You’re Booked

We're delving back into the archives and bringing you another of our favourite episodes. This week we're visiting the beautiful home (including glorious bookshelves with a library ladder that made us green with envy) of Elif Shafak. Elif is a celebrated and award-winning novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published many books including the bestselling Island of Missing Trees, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and the critically acclaimed 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Her new book There Are Rivers in the Sky is released on 8th August. Elif is also an activist advocating for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech. We talked to her about baklava, politics, Death Metal and stationery obsessions. Find a full list of the books Elif mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World 

Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve

Marco Pierre White - The Devil in the Kitchen

Samin Nosrat - Salt Fat Acid Heat

Jason Goodwin - Yashim Cooks Istanbul

Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Rowan Coleman - We Are All Made of Stars

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Thomas Page McBee - Amateur

Elif Shafak - Honour

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Esquire - Oral History of Bennington

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

David Sedaris - Calypso

Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate

Rumi - Selected Poems

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Matthew Sperling - Astroturf

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner

Will Eaves - Murmur

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Marian Keyes - The Break

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We're diving into the archives while we're on a little break and this week it's the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of the YB faves Prep, Eligible, American Wife, Romantic Comedy and a fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there's nobody watching and trying to make your kids like Laura Ingalls Wilder. Find a full list of the books Curtis mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - The Nominee

Hilary Clinton - Living History

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie 

Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

EL Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler

Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It I’ll Say It

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Alice Munro - Selected Stories

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville

Susanna Daniel - Sea Creatures

Marisa Meltzer - This is Big

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Rebecca Lee - Bobcat

Joseph O’Neill - Good Trouble

Laura van den Berg - I Hold a Wolf by the Ears

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From

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While we're taking a little break, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from previous series. This week, 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, Sex Power Money and the novel Weirdo. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine (the episode was recorded during lockdown), big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

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 - Tampa

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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While we take a little break, we're sharing just a few of our favourite ever episodes from the archives. This week we're 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. When we chatted to Marian, she was about to release the brilliant, chart-topping Grown Ups. Since then we've seen a sequel to Rachel's Holiday, Again Rachel and her latest My Favourite Mistake. 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. And as this episode was released on the week Daisy's novel Insatiable was launched, there's a bonus, exclusive (and steamy!) clip from the audiobook. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

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 6

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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We're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout. We talked to Sophie about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four copies of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (And, as you'll hear, it was our first introduction to the brilliant (and later YB guest) Katherine Heiny! Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella - I Owe You One

Norman Hunter - The Dribblesome Teapots

Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister

Beverly Cleary - Ramona

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

PG Wodehouse - Blandings

Sophie Kinsella - Undomesticated Goddess

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

JG Links - Venice For Pleasure

Leila Slimani - Adele

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights

Michael Grant - Gone

EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Lilly Singh - How To Be a Bawse

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Sophie Kinsella - Finding Audrey

Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - White Boots

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This week, we are delving back into the archive to revisit our series 5 trip to America in the company of the incredible Taylor Jenkins Reid! When we met Taylor in 2019, Daisy Jones and the Six had just been released. It went on to be a global smash with a recent, lauded Amazon adaptation and in this episode Taylor discusses many of the books that inspired the novel. Her other books, including The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back, have all been celebrated best-sellers. We met Taylor in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore and talked to her about rock memoirs, Bridget Jones, gift giving, influential reads and the delights of 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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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're travelling all the way back to our first ever series for this chat with author, journalist and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is the author of five novels including Magpie and The Party plus her memoir, based on her massively successful podcast How To Fail and her most book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. While snooping around her (small but perfectly formed) flat, we discussed being nosey, literary heroines, EM Forster related tattoos and learning the facts of life from The Thorn Birds. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting the You're Booked page at Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Sea Change

Elizabeth Jane Howard - After Julius

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View

Elizabeth Day - Scissors, Paper, Stone

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Elizabeth Day - Home Fires

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

TC Boyle - The Terranauts

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

Muriel Spark - Momento Mori

Muriel Spark - The Girls of Slender Means

Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay

Aldous Huxley - Two or Three Graces

Tara Westover - Educated

Simon Reid-Henry - Fidel & Che

Sally Field - In Pieces

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

James O'Brien - How To Be Right

Damian Dibben - Tomorrow

Leila Slimani - Adele

Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance

John Banville - The Sea

Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered

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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're kicking off in style with this wonderful conversation with David Nicholls from season 4 in his beautiful North London home. At the time, David had just released his wonderful novel Sweet Sorrow. His new book, You Are Here, is out soon, while the brand new adaptation of One Day has just hit Netflix. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, Moomins, movies, adaptation and Billy Wilder. Find out more about all the books mentioned at our Bookshop.org.uk Store.

