As a little bonus treat, we are delighted to present this glorious, nourishing conversation with the fantastic Emma Black! Emma is a hugely talented opera director, veracious reader and winner of the You're Booked auction, raising funds for Book Fuel. Emma talks about her early fascination with Anne of Green Gables, a terrible crime committed to a copy of In Cold Blood in a New Zealand youth hostel, loving Meg Wolitzer, Katherine Heiny and Curtis Sittenfeld and the books she's looking forward to next year (and much more!) If you would like to find out more or donate to National Energy Action, who are attempting to eradicate fuel poverty, then please visit NEA.org.uk. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Jill Tomlinson - Penguin's Who Wanted To Find Out

Jill Murphy - Five Minutes Peace

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Journals

LM Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

EM Brent-Dyer - The Chalet School

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Ann M. Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Andy Miller - Year of Reading Dangerously

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Meg Wolitzer - The Wife

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - Ten Year Nap

Emma Straub - This Time Tomorrow

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back 

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charle Dickens - David Copperfield

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Amor Towles - Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles - Rules of Civility

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

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