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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

The Bunty Annual

The Mandy Annual

The Beano Annual

Jackie - 60 Years of Magic

Jill Mansell - Promise Me

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

Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Persephone Books

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Shirley Conran - Lace

Danielle Steele - Palazzo

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Rufi Thorpe - Margot's Got Money Troubles

Callum Robinson - Ingrained

Carol Ann Duffy - Three Wise Men

Chapter 34 Books

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You'll Go

Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better

Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas

Diana Henry - Simple

Nigel Slater - A Thousand Feasts

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Thomas Hardy - Collected Poems

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House

Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

Holly Bourne - You Could Be So Pretty

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

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

Bruce Omar Yates - The Muslim Cowboy

Shelby Van Pelt - Remarkably Bright Creatures

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