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| Daisy reads an exclusive extract from All Grown Up! | 01 Jun 2026 | 00:14:45 | |
To celebrate the release of Daisy's new novel, a modern retelling of the classic Little Women entitled All Grown Up, here's an exclusive reading from the first chapter from the author herself! After thirty long years, Louisa’s daughters can finally look after themselves… or so she thinks. Because suddenly, they’re back – apparently for good. Meg’s second-guessing her marriage. Jo’s career hangs in the balance. Amy has inexplicably quit university. None of them empty the dishwasher. Louisa knows it’s time for some life lessons. She adores her girls, but if she’s ever going to get her (sex) life back, they’ll have to grow up – and go. But maybe they’re not the only ones with lessons to learn… And Louisa might just discover that her daughters have something to teach her about being an adult too. All Grown Up is out on June 4th and available from Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and wherever great books are sold. The audio version of the books features Harriet Kemsley, Isy Suttie, Stevie Martin and Helen Bauer is available from Audible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy reads an exclusive extract from Read Yourself Happy! | 02 Mar 2026 | 00:09:10 | |
To celebrate the paperback release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy: How a Book Habit Can Make You Feel Better, here's an exclusive extract just for you! In a hectic world that can feel uncertain and overwhelming, Read Yourself Happy offers the perfect source of anti-anxiety, inviting you to discover the literary worlds that have helped and inspired Daisy. As well as interviews with authors (and YB favourites) like David Nicholls and Emma Gannon, Daisy provides personally curated reading lists and over 200 book recommendations to help you process your emotions and find more peace with every page. Read Yourself Happy is out now and available from Bookshop.org, Waterstones, Audible and wherever great books are sold. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Rachel Parris - You're Booked | 03 Nov 2025 | 00:50:10 | |
It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than a conversation with the fabulous stand-up, actor, improviser and author Rachel Parris! Rachel's Austen credentials are acute. As well as being a founding member of the amazing Austen-inspired improv group Austentatious, alongside former YB guests Cariad Lloyd and Andrew Hunter Murray, her first novel, Introducing Mrs Collins, is a sequel, of sorts, to Pride and Prejudice. We talked to Rachel about Jane Austen (a lot), regency sex scenes, bookish palate cleansers and an adult version of the Jolly Postman. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up Rachel Parris - Introducing Mrs Collins Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen - Persuasion Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Monique Roffey - Mermaid of Black Conch Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things Ambrose Parry - The Way of all Flesh: A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1 George Eliot - Middlemarch Julie Owen Moylan - Elizabeth and Marilyn Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jackie Collins - Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day Nikki May - This Motherless Land Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife Graydon Carter - When the Going Was Good Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries Andrew O'Hagan - Caledonian Road Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Louise Candlish - Our House Adele Parks - Just Between Us Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst - S Janet and Allan Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: I Cried on my Sunlounger | 11 Aug 2025 | 00:06:32 | |
It's the final episode of our Beach Reads series and we're finishing style... and snot. As this week Daisy has selected a collection of books designed to have you blubbing in your deckchair and drying your tears with a towel. These are titles with a passionate edge, a tragic element or just a feeling of sheer joy that will have you reaching for your hankie as fellow beachgoers worry about your emotional state. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Jack London - Call of the Wild Emily Henry - Beach Read AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: Raunchy Reads | 04 Aug 2025 | 00:07:15 | |
We're turning up the heat for this week's selection of beach reads! Daisy has selected some holiday books with a distinct side of raunch. These are titles to make you blush, gasp and get even hotter under the collar (if your swimsuit happens to have a collar). There are books with an erotic edge, and some that are flat out filth. But which one has a character that makes 'Christian Grey look like Dougal from Father Ted'? You'll have to listen to find out. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Tom Bissell and Greg Sestero - The Disaster Artist Susi Wyss - Guess Who is the Happiest Girl in Town Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Jilly Cooper - Polo Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: Holiday Escapism | 28 Jul 2025 | 00:06:57 | |
It's holiday time! And over the next few weeks Daisy is curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease back into a reading habit, if you've had some time away from your bookshelves, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of dreamy, memorable adventures as we experience some Holiday Escapism. Sit by the pool and let your mind travel to some extraordinary locations. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Emma Forrest - Cherries in the Snow Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere Georgina Moore - River of Stars Nikki May - This Motherless Land Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes - Anybody Out There Ingrid Persaud - Love After Love Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: Perfect Places | 21 Jul 2025 | 00:05:36 | |
