This week on the podcast we're entertaining one of our favourite writers and one of our favourite people. The brilliant Holly Williams! Holly is a journalist and author who writes about books and theatre for everyone from The Observer to the New York Times and is the author of two fantastic novels, What Time is Love and The Start of Something. We traveled to Holly's wonderful Sheffield home and talked to her about the Tolstoy family dynasty, cosy planning. life lessons from Marian Keyes, generating a poetry habit and books so engrossing you miss your train connection. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy.

BOOKS

Holly Williams - What Time is Love

Holly Williams - Start of Something

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Holly Williams - Living With Leo

Ali Smith - Winter

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

Ted Hughes - Selected Poems

Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems

Paul Muldoon - Selected Poems

Don Paterson - Selected Poems

Julia Cameron - Artist's Way

Ocean Vuong - Time is a Mother

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Helen Mort - Illustrated Woman

Hannah Sullivan - Three Poems

Sharon Olds - Stag's Leap

Ross Gay - The Book of Delights

JB Priestly - Delight

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Celia Paul - Self-Portrait

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Jesse Armstrong - Succession scripts

JB Priestly - An Inspector Calls

Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus

Timberlake Wertenbaker - The Love of the Nightingale

Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country's Good

Peter Barnes - The Ruling Class

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

Virginia Woolf - Diaries

Virginia Woolf - Letters

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Various - Weird Walk

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Kathryn Scanlan - Kick the Latch

Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot

Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona

Jen Calleja - Vehicle

Akwaeke Emezi - You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty

Lizzy Stewart - Alison 

Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings

Ella Frears - Goodlord

Philip Pullman - Book of Dust

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

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