Pastoral

Lisa Halliday - Asymmetry

David Nichols - One Day

David Nichols - Us

Edward St Aubyn - Some Hope

Anita Brookner - Family and Friends

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber

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We're back in London town this week and in the home of the phenomenal Holly Bourne! Holly is the celebrated, award-winning YA author of such books as It Only Happens in the Movies and Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Her debut adult novel was the critically acclaimed How Do You Like Me Now? We talked to Holly about getting books signed, colour co-ordination, meeting Metallica and troubling literary crushes.

BOOKS:

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sonder & Tell (Edit) - Comfort Zones

Holly Bourne - How Do You Like Me Know?

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Irvin D Yalom - Love’s Executioner

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

Stephen King - On Writing

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Summer Sisters

Elizabeth Gilbert - Committed

Germaine Greer - Female Eunuch

Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts

Leila Slimani - Adele

Leila Slimani - Lullaby

Louise Rennison - Complete Georgia Nicolson

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Holly Bourne - It Only Happens in the Movies

David Nicholls - One Day

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Louise Rennison - Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas 

Louise Rennison - And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand 

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Kate Cann - Hard Cash

Kate Cann - Footloose

Kate Cann - In The Deep End

Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Holly Bourne - What a Girls Gotta Do

Holly Smale - Geek Girl

Angie Thomas - Hate U Give

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

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This week we are heading to Brooklyn and the home of Award-winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Ada Calhoun! Ada wrote the fantastic history of New York St Marks is Dead and the hugely popular memoir Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give. Her new book is the already bestselling Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis. We talked to her about New York writers, the New York Post, true crime, memoir, Dolly Parton and rediscovering classic YA. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can’t Sleep

Dawn Powell - Wicked Pavilion

Dawn Powell - Locusts Have No King

Ada Calhoun - St Marks is Dead

Eilert Sundt - Sexual Customs in Rural Norway

Lisa Sliwa - Attitude

Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan - Brain on Fire

Karen Abbott - Ghosts of Eden Park

Lisa Carver - Dancing Queen

Derek Jarman - Chroma

N. Whittal-Perry - Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Barbara Wersba - Fat A Love Story

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

M Masters - Case of the Clever Computer Crooks

PG Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves

Wilkie Collins - Woman in White

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Emma

Mildred Gilman - Sob Sister

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Annie Baker - John

Annie Baker - Flick

Michael Ondaatje - Warlight

Michael Ondaatje - English Patient

Oscar Wilde - Decay of Lying

Maureen Callahan - American Predator

David Carr - Night of the Gun

Joe Coomer - Flatland Fable

Lewis Shiner - Glimpses

Lewis Shiner - Slam

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Gilbert King - Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Gilbert King - Devil in the Grove

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed

James Leo Herlihy - Season of the Witch

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Tara Allmen - Menopause Confidential

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Daniel Lipkowitz - Lego Ideas Book

Abby Frucht - Liquorice 

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping 

Dolly Parton - My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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This week we are honoured to be talking to the astounding author Nikita Lalwani! Nikita's first book, Gifted, was long-listed for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her next novel The Village won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered award. Her latest novel is the breathtaking, You People, which has been widely critically acclaimed. We talked to her about fictional secrets, the power of the single line, literary families and pretending to be Stig of the Dump.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nikita Lalwani - Gifted

Nikita Lalwani - You People

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Clive King - Stig of the Dump

Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children

Bharati Mukherjee - Wife

James Salter - Light Years

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

James Salter - Life is Meals

James Salter - Hunters

James Salter - Last Night

Doris Lessing - Stories

Maeve Brennan - Rose Garden

Mavis Gallant - Stories

Grace Paley - Stories

Doris Lessing - Winter in July

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Carol Shields - Larry’s Party

Sonia Faleiro - Good Girls

Janet Malcolm - Journalist & the Murderer

Toni Cade Bambara - Gorilla My Love

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

John Irving - World According To Garp

Don DeLillo - White Noise

Tillie Olsen - Tell Me a Riddle

Darcy O’Brien - A Way of Life Like Any Other

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood

Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar

Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much

Muriel Spark - Far Cry From Kensington

Mary Wesley - Imaginative Experience

Pamela Frankau - Wreath For the Enemy

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Zadie Smith - NW

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Friend From England

Andrew O’Hagan - Mayflies

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We are beyond excited to bring you this honest and illuminating conversation with author, influencer, blogger and founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - Candice Brathwaite! Candice's first book, You Are Not My Baby Mother was a former YB Steal of the Week and a critically lauded Sunday Times bestseller that unflinchingly looks at being a black British mother and strives to redefine the whole idea of motherhood in the 21st Century. We talked to Candice about the pressures of success, the delights of Oprah's Book Club, the genius of Toni Morrison and the importance of woo.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Lupita Nyong’o - Sulwe 

Sister Soulja - Coldest Winter Ever

Nelson Mandela - Long Road To freedom

Ilona Staller (Ed) - Erotic Tales

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Jacqueline Woodson - Red at the Bone

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Gary Zukav - Seat of the Soul

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Rhonda Byrne - The Secret

Paul Harrington - Secret to Teen Power

Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass

Shahroo Izadi - Kindness Method

Shahroo Izadi - Last Diet

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

bell hooks - All About Love

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

Emma Gannon - Olive

Kenya Hunt - Girl

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This week we are delighted to be joined by the internationally bestselling and multi award winning Louise O'Neill! Louise's novel Asking for It won Book of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and Only Ever Yours won Newcomer of the Year at the Irish Book Awards and the Bookseller YA Prize. Her latest is the already acclaimed thriller After the Silence. We talked to her about diversifying your reading, being an obsessive child reader, living in New York and how ideas can be magical.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House

Rhonda Byrne - Secret

Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Louise O’Neill - Almost Love

Belinda McKeon - Tender

Belinda McKeon - Solace

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Dolly Alderton - Ghosts

Lucy Foley - Guest List

Stephen King - Carrie

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Louise O’Neill - Surface Breaks

Jane Austen - Emma

Louise O’Neill - Only Ever Yours

Erin Kelly - We Know You Know

Tana French - Searcher

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Caroline Corcoran - Baby Group

Caroline Corcoran - Through the Wall

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This week we're travelling to lovely, leafy Henley-on-Thames (home of the great Bell Bookshop) for a very special episode live from the Henley Lit Fest, specifically the grand confines of the Town Hall. This week's guest is the historian, novelist, TV presenter and Celebrity Mastermind champion Professor Kate Williams! Kate has written four novels and nine history books and, as you will hear, has many more in the pipeline. We talked to her about erotic deaths, reading addictions, time travel and light library fraud.

This episode is brought to you by Curzon Cinemas new film Non-Fiction.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Kate Williams - Rival Queens

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It’s Me Margaret

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa

Samuel Richardson - Pamela

Sarah Moss - Ghost Wall

Cao Xueqin - Story of the Stone

Murasaki Shikibu - Tale of Genji

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Eliza Haywood - Fantomina

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci 

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Agatha Christie - Murder is Easy

Agatha Christie - Caribbean Mystery

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Kate Williams - England's Mistress

Kate Williams - Becoming Queen

Kate Williams - Josephine

Kate Williams - Young Elizabeth

Kate Williams - Pleasures of Men

Kate Williams - Storms of War

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This week we are nosing around the bookshelves of the author described as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation" by The Times, the wonderful Ella Risbridger! Ella is the author of Midnight Chicken, called "a manual for living and a declaration of hope" by Nigella Lawson. Ella is also the editor of the poetry anthology Set Me On Fire and her first book for children The Secret Detectives will be released later this year. We talked to her about nourishing poetry, smoking in the bath and why she still has Daisy's copy of Brother of the More Famous Jack.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ella Risbridger - Midnight Chicken

Ella Risbridger - Secret Detectives

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

James Rebanks - English Pastoral

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Richard Scott - Soho

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Ellen Bass - Human Line

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket Fantastic

Marie Howe - What The Living Do

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley - Haphazard House

Mary Wesley - Speaking Terms

Mary Wesley - Sixth Seal

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Sarra Manning - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

Louise Rennison- Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Tana French - Secret Place

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To The River Sea

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson - Song For Summer

Laura Wood - Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Judith Kerr - Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 

Judith Kerr - Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Penelope Mortimer - Pumpkin Eater

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jill Mansell - Millie’s Fling

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

JB Priestley - Delight

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This week we are delighted to present a funny, freewheeling conversation with author, actor, podcaster and comedy legend Charlie Higson! As well as co-creating The Fast Show and Down the Line, adapting Marple and Jekyll and Hyde for TV, hosting the Charlie Higson & Friends podcast and popping up in Broadchurch, he's the author of many books including the hugely successful Young Bond and The Enemy series. His latest is the sweet and hilarious kids book Worst Holiday Ever. We talked to him about Fungus, Octopi, Bond, diaries and Samuel Beckett’s influence on the Fast Show.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Charlie Higson - Young Bond

Charlie Higson - The Enemy

Charlie Higson - Worst Holiday Ever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Ian Fleming - Thunderball

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Samuel Beckett - Three Novels

Samuel Beckett - Krapps Last Tape

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up

Michael Palin - Diaries

Andy Warhol - Diaries

EB White - Letters

Richard Burton - Diaries

Henry 'Chips' Channon - Diaries

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds

Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life

Giulia Enders - Gut

Will Storr - Status Game

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

Friends on the Shelf magazine

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This week we are ensconced in the lush, historic offices of Faber and Faber (featuring framed, insulting TS Eliot memos) to talk to the comedian, director and author Richard Ayoade! Richard is globally recognised due to his roles in iconic shows such as The IT Crowd and Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, he's directed two films (Submarine and The Double) and published three books, all on the theme of film - with his latest being a deep dive into one particular rom-com entitled Ayoade on Top. We talked to him about rom-coms and their deeper resonance on life, good plane reading, PG Wodehouse and the emotional impact of Happy Eaters.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Richard Ayoade - Ayoade on Top

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

John Steinbeck - Red Pony

John Steinbeck - The Pearl

John Steinbeck -Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck -East of Eden

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

William Leith - Hunger Years

Joe Dunthorne - Submarine

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

PG Wodehouse - Ukridge

PG Wodehouse - The Jeeves Omnibus

PG Wodehouse - The World of Blandings

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Charles Webb - The Graduate

John Updike - Rabbit Run

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Iris Murdoch - Under the Net

TS Eliot - The Waste Land

Wallace Shawn - Night Thoughts

Wallace Shawn - Essays

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

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This week we are delighted to have a genuine literary legend on the show: Patricia Cornwell! Patricia has sold over 100 million books in thirty-six languages in over 120 countries. Her most iconic character is medical examiner Kay Scarpetta who features in Patricia's next novel Autopsy - her latest novel is the space thriller Spin. She has also written non-fiction books concerning the Jack the Ripper case and a cookbook. We talked to her about AI reading lists, Queen Victoria's knickers, what books to take into space and Cleopatra. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable click HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patricia Cornwell - Spin

Patricia Cornwell - Food To Die For

Patricia Cornwell - Jack the Ripper

Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra

Bettany Hughes - Hemlock Cup

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

Ernest Hemingway - Moveable Feast

Paul Hendrickson - Hemingway's Boat

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of the Thames

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of London

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

AN Wilson - Victoria

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

TS Eliot - Waste Land

Ernest Hemingway - Garden of Eden

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Patricia Cornwell - Red Mist

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

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This week we travel to the sunny Kent coast to meet writer, reader, podcaster and Brookner fanatic Andy Miller. Andy is the author of The Year of Reading Dangerously: How Fifty Great Books Saved My Life and the co-host of the fantastic and highly informative Backlisted podcast. We were allowed VIP access to his exclusive reading shed where we discussed life-changing books, Dan Brown, Peanuts versus Proust and, of course, Anita Brookner.