For the next few weeks Daisy is curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease back into a reading habit, if you've had some time away from your bookshelves, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of exciting, far-flung exotic locales (and Cornwall) as we explore some literary Perfect Places. These are books that help you travel to incredible landscapes, both real and imaginary. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Maeve Binchy - Evening Class Shirley Conran - Lace Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia Sarah Winman - Tin Man David Nicholls - Us Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Margaret Kennedy - The Feast Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: Heatwave Crimewave | 14 Jul 2025 | 00:07:55 | |
We're doing something a little different this summer. For the next few weeks Daisy will be curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease into a reading habit, if you've had some time away, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of thrilling, gripping crime-related greats. Books that will have you on the edge of your seat, or possibly your sun lounger. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Julia Raeside - Don't Make Me Laugh Kate Weston - How To Make a Killing Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day Caroline Corcoran - Tiny Daggers Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Daisy's Beach Reads: Summer Loving | 07 Jul 2025 | 00:07:23 | |
We're doing something a little different this summer. For the next few weeks Daisy will be curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease into a reading habit, if you've had some time away, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. We're kicking off with some saucy, spicy, swooning romantic favourites to slip into your luggage. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Lucy Vine - Book Boyfriend Freya North - Fen Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack Jojo Moyes - We All Live Here Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Donna Freitas and Daisy Buchanan - You're Booked Live at Backstory | 30 Jun 2025 | 01:09:59 | |
You're Booked is on its travels! Here's a very special live episode recorded at Backstory Bookshop in Barcelona with with the wonderful Donna Freitas! Donna resides in Barcelona and is the author of many books including Stefi and the Spanish Prince (set in the city), The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano and Wishful Thinking. She interviewed Daisy to celebrate the release of Read Yourself Happy and they discussed conquering difficult reads, childhood library etiquette and we discover what books the residents of Barcelona can't live without. Thanks to the Grand Hotel Central for hosting us during our stay. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking Donna Freitas - The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano Donna Freitas - Stefi and the Spanish Prince Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Ann M Martin - Babysitters Club Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Enid Blyton - Famous Five Dick King Smith - The Sheep Pig Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew Mysteries Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild - Curtain Up Samuel Richardson - Pamela Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Jilly Cooper - Rivals Laurent de Brunhoff - Babar's World Tour Nikki May - Wahala Nikki May - This Motherless Land Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Min Jin Lee - Pachinko Alexander Chee - Queen of the Night Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Alberto Moravia - Contempt Alberto Moravia - Time of Indifference Ann Morgan - Reading the World Ann Morgan - Unlearning to Read David Whitehouse - Saltwater Mansions Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels Joyce Carol Oates - Book of American Martyrs F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind Natasha Lunn - Conversations on Love Niall Williams - This is Happiness Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead Henri Cole - Orphic Paris Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere Samantha Harvey - Orbital Alice Winn - In Memoriam Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Susan Morrison - Lorne Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love Charles Baudelaire - Collected Poems Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Coco Mellors - You're Booked | 03 Mar 2025 | 00:52:50 | |
