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There's a true rock and roll legend entering You're Booked Towers this week and we couldn't be happier. Kid Congo Powers has played in such beloved bands as The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his own Pink Monkey Birds. His astonishing new memoir Some New Kind of Kick talks about growing up queer and Mexican-American in 1970s, the glam rock and punk rock scenes, music, addiction, fandom, tragedy and fun. It's utterly compelling and sure to enter the pantheon of great music memoirs. We talked to Kid about Nick Cave's book recommendations, the power of Eve Babitz, great grudge writing, appearing in the classic film Wings of Desire and the troubling book that appeared on Lux Interior's coffee table. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Herbert Huncke - Reader

Herbert Huncke -The Evening Sun Turned Crimson

John Rechy - City of Night

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

Ian Hunter - Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Barry Adamson - Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum

Wreckless Eric - A Dysfunctional Success

Harriet Evans - Going Home

Derek Raymond - I Was Dora Suarez

James Ellroy - The LA Quartet

Flora Rheta Schreiber - The Shoemaker

K Mason - Concentration Camp Bestiality

William Burroughs - Junky

Geoffrey Wolff - Black Sun

J. Randy Taraborrelli - Call Her Miss Ross

Kitty Kelly - His Way

Albert Goldman - Elvis

Nick Tosches - Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Caryn Rose - Why Patti Smith Matters

Rimbaud - Collected Poems

Baudelaire - Complete Poems

Fred Vermorel - Starlust

John Rechy - Sexual Outlaw

Raquel Gutierrez - Brown Neon

Chris Womersley - The Diplomat

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game

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National treasure alert! We are so, so honoured to bring you this conversation with legendary author, scriptwriter, multi-award winner and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman OBE. Malorie is one of Britain's best and most beloved children's authors who has written over 70 books including the acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series, which was recently turned into a hit TV series. Malorie has just released her autobiography, Just Sayin', which is wise, wonderful, distressing, hilarious and completely engrossing. Her enthusiasm for books and reading shines through this interview, as she discusses her formative years at the library, beating writers block, her love of poetry and the genius of short stories. Prepare to be inspired. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Alan Moore - V for Vendetta

Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - Othello

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Ovid - Metamorphosis

Felix Guirand (Ed) - New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology

John Wyndham - Chocky

Daphne Du Maurier - The Blue Lenses

Stephen King - Needful Things

Stephen King - Four Past midnight

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - Misery

Charles Burns - Black Hole

Hans Christian Anderson - Little Mermaid

Holly Williams - What Time is Love

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass

Hilaire Belloc - Cautionary Verses

Gavin Ewart (Ed) - Penguin Book of Light Verse

Ogden Nash - Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery

JM Cohen (Ed) - A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse

Paula Burnett (Ed) - Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse

Maya Angelou - Complete Poetry

Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love

Sarah Crossan - One

Dean Atta - Black Flamingo

Malorie Blackman - Cloud Busting

Malorie Blackman - Hackers

Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Various - Marple

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Isaac Asimov - I Robot

Gloria Naylor - Women of Brewster Place

Homer - The Odyssey

Isaac Asimov - Tales of Black Widowers

Daisy Buchanan - Burn After Reading

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

RJ Palacio - Wonder

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Anne Frank - Diary

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Art Spiegelman - Maus

Louis Sachar - Holes

Susan Varley - Badger's Parting Gifts

Garth Ennis - The Boys

Garth Ennis - Preacher

Hayley Campbell - All the Living and the Dead

Rosa Parks - My Story

Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

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This week we are delighted to present a fascinating conversation with Amanda Owen, better known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess! Amanda is the star of the glorious, incredibly popular television series Our Yorkshire Farm, about her rural life in the Dales and also the author of five books, with the most recent being Celebrating the Seasons, about life with her family at Ravenseat Farm, plus a number of delicious recipes. Amanda told us about her collection of antiquated books on agriculture, the book that set her onto her shepherding path, the reads she has shared with her children, a couple of pleas for loaned books to be returned and an unimaginable end for her copy of Judy Blume's Forever. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Amanda Owen - Celebrating the Seasons

Mary Berry - Baking Bible

Nigella Lawson - Howe To Be a Domestic Goddess

Paul Hollywood - Bread

Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Ride Again

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

WJ Miles - Modern Practical Farriery

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk

James Herriot - Yorkshire

John and Eliza Forder - Hill Shepherd

Edward Boden - Black's Veterinary Dictionary 

Tabatha Lasley - Sea State

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

James Herriot - Moses the Kitten

Banjo Paterson - Man from Snowy River

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Lady Diana Shedden & Lady Apsley - To Whom the Goddess

