Hurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys, the profound influence of Sylvia Plath, the genius of Adrian Mole and getting uncomfortably close to Kate Bush. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Katherine May - Enchantment

Katherine May - Wintering

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus

Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Stephen King - Carrie

Claude Tardat - A Sweet Death

Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus

Ben Okri - The Famished Road

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

Charlotte Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

Willy Russell - Educating Rita

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Erich Kastner - Lotte and Lisa

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better

Jenny Diski - Skating to Antarctica

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Suzanne Buffam - A Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book

Jenny Offill - Department of Speculation

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Letters

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Elissa Altman - On Permission

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Michael Pollan - How To Change Your Mind

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air

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