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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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Otegha Uwagba - You're Booked Jul 05, 2021

For our series finale, we are thrilled to present this conversation with author, podcaster and all-round inspiration Otegha Uwagba! Otegha is the author of the bestselling career guide Little Black Book and the essay collection Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods which was picked as one of the Guardian’s Books of The Year. Her latest book is the memoir We Need To Talk About Money. We talked to her about Enid Blyton deep cuts, books about families, jumping aboard the Ferrante bandwagon and why some books are like catnip.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Otegha Uwagba - Little Black Book

Otegha Uwagba - Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

Otegha Uwagba - We Need To Talk About Money

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - She Said

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Five Find-Outers

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Elaine Castillo - America is Not the Heart

Julian Fellowes - Snobs

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion

Deborah Levy - Real Estate

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alain de Botton - Course of Love

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

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Nick Hornby - You're Booked Jun 28, 2021

This week we welcome a genuine literary legend to YB: Nick Hornby! Nick is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy and, most recently, Just Like You. He’s also published non-fiction such as Fever Pitch, and has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and Love Nina. We talked to him about Rin Tin Tin, the pain of rereading, the definition of a classic and why his dad kept Fanny Hill in his boot.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nick Hornby- Just Like You

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

Geoffrey Willans - Compleet Molesworth

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Martin Amis - Money

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

EM Forster - Passage To India

George Orwell - Essays

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Paul Ewen - Francis Plug

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Auberon Waugh - Diaries 72-76

Nick Hornby - Stuff I’ve Been Reading

David Kynaston - Austerity Britain

PG Wodehouse - Letters

Angus Calder - Myth of the Blitz

Rickie Lee Jones - Last Chance Texaco

Jane Allen - I Lost My Childish Laughter

Mark Harris - Mike Nichols

Carter & Kashner - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Mark Harris - Pictures at a Revolution

Tracey Thorn - My Rock and Roll Friend

Daniel Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Stefan Kanfer - Lucille Ball

Susan Orlean - Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean - Library Book

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Mary Ann Shaffer - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Tannenbaum & Marks - I Want My MTV

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Francis Spufford - Child That Books Built

John Cleland - Fanny Hill

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner- Lottie and Lisa

Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Gayl Jones - Palmares

Jonathan Wilson - History of Football Tactics

Dean Windass - Deano

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Olivia Laing - You're Booked Jun 21, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Olivia Laing - Everybody

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

William Burroughs - The Cat Inside

Kathy Acker - Great Expectations

JD Salinger - Nine Stories

TH White - Once and Future King

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Derek Jarman - Modern Nature

Derek Jarman - Chroma

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground

Olivia Laing - Trip to Echo Spring

Jessica Anya Blau - Mary Jane

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf

Andy Warhol - Diaries

Tina Brown - Diaries

Linda Rosenkrantz - Talk

Andy Warhol - A

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Margery Allingham - Crime at Black Dudley

Len Deighton - Ipcress File

Len Deighton - Horse Under Water

Len Deighton - SS-GB

Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The Waltz

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe

Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations

Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love

Henrietta Moraes - Henrietta

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

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Clare Chambers - You're Booked Jun 14, 2021

This week we’re delighted to welcome the author of one of our favourite novels of recent times Clare Chambers! Clare’s novel Small Pleasures was a Women’s Prize nominee and a book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro and many more and beloved over here at You’re Booked towers. We talked to her about Katherine Heiny, out of print revelations, slow reading and using Nina Stibbe as a friendship barometer.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Tara Westover - Educated

Jeannette Walls - Glass Castle

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Alexander Dumas - Count of Monte Christo

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Alain-Fournier - Grand Meaulnes

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Paulette Jiles - News of the World

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Charles Palliser - Quincunx

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Winifred Holtby - South Riding

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Josephine Tey - Brat Farrar

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong

Ingrid Persaud - Love After Love

Zoe Pilger - Eat My Heart Out

Michael Frayn - Towards the End of the Morning

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marika Cobbold - On Hampstead Heath

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Ronan Hession - Leonard and Hungry Paul

Dorothy Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding

Anna Hope - Expectation

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Life Among the Savages

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Alan Wildsmith - Summer at 45 Acres

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Prudence

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Cathleen Schine - Love Letter

Cathleen Schine - They Do Not Mean To But They Do

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

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Elizabeth Uviebinené - You're Booked Jun 07, 2021

This week, we're delighted to sit down and chat with the multi-award winning author, speaker, podcaster and Financial Times columnist Elizabeth Uviebinené! Elizabeth's first book was the groundbreaking Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, co-written with her best friend Yomi Adegoke. She also co-edited Loud Black Girls with Yomi and co-presented Slay in Your Lane: The Podcast. Her latest book is The Reset, a fundamental rethink of how we work and live. We talked to her about the genius of Jacqueline Wilson, the fun of delving into awkward subjects and reading Danielle Steel on the bus.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Uviebinené - The Reset

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Slay In Your Lane

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Loud Black Girls

Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Jacqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Tasmina Perry - Gold Diggers

Tasmina Perry - Daddy's Girls

Tasmina Perry - Guilty Pleasures

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Tilly Bagshawe - Adored

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell - Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Sophie Mort - Manual For Being Human

Otegha Uwagba - We Need to Talk About Money

Clare Seal - Real Life Money

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Esther Freud - You're Booked May 31, 2021

This week we're delighted to welcome the legendary novelist, playwright, performer, journalist and teacher Esther Freud to You're Booked. Esther is the author of nine novels, her first Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and turned into a hit film starring Kate Winslet. Her latest is the captivating I Couldn't Love You More. We talked to her about the pain of book gifting, the genius of Jean Rhys, the power of poetry and the hilarity of Maria Semple.

BOOKS

Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky

Esther Freud - I Couldn’t Love You More

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Slipstream

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

George Orwell - Essays

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Nicole Krauss - To Be a Man

Nicole Krauss - History of Love

Sylvia Townsend Warner - English Climate

Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

David Szalay - Turbulence

Lucia Berlin - Manual for Cleaning Women

Mhairi McFarlane - Here’s Looking at You

Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Maria Semple - This One is Mine

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Robert Louis Stevenson - Jekyll and Hyde

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Jay Bernard - Surge

WB Yeats - Collected Poems

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Katherine Heiny - You're Booked May 24, 2021

We are so excited to welcome one of our favourite ever authors to the You're Booked airwaves this week. Katherine Heiny is the author of the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser, plus the short story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow. Her books are funny, moving, wise and just fantastic. We talked to her about rice pudding, espionage, the pain of dinner parties, unnerving Judy Blume and rereading Nora Ephron.

BOOKS

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Alice Thomas Ellis - Other Side of the Fire

Alice Thomas Ellis - Summer House

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nigella Lawson - Feast

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nora Ephron - Most of...

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris - Red Dragon

Stephen King - Carrie

Dorothy Parker - Complete Stories

Barbara Trapido - Noah’s Ark

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Lacy Crawford - Notes on a Silencing

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Carmen Maria Machado - In The Dream House

Nina Renata Aron - Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls

Deborah Kay Davies - True Things About Me

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Norma Klein - Beginner’s Love

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

Friends on the Shelf magazine

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

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Emma Batchelor - You're Booked May 20, 2021

This week we are delighted to welcome author, award-winner and Books to Nourish auction victor Emma Batchelor! Emma’s debut book, Now That I See You, is an acclaimed love story, told through letters and diary entries, reflecting Emma’s own experience of identity, gender and grief. The book won the Vogel Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript. We talked to her about great Australian literature, lady detectives, eroticism in Jane Austen and the genius of Nina Stibbe. For more on Books to Nourish visit bookstonourish.wordpress.com/ and discover more about FareShare at fareshare.org.

BOOKS

Emma Batchelor - Now That I See You

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

Alexandra Heminsley - Some Body To Love

Kerry Greenwood - Phryne Fisher Mysteries

Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock

Ruth Park - Harp in the South

Melina Marchetta - Looking for Alibrandi

Jessie Tu - Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Kabi Nagata - My Lesbian Year of Loneliness

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Helen Halstead - A Private Performance

Ella Baxter - New Animal

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Emma Jane Unsworth - Adults

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

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Judy Piatkus - You're Booked May 17, 2021

This week we welcome a true publishing legend to the show. Judy Piatkus founded Piatkus Books from her Essex bedroom in 1979. She went on to release books by globally bestselling authors such as Danielle Steel, VC Andrews, Mary Berry and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Now Judy has released her own memoir, Ahead of Her Time. We talked to her about her glittering publishing career, the books that got away, the genius of Ann Patchett and the power of Feng Shui.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Judy Piatkus - Ahead of Her Time

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Joseph Kanon - Defectors

Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths

Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Cynthia Freeman - No Time For Tears

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Linda Grant - A Stranger City

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

VC Andrews - Petals on the Wind

Judy Blume - Forever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy

Harville Hendrix - Getting the Love You Want

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Karen Kingston - Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui

Marie Kondo - Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Benjamin Moser - Sontag

Nevil Shute - On The Beach

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

Mary Renault - King Must Die

Leon Uris - Exodus

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anne Tyler - Redhead By The Side of the Road

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Penny Vincenzi - Question of Trust

Nora Roberts - Song of the West

JD Robb - Forgotten in Death

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Georgette Heyer - Frederica

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Charlie Higson - You're Booked May 10, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Charlie Higson - Young Bond

Charlie Higson - The Enemy

Charlie Higson - Worst Holiday Ever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Ian Fleming - Thunderball

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Samuel Beckett - Three Novels

Samuel Beckett - Krapps Last Tape

Steve Martin - Born Standing Up

Michael Palin - Diaries

Andy Warhol - Diaries

EB White - Letters

Richard Burton - Diaries

Henry 'Chips' Channon - Diaries

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Peter Godfrey-Smith - Other Minds

Merlin Sheldrake - Entangled Life

Giulia Enders - Gut

Will Storr - Status Game

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

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Emma Jane Unsworth - You're Booked May 03, 2021

What a great way to start a new series! The brilliant Emma Jane Unsworth joins us down the line from Brighton. Emma is the author of the critically acclaimed novels Hungry, the Stars and Everything, Adults and Animals, which was turned into a lauded film. Her latest work is a memoir about motherhood: After the Storm. We talked to her about werewolves, living in Jane Eyre's world, dirty girl gangs and the redemptive qualities of Carrie Fisher.

BOOKS

Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals

Emma Jane Unsworth - Adults

Emma Jane Unsworth - After The Storm

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Agatha Christie - Collection

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Marian Keyes - Rachel’s Holiday

Edward St Aubyn - Bad News

Calla Henkel - Other People’s Clothes

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

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Raven Leilani - Luster

Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This

Glen Duncan - Last Werewolf

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Maggie Nelson - Argonauts

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Maggie O’Farrell - I Am I Am I Am

Lynn Enright - Vagina

Kirstin Innes - Scabby Queen

Jenn Ashworth - Ghosted: A Love Story

Jenni Fagan - Luckenbooth

Jenni Fagan -The Panopticon

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Good Squad

Chloe Caldwell - I'll Tell You in Person

Lorrie Moore - Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore - Bark

Margaret Atwood - Cat’s Eye

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Annie Proulx - Brokeback Mountain: Story to Screenplay

Billy Mernit - Writing the Romantic Comedy

Syd Field - Screenplay

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Mel Giedroyc - You're Booked Apr 05, 2021

This week's guest is a full-blown National Treasure. Mel Giedroyc is a versatile presenter, actor and comedian, who formed a formidable comedy partnership with Sue Perkins, hosted the iconic Great British Bake Off and has starred in West End musicals. And now Mel can add novelist to her list of achievements with her critically acclaimed debut The Best Things already topping the charts. We talked to her about her ferocious devotion to Jean Valjean, the funny book she always gives as a gift and the book so scary she'd only read it when other people were in the room.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Nigel Planer & Christopher Douglas - I an Actor

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Robert Goddard - Past Caring

Robert Goddard - The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickelby

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Mary Welsley - Camomile Lawn

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Dante - Inferno

Georgia Pritchett - My Mess is a Bit of a Life

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Fanny Craddock - Fanny Craddock Invites

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Dean Koontz - You're Booked Mar 29, 2021