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 Bautman - 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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Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of YA, her favourite authors and the person who gives her the best reading recommendations. Limelight is out now in paperback - signed copies can be ordered and shipped nationwide from The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about all the books Kezia mentioned at our shop on Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Claire Daverley - Talking at Night

Annie Lord - Notes on Heartbreak

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go

Beth O'Leary - The Flat Share

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Animal

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Annie MacManus - The Mess We're In

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

AM Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Claire Powell - At the Table

Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner -There's No Deer Around Here

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner - Any Trout About?

Peter Bently - The Great Dog Bottom Swap

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Abigail Bergstrom - What a Shame

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Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football.

More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard is HERE! Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - How To Stay Married

Jilly Cooper - Imogen 

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems

George Crabbe - Collected Poems

Jilly Cooper - Mount

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Walter Emanuel - A Dog Day

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter - Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by Himself

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marquess of Anglesey - History of the British Cavalry

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

William Wordsworth - Collected Poems

Thomas Harding - The Maverick

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas

Jilly Cooper - How To Survive Christmas

Jane Austen - Emma

WH Auden - Rimbaud

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

Jilly Cooper - Wicked

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Martin Amis - Money

Ian Herbert - Tinseltown

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Jack London - White Fang

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We are back at this year's Margate Bookie for a fun, frank and freewheeling conversation with three brilliant authors: Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay! Lucy Vine is a journalist and author of five novels including Hot Mess, Are We Nearly There Yet, What Fresh Hell, Bad Choices and her latest, the critically acclaimed Seven Exes. Yomi Adegoke is a journalist, podcaster and author, co-writing Slay in Your Lane with Elizabeth Uviebinené before releasing the bestselling, critically lauded novel The List. Laura Kay is a journalist and author of the much-loved novels Tell Me Everything, The Split and her latest Wild Things. We talked to them about alternative romance, star signs, writing routines, favourite reads and the genius of Sophie Kinsella.

Katie Clapham's book recommendation Substack is HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Laura Kay - Wild Things

Laura Kay - Tell Me Everything

Malinda Lo - Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister

Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs

Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uvibene - Slay in Your Lane

Kate Young - Experienced

Kate Young - The Little Library Cookbook

Lucy Vine - Date With Destiny

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Danielle Steele - Jewels

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Married Men

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona, Homesick For Another World, Death in Her Hands and McGlue. Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill Dick will be released in 2024. Together Ottessa and Luke wrote the screenplay for the film Causeway and have now collaborated on an adaptation of Ottessa's acclaimed novel Eileen, which is released in cinemas on December 1st. We talked to them about formative reads, phoning Ken Kesey, aliens and Metallica.

Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World

Luke Goebel - Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours

Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher

JoAnna Novak - Contradiction Days

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards

Ben Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace and Other Stories

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of a Gone World

Diane di Prima - Selected Poems

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

Abbott Kahler - Where You End

Margery Higdon - Alien Abduction of The Wyoming Hunter

Whitley Strieber - Communion

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

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It's two returning champs this week as we present the brilliant and hilarious Lou Sanders and Andi Osho live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie literary festival. Lou and Andi are both stand-ups and both supreme authors. Lou recently published her memoir What's That Lady Doing? to widespread acclaim. Andi has published two celebrated novels: Tough Crowd and Asking for a Friend. In this frank, funny and freewheeling conversation Lou and Andi discuss romance, the fear of death (onstage), ice-skating, unfortunate text message mishaps, youthful indiscretions with towels and what makes them laugh.

Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Get you hands on Helen Shaddock's lovely 2024 calendars by visiting http://www.helenshaddock.co.uk/. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing?

Andi Osho - Tough Crowd

Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Dolly Alderton - Good Material

Barbara Payton - I am Not Ashamed

Jada Pinkett Smith - Worthy

Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye

WIll Smith - Will

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Rosie Wilby - Breakup Monologues

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Our season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry to add some delight to your life. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Naomi Klein - No Logo

Naomi Klein - Doppleganger

Deborah Levy - August Blue

Otto Rank - The Double

Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth - Goodbye Columbus

Philip Roth - Professor of Desire

Thomas Gordon - Parent Effectiveness Training

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

John Updike - Couples

Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine

Eddie Glaude - James Baldwin: To Begin Again

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Roth - Operation Shylock

Graham Greene - Collected Essays

Lisa Jones - Bulletproof Diva

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Nora Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

