Katherine May - You're Booked

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.