This week's guest may just hold the record for the You're Booked interviewee with the most books sold at a modest 500 million and counting. Dean Koontz's first book, Star Quest, was released in 1968 and since then he's produced over 100 more in a variety of genres. His books have been published in 38 languages and 14 have been New York Times number one bestsellers, with the latest being The Other Emily. We talked to Dean about dogs, self doubt, paperback binges, rereading and always hanging onto hope.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dean Koontz - Star Quest

Dean Koontz - The Other Emily

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

Dean Koontz - Intensity

Donald Westlake - The Hot Rock

James Kirkwood - There Must Be a Pony

William Goldman - Marathon Man

William Goldman - The Colour of Light

William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade

Eve Babitz - Sex and Rage

John Fante - Ask the Dust

John D MacDonald - Cape Fear

Charles Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Kate DiCamillo - Tale of Despereaux

Kate DiCamillo - Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane

Kate DiCamillo - Magician’s Elephant

Benjamin Moser - Susan Sontag

Herman Wouk - Caine Mutiny

Robert Heinlein - Stranger in a Strange Land

Ray Bradbury - Collected Stories

Arthur C Clark - Collected Stories

Theodore Sturgeon - More Than Human

Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters

David Mitchell - Bone Clocks

Dean Koontz - From the Corner of his Eye

Dean Koontz - Watchers

Jack London - Call of the Wild

Fred Gipson - Old Yeller

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

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Patricia Cornwell - You're Booked Mar 22, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patricia Cornwell - Spin

Patricia Cornwell - Food To Die For

Patricia Cornwell - Jack the Ripper

Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra

Bettany Hughes - Hemlock Cup

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

Ernest Hemingway - Moveable Feast

Paul Hendrickson - Hemingway's Boat

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of the Thames

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of London

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

AN Wilson - Victoria

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

TS Eliot - Waste Land

Ernest Hemingway - Garden of Eden

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Patricia Cornwell - Red Mist

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

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Robert Jones, Jr. - You're Booked Mar 15, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Mateo Askaripour - Black Buck

James Baldwin - Here Be Dragons

James Baldwin - Collected Essays

Toni Morrison - Sula

SS Prokofiev - Peter & the Wolf

Dr Seuss - Cat in the Hat

Terry McMillan - Mama

Deesha Philyaw - Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

RO Kwon - The Incendiaries

William Moulton Marston - Wonder Woman

Kelly Sue DeConnick - Wonder Woman Historia

NK Jemisin - Far Sector

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

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Kiese Laymon - Long Division

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Kola Boof - Sexy Part of the Bible

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gayl Jones - Healing

NK Jemisin - City We Became

Raven Leilani - Luster

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Chloe Benjamin - Immortalists

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - In West Mills

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - We Cast a Shadow

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Bryan Washington - Memorial

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Naoise Dolan - You're Booked Mar 08, 2021

This week we are delighted to welcome the author of our of our favourite books in recent times, Naoise Dolan. Naoise's debut novel was the critically acclaimed Exciting Times, shortlisted for the Waterstones Book of the Year and shortlisted for the Sunday Times/University of Warwick Young Writer of the Year Award. We talked to her about memorable book deaths, the literary allure of London, Zadie Smith and sneaking sexy books. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable head HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Raven Leilani - Luster

Anne Enright - Actress

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Patricia Scanlon - Divided Loyalties

Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime & Punishment

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

Thomas Hardy - Jude the Obscure

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Zadie Smith - NW

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Brian Friel - Philadelphia Here I Come

Nicole Flattery - Show Them a Good Time

Molly Aitken - Island Child

Roisin Kiberd - Disconnect

Michelle Gallen - Big Girl Small Town

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Sinead Gleeson - Art of the Glimpse

Camilla Pang - Explaining Humans

Sayaka Murata - Earthlings

Sayaka Murata - Convenience Store Woman

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Jill Mansell - You're Booked Mar 01, 2021

It's the turn of one of our absolute heroes to get the Book Inspector treatment this week - the majestic Jill Mansell! Jill is the author of OVER 20 Sunday Times bestsellers, has sold millions of books and won numerous awards during her glittering career. Her latest is the wonderful And Now You're Back. We talked to her about rereading (and not rereading), Jilly Cooper, the genius of Marian Keyes and the dangers of reading online evaluations of your work. For more about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable head HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jill Mansell - Head Over Heels

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Susan Howatch - Penmarric

PD James - Cover Her Face

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Jill Mansell - Two’s Company

Kate Quinn - Alice Network

Kate Quinn - Huntress

Kate Quinn - Rose Code

Gillian McAllister - How To Disappear

Jill Mansell - And Now You’re Back

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Raven Leilani - Luster

Helene Hanff - 84 Charing Cross Road

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Jilly Cooper - Common Years

Nicky Haslam - Impatient Pen

Jerrard Tickell - Odette

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let’s Do It

Erin Carlson - I’ll Have What She’s Having

Erin Carlson - Queen Meryl

Eloisa James - Paris In Love

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Jane Austen - Sense & Sensibility

Jane Austen - Pride & Prejudice

Emma Thompson - Sense & Sensibility Diaries

Marian Keyes - Rachel’s Holiday

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Will Young - Funny Peculiar

Lisa Jewell - Invisible Girl

Lisa Jewell - Ralph’s Party

Lisa Jewell - One Hit Wonder

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Lucy Adlington - Red Ribbon

Ruth Druart - While Paris Slept

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Simon Doonan - You're Booked Feb 22, 2021

This week we are giddy with excitement to welcome one of our longtime, beloved authors to the show: Simon Doonan. Writer, bon vivant, fashion icon and renowned TV judge - Simon's memoir Beautiful People was turned into an acclaimed BBC series, he's also the author of Eccentric Glamour, Gay Men Don't Get Fat, and many more. He's also a judge on the TV shows America's Next Top Model and Making It. His latest book is a biography of the artist Keith Haring. We talked to him about the wonders of retail, the glamour of James Bond, Iris Murdoch's fashion sense and Dawn Powell's alcoholic aquarium. More about Daisy's new podcast Daisy is Insatiable HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Simon Doonan - Beautiful People

Simon Doonan - Eccentric Glamour

Simon Doonan - Keith Haring

Philip Norman - Jimi Hendrix: Wild Thing

Paul Trynka - Brian Jones

Keith Richards - Life

Luis Bunuel - My Last Breath

Keith Haring - Journals

JP Donleavy - Ginger Man

Ian Fleming - Goldfinger

Germaine Greer - Female Eunuch

Holly Madison - Down the Rabbit Hole

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Rona Jaffe - Best of Everything

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Craig Brown - One Two Three Four

David Bailey - Look Again

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Brian Kellow - Can I Go Now: Sue Mengers

Sam Wasson - Big Goodbye: Chinatown

Robert Evans - Kid Stays in the Picture

Ira Levin - Rosemary’s Baby

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Iris Murdoch - Flight From the Enchanter

Judith Watt - Penguin Book of Fashion Writing

Patrick Dennis - Auntie Mame

Steve Martin - Shopgirl

Eve Babitz - Black Swans

Dawn Powell - Time To Be Born

Dawn Powell - Locust Have No King

Olivia Laing - Trip To Echo Spring

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You're Booked Presents: Daisy is Insatiable Feb 16, 2021

You're Booked is very proud to present Daisy's brand new podcast: Daisy is Insatiable. Daisy is Insatiable is an intimate look at love, lust, life, and everything that makes sex fascinating. Why do we yearn for romance? How can we feel confident when it comes to our body image hang ups? What is the difference between sex and love? What happens when money gets involved? Each week, Daisy will be sharing a revealing conversation with a different guest - it's going to be fun, it's going to be explicit, and no-one is getting left in the dark. The first episode features a frank and funny conversation with writer and broadcaster Dolly Alderton. Listen out for future episodes with Paul Mendez, Andi Osho, Shahroo Izadi and many more...

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Amazon: https://music.amazon.co.uk/podcasts/f6f4db3c-25df-4d00-8816-af691da9154f/Daisy-is-Insatiable

The podcast accompanies the launch of Daisy’s debut novel – Insatiable, which has been receiving rave reviews.

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Patricia Lockwood - You're Booked Feb 15, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Andre Gide - Marshlands

Leonora Carrington - Hearing Trumpet

Paula Fox - Desperate Characters

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery

EF Benson - Mapp & Lucia

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Broken Road

Robert Walser - Berlin Stories

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest of Relaxation

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

AS Byatt - Babel Tower

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Think Write Speak

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Andre Gide - Counterfeiters

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Rachel Ingalls - Binstead's Safari

Sydney Taylor - All Of a Kind Family

Lore Segal - Tell Me a Mitzi

Tove Jansson - Moomin Comic Strips

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Selected Journals

Tomie dePaola - Helga’s Dowry

Mercer Mayer - Favourite Tales from Grimm

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Plum Sykes - Debutante Divorcee

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Gerald Durrell - Family and Other Animals

Jessica Mitford - Hons & Rebels

Ada Limon - Carrying

Danez Smith - Homie

Kristen Arnett - With Teeth

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Marian Keyes - You're Booked Feb 08, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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Kate Mosse - You're Booked Feb 01, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

Ngaio Marsh - Collection

Josephine Tey - Daughter of Time

Margery Allingham - Tiger in the Smoke

Patricia Wentworth - Listening Eye

Agatha Christie - Body in the Library

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus

Anna Burns - No Bones

Anna Burns - Milkman

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Eimear McBride - Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Madness of a Seduced Woman

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Ali Smith - Autumn

Margaret Atwood - Negotiating With The Dead

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

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

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Raven Leilani - You're Booked Jan 25, 2021

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Raven Leilani - Luster

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire

Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Susan Choi - My Education

Halle Butler - New Me

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

Megan Giddings - Lakewood

Emily Temple - Lightness

Sarah Gerard - True Love

Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction

Morgan Jerkins - Caul Baby

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

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You're Booked Presents: Broccoli Book Club Jan 07, 2021

Before the new season of You're Booked starts in a couple of weeks, we wanted to pop into your feed and tell you about a brand new podcast that book lovers are sure to enjoy. Broccoli Book Club is the first of its kind podcast, an interactive book club exploring works from some of the most savvy and talented authors, on a wide variety of fascinating topics. As well as discussing particular titles with a panel of experts, the show also invites listeners to join in the discussion plus there’ll be a conversation with the author of each book. Here’s a preview of the Broccoli Book Club’s first episode, discussing Laura Dockrill’s powerful memoir, What Have I Done? with award wining journalist Freddy McConnell, the CCO of Broccoli Tony Phillips and host of the Book Club Diyora Shadijanova. Search for Broccoli Book Club wherever you get your podcasts, visit @BroccoliContent on social media and join the Facebook group to get involved with the conversation.