This week we're delighted to spend some time with the magnificent Coco Mellors. Coco's books, Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters have been frequent picks by former You're Booked guests, so it's an absolute treat to welcome her to YB Towers. We talked to her about boxing, being taught by Martin Amis, books about motherhood, her next novel and trying to find the rude bits in The Golden Notebook. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about the Shelter Box Book Club by HEADING HERE. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Coco Mellors -Cleopatra and Frankenstein Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters Martin Amis - London Fields Martin Amis - Money Claire Dederer - Monsters James Baldwin - The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Ursula Parrot - Ex Wife Doris Lessing - Golden Notebook Doris Lessing - Martha Quest Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz George Eliot - Middlemarch Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle Sally Rooney - Intermezzo Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love Mary Oliver - New and Selected Poems Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Bernadine Evaristo - Mr Loverman Ada Calhoun - Why We Cant Sleep Nell Frizzell - Panic Years Lindsay Nicholson - Perfect Bound Leslie Jamison - Splinters Caroline O'Donoghue - The Rachel Incident Martin Amis - Inside Story AA Gill - Pour Me Tessa Hadley - The Past Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers Juhea Kim - Beasts of a Little Land Juhea Kim - City of Night Birds Joyce Carol Oates - On Boxing Ballet Shoes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Nina Stibbe and Daisy Buchanan - You're Booked Live at Ink 84 | 10 Feb 2025 | 00:59:05 | |
To celebrate the release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy (out now!), here's a very special conversation with a returning champion. Daisy was interviewed by the great Nina Stibbe at Ink@84 in North London in front of a packed audience. There's lots of chat about books that bring you joy, the fear and ecstasy of reviews, book club horror stories and Nina's legendary pony story. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit DK RED to find out about her live dates. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took The Dog Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood Pandora Sykes - What Writer's Read Jean George - My Side of the Mountain Rebecca F Kuang - Babel Charles Dickens - Bleak House The Beano Annual Lizzy Stewart - Alison Joff Winterheart - Days of the Bagnold Summer Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her Monica Dickens - My Turn To Make the Tea Nina Hamnet - Laughing Torso Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths Catherine Newman - Sandwich Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things Elspeth Barker - Notes From the Hen House Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy Nina Stibbe - Love Nina Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up Daisy Buchanan - Careering Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy Deborah Moggach - Best Exotic Marigold Hotel David Seabrook - All the Devils are Here Danielle Steele - Joy Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics Barbara Pym - Excellent Women Noel Streatfeiled - Ballet Shoes Fern Brady - Strong Female Character Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing Katherine May - Wintering Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sarra Manning's Reading Resolutions - You're Booked | 02 Jan 2025 | 00:49:10 | |
As a treat, we're resharing one of our most beloved and popular archive episodes from 2023. Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joined us to help us with our reading resolutions. Featuring Kindle hacks, reading slump fixes, cosy reads and a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Discover the books you'll be snapping up, a few tips to get you back on the reading path if you've strayed and some excellent advice for those struggling with the classics. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. BOOKS Dale Shaw - Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth! Daisy Buchanan - Careering Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Daisy Buchanan - How to be a Grown Up Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Sarra Manning - Unsticky Sarra Manning - London With Love Charles Dickens - Bleak House Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina George Eliot - Middlemarch Hannah Dolby - No Life For a Lady Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Tina Brown - Palace Papers Kate Sawyer - This Family Kate Sawyer - The Stranding Various - Marple: 12 New Stories JD Salinger: For Esme With Love and Squalor Sylvia Plath - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams F Scott Fitzgerald - Diamond as Big as the Ritz Dorothy Parker - Collected Stories Various - Furies Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical Corrections Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self Lucia Berlin - Manuel For Cleaning Women Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings Jilly Cooper - Rivals Noel Streatfeild - Gemma Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp Sarra Manning - Rescue Me James Reeves - The Critical Sense Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Holly Bourne - Pretending Milly Johnson - Together Again Marian Keyes - Again Rachel Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things Jojo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow Lauren Bravo - Preloved Emily Henry - Happy Place Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family Katy Brent - How To Kill Men and Get Away With It Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Jennifer Saint - Atalanta Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra Katherine Bradley - The Sisterhood Isabelle Schuler - Lady Macbethad Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood Niamh Hargan - The Break-Up Clause Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Scandal Sarra Manning - The Man of Her Dreams Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time Lucy Vine - Seven Exes Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Helen Lederer Live at the Margate Bookie - You're Booked | 18 Dec 2024 | 00:45:58 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Miranda Sawyer - You're Booked | 25 Nov 2024 | 00:59:22 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Amanda Prowse - You're Booked | 18 Nov 2024 | 00:56:47 | |
