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This week we are beyond delighted to welcome the brilliant and hilarious Isy Suttie to You’re Booked towers! Isy is a comedian, actor and the author of a memoir The Actual One and the wonderful novel Jane is Trying. We talked to her about eating mince, thriller addiction, the pain of rereading and getting a boy to buy you Forever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Isy Suttie - Jane is Trying

Isy Suttie - The Actual One

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sue Miller - The Good Mother

Bev Thomas - A Good Enough Mother

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Steig Larsson - Girl With the Dragon Tattoo

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Liz Nugent - Skin Deep

Erin Kelly - Burning Air

Ruth Rendell - Judgement in Stone

Will Dean - Last Thing To Burn

John Yorke - Into The Woods 

Libbie Hawker - Take Off Your Pants!

Lisa Jewell - Ralph’s Party

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Lisa Jewell - Family Upstairs

Shari Lapena - Couple Next Door

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

John Fowles - The Magus

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Theodore Dreiser - Sister Carrie

Rachel Edwards - Lucky

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Sharon Osbourne - Unbreakable

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Lucy Vine - Bad Choices

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For our series finale, we are thrilled to present this conversation with author, podcaster and all-round inspiration Otegha Uwagba! Otegha is the author of the bestselling career guide Little Black Book and the essay collection Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods which was picked as one of the Guardian’s Books of The Year. Her latest book is the memoir We Need To Talk About Money. We talked to her about Enid Blyton deep cuts, books about families, jumping aboard the Ferrante bandwagon and why some books are like catnip.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Otegha Uwagba - Little Black Book

Otegha Uwagba - Whites: On Race and Other Falsehoods

Otegha Uwagba - We Need To Talk About Money

Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey - She Said

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Five Find-Outers

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Elaine Castillo - America is Not the Heart

Julian Fellowes - Snobs

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - The Female Persuasion

Deborah Levy - Real Estate

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alain de Botton - Course of Love

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Americanah

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

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This week we welcome a genuine literary legend to YB: Nick Hornby! Nick is the bestselling author of eight novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy and, most recently, Just Like You. He’s also published non-fiction such as Fever Pitch, and has written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and Love Nina. We talked to him about Rin Tin Tin, the pain of rereading, the definition of a classic and why his dad kept Fanny Hill in his boot.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nick Hornby- Just Like You

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

Marilynne Robinson - Housekeeping

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

Geoffrey Willans - Compleet Molesworth

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Albert Camus - The Stranger

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Martin Amis - Money

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

EM Forster - Passage To India

George Orwell - Essays

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Paul Ewen - Francis Plug

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Auberon Waugh - Diaries 72-76

Nick Hornby - Stuff I’ve Been Reading

David Kynaston - Austerity Britain

PG Wodehouse - Letters

Angus Calder - Myth of the Blitz

Rickie Lee Jones - Last Chance Texaco

Jane Allen - I Lost My Childish Laughter

Mark Harris - Mike Nichols

Carter & Kashner - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Mark Harris - Pictures at a Revolution

Tracey Thorn - My Rock and Roll Friend

Daniel Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Stefan Kanfer - Lucille Ball

Susan Orlean - Rin Tin Tin

Susan Orlean - Library Book

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Mary Ann Shaffer - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Tannenbaum & Marks - I Want My MTV

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Francis Spufford - Child That Books Built

John Cleland - Fanny Hill

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives

Erich Kästner- Lottie and Lisa

Anne Tyler - Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Gayl Jones - Palmares

Jonathan Wilson - History of Football Tactics

Dean Windass - Deano

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This week we are thrilled to present an illuminating chat with one of our favourite all-time writers: Olivia Laing! Olivia is the author of To the River, The Trip to Echo Spring, The Lonely City and Funny Weather. Her novel Crudo was a Sunday Times bestseller, a New York Times notable book, shortlisted for the Goldsmiths and Gordon Burn Prizes and winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Her latest book is Everybody: A Book About Freedom. We talked to her about Warhol’s wigs, Kathy Acker as a teenage totem, Jilly Cooper revelations and a Henry James slam courtesy of John Cheever.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Olivia Laing - Lonely City