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Ella Risbridger - You're Booked Dec 28, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ella Risbridger - Midnight Chicken

Ella Risbridger - Secret Detectives

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

James Rebanks - English Pastoral

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Richard Scott - Soho

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Ellen Bass - Human Line

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket Fantastic

Marie Howe - What The Living Do

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley - Haphazard House

Mary Wesley - Speaking Terms

Mary Wesley - Sixth Seal

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

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

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

Louise Rennison- Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Tana French - Secret Place

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To The River Sea

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson - Song For Summer

Laura Wood - Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Judith Kerr - Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Judith Kerr - Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Penelope Mortimer - Pumpkin Eater

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jill Mansell - Millie’s Fling

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

JB Priestley - Delight

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Dawn French - You're Booked Dec 21, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Dawn French - Because of You

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit

Roald Dahl - The BFG

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Ruth Jones - Us Three

Dawn French - Dear Fatty

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Dawn French - Oh Dear Silvia

Robert McFarlane - Old Ways

John Williams - Stoner

Pete Paphides - Broken Greek

Jessica Mitford - Letters

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

Spike Milligan - Silly Verse For Kids

Jane Hirshfield - The Beauty

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Wordsworth - Letters

John Lanchester - Debt to Pleasure

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

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Sarra Manning - You're Booked Festive Gift Guide Dec 16, 2020

For this very special festive episode, we have enlisted the help of former guest, Twitter's resident book concierge and one of our favourite people in the whole world - the great Sarra Manning - to help you select the perfect book for everyone in your life (including yourself). Whether you're looking for that ideal last minute present for an awkward relative, or want to get something delightful to read for yourself, Sarra has a title for you. Sarra's new book Rescue Me and out early next year and available for pre-order now.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

David Sedaris - Best of Me

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Craig Brown - Ma’am Darling

Hugo Vickers - Elizabeth, Queen Mother

Tina Brown - Diana Chronicles

Craig Brown - One, Two, Three, Four

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Becky Brown - Blitz Spirit

Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Laura Wood - A Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - A Sky Painted Gold

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anthony Quinn - Curtain Call

Anthony Quinn - Freya

Anthony Quinn - Eureka

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Terence Blacker - Willie Donaldson: You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Kate Young - Little Library Christmas

Kate Young - Little Library Cookbook

Kate Young - Little Library Year

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

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CD Major - You're Booked Dec 07, 2020

This week we are delighted to have a rummage around the bookshelves of writer and presenter C.D. (Cesca) Major! Cesca is the prolific author of the bestselling thriller The Other Girl and also writes under the pseudonyms Rosie Blake and Ruby Hummingbird, producing a variety of brilliant books. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, literary sisters, funny books, Christmas reads and writing something so scary you can't read it yourself.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

CD Major - The Other Girl

Holly Miller - Sight of You

Rosamund Lupton - Three Hours

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Jodi Picoult - Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult - Book of Two Ways

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Enid Blyton - Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clares

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Kirsty Greenwood - It Happened on Christmas Eve

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

CD Major - Thin Place

RL Stine- Babysitter

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Kirsty Greenwood - He Will Be Mine

Curtis Sittenfeld - Man of My Dreams

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Natasha Solomon - Mr Rosenblum’s List

Ayisha Malik - Green and Pleasant Land

Natasha Solomon - Novel in the Viola

Natasha Solomon - Gallery of Vanished Husbands

Rosie Blake - Gin O’Clock Club

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Patrick Freyne - You're Booked Nov 30, 2020

This week we're giddy with excitement to speak with the author of one of our favourite book's of recent times, Patrick Freyne! Patrick is a journalist, musician and the author of the essay collection Ok, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea which is hilariously funny, wise and deeply moving. We talked to him about apocalypse strategies, the joy of short books and the power of Adrian Mole. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patrick Freyne - Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

Hilary Mantel - Mantel Pieces

Emily Pine - Notes To Self

Lorrie Moore - See What Can Be Done

Muriel Spark - Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Memento Mori

Max Porter. - Lanny

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Stephen King - The Stand

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Lorrie Moore - Gate at the Stairs

Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

CS Lewis - Prince Caspian

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachariah

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Ali Smith - Winter

Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun

John Wyndham - Chrysalids

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

Emily St John Mandle - Station 11

Cormac McCarthy - The Road

Brian K Vaughan - Y The Last Man

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Ray Bradbury - Stories

Anna Carey - Boldness of Betty

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Neil Gaiman - Sandman

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Irvine Welsh - You're Booked Nov 23, 2020

This week we're delighted to delve into the reading habits of a genuine living legend: Irvine Welsh! Irvine is an acclaimed and frequently controversial novelist, playwright, director screenwriter and short story writer. His first novel was the massively popular Trainspotting (turned into an equally popular film) and he has produced 10 more novels with the latest being The Seal Club, a collaboration with Alan Warner and John King. We talked to him about rereading, music books, the joys of a chunky read, the importance of Evelyn Waugh and how he may have inadvertently killed Waugh's son, Auberon. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Irvine Welsh - Seal Club

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Alan Warner - Kitchenly 434

Michel Faber - Crimson Petal and the White

Don DeLillo - Underworld

James Joyce - Ulysses

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Raven Leilani - Luster

Jenni Fagan - Luckenbooth

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms

Penelope Lively - Perfect Happiness

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Jenni Fagan - Sunlight Pilgrims

Mark Lanegan - Sing Backwards and Weep

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Irvine Welsh - Glue

Irvine Welsh - Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh - Skag Boys

Ned Beauman - Boxer Beetle

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Nikita Lalwani - You're Booked Nov 16, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nikita Lalwani - Gifted

Nikita Lalwani - You People

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Clive King - Stig of the Dump

Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children

Bharati Mukherjee - Wife

James Salter - Light Years

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

James Salter - Life is Meals

James Salter - Hunters

James Salter - Last Night

Doris Lessing - Stories

Maeve Brennan - Rose Garden

Mavis Gallant - Stories

Grace Paley - Stories

Doris Lessing - Winter in July

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Carol Shields - Larry’s Party

Sonia Faleiro - Good Girls

Janet Malcolm - Journalist & the Murderer

Toni Cade Bambara - Gorilla My Love

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

John Irving - World According To Garp

Don DeLillo - White Noise

Tillie Olsen - Tell Me a Riddle

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

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood

Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar

Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much

Muriel Spark - Far Cry From Kensington

Mary Wesley - Imaginative Experience

Pamela Frankau - Wreath For the Enemy

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Zadie Smith - NW

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Friend From England

Andrew O’Hagan - Mayflies

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Mark Watson - You're Booked Nov 09, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mark Watson - Contacts

Derren Brown - Happy

Derren Brown - A Little Happier

James Smythe - I Still Dream

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Sarah Waters - Little Stranger

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express

Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced

Richard Powers - The Overstory

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Ros Barber - Marlowe Papers

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

EL Doctorow - Ragtime

Mohsin Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Mohsin Hamid - Reluctant Fundamentalist

George Orwell - 1984

Extinction Rebellion - This is Not a Drill

Jonathan Safran Foer - We Are The Weather

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated

Daphne Du Maurier - Rule Britannia

David Nicholls - One Day

Flann O’Brien - Third Policeman

John Fowles - Magus

Flann O’Brien - At Swim Two Birds

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Adam Kay - You're Booked Nov 02, 2020

This week we are in the fine company of writer, performer and former doctor Adam Kay! Adam's first book This is Going To Hurt spent over a year at number one in the bestseller list. It became the bestselling non-fiction title of the decade, the bestselling non-fiction e-book of all time and the winner of four National Book Awards. His next three titles, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, Dear NHS and his new book for children Kay's Anatomy have become instant bestsellers. We talked to Adam about the therapy of reading and writing, bizarre bodily functions, funny books and why you should never read on the toilet.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

Adam Kay - Kay’s Anatomy

Adam Kay (Editor) - Dear NHS

Mark Watson - Contacts

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Alan Bennett - Lady in the Van

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Victoria Wood - Plays

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Alan Partridge - I, Partridge

Alan Partridge - Nomad

Richmal Crompton - Just William

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe - Rotter’s Club

Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Sue Townsend. - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Norton Juster - Phantom Tollbooth

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Cathy Rentzenbrink- Last Act of Love

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Manual for Heartache

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

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Jeffrey Archer - You're Booked Oct 26, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jeffrey Archer - Hidden in Plain Sight

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Dickens - Tale of Two Cities

Dickens - Christmas Carol

Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo

Dumas - Three Musketeers

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel

Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea

Jeffrey Archer - Prison Diaries

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Lampedusa - Leopard

Jane Austen - Emma

Agatha Christie - Poirot

Jeffrey Archer - Clifton Chronicles

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves

Alberto Moravia - Woman of Rome

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Lissa Evans - V for Victory

Bill Bryson - The Body

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory

Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve

Stefan Sweig - Farewell to Europe

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Jung Chang - Wild Swans

Richard Adams - Watership Down

CS Lewis - Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Roald Dahl - BFG

Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More

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Alex Wheatle - You're Booked Oct 05, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors

CLR James - Black Jacobins

Malcolm X - Autobiography

Alex Haley - Roots

Langston Hughes - Collected Poems

Chester Himes - Rage in Harlem

James Baldwin - Fire Next Time

Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems

Marcia Williams - Baby Mother

Naomi King - OPP

Karline Smith - Moss Side Massive

Courttia Newland - The Scholar

Stephen Thompson - Toy Soldiers

Peter Kalu - Lick Shot

Alex Wheatle - Brixton Rock

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

EA Ritter - Shaka Zulu

Alex Wheatle - Liccle Bit

Alex Wheatle - Crongton Knights

Danielle Jawando - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

Vivien M Goldman - Book of Exodus

Marlon James - Brief History of 7 Killings

Timothy White - Catch a Fire

Steve McQueen - Small Axe

Patrice Lawrence - Eight Pieces of Silva

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Louise O'Neill - You're Booked Sep 28, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House

Rhonda Byrne - Secret

Mildred D. Taylor - Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Louise O’Neill - Almost Love

Belinda McKeon - Tender

Belinda McKeon - Solace

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Lauren Weisberger - Devil Wears Prada

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Dolly Alderton - Ghosts

Lucy Foley - Guest List

Stephen King - Carrie

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Louise O’Neill - Surface Breaks

Jane Austen - Emma

Louise O’Neill - Only Ever Yours

Erin Kelly - We Know You Know

Tana French - Searcher

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Caroline Corcoran - Baby Group

Caroline Corcoran - Through the Wall

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Emily Gould - You're Booked Sep 21, 2020

This week we are in the hilarious, wise and fascinating hands of author, publisher, teacher and essayist Emily Gould! Emily is the author of And The Heart Says Whatever, Friendship, and Perfect Tunes, as well as contributing to Bookforum, The New Yorker, Elle, The Cut and many others. She also runs Emily Books, which sells and publishes books by women. We discussed great books about music, the darkness of kid's books, the joys and pain of being a publisher and separating art from the artist.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes

Madeline Miller - Circe

Demi Moore - Inside Out

Lauren Oyler - Fake Accounts

Eileen Myles - Inferno

Patti Smith - Just Kids

Anna Wiener - Uncanny Valley

Emily Gould - Replaying My Shame

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

EB White - Letters

Madeleine L'Engle - Wrinkle in Time

Caroline Corcoran - Baby Group

Caroline Corcoran - Through The Wall

Chad Harbach - Art of Fielding

Susan Choi - Trust Exercise

Susan Choi - My Education

Susan Choi - American Woman

Walter Scott - Wendy Master of Art

Lizzy Goodman - Meet Me in the Bathroom

Sheila Weller - Girls Like Us

Cherie Curry - Neon Angel

Kim Gordon - Girl in a Band

Debbie Harry - Face It

Meghan Daum - Problem With Everything

Allison Pearson - I Don’t Know How She Does It

Allison Pearson - How Hard Can It Be

Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through

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Brit Bennett - You're Booked Sep 14, 2020

Both of Brit Bennett's sensational bestselling novels, The Mothers and The Vanishing Half, have been on heavy rotation at YB towers for months, so we are delighted to bring you this fascinating conversation with her, covering adapting books for the screen, how writing changes the way you read, the dark world of celebrity tell-alls and the dangers of novel recommendation.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Brit Bennett - The Mothers

Myla Goldberg - Feast Your Eyes

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anne Enright - Actress

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

SE Hinton - The Outsiders

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Richard Wright - Native Son

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Raven Leilani - Luster

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Darcy Eveleigh - Unseen: Unpublished Black History

Nicholas Smith - Kicks: Great American Story of Sneakers

Nichelle Gainer - Vintage Black Glamour

Yaa Gyasi - Transcendent Kingdom

Yaa Gyasi - Homegoing

Penny Valentine - Dancing with Demons: Dusty Springfield

Busy Phillips - This Will Only Hurt a Little

Mariah Carey - Meaning Of

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Margo Jefferson - On Michael Jackson

Craig Marks - I Want My MTV

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

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Jessie Burton - You're Booked Sep 07, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jessie Burton - Miniaturist

Jessie Burton - Confession

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Octavia Butler - Kindred

Marlon James - Book of Night Women

Andrea Levy - Long Song

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Lauren Groff - Fates & Furies

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Roald Dahl - Matilda

LP Hartley - Go Between

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Margaret Atwood - Cats Eye

Thom Gunn - Selected Poems

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jessie Burton - Restless Girls

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazelet Chronicles

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jessie Burton - Muse

Edward St Aubyn - Patrick Melrose

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

EB White - Letters

Sarah Moss - Summerwater

Elizabeth Strout - Oliver Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Anna Hope - Expectation

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

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Anthony Horowitz - You're Booked Aug 31, 2020

