It’s a bumper episode 8, with Pandora and Bobby tackling two million-copy-bestselling, much-loved-movie-inspiring titans of the nineties. In Bridget Jones’s Diary by Helen Fielding, Pandora finds a surprisingly feminist heroine who’s no less funny 25 years on. And in Nick Hornby’s beloved High Fidelity, Bobby meets his match in a perpetually depressed man-boy who needs to love himself before anyone else can love him back.

Books/articles mentioned:

Bridget Jones’s Diary and Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason by Helen Fielding

High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About a Boy by Nick Hornby

One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

A Life Of One’s Own by Joanna Biggs

Shark Heart by Emily Habeck

Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus by John Gray

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

One Day and Us by David Nicholls

Less by Andrew Sean Greer

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

Mating in Captivity by Esther Perel

Books for episode 9:

Augustown by Kei Miller

Home Cooking by Laurie Colwin

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