BOOKS

Andy Miller - The Year of Reading Dangerously

Andy Miller - Tilting at Windmills

Andy Miller- The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Philip Roth - Everyman

Luke Rhinehart - The Dice Man

Mikhail Bulgakov - Master and Margarita

EM Forster - Howards End

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Charles Bukowski - Post Office

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Iris Murdoch - The Sea The Sea

John Kennedy Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces

Patrick Hamilton - 20,000 Streets Under the Sky

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Cath Carroll - Never Break the Chain

Simon Reynolds - Rip It Up and Start Again

Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Anita Brookner - A Start in Life

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

Lee Child - Killing Floor

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Jean Rhys - Tigers Are Better Looking

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Sylvia Townsend Warner - The Corner That Held Them

Nora Lofts - The Town House

Marcel Proust - In Search of Lost Time

Charles M Schulz - Complete Peanuts

Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose Novels

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Hilary Spurling - Invitation To The Dance

Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November

Tove Jansson - Moominpappa at Sea

Mary Stewart - Ludo and the Star Horse

Russell Hoban - Riddley Walker

Penelope Fitzgerald - The Bookshop

Penelope Fitzgerald - The Beginning of Spring

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As the current situation is keeping us away from people's bookshelves (and people in general) we're launching a You're Booked mini spin off called Shelf Isolation where we talk to (remotely) some of our beloved former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. And we couldn't be happier with our first guest! It's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe. Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal and Sex Power Money. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine, big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tamper

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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This week we're jetting off to sun-kissed St Albans to meet crime writer, journalist, former fashionista, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and campaigner Angela Clarke. Angela attracted a gaggle of devoted fans with her Social Media Murder series of books. Her highly-anticipated new thriller On My Life has just been released. We talked to her about loving Marple, being haunted by Chandler, the filth in John Donne and getting gooey over Irvine Welsh.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Joseph Mitchell - McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Angela Clarke - On My Life

Angela Clarke - Follow Me

Angela Clarke - Watch Me

Angela Clarke - Trust Me

Roald Dahl - Cruelty/Madness/Lust

Steve Cavanagh - Twisted

Alan Partridge - Nomad

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth Jane Howard: Dangerous Innocence

Claire McGowan - Dead Ground

Claire McGowan - Savage Hunger

Claire McGowan - Silent Dead

Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey Stories

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Louisa M Alcott - Little Women

Agatha Christie - 4.50 From Paddington

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Agatha Christie - Curtain

Nikita Gill - Fierce Fairytales

John Donne - Selected Poems

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls

George Orwell - 1984

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Judy Blume - Forever

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Susan Meredith - Usborne Facts of Life, Growing Up

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Carl E. Rollyson - Martha Gellhorn: Beautiful Exile

Manolo Blahnik - Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions

Stephan P Clarke - The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion

Luke Jennings - Codename Villanelle

Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do

John Curran - Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks

Agatha Christie - An Autobiography

William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade

Georgette Heyer - Christmas Party

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

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This week we are honoured and delighted to be talking to one of our favourite authors, the wonderful Patricia Lockwood. Patricia's memoir, Priestdaddy, was one of our most beloved books in recent years and her first novel, No One is Talking About This is equally enticing. We talked to her about Covid fever reading, problematic faves, forgotten kids books and, of course, Nabokov. You can find Daisy's brand new podcast, Daisy is Insatiable, right HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Andre Gide - Marshlands

Leonora Carrington - Hearing Trumpet

Paula Fox - Desperate Characters

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery

EF Benson - Mapp & Lucia

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Broken Road

Robert Walser - Berlin Stories

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest of Relaxation

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

AS Byatt - Babel Tower

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Think Write Speak

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Andre Gide - Counterfeiters

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Rachel Ingalls - Binstead's Safari

Sydney Taylor - All Of a Kind Family

Lore Segal - Tell Me a Mitzi

Tove Jansson - Moomin Comic Strips

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Selected Journals

Tomie dePaola - Helga’s Dowry

Mercer Mayer - Favourite Tales from Grimm

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Plum Sykes - Debutante Divorcee

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Gerald Durrell - Family and Other Animals

Jessica Mitford - Hons & Rebels

Ada Limon - Carrying

Danez Smith - Homie

Kristen Arnett - With Teeth

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This week we're visiting the beautiful Bay Area and popping into the home of Daniel Gumbiner! Daniel is the author of the National Book Award and California Book Award nominated novel The Boatbuilder and is the managing editor of The Believer magazine. We talked to him about Swallows and Amazons, nature, EB White and living in Las Vegas.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daniel Gumbiner - The Boatbuilder

Arthur Clayton Smith - Natural History of the San Francisco Bay Region

R Tucker Abbot - Field Identification Seashells of North America

Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men

Dave Hickey - Air Guitar

Amanda Fortini - Life After Near-Death In The Las Vegas Shooting

Amanda Fortini - People of Las Vegas

Arthur Ransom - Swallows and Amazons

Sarah Harrison Smith - Fact Checkers Bible

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Leonard Gardner - Fat City

EB White - Letters

The Believer Festival

The Believer - Border Issue

Boots Riley - McSweeney's

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Sam Quinones - Dream Land

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Marta Becket - To Dance on Sands

David Morris - The Evil Hours

Sarah Broom - The Yellow House

Meghan O’Gieblyn - Interior States

Olja Savičević Ivančević - Adios Cowboy

Richard Maury - Cimba

John Williams - Stoner

Steve Almond - John Williams' Stoner

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

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We are still somewhat locked down this week, but rather than binge watching old episodes of Keeping Up Appearances we are talking to out nearest and dearest about literary life in quarantine. This week it's the mega-selling author and critic Louise Doughty! Louise is the author of nine novels, with her most recent being Platform Seven. Her previous book, Black Water, was a New York Times Notable Book and Apple Tree Yard was adapted into a successful TV series starring Emily Watson. We talked to her about which character she'd like to be in lockdown with, Ursula Le Guin and holidaying vicariously via books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Louise Doughty - Platform Seven

Louise Doughty - Whatever You Love

Hillary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Sandra Horley - Power And Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers

Alice Jolly - Dead Babies and Seaside Towns

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours

Polly Samson - Theatre for Dreamers

Ursula Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

CS Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty - Stone Cradle

Amanda Craig - The Golden Rule

Michael Arditti - The Anointed

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Guinevere Glasfurd - The Year Without Summer

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This week we're back in Brighton to meet the sensational Dorothy Koomson! Dorothy is the author of 15 books including the best-selling and award-winning My Best Friend's Girl, The Ice Cream Girls and The Brighton Mermaid. Her latest is Tell Me Your Secret, described as "totally addictive, can't put down, rollercoaster ride of a story". We talked to Dorothy about the power of Jackie Collins, the importance of editing and the influence of Judge Dredd.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dorothy Koomson - Tell Me Your Secret

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Araminta Hall - Our Kind of Cruelty

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Dorothy Koomson - The Friend

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Jackie Collins - The Power Trip

Jackie Collins - Vendetta

Dorothy Koomson - Marshmallows for Breakfast

Donna Hay - Modern Classics

Lisa Faulkner - Recipes from My Mother to my Daughter

Dorothy Koomson - Woman He Loved Before

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Koomson - That Girl From Nowhere

Dorothy Koomson - Goodnight Beautiful

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Forever

Dorothy Koomson - The Ice Cream Girls

Penguin Poems for Love

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic to the Stars

Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret

Giovanna Fletcher - Dream a Little Dream

Giovanna Fletcher - You’re the One That I Want

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic and Baby

Julie Cohen - Dear Thing

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Linda Green - And Then It Happened

Linda Green - The Mummyfesto

Sareeta Domingo - The Nearness of You

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Paula Hawkins - Girl on the Train

Stieg Larsson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - It

Stephen King - The Green Mile

Stephen King - The Body

Stephen King - Carrie

Dorothy Koomson - The Brighton Mermaid

Jilly Cooper - Jump

Jackie Collins - The Stud

Shirley Conran - Lace

Sidney Sheldon - Other Side of Midnight

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We're very excited to announce that for season 5 of You're Booked we're jetting off to the USA for an entire series featuring our favourite American writers. And we're even more excited to start off in Baltimore at the home of the legendary author and auteur John Waters! John is the director of 18 films including the classics Pink Flamingos and Hairspray and the author of 10 books, the latest being Mr Know-It-All. We perused just a tiny section of his his vast 12,000 volume book collection and discussed shoplifting, porn parodies, and, scoop alert, John's first novel, which is currently being written.

BOOKS

John Waters - Mr Know-It-All

Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One

Witold Gombrowicz - Diaries

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Pauline Kael - I Lost It At The Movies

Siv Holm - I, a Woman

Nick Mays - Proper Care of Fancy Rats

Phil Shaw - Extreme Ironing

Anonymous - Break Dance Hunks

Dean Starkey - Mondo Sexo

Joseph Jenkins - Slate Roof Bible

Ugo Mulas - New York: The New Art Scene

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Pussy

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Breasts

Zandha Rhodes - 50 Fabulous Year of Fashion

Brigid Berlin - Polaroids

Tim Coghlan - Notre Damned

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Pissing Figures

Julia Hall - Slaves of Christo

Hubert Selby - Last Exit To Brooklyn

John Rechy - City of Night

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

William Burroughs Jr - Speed

Sheila Weller - Carrie Fisher

Augusten Burroughs - Toil and Trouble

John Waters - Role Models

Denton Welch - Journals

Norris Mailer - Windchill Summer

Norris Mailer - Ticket to the Circus

Anne Lamot - Almost Everything

Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newburyport

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

Richard Tuttle - Art of

Amanda Lepore - Doll Parts

John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Return To Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Tight White Collar

Candy Darling - My Face For The World To See

David Rank - Bend Over Pig

Klaus Kinski - All I Need is Love

Linda Russell - My Daughter Susan Smith

Deborah Spungen - And I Don't Want To Live This Life

Lionel Dahmer - Father's Story

Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

Tennessee Williams - Memoirs

Tennessee Williams - Suddenly Last Summer

Lili Anolik - Hollywood's Eve

Ricki Lake - Never Say Never 

Julian Barnes - Only Story

John Rechy - About My Life and the Kept Woman

John Waters - Carsick

Christopher Bonanos - Making of Weegee

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Today we travel to, appropriately enough, Reading to visit with the award-winning, multi-million-selling author Julie Cohen! Born in Maine (and yes, Stephen King looms large in her life) Julie cut her teeth writing Mills & Boon romances before constructing her critically acclaimed novels Dear Thing, Together and Louis and Louise. We discussed Irving, Vonnegut, New England, libraries, learning your craft, teaching and the troubles she faced with her book Together.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Anna Hope - Expectation

Julie Cohen - Together

Julie Cohen - Louis & Louise

Stephen Wade - Conan Doyle & the Crimes Club

Arthur Conan Doyle - Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes

Judy Blume - Forever

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

William March - The Bad Seed

Phillip Roth - The Breast

William Peter Blatty. - The Exorcist

Stephen King - Elevation

Julian Barnes - Arthur & George

John Irving - Cider House Rules

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany

Jody Picoult - A Spark of Light

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle

Julie Cohen - One Night Stand

Julie Cohen - Being a Bad Girl

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Julie Cohen - Featured Attraction

Julie Cohen - Delicious

Julie Cohen - Driving Him Wild

Julie Cohen - All Work and No Play

Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel

Julie Cohen - Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Louis Sachar - Holes

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Ann Rule - Stranger Beside Me

Hallie Rubenhold - The Five

Hallie Rubenhold - Covent Garden Ladies

Ric Menck - Notorious Byrd Brothers

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson

Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Jackie Collins - World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Tara Westover - Educated

Anne Fadiman - Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

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This week we are snuffling around the bookshelves of comedian and author Mark Watson! Mark is a well-known face on British TV, appearing on show such as QI and Taskmaster and he's renowned as an award-winning stand-up. He's also the author of nine books including the graphic novel Dan and Sam, the non-fiction work Crap at the Environment and novels including Eleven, Hotel Alpha and his latest Contacts (which deals with issues surrounding suicide and mental health - if you're affected by this then the Samaritans are always there). We talked to him about loving Agatha Christie, bookshop positioning, reading on planes and why you should never trust a book that features a map. For details on how you can bid to be a guest on You're Booked (and win lots of lovely books) head to Books To Nourish.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mark Watson - Contacts

Derren Brown - Happy

Derren Brown - A Little Happier

James Smythe - I Still Dream

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Sarah Waters - Little Stranger

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced

Richard Powers - The Overstory

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Ros Barber - Marlowe Papers

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

EL Doctorow - Ragtime

Mohsin Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Mohsin Hamid - Reluctant Fundamentalist

George Orwell - 1984

Extinction Rebellion - This is Not a Drill

Jonathan Safran Foer - We Are The Weather

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated

Daphne Du Maurier - Rule Britannia

David Nicholls - One Day

Flann O’Brien - Third Policeman

John Fowles - Magus

Flann O’Brien - At Swim Two Birds

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For our very, very special Christmas extravaganza we visit the Cornwall home of the brilliant Nina Stibbe. Nina is the celebrated author of the beloved memoir Love Nina, plus the novels Paradise Lodge and Man at the Helm. Her collection of festive stories An Almost Perfect Christmas is an ideal gift at any time of year. We talked about funny books, Harry Potter, suspect driving instructors and, of course, Adrian Mole.

