This week we're delighted to chat to author and journalist Lucy Mangan! Lucy's book Bookworm has been discussed many times on the show and is a firm favourite in YB Towers. Her new novel Are We Having Fun Yet? is fun, furious and unforgettable. We talked to her about reading epiphanies, the literary merits of Les Dawson, quintessential children's books and finding writing solace in Ikea.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Lucy Mangan - Are We Having Fun Yet?

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Patrick Ness - Knife of Never Letting Go

Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden

Norton Juster - Phantom Tollbooth

Gwen Grant - Private Keep Out

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Eve Garnett - Further Adventures

Eve Garnett - Holiday At The Dew Drop Inn

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Norah Lofts - House at Old Vine

Rose Allatini - Despised & Rejected

Helen Hull - Heat Lightning

Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Dorothy Whipple - Someone at a Distance

Anne Brontë - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Anita Brookner - Start in Life

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To the Waltz

Emma Jane Unsworth - After the Storm

Les Dawson - Come Back With the Wind

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

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