30. Dorothy Koomson

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dorothy Koomson - Tell Me Your Secret

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Araminta Hall - Our Kind of Cruelty

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Dorothy Koomson - The Friend

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Jackie Collins - The Power Trip

Jackie Collins - Vendetta

Dorothy Koomson - Marshmallows for Breakfast

Donna Hay - Modern Classics

Lisa Faulkner - Recipes from My Mother to my Daughter

Dorothy Koomson - Woman He Loved Before

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Koomson - That Girl From Nowhere

Dorothy Koomson - Goodnight Beautiful

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

Judy Blume - Forever

Dorothy Koomson - The Ice Cream Girls

Penguin Poems for Love

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic to the Stars

Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret

Giovanna Fletcher - Dream a Little Dream

Giovanna Fletcher - You’re the One That I Want

Sophie Kinsella - Shopaholic and Baby

Julie Cohen - Dear Thing

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Linda Green - And Then It Happened

Linda Green - The Mummyfesto

Sareeta Domingo - The Nearness of You

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Paula Hawkins - Girl on the Train

Stieg Larsson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - It

Stephen King - The Green Mile

Stephen King - The Body

Stephen King - Carrie

Dorothy Koomson - The Brighton Mermaid

Jilly Cooper - Jump

Jackie Collins - The Stud

Shirley Conran - Lace

Sidney Sheldon - Other Side of Midnight

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