You're Booked – Détails, épisodes et analyse

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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We are back! And we are starting the new series off with a bang! It's the legendary broadcaster, podcaster, author and now novelist Fearne Cotton! Fearne is the host of the massively successful Happy Place podcast and the author of many books including Sunday Times bestsellers Happy, Cook Eat Love, Speak Your Truth, Bigger Than Us and many more. She has just released her first novel: Scripted. We talked to her about inspirational reading, classic rock biographies, generating confidence, Californian literary road trips and tortoises. Find a full list of the books Fearne 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 sposored 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

Fearne Cotton - Happy

Fearne Cotton - Scripted

Sue Perkins - Spectacles

Paloma Faith - MILF

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May - Wintering

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Priscilla Presley - Elvis and Me

Rita Marley - No Woman No Cry

Pamela Des Barres - I'm With the Band

Anjelica Huston - A Story Lately Told

Anjelica Huston - Watch Me

Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Rupert Everett - Vanished Years

Zandra Rhodes - Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Alan Rickman - Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Elton John - Me

Debbie Harry - Face It

Pamela Des Barres - Take Another Little Piece of my Heart

Pamela Des Barres - Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Lucy Vine - Date with Destiny

Diana Cooper - A New Light on Angels

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements

Erling Kagge - Silence

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Yungblud - You Need to Exist

Helene Hanff - Letter from New York

Matt Haig - Impossible Life

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patricia Cornwell - Spin

Patricia Cornwell - Food To Die For

Patricia Cornwell - Jack the Ripper

Stacy Schiff - Cleopatra

Bettany Hughes - Hemlock Cup

Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children

Ernest Hemingway - Moveable Feast

Paul Hendrickson - Hemingway's Boat

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of the Thames

Charles Dickens - Dictionary of London

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

AN Wilson - Victoria

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

TS Eliot - Waste Land

Ernest Hemingway - Garden of Eden

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Patricia Cornwell - Red Mist

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Mateo Askaripour - Black Buck

James Baldwin - Here Be Dragons

James Baldwin - Collected Essays

Toni Morrison - Sula

SS Prokofiev - Peter & the Wolf

Dr Seuss - Cat in the Hat

Terry McMillan - Mama

Deesha Philyaw - Secret Lives of Church Ladies

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

RO Kwon - The Incendiaries

William Moulton Marston - Wonder Woman

Kelly Sue DeConnick - Wonder Woman Historia

NK Jemisin - Far Sector

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

Kiese Laymon - Heavy

Kiese Laymon - Long Division

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce

Kola Boof - Sexy Part of the Bible

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Gayl Jones - Healing

NK Jemisin - City We Became

Raven Leilani - Luster

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic 

Chloe Benjamin - Immortalists

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

De'Shawn Charles Winslow - In West Mills

Maurice Carlos Ruffin - We Cast a Shadow

Brandon Taylor - Real Life

Bryan Washington - Memorial

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

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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Andre Gide - Marshlands

Leonora Carrington - Hearing Trumpet

Paula Fox - Desperate Characters

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery

EF Benson - Mapp & Lucia

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Broken Road

Robert Walser - Berlin Stories

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest of Relaxation

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

AS Byatt - Babel Tower

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Think Write Speak

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Andre Gide - Counterfeiters

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Rachel Ingalls - Binstead's Safari

Sydney Taylor - All Of a Kind Family

Lore Segal - Tell Me a Mitzi

Tove Jansson - Moomin Comic Strips

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Selected Journals

Tomie dePaola - Helga’s Dowry

Mercer Mayer - Favourite Tales from Grimm

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Plum Sykes - Debutante Divorcee

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Gerald Durrell - Family and Other Animals

Jessica Mitford - Hons & Rebels

Ada Limon - Carrying

Danez Smith - Homie

Kristen Arnett - With Teeth

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