BOOKS (Click on the titles to find out more)

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

Nina Stibbe - An Almost Perfect Christmas

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

Edna O'Brien - The Country Girls

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

JK Rowling - Harry Potter Complete Collection

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4

David Sedaris - Calypso

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

Patrick Gale - Take Nothing With You

Andy Stanton - You're a Bad Man Mr Gum

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Roger Hargreaves - Mr Men

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Julia Donaldson - Room on the Broom

Garth Jennings - The Wildest Cowboy

Lucia Berlin - A Manual For Cleaning Women

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Paul Ewen - Francis Plug - How To Be a Public Author

Caitlin Moran - How To Build a Girl

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Married Men

Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

DM Thomas - The White Hotel

Edward St Aubyn - The Patrick Melrose Novels

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette?

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Elizabeth McKenzie - The Portable Veblen

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

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Get ready for a fun, thorough and frequently mirth-filled conversation with the internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton! Jessie's first book was the monster hit The Miniaturist, followed up by the exceptional The Muse and her latest, the chart-topping The Confession. We talked to Jessie about the joys of living with a bookseller, the particular pain associated with rereading, her favourite funny books and the all-around inspiration that is Princess Margaret.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jessie Burton - Miniaturist

Jessie Burton - Confession

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Octavia Butler - Kindred

Marlon James - Book of Night Women

Andrea Levy - Long Song

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Lauren Groff - Fates & Furies

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Roald Dahl - Matilda

LP Hartley - Go Between

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Margaret Atwood - Cats Eye

Thom Gunn - Selected Poems

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jessie Burton - Restless Girls

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazelet Chronicles

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jessie Burton - Muse

Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

EB White - Letters

Sarah Moss - Summerwater

Elizabeth Strout - Oliver Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Anna Hope - Expectation

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

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This week we're riffling through the shelves of author, broadcaster, journalist and podcast superstar Pandora Sykes! Pandora is the co-host of the smash hit The High Low and her own chart-topping new podcast Doing It Right. Her first essay collection is the hotly anticipated How Do We Know We're Doing It Right. We talked to her about formative reading, High Low favourites and Jilly Cooper's nether regions.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?

William Davies - Nervous States

Paul Bloom - Against Empathy

William Davies - Happiness Industry

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Britt Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Britt Bennett - The Mothers

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Meg Wolitzer- The Interestings

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins

Zadie Smith - NW

Mary Gaitskill - Lost Cat

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Mary Gaitskill - Veronica

Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat & Thin

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Emma Morgan - Love Story For Bewildered Girls

Melissa Bank - Girls Guide To Hunting & Fishing

Melissa Bank - Wonder Spot

John Boyne - Ladder To The Sky

John Boyne - Heart’s Invisible Furies

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Betty Friedan - Feminine Mystique

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant USA

Nikesh Shukla - One Who Wrote Destiny

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I loved You

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It's Muswell Hill for Ep 3, not far from the desks of Alan Bennett, Zadie Smith, and today’s guest Sarra Manning. Sarra is a bestselling, prolific novelist, literary editor of Red, alumni of several top teen mags and one of the most prolific readers around. She told us she got rid of 800 books before our visit, just so we could move freely around her flat. But there were tons of treasure left including a precious collection of rare Noel Streatfeilds, a copy of proto bonkbuster Lace, a gorgeous collection of vintage Chalet Schools with an origin story that will make you weep, and tales about books she’s bought, borrowed and stolen.

BOOKS

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Charles Creed - Maid to Measure

Ginette Spanier - It Isn't All Mink

Anne Scott-James - In The Mink

Edna Woolman Chase - Always in Vogue

Ernestine Carter - With Tongue in Chic

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters

William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Silwyn Williams - Give Me Back My Pride

Pam Lyons - He Was Bad

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself

EM Brent Dyer - Gay From China at the Chalet School

EM Brent Dyer - Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Shirley Conran - Lace

Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy

Judith Krantz - I'll Take Manhattan

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Judy Blume - Are You There God It's Me Margaret

Blake Nelson - Girl

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

James Salter & Kay Salter - Life Is Meals

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Emily St. John Mandel - Station 11

Susan Scarlett - Clothes Pegs

Noel Streatfeild - Myra Carrol

Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

Marjorie Hillis - Live Alone & Like It

Janey Scott - Sara Gay Model Girl

Fred Vermorel - Starlust

Frederick Carter - London at Night

Francis Marshall - London West

Mary R Richardson - Laugh a Defiance

Lorna Hill - Dream of Sadlers Wells 

Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck

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We're kicking off season 4 in style by visiting the beautiful North London home of the magnificent David Nicholls! As we are sure you are aware, David is massively bestselling internationally renowned author of novels such as One Day, Us and most recently Sweet Sorrow as well adapting work such as Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose and Great Expectations for the screen. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, adaptation and Billy Wilder.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

David Nicholls - The Understudy

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar

Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story

Tobias Wolff - Stories of

Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

John Cheever - Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Phillip Larkin - Jill

Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere

Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty

EM Forster - Howards End

Helen Garner - The Spare Room

Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach

Penelope Lively - Heat Wave

Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s

Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations

Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder

Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

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We're venturing to glamorous South East London this week to peruse the shelves of author, columnist and podcaster Caroline O'Donoghue. Described as 'timely and vibrant', Caroline's acclaimed debut novel PromisingYoung Women was released in 2018. She writes a weekly column for The Irish Times and fronts two great podcasts: School for Dumb Women and Sentimental Garbage, focusing on chick-lit. We talked to her about writing sex scenes, tarot, fear and the delights of Louise Mensch.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLE FOR MORE)

Caroline O'Donoghue - Promising Young Women

Delia Ephron - Hanging Up

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Daphne Du Maurier - Jamaica Inn

Daphne Du Maurier - My Cousin Rachel

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

VC Andrews - Petals on the Wind

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Erica Jong - How To Save Your Own Life

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Louise Bagshawe -Career Game

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Priscilla Presley - Elvis and Me

Christopher Dell - The Occult, Witchcraft and Magic

Stacy Schiff - The Witches: Salem, 1692

John Updike - The Witches of Eastwick

Alice Hoffman - Practical Magic

Jessa Crispin - The Creative Tarot

Michelle Tea - Modern Tarot

Diana Mosley - The Pursuit of Laughter

The Mitfords - Letters Between Six Sisters

Germaine Greer - The Boy

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Daisy has a new book out! The Sisterhood: A Love Letter to the Women Who Have Shaped Me is out right now. As Daisy states: 'My five sisters are the only women I would ever kill for. And they are the only women I have ever wanted to kill.' It’s a tender, feisty memoir that explores family relationships, female friendship and the intimacy and clashes that occur between women, viewed through the lens of her own relationship with her five younger sisters, as they move from girlhood to adulthood. In this special bonus episode, Daisy talks about her inspiration for writing the book and also reveals her favourite books that feature sisters.

Get your copy here from themargatebookshop.com

DAISY'S FAVOURITE BOOKS ABOUT SISTERS:

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love 

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Curtis Sittenfeld - Sisterland

Jessica Knoll - The Favourite Sister

Marian Keyes - Watermelon

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Beverly Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Naomi Jackson - The Star Side of Bird Hill

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This week we are beyond delighted to welcome the brilliant and hilarious Isy Suttie to You’re Booked towers! Isy is a comedian, actor and the author of a memoir The Actual One and the wonderful novel Jane is Trying. We talked to her about eating mince, thriller addiction, the pain of rereading and getting a boy to buy you Forever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Isy Suttie - Jane is Trying

Isy Suttie - The Actual One

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sue Miller - The Good Mother

Bev Thomas - A Good Enough Mother

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Steig Larsson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Liz Nugent - Skin Deep

Erin Kelly - Burning Air

Ruth Rendell - Judgement in Stone

Will Dean - Last Thing To Burn

John Yorke - Into The Woods 

Libbie Hawker - Take Off Your Pants!

Lisa Jewell - Ralph’s Party

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Lisa Jewell - Family Upstairs

Shari Lapena - Couple Next Door

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

John Fowles - The Magus

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Rachel Edwards - Lucky

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Sharon Osbourne - Unbreakable

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Lucy Vine - Bad Choices

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We're preparing a brand new season of YB - but as a delicious taster, enjoy this wonderful conversation with avid reader, book blogger and lover of all things literary Tilly Fitzgerald AKA TillyLovesBooks (on all branches of social media). We were delighted when Tilly got involved with our Books to Nourish auction, raising funds for Fareshare, a charity fighting hunger and food waste - if you can, please do contribute to this fantastic cause at fareshare.org.uk. We talked to Tilly about antipodean authors, books that make you cry, great books for kids and tackling the TBR pile.

BOOKS

Maggie O’Farrell - Hamnet

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Anna Hope - Expectation

Eva Carter - How To Save a Life

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Peace Adzo Medie - His Only Wife

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Marian Keyes - Rachel’s Holiday

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Fiona Scarlett - Boys Don’t Cry

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Sarah Winman - Still Life

Sarah Winman - Tin Man

John Boyne - Heart’s Invisible Furies

John Boyne - Echo Chamber

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Beautiful World Where Are You

Tiffany McDaniel - Betty

Janice Hallett - The Appeal

Catriona Ward - Last House on Needless Street

Fran Lebowitz - Reader

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This week we are honoured to talk to globally acclaimed author, poet, screenwriter and Booker prize winner Ben Okri OBE! Ben has won numerous awards and honorary doctorates for his fiction and poetry and is considered one of the foremost African authors of the modern era. We talked to Ben about the meaning of being, the character of Walt Whitman, the idea of comfort reading and the importance of reading to our humanity.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Ben Okri - The Famished Road

Ben Okri - Every Leaf a Hallelujah

Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way

Marcel Proust - In the Shadow of Young Girls in Flower

Marcel Proust - The Guermantes Way

Marcel Proust - Sodom and Gomorrah

Marcel Proust - The Prisoner

Marcel Proust - The Fugitive

Marcel Proust - Time Regained

Plato - The Republic

Aristotle - Complete Works

Homer - The Odyssey

Homer - The Iliad

Ana Sampson (Ed) - Wonder

Stendahl - La Chartreuse de Parme

Paul Zweig - Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman - Leaves of Grass

Olivia Laing - The Lonely City

TS Eliot - The Waste Land

Albert Camus - The Plague

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This week we're delighted to chat to author and journalist Lucy Mangan! Lucy's book Bookworm has been discussed many times on the show and is a firm favourite in YB Towers. Her new novel Are We Having Fun Yet? is fun, furious and unforgettable. We talked to her about reading epiphanies, the literary merits of Les Dawson, quintessential children's books and finding writing solace in Ikea.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Lucy Mangan - Are We Having Fun Yet?

