Episode 116: Books To Bring You Back To Life

Our guest this week is the sensational Daisy Buchanan; novelist, journalist. podcaster and an authority on both books and sex. She writes brilliantly sexy books and her latest is called Careering about magazines, millennials and masturbation. Sometimes at once. But today she’s Doctor Daisy – giving us her book prescriptions for all our emotional ailments. Because, wow, do we need them…

A book for when you need to be soothed, unravelled and made sense of - These Precious Days by Ann Patchett

Books for when you’d love to spend time with friends but don’t have the energy for your actual friends - Asking For A Friend by Andi Osho and Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

A book for when you need love in your life - Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu

A book for when you’re suffering from career envy - The Other Side Of The Story by Marian Keyes

A book for when you have no time to read - 4000 Hours by Oliver Burkeman

A book for when the world is going to hell in a handcart – The Movement by Ayisha Malik

A book to break a reading drought - Dear Reader by Cathy Rentzenbrink

Pre-order Daisy’s book Careering https://www.waterstones.com/book/careering/daisy-buchanan/9781408725931

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