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 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 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Cariad Lloyd - You're Booked | 11 Nov 2024 | 01:02:45 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Rukmini Iyer - You're Booked | 04 Nov 2024 | 01:02:55 | |
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 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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Liane Moriarty - You're Booked | 28 Oct 2024 | 00:54:16 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Holly Williams - You're Booked | 21 Oct 2024 | 00:55:33 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Paula Hawkins - You're Booked | 14 Oct 2024 | 00:54:44 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jodi Picoult - You're Booked | 07 Oct 2024 | 00:47:30 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Dawn O'Porter - You're Booked | 30 Sep 2024 | 00:48:38 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Bella Mackie - You're Booked | 23 Sep 2024 | 00:53:49 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Catherine Newman - You're Booked | 19 Aug 2024 | 00:57:46 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Abi Daré - You're Booked | 12 Aug 2024 | 00:53:17 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Kathy Reichs - You're Booked | 05 Aug 2024 | 00:42:17 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Robin Ince - You're Booked | 29 Jul 2024 | 00:48:13 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ericka Waller - You're Booked | 22 Jul 2024 | 01:00:43 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Catherine Gray - You're Booked | 15 Jul 2024 | 00:50:23 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Nikki May, AJ Pearce, Andrew Hunter Murray - Live at the Persephone Festival | 11 Jul 2024 | 01:30:05 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Adam Buxton - You're Booked | 08 Jul 2024 | 01:05:37 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Irenosen Okojie - You're Booked | 01 Jul 2024 | 00:54:23 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Kathleen Hanna - You're Booked | 24 Jun 2024 | 00:53:08 | |
This week we're delighted to share a conversation with an absolute legend, the punk singer, writer, artist, activist and all-around inspiration Kathleen Hanna! Kathleen is the iconic front-woman of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre and the inspiration behind of the clothing company tees4togo which benefits the Peace Sisters charity. Kathleen has just released her memoir Rebel Girl which became an instant New York Times bestseller. We talked to her about the brilliance of Viv Albertine, the genius of Gabor Maté and the formative influence of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile. 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 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 Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened Tiffany Haddish - The Last Black Unicorn Chris L. Terry & James Spooner (Editors) - Black Punk Now Jeffrey Gibson (Editor) - An Indigenous Present Sarah Schulman - Conflict is Not Abuse Sarah Hoagland - Lesbian Ethics Ann Morgan - Reading the World Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal Stephanie Foo - What My Bones Know Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things ANN M Martin - Babysitter's Club Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret Bernard Waber - Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile Don Freeman - Corduroy Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew Roger Steffens - So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley Arthur Ashe - Days of Grace Sarah Royal - A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball Tina Turner - My Love Story Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Fearne Cotton - You're Booked | 17 Jun 2024 | 01:01:30 | |
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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Elif Shafak - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 27 May 2024 | 01:01:09 | |
We're delving back into the archives and bringing you another of our favourite episodes. This week we're visiting the beautiful home (including glorious bookshelves with a library ladder that made us green with envy) of Elif Shafak. Elif is a celebrated and award-winning novelist and the most widely read female author in Turkey. She has published many books including the bestselling Island of Missing Trees, The Bastard of Istanbul, The Forty Rules of Love, Three Daughters of Eve and the critically acclaimed 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World. Her new book There Are Rivers in the Sky is released on 8th August. Elif is also an activist advocating for women's rights, LGBT rights and freedom of speech. We talked to her about baklava, politics, Death Metal and stationery obsessions. Find a full list of the books Elif mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Elif Shafak - 10 Minutes, 38 Seconds in this Strange World Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve Marco Pierre White - The Devil in the Kitchen Samin Nosrat - Salt Fat Acid Heat Jason Goodwin - Yashim Cooks Istanbul Charles Dickens - A Tale of Two Cities Virginia Woolf - Orlando Rowan Coleman - We Are All Made of Stars Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend Thomas Page McBee - Amateur Elif Shafak - Honour Donna Tartt - The Secret History Esquire - Oral History of Bennington Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction David Sedaris - Calypso Laura Esquivel - Like Water For Chocolate Rumi - Selected Poems Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall Matthew Sperling - Astroturf Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation Sarah Krasnostein - The Trauma Cleaner Will Eaves - Murmur Cervantes - Don Quixote Marian Keyes - The Break Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Curtis Sittenfeld - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 13 May 2024 | 00:51:17 | |
