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

BOOKS (Click on titles for more)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Hannah Beckerman - If Only I Could Tell You

Bill Clegg - Did You Ever Have a Family?

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Liar

Ayelet Gundar-Goshen - Waking Lions

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Anne Digby - Trebizon

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Jackie Collins - The Santangelos 

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Noel Streatfeild - Apple Bough

Stephen Moss - Dynasties

Various - Explanatorium of Nature

Ruth Symons - Story of Life: Evolution

Gabrielle Balkan & Sam Brewster - Book of Bones

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

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

Rebecca Reid - Perfect Liars

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Agatha Christie

Isabel Sanchez Vegara - Little People Big Dreams: Audrey Hepburn

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Alfred Lord Tennyson - Select Poems

Andrew Thomson & Heidi Postlewait - Emergency Sex

Various - Greek Island Hopping

Maggie O’Farrell - This Must Be The Place

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

Sigmund Freud - Collected Works

Adam Kay - This Is Going To Hurt

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Sarah Waters - Tipping The Velvet

Phillip Roth - Portnoy’s Complaint

Phillip Roth - American Pastoral

Lisa Halliday - Asymmetry

David Nichols - One Day

David Nichols - Us

Edward St Aubyn - Some Hope

Anita Brookner - Family and Friends

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Angela Carter - The Bloody Chamber

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