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For the eleventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by columnist, journalist and author, Jacqueline Maley.

 

You can read about Jacqueline’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

Commonwealth by Ann Patchett

My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh

Actress by Ann Enright

The Master by Colm Toibin

Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout

Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev

The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower

 

Other books we spoke about included Eileen by Ottessa Mosfegh, Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and Olive Kitteridge by Lucie Barton.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.

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For the tenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast (I said in the podcast itself that it was the eleventh episode, I’m 27 days into lockdown down-under which is the only excuse I have to offer) I was joined by author, documentary film maker and philanthropist, Hannah Rothschild.

 

You can read about Hannah’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

The Way we Live Now by Anthony Trollope

The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford

The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante

Scoop by Evelyn Waugh

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

The Overstory by Richard Power

Three Wishes by Nica de Koenigswater

Black Beauty by Anna Sewell

Old Filth by Jane Gardam

 

Other books we spoke about included Rebecca, Sons and Lovers, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Cazalet Chronicles, A Christmas Carol, The Leopard and The Hungover Games.

 

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For the ninth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by Ed Cunningham, podcaster at A Need to Read.

 

You can read about Ed’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

Lost Connections by Johan Hari

The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight

The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont

The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo

 

Other books we spoke about included The Power of Now, 10% Happier, Shuggie Bain, The Midnight Library, The War of Art and Big Magic.

 

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.

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For the eighth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the divine Cole Brown. His first book, brilliant memoir Grey Boy, was not only picked by Stephen Curry for his Underrated Book Club, but it too is being developed into a TV series by Yarra and Keri Shahidi.

 

You can read about Cole’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster

The Known World by Edward P. Jones

Native Son by Richard Wright

The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes

Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates

The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin

The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead

Other books we spoke about included Cole’s book Grey Boy, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.

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For the seventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanna Rakoff. Her first book, the charming memoir My Salinger Year, has recently been adapted to the big screen starring Sigourney Weaver.

 

You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton

On Beauty by Zadie Smith

Howard’s End by E. M. Forster

Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen

Passing by Nella Larsen

Le Divorce by Diane Johnson

Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie

Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee

Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin

 

Other books we spoke about included Joanna’s books My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pychon, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Persian Nights by Diane Johnson.

 

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For the sixth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the brilliant former actress, playwright, writer and author, Esther Freud. Her first book, the semi-autobiographical Hideous Kinky, was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. She is the author of eight other critically acclaimed books.

You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingles Wilder

Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

A Strange Eventful History: The dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd

Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo

Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh

A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson

Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

Other books we spoke about included Rebecca, The Hobbit, The Shell Seekers, Hideous Kinky, I Couldn’t Love You More, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Gone with the Wind and Shadow Play by Joseph O’Connor.

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.

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For the fifth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the lovely Helen Russell. author, journalist and speaker. Her first book, The Year of Living Danishly, became an international bestseller and has been optioned for television. She is the author of four other critically acclaimed books, translated into 21 languages.

 

You can read about Helen’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt

Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller

Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery

How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton

His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

Mythos by Stephen Fry

Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan

The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett

 

Other books we spoke about included Hotel Du Lac, Wuthering Heights, The Worst Witch, Mallory Towers, The Course of Love, My Judy Garland Life and Helen’s books, which include The Year of Living Danishly, The Atlas of Happiness and Leap Year.

 

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For the fourth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the divine Damian Barr. Author, broadcaster, and creator and host of the Literary Salon, which started at Shoreditch House in 2008, Damian hosts live literary events worldwide.

 

You can read about Damian Barr’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin

The Colour Purple by Alice Walker

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark

Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway

A Scots Dictionary of Nature by Amanda Thomson

Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes

The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

 

Other books we spoke about included The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker, Damian’s books, Maggie and Me and You Will be Safe Here and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.

 

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For the third episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and journalist, Sophia Money-Coutts.

 

You can read about Sophia Money-Coutts original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

 

A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle

Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson

Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny

Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham

The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson

The Consequences of Love by Gavanndra Hodge

Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala

Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi

 

Other books we spoke about included The Chimp Paradox, The Power of Now. Rodham, Prep, American Wife and Notes on a Small Island.

 

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For the second episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by co-owner of Bondi bookshop Gertrude + Alice, blogger at Mr Turner and one of my all-time favourite bookish peeps, the brilliant Jordan Turner.

You can read about Jordan’s original list of Desert Island Books here (https://thelitedit.com/jordan-from-mr-turner/), and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara

Places I Stopped on the Way Home by Meg Fee

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kid

Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson

Betty by Tiffany McDaniel

Other books we spoke about included Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood, Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Ulysees by James Joyce.

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