We're diving into the archives while we're on a little break and this week it's the novelist, essayist and New York Times Bestselling author Curtis Sittenfeld! Curtis is the author of the YB faves Prep, Eligible, American Wife, Romantic Comedy and a fictional look at Hilary Clinton: Rodham. We talked to her about First Ladies, short stories, writing like there's nobody watching and trying to make your kids like Laura Ingalls Wilder. Find a full list of the books Curtis mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld - The Nominee Hilary Clinton - Living History Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife Emily Gould - Perfect Tunes Emily Gould - And the Heart Says Whatever Lily King - Writers & Lovers Lily King - Euphoria Susan Choi - Trust Exercise Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie Carol Ryrie Brink - Caddie Woodlawn Gertrude Chandler Warner - Boxcar Children EL Konigsburg - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frank Weiler Becky Albertalli - Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda Curtis Sittenfeld - You Think It I’ll Say It Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge Alice Munro - Selected Stories Tessa Hadley - The Past Susanna Daniel - Stiltsville Susanna Daniel - Sea Creatures Marisa Meltzer - This is Big Sue Miller - Monogamy Sally Rooney - Normal People Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Demi Moore - Inside Out Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep Rebecca Lee - Bobcat Joseph O’Neill - Good Trouble Laura van den Berg - I Hold a Wolf by the Ears Ali Smith - How To Be Both Raymond Carver - Where I'm Calling From Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sara Pascoe - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 29 Apr 2024 | 00:45:16 | |
While we're taking a little break, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from previous series. This week, it's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe! Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal, Sex Power Money and the novel Weirdo. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine (the episode was recorded during lockdown), big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Sara Pascoe - Animal Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other Anbara Salam - Belladonna Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection Robert Sapolsky - Behave Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa Lisa Taddeo - Three Women Alissa Nutting - Tampa Sally Rooney - Normal People Graham Greene - End of the Affair Andrew Sean Greer - Less Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood Jackie Collins - The Stud JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys Sarra Manning - Unsticky Marian Keyes - Grown Ups Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Marian Keyes - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 11 Apr 2024 | 00:57:22 | |
While we take a little break, we're sharing just a few of our favourite ever episodes from the archives. This week we're with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes! Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages. When we chatted to Marian, she was about to release the brilliant, chart-topping Grown Ups. Since then we've seen a sequel to Rachel's Holiday, Again Rachel and her latest My Favourite Mistake. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen. And as this episode was released on the week Daisy's novel Insatiable was launched, there's a bonus, exclusive (and steamy!) clip from the audiobook. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess Marian Keyes - Grown Ups Marian Keyes - The Break Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind Truman Capote - In Cold Blood Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Jilly Cooper - Octavia Jane Austen - Persuasion Jilly Cooper - Riders Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous Jilly Cooper - Polo Shirley Conran - Lace Fiona Walker - French Relations Raven Leilani - Luster Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses Glennon Doyle - Untamed Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird Anne Lamott - Almost Everything Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the 6 Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion Tana French - In the Woods Tana French - The Likeness Jane Harper - The Dry Tana French - The Searcher Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Lily King - Writers and Lovers Lily King - Euphoria Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times Charlotte Wood - The Weekend Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face Louise O’Neill - After the Silence Sarah Hilary - Fragile Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Sophie Kinsella - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 01 Apr 2024 | 00:57:39 | |
