Bestsellers

Episode 17 is a BestSellers CookBook special in which Natalie finally proves to Phil that she's not the only person in the world who reads cook books cover to cover, in the same way she reads fiction/non-fiction.

The brilliant Rukmini Iyer has perfected one roasting tin recipes: Minimal input for maximum taste return and much less washing up! Rukmini tells Phil & Natalie how she plots her recipe books out, like thriller writers do; how she also reads cook books cover to cover and she explains why scientifically, Coriander tastes like soap to some people.

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The brilliant Lisa Jewell joins us on this week's Bestsellers. Lisa is an incredible thriller writer. Her latest is set in London and is about misfits, mystery and a missing girl.

Lisa tells Phil and Natalie about writing in lockdown; about her high propensity for violence and how she knows where to draw the line in her books and how she's still typing away on two fingers!

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Episode 15: It's only Anthony Horowitz. One of Phil & Natalie's favourite writers. He's written authorised original stories for the Sherlock Holmes and James Bond estates; He brought Alex Rider back earlier in the year in NightShade, and has now produced another book within a book story for Moonflower Murders, the magnificent follow up to Magpie Murders.

Here Anthony talks about how he crafts such complex whodunnits and reveals he has a brand new James Bond idea, should the Fleming Estate choose to sanction another original 007 story.

He's a joy is Anthony Horowitz. Enjoy him here and revel in how amazing this book is.

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Despite this being Episode 14, it was recorded at the very beginning of lockdown just as Tony was recovering from Covid 19. Power Play is his third novel and utilises Tony's professional background as a working Barrister. He tells Phil & Natalie about recovering from Coronavirus, writing in lockdown and about his background as a Boxer...'He could've been a contender.' Tony was the first ever episode we recorded and for this we will always be grateful to the Boxing Barrister.

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Kevin Kwan is a sheer delight. Phil & Natalie recorded this episode quite late at night because Kevin is in LA, and his energy and enthusiasm is infectious. Sex and Vanity is his new novel and first since Crazy Rich Asians lit up cinema screens across the world. He talks about that success; breaking the glass ceiling for asian actors; his new book and how he made books for Elizabeth Taylor.

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Mike Gayle cheers up the nation! He writes feel good fiction on contemporary issues and his new book is no exception. In this week's BestSellers he talks to Phil & Natalie about his 84 year old hero in this book, Hubert, and loneliness, racism and why he thinks women make friends easier than men.

All The Lonely People is both heart wrenching and warm & fuzzy and will also make you laugh, as will Mike in this episode.

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In Episode 11, Phil & Natalie welcome the incredible Jojo Moyes. With over 40 million books sold, the creator of Lou Clark and the Me Before You series returns with a brand new stand alone story based on the women librarians who used to deliver books in the late 20's early 30s to rural homes in Kentucky. The female librarians on horseback were the idea of Eleanor Roosevelt, who was keen that detached communities could learn and still had access to books.

Jojo talks about the research she did for this story, staying in the most remote part of Kentucky with only fireflies for company. She also talks about writing in lockdown and why Lou Clark returned one last time for a FREE short story recently.

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Dorothy Koomson is Britain's Biggest Selling Black Female Writer - A title she's proud of. All My Lies are True is a long awaited sequel to The Ice Cream Girls and in this week's episode, Phil & Natalie talk to Dorothy about why now for a sequel; the importance of paying for books and why she's adamant there won't be an Ice Cream Girls 3....For now!

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Phil & Natalie talk to the best selling writer of the Flat Share, Beth O'Leary about her new comedy drama, The Switch. Beth reveals a big Hollywood star signed on to work on a major adaptation of her debut; how The Switch was her 'difficult second album,' and how it took adulthood before she realised she was funny and could write comedy.

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Lara Prescott was told by a literary agent nobody was interested in a story about Russia. Yet her debut novel - The Secrets We Kept - sold for a $2 million dollar advance. In Episode 8 of BestSellers, she tells Phil & Natalie how she quit life in Washington and politics, to fulfil her dream to become a writer and discusses this fictional imagining of what it was like for Boris Pasternak to write Dr Zhivago. This novel is way more than a spy thriller. Read it before it hits the screens.

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