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

Olivia Laing - Crudo

Olivia Laing - Everybody

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

William Burroughs - The Cat Inside

Kathy Acker - Great Expectations

JD Salinger - Nine Stories

TH White - Once and Future King

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Derek Jarman - Modern Nature

Derek Jarman - Chroma

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley Under Ground

Olivia Laing - Trip to Echo Spring

Jessica Anya Blau - Mary Jane

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Hermione Lee - Virginia Woolf

Andy Warhol - Diaries

Tina Brown - Diaries

Linda Rosenkrantz - Talk

Andy Warhol - A

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Margery Allingham - Crime at Black Dudley

Len Deighton - Ipcress File

Len Deighton - Horse Under Water

Len Deighton - SS-GB

Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Denton Welch - Maiden Voyage

Anthony Powell - Dance To The Music of Time

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation To The Waltz

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lucy M. Boston - Green Knowe

Dodie Smith - 101 Dalmations

Dodie Smith - Look Back With Love

Henrietta Moraes - Henrietta

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

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This week we’re delighted to welcome the author of one of our favourite novels of recent times Clare Chambers! Clare’s novel Small Pleasures was a Women’s Prize nominee and a book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro and many more and beloved over here at You’re Booked towers. We talked to her about Katherine Heiny, out of print revelations, slow reading and using Nina Stibbe as a friendship barometer.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Tara Westover - Educated

Jeannette Walls - Glass Castle

Gerald Durrell - My Family and Other Animals

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Jane Austen - Northanger Abbey

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Alexander Dumas - Count of Monte Christo

Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge

Thomas Hardy - Return of the Native

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d’Urbervilles

Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd

Alain-Fournier - Grand Meaulnes 

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Paulette Jiles - News of the World

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Charles Palliser - Quincunx 

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Winifred Holtby - South Riding

Josephine Tey - Franchise Affair

Josephine Tey - Brat Farrar

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong

Ingrid Persaud - Love After Love

Zoe Pilger - Eat My Heart Out

Michael Frayn - Towards the End of the Morning

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marika Cobbold - On Hampstead Heath

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Ronan Hession - Leonard and Hungry Paul

Dorothy Baker - Cassandra at the Wedding

Anna Hope - Expectation

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Life Among the Savages

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Alan Wildsmith - Summer at 45 Acres

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Prudence

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Cathleen Schine - Love Letter

Cathleen Schine - They Do Not Mean To But They Do

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

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This week, we're delighted to sit down and chat with the multi-award winning author, speaker, podcaster and Financial Times columnist Elizabeth Uviebinené! Elizabeth's first book was the groundbreaking Slay In Your Lane: The Black Girl Bible, co-written with her best friend Yomi Adegoke. She also co-edited Loud Black Girls with Yomi and co-presented Slay in Your Lane: The Podcast. Her latest book is The Reset, a fundamental rethink of how we work and live. We talked to her about the genius of Jacqueline Wilson, the fun of delving into awkward subjects and reading Danielle Steel on the bus.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Uviebinené - The Reset

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Slay In Your Lane

Elizabeth Uviebinené and Yomi Adegoke - Loud Black Girls

Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Jacqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jacqueline Wilson - Suitcase Kid

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Tasmina Perry - Gold Diggers

Tasmina Perry - Daddy's Girls

Tasmina Perry - Guilty Pleasures

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Tilly Bagshawe - Adored

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Malcolm Gladwell - Outliers

Malcolm Gladwell - Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell - Blink

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Sophie Mort - Manual For Being Human

Otegha Uwagba - We Need to Talk About Money

Clare Seal - Real Life Money

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This week we're delighted to welcome the legendary novelist, playwright, performer, journalist and teacher Esther Freud to You're Booked. Esther is the author of nine novels, her first Hideous Kinky was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys prize and turned into a hit film starring Kate Winslet. Her latest is the captivating I Couldn't Love You More. We talked to her about the pain of book gifting, the genius of Jean Rhys, the power of poetry and the hilarity of Maria Semple.