We're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout. We talked to Sophie about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four copies of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (And, as you'll hear, it was our first introduction to the brilliant (and later YB guest) Katherine Heiny! Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... BOOKS Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Sophie Kinsella - I Owe You One Norman Hunter - The Dribblesome Teapots Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister Beverly Cleary - Ramona Nick Hornby - High Fidelity PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters PG Wodehouse - Blandings Sophie Kinsella - Undomesticated Goddess Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jilly Cooper - Imogen Jilly Cooper - Harriet Jilly Cooper - Riders Shirley Conran - Lace Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch JG Links - Venice For Pleasure Leila Slimani - Adele George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights Michael Grant - Gone EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp Lilly Singh - How To Be a Bawse Dave Eggers - The Circle Sophie Kinsella - Finding Audrey Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Noel Streatfeild - White Boots Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Taylor Jenkins Reid - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 18 Mar 2024 | 00:57:04 | |
This week, we are delving back into the archive to revisit our series 5 trip to America in the company of the incredible Taylor Jenkins Reid! When we met Taylor in 2019, Daisy Jones and the Six had just been released. It went on to be a global smash with a recent, lauded Amazon adaptation and in this episode Taylor discusses many of the books that inspired the novel. Her other books, including The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back, have all been celebrated best-sellers. We met Taylor in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore and talked to her about rock memoirs, Bridget Jones, gift giving, influential reads and the delights of seeing your own book in the book shop. BOOKS Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score Byron Lane - A Star is Bored Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch Blake Snyder - Save the Cat Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon Keith Richards - Life Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch Sally Field - In Pieces Scotty Bowers - Full Service Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Various - Little People Big Dreams Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go Lisa Taddeo - Three Women Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming Joan Didion - White Album Truman Capote - In Cold Blood Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls Mohsin Hamid - Exit West Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow Sally Rooney - Normal People Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man Salman Rushdie - Quichotte Alexi Zentner - Copperhead Tana French - Wych Elm Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles Madeline Miller - Circe Katherine Dunn - On Cussing Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Elizabeth Day - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 04 Mar 2024 | 00:48:03 | |
While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're travelling all the way back to our first ever series for this chat with author, journalist and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is the author of five novels including Magpie and The Party plus her memoir, based on her massively successful podcast How To Fail and her most book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. While snooping around her (small but perfectly formed) flat, we discussed being nosey, literary heroines, EM Forster related tattoos and learning the facts of life from The Thorn Birds. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting the You're Booked page at Bookshop.org. BOOKS Elizabeth Day - The Party Elizabeth Day - How To Fail Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Sea Change Elizabeth Jane Howard - After Julius Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View Elizabeth Day - Scissors, Paper, Stone Judy Blume - Forever Judy Blume - Deenie Elizabeth Day - Home Fires Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway TC Boyle - The Terranauts Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others Alasdair Gray - Lanark Muriel Spark - Momento Mori Muriel Spark - The Girls of Slender Means Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay Aldous Huxley - Two or Three Graces Tara Westover - Educated Simon Reid-Henry - Fidel & Che Sally Field - In Pieces Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly James O'Brien - How To Be Right Damian Dibben - Tomorrow Leila Slimani - Adele Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance John Banville - The Sea Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| David Nicholls - You're Booked Archive All-Stars | 19 Feb 2024 | 01:04:55 | |
While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're kicking off in style with this wonderful conversation with David Nicholls from season 4 in his beautiful North London home. At the time, David had just released his wonderful novel Sweet Sorrow. His new book, You Are Here, is out soon, while the brand new adaptation of One Day has just hit Netflix. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, Moomins, movies, adaptation and Billy Wilder. Find out more about all the books mentioned at our Bookshop.org.uk Store. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood David Nicholls - One Day David Nicholls - Starter For Ten David Nicholls - The Understudy David Nicholls - Us David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story Tobias Wolff - Stories of Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper Nell Zink - Mislaid Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest John Cheever - Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter Phillip Larkin - Jill Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty EM Forster - Howards End Helen Garner - The Spare Room Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach Penelope Lively - Heat Wave Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock Elif Bautman - The Idiot Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories Zadie Smith - Feel Free Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Limelight Special with Kezia Venner - You're Booked | 12 Feb 2024 | 00:36:23 | |
Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of YA, her favourite authors and the person who gives her the best reading recommendations. Limelight is out now in paperback - signed copies can be ordered and shipped nationwide from The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about all the books Kezia mentioned at our shop on Bookshop.org. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Donna Tartt - Secret History Emily Henry - Beach Read Emily Henry - Happy Place Claire Daverley - Talking at Night Annie Lord - Notes on Heartbreak Stephenie Meyer - Twilight Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go Beth O'Leary - The Flat Share Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Lisa Taddeo - Animal Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love Lauren Bravo - Preloved Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Annie MacManus - The Mess We're In Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven AM Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life Sue Miller - Monogamy Claire Powell - At the Table Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner -There's No Deer Around Here Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner - Any Trout About? Peter Bently - The Great Dog Bottom Swap Nora Ephron - Heartburn Nick Hornby - High Fidelity Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things Abigail Bergstrom - What a Shame Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Jilly Cooper - You're Booked | 11 Dec 2023 | 00:52:41 | |
Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football. More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard is HERE! Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Jilly Cooper - Tackle Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jilly Cooper - How To Stay Married Jilly Cooper - Imogen Jilly Cooper - Harriet Daisy Buchanan - Careering Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love Barbara Pym - Excellent Women Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems George Crabbe - Collected Poems Jilly Cooper - Mount Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club George Eliot - Middlemarch Walter Emanuel - A Dog Day Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher Beatrix Potter - Tailor of Gloucester Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories Rudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by Himself Anna Sewell - Black Beauty William Boyd - Any Human Heart EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Marquess of Anglesey - History of the British Cavalry Jilly Cooper - Riders Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches William Wordsworth - Collected Poems Thomas Harding - The Maverick Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita Mary McCarthy - The Group Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex Diana Athill - Stet Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas Jilly Cooper - How To Survive Christmas Jane Austen - Emma WH Auden - Rimbaud Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch Jilly Cooper - Wicked Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim Martin Amis - Money Ian Herbert - Tinseltown Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up Jack London - White Fang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay Live at the Margate Bookie - You're Booked | 04 Dec 2023 | 00:50:13 | |
We are back at this year's Margate Bookie for a fun, frank and freewheeling conversation with three brilliant authors: Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay! Lucy Vine is a journalist and author of five novels including Hot Mess, Are We Nearly There Yet, What Fresh Hell, Bad Choices and her latest, the critically acclaimed Seven Exes. Yomi Adegoke is a journalist, podcaster and author, co-writing Slay in Your Lane with Elizabeth Uviebinené before releasing the bestselling, critically lauded novel The List. Laura Kay is a journalist and author of the much-loved novels Tell Me Everything, The Split and her latest Wild Things. We talked to them about alternative romance, star signs, writing routines, favourite reads and the genius of Sophie Kinsella. Katie Clapham's book recommendation Substack is HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Lucy Vine - Seven Exes Yomi Adegoke - The List Laura Kay - Wild Things Laura Kay - Tell Me Everything Malinda Lo - Last Night at the Telegraph Club Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uvibene - Slay in Your Lane Kate Young - Experienced Kate Young - The Little Library Cookbook Lucy Vine - Date With Destiny Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale Jilly Cooper - Rivals Danielle Steele - Jewels Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Married Men Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel - You're Booked | 27 Nov 2023 | 00:43:20 | |