This week we're talking to the astonishingly prolific Anthony Horowitz! Anthony has written extensively for young adults, (especially his Alex Rider series), for adults (the Magpie and Moonflower Murder books), for the screen (Including the creation of Foyle's War) and updating both Sherlock Holmes and James Bond legacies with new stories plus many, many more. We discussed forgotten crime authors, funny books, writing inspiration, novels about writers and the sadness of finishing a beloved book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants on WFMU

Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders

Don Winslow - Power of the Dog

Don Winslow - Cartel

Don Winslow - Border

John Dickson Carr - Hag's Nook

Soji Shimada - Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Soji Shimada - Crooked House

AE Ellis - The Rack

Albert Camus - Plague

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Anthony Horowitz - Oblivion

Anthony Horowitz - Switch

LP Hartley - Go-Between

William Golding - Spire

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman

Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Herman Wouk - Caine Mutiny

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Erich Remarque - All Quiet On the Western Front

TH White - Once and Future King

George Gissing - New Grub Street

George Gissing - Nether World

George Gissing - Unclassed

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Angus Calder - People’s War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

John Lukacs - Five Days in May

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Tom Sharpe - Blott on the Landscape

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Craig Brown - 1, 2, 3, 4

Craig Brown - Imaginary Friends

Craig Brown - One on One

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Short History of Nearly Everything

Anthony Horowitz - Russian Roulette

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Camilla Thurlow - You're Booked Aug 24, 2020

This week we are perusing the bookshelves of human rights campaigner, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, Love Island inhabiter and all-round inspiration Camilla Thurlow! Camilla has worked for land mine charity The Halo Trust, she's a vociferous reader and has recently published her first book, a memoir, called Not The Type. During a highly revealing conversation, we talked to her about the double-edged sword that is social media, the genius of Elizabeth Day, the appeal of old books and allowing stories to leak into your life.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Camilla Thurlow - Not The Type

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Lisa Taddeo - Three Woman

David Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Elizabeth Macneal - The Doll Factory

Jessie Burton - The Muse

Alan Huffman - Here I Am

Paul Conroy - Under the Wire

Sebastian Junger - Tribe

David Nott - War Doctor

Anna Hope - Expectation

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Abbi Waxman - Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Nimko Ali - What We’re Told Not To Talk About

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Jamie Bartlett - The People Vs Tech

Rachel DeLoache Williams - My Friend Anna

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

George Orwell - 1984

Alain De Botton - School of Life

Bella Mackie - Jog On

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Candice Brathwaite - You're Booked Aug 17, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Lupita Nyong’o - Sulwe

Sister Soulja - Coldest Winter Ever

Nelson Mandela - Long Road To freedom

Ilona Staller (Ed) - Erotic Tales

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Jacqueline Woodson - Red at the Bone

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Gary Zukav - Seat of the Soul

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Rhonda Byrne - The Secret

Paul Harrington - Secret to Teen Power

Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass

Shahroo Izadi - Kindness Method

Shahroo Izadi - Last Diet

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

bell hooks - All About Love

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

Emma Gannon - Olive

Kenya Hunt - Girl

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Lisa Taddeo - You're Booked Jul 20, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Troubling Love

John Grisham - Camino Winds

Stephen King - Rose Madder

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Grace Paley - Collected Stories

Joy Williams - Visiting Privilege

William Trevor - Collected Stories

Natalia Ginzburg - Dry Heart

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

Barry Hannah - Long Last Happy

Nicholson Baker - House of Holes

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons dangereuses

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Kay Thompson - Eloise in Moscow

JM Barrie - Peter Pan

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Scott Stossel - My Age of Anxiety

David Foster Wallace - The Depressed Person

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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Pandora Sykes - You're Booked Jul 13, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

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

William Davies - Nervous States

Paul Bloom - Against Empathy

William Davies - Happiness Industry

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Britt Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Britt Bennett - The Mothers

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Meg Wolitzer- The Interestings

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins

Zadie Smith - NW

Mary Gaitskill - Lost Cat

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Mary Gaitskill - Veronica

Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat & Thin

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Emma Morgan - Love Story For Bewildered Girls

Melissa Bank - Girls Guide To Hunting & Fishing

Melissa Bank - Wonder Spot

John Boyne - Ladder To The Sky

John Boyne - Heart’s Invisible Furies

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Betty Friedan - Feminine Mystique

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant USA

Nikesh Shukla - One Who Wrote Destiny

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I loved You

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Gavanndra Hodge - Shelf Isolation Jun 24, 2020

This week we are Shelf Isolating with the journalist, columnist and author Gavanndra Hodge! Gavanndra has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years at publications such as Tatler, Sunday Times, Independent and ES Magazine. Her memoir, The Consequences of Love, has received widespread critical acclaim. We talked to her about rereading, food in books, Lace and being led astray by the Chalet School books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

Sybille Bedford - Jigsaw

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - Chalet School

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Virgil - Aenid

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Rose Macaulay - Towers of Trebizond

Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Levy - Swimming Home

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Last Act of Love

Justine Picardie - If the Spirit Moves You

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Sophie Heawood - Hungover Games

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Daniel Kehlmann - Tyll

Shirley Conran - Lace

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Sali Hughes - Shelf Isolation Jun 17, 2020

We're still stuck at home and Shelf Isolating this week - but we have a fabulous guest to share all that isolation with: Sali Hughes! Sali is a podcast host, broadcaster, Guardian Weekend's resident beauty expert and the author of the books Pretty Honest, Pretty Iconic and Our Rainbow Queen. We talked to her about the great Nora Ephron, the joy of reading about parties, fraternal favourites and the best literary families. Head to Instagram and search for #BlackOutBestSellerList to find out more about the campaign.

BOOKS

Abi Daré - Girl With the Louding Voice

Angela Makholwa - Blessed Girl

Sali Hughes - Pretty Honest

Sali Hughes - Pretty Iconic

Sali Hughes - Our Rainbow Queen

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Phyllis Grant - Everything is Under Control

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Delia Ephron - Hanging Up

Noras Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

John Irving - Hotel New Hampshire

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Gordon Burn - Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Tara Westover - Educated

Leah Remini - Troublemaker

Beau Donelly, Nick Toscano - Woman Who Fooled The World

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Greg Sestero - Disaster Artist

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Terri White - Coming Undone

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Armistead Maupin - Maybe the Moon

Armistead Maupin - Night Listener

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

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Sarra Manning - Shelf Isolation Jun 10, 2020

We couldn't be happier to be Shelf Isolating with this week's guest - author, journalist and all around book guru Sarra Manning! Sarra is one of our favourite people on the planet as well as a brilliant former guest who has impeccable book taste. We talked to her about foisting favourite books, rigorous rereading, investigating the aristocracy and there are many, many book recommendations.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

Anne de Courcy - Debs at War

Anne de Courcy - Viceroy’s daughters

Nicolas Coleridge - Glossy Years

PG Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed

Jane Casey - The Burning

Louise Cavendish - Our House

Penny Vincenzi - No Angel

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Angela Thirkell - Before Lunch

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Sara Davidson - Loose Change

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck

LM Montgomery - Blue Castle

Noel Streatfeild - Vicarage Family

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth David

Hannah Tovey - Education of Ivy Edwards

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Holly Bourne - Pretending

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

Sarra Manning - Let’s Get Lost

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

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Clare Mackintosh - Shelf Isolation Jun 03, 2020

It's another Shelf Isolation bonus episode this week, where we peruse the bookshelves of a favourite author from a safe distance. This week it's a ridiculously entertaining chat with the wonderful Clare Mackintosh. Clare is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of I

Let You Go, Let Me Lie and her latest After The End. We talked to her about providing a retirement home for books, her secret library, Just William and who, from books, she'd hate to be locked down with.

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Stop Hate UK

Rachel Cargell's Great Unlearn

BOOKS

Layla F Saad - Me & White Supremacy

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh - After The End

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult - A Spark of Light

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Richmal Crompton - William Carries On

HV Morton - Traveller in Rome

Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Nikesh Shukla (ed) - Good Immigrant

Jasbinder Bilan - Asha & the Spirit Bird

Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London

Mark Haddon - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

James Goodhand - Last Lesson

AA Dhand - Darkness Rising

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

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Louise Doughty - Shelf Isolation May 27, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Louise Doughty - Platform Seven

Louise Doughty - Whatever You Love

Hillary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

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

Alice Jolly - Dead Babies and Seaside Towns

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours

Polly Samson - Theatre for Dreamers

Ursula Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

CS Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty - Stone Cradle

Amanda Craig - The Golden Rule

Michael Arditti - The Anointed

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Guinevere Glasfurd - The Year Without Summer

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Curtis Sittenfeld - You're Booked May 18, 2020

We are beyond excited to bring you this week's very, very special guest. An individual whose work we adore and consume with gusto; the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of six novels and a short story collection including including YB faves Prep, Eligible and American Wife. Her latest is the highly anticipated 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.

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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Lauren Bravo - Shelf Isolation May 13, 2020

We are Shelf Isolating once again this week, where we talk to some of our favourite former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. This week's guest falls into all three categories as we pay a return visit to journalist and author Lauren Bravo! Lauren is the author of How to Break Up with Fast Fashion and What Would the Spice Girls Do? We talked to her about her funniest ever reads, cookery books as fiction, the genius of Barbara Trapido and YA comfort reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Lauren Bravo - What Would The Spice Girls Do

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Jean Ure - Jo in the Middle

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls in Tears

Jaqueline Wilson - Girls Out Late

Jaqueline Wilson - Story of Tracey Beaker

Jaqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Big Country

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Lauren Bravo - Litmus Test Books

Mary Wesley - An Imaginative Experience

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Laura Goodman - Carbs

Anna Jones - A Modern Cook’s Year

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ottessa Moshfegh - Year of Rest and Relaxation

Mary Norton - Borrowers

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe - Reasons to be Cheerful

Hilary McKay - The Exiles

Hilary McKay - The Exiles at Home

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Lisa Owens - Not Working

Anthony Buckeridge - Jennings at Large

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

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Sara Pascoe - Shelf Isolation May 06, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tamper

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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Lissa Evans - You're Booked Apr 08, 2020

As a special treat, here's our interview with the fabulous Lissa Evans, which we were planning to be the first episode in our sixth season, but that might have to wait for a while. But we didn't dare sit on this any longer as it's such a warm, wonderful, informative episode. Lissa is the author of many fantastic books including Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half. We talked to her about cosy reads, Father Ted, British movie scandals, funny books and her appearance in the Kenneth Williams diaries! For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Their Finest

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

John Costello - Love, Sex and War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

Rodney Ackland - The Celluloid Mistress

Emlyn Williams - George

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Céleste Albaret - Monsieur Proust

Józef Czapski - Lectures on Proust in a Soviet Prison Camp

Mary Bergstein - In Looking Back One Learns to See

Alain De Botton’s - How Proust Can Change Your Life

Marcel Proust - Swann’s Way

Victoria Wood - Barmy

Victoria Wood - Up To You Porky

Geoffrey Willans - Molesworth

Jessica Mitford - American Way of Death

Jessica Mitford - Hons and Rebels

Evelyn Waugh - Loved One

Jessica Mitford - Makings of a Muckraker

John Carey - Faber Book of Reportage

Elizabeth Taylor - The Devastating Boys

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Various - The Girl’s Budget

Barbara Nixon - Raiders Overhead

John Strachey - Post D

Roger Deakins - Waterlog

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Nicholas Parsons - Dipped in Vitriol

June Havoc - Early Havoc

Armistead Maupin - More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin -Further Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn

Neil Gaiman - Graveyard Book

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Anita Brookner - Latecomers

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Florence King - Confessions of a Failed Southern Lady

Helen Ellis - Southern Lady Code

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Liam Fay - Beyond Belief

Peter Nichols - A Voyage For Madmen

Walter Lord - Night to Remember

Kenneth Anger - Hollywood Babylon

Matthew Sweet - Shepperton Babylon

Laurens van der Post - Flamingo Feather

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Flora Thompson - Lark Rise To Candleford

Various - English Hymnal

Lissa Evans - Small Change for Stuart

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Jane Gardam - Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

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Isabel Allende - You're Booked Mar 09, 2020