BOOKS

Esther Freud - Hideous Kinky

Esther Freud - I Couldn’t Love You More

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Slipstream

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Tracy Chevalier - Girl With a Pearl Earring

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

George Orwell - Essays

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Nicole Krauss - To Be a Man

Nicole Krauss - History of Love

Sylvia Townsend Warner - English Climate

Elizabeth Bowen - Collected Stories

Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams

David Szalay - Turbulence

Lucia Berlin - Manual for Cleaning Women

Mhairi McFarlane - Here’s Looking at You

Jane Ions - Domestic Bliss and Other Disasters

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jon McGregor - Reservoir 13

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Maria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Louisa May Alcott - Good Wives

Maria Semple - This One is Mine

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Robert Louis Stevenson - Jekyll and Hyde

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Jay Bernard - Surge

WB Yeats - Collected Poems

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We are so excited to welcome one of our favourite ever authors to the You're Booked airwaves this week. Katherine Heiny is the author of the novels Standard Deviation and Early Morning Riser, plus the short story collection Single, Carefree, Mellow. Her books are funny, moving, wise and just fantastic. We talked to her about rice pudding, espionage, the pain of dinner parties, unnerving Judy Blume and rereading Nora Ephron.

BOOKS

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Alice Thomas Ellis - Other Side of the Fire

Alice Thomas Ellis - Summer House

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nigella Lawson - Feast

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nora Ephron - Most of...

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Thomas Harris - Red Dragon

Stephen King - Carrie

Dorothy Parker - Complete Stories

Barbara Trapido - Noah’s Ark

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Lacy Crawford - Notes on a Silencing

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Elif Batuman - The Idiot

Carmen Maria Machado - In The Dream House

Nina Renata Aron - Good Morning Destroyer of Men’s Souls

Deborah Kay Davies - True Things About Me

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Norma Klein - Beginner’s Love

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won’t

Judy Blume - Are You There God It’s Me Margaret

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds

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This week we are delighted to welcome author, award-winner and Books to Nourish auction victor Emma Batchelor! Emma’s debut book, Now That I See You, is an acclaimed love story, told through letters and diary entries, reflecting Emma’s own experience of identity, gender and grief. The book won the Vogel Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript. We talked to her about great Australian literature, lady detectives, eroticism in Jane Austen and the genius of Nina Stibbe. For more on Books to Nourish visit bookstonourish.wordpress.com/ and discover more about FareShare at fareshare.org.

BOOKS

Emma Batchelor - Now That I See You

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

Alexandra Heminsley - Some Body To Love

Kerry Greenwood - Phryne Fisher Mysteries

Joan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging Rock

Ruth Park - Harp in the South

Melina Marchetta - Looking for Alibrandi

Jessie Tu - Lonely Girl is a Dangerous Thing

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Kabi Nagata - My Lesbian Year of Loneliness

Sophie Kinsella - Undomestic Goddess

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Helen Halstead - A Private Performance

Ella Baxter - New Animal

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Emma Jane Unsworth - Adults

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

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This week we welcome a true publishing legend to the show. Judy Piatkus founded Piatkus Books from her Essex bedroom in 1979. She went on to release books by globally bestselling authors such as Danielle Steel, VC Andrews, Mary Berry and Julia Quinn’s Bridgerton series. Now Judy has released her own memoir, Ahead of Her Time. We talked to her about her glittering publishing career, the books that got away, the genius of Ann Patchett and the power of Feng Shui. 

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Judy Piatkus - Ahead of Her Time

Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz

Joseph Kanon - Defectors

Ann Cleeves - Hidden Depths

Ann Cleeves - Raven Black

Danielle Steel - The Promise

Cynthia Freeman - No Time For Tears

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Linda Grant - A Stranger City

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

VC Andrews - Petals on the Wind

Judy Blume - Forever

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

James Redfield - Celestine Prophecy

Harville Hendrix - Getting the Love You Want

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Karen Kingston - Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui

Marie Kondo - Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up

Benjamin Moser - Sontag

Nevil Shute - On The Beach

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

Mary Renault - King Must Die

Leon Uris - Exodus

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anne Tyler - Redhead By The Side of the Road

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Dutch House

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Ann Patchett - Commonwealth

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle

Penny Vincenzi - Question of Trust

Nora Roberts - Song of the West

JD Robb - Forgotten in Death

Julia Quinn - Bridgerton

Georgette Heyer - Frederica

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