This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona, Homesick For Another World, Death in Her Hands and McGlue. Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill Dick will be released in 2024. Together Ottessa and Luke wrote the screenplay for the film Causeway and have now collaborated on an adaptation of Ottessa's acclaimed novel Eileen, which is released in cinemas on December 1st. We talked to them about formative reads, phoning Ken Kesey, aliens and Metallica. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation Ottessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World Luke Goebel - Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher JoAnna Novak - Contradiction Days Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards Ben Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace and Other Stories Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of a Gone World Diane di Prima - Selected Poems Ross Gay - Book of Delights Abbott Kahler - Where You End Margery Higdon - Alien Abduction of The Wyoming Hunter Whitley Strieber - Communion Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex Edith Wharton - House of Mirth Henry James - Portrait of a Lady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Lou Sanders and Andi Oshi Live at the Margate Bookie - You're Booked | 20 Nov 2023 | 00:50:14 | |
It's two returning champs this week as we present the brilliant and hilarious Lou Sanders and Andi Osho live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie literary festival. Lou and Andi are both stand-ups and both supreme authors. Lou recently published her memoir What's That Lady Doing? to widespread acclaim. Andi has published two celebrated novels: Tough Crowd and Asking for a Friend. In this frank, funny and freewheeling conversation Lou and Andi discuss romance, the fear of death (onstage), ice-skating, unfortunate text message mishaps, youthful indiscretions with towels and what makes them laugh. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Get you hands on Helen Shaddock's lovely 2024 calendars by visiting http://www.helenshaddock.co.uk/. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Lou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing? Andi Osho - Tough Crowd Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy Dolly Alderton - Good Material Barbara Payton - I am Not Ashamed Jada Pinkett Smith - Worthy Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye WIll Smith - Will Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic Rosie Wilby - Breakup Monologues Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Naomi Klein - You're Booked | 06 Nov 2023 | 00:54:16 | |
Our season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry to add some delight to your life. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Naomi Klein - No Logo Naomi Klein - Doppleganger Deborah Levy - August Blue Otto Rank - The Double Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint Philip Roth - Goodbye Columbus Philip Roth - Professor of Desire Thomas Gordon - Parent Effectiveness Training Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City John Updike - Couples Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine Eddie Glaude - James Baldwin: To Begin Again Zadie Smith - Feel Free Philip Roth - Operation Shylock Graham Greene - Collected Essays Lisa Jones - Bulletproof Diva Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble Nora Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy Oriana Fallaci - Interviews with History and Power Molly Ivins - Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took the Dog Susan Mulcahy - My Lips are Sealed Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin American Yomi Adegoke - The List Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinene - Slay in Your Lane Marge Piercy - Made in Detroit Susan Griffin - Bending Home Maya Angelou - The Complete Poetry Jorie Graham - To 2040 Ross Gay - The Book of Delights Kyo Maclear - Birds Art Life Kyo Maclear - Unearthing Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Katrina Diamond - The Silence Adania Shibli - Minor Detail Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||
| Ian Rankin - You're Booked | 30 Oct 2023 | 00:50:47 | |
It's our 150th episode! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise. We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Ian Rankin - The Rise Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark - Hothouse by the East River Alain Robbe-Grillet - Last Year at Marienbad Muriel Spark - The Drivers Seat Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent Reginald Hill - Asking Fo the Moon Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde Anbara Salam - Hazardous Spirits Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies Muriel Spark - The Bachelors Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Joseph Heller - Catch 22 Mario Puzo - The Godfather Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest Robin Moore - The French Connection William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist Dorothy Whipple - Someone at a Distance Ian Rankin - The Flood Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses Ian Rankin - Watchman Graham Greene - Human Factor Ian Rankin - Westwind Michael Connelly - Desert Star James Ellroy - LA Confedential Lawrence Block - A Drop of the Hard Stuff William McIlvanney - Laidlaw Denise Mina - The Long Drop Anita Nair - Cut Like Wound Thomas Pynchon - Short Stories Stieg Larsson - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers Jo Nesbo - The Snowman Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Alasdair Gray - Poor Things Alasdair Gray - Lanark John Niven - Oh Brother Jilly Cooper - Tackle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. | |||