This week we are nosing around the bookshelves of the author described as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation" by The Times, the wonderful Ella Risbridger! Ella is the author of Midnight Chicken, called "a manual for living and a declaration of hope" by Nigella Lawson. Ella is also the editor of the poetry anthology Set Me On Fire and her first book for children The Secret Detectives will be released later this year. We talked to her about nourishing poetry, smoking in the bath and why she still has Daisy's copy of Brother of the More Famous Jack.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ella Risbridger - Midnight Chicken

Ella Risbridger - Secret Detectives

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

James Rebanks - English Pastoral

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Richard Scott - Soho

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Ellen Bass - Human Line

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket Fantastic

Marie Howe - What The Living Do

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley - Haphazard House

Mary Wesley - Speaking Terms

Mary Wesley - Sixth Seal

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Sarra Manning - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

Louise Rennison- Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Tana French - Secret Place

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To The River Sea

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson - Song For Summer

Laura Wood - Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Judith Kerr - Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 

Judith Kerr - Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Penelope Mortimer - Pumpkin Eater

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jill Mansell - Millie’s Fling

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

JB Priestley - Delight

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