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Patrick Ness - Knife of Never Letting Go

Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden

Norton Juster - Phantom Tollbooth

Gwen Grant - Private Keep Out

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Eve Garnett - Further Adventures

Eve Garnett - Holiday At The Dew Drop Inn

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Norah Lofts - House at Old Vine

Rose Allatini - Despised & Rejected

Helen Hull - Heat Lightning

Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Dorothy Whipple - Someone at a Distance

Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anita Brookner - Start in Life

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To the Waltz

Emma Jane Unsworth - After the Storm

Les Dawson - Come Back With the Wind

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

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This week we're delighted to share this wonderful, nourishing conversation with novelist, playwright and short story writer Helen Oyeyemi! Helen's debut, The Icarus Girl was called "a masterly first novel" by the New York Times. White is For Witching won a Somerset Maugham Award, while What Is Not Yours Is Not Yours won the PEN Open Book Award. Her latest novel is the eagerly anticipated Peaces. We talked to her about rereading Little Women, Emily Dickinson's jokes, unreliable memoirists and bunking off school to read Ali Smith.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Helen Oyeyemi - Peaces

Ali Smith - Hotel World

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

Albert Camus - Plague

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Zdeněk Jirotka - Saturnin

Mrs Beeton - Book of Household Management

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Charles Reznikoff - Testimony

Félix Fénéon - Novel in Three Lines

Tessa Dare - When a Scot Ties the Knot

Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good Can Come From This

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Emily Dickinson - Letters

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Margaret Atwood - Testaments

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Benjamin Moser - Susan Sontag

Sigrid Nunez - Sempre Susan

Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

Susan Sontag - Against Interpretation

Diana Vreeland - DV

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It's our 100th episode! Sort of - we may have slightly lost count. But there is still plenty of cause for celebration as we are in the company of poet, author, memoirist and actor Yrsa Daley-Ward! Her poetry collection Bone was widely acclaimed while her memoir The Terrible won the PEN/Ackerley Prize. She co-wrote Black Is King with Beyonce and her latest book is The How described as "a gratifying exploration of the self". We talked to her about the best books to listen to, the genius of Jeanette Winterson, finding books on stoops and books that induce calm.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Yrsa Daley-Ward - The Terrible

Yrsa Daley-Ward - The How

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson - Written on the Body

Helen Oyeyemi - Boy Snow Bird

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Jenny Slate - Little Weirds

Ta-Nehisi Coates - Between the World and Me

Helen Oyeyemi - Peaces

Spike Milligan - Collected Poetry

Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Roger McGough - Collected Potery

Vātsyāyana - Kama Sutra

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Alice Walker - By the Light of my Father's Smile

Toni Morrison - Sula

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Jeanette Winterson - Sexing the Cherry

Samantha Hunt - The Seas

Phyllis Grant - Everything is Under Control

Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Samantha Hunt - The Dark Dark

Alice Walker - Collected Stories

Carmen Maria Machado - Her Body and Other Parties

Carmen Maria Machado - In The Dream House

Akwaeke Emezi - Death of Vivek Oji

Akwaeke Emezi - Fresh Water

Kevin Wilson - Nothing To See Here

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This week we're delighted to present this frank, funny and thoroughly entertaining chat with author, journalist and podcaster Lindsey Kelk! Lindsey is the bestselling author of the I Heart series of books, plus In Case You Missed It, One in a Million and her latest On a Night Like This. Lindsey also co-hosts the beauty podcast, Full Coverage, and Tight and Fights, a wrestling podcast, We talked to her about James Herbert issues, the importance of Paula Danziger, a variety of vampires and the genius of Marian Keyes.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lindsey Kelk - On a Night Like This

Mary-Kate & Ashley Olsen - Style Secrets

Donna Tartt - Secret History

James Herbert - Magic Cottage

Barbara Taylor Bradford - Woman of Substance

VC Andrews - Heaven

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Lindsey Kelk - I Heart New York

Brett Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Gillian McAllister - That Night

Mhairi McFarlane - Last Night

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Charlaine Harris - Dead Until Dark

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Erin Sterling - Ex Hex

Emily Henry - Beach Read

KM Jackson - How to Marry Keanu Reeves in 90 Days

Sarah Macleane - Bombshell

Clare Finney - Female Chef

Megan Abbott - Dare Me

Megan Abbott - Turnout

Andie J Christopher - Hot Under His Collar

Paula Danziger - Remember Me To Harold Square

Paula Danziger - Pistachio Prescription

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gym Suit

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Marian Keyes - Watermelon

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Kathleen Tessaro - Elegance

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kazuo Ishiguro - Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro - Never Let Me Go

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This week we're delighted to present this late night, transatlantic phone chat with the legendary Dave Eggers! Dave is the author of many books including The Circle, A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, A Hologram for the King, What Is the What, and The Museum of Rain. His latest if the tech satire The Every. He's also the founder of publishing house McSweeney's and co-founder of 826 National, a network of youth writing and tutoring centres around America. We talked to him about avoiding The Plague, deep-diving into Melville, timeless kids books and who the funniest writer in the world happens to be.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable 

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Dave Eggers - Heartbreaking Work...

Dave Eggers - The Every

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Albert Camus - The Plague

Herman Melville - Selected Writing

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Frank Herbert - Dune

Walter Wangerin - Book of the Dun Cow

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Jason Reynolds - Long Way Down

L Frank Baum - Wizard of Oz

Hugh Lofting - Dr Dolittle

Robert Louis Stevenson - Treasure Island

Florence and Richard Atwater - Mr Poppers Penguins

SE Hinton - The Outsiders

Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

EB White - Trumpet of the Swan

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Katherine Ryan - The Audacity

EB White - Letters

EB White - One Man's Meat

Kurt Vonnegut - God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater

John Brandon - Ivory Shoals

Peter Ferry - Old Heart

Vendela Vida - We Run The Tides

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run Frog Hospital

Lorrie Moore - Birds of America

Richard Russo - Straight Man

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

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This week we're delighted to present this fun and fascinating conversation with author and producer Miranda Cowley Heller! After a career in publishing and head honcho at HBO, Miranda's debut novel The Paper Palace has been a runaway bestseller, a Reese Witherspoon book club pick and is now being adapted as a TV mini-series. We talked to her about parenting in the 1970s, classic kids books, dream adaptations and naughty Victorian reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Miranda Cowley Heller - The Paper Palace

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Laurie Colwin - Family Happiness

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Mary Renault - The King Must Die

Mary Renault - The Bull From the Sea

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom's Cabin

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Walter - My Secret Life

George Eliot - Middlemarch

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Various - Illustrated Fairy Tales

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can't Sleep

The Editors - The Incomplete Framley Examiner

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Garth Williams - The Rabbit's Wedding

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Joan Aiken - Necklace of Raindrops

James Fenimore Cooper - Last of the Mohicans

Alexander Dumas - Three Musketeers

Elizabeth George Speare - Witch of Blackbird Pond

Scott O'Dell - Island of the Blue Dolphins

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Lord Fauntleroy

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Diana Gabaldon - Outlander

Winston Graham - Poldark

MM Kaye - Far Pavilions

Anthony Doerr - All the Light We Cannot See

Ali Smith - Autumn

James Salter - Light Years

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

James and Kay Salter - Life is Meals

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This week we present a cosy fireside chat in the fabulous home of journalist, presenter and author Sophia Money-Coutts! Sophia is the former features editor at Tatler, Daily Telegraph columnist and the author of the bestselling comedies What Happens Now, The Plus One, The Wish List and her latest, the hilarious Did You Miss Me? We talked to her about interview technique, Roald Dahl's curious desserts, the joy of PG Wodehouse and, for the first time in You're Booked history, a special guest (and former guest) drops in!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sophia Money-Coutts - Did You Miss Me?

Maggie O'Farrell - Hamnet

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Elizabeth MacNeal - Doll Factory

Elizabeth MacNeal - Circus of Wonders

Sarah Waters - Tipping the Velvet

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Lynn Barber - Mostly Men

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Laura Freeman - Reading Cure

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Evanna Lynch - Opposite of Butterfly Hunting

Elizabeth Graham - Vision of Love

Lindsay Armstrong - Spitfire

Sally Wentworth - Man For Hire

Elizabeth Graham - Highland Gathering

Sarah Ferguson - Heart For a Compass

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Robinne Lee - Idea of You

Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred

Sarah Winman - Still Life

Sarah Winman - When God was a Rabbit

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Sarah Winman - Tin Man

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Family Happiness

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Lucy Deedes - Little Book of Marmalade

Crispin Latymer - Where the Ocean Meets the Sky

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Rachel Lehmann-Haupt - In Her Own Sweet Time

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves in the Offing

PG Wodehouse - Blandings Castle

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

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This week we are delighted to peruse the bookshelves of author, performer and podcaster Janina Matthewson! Janina created the acclaimed novel Of Things Gone Astray and co-created the Welcome to Night Vale affiliated podcast Within the Wires. Her latest book, co-written with Night Vale creator Jeffrey Cranor is You Feel It Just Below the Ribs. We talked to her about Bridget Jones picnics, suitable Jane Austen husbands, Susanna Clarke, Sarah Perry and the power of the Princess Diaries.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Janina Matthewson - Of Things Gone Astray

Janina Matthewson & Jeffrey Cranor - You Feel It Just Below the Ribs

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Sarah Perry - Melmoth

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Meg Cabot - Princess Diaries

Sarah Perry - Essex Serpent

Sarah Perry - After Me Comes the Flood

Agatha Christie - Short Stories

Agatha Christie - Death on the Niles

Witi Ihimaera - The Whale Rider

Lynley Dodd - Hairy Maclary from Donaldson's Dairy 

Patricia Grace - Potiki

Elizabeth Knox - The Vintner's Luck

Elizabeth Knox - The Absolute Book

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Donna Tarrt - The Secret History

Eva Ibbotson - The Song for Summer

Eva Ibbotson - The Secret Countess

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - Tara Road

Brit Bennett - The Vanishing Half

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Bryan Lee O'Malley - Scott Pilgrim

Aka Akasaka - Kaguya-sama: Love Is War 

Anita Brookner - Fraud

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Michael Crichton - Jurassic Park

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jean Webster - Daddy-Long-Legs

Stephen King - Joyland

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - The Shining

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - Small Gods

Terry Pratchett - The Hogfather

Tom Robbins - Still Life With Woodpecker

Fannie Flagg - Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistlestop Cafe

Cassandra Peterson - Yours Cruelly, Elvira

Allena Hansen - Chomp Chomp Chomp

Various - Make More Noise

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

Sarah Knight - Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a Fuck

Isabel Allende - Daughter of Fortune

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Isabel Allende - Paula

Diana Wynne Jones - Howl's Moving Castle

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

Louis de Bernieres - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Henry James - Complete Short Stories

CS Lewis - The Last Battle

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This week we are truly honoured to welcome the legendary Susanna Clarke to You're Booked! Her debut novel was the beloved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu, set in the world of Jonathan Strange, followed in 2006. Her latest is Piranesi, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We talked to her about the lure of the library, reading and running away, magic, mysterious narrators and there's even a few bonus Christmas gift ideas!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Reginald Hill - A Clubbable Woman

Jane Austen - Sanditon

Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Anthology

John Irving - The World According To Garp

Rosemary Sutcliffe - Eagle of the Ninth

Cynthia Harnett - The Great House

Barbara Leonie Picard - Ransom For a Knight

Ruth Manning Sanders - Book of Dwarves

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Ursula K Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

AA Gill - Pour Me

Albert Camus - The Plague

Joan G Robinson - Charley

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

William Shakespeare - King Lear

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

EM Delafield - Dairy of a Provincial Lady

Anne Lister - The Secret Diaries

Anthony Horowitz - Foyles War

Anthony Horowitz - The Word is Murder

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

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This week we are infinitely excited to present the bestselling literary phenomenon Adele Parks to You're Booked! Since releasing her first novel Playing Away in 2000, Adele has released a book a year with her latest the critically acclaimed Both of You. She is one of the biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK, with 4 million books sold and her work translated into more than 30 languages. We talked to her about library love, Enid Blyton, formative reads, literary giants you wouldn't ask to dinner and the books that literally made Adele faint.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Adele Parks - Playing Away

Adele Parks - Both of You

Jackie Collins - Lady Boss

Shirley Conran - Lace

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Emma

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Dorothy Parker - Best Of

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Swears

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Andrew O'Hagan - Mayflies

Adele Parks - Young Wives tales

Adele Parks - Lies Lies Lies

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Amanda Jennings - The Haven

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - In the Fifth

Enid Blyton - Naughty Amelia Jane

Jessica Fellowes - The Mitford Murders

Abigail Dean - Girl A

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes of the Museum

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

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You're Booked is very proud to present Daisy's brand new podcast: Daisy is Careering. In Daisy is Careering, journalist and author Daisy Buchanan will be looking at one of the most complicated relationships of our lives: work. We all want to find jobs that we love, but what happens when we start to realise they are never going to love us back? How much of ourselves should we bring to our careers? What can we do when our ambition makes us feel anxious? Is there such a thing as a 'dream job'? In a series of intimate and revealing conversations, Daisy will ask her guests to explore how they navigate the highs and lows of their working lives, and how we can all survive and thrive, while making sure our professional passion doesn't turn into a bad romance. The first episode features the brilliant Emma Gannon and upcoming guests include Otegha Uwagba, Kat Brown, Natalie Lee, Bryony Gordon and many more!

