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  • Christmas has come early! And do we have a festive treat for you! It's a funny, thrilling and thorough chat with returning champ Helen Lederer! We visited Helen's home back in 2019, but now she's coming to us, visiting the prestigious Margate Bookie book festival in front of an ecstatic audience. We talked to her about her legendary comedy career (including the people she got off with), the game-changing Comedy Women in Print Prize that she instigated, her hilarious books Losing It and Not That I'm Bitter, the mindbending experience that was Celebrity Big Brother and almost getting a tattoo. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Helen Lederer - Not That I'm Bitter

    Helen Lederer - Losing It

    Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking

    Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Miranda July - All Fours

    Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

    John Betjeman - Collected Poems


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  • It's our season finale! And we are spending it with an absolute legend. Miranda Sawyer is a brilliant and inspirational journalist, broadcaster and author. She started her career at the iconic Smash Hits and has since worked for practically every major newspaper and magazine including The Face, Select, The Guardian, The Observer and Vogue. She's the author of the books Park and Ride, Out of Time and her latest Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs. We talked to Miranda about the women of Britpop, the genius of Smash Hits, corresponding with Joan Didion and getting off with Grace Jones. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Miranda Sawyer - Uncommon People

    Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

    Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

    Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

    Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

    Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

    Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

    Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

    Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

    Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

    Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

    Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

    Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

    Jessica Stanley - Consider Yourself Kissed

    Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

    Jude Rogers - The Sound of Being Human

    Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With the Band

    Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

    Vivien Goldman - Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz

    Michael Cragg - Reach For the Stars

    Craig Brown - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

    Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

    Oliver Burkeman - Meditations For Mortals

    Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks

    Patrick Freyne - Ok Lets Do Your Stupid Idea


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  • Get ready for a really fun, warm and refreshing chat with one of our favourite authors, the brilliant Amanda Prowse! Amanda is an Internationally bestselling author of novels, non-fiction books and short stories, whose books have been published worldwide in dozens of languages. Her chart topping titles include What Have I Done?, Perfect Daughter, My Husband’s Wife, The Girl in the Corner and her latest is the wonderful Swimming to Lundy. We talked to her about magic, library love, literary Christmas gift ideas, the joy of annuals and the genius of Maeve Binchy. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

    Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

    The Bunty Annual

    The Mandy Annual

    The Beano Annual

    Jackie - 60 Years of Magic

    Jill Mansell - Promise Me

    Katie Hickman - She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India

    Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves

    Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

    Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

    Persephone Books

    Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

    Shirley Conran - Lace

    Danielle Steele - Palazzo

    VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

    Jilly Cooper - Rivals

    Jilly Cooper - Polo

    Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

    Rufi Thorpe - Margot's Got Money Troubles

    Callum Robinson - Ingrained

    Carol Ann Duffy - Three Wise Men

    Chapter 34 Books

    Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You'll Go

    Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better

    Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas

    Diana Henry - Simple

    Nigel Slater - A Thousand Feasts

    Jane Austen - Persuasion

    Thomas Hardy - Collected Poems

    Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

    Charles Dickens - Bleak House

    Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

    Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

    Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

    Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy

    Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House

    Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

    Holly Bourne - You Could Be So Pretty

    Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

    Daniel Handler - And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life

    Bruce Omar Yates - The Muslim Cowboy

    Shelby Van Pelt - Remarkably Bright Creatures


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  • This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone

    Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe

    Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

    JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

    JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

    Brian Jacques - Mossflower

    Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

    AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh

    Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

    Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel

    Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat

    Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic

    Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley

    Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking

    Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

    Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast

    Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear

    Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

    JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

    Jill Murphy - Worst Witch

    Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

    Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies

    Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

    Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

    George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

    George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain

    Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born

    Madeline Linford - Out of the Window

    Tessa Hadley - Free Love

    Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing

    Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

    Charles Darwin - Bleak House

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

    Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

    John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo

    John Ransom - The Gallopers

    Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go

    Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry

    Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends

    Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman

    Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls

    Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle

    Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

    Nikki May - This Motherless Land

    Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

    Nikki May - Wahala

    Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

    Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

    Octavia Butler - Kindred


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  • This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin

    Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin

    Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store

    Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry

    Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile

    Much Ado Bookshop

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

    Robert Lowell - Imitations

    Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey

    Donna Tartt - The Secret History

    Roberto Bolano - 2666

    Paul Beatty - The Sellout

    Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

    Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga

    Jilly Cooper - Rivals

    John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure

    MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me

    Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork

    Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now

    Tim Spector - Food For Life

    Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People

    Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts

    Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

    Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street

    David Niven - Moon's a Balloon

    Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

    Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up

    Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

    Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor

    Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

    Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025

    Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

    Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

    Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

    Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

    Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

    Lizzy Stewart - Alison

    Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

    Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

    Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires

    Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

    Laurie colwin - Home Cooking

    Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

    Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time

    India Knight - Darling

    Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

    Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin

    Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue

    Time Life Editors - Patisserie

    Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

    Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin

    Bee Wilson - Swindled

    Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World

    Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are

    Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

    Diana Vreeland - DV

    Diana Vreeland - Memos


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  • This week we welcome another publishing legend onto the podcast. It's the amazing Liane Moriarty! Liane has sold over 20 million books worldwide and her novels have been translated into forty languages. Her blockbusters Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall and Nine Perfect Strangers have been adapted into hugely successful TV shows. Her latest novel is the gripping, mysterious Here One Moment. We talked to her about her fellow novelist sisters, extended literary universes, the first book to make her cry and a particularly disturbing sex scene from Jaws. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers

    Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

    Liane Moriarty - Here One Moment

    Anna Quindlen - After Annie

    Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

    Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians

    PL Travers - Mary Poppins

    Peter Benchley - Jaws

    Michael Coleman - One, Two, Three, Oops! 

    LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

    LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

    Joanna Trollope - The Choir

    Alice Winn - In Memoriam

    Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

    Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

    Catherine Newman - Sandwich

    Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

    Michelle Gallen - Factory Girls

    Claire Lombardo - Same as it Ever Was

    Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

    Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist

    Shelia Heti - Motherhood

    Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Karen Joy Fowler - Booth

    Mary Wesley - A Sensible Life

    Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

    Daisy Buchanan - Careering

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Lizzy Stewart - Alison

    Barbara Trapido - Noah's Ark

    Barbara Trapido - Traveling Hornplayer

    Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

    Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

    Marian Keyes - Rachels Holiday

    Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

    Marian Keyes - Anybody Out There

    Nicola Moriarty - You Need To Know

    Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

    Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

    Audrey Niffenegger - Time Traveler's Wife

    Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

    Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

    Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

    Jane Harper - The Dry

    Sally Hepworth - The Family Next Door

    Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

    Patricia Highsmith - Diaries

    Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

    Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

    Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

    Emma Forrest - Father Figure

    Matt Haig - Midnight Library

    Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

    Bella Mackie - What a Way to Go

    Mary Beth Keane - The Half Moon

    Mary Lawson - Crow Lake

    Elizabeth Berg - Say When

    Jo Jo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes


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  • This week on the podcast we're entertaining one of our favourite writers and one of our favourite people. The brilliant Holly Williams! Holly is a journalist and author who writes about books and theatre for everyone from The Observer to the New York Times and is the author of two fantastic novels, What Time is Love and The Start of Something. We traveled to Holly's wonderful Sheffield home and talked to her about the Tolstoy family dynasty, cosy planning. life lessons from Marian Keyes, generating a poetry habit and books so engrossing you miss your train connection. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy.