Oriana Fallaci - Interviews with History and Power

Molly Ivins - Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took the Dog

Susan Mulcahy - My Lips are Sealed

Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin American

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinene - Slay in Your Lane

Marge Piercy - Made in Detroit

Susan Griffin - Bending Home

Maya Angelou - The Complete Poetry

Jorie Graham - To 2040

Ross Gay - The Book of Delights

Kyo Maclear - Birds Art Life

Kyo Maclear - Unearthing

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Katrina Diamond - The Silence

Adania Shibli - Minor Detail

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It's our 150th episode! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise. We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ian Rankin - The Rise

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Hothouse by the East River

Alain Robbe-Grillet - Last Year at Marienbad

Muriel Spark - The Drivers Seat

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent

Reginald Hill - Asking Fo the Moon

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Anbara Salam - Hazardous Spirits

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Muriel Spark - The Bachelors

Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Robin Moore - The French Connection

William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist

Dorothy Whipple - Someone at a Distance

Ian Rankin - The Flood

Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses

Ian Rankin - Watchman

Graham Greene - Human Factor

Ian Rankin - Westwind

Michael Connelly - Desert Star

James Ellroy - LA Confedential

Lawrence Block - A Drop of the Hard Stuff

William McIlvanney - Laidlaw

Denise Mina - The Long Drop

Anita Nair - Cut Like Wound

Thomas Pynchon - Short Stories

Stieg Larsson - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers

Jo Nesbo - The Snowman

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Alasdair Gray - Poor Things

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

John Niven - Oh Brother

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

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This week on You're Booked we're talking to the hugely acclaimed, bestselling author Lauren Groff! Lauren is our favourite type of guest - a massive, voracious and indiscriminate reader. Lauren is the three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix plus the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her latest book is the amazing The Vaster Wilds. We talked to her about inappropriate early (caveman) reads, the joy of a huge book, Shakespeare's suckiest plays and reading poetry to your dog. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff - Matrix

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Else Holmelund Minarik - Little Bear

Jean M. Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Aesop - Fables

Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Katherine May - Wintering

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Jon Fosse - Septology

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

Zadie Smith - NW

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually

Julia Whelan - My Oxford Year

Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening

Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems

Kaveh Akbar - Pilgrim Bell

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

Ada Limon - The Carrying

Homer / Emily Wilson - Iliad

Homer / Emily Wilson - The Odyssey

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Shakespeare - Richard III

Shakespeare - Pericles

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Rachel Cusk - Outline

Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Stories

Sean DeLear - I Could Not Believe It

Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos

Don DeLillo - Libra

Don DeLillo - White Noise

Don DeLillo - Underworld

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This week we are delighted to welcome the broadcaster, academic and bestselling author Emma Dabiri to You're Booked. Emma is the author of Don't Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition and her latest book Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty, that accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection. We talked to Emma about fashion inspiration in Anne of Green Gables, the philosophy of beauty, the genius of Toni Morrison and E Nesbit being the gateway to a lifelong love of books.

Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Emma Dabiri - Disobedient Bodies

Emma Dabiri - Don't Touch My Hair

Emma Dabiri - What White People Can Do Next

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney - The Undercommons

R. F. Kuang - Yellowface

Tracy King - Learning to Think

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

Elizabeth Grosz - The Nick of Time

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Eds) - Futures of Black Radicalism

Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze - A Thousand Plateaus

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Shaparak Khorsandi - Scatter Brain

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison - Paradise

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Oliver Burkeman - 4000 Weeks

Toni Morrison - Paris Review Interview

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Judith Watt (ed) - Penguin Book of 20th Century Fashion Writing

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

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Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead, turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead. We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Blyton about her characters' toilet habits!

Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Peter James - Stop them Dead

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

RL Stine - Goosebumps

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Enid Blyton - Five on a Treasure Island

Peter James - Dead Letter Drop

Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

John Marrs - The One

MW Craven - The Botanist

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Ottter

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

Stuart McBride - The Dead of Winter

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Peter James - Dead Simple

Natalie Tambini - The Nail Salon

Natalie Tambini - The Publicist

Rutger Bregman - Humankind

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

E Nesbit - The Lark

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

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Our series of LEGENDS continues with the absolute legend that is Lou Sanders! Lou is a brilliant stand-up comedian, star of Taskmaster, co-host of Unforgivable alongside former YB guest Mel Giedroyc, podcaster and now the author of the unforgettable memoir What's That Lady Doing?: False Starts and Happy Endings. We talked to Lou about the genius of Deborah Levy, early spiritual dabblings, potential screen adaptations and the joy and pain of writing memoir.

Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Lou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing?

Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Emma Gannon - The Success Myth

James McNicholas - Champ and the Chump

Steven Pressfield - The War of Art

Eckhart Tolle - Power of Now

Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God

Pam Grout - Course in Miracles

Julia Cameron - Write for Life

Martha Wainwright - Stories I Might Regret Telling You

Regena Thomashauer - Pussy: A Reclamation

Charlotte Roche - Wetlands

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Deborah Levy - The Cost of Living

Deborah Levy - Things I Don't Want To Know

Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

Deborah Levy - Real Estate

Michelle Gallen - Factory Girls

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

Marian Keyes - The Break

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre - Big Snake Little Snake

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Lucy-Anne Holmes - Don't Hold My Head Down

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Nell Frizzell - Square One

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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Our season of the stars continues with a genuine literary legend. It's Ken Follett! Ken is one of the world’s most successful authors, selling over 188 million copies of his books. He's the creator of Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Never and his latest The Armour of Light. He recently launched an online course on Writing Bestselling Fiction with BBC Maestro. We talked to him about his formative reads, relishing Proust, creating believable villains and his appearance in the Alan Rickman Diaries.

Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Anthony Trollope - The Warden

Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

Ken Follett - The Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett - World Without End

Ken Follett - Column of Fire

Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die

John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

DH Lawrence - Collected Poems

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Ash Carter and Sam Kashner  - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Ken Follett - Never

Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands

John Buchan - The 39 Steps

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Agatha Christie - Complete Poirot

Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared

Marcel Proust - 75 Folios

Marcel Proust - Swann in Love

Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm

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What a way to start a new series! It's the author, classicist, broadcaster and bone fide National Treasure Dame Mary Beard. We were lucky enough to speak to Mary during the Jaiphur Literary Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. Mary is the author of many books about the ancient world including the global bestsellers Women & Power, SPQR and her latest Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World. We talked to her about ancient Roman jokes, brutal writing advice, fearing fiction and the pros and cons of archaeology.

Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Mary Beard - Women & Power

Mary Beard - Emperor of Rome

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train

Robert Graves - I, Claudius

Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

Margaret Drabble - The Garrick Year

Robert Harris - Pompeii

Heinrich Schliemann - Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans

Lindsey Davis - The Silver Pigs

Mary Renault - The King Must Die

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Road

Kim Gordon, Sinead Gleason (Eds) - This Woman's Work

Sophocles - Antigone

Mary Beard - Roman Laughter

Seneca the Younger - Apocolocyntosis

Cassius Dio - The Roman History

Tom Holland - Slave of my Thirst

Tom Holland - Rubicon

Gavanndra Hodge - The Consequences of Love

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Laura Cumming - On Chapel Sands

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Hilary Clinton - State of Terror

Tacitus - Annals

Prince Harry - Spare

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Hurrah! We are very excited to bring you a guest we've being trying to get on the podcast for flipping ages. It's the wonderful Yomi Adegoke! Yomi is a podcaster, broadcaster, multi-award winning journalist and the author of Slay in Your Lane (with former YB guest Elizabeth Uviebinené) and The Offline Diaries (also with Elizabeth). Yomi's debut novel is the hotly anticipated The List, described as 'the book of the Summer' by Vogue and currently in development for TV. We talked to her about the icon that is Jackie Collins, books so good they make you want to give up, the joy of Jacqueline Wilson and the genius of Peep Show. 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: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Slay in Your Lane

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Lucky

Omar Tyree - Flyy Girl

Eric Jerome Dickey - Milk in My Coffee

Jaqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Offline Diaries

Jaqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jaqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachiariah

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

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Raven Leilani - Luster

Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan - Happy Couple

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok?

Katie Price - Being Jordan

Jodie Marsh - Keeping It Real

Barack Obama - Promised Land

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom

Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Eliza Clark - Penance

Eliza Clark - Boy Parts

Megan Nolan - Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan - Acts of Desperation

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Rebecca F Kuang - Babel

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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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: [email protected]. 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

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Isabelle Broom - The Beach Holiday

Candace Bushnell - Four Blondes

Anouchka Grose Forrester - Darling Daisy

Jane Owen - Camden Girls

Alain de Botton - Essays in Love

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Julie Myerson - The Stopped Heart

Alex Garland - The Beach

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Harriet Lane - Alys Always

David Nicholls - One Day

Amy Jenkins - Honeymoon

William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees - Come Together

Kate Hamer - A Girl in the Red Coat

Paula Yates - The Autobiography

Caroline Kepnes - You

Lisa Jewell - Before I Met You

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sabine Durrant - Lie With Me

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Amanda Jennings - The Judas Tree

Tammy Cohen - The Wedding Party

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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: [email protected]. 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 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: [email protected]. 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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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 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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 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'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'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 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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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 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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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 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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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 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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