Find out more here: https://play.acast.com/s/daisy-is-careering

Subscribe on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/daisy-is-careering/id1613500724

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7638p9LSgdDSvRJgO3wXOj

The podcast accompanies Daisy's latest novel, Careering. 

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We're back! And we can think of no better way to get the new series underway than this conversation with the brilliant Andrew Sean Greer. Andrew is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Less (a massive favourite at You're Booked Towers) and has just released a sequel, Less is Lost, which is equally hilarious, moving and thoroughly addictive. He has won numerous awards for his fiction and has contributed to The New Yorker, Esquire and The Paris Review. We talked to Andrew about the genius of Sondheim, Proustian moments, aunts in PG Wodehouse and owning Armistead Maupin's athletic equipment. Find out more about Daisy's Pound Project book Burn After Reading HERE. And find out more about all the books mentioned at our shop over at BOOKSHOP.ORG

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Burn Before Reading

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Andrew Sean Greer - Less is Lost

Graham Green - Travels With My Aunt

Marguerite Duras - The Ravishing of Lol Stein

A. B. Yehoshua - A Journey to the End of the Millennium

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley

Gerald Durrell - My Family And Other Animals

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Beverly Cleary - Fifteen

Beverly Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Beverly Cleary - Henry Huggins

Judy Blume - Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing

Cervantes - Don Quixote

John Updike - Bech

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov

Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardour

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Agatha Christie - Collected Works

PG Wodehouse - Summer Lightning

PG Wodehouse - Aunts Aren't Gentleman

Natalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Sukh Ojla - Sunny

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

John Updike - Rabbit Run

Philip Roth - Human Stain

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - American Marriage 

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Joe Keenan - Blue Heaven

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Vendela Vida - We Run the Tides

Daniel Handler - Bottle Grove

Murasaki Shikibu - Tale of Genji

Sei Shōnagon - Pillow Book

Yasunari Kawabata - The Old Capital

Truman Capote - Portraits and Observations

Mike Nichols - Life Isn't Everything

James Lapine - Putting It Together

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Stephen Sondheim - Look I made a Hat

Karen Joy Fowler - Booth

Mario Levrero - The Luminous Novel

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If you are a regular player of You're Booked bingo, then get ready for a full house. As we can't imagine an author more perfectly on our wavelength as the brilliant Meg Mason. As well as being the writer of the bestselling phenomenon Sorrow and Bliss, Meg loves all the same books as us! So prepare yourselves for deep dives into Barbara Trapido, Nancy Mitford, Nina Stibbe, The Cazalet Chronicles and much more. Plus there's writing advice from Ann Patchett and a proposal for author led reading lists. Find out more about the titles mentioned at our Meg Mason page on our bookshop.org shop.

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sali Hughes - Everything is Washable

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Katharine Graham - Personal History

Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots

Antonia Fraser - Wives of Henry VIII

Jan Ormerod - Sunshine

Jane Austen - Emma

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Max Porter - Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Jenny Offill - Dept of Speculation

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Nikki May - Wahala

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Barbara Trapido - Noah's Ark

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

 Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Janet Frame - Owl's Do Cry

Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table

Ann Patchett - This is a Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Rachel Cusk - Second Place

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Meg Mason - You Be Mother

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This week we are beyond delighted to present this conversation with the brilliant, bestselling Lucy Foley! Lucy is the author of the crime blockbusters The Hunting Party and The Guest List and her latest smash hit is the chart-topping The Paris Apartment. She's also contributed to the recent Marple collection, so it's no surprise that there's plenty of Christie chat during the show. There's also lots of love for Jilly Cooper, Malory Towers expectations, loving naughty heroines and unusual beach reads. Find out more about the titles mentioned at our Lucy Foley page on our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley (et al) - Marple

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party

Agatha Christie - Crooked House

Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - The Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Princess

Ursula Moray Williams - Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Bel Mooney - Oh Kitty

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who's Afraid of the Dark

Dr Seuss - Oh the Places You'll Go

Judith McNaught - A Kingdom of Dreams

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

Nikki May - Wahala

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Polly Samson - Theatre For Dreamers

Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Caroline Kepnes - You

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Francois Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Julia May Jonas - Vladimir

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Truman Capote - Other Voices Other Rooms

Douglas Adams. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Various - The Paris Review Interviews

Patricia Highsmith - Diaries, Notebooks

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Charmaine Wilkerson - Black Cake

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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This week we are delighted to present a fascinating conversation with Amanda Owen, better known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess! Amanda is the star of the glorious, incredibly popular television series Our Yorkshire Farm, about her rural life in the Dales and also the author of five books, with the most recent being Celebrating the Seasons, about life with her family at Ravenseat Farm, plus a number of delicious recipes. Amanda told us about her collection of antiquated books on agriculture, the book that set her onto her shepherding path, the reads she has shared with her children, a couple of pleas for loaned books to be returned and an unimaginable end for her copy of Judy Blume's Forever. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Amanda Owen - Celebrating the Seasons

Mary Berry - Baking Bible

Nigella Lawson - Howe To Be a Domestic Goddess

Paul Hollywood - Bread

Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Ride Again

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

WJ Miles - Modern Practical Farriery

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk

James Herriot - Yorkshire

John and Eliza Forder - Hill Shepherd

Edward Boden - Black's Veterinary Dictionary 

Tabatha Lasley - Sea State

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

James Herriot - Moses the Kitten

Banjo Paterson - Man from Snowy River

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Lady Diana Shedden & Lady Apsley - To Whom the Goddess

Kim Hamer and Phillipa Page - Sheep Keeping

Hannah Hauxwell - Seasons of My Life

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome

Iain R Thomson - Isolation Shepherd

Edmund Cooper - Men of Swaledale

HM Fraser - History of Beekeeping

Captain John Harland - A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Judy Blume - Forever

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National treasure alert! We are so, so honoured to bring you this conversation with legendary author, scriptwriter, multi-award winner and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman OBE. Malorie is one of Britain's best and most beloved children's authors who has written over 70 books including the acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series, which was recently turned into a hit TV series. Malorie has just released her autobiography, Just Sayin', which is wise, wonderful, distressing, hilarious and completely engrossing. Her enthusiasm for books and reading shines through this interview, as she discusses her formative years at the library, beating writers block, her love of poetry and the genius of short stories. Prepare to be inspired. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Alan Moore - V for Vendetta

Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - Othello

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Ovid - Metamorphosis

Felix Guirand (Ed) - New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology

John Wyndham - Chocky

Daphne Du Maurier - The Blue Lenses

Stephen King - Needful Things

Stephen King - Four Past midnight

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - Misery

Charles Burns - Black Hole

Hans Christian Anderson - Little Mermaid

Holly Williams - What Time is Love

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass

Hilaire Belloc - Cautionary Verses

Gavin Ewart (Ed) - Penguin Book of Light Verse

Ogden Nash - Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery

JM Cohen (Ed) - A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse

Paula Burnett (Ed) - Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse

Maya Angelou - Complete Poetry

Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love

Sarah Crossan - One

Dean Atta - Black Flamingo

Malorie Blackman - Cloud Busting

Malorie Blackman - Hackers

Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Various - Marple

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Isaac Asimov - I Robot

Gloria Naylor - Women of Brewster Place

Homer - The Odyssey

Isaac Asimov - Tales of Black Widowers

Daisy Buchanan - Burn After Reading

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

RJ Palacio - Wonder

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Anne Frank - Diary

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Art Spiegelman - Maus

Louis Sachar - Holes

Susan Varley - Badger's Parting Gifts

Garth Ennis - The Boys

Garth Ennis - Preacher

Hayley Campbell - All the Living and the Dead

Rosa Parks - My Story

Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

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There's a true rock and roll legend entering You're Booked Towers this week and we couldn't be happier. Kid Congo Powers has played in such beloved bands as The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his own Pink Monkey Birds. His astonishing new memoir Some New Kind of Kick talks about growing up queer and Mexican-American in 1970s, the glam rock and punk rock scenes, music, addiction, fandom, tragedy and fun. It's utterly compelling and sure to enter the pantheon of great music memoirs. We talked to Kid about Nick Cave's book recommendations, the power of Eve Babitz, great grudge writing, appearing in the classic film Wings of Desire and the troubling book that appeared on Lux Interior's coffee table. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Herbert Huncke - Reader

Herbert Huncke -The Evening Sun Turned Crimson

John Rechy - City of Night

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

Ian Hunter - Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Barry Adamson - Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum

Wreckless Eric - A Dysfunctional Success

Harriet Evans - Going Home

Derek Raymond - I Was Dora Suarez

James Ellroy - The LA Quartet

Flora Rheta Schreiber - The Shoemaker

K Mason - Concentration Camp Bestiality

William Burroughs - Junky

Geoffrey Wolff - Black Sun

J. Randy Taraborrelli - Call Her Miss Ross

Kitty Kelly - His Way

Albert Goldman - Elvis

Nick Tosches - Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Caryn Rose - Why Patti Smith Matters

Rimbaud - Collected Poems

Baudelaire - Complete Poems

Fred Vermorel - Starlust

John Rechy - Sexual Outlaw

Raquel Gutierrez - Brown Neon

Chris Womersley - The Diplomat

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game

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You are in for a treat! As stated during the show, this week's guest is the 'platonic ideal of a You're Booked guest'. Lucy Easthope is one of the UK's leading authorities on emergency planning, a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard, co-founder of the After Disaster Network and has advised on nearly every major disaster of the past two decades, including 9/11, the 7/7 bombings, Grenfell and the Covid-19 pandemic. Her book When the Dust Settles is a Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As well as taking the reader behind the scenes of disaster planning and reaction, it's also a funny and painfully moving memoir about Lucy's life. And, as you'll hear, Lucy is an absolute delight to spend some time with. Everything from Judy Blume to Louise Bagshawe are discussed, via Charles Dickens, Willy Russell, Caitlin Moran and the disaster management credentials of Enid Blyton. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Easthope - When the Dust Settles

Alan Cumming - Baggage

Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations

Gavin Francis - Recovery

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Myleene Klass - They Don't Teach This at School

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Girl

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Francis Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

Judy Blume - Forever

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Brer Rabbit

Brian Jacques - Redwall

Willy Russell - Our Day Out

Willy Russell - Blood Brothers

Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes

Beverly Cleary - Ramona

Elizabeth Laird - Red Sky in the Morning

Patricia Cornwell - From Potter's Field

Jane Austen - Collected Works

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracey Beaker

Francesca Simon - Horrid Henry

Jane Fallon - Just Got Real

Melanie Rice - Pompeii: the Day a City Was Buried

Ian Schott - World Famous Dictators

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

Daisy Buchanan - Burn Before Reading

Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg - Option B

Jade Goody - Forever in My Heart

Ilan Kelman - Disaster By Choice

Samantha Montano - Disasterology

Gill Kernick - Catastrophe and Systemic Change

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Write It All Down

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Maeve Binchy - Collection

Cathy Rentzenbrink - A Manual For Heartache

Val McDermid - Christmas is Murder

Andrew Doig - This Mortal Coil

Richard E Grant - A Pocketful of Happiness

Matthew Perry - Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Anna Kent - Frontline Midwife

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Book obsessives everywhere, rejoice! This week we are delighted to present this conversation with the brilliant author, presenter, DJ and constant inspiration Sara Cox! As well as hosting TV's premier book show Between the Covers (Tuesdays at 7pm on BBC Two) Sara is the author of the bestselling booksTill the Cows Come Home (a memoir) and Thrown (a novel). As you'll hear, she's currently working on her next novel while trying to traverse her teetering TBR pile. She also discussed her formative reads (Jilly, Jackie and Judy Blume), favourite audiobooks, inspirational reads and Jeremy Vine's saucy dalliances. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sara Cox - Till the Cows Come Home

Sara Cox - Thrown

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died

Raynor Winn - Salt Path

Abi Dare - Girl With The Louding Voice

Jane Fallon - Just Got Real

Andrea Levy - Long Song

Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Alberto Moravia - Time of Indifference

David Nichols - Us

David Nichols - One Day

Julia Whelan - My Oxford Year

Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening

William Boyd - Love is Blind

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Rob Delaney - A Heart That Works

Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually

Tom Allen - No Shame

Tom Allen - Too Much

David Mitchell - Back Story

Louis Theroux - Theroux the Keyhole

Adam Buxton - Ramble Book

Bob Mortimer - And Away

Richard E Grant - Pocketful of Happiness

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jackie Collins - Vendetta

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret?