    BOOKS

    Holly Williams - What Time is Love

    Holly Williams - Start of Something

    Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

    Holly Williams - Living With Leo

    Ali Smith - Winter

    Ali Smith - How To Be Both

    Zadie Smith - On Beauty

    Ted Hughes - Selected Poems

    Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems

    Paul Muldoon - Selected Poems

    Don Paterson - Selected Poems

    Julia Cameron - Artist's Way

    Ocean Vuong - Time is a Mother

    Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Helen Mort - Illustrated Woman

    Hannah Sullivan - Three Poems

    Sharon Olds - Stag's Leap

    Ross Gay - The Book of Delights

    JB Priestly - Delight

    RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

    Lauren Bravo - Preloved

    Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

    Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day

    Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

    Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

    Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

    Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

    Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

    Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

    Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

    Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

    Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

    Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

    Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

    Celia Paul - Self-Portrait

    Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

    Daisy Buchanan - Careering

    Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde

    Victoria Wood - Chunky

    Jesse Armstrong - Succession scripts

    JB Priestly - An Inspector Calls

    Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus

    Timberlake Wertenbaker - The Love of the Nightingale

    Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country's Good

    Peter Barnes - The Ruling Class

    Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

    Virginia Woolf - Diaries

    Virginia Woolf - Letters

    Charles Dickens - Bleak House

    Various - Weird Walk

    Jilly Cooper - Riders

    Kathryn Scanlan - Kick the Latch

    Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot

    Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona

    Jen Calleja - Vehicle

    Akwaeke Emezi - You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

    Lizzy Stewart - Alison 

    Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings

    Ella Frears - Goodlord

    Philip Pullman - Book of Dust

    Philip Pullman - Northern Lights


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  • More legends of literature are dropping by as we welcome bestselling author and crime icon Paula Hawkins! Paula's first book was the phenomenal The Girl on the Train which sold over 20 million copies and was translated into over 50 languages. She followed it up with the bestsellers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning. Her latest is the highly anticipated The Blue Hour. We talked to her about art books, the writers so good they make you want to give up, great authors from Zimbabwe and being disappointed by a lack of Wombles. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train

    Paula Hawkins - The Blue Hour

    Eleanor Clayton - Barbara Hepworth

    Celia Paul - Self Portrait

    Patrick Elliot - Joan Eardley

    Walter De La Mare - The Three Royal Monkeys

    Enid Blyton - The Famous Five

    Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

    Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles

    Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

    Geoffrey of Monmouth - History of the Kings of Britain

    Ali Smith - Autumn

    Zadie Smith - Intimations

    Sarah Moss - The Fell

    Sigrid Nunez - The Friend

    Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through

    Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables

    Benjamin Moser - Sontag

    Sigrid Nunez - Sempre Susan

    Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

    Pat Barker - The Regeneration Trilogy

    Pat Barker - Life Class

    Pat Barker - Silence of the Girls

    Pat Barker - The Women of Troy

    Pat Barker - Voyage Home

    Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger

    Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

    Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

    Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

    Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone

    Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

    Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

    Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

    Caroline Kepnes - You

    Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

    Colleen Hoover - It Ends With Us

    Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

    Sally Rooney - Normal People

    Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

    Carys Davies - Clear

    Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up

    Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

    Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

    Tsitsi Dangarembga - This Mournable Body

    Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions

    Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly

    Petina Gappah - Rotten Row

    Raymond Carver - Cathedral

    Kate Atkinson - Normal Rules Don't Apply

    Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

    Evie Wyld - The Echoes

    Evie Wyld - All the Birds Singing

    Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional

    Charlotte Wood - The Weekend


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  • We are graced with undeniable literary royalty this week. It's the stupendous, legendary Jodi Picoult! Jodi Picoult is the New York Times bestselling author of 29 novels, including Mad Honey, Wish You Were Here, The Book of Two Ways, A Spark of Light, Small Great Things, Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, and My Sister's Keeper, and, with her daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She has won numerous awards, including a lifetime achievement award from the Romance Writers of America, and her work has been translated into 34 languages. Her latest is the highly anticipated By Any Other Name. We talked to her about erotic Shakespeare poetry, the book that inspired her to be a writer, perfect books to swim to and the message Judy Blume wrote in Jodi's copy of Forever. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