Kim Hamer and Phillipa Page - Sheep Keeping

Hannah Hauxwell - Seasons of My Life

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome

Iain R Thomson - Isolation Shepherd

Edmund Cooper - Men of Swaledale

HM Fraser - History of Beekeeping

Captain John Harland - A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Judy Blume - Forever

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This week we are beyond delighted to present this conversation with the brilliant, bestselling Lucy Foley! Lucy is the author of the crime blockbusters The Hunting Party and The Guest List and her latest smash hit is the chart-topping The Paris Apartment. She's also contributed to the recent Marple collection, so it's no surprise that there's plenty of Christie chat during the show. There's also lots of love for Jilly Cooper, Malory Towers expectations, loving naughty heroines and unusual beach reads. Find out more about the titles mentioned at our Lucy Foley page on our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley (et al) - Marple

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party

Agatha Christie - Crooked House

Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - The Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Princess

Ursula Moray Williams - Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Bel Mooney - Oh Kitty

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who's Afraid of the Dark

Dr Seuss - Oh the Places You'll Go

Judith McNaught - A Kingdom of Dreams

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

Nikki May - Wahala

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Polly Samson - Theatre For Dreamers

Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Caroline Kepnes - You

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Francois Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Julia May Jonas - Vladimir

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Truman Capote - Other Voices Other Rooms

Douglas Adams. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Various - The Paris Review Interviews

Patricia Highsmith - Diaries, Notebooks

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Charmaine Wilkerson - Black Cake

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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If you are a regular player of You're Booked bingo, then get ready for a full house. As we can't imagine an author more perfectly on our wavelength as the brilliant Meg Mason. As well as being the writer of the bestselling phenomenon Sorrow and Bliss, Meg loves all the same books as us! So prepare yourselves for deep dives into Barbara Trapido, Nancy Mitford, Nina Stibbe, The Cazalet Chronicles and much more. Plus there's writing advice from Ann Patchett and a proposal for author led reading lists. Find out more about the titles mentioned at our Meg Mason page on our bookshop.org shop.

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sali Hughes - Everything is Washable

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Katharine Graham - Personal History

Antonia Fraser - Mary Queen of Scots

Antonia Fraser - Wives of Henry VIII

Jan Ormerod - Sunshine

Jane Austen - Emma

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Max Porter - Grief is the Thing with Feathers

Jenny Offill - Dept of Speculation

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Nikki May - Wahala

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Barbara Trapido - Noah's Ark

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

 Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Janet Frame - Owl's Do Cry

Janet Frame - An Angel at My Table

Ann Patchett - This is a Story of a Happy Marriage

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Rachel Cusk - Second Place

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Meg Mason - You Be Mother

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We're back! And we can think of no better way to get the new series underway than this conversation with the brilliant Andrew Sean Greer. Andrew is the author of the Pulitzer Prize winning Less (a massive favourite at You're Booked Towers) and has just released a sequel, Less is Lost, which is equally hilarious, moving and thoroughly addictive. He has won numerous awards for his fiction and has contributed to The New Yorker, Esquire and The Paris Review. We talked to Andrew about the genius of Sondheim, Proustian moments, aunts in PG Wodehouse and owning Armistead Maupin's athletic equipment. Find out more about Daisy's Pound Project book Burn After Reading HERE. And find out more about all the books mentioned at our shop over at BOOKSHOP.ORG

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Burn Before Reading

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Andrew Sean Greer - Less is Lost

Graham Green - Travels With My Aunt

Marguerite Duras - The Ravishing of Lol Stein

A. B. Yehoshua - A Journey to the End of the Millennium

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

John Steinbeck - Travels with Charley

Gerald Durrell - My Family And Other Animals

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep

Beverly Cleary - Fifteen

Beverly Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Beverly Cleary - Henry Huggins

Judy Blume - Tales of the Fourth Grade Nothing

Cervantes - Don Quixote

John Updike - Bech

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov

Vladimir Nabokov - Ada or Ardour

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Agatha Christie - Collected Works