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Jeremy Vine - Diver and the Lover

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

Graham Norton - Forever Home

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Annie Mac- Mother Mother

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

EM Delafield - Diary of Provincial Lady

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Jess Kidd - Night Ship

John Boyne - Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne - Echo Chamber

John Boyne - Ladder to the Sky

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This week we are delighted to welcome the fabulous (and partly Thanet based) Rosa Rankin-Gee to the podcast! Rosa is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last King of Sark and the recent blockbuster Dreamland. You can also read her work in The Paris Review, Esquire, Vogue, The Guardian, The New Yorker and many more. We talked to her about growing up in a literary family, the formative power of Adrian Mole and Louise Rennison, the pros and cons of communal reading and using poetry (and emojis) to court your beau. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Rosa Rankin-Gee - The Last Kings of Sark

Rosa Rankin-Gee - Dreamland

Max Brooks - World War Z

Robert C. O'Brien - Z For Zachariah

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

E Nesbit - The Lark

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

E L Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

GB Shaw - Pygmalion

Maggie Gee - The Ice People

Maggie Gee - The White Family

Doris Lessing - Mara and Dann

Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing - Ben in the World

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Doris Lessing - Golden Notebook

George Saunders - A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Sarra Manning - From London With Love

Eva Rice - Lost Art of Keeping

Alex Garland - The Beach

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Don Delillo - Underworld

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This week we are delighted to present someone we've been attempting to lure into YB Towers for quite a while. It's AJ Pearce! We are huge fans of AJ, with Dear Mrs Bird being a previous Steal of the Week and perennial favourite, as was the equally wonderful sequel Cheerfully Yours. As you will hear, we are beyond excited to hear of a third instalment in the Emmy Lake chronicles, as AJ reveals a few tantalising nuggets about her new book. She also talks about books from the 30s and 40s, how a former You're Booked guest is her comfort read, her love of pony books and finding delight in the ordinary. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncles Book

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married

DE Stevenson - Mrs Tim of the Regiment

Joyce Denys - Henrietta's War

Joyce Denys - Henrietta Sees It Through

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz

Angela Thirkell - Cheerfulness Breaks In

Frederik Backman - A Man Called Ove

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Jo Thomas - Keeping a Christmas Promise

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

Julian Fellowes - Past Imperfect

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Catherine Gray - Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Katie Fforde - A French Affair

Jill Mansell - Promise Me

Nina de Gramont - The Christie Affair

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Nadia Shireen - Barbara Throws a Wobbler

Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

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As an extra pre-Christmas treat - here's the latest episode of Daisy is Careering with the bestselling author of The Push, Ashley Audrain!

In this episode we speak to international bestselling author of The Push Ashley Audrain. We talk about how our family's attitudes to work and money have a dramatic impact on our own, and how many of us push our dreams aside while we try to build ourselves a safety net. Ashley generously shares information about her own career path. She talks about how writing was and is her ultimate dream job, and how easy it is for us all to make compromises that serve our anxiety – until playing it safe becomes dangerous . . .

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As a little bonus treat, we are delighted to present this glorious, nourishing conversation with the fantastic Emma Black! Emma is a hugely talented opera director, veracious reader and winner of the You're Booked auction, raising funds for Book Fuel. Emma talks about her early fascination with Anne of Green Gables, a terrible crime committed to a copy of In Cold Blood in a New Zealand youth hostel, loving Meg Wolitzer, Katherine Heiny and Curtis Sittenfeld and the books she's looking forward to next year (and much more!) If you would like to find out more or donate to National Energy Action, who are attempting to eradicate fuel poverty, then please visit NEA.org.uk. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Jill Tomlinson - Penguin's Who Wanted To Find Out

Jill Murphy - Five Minutes Peace

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Journals

LM Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

EM Brent-Dyer - The Chalet School

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Ann M. Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Andy Miller - Year of Reading Dangerously

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Meg Wolitzer - The Wife

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - Ten Year Nap

Emma Straub - This Time Tomorrow

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back 

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charle Dickens - David Copperfield

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Amor Towles - Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles - Rules of Civility

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

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As a festive treat, we are re-sharing our 2019 Christmas special! Here's what we said the first time around...

Merry Christmas! And welcome to the You're Booked Christmas extravaganza live from the fabulous Allbright Members Club in London's glamorous Mayfair. We are joined by High Low podcast legend and author of Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton, author of This Green and Pleasant Land and the Sofia Khan novels Ayisha Malik and author of Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half Lissa Evans. They discussed cosy Christmas reads, festive meals in favourite books and Rod Stewart's many turkeys.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Worst Journey in the World

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Rod Stewart - Autobiography

Alison Uttley - A Country Child

Nancy Parent - Disney's Storybook Collection

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Susan Cain - Quiet

JL Carr - A Month in the Country

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey - What Katy Did at School

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Stephen King - 22/11/63

Kathy Lette - How To Kill Your Husband

David Nicholls - One Day

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

PL Travers - Mary Poppins

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

James Joyce - Ulysses

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Roger Deakin - Waterlogged

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

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Seasons greetings! And we can't think of anything more festive or merry-making than this glorious conversation with lexicographer, author and podcaster Susie Dent! As well as writing many books on words and language, with the latest being the brilliant An Emotional Dictionary, Susie resides in Dictionary Corner on Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and hosts the podcast Something Rhymes With Purple with Gyles Brandreth. We talked to her about tricky words in Dickens, the perils of reading your own audio books, the wonder of swearing and her favourite book to give as a gift. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Susie Dent - An Emotional Dictionary

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Twice Upon a Time: Susie Dent

Noel Streatfeild - Thursday's Child

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Francis Grose - The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Dictionary

Michele Obama - Becoming

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

DH Lawrence - Short Stories

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Louis Macneice - Autumn Journal

Christina Rossetti - Artists Studio

Mary Oliver - Collected Poems

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Gyles Brandreth - Dancing By the Light of the Moon

Sam West - Pandemic Poems

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Gyles Brandreth - Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

Alain-Fournier - La Grand Meaulnes

Julian Barnes - Le Grand Meaulnes Revisited

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

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Kindle hacks! Reading slump fixes! Cosy reads! And a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joins us to help us with our reading resolutions. Discover the books you'll be snapping up in 2023, a few tips to get you back on the reading path if you've strayed and some excellent advice for those struggling with the classics. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Dale Shaw - Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - How to be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - London With Love

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Hannah Dolby - No Life For a Lady

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Tina Brown - Palace Papers

Kate Sawyer - This Family

Kate Sawyer - The Stranding

Various - Marple: 12 New Stories

JD Salinger: For Esme With Love and Squalor

Sylvia Plath - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

F Scott Fitzgerald - Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Dorothy Parker - Collected Stories

Various - Furies

Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Lucia Berlin - Manuel For Cleaning Women

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Noel Streatfeild - Gemma

Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

James Reeves - The Critical Sense

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Milly Johnson - Together Again

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Jojo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Katy Brent - How To Kill Men and Get Away With It

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Jennifer Saint - Atalanta

Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra

Katherine Bradley - The Sisterhood

Isabelle Schuler - Lady Macbethad

Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood

Niamh Hargan - The Break-Up Clause

Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Scandal

Sarra Manning - The Man of Her Dreams

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina

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We're back! And we can't think of a better way to kick off the new series than a fascinating conversation with one of our favourite authors: Tessa Hadley! Tessa's books are constantly being discussed on the podcast so it's an absolute honour to finally have her on the show. And what a treat it was! Tessa discusses formative children's books, being shocked by John Updike, possessing a fear of fairy tales and why every teenager needs to read Jane Eyre. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden

Nell Dunn - Up the Junction

Jonathon Green - Days in the Life

Elizabeth Bowen - House in Paris

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Lived in the Barn

Lois Lenski - Papa Small

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince

Eve Garnett - Family at One End Street

Elena Ferrante - Story of a New Name

Alice Munro - Open Secrets

Jean Plaidy - Murder Most Royal

Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer

Pamela Frankau - Wreath for the Enemy

Jane Gardam - Summer After the funeral

Jane Gardam - Long Way from Verona

Virginia Woolf - Diaries

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jane Austen - Persuasion

John Updike - Couples

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grace Metallous - Peyton Place

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel - Giving Up the Ghost

Gwendoline Riley - My Phantoms

Claire Louise Bennett - Pond

Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Henry James - Wings of the Dove

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Jane Austen - Emma

Elizabeth Taylor - A Wreath of Roses

TJ Clark - If These Apples Should Fall

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We are so delighted to bring you this nourishing, fascinating and frequently hilarious conversation with comedian, podcaster, Taskmaster alumnus and now memoirist Fern Brady! Fern is an acclaimed and celebrated stand-up (currently on tour around the UK), co-hosted the BBC podcast Wheel of Misfortune with Alison Spittle and has just released the remarkable memoir Strong Female Character which covers autism, stripping and Catholicism. It's very funny. We talked to Fern about Jean Rhys, her obsession with Jeanette Winterson, memoir qualms and why teenage boys don't eat vegetables. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Lisa Alther - Kinflicks

Holly Smales - The Cassandra Complex

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Joanne Limburg - Letters to My Weird Sisters

Jeanette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Diana Athill - Stet

Diana Athill - Don't Look at Me Like That

Caroline Corcoran - What Happened on Floor 34

Lucy Easthope - When the Dust Settles

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors

Mary Karr - Art of Memoir

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Marise Gaughan - Trouble

Irvine Welsh - Porno

Rebecca Ray - A Certain Age

DH Lawrence - Women in Love

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Decca Aitkenhead - All at Sea

James Joyce - Ulysses

Bee Wilson - First Bite

Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire

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This week we're delighted to bring you an author we've been trying to tempt onto the podcast since day one. Finally, it's Eva Rice! Eva's wonderful books are mentioned frequently on the show, so we are beyond excited to present this wide-ranging conversation with her. There's a discussion about Eva's wonderful new book This Could be Everything plus the influence of her dad (legendary lyricist Sir Tim Rice) on her writing, Jesus as a teen icon, deep dives into Enid Blyton, some very exciting Jilly Cooper news and how Mellors from Lady Chatterley's Lover might be the prototype Harry Styles. Plus, as an added bonus, some music inspired by Eva's latest novel! Make sure you listen to the end of the show. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia

Eva Rice - The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp

Marianne Faithfull - Faithfull

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Ted Hughes - Collected Poems

Thom Gunn - Collected Poems

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Alan J Lerner - The Street Where I Live

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Jump

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Linda Rosenkrantz - Peter Hujar's Day

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Eva Rice - Who's Who in Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton - Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - St Clares

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Shirley Hughes - Alfie

Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Katherine Rundell - Rooftoppers

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Linda Dawson - Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles

David Peace - Red or Dead

Sheryl Garratt - Adventures in Wonderland

Georgina Moore - The Garnett Girls

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner - Look at Me

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

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This is such a treat! Prepare for the wise words, dulcet tones and excellent book taste of the great Kevin Wilson! Kevin is the author of the massive bestseller Nothing to See Here, The Family Fang which was turned into an acclaimed film with Nicole Kidman, the critically lauded novel Perfect Little World and two story collections Tunnelling To the Centre of the Earth and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine and his latest, the brilliant Now is Not the Time to Panic. We talked to him about his love of British pop music, Shirley Jackson as a comfort read, a deep dive into the Babysitters Club, Ann Patchett as a writing and book selling inspiration and the emotional impact of Origami Yoda. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time To Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing To See Here

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling

Stephen H. Provost - The Legend of Molly Bolin

CS Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

John Cheever - Falconer

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Nicola Skinner - Bloom

Tom Angleberger - Origami Yoda

Jennifer L. Holm - Babymouse

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

JD Salinger - 9 Stories

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Melissa Rossi - Courtney Love: Queen of Noise

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Aaron Burch - Year of the Buffalo

Shirley Jackson - The Lottery

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad

Ruth Franking - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Paz Pardo - The Shamshine Blind

Amanda Lohrey - The Labyrinth

Will Leitch - The Time Has Come

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Happy World Book Day! To celebrate, here's an essay Daisy wrote while working on her Pound Project book Burn Before Reading. It's about the joy and redemption associated with reading. How reading can help us understand each other and overcome difficult times. Why reading should have no rules, no judgement and no boundaries. It's there to be absorbed and relished. Enjoy!

You can read the full essay on the You're Booked newsletter. Sign up by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

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Hurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys, the profound influence of Sylvia Plath, the genius of Adrian Mole and getting uncomfortably close to Kate Bush. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Katherine May - Enchantment

Katherine May - Wintering

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus

Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Stephen King - Carrie

Claude Tardat - A Sweet Death

Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus

Ben Okri - The Famished Road

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

Charlotte Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

Willy Russell - Educating Rita

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Erich Kastner - Lotte and Lisa

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better

Jenny Diski - Skating to Antarctica

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Suzanne Buffam - A Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book

Jenny Offill - Department of Speculation

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Letters

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Elissa Altman - On Permission

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Michael Pollan - How To Change Your Mind

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air

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We've got Zott! Or the closest we're going to get until we can convince fictional characters to come onto the podcast. Yes, it's Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus! Bonnie's book, about chemist turned TV cook Elizabeth Zott (and her dog Six-Thirty) has been a huge and already beloved international bestseller, translated into 39 languages and with a TV adaptation in the works. We talked to her about, unsurprisingly, dogs in literature, plus the importance of Harriet the Spy, how science could save the world in a myriad of ways and how poets have the roughest time in literature. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast

Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh - The Long Secret

Leslie Brody - Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh

Charles Schulz - Peanuts

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Kate Baer - What Kind of Woman

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible

John Irving - World According To Garp

Steven Pinker - Rationality

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Erich Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Ed Yong - An Immense World

Eric Knight - Lassie Come Home

Jim Kjelgaard - Big Red

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Aesop - Fables

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She's the writer of one of our favourite novels in recent times and one of the funniest people on the planet, so we are delighted to welcome Sunny author Sukh Ojla to the podcast! As well as being a fabulous novelist, Sukh is a comedian, actor and playwright. Her debut novel Sunny is a joyously funny story of love, loss and heartbreak. We talked to her about 90s cosplay, failing to impress Richard E Grant, books you must (and mustn't) read on holiday and the ongoing genius of Marian Keyes. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Sukh Ojla - Sunny

Jenny Jackson - Pineapple Street

Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ravinder Randhawa - Beauty and the Beast

Barbara Wersba - Fat, a Love Story

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts We Never Gibe

Ada Calhoun - Why We Don't Sleep

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Rani Manicka - The Rice Mother

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Love You

Alex Smith - Paper Girls

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Marian Keyes - The Other Side of the Story

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Lisa Jewell - After the Party

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Melvin Burgess - Junk

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sheryl Garratt - Adventures in Wonderland

Jilly Cooper - The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Emma Haughton - The Sanctuary

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

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This was so much fun! Get ready for a funny, frank and fulfilling conversation with the brilliant Nikki May! Nikki's debut novel Wahala was a former Steal of the Week and one of our favourite books in recent times. It's currently being adapted for TV and was recently shortlisted for the CWIP prize. We talked to Nikki about the problems associated with reading as a kid in Lagos, favourite food books, spies, crime and dystopias and what Nikki believes is the perfect book. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Nikki May - Wahala

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Nigella Lawson - How To Be a Domestic Goddess

Nigel Slater - Toast

Grace Dent - Hungry

Sue Grafton - A is for Alibi

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Jade Beer - The Last Dress From Paris

Agatha Christie - The Blue Train

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

John Le Carre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Luke Jennings - Killing Eve

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

Mick Herron - Slow Horses

Percival Everett - The Trees

Percival Everett - Erasure

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Anna Hope - Expectation

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Wole Soyinka - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Damilare Kuku - Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

Abi Dare - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Delia Owens - Where Did the Crawdads Sing

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Reith Lecture

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Bethany Clift - Last One at the Party

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety

Monica Heisey - Really Good, Actually

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This week, we are delighted to present a very funny, thoughtful and free-flowing conversation with a very old friend of the podcast, Nell Frizzell! We've been dreaming of having Nell appear on the show since it began, so we're delighted to finally get the chance to chat. Nell is an author, journalist and podcaster. Her first novel was the hilarious Square One, while her first book, The Panic Years, dealt with womanhood, motherhood and... panic. Her latest is Holding the Baby, a memoir on parenting that culminates in a manifesto. We talked to Nell about fantastic literary fathers, the forbidden fruit of Bridget Jones, great fictional witches and deliberately not finishing a book because you love it so much.  For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Nell Frizzell - Square One

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Nell Frizzell - The Panic Years

Melissa Fu - Peach Blossom Spring

Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Arundhati Roy - God of Small Things

Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Rob Delaney - Heart That Works

Elizabeth Strout - Lucy By the Sea

David Nichols - Us

Elizabeth Strout - Oh William

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding - Cause Celebre

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Tony Bradman - Sam the Girl Detective

Kaye Umansky - Pongwiffy

Spike Milligan - Badjelly

Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas - Winnie the Witch

Vikram Seth - Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth - Equal Music

Johanna Spyri - Heidi

Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Down Under

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn - Travels with Myself and Another

Dervla Murphy - Wheels Within Wheels

Freya Stark - Valleys of the Assassins

Rosita Boland - Elsewhere

Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Musa Okwonga - One of Them

Jilly Cooper - Class

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean And What You Don't 

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Nella Larsen - Passing

Sarah Gilmartin - Dinner Party

Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings

Rose Tremain - The Colour

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Tim Burrows - Invention of Essex

Henry James - The Europeans

Clover Stroud - My Wild & Sleepless Nights

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Alice Vincent - Rootbound

Amy Liptrot - The Instant

Steve Jones - Call Time

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Chelsea Conaboy - Mother Brain

Rosie Kinchen - Ballast Seed

Paul Morgan-Bentley - Equal Parent

Philip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Luiza Sauma - Everything You Ever Wanted

Luiza Sauma - Flesh & Bone & Water

Mary Beard - Good Working Mother's Guide

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This week we are incredibly excited to bring you a writing legend and, dare we say, international treasure to the podcast. It's Cecelia Ahern! Cecelia is the author of 19 books, that have sold 25 million copies in 30 languages, including PS I Love You, Where Rainbows End, The Time of My Life, How To Fall in Love, The Year I Met You, Flawed, Perfect, Lyrebird, ROAR, Postscript and Freckles. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated In a Thousand Different Ways. We talked to her about crime favourites, books that feel like a hug, perfect gift books and enormous turnips. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Cecelia Ahern - PS I love you

Cecelia Ahern - In a Thousand Different Ways

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High 

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Cecelia Ahern - Flawed 

Cecelia Ahern - Perfect

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley University

Marita Conlon-McKenna - Under the Hawthorn Tree

Steven Levenkron - Best Little Girl in the World

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlie Mackesy - The Boy The Mole The Fox and The Horse

Adam Mansbach - Go the F*** to Sleep

Julia Donaldson - The Gruffalo

BJ Novak - Book With No Pictures

Vera Southgate - The Enormous Turnip

Helen Cresswell - The Piemakers

Alexander McCall Smith - The Perfect Hamburger

Andrew Kaufman - The Tiny Wife

Andrew Kaufman - Born Weird

Andrew Kaufman - Ticking Heart

Andrew Kaufman - All My Friends are Superheroes

James Acaster - Perfect Sound Whatever

Karin Slaughter - Blindsighted

Lee Child - Killing Floor

Jane Casey - The Burning

Caroline Corcoran - What Happened on Floor 34

Rupi Kaur - The Sun and Her Flowers

Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey

Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Audrey Niffenegger - Time Travellers Wife

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Claire Douglas - The Girls That Disappeared

Ciara Geraghty - Queen Bee

Toshikazu Kawaguchi - Before the Coffee Gets Cold

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This week we are incredibly excited to welcome the author of one of our, and Barack Obama's, favourite books. Raven Leilani's Luster has, quite rightly, taken the literary world by storm. As well as making Obama's 2020 book list, it's won the Kirkus Prize and been a New York Times bestseller. Sexy, funny and incredibly prescient, it is a book for our times and Raven is a writer of extreme skill and enormous promise. We talked to Raven about unlikeable characters, fantasy movie adaptations, fan fiction and sexy vampires.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Raven Leilani - Luster

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire

Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Susan Choi - My Education

Halle Butler - New Me

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

Megan Giddings - Lakewood

Emily Temple - Lightness

Sarah Gerard - True Love

Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction

Morgan Jerkins - Caul Baby

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

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Book lovers everywhere, you are in for a treat! It's the brilliant, global sensation Emily Henry! Emily is the New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers, People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read, as well as her latest, soon-to-be blockbuster: Happy Place. We talked to her about libraries as her Narnia, books as a curse (in a good way), reading crushes, and a deep dive into literary astrology. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Emily Henry - Book Lovers

Emily Henry - Beach Read

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

E. L. Konigsburg - From the Mixed Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler 

Cecsa Major - Maybe Next Time

Austin Siegemund-Broka and Emily Wibberley - The Roughest Draft

Jasmine Guillory - By the Book

Katherine Applegate - Anamorphs

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Mhairi McFarlane - Just Last Night

Michael Cragg - Reach for the Stars

Carol Ann Duffy - Valentine

Leigh Bardugo - Shadow and Bone

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Carson McCullers - Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Kirsten Miller - The Change

Catherine Steadman - The Family Game

Kate Alice Marshall - What Lies in the Woods

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Mhairi McFarlane - Here's Looking at You

Holly Bourne - Girlfriends

Kennedy Ryan - Before I Let Go

Lauren Kung Jessen - Lunar Love

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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For our first ever live episode, from the London Book Fair, we are delighted to present the author and screenwriter Deborah Moggach. Deborah wrote the bestsellers The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever (made into a film of the same name), These Foolish Things (made into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Heartbreak Hotel. She also adapted classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Love in a Cold Climate for the screen. Deborah discussed her mum's sex manual appearance, writers that make her sick and loving Just William.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Deborah Moggach - The Carer

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach - These Foolish Things

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

E Griffith - Modern Marriage and Birth Control

Beatrix Potter - Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Tom Kitten

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl

Eve Babitz - Black Swans

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and The Six

Richmal Crompton - Just William

Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives Tale

Anne Tyler - The Accidental Tourist

Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps

Deborah Moggach - The Ex Wives

Saul Bellow - Herzog

Deborah Moggach - Changing Babies

JG Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur

George Eliot - Middlemarch

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We can't think of a better way to kick off a new series than a fabulously fun and illuminating chat with one of our favourite authors: Mhairi McFarlane! Mhairi has been mentioned frequently on the podcast since we began and she is the beloved author of Mad About You, You Had Me At Hello, Here’s Looking At You, It’s Not Me It’s You, Last Night, Who’s That Girl and her latest Between Us. We talked to her about illicit uses of Judy Blume's Forever, formatively reading Fay Weldon and Gloria Steinem, the social media life of Jane Austen and the highs and lows of holiday reading.