For the grand finale of our fifth season American adventure (and our 50th episode!), we find ourselves in... Bloomsbury. But we are there for a wonderful reason. To meet the legendary novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende! Isabel is the internationally renowned, bestselling author of works such as House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, and her latest breathtaking epic A Long Petal of the Sea. We talked to her about illicit reads, writing superstitions, dogs, poetry and Elvis. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Isabel Allende - Long Petal of the Sea

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - Fairytales From the Far North

Various - Arabian Nights

Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Johnston McCulley, - Zorro

Henri Troyat -Tant Que La Terre Durera (While the Earth Endures)

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Isabel Allende - Paula

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann - Apeirogon

Pablo Neruda - Memoirs

Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

Isabel Allende - Ripper

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

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Ada Calhoun - You're Booked Mar 02, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Ada Calhoun - Why We Can’t Sleep

Dawn Powell - Wicked Pavilion

Dawn Powell - Locusts Have No King

Ada Calhoun - St Marks is Dead

Eilert Sundt - Sexual Customs in Rural Norway

Lisa Sliwa - Attitude

Susannah Cahalan - Great Pretender

Susannah Cahalan - Brain on Fire

Karen Abbott - Ghosts of Eden Park

Lisa Carver - Dancing Queen

Derek Jarman - Chroma

N. Whittal-Perry - Treasury of Traditional Wisdom

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Barbara Wersba - Fat A Love Story

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

M Masters - Case of the Clever Computer Crooks

PG Wodehouse - Psmith in the City

PG Wodehouse - Right Ho Jeeves

Wilkie Collins - Woman in White

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Emma

Mildred Gilman - Sob Sister

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Annie Baker - John

Annie Baker - Flick

Michael Ondaatje - Warlight

Michael Ondaatje - English Patient

Oscar Wilde - Decay of Lying

Maureen Callahan - American Predator

David Carr - Night of the Gun

Joe Coomer - Flatland Fable

Lewis Shiner - Glimpses

Lewis Shiner - Slam

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Gilbert King - Beneath a Ruthless Sun

Gilbert King - Devil in the Grove

Barbara Ehrenreich - Nickel and Dimed

James Leo Herlihy - Season of the Witch

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Tara Allmen - Menopause Confidential

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Daniel Lipkowitz - Lego Ideas Book

Abby Frucht - Liquorice

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Dolly Parton - My Life and Other Unfinished Business

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Jessica Knoll - You're Booked Feb 24, 2020

This week we are back in LA, not far from The Getty, visiting the beautiful home of bestselling author Jessica Knoll! Jessica wrote the mega-hits The Luckiest Girl Alive (soon to be a film) and The Favourite Sister (soon to be a TV series). We talked to her about inspirational books, favourite book shops, scary reads and the the best book to read if you want to write a screenplay. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Jessica Knoll - Favourite Sister

Steph Cha - Your House Will Pay

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Mysteries

Caroline Kepnes - You

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen

Shirley Jackson - Dark Tales

LS Hilton - Maestra

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Anthony Minghella - Minghella on Minghella

Kamila Shamsie - Home Fire

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Esquire - History of Bennington

Donna Tartt - Goldfinch

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Matt Ruff - Bad Monkeys

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Again

Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Sun Tzu - Art of War

Anais Nin - Diaries

Anais Nin - Delta of Venus

Anais Nin - Henry and June

Stephen King - On Writing

Ann Lamott - Bird By Bird

Tana French - In The Woods

Michelle McNamara - I’ll Be Gone in the Dark

Adrienne Brodeur - Wild Game

Judith Rossner - Looking For Mr Goodbar

Sebastián Edwards - Untold Story of FDR

Anne Knoll - Secret Life of Thomas Bradford

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Daniel Gumbiner - You're Booked Feb 17, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daniel Gumbiner - The Boatbuilder

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

R Tucker Abbot - Field Identification Seashells of North America

Barry Lopez - Of Wolves and Men

Dave Hickey - Air Guitar

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

Amanda Fortini - People of Las Vegas

Arthur Ransom - Swallows and Amazons

Sarah Harrison Smith - Fact Checkers Bible

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Leonard Gardner - Fat City

EB White - Letters

The Believer Festival

The Believer - Border Issue

Boots Riley - McSweeney's

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Sam Quinones - Dream Land

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Ken Kesey - Sometimes a Great Notion

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Marta Becket - To Dance on Sands

David Morris - The Evil Hours

Sarah Broom - The Yellow House

Meghan O’Gieblyn - Interior States

Olja Savičević Ivančević - Adios Cowboy

Richard Maury - Cimba

John Williams - Stoner

Steve Almond - John Williams' Stoner

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

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Shelby Lorman - You're Booked Feb 10, 2020

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Shelby Lorman - Awards For Good Boys

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

WG Sebald - Rings of Saturn

Giuliana Bruno - Atlas of Emotion

Elizabeth Bishop - Poems

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Claudia Rankine - Don’t Let Me Be Lonely

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Lois Lowry - The Giver

Alexander Chee - How To Write an Autobiographical Novel

Kim Stanley Robinson - Mars Trilogy

Lydia Davis - Collected Stories

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Claudia Rankine - Citizen

David Hockney - Dog Days

NK Jemisin - Inheritance Trilogy

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

James Agee - Death in the Family

Garth Nix - Abhorsen

Leigh Bardugo - Ninth House

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Brittney Cooper - Eloquent Rage

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister The Serial Killer

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

Anne Carson - Plainwater

Mary Roach - Stiff

Anna Burns - Milkman

Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle

Ann Leckie - Ancillary Justice

Ada Palmer - Too Like the Lightning

James Bridle - New Dark Age

James Corey - The Expanse

Liana Finck - Passing For Human

Liana Finck - Excuse Me

Samantha Irby - We Are Never Meeting in Real Life

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Jessica Bennett - You're Booked Feb 03, 2020

We're in Brooklyn this week for a visit with award-winning journalist, New York Times gender editor and author Jessica Bennett. Jessica's first book was the global phenomenon Feminist Fight Club: A Survival Manual For a Sexist Workplace and her most recent release is This Is 18: Girls’ Lives Through Girls’ Eyes. We talked to her about feminist icons, Sweet Valley High, internet slang, embarrassing diaries and marriage.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jessica Bennett - Feminist Fight Club

Jessica Bennett - This is 18

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Bart Houseman - You Don’t Need a Man To Fix It

Bernard Gladstone - Home Repairs Without a Man

Kay B Ward - Feminine Fix It Auto Handbook

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Rachel Simmons - Curse of the Good Girl

Mary Roach - Bonk

Pamela Haag - Marriage Confidential

Lori Gottlieb - Marry Him

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gretchen McCulloch - Because Internet

Florence Williams - Breasts

Ellen Sussman - Dirty Words

Various - Girl Scout Handbook

Boston Women's Health Book Collective - Our Bodies Ourselves

Helen Gurley Brown - Having It All

E Jean Carroll - What Do We Need Men For

Francine Pascal - Double Love

Francine Pascal - Secrets

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Amor Towles - You're Booked Jan 27, 2020

Our American sojourn continues with a trip to Manhattan's Gramercy Park and a visit to the esteemed, million-selling author Amor Towles! Amor is the writer of the bestselling titles Rules of Civility and A Gentleman in Moscow which was a recommended read of both Bill Gates and Barack Obama as well as appearing on a multitude of best of the year lists. We talked to him about reading the canon, inhaling James Bond and the amount of time you're allowed before giving up on a book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles - Rules of Civility

Edith Wharton - Collected Novels

Harold Bloom - American Canon

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Paul Scott - Raj Quartet

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Philip Roth - American Pastoral

Philip Roth - Human Stain

Ross Macdonald - Collection

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Franklin W Dixon - Hardy Boys

Ray Bradbury - Stories

Agatha Christie - Collection

John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre - Honourable Schoolboy

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Loved You

Thomas Mann - Magic Mountain

Thomas Mann - Buddenbrooks

Naguib Mahfouz - Cairo Trilogy

Naguib Mahfouz - The Quarter

Harry Matthews - The Conversions

Jonathan Lethem - Motherless Brooklyn

James Baldwin - Go Tell It To The Mountain

Flannery O’Connor - Complete Stories

Sloan Wilson - Man in the Grey Flannel Suit

David Goodis - Black Friday

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day

Ford Madox Ford - Good Soldier

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

John Cheever - Wapshot Chronicle

Walker Percy - The Moviegoer

Adler & Van Doren - Great Treasury of Western Thought

Emily Post - Etiquette

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Various - WPA Guide To New York City

Raymond Carver - Selected Stories

Anton Chekhov- Short Stories

Kingsley Amis - James Bond Dossier

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Gabrielle Moss - You're Booked Jan 20, 2020

This week our American series continues with a visit to Brooklyn and stopping by the book and pop culture ephemera crammed apartment of Gabrielle Moss! Gabrielle is the author of the fabulous book Paperback Crush: The Totally Radical History of '80s and '90s Teen Fiction which is a must read for any You're Booked fans. We talked to her, obviously, about Sweet Valley High and Babysitter's Club, plus spooky reads, murderous memoirs, Peg Bundy and finding forgotten cheques in unexpected books.

BOOKS

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Susy Smith - Prominent American Ghosts

Laura Nathanson - Trouble With Wednesdays

RL Stine - Fear Street

RL Stine - Goosebumps

Erica Jong - Fear of Flying

Robert Tralins - Clairvoyance in Women

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Lois Duncan - Ransom

Lois Duncan - Who Killed My Daughter

Craig Marks - I Want My MTV

John Taylor - In The Pleasure Groove

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Dianne Lake - Member of the Family

Sandra Shevey - Ladies of Pop and Rock

Judy Blume - Judy Blume Diary

Estelle Jelinek - Ladies Own Erotica

Xaviera Hollander - Xaviera Goes Wild

Shere Hite - Sexual Honesty

Ann M Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - All Night Long

Caroline B Cooney - Nice Girl’s Don’t

Caroline B Cooney - Face on the Milk Carton

Bill Cunningham - On The Street

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Ruth Franklin - Shirley Jackson

Tracy Daugherty - Last Love Song

Janet Malcolm - Journalist and the Murderer

Susanna Kaysen - Girl Interrupted

James St James - Party Monster

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Jeannette walls - The Glass Castle

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Periel Aschenbrand - The Only Bush I Trust Is My Own

Annabel Gat - Astrology of Love & Sex

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Philip Roth - Plot Against America

Gay Talese - Thy Neighbour’s Wife

Gilda Radner - It’s Always Something

Gilda Radner - Paper Doll Book

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Taylor Jenkins Reid - You're Booked Jan 13, 2020

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

BOOKS

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Byron Lane - A Star is Bored

Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York

James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews

Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon

Keith Richards - Life

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens

Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch

Sally Field - In Pieces

Scotty Bowers - Full Service

Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Various - Little People Big Dreams

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming

Joan Didion - White Album

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient

Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle

Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Alexi Zentner - Copperhead

Tana French - Wych Elm

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Circe

Katherine Dunn - On Cussing

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

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John Waters - You're Booked Jan 06, 2020

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

BOOKS

John Waters - Mr Know-It-All

Evelyn Waugh - The Loved One

Witold Gombrowicz - Diaries

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Pauline Kael - I Lost It At The Movies

Siv Holm - I, a Woman

Nick Mays - Proper Care of Fancy Rats

Phil Shaw - Extreme Ironing

Anonymous - Break Dance Hunks

Dean Starkey - Mondo Sexo

Joseph Jenkins - Slate Roof Bible

Ugo Mulas - New York: The New Art Scene

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Pussy

Dian Hanson - Big Book of Breasts

Zandha Rhodes - 50 Fabulous Year of Fashion

Brigid Berlin - Polaroids

Tim Coghlan - Notre Damned

Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Pissing Figures

Julia Hall - Slaves of Christo

Hubert Selby - Last Exit To Brooklyn

John Rechy - City of Night

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

William Burroughs Jr - Speed

Sheila Weller - Carrie Fisher

Augusten Burroughs - Toil and Trouble

John Waters - Role Models

Denton Welch - Journals

Norris Mailer - Windchill Summer

Norris Mailer - Ticket to the Circus

Anne Lamot - Almost Everything

Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newburyport

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

Richard Tuttle - Art of

Amanda Lepore - Doll Parts

John Kennedy Toole - Confederacy of Dunces

Grace Metalious - Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Return To Peyton Place

Grace Metalious - Tight White Collar

Candy Darling - My Face For The World To See

David Rank - Bend Over Pig

Klaus Kinski - All I Need is Love

Linda Russell - My Daughter Susan Smith

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

Lionel Dahmer - Father's Story

Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

Tennessee Williams - Memoirs

Tennessee Williams - Suddenly Last Summer

Lili Anolik - Hollywood's Eve

Ricki Lake - Never Say Never

Julian Barnes - Only Story

John Rechy - About My Life and the Kept Woman

John Waters - Carsick

Christopher Bonanos - Making of Weegee

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BONUS: The Sisterhood: The Christmas Chapter Dec 24, 2019

As a Christmas treat, here's the Christmas chapter from The Sisterhood by Daisy Buchanan, published by Headline and now available as an audiobook from Audible. Imagine living between the pages of Pride And Prejudice, in the Bennett household. Now, imagine how the Bennett girls as they'd be in the 21st century - looking like the Kardashian sisters, but behaving like the Simpsons. This is the house Daisy Buchanan grew up in. The Sisterhoodexplores what it's like to live as a modern woman by examining some examples close to home - her adored and infuriating sisters. As Daisy states: "'My five sisters are the only women I would ever kill for. And they are the only women I have ever wanted to kill." And at Christmas, family traditions, and family tensions, are exposed. Get ready for fairy dresses, ghost stories, cosy planning and very bad, gift-related, behaviour.