    William Shakespeare - Complete Works

    Elizabeth Winkler - Shakespeare Was a Woman

    Maurice Sendak - Where the Wild Things Are

    Sydney Taylor - All-of-a-Kind Family

    Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

    Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds

    William Shakespeare - Complete Sonnets and Poems

    Judy Blume - Forever

    Ernest Hemingway - The Sun Also Rises

    Martin Amis - The Rachel Papers

    Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers

    Don DeLillo - Underworld

    Lindsey Kelk - Love Story

    Emily Henry - Beach Read

    Brigid Kemmerer - A Curse So Dark and Lonely

    Scarlett St. Clair - A Touch of Darkness

    Amanda Bouchet - A Promise of Fire

    Maria Vale - Molly Molloy and the Angel of Death

    Edmond Rostand - Cyrano De Bergerac

    Leigh Bardugo - The Familiar

    Miranda July - All Fours

    Miranda July - No One Belongs Here More Than You

    William Thackeray - Vanity Fair

    Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

    Isak Dinesen - Babette's Feast and Other Stories

    Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Out of Africa

    Karen Blixen/Isak Dinesen - Shadows in the Grass

    Joyce Carol Oates - Blonde

    LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

    LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

    Alice Hoffman - The Dovekeepers

    Alice Hoffman - The World That We Knew

    Jojo Moyes - Me Before You


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  • This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television documentaries and hosts the 'Dawn Loves' WH Smith book club. We talked to her about the genius of Jeanette Winterson, inappropriate honeymoon beach reading, books about farts and how deviating from the TBR pile can lead you to your new favourite book. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

    BOOKS

    Dawn O'Porter - Honey Bee

    Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

    Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

    Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplanes

    Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

    Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

    Paul Murray - The Bee Sting

    Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

    Miriam Toews -Fight Night

    Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

    Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up

    Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

    Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising

    Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

    Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

    Eve Babitz - Two By Two

    Eve Babitz - I Used to be Charming

    Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

    Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

    Charles Dickens - Bleak House

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

    James Carlisle - The Big Book of Farts

    JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

    Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

    Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

    Dawn O'Porter - Cat Lady

    Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

    Miranda July - The First Bad Man

    Miranda July - All Fours

    Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

    Asako Yuzuki - Butter

    Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

    Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

    Laura Dockrill - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You


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  • We're back! And we're kicking off series 16 in style with the brilliant author, journalist and broadcaster Bella Mackie! Bella is the author of the inspirational running book Jog On, the bestselling How To Kill Your Family and her highly anticipated latest What a Way To Go. We talked to her about the importance of Judy Blume, funny books, finding the right book at the right time and vanishing chickens. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

    Bella Mackie - What a Way To Go

    Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

    JRR Tolkien - Hobbit

    Ian Serraillier - Silver Sword

    Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

    Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Night

    Richie Tankersley Cusick - Point Horror: The Lifeguard

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

    Judy Blume - Forever

    Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High: Perfect Summer

    Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

    Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

    Marina Hyde - What Just Happened

    Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

    Lili Anolik - Didion & Babitz

    Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

    Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Long Island Compromise

    Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

    Charles Dickens - Bleak House

    Jilly Cooper - Rivals

    Taylor Jenkins-Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

    Robert Harris - Precipice

    William Boyd - Any Human Heart

    Samantha Harvey - Orbital

    Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

    Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

    Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

    Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

    Jonathan Keates - La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

    Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

    Sloane Crosley - Grief is For People

    James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

    Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love

    PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

    Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

    Joel Golby - Four Stars

    Miriam Toews - Fight Night

    Elizabeth Heichelbech - Chopin in Kentucky

    Tom Lamont - Going Home

    LP Hartley - The Go Between

    Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

    Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

    Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

    EB White - Essays

    EB White - Charlotte's Web

    Gay Talese - Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

    Calvin Trilling - The Chicken Vanishes


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  • We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, disaster reading, the importance of pretension and reading the Ikea catalogue for fun. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/


    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things 

    Catherine Newman - Sandwich

    Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

    Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

    Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

    Laurie Colwin - Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object

    Nora Ephron - Most of Nora Ephron

    Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

    Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

    Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

    Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

    Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

    F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

    Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good...

    Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea

    Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

    Madeleine L'engle  - Wrinkle in Time

    Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

    Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

    JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

    Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

    William Golding - Lord of the Flies

    Arthur Ramsome - Swallows and Amazons

    E Nesbit - The Lark

    Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

    Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom

    Eva Ibbotson - Dragonfly Pool


    Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea

    Roald Dahl - Henry Sugar

    Miye Lee - DallerGut Dream Department Store

    Stephen King - Carrie

    Stephen King - The Shining

    Lily King - Writers & Lovers

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

    Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

    James Joyce - Ulysses

    Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

    Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths

    Italio Calvino - If On a Winter's Night...

    Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

    Carol Shields - Larry's Party

    Sue Miller - Monogamy

    Tessa Hadley - After the Funeral

    Tessa Hadley - Free Love

    Miriam Toews - Fight Night

    Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

    Alison Espach - The Wedding People

    Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

    Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

    Rufi Thorpe - Margo's Got Money Troubles

    Rufi Thorpe - The Knockout Queen

    Nussaibah Younis - Fundamentally


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  • We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' folder, the importance of showing up for work, the power of the Famous Five, inspirational re-reads and the happiness experienced when a character's voice returns to you. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy


    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice

    Abi Daré - And So I Roar

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

    Zadie Smith - White Teeth

    Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

    Enid Blyton - Famous Five

    Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight

    Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

    Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

    James Patterson - Roses Are Red

    John Grisham - The Rainmaker

    Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

    Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

    Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

    Alice Walker - Colour Purple

    Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

    Tara Westover - Educated

    Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

    Safiya Sinclair - How To Say Babylon

    Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

    Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

    Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

    Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

    Catherine Newman - Sandwich

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

    William Boyd - Mirror and the Road

    William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

    William Boyd - Any Human Heart

    Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

    Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

    Daisy Buchanan - Careering

    Charmaine Wilkerson - Good Dirt

    Foluso Agbaje - Parlour Wife


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  • This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Temperance book, Deja Dead, won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Many other novels followed including Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Monday Mourning and many more. She also co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her latest thriller is Fire and Bones. Kathy also produced and wrote the hit TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. We talked to her about the mystery of the mobile library, the joy of audio books and the best forensic science books for kids! Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Kathy Reichs - Fire and Bones

    Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead

    Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

    Michael Connelly - Desert Star

    Karin Slaughter - Pieces of Her

    Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

    Kathy Reichs - Virals

    Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

    Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

    Michael Connelly - Concrete Blond

    Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

    Douglas P. Lyle - Forensics For Dummies

    Chris Cooper - Forensic Science

    Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

    HA Rey - Curious George

    JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

    Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem

    Erik Larson - Devil in the White City

    Erik Larson - Isaac's Strom

    Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

    Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

    Brene Brown - Daring Greatly

    Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

    Jacqueline Winspear - The Comfort of Ghosts

    Alex Finlay - The Night Shift

    Joseph Finder - Oligarch's Daughter


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  • This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive book collecting, Kurt Vonnegut's library, the importance of art and what to say when you meet Patti Smith. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack...

    BOOKS

    Robin Ince - Bibliomaniac

    Rosie Dixon - Confessions from a Package Tour

    Rosie Dixon - Confessions of a Physical WRAC

    Jeremy Cooper - Brian

    Geoff Dyer - Zona

    Geoff Dyer - Colour of Memory

    Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful

    Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

    Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

    Geoff Dyer - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

    Various - For Ian Charleson: A Tribute

    Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden

    Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography

    Margaret Rutherford - A Blithe Spirit

    Robert Helpmann - Album

    Kenneth Williams - Diaries

    William Hughes - Performance

    Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter

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

    Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

    Katherine May - Wintering

    Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

    Sinead O Connor - Rememberings

    Diana Athill - Stet

    Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

    Miranda Seymour - Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

    Jean Rhys - Letters

    Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise

    Camilla Grudova - Dolls Alphabet

    Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

    Toni Morrison - Beloved

    Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

    Lewis Hancox - Welcome To St Hell

    Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

    Natasha Walter - Before the Light Fades

    The Cut - Assisted Suicide...

