Motherworldly

Lisa and I manage to fit 42 books into 31 minutes - enjoy!

Hens Dancing - Rafaella Barker

Moon Tiger - Penelope Lively

The Luminaries - Eleanor Catton

Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud

The Secret History - Donna Tartt

The Book of Human Skin - Michelle Lovric

The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The Goldfinch - Donna Tartt

The Little Friend - Donna Tartt

The Ripliad - Patricia Highsmith

Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism - Yanis Varoufakis

Thursday Next - Jasper Fforde

The Book Thief - Markus Zuzak

Wolf Hall, Bringing Up The Bodies, The Mirror & The Light - Hilary Mantel

Beyond Black - Hilary Mantel

Giving up the Ghost (A Memoir) - Hilary Mantel

Oscar and Lucinda - Peter Carey

A History of the World in 10.5 Chapters- Julian Barnes

New York Trilogy - Paul Auster

I Am I Am I Am - Maggie O'Farrell

Bruce Dickinson's Autobiography

Little Dorrit, Great Expectations, A Christmas Carol, A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens

To The Lighthouse, Mrs Dalloway - Virginia Woolf

War & Peace, Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy

Hamnet - Maggie O'Farrell

Flowers in the Attic - V.C. Andrews

The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown

The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas - John Boyne

The Tattooist of Auschwitz - Heather Morris

Now We Are Six - A.A. Milne

Ant & Bee - Angela Banner

Le Petit Lapin Dans L'Avion (Miffy Goes Flying) - Dick Bruna

The Lord of the Rings - J.R.R.Tolkein

When God Was A Rabbit - Sarah Winman

Why We Sleep? - Matthew Walker

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is all about books.

Amy Jones is all over the social medias as @jimsyjampots, where she shares her family life in all its glory; she's a writer and podcaster, and the auther of The To Do List and Other Debacles, a memoir of mental health. In our conversation, we explored the process of writing, the importance of to-do lists, and the impact that motherhood has had on her.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about books.

I spoke to Zainab on what might have been the hottest day of the year, but we managed to focus our minds and had a really interesting discussion of breastfeeding aversion as well as - of course - breastfeeding in its wider context. I used the term "skin hunger" and thanks to my friend Meg have tracked down the correct attribution - it's in Kerstin Uvnas Moberg's book The Oxytocin Factor.

The third series of the Motherworldly podcast is about books: writing them, reading them, not writing them, having more of them than you can ever read.

Amy Brown is single-handedly responsible for the latter, churning out a book or two most days. In this episode we talk incessantly about her latest book, which I'm more than usually excited about because I'm in it!

This series of the Motherworldly Podcast is about books.

Sherry Bevan is a life coach, breastfeeding counsellor, mother, and president of the NCT. She tells me about her life and her writing process. This one's right down the feminist end of the conversational spectrum.

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is all about books: reading them, writing them, loving them.

Rachel and I chat about her "bible," Carl Rogers' On Becoming A Person, a 1961 book that really sets out his philosophy. We also touch on other books that have been important to her, and whether or not she might one day write one herself. It's so lovely to talk to someone about a book they really love and keep on going back to throughout their life.

Transformative Experience: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transformative_Experience

Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4616994/

Series 3 of the Motherworldly Podcast is about reading, writing, and loving books.

I absolutely defy you to listen to this and not immediately want to read all of Lucinda's books, she is such an engaging speaker, and as a veteran author speaks with authority of her experience of writing and getting published. Find more of her at lucindahawksley.com

The third series of the Motherworldly podcast is all about books.

Lori is an old friend, and we have had many conversations about the book she hasn't written yet. It's subject matter is quite literally very close to all our hearts: bras.

The third series of the Motherworldly podcast is about the joy of books: reading them, writing them, not writing them.

Comedian and antenatal teacher Njambi McGrath talks about the process and emotional journey of writing her heartfelt book Through The Leopard's Gaze.