Daisy will be attending the JLF Soneva Fushi literary festival and the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content from both on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Mhairi McFarlane- Between Us

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Gloria Steinem - Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Glenn Savan - White Palace

Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising 

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - The Understudy

Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall

Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Steig Larsson - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Dan Brown - Da Vinci Code

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This week we are delighted to welcome superstar author Caleb Azumah Nelson to the YB airwaves. As I'm sure you're well aware, Caleb's first book Open Water was a massive, bestselling success and won the prestigious Costa First Book award. His follow-up is the highly-anticipated Small Worlds which Candice Carty-Williams calls 'Beautiful, unforgettable and all-consuming'. We talked to Caleb about the joys of the Scholastic book fair, writing routines, the beauty of rereading, love stories in all their forms, favourite poets and inspirational writing advice from Toni Morrison.

Daisy will be attending the JLF Soneva Fushi literary festival and the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content from both on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Small Worlds

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

EM Forster - A Room With a View

Bryan Washington - Memorial

Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton

Danez Smith - Homie

James Baldwin - If Beale Street Could Talk

Toni Morrison - Jazz

Katie Kitamura - Intimacies

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Eve Babitz - Slow Times Fast Company

Toni Morrison - The Source of Self Regard

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

C Pam Zhang - Land of Milk and Honey

Jessica George - Maame

Zadie Smith - NW

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Candice Carty-Williams - People Person

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Victoria Adukwei Bulley - Quiet

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Dream guest alert! We are very, very excited to welcome the wonderful Jenny Jackson to You're Booked! As well as being the author of smash hit novel Pineapple Street, Jenny has been a book editor for many years working with such YB faves as Katherine Heiny and Helen Fielding. So we had much to talk about. On the agenda is the genius of Laurie Colwin, the joy (and stress) of discovering new authors, some great, secret Katherine Heiny insight and Helen Fielding's paramedic skills (plus the recording is interrupted by a cheese alarm!) This conversation took place at the fabulous Mr B's Emporium bookshop in Bath.

Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

Jenny Jackson - Pineapple Street

Amanda Boyden - Pretty Little Dirty

Patrick Somerville - The Cradle

Emily St John Mandel - Station Eleven

Lauren Fox - Still Life with Husband

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Terry Jones - Erik the Viking

J. R. R. Tolkien - The Hobbit

J. R. R. Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley University

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

Paul Auster - The New York Trilogy

Claire Messud - The Emperor's Children

Cecily von Ziegesar - Gossip Girl

Edith Wharton - The House of Mirth

Kevin Kwan - Crazy Rich Asians

Kevin Kwan - China Rich Girlfriend

Anita Brookner - Look at Me

Lee Israel - Can You Ever Forgive Me?

Free Love - Tessa Hadley

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason 

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Baby: The Diaries

Helen Fielding - Cause Celeb 

Helen Fielding - Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination 

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

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This week we are welcoming legendary TV royalty to You're Booked Towers. It's Steve Jones! Steve is an instantly recognisable face to anyone with a telly, presenting T4 for many years, plus The X Factor USA, Hair, Drop Zone and F1 coverage on Channel 4. Steve has recently released his first novel the very funny Call Time to rave reviews (and as you'll hear, already has books 2 and 3 in the bag). We talked to him about loving Tolkien, having fun with Filth, writing routines, the power of Stephen King and living life as a Librocubicularist.

Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Steve Jones - Call Time

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

David Mack - Star Trek: Destiny

Jeff Lindsay - Dexter

Arthur Conan Doyle - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes

Agatha Christie - Poirot: The Complete Short Stories

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - Christine

Stephen King - Misery

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Anthony Shaffer and Robin Hardy - The Wicker Man

Gillian McAllister - Wrong Place Wrong Time

Stephen King - The Institute

Norman Mailer - American Dream

Norman Mailer - Executioner's Song

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Roald Dahl - Kiss Kiss

Roald Dahl - Tales of the Unexpected

Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

Stephanie Meyer - Twilight

Irvine Welsh - Filth

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Gregg Hurwitz - The Last Orphan

Matthew Richardson - The Scarlet Papers

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We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love the books you love. Daisy will be attending the Queen's Reading Room Festival, look out for exclusive behind the scenes content on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

Raymond Carver - What We Talk About When We Talk About Love

Jean Rhys - Collected Short Stories

ZZ Packer - Drinking Coffee Elsewhere

Kelly Link - Get in Trouble

Dan Rhodes - Anthropology

Richard Yates - Collected Stories

Ray Bradbury - Fahrenheit 451

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Robin Cooper - Timewaster Letters

Frankie Boyle - Meantime

Shirley Hughes - Sally's Secret

Rumer Godden - The Doll's House

Arnold Lobel - Frog and Toad

Michael Rosen - Book of Very Silly Poems

Jacqueline Wilson - Story of Tracy Beaker

Rumer Godden - Miss Happiness and Miss Flower

Rumer Godden - Little Plum

Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel

Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are

Maurice Sendak - In the Night Kitchen

Maurice Sendak - Outside Over There

Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day

Tyler Feder - Bodies Are Cool

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Virginia Sole Smith - Fat Talk

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Elizabeth Smart - By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Brit Bennet - The Vanishing Half

Kurt Vonnegut - Breakfast of Champions

Kurt Vonnegut - Slapstick

Kurt Vonnegut - Timequake

Kurt Vonnegut - Jailbird

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse 5

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat's Cradle

Kurt Vonnegut - Galapagos

Kurt Vonnegut - Man Without a Country

Anne Tyler - Saint Maybe

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson - The Spirit Level

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Lola Olufemi - Experiments in Imagining Otherwise

Rebecca Solnit - Hope in the Dark

Nathalie Olah - Steal As Much As You Can

Alan Lane - Club on the Edge of Town

James Schneider - Our Bloc

Rob Hopkins - From What Is To What If

Rius - Marx For Beginners

Martin Rowson/Karl Marx - Communist Manifesto

Howard Zinn - People's History of American Empire

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbread was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Us has just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about formative reading adventures in Russia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, stories of female solidarity, the book that made her want to build worlds and the unfortunate consequences of starting your own detective club. 

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Judy Blume - Forever

Beverly Cleary - Ramona Forever

Beverly Cleary - Fifteen

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Various - The Bookworm Club

Various - The Bookworm Gang

RL Stein - Goosebumps

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

RL Stein - Fear Street

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Shirley Conran - Lace

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar

Abigail Burdess - Mother's Day

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls

Kent Haruf - Plainsong

Coco Mellors - Cleo and Frankenstein

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Patrick deWitt - French Exit

Ann M. Martin - Babysitter's Club

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Kayla Rae Whitaker - The Animators

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Hema Sukumar - Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Madhuri Vijay - The Far Field

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Our love of Jane Austen should be painfully aware. But this week's guest might put our devotion to shame. The brilliant Andrew Hunter Murray hosts two hit podcasts: No Such Thing as a Fish (Andrew is also a QI Elf) and Page 94: A Private Eye Podcast (Andrew also writes for the magazine). He was also part of the UK's premier (and possibly only) Jane Austen based comedy improv group Austentatious - so his devotion to the beloved author is assured. Andrew is also a bestselling author, his first novel The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020. His new book The Sanctuary has been described as 'A brilliantly clever thriller' by Richard Osman. We talked to Andrew about Douglas Adams, fabulous first editions, the brilliance of Persephone books, rewriting classics, sex and science and, of course, Jane Austen. Find out more about Andrew's picks at our Bookshop.org store.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Last Day

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wendy Cooling - Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Elizabeth Taylor - Angel

DH Lawrence - Lady's Chatterley's Lover

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

Mary Roach - Stiff

Mary Roach - Bonk

Mary Roach - Animals, Vegetable, Criminal

Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Scoop

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

Amanda Craig - Three Graces

Simon Raven - The Rich Pay Late

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

PD James - Death Comes to Pemberley

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

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We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina Lamb OBE. Christina is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she's reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She's been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. 

She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books including Our Bodies Their Battlefield, House of Stone, The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-writer of the global phenomenon I Am Malala. Her latest book, The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless, looked at the pandemic response in the UK. Our interview with Christina took place during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives and covers the joy of discovering new foreign authors, the wonders of poetry, books you can't put down and the importance of literature in a war zone.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Christina Lamb - The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless

Christina Lamb - The Africa House

Christina Lamb - The Sewing Circles of Herat

Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb - I am Malala

Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Tove Jansson - Tales From Moominvalley

Various - The Fireside Book

Wisława Szymborska - View With a Grain of Sand

Jonny Steinberg - Winnie and Nelson

Ryszard Kapuściński - The Soccer War

Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Peguin

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Claire Dederer - Love and Trouble

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

Nadia Anjuman - Gule Dudi

Farzana Marie (Editor) - Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan 

Claire Dederer - Monsters

William Boyd - The Romantic

Peter Frankopan - The Earth Transformed

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Scholastique Mukasonga - Barefoot Woman

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We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre -Big Snake Little Snake

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

James Michener - The Drifters

Naguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the Nile

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads

William Dalrymple - The Anarchy

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis De Sade - Juliette

Henri Charrière - Papillion

DBC Pierre - Release the Bats

Sarah Knight - Grow the F*** Up

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grigor Narekatsi - The Book of Sadness

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature

Jack Kerouac - Big Sur

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Comedian. Podcaster. Actor. Author. Is there anything that this woman can't do? Yes, we're welcoming the amazing Andi Osho to YB Towers this week. Andi is a talented stand-up, has starred or been involved with such TV and movie favourties as Line of Duty, Death In Paradise, Holby, I May Destroy You, Breeders, Good Omens and her own sketch show The Andi O Show. She hosts the Creative Sauce podcast and her debut novel Asking For a Friend was a bestseller! Her second novel is the highly anticipated Tough Crowd, set in the world of stand up. We talked to her about funny books, reading slump revitalisers, self-help, movie adaptations and how her mum is a creative inspiration. Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andi Osho - Tough Crowd

Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Dial A For Aunties

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Dolly Alderton - Good Material

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

M Scott Peck - Road Less Travelled

Sarah Knight - The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Sarah Knight - Grow the F**k Up

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear

Deepak Chopra - Seven Laws of Spiritual Success

Julia Cameron - Artists Way

Betty Herbert - 52 Seductions

Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Will Smith - Will

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Tembe Denton-Hurst - Homebodies

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Diana Evans - 26a

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

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We are delighted to invite one of our all-time favourite authors to the podcast this week. It's the sensational Lisa Jewell! Lisa is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, which have sold over 10 million copies internationally and translated into 29 languages. Her debut (and YB fave) was Ralph's Party and subsequent releases include The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated None of This is True. We talked to her about her shelf of joy, curating your holiday read selection, 90s/Noughties favourites, the books that made her want to write and formative reads.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Ashley Audrain - The Push

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Geoff Dyer - The Colour of Memory

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Angela Banner - Ant and Bee

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

John Fowles - The Collector

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Carla McGuire - Perfect Victim

Brian Greenaway - Hell's Angels

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms

Rebecca F. Kuang - Yellowface

Caroline O'Donoghue - Rachel Incident

Colin Walsh - Kala

Kia Abdullah - Next of Kin

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Bonnie Garmus - Lesson in Chemistry