PG Wodehouse - Summer Lightning

PG Wodehouse - Aunts Aren't Gentleman

Natalia Ginzburg - Family Lexicon

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Novels

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Sukh Ojla - Sunny

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

John Updike - Rabbit Run

Philip Roth - Human Stain

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - American Marriage 

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Joe Keenan - Blue Heaven

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Vendela Vida - We Run the Tides

Daniel Handler - Bottle Grove

Murasaki Shikibu - Tale of Genji

Sei Shōnagon - Pillow Book

Yasunari Kawabata - The Old Capital

Truman Capote - Portraits and Observations

Mike Nichols - Life Isn't Everything

James Lapine - Putting It Together

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Stephen Sondheim - Look I made a Hat

Karen Joy Fowler - Booth

Mario Levrero - The Luminous Novel

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You're Booked is very proud to present Daisy's brand new podcast: Daisy is Careering. In Daisy is Careering, journalist and author Daisy Buchanan will be looking at one of the most complicated relationships of our lives: work. We all want to find jobs that we love, but what happens when we start to realise they are never going to love us back? How much of ourselves should we bring to our careers? What can we do when our ambition makes us feel anxious? Is there such a thing as a 'dream job'? In a series of intimate and revealing conversations, Daisy will ask her guests to explore how they navigate the highs and lows of their working lives, and how we can all survive and thrive, while making sure our professional passion doesn't turn into a bad romance. The first episode features the brilliant Emma Gannon and upcoming guests include Otegha Uwagba, Kat Brown, Natalie Lee, Bryony Gordon and many more!

Find out more here: https://play.acast.com/s/daisy-is-careering

Subscribe on Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/daisy-is-careering/id1613500724

Subscribe on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/7638p9LSgdDSvRJgO3wXOj

The podcast accompanies Daisy's latest novel, Careering. 

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This week we are infinitely excited to present the bestselling literary phenomenon Adele Parks to You're Booked! Since releasing her first novel Playing Away in 2000, Adele has released a book a year with her latest the critically acclaimed Both of You. She is one of the biggest-selling women’s fiction writers in the UK, with 4 million books sold and her work translated into more than 30 languages. We talked to her about library love, Enid Blyton, formative reads, literary giants you wouldn't ask to dinner and the books that literally made Adele faint.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Adele Parks - Playing Away

Adele Parks - Both of You

Jackie Collins - Lady Boss

Shirley Conran - Lace

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Emma

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Dorothy Parker - Best Of

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Swears

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Andrew O'Hagan - Mayflies

Adele Parks - Young Wives tales

Adele Parks - Lies Lies Lies

Graeme Simsion - The Rosie Effect

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Amanda Jennings - The Haven

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clare's

Enid Blyton - In the Fifth

Enid Blyton - Naughty Amelia Jane

Jessica Fellowes - The Mitford Murders

Abigail Dean - Girl A

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Kate Atkinson - Behind the Scenes of the Museum

Alice Walker - The Color Purple

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This week we are truly honoured to welcome the legendary Susanna Clarke to You're Booked! Her debut novel was the beloved Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell which was longlisted for the Booker Prize and won the British Book Awards Newcomer of the Year, the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award. Her short story collection The Ladies of Grace Adieu, set in the world of Jonathan Strange, followed in 2006. Her latest is Piranesi, a New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller, and winner of this year's Women's Prize for Fiction. We talked to her about the lure of the library, reading and running away, magic, mysterious narrators and there's even a few bonus Christmas gift ideas!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Susanna Clarke - Ladies of Grace Adieu

Susanna Clarke - Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell

Susanna Clarke - Piranesi

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Reginald Hill - A Clubbable Woman

Jane Austen - Sanditon

Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Anthology

John Irving - The World According To Garp

Rosemary Sutcliffe - Eagle of the Ninth

Cynthia Harnett - The Great House

Barbara Leonie Picard - Ransom For a Knight

Ruth Manning Sanders - Book of Dwarves

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Ursula K Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

William Shakespeare - Henry IV, Part 1

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

AA Gill - Pour Me

Albert Camus - The Plague

Joan G Robinson - Charley

William Shakespeare - The Tempest

William Shakespeare - King Lear

Jane Austen Sense and Sensibility

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

EM Delafield - Dairy of a Provincial Lady

Anne Lister - The Secret Diaries

Anthony Horowitz - Foyles War

Anthony Horowitz - The Word is Murder

Chris Packham - Fingers in the Sparkle Jar

Elizabeth Kostova - The Historian

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