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Dolly Alderton, Ayisha Malik, Lissa Evans - You're Booked Christmas Special! Dec 16, 2019

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 two former (and one upcoming) You're Booked guests - 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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Diana Henry - You're Booked Nov 04, 2019

It's North London once again this week for a very special visit with the legendary food writer Diana Henry! Diana is the Sunday Telegraph's award winning food writer and author of eight books about food, culture, travelling, recipes and more food! We talked to her about her 4000 strong cookbook collection, meals in books, bleak cottage reading and favourite menus.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Diana Henry - From the Oven to the Table

Diana Henry - How to Eat a Peach

Claudia Roden - Book of Middle Eastern Food

Ursula Sedgwick - My Fun To Cook Book

Prue Leith - Entertaining With Style

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Alice Waters - Chez Panisse Cookbook

Jane Grigson - Fruit Book

Molly O’Neill - Well Seasoned Appetite

Mary Berry - Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook

Julia Child - Mastering the Art of French Cooking

Diana Henry - Crazy Water Pickled Lemons

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Sybil Bedford - Jigsaw

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - Bell Family

Clarissa Hyman - Tomato

Samin Nosrat (Ed) - Best American Food Writing 2019

Alison Roman - Nothing Fancy

Hans Christian Anderson - Complete Fairy tales

S Beltyukov - Leo Tolstoy's Family Recipe Book

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Catherine Cheremeteff Jones - Year of Russian Feasts

Seamus Heaney - North

AD Miller - Snowdrops

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

Richard Ford - The Sportswriter

Richard Ford - Women With Men

Jane Smiley - A Thousand Acres

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Anne Enright - The Green Road

Brian Moore - The Doctor’s Wife

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Nadia Shireen - You're Booked Oct 28, 2019

This week we are in glorious North London to meet picture book illustrator and kids book powerhouse Nadia Shireen! Nadia is the creator of the Billy book series and blockbusters such as The Bumblebear and The Cow Who Fell To Earth. She is also an ex-Smash Hits staffer - which may be mentioned in the course of the episode. We also talked to her about reading guilt, sort of stalking Paul Auster and the Pet Shop Boys.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Dragon

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Hubert Selby Jr - Last Exit to Brooklyn

Donald Sturrock - Life of Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Benji Davis - Bizzy Bear

Marta Altes - The King Cat

Chris Haughton - Goodnight Everyone

Ed Vere - How to be a Lion

Sophy Henn - Where Bear?

Oliver Jeffers - The Day the Crayons Quit

John Klassen - I Want My Hat Back

Stephen Fry - The Liar

Stephen Fry - Paperweight

Various - Amassed Hysteria

Tom Hibbert - Who The Hell

Smash Hits - Best of

Jay McInerney - Story of My Life

Paul Auster - Moon Palace

Paul Auster - New York Trilogy

Paul Auster - Mr Vertigo

Paul Auster - Hand to Mouth

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Judy Blume - Letters to Judy

Judy Blume - Superfudge

Judy Blume - Tales of a Fourth Grade Nothing

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

Judy Blume - Iggie’s House

Judy Blume - Otherwise Known as Sheila The Great

Judy Blume - Deenie

Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes

Judy Blume - Forever

Hanif Kureishi - Buddha of Suburbia

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

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Flo Perry - You're Booked Oct 21, 2019

We're back in North London this week to meet the author and illustrator Flo Perry! Flo is the creative force behind the book How To Have Feminist Sex which covers everything from faking it to consent, stress to kink, and how losing your virginity isn't so different to eating your first chocolate croissant. We talked to her about sharing a kindle with your mum (former YB guest Phillipa Perry), early formative reads, the power of graphic novels and birdwatching.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Flo Perry - How to Have Feminist Sex

Cacilda Jethá and Christopher Ryan - Sex at Dawn

Julie Burchill - Sugar Rush

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Robert Galbraith - Casual Vacancy

Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London

My Sister The Serial Killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Drew Hayes - Super Powereds

Rachel Kushner - The Mars Room

Alison Bechdel - Essential Dykes To Look Out For

Posy Simmonds - Tamara Drewe

Art Spiegelman - Maus

Phillipa Perry - Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Stuart Heritage - Bedtime Stories for Worried Liberals

Norman Arlott - Complete Guide to British Wildlife

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Belinda Bauer - Snap

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Fiona Beckett - Ultimate Student Cookbook

Miguel Barclay - £1 Meals

Ruby Tandoh - Flavour

Lindy West - Shrill

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Bernadine Evaristo - Mr Loverman

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Magda Gerber - Your Self Confident Baby

Jonathan Franklin - 438 Days

Blaine Harden - Escape from Camp 14

Cheryl Strayed - Wild

Paula Hawkins - Girl on the Train

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jeffrey Eugenides - Marraiage Plot

Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides - Middlesex

Maria Semple - Where Did You Go Bernadette?

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Lisa Taddeo - Three Woman

Belle De Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

Suzanne Collins - Hunger Games

Abba - Abba Annual 1979

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Kate Williams - You're Booked (Live at Henley Lit Fest) Oct 14, 2019

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

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Kate Williams - Rival Queens

Judy Blume - Forever

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

Samuel Richardson - Clarissa

Samuel Richardson - Pamela

Sarah Moss - Ghost Wall

Cao Xueqin - Story of the Stone

Murasaki Shikibu - Tale of Genji

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in this Strange World

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Eliza Haywood - Fantomina

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Diana Wynne Jones - Chrestomanci

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Agatha Christie - Murder is Easy

Agatha Christie - Caribbean Mystery

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Kate Williams - England's Mistress

Kate Williams - Becoming Queen

Kate Williams - Josephine

Kate Williams - Young Elizabeth

Kate Williams - Pleasures of Men

Kate Williams - Storms of War

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Nikita Gill - You're Booked Oct 07, 2019

This week we're hotfooting it to Hampshire to visit the poet, storyteller, playwright and all-around inspiration Nikita Gill! Nikita is an acclaimed author with a slew of celebrity fans, hundreds of thousands of social media followers and devotees the world over. We talked to her about witches, conservation, goddesses, hedgehogs and, surprisingly, Jeffrey Archer.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Nikita Gill - Your Soul is a River

Nikita Gill - Wild Embers

Nikita Gill - Fierce Fairytales

Nikita Gill - Great Goddesses

Angela Carter - Fairy Tales

Angela Carter - Bloody Chamber

Madeline Miller - Circe

Stephen Fry - Mythos

Stephen Fry - Heroes

Joy Kenward - Joy of Mindful Writing

Arin Murphy-Hiscock - The House Witch

Arin Murphy-Hiscock - The Hedge Witch

Margaret Atwood - Penelopiad

Margaret Atwood - Blind Assassin

Jeanette Winterson - Weight

Jeffrey Archer - Collected Stories

Jeffrey Archer - Red Herrings

Alan Bennett - Untold Stories

Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You

Jhumpa Lahiri - Interpreter of Maladies

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World

Lucy Ellman - Ducks, Newburyport

Nikesh Shukla (Ed) - Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla (Ed) - Good Immigrant USA

Poorna Bell - In Search of Silence

Brian Bilston - Diary of a Somebody

Visnu Sarma - Panchatantra

Homer - Odyssey

Ovid - Metamorphoses

Aeschylus - Oresteia

Apollodorus - Library of Greek Mythology

Neil Philip - Illustrated Book of Myths

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Robert Graves - Greek Myths

Pat Barker - Silence of the Girls

Natalie Haynes - A Thousand Ships

Devdutt Pattanaik - Jaya

Bibek Debroy - Bhagavata Purana

Amish Tripathi - Immortals of Meluha

Pam Ayres - The Last Hedgehog

Ana Sampson (Ed) - She is Fierce

Shivanee Ramlochan - Everyone Knows I am a Haunting

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Loved You

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Jess Phillips - You're Booked Oct 01, 2019

This week we are heading to beautiful Birmingham and visiting the home of politician, author and feminist superstar Jess Phillips! Jess is the MP for Birmingham Yardley, previously worked for Women's Aid and continues to campaign for equality and recognition on a vast array of issues. She's also the author of two books: Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth and Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. We talked to Jess about her adoration of Sue Townsend, misleading English lessons and the problems connected to buying books in the middle of the night.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jess Phillips - Everywoman

Jess Phillips - Truth to Power

Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale

Aldous Huxley - Brave New World

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

George Orwell - 1984

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Roald Dahl - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me

Roald Dahl - Boy

Roald Dahl - George’s Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Philip Pullman - Amber Spyglass

L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz

PL Travers - Mary Poppins

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman As Herself

Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses

Madonna - Sex

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

John Le Carre - Constant Gardener

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Caitlin Moran - How To Be Famous

Anna Hope - Expectation

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

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Richard Ayoade - You're Booked Sep 23, 2019

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Richard Ayoade - Ayoade on Top

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Brothers Karamazov

John Steinbeck - Red Pony

John Steinbeck - The Pearl

John Steinbeck -Grapes of Wrath

John Steinbeck -East of Eden

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

William Leith - Hunger Years

Joe Dunthorne - Submarine

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Double

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Poor Folk

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

PG Wodehouse - Ukridge

PG Wodehouse - The Jeeves Omnibus

PG Wodehouse - The World of Blandings

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Charles Webb - The Graduate

John Updike - Rabbit Run

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Iris Murdoch - Under the Net

TS Eliot - The Waste Land

Wallace Shawn - Night Thoughts

Wallace Shawn - Essays

Joseph Conrad - Nostromo

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Jenny Eclair - You're Booked Sep 16, 2019

This week we're travelling to South-East London and the lovely, award-winning home of writer, stand-up and podcast host Jenny Eclair! As well as being a legendary comedian and familiar face on our TV screens thanks to shows like Grumpy Old Women and Loose Women, Jenny is the author of many books including the novels Moving, Having a Lovely Time and, her latest, Inheritance. We talked to her about the joy of audiobooks, writing habits, sub-par city guides and comedy versus writing.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Jenny Eclair - Inheritance

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Anna Hope - Expectation

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

John Niven - Straight White Male

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Clare Mackintosh - After The End

Kat Gordon - An Unsuitable Woman

Cressida Connolly - After The Party

Lynne Reid Banks - The L Shaped Room

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Jenny Eclair - The Book of Bad Behaviour

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Alan Hollinghurst - The Line of Beauty

Anna Burns - Milkman

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Raymond Chandler - Farewell My Lovely

Jenny Eclair - Moving

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Jamie Oliver - 5 Ingredients