    Miranda July - All Fours

    Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women

    Natalie Haynes - Divine Might

    Sam Hunter - Robert Rauschenberg

    Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

    John Updike - More Matter

    William Burroughs - Junky

    Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

    Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

    Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero - Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

    Martin Ed Myrone - Gothic Reader

    Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

    Sinead Gleason & Kim Gordon - This Woman's Work

    Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

    Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

    Arundhati Roy - AZADI

    Alan Moore - Lost Girls

    John Hegley - New & Selected Potatoes

    John Le Carre - Letters

    Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds

    Polly Barton - Porn

    Ronan Hession - Leonard & Hungry Paul

    Maggie Nelson - Bluets

    Edna O'Brien - Country Girls

    Claire Keegan - Foster


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  • This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Ericka Waller - Dog Days

    Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

    Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive

    V. V. Ganeshananthan - Brotherless Night

    Ann Morgan - Reading the World

    Kristin Hannah - The Women

    Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost

    Sarah Moss - The Good Bright Wolf

    Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

    Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

    Hans Christian Andersen - Matchstick Girl

    Joanna Quinn - Whalebone Theatre

    Michelle Magorian - Back Home

    Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

    Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

    Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

    Eva Ibbotson - Journey To the River Sea

    Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist

    Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

    Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers

    Ruth Coker Burks - All the Young Men

    Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

    Armistead Maupin - Logical Family

    Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars

    Jerry Zucker - True Story of Airplane!

    Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather

    Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

    Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

    Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey

    Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

    Colm Toibin - Long Island

    Tommy Cooper - Joke Book

    John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines

    EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

    Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

    Melissa Broder - The Pisces

    Crystal Jeans - The Inverts

    Paullina Simons - Bronze Horseman

    Paullina Simons - Girl in Times Square

    Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

    Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Nathan Hill - Wellness

    Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons Dangereuse

    Philippe Djian - Betty Blue

    Penelope Douglas - Bully

    LJ Shen - Hunter

    Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

    Ali Hazelwood - Love Hypothesis

    Sally Thorne - Hating Game

    Lindsey Kelk - Love Story

    Emily Henry - Beach Read

    Casey McQuiston - Red White and Royal Blue

    Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land

    Anthony Doerr - All The Light...

    Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

    Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was

    Catherine Newman - We All Want...

    Tish Delaney - Before My Actual Heart Breaks

    Miriam Toews - Fight Night

    Mhairi McFarlane - Between Us

    Jane Green - Jemima J

    Freya North - Sally

    Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

    Louise Beech - Lion Tamer Who Lost

    Emma Jane Kirby - Optician of Lampedusa

    Harriet F Townson - D is for Death

    Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

    Brianna Labuskes - Librarian of Burned Books

    Liz Hyder - The Illusions

    Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea


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  • Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.

    Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

    BOOKS

    Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl

    Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

    Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

    Augusten Burroughs - Dry

    Sarah Hepola - Blackout

    Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness

    Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted

    Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

    Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

    The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood

    Jilly Cooper - Rivals

    Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

    Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even

    Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides

    Catherine Newman - Sandwich

    Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

    Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

    Kiley Reid - Come and Get it

    Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

    Jane Austen - Emma

    Nikki May - Wahala

    Nikki May - This Motherless Land

    Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

    Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

    Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

    Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

    Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

    Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

    Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

    Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

    Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

    Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

    David Sedaris - The Best of Me

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

    Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean

    Clare Keegan - Foster

    Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman

    Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

    Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry


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  • Here's a bonus treat! And what a treat! To celebrate the release of Daisy's brand new book Pity Party, here's a very special live edition of You're Booked recorded at the glorious Bath Assembly Halls. Three returning champions - Nikki May, AJ Pearce and Andrew Hunter Murray - talk about their favourite Persephone Books in front of an audience of rabid Persephone fans, at the recent Persephone Festival, celebrating 25 years of the UK's premier publishing house. Each author picked and discussed their Persephone faves, plus other Persephones they love, consider the books they'd love to reissue and reveal the influence that authors such as Dorothy Whipple, RC Sherriff, Winifred Watson and DE Stevenson have had on their writing. Be warned - this episode will add many tomes to your TBR pile.

    Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

    BOOKS

    Nikki May - Wahala

    Nikki May - This Motherless Land

    AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

    AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully

    AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

    Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering

    Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary

    DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book

    RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

    Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

    RC Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript

    Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island

    Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

    Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

    Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada

    Dorothy Whipple - Somewhere at a Distance

    Andy McNabb - Bravo Two Zero

    Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

    Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles

    DE Stevenson - The Two Mrs Abbots

    Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

    RC Sherriff - Greengates

    RC Sherriff - Journey's End

    Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Live in a Barn

    E Nesbit - The Lark

    Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

    Dorothy Whipple - Short Stories

    RF Kuang - Yellowface

    Percival Everett - Erasure

    Marghanita Laski - To Bed With Grand Music

    Rachel Ferguson - Alas Poor Lady

    Vere Hodgson - Few Eggs and No Oranges

    Mollie Panter-Downes - War Notes

    Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

    DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married

    Monica Dickens - Marianna

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout

    PD James - Children of Men

    Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening Mrs Craven

    Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

    Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

    Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

    Pauline Burgess - Pony Party

    Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

    Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

    Virginia Graham - Consider the Years

    Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

    Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

    Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne

    Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters


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  • The series 15 litany of legends continues with the man commonly known as Dr Buckles - yes, it's Adam Buxton! As you are all aware, Adam is a writer, comedian, massively successful podcast host, Bowie aficionado and the author of the bestselling memoir Ramble Book (with the sequel on its way - as you will hear). He's also responsible for You're Booked, as the podcast was 'inspired' by the Vinyl Justice segment of The Adam and Joe Show. We talked to him about Bowie book choices, trying to sleep with Edgar Allen Poe, funny books and saucy dreams involving June Whitfield. Find a full list of the books Adam mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

    BOOKS

    Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

    Adam Buxton - Ramble Book

    Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

    Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

    Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose

    Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander

    Roger Hargreaves - Mister Men

    Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

    CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe

    Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

    Major P R Reid - Colditz

    MR James - Ghost Stories

    Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat

    Edgar Allen Poe - Pit and the Pendulum

    George Eliot - Middlemarch

    Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

    Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse

    JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

    David Bowie's Top 100 Favourite Books

    Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

    Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders

    Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death

    George Orwell - 1984

    Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

    Colin Wilson - The Outsider

    Nik Cohn -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom

    Sarah Waters - Fingersmith

    Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum - I Want My MTV

    Zadie Smith - Feel Free

    Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities

    Frederick Douglass - Narrative of Frederick Douglass

    Bayard Rustin - Time on Two Crosses

    Michel De Montaigne - Complete Essays

    Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day

    R.C. Sherriff - Fortnight in September

    DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book

    Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley - Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall

    David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim

    Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader

    Steve Martin - Born Standing Up

    Tim Key - He Used Thought For a Wife

    Tim Key - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush

    Daniil Kharms - Russian Absurd

    Julian Fellowes - Snobs

    Susan Sontag - On Photography

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    Benjamin Moser - Sontag

    Judith Schalansky - An Inventory of Losses

    Sloan Crossley - Grief is for People

    Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop


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  • Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.


    BOOKS

    Irenosen Okojie - Curandera

    Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch

    Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

    June Jordan - Essential

    Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In

    Sylvia Plath - Collected

    Katherine May - Wintering

    Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am

    Sinead Gleason - Hagstone

    Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye

    Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River

    Lauren Groff - Matrix

    Toni Morrison - Beloved

    Jackie Collins - The Stud

    Maggie Nelson - Bluets

    Maggie Nelson - Argonauts

    Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

    David Nicholls - Us

    Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

    Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

    Carol Shields - Larry's Party

    Laline Paull - Pod

    Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet

    Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent

    Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush

    Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

    Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing

    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

    Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

    Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

    Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

    Octavia Butler - Wild Seed

    Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You

    Deborah Levy - Black Vodka

    Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost

    Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway

    Leone Ross - This One Sky Day

    Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

    Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

    J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

    Raymond Carver - Cathedral

    Tawseef Khan - Determination

    Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell


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