Yotam Ottolenghi - Simple

Barbara Kingsover - The Lacuna

Bruno Vincent - Five Go Parenting

Jill Dawson - The Language of Birds

Jill Dawson - Fred and Edie

Alice Munro - Selected Stories

Phoebe Eclair-Powell - National Theatre Connections

Jenny Eclair - Grumpy Old Couples

Shappi Khorsandi - Nina is Not OK

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad

Jennifer Egan - Manhattan Beach

Mary Roach - Bonk

Charlotte Roche- Wetlands

Leïla Slimani - Adele

Leïla Slimani- Lullaby

Robert Galbraith - Lethal White

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

David Friend - Vanity Fair’s Hollywood

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Tracy Chevalier - You're Booked Sep 09, 2019

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Tracy Chevalier - A Single Thread

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Jean-Paul Didierlaurent - The Reader on the 6.27

Susan Sontag - On Photography

Colson Whitehead - The Nickel Boys

Colson Whitehead - The Underground Railroad

Tana French - Wych Elm

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Julian Barnes - Flaubert’s Parrot

JL Carr - A Month in the Country

Jan Morris - Venice

Judith Mackrell - Unfinished Palazzo

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

Margaret Drabble - The Needle’s Eye

Anne Tyler - Tin Can Tree

Mary Wollstonecraft- Original Stories

Tracy Chevalier - Burning Bright

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

Dylan Thomas - Poems of…

Tracy Chevalier - The Lady and the Unicorn

Tracy Chevalier - At the Edge of the Orchard

Tracy Chevalier - The Last Runaway

Helen Ellis - Southern Lady Code

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

EM Forster - Howards End

Jane Harris - The Observations

Jane Harris - Gillespie and I

Lorrie Moore - A Gate at the Stairs

Lorrie Moore - Bark

Lorrie Moore - Self Help

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Norman Collins - London Belongs To Me

Margaret Atwood - Surfacing

Margaret Atwood - Life Before Man

Peter Carey - Parrot and Olivier in America

Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna

Laura Hillenbrand - Unbroken

Sjon - The Blue Fox

Sena Jeter Naslund - Ahab’s Wife

Carola Hicks - The Girl in the Green Gown

Hermione Lee - Edith Wharton

Lyndall Gordon - Lives Like Loaded Guns

Karen Armstrong - Bible: The Biography

Sarah Bakewell - How To Live

Craig Brown - Ma’am Darling

Bart van Es - The Cut Out Girl

Elaine Dundy - Life Itself!

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David Nicholls - You're Booked Sep 02, 2019

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

David Nicholls - The Understudy

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar

Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story

Tobias Wolff - Stories of

Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

John Cheever - Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Phillip Larkin - Jill

Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere

Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty

EM Forster - Howards End

Helen Garner - The Spare Room

Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach

Penelope Lively - Heat Wave

Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s

Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations

Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder

Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

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30. Dorothy Koomson Jun 24, 2019

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

Norton Anthology of Literature

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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29. Ayisha Malik Jun 17, 2019

We're off to South London this week to meet and chat to the fabulous Ayisha Malik! Ayisha worked in publishing before the publication of her first smash hit novel Sofia Khan is Not Obliged, described as 'the Muslim Bridget Jones'. She then produced a sequel The Other Half of Happiness and her new book, This Green and Pleasant Land has just been released to great acclaim. We talked to her about Rochester versus Darcy, religion in writing, childhood faves and terrible author behaviour.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Ayisha Malik - Sofia Khan is Not Obliged

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz

Lewis Carroll - Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland

Angela Carter - Fairy Tales

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Emma

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford - Don’t Tell Alfred

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Momento Mori

Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Helen Fielding - The Edge of Reason

Monica Ali - Brick Lane

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Graham Greene - A Burnt Out Case

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Alex Khan - Bollywood Wives

Regina Porter - The Travellers

Nigella Lawson - Nigella Kitchen

Giorgio Locatelli - Made in Sicily

Brian Chikwava - Harare North

Fatima Bhutto - Songs of Blood and Sword

Kate Fox - Watching the English

JK Rowling - Casual Vacancy

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Richard Yates - Collected Stories

Richard Yates - Revolutionary Road

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

Grace Paley - Collected Stories

Richard Flanagan - Narrow Road to the Deep North

Adam Johnson - Orphan Master’s Son

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - The Idiot

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Elif Bautman - The Idiot

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Ubervilles

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

David Nicholls - One Day

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28. Elif Shafak Jun 10, 2019

We're back in leafy London this week and 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 seventeen books, eleven of which are novels, including the bestselling The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, and Three Daughters of Eve. Her latest book is the critically acclaimed 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World. 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.

BOOKS (CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE)

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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27. Helen Lederer Jun 03, 2019

This week we’re travelling to leafy South London and visiting the glorious home of comedy legend Helen Lederer. Helen is probably best known as a trailblazing stand-up comedian and actress, appearing in such iconic shows as Absolutely Fabulous, Bottom, Girls on Top and Naked Video. But she is also a celebrated novelist and humour writer with her book Losing It nominated for the P. G. Wodehouse Comedy Literary prize. She also founded her own comedy prize CWIP - Comedy Women in Print. We talked to Helen about breasts in 1970s literature, the Four Marys, embarrassing teenage diaries and the power of funny women.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Helen Lederer - Losing It

Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat

Muriel Spark - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Leslie Thomas - Tropic of Ruislip

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Charlotte Mendelson - When We Were Bad

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Annabelle Gurwitch - I See You Made an Effort

Noel Streatfeild - The Circus is Coming

Arianna Huffington - Thrive

Laurie Graham - Life According to Lubka

Laurie Graham - Mr Starlight

Laurie Graham - Gone With The Windsors

Eckhart Tolle - The Power of Now

Lydia Davis - Can’t and Won’t

Helen Lederer - Coping

Jane Asher - Easy Entertaining

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers In the Fifth

Laurence Olivier - Confessions of an Actor

Helen Lederer - Single Minding

DC Thomson - The Best of Jackie

Sofie Hagan - Happy Fat

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26. Juno Dawson May 27, 2019

We're down in sunny Brighton (or Hove, actually) to meet the award-winning, bestselling author, screenwriter, journalist and activist Juno Dawson! Juno is the author of 17 books including the YA works Clean and Meat Market, the non-fiction This Book is Gay and her first book aimed at adults The Gender Games. We talked to her about horror, meeting your heroes, education and the importance of Tales of the City.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

E. A. Jones - Hermits and Anchorites in England

Juno Dawson - The Gender Games

Juno Dawson - This Book is Gay

Juno Dawson - Meat Market

Juno Dawson - Cruel Summer

Juno Dawson - Margot & Me

Juno Dawson - Mind Your Head

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Tabitha Suzuma - Forbidden

Malorie Blackman - Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Kate Mosse - I Am Heathcliff

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Roald Dahl - George’s Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Stephen King - Pet Sematary

LJ Smith - Forbidden Game

LJ Smith - The Vampire Diaries

Angela Carter - Bloody Chamber

Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter - New Eve

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Angela Carter - Wise Children

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Simon James Green - Noah Can’t Even

Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison - Lobsters

Armistead Maupin - Babycakes

Armistead Maupin - More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Significant Others

Armistead Maupin - Further Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Sure of You

Armistead Maupin - Michael Tolliver Lives

Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Judith Kerr - A Small Person Far Away

Stephen King - Misery

Juno Dawson - Say Her Name

Michelle Paver - Dark Matter

Patrick Ness - Chaos Walking

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls

Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Dick Bruna - A Story To Tell

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Juno Dawson - Hollow Pike

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Angie Thomas - Hate U Give

Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree

John Green - The Fault in Our Stars

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25. Holly Bourne May 20, 2019

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

BOOKS:

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sonder & Tell (Edit) - Comfort Zones

Holly Bourne - How Do You Like Me Know?

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Irvin D Yalom - Love’s Executioner

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

Stephen King - On Writing

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Judy Blume - Forever

Norton Anthology of English Literature

Judy Blume - Summer Sisters

Elizabeth Gilbert - Committed

Germaine Greer - Female Eunuch

Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts

Leila Slimani - Adele

Leila Slimani - Lullaby

Louise Rennison - Complete Georgia Nicolson

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Holly Bourne - It Only Happens in the Movies

David Nicholls - One Day

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Louise Rennison - Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas

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

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Kate Cann - Hard Cash

Kate Cann - Footloose

Kate Cann - In The Deep End

Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Holly Bourne - What a Girls Gotta Do

Holly Smale - Geek Girl

Angie Thomas - Hate U Give

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

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24. Julie Cohen May 13, 2019

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Anna Hope - Expectation

Julie Cohen - Together

Julie Cohen - Louis & Louise

Stephen Wade - Conan Doyle & the Crimes Club

Arthur Conan Doyle - Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes

Judy Blume - Forever

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

William March - The Bad Seed

Phillip Roth - The Breast

William Peter Blatty. - The Exorcist

Stephen King - Elevation

Julian Barnes - Arthur & George

John Irving - Cider House Rules

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany

Jody Picoult - A Spark of Light

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle

Julie Cohen - One Night Stand

Julie Cohen - Being a Bad Girl

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Julie Cohen - Featured Attraction

Julie Cohen - Delicious

Julie Cohen - Driving Him Wild

Julie Cohen - All Work and No Play

Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel

Julie Cohen - Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Louis Sachar - Holes

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Ann Rule - Stranger Beside Me

Hallie Rubenhold - The Five

Hallie Rubenhold - Covent Garden Ladies

Ric Menck - Notorious Byrd Brothers

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson

Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Jackie Collins - World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Tara Westover - Educated

Anne Fadiman - Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

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23. Erin Kelly May 06, 2019

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elaine Dundy - The Injured Party

Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Kerry Hudson - Thirst

Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me

Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jacqueline Wilson - Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson - The Suitcase Kid

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Lois Duncan - Stranger With My Face

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Stephen King - Carrie

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Virginia Andrews - Garden of Shadows

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Shelley Harris - Vigilante

Carol Ann Duffy - Collected Poems

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Erin Kelly - The Burning Air

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

SJ Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

Andrea Newman - Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Andrea Newman - A Sense of Guilt

Andrea Newman -Three Into Two Won’t Go

Andrea Newman - A Share of the World

Daisy Johnson - Fen

Eley Williams - Attrib

Helen Simpson - Cockfosters

Anna Hope - Expectation

Anna Hope - The Ballroom

Sally Rooney - Normal People

JT Leroy - Sarah

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

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22. Sarah Maria Griffin Apr 29, 2019

This week we're travelling to Dublin to meet the wonderful author, poet, journalist and podcaster Sarah Maria Griffin. Sarah's first book, Not Lost was an essay collection concerning a year spent in San Francisco. She then authored the critically acclaimed novels Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke. We talked to her about pilgrimages, the importance of helping others, video games and the amazing array of Irish women writers currently working.

BOOK (CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarah Maria Griffin - Not Lost

Sarah Maria Griffin - Found and Spare Parts

Sarah Maria Griffin - Other Words For Smoke

Aoife Dooley - How to Deal with Poxes

Shanny Jean Maney - I Love Science

Anthony Bourdain - Hungry Ghosts

Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

MFK Fisher - Consider the Oyster

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

Maeve Higgins - Maeve in America

Emilie Pine - Notes to Self

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Deirdre Sullivan - Tangleweed and Brine

Moira Fowley-Doyle - The Accident Season

June Caldwell - Little Town Moone

Louise O’Neill - The Surface Breaks

Eimear McBride - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking

Caroline O’Donoghue - Promising Young Women

Dorothy Macardle - The Uninvited

Tana French - In The Woods

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Belinda McKeon - Tender

Belinda McKeon - Solace

Dave Rudden - 12 Angels Weeping

Sarah Davis Goff - Last Ones Left Alive

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Douglas Coupland - Bit Rot

Douglas Coupland - Generation X

Glen David Gold - Carter Beats the Devil

Douglas Coupland - Microserfs

Jilly Cooper - Riders

C. Spike Trotman - Smut Peddler

Luke Pearson - Hilda

Nuala O’Connor - Becoming Belle

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Sarah Manguso - 300 Arguments

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

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - The Importance of Being Aisling

Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners

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21. Barbara Trapido Apr 22, 2019

We are beyond excited and honoured to bring you this conversation with one of our all-time favourite authors Barbara Trapido! Barbara is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack, The Travelling Hornplayer and Frankie and Stankie. All are beautifully written, gloriously funny and incredibly moving. Barbara is a true marvel and we were thrilled to travel to her home in Oxford to talk about sex, feet, work habits and future projects.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Barbara Trapido - Noah’s Ark

Barbara Trapido - Juggling

Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Sex and Stravinsky

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Jane Gardam - Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam - Bilgewater

Jane Gardam - A Long Way From Verona

Jane Gardam - Crusoe's Daughter

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Mary Wesley - Not That Sort of Girl

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Lorna Hill - A Dream of Sadlers Wells

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Keith Gessen - A Terrible Country

Iris Murdoch - Under The Net

Heinrich Hoffmann - Der Struwwelpeter

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Cicely Mary Barker - Flower Fairies

Beatrix Potter - Complete Tales

Luis Coloma - Perez The Mouse

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

Lucy Mair - Witchcraft

Mary Douglas - Leviticus as Literature

FG Bailey - Gifts and Poisons

Yasmin Khan - Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Deborah Moggach - These Foolish Things

Elaine Dundy - The Dud Avocado

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Peter May - China Thrillers

James Joyce - Ulysses

Shena Mackay - Orchard on Fire

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jack Newnham - Kites To Make and Fly

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

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BONUS: Deborah Moggach Live at the London Book Fair Apr 08, 2019

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

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Deborah Moggach - The Carer

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach - These Foolish Things

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

E Griffith - Modern Marriage and Birth Control

Beatrix Potter - Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Tom Kitten

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl

Eve Babitz - Black Swans

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and The Six

Richmal Crompton - Just William

Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives Tale

Anne Tyler - The Accidental Tourist

Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps

Deborah Moggach - The Ex Wives

Saul Bellow - Herzog

Deborah Moggach - Changing Babies

JG Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur

George Eliot - Middlemarch

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20. Sinéad Gleeson Mar 25, 2019

It's our first INTERNATIONAL edition as we travel to Dublin to talk to author, journalist, poet and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson. Sinéad is a powerhouse who has written essays and poems for a huge range of publications, edited various anthologies and hosted the Book Show on RTÉ Radio One. Her acclaimed new essay collection Constellations deals with the body in its various incarnations. We talked to Sinéad about poetry, horror, frogs and inappropriate literary crushes.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Paige Toon - If You Can Go Anywhere

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sinéad Gleeson - Constellations

Niven Govinden - This Brutal House

Niven Govinden - Black Bread White Beer

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie - Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Alfred Hitchcock - Bar the Doors

Alfred Hitchcock - Ghostly Gallery

Various - Irish Tales of Terror

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Judy Blume - Forever

Edna O’Brien - Country Girls

Various - The Long Gaze Back

Nora Hoult - Cocktail Bar

Daphne Du Maurier - Don’t Look Now

Daphne Du Maurier - House on the Strand

Daphne Du Maurier - The Birds

Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

Evie Wyld - After the Fire a Still Small Voice

Evie Wyld - All the Birds Singing

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Nella Larsen - Passing

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Robert Seethaler - A Whole Life

Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Edna O’Brien - Paradise

Sally Rooney - Mr Salary

Djuna Barnes - Nightwood

Samuel Beckett - Dante and the Lobster

Jon Day - Cyclogeography

Darryl Jones - Sleeping With the Lights On

Joanna Walsh - Hotel

AN Devers - Trains

Leslie Jamison - Empathy Exams

Roxanne Gay - Hunger

Sarah Davis-Goff - Last Ones Left Alive

Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women

Olivia Sudjic - Sympathy

Olivia Sudjic - Exposure

Martina Evans - We Can Talk Openly About Men

Liz Berry - Republic of Motherhood

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19. Christina Patterson Mar 18, 2019

This week we're in a converted school in London to meet with author, journalist and broadcaster Christina Patterson. Christina's memoir The Art of Not Falling Apart is a remarkable and moving look at our emotional relationship with work and expectation. As both a book lover and a book reviewer, Christina might hold the record for You're Booked guest with the largest library. We talked to her about sex, death, poetry and Enid Blyton.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Christina Patterson - The Art of Not Falling Apart

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible

Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Jonathan Coe - The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Iris Murdoch - Sacred & Profane Love Machine

Iris Murdoch - The Sea The Sea

Patricia Volk - The Art of Being a Woman

AL Kennedy - The Little Snake

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

John Burnside - A Summer of Drowning

John Burnside - The Mercy Boys

John Burnside - The Locust Room

John Burnside - Burning Elvis

Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City

Candace Bushnell - 1 Fifth Avenue

Mary Dearborn - Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Ernest Hemingway - Old Man and The Sea

Roland Barthes - Image Music Text

Various - Every Woman’s Book of Health and Beauty

Nora Ephron - I Remember Nothing

Raymond Carver - All of Us

Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

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18. Angela Clarke Mar 11, 2019

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

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Joseph Mitchell - McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Angela Clarke - On My Life

Angela Clarke - Follow Me

Angela Clarke - Watch Me

Angela Clarke - Trust Me

Roald Dahl - Cruelty/Madness/Lust

Steve Cavanagh - Twisted

Alan Partridge - Nomad

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth Jane Howard: Dangerous Innocence

Claire McGowan - Dead Ground

Claire McGowan - Savage Hunger

Claire McGowan - Silent Dead

Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey Stories

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Louisa M Alcott - Little Women

Agatha Christie - 4.50 From Paddington

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Agatha Christie - Curtain

Nikita Gill - Fierce Fairytales

John Donne - Selected Poems

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls

George Orwell - 1984

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Judy Blume - Forever

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Susan Meredith - Usborne Facts of Life, Growing Up

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Carl E. Rollyson - Martha Gellhorn: Beautiful Exile

Manolo Blahnik - Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions

Stephan P Clarke - The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion

Luke Jennings - Codename Villanelle

Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do

John Curran - Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks

Agatha Christie - An Autobiography

William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade

Georgette Heyer - Christmas Party

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

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BONUS: Daisy Buchanan on Literary Sisters and The Sisterhood Mar 07, 2019

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

Get your copy here from themargatebookshop.com

DAISY'S FAVOURITE BOOKS ABOUT SISTERS:

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Jane Austen -Pride and Prejudice

Curtis Sittenfeld -Sisterland

Jessica Knoll - The Favourite Sister

Marian Keyes - Watermelon

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Beverly Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Naomi Jackson - The Star Side of Bird Hill

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17. Philippa Perry Mar 04, 2019

This week we're heading to North London to meet the author, broadcaster, journalist and psychotherapist Philippa Perry. As we met in Philippa's kitchen, it seemed only fair that she baked us a delicious vegetable pie as a treat. In between furtive strokes of Kevin the cat, we talked about falling out of love with Jane Austen, holiday reading, family dramas and wrangling with a Kindle.

BOOKS (Click on the titles for more)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Philippa Perry - The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Kerry Hudson - Lowborn

Kerry Hudson - Tony Hogan Bought Ae an Ice-Cream Float Before He Stole My Ma

Kerry Hudson - Thirst

Bernardine Evaristo - Mr Loverman

Damian Barr - You Will Be Safe Here

Damian Barr - Maggie and Me

Robert Galbraith - Lethal White

Xiaolu Guo - A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary For Lovers

Rachel Edwards - Darling

Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires

Eric Morecambe - Mr Lonely

Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated

Will Self - Umbrella

Deborah Orr - Motherwell

Philippa Perry - Couch Fiction

Harvey Pekar - American Splendor

Marilynne Robinson - Lila

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Anne Tyler - Spool of Blue Thread

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Further Tales of the City

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

Viv Groskop - How To Own the Room

David F. Lancy - The Anthropology of Childhood

Carmel Schrire - Past and Present in Hunter Gatherer Studies

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Jane Harper - The Dry

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

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16. Hannah Beckerman Feb 25, 2019

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

BOOKS (Click on titles for more)

Hannah Beckerman - If Only I Could Tell You

Bill Clegg - Did You Ever Have a Family?

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Liar

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Waking Lions

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Anne Digby - Trebizon

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Jackie Collins - The Santangelos

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Noel Streatfeild - Apple Bough

Stephen Moss - Dynasties

Various - Explanatorium of Nature

Ruth Symons - Story of Life: Evolution

Gabrielle Balkan & Sam Brewster - Book of Bones

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

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

Rebecca Reid - Perfect Liars

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Agatha Christie

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Audrey Hepburn

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Select Poems

Andrew Thomson & Heidi Postlewait - Emergency Sex

Various - Greek Island Hopping

Maggie O’Farrell - This Must Be The Place

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sigmund Freud - Collected Works

Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Sarah Waters - Tipping The Velvet

Phillip Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint

Phillip Roth - American Pastoral

Lisa Halliday - Asymmetry

David Nichols - One Day

David Nichols - Us

Edward St Aubyn - Some Hope

Anita Brookner - Family and Friends

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber

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15. Sarah Knight Feb 18, 2019

In an episode with a slight difference, we meet the multi-million-book bestselling, Marie Kondo of feelings, Sarah Knight. Sarah is the celebrated author of The Life Changing Magic Of Not Giving A F**k, and changed her life by moving to the Dominican Republic. Sadly we could not afford to go to the Dominican Republic so we caught up with Sarah at Foyles bookshop in London, during her UK tour for her brilliant new book Calm The F**k Down. Sarah discusses discovering talent, her love of Doritos eating and the one (ONE!) physical book that she owns.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE INFO)

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

Sarah Knight - Calm the F**k Down

Sarah Knight - Get Your Sh*t Together

Sarah Knight - You Do You

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn - Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn - Dark Places

Morag Joss - Half Broken Things

John Irving - A Prayer for Owen Meany

PD Eastman - Go Dog Go

John Berendt - Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Jonathan Harr - A Civil Action

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Erik Larson - Devil in the White City

Emma Morgan - A Love Story for Bewildered Girls

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

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14. Sophie Kinsella Feb 11, 2019

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 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. We talked about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four copies of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch…

BOOKS (CLICK FOR MORE)

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

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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13. Lauren Bravo Feb 04, 2019

We're venturing deep into East London this week to peruse the library of journalist and author Lauren Bravo. Lauren recently released What Would The Spice Girls Do? a joyous and energetic celebration of girlhood, friendship and pop culture. A wide ranging discussion covered the use of wee in James Joyce, Colin Firth in your pencil case, upsetting Ali Smith and an extraordinarily accurate Psammead impression.

BOOKS (CLICK FOR MORE)

Lauren Bravo - What Would The Spice Girls Do?

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

Nora Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

Gabrielle Fernie - Lush

Tara Westover - Educated

James Joyce - Ulysses

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened

Noel Streatfeild - Party Frock

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - The Bell Family

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones Edge of Reason

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Baby

Helen Fielding - Olivia Joules and the Overactive Imagination

Ruby Ferguson - Jill’s Pony Trek

Jane Shaw - Susan at School

Jane Shaw - Susan Rushes In

Jane Shaw - Susan’s Helping Hand

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Anne Digby - First Term at Trebizon

Ana Sampson - She is Fierce

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

Nina Stibbe - Man at the Helm

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Charles Dickens - A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Various - Norton Anthology of Poetry

Ovid - Metamorphosis

Jilly Cooper - Mount

Geoffrey Chaucer - The Riverside Chaucer

Barbara Kingsolver - The Poisonwood Bible

Barbara Kingsolver - The Lacuna

Donna Tartt - The Little Friend

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Meena Kandasamy - When I Hit You

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Carson McCullers - The Member of the Wedding

Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter

Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

Toni Morrison - Jazz

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Heather Havrilesky - How to be a Person in the World

Sloan Crosley - I Was Told There’d be Cake

Helen MacDonald - H is For Hawk

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Barbara Trapido - Temples of Delight

Barbara Trapido - Juggling

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

E Nesbit - The Story of the Treasure Seekers

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Rebecca Reid - Perfect Liars

Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full-Frontal Snogging

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12. Charlie Connelly Jan 28, 2019

This week we're travelling to sunny Deal on the Kent coast to peruse the shelving of author, travel writer, sports scribe and broadcaster Charlie Connelly. Charlie has written books on a baffling array of subjects including Elvis, walking, weather and World War I. He is perhaps best known for his glorious book about the Shipping Forecast, Attention All Shipping and he has just released a wonderful book about the magic of radio listening, Last Train To Hilversum. We talked to Charlie about cricket, gothic plagiarists, fighting Ben Fogle and loving Margaret Rutherford.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)