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This week we are honoured and delighted to be talking to one of our favourite authors, the wonderful Patricia Lockwood. Patricia's memoir, Priestdaddy, was one of our most beloved books in recent years and her first novel, No One is Talking About This is equally enticing. We talked to her about Covid fever reading, problematic faves, forgotten kids books and, of course, Nabokov. You can find Daisy's brand new podcast, Daisy is Insatiable, right HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Andre Gide - Marshlands

Leonora Carrington - Hearing Trumpet

Paula Fox - Desperate Characters

Paula Fox - Borrowed Finery

EF Benson - Mapp & Lucia

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Time of Gifts

Patrick Leigh Fermor - Broken Road

Robert Walser - Berlin Stories

Leonora Carrington - Down Below

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Joanne Greenberg - I Never Promised You a Rose Garden

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest of Relaxation

Darcie Wilder - Literally Show Me a Healthy Person

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

AS Byatt - Babel Tower

VC Andrews - My Sweet Audrina

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Think Write Speak

Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Sheila Heti - Motherhood

Andre Gide - Counterfeiters

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Rachel Ingalls - Binstead's Safari

Sydney Taylor - All Of a Kind Family

Lore Segal - Tell Me a Mitzi

Tove Jansson - Moomin Comic Strips

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Selected Journals

Tomie dePaola - Helga’s Dowry

Mercer Mayer - Favourite Tales from Grimm

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Plum Sykes - Debutante Divorcee

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Frantumaglia

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Gerald Durrell - Family and Other Animals

Jessica Mitford - Hons & Rebels

Ada Limon - Carrying

Danez Smith - Homie

Kristen Arnett - With Teeth

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This week we are spending some time with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes. Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages, with the latest being the chart-topping Grown Ups. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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This week we are investigating the reading habits of a genuine superstar. Kate Mosse OBE is the award-winning author of nine books of fiction including the bestselling Languedoc trilogy and her latest novel City of Tears that is currently topping the bestseller charts. She is the co-founder of the Women's Prize for Fiction and a guest presenter of BBC Radio 4's A Good Read. We talked to Kate about the importance of libraries, vintage crime, meeting your public and the greatness of Toni Morrison.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Kate Mosse - City of Tears

Ngaio Marsh - Collection

Josephine Tey - Daughter of Time

Margery Allingham - Tiger in the Smoke

Patricia Wentworth - Listening Eye

Agatha Christie - Body in the Library

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Purple Hibiscus 

Anna Burns - No Bones

Anna Burns - Milkman

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Gayl Jones - Corregidora

Eimear McBride - Girl is a Half Formed Thing

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Susan Fromberg Schaeffer - Madness of a Seduced Woman

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Melissa Broder - Milk Fed

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Leo Tolstoy- Anna Karenina

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

Ali Smith - Autumn

Margaret Atwood - Negotiating With The Dead

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Russell Ash - Readers Digest Book of Folklore, Myths and Legends of Britain 

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This week we are incredibly excited to welcome the author of one of our, and Barack Obama's, favourite books. Raven Leilani's Luster has, quite rightly, taken the literary world by storm. As well as making Obama's 2020 book list, it's won the Kirkus Prize and been a New York Times bestseller. Sexy, funny and incredibly prescient, it is a book for our times and Raven is a writer of extreme skill and enormous promise. We talked to Raven about unlikeable characters, fantasy movie adaptations, fan fiction and sexy vampires.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Raven Leilani - Luster

Patricia Lockwood - No One is Talking About This

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov - Pnin

Dylan Thomas- Collected Poems

Allen Ginsberg - Howl

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Anne Rice - Interview With the Vampire

Richard Matheson - I Am Legend

Brian K. Vaughan - Saga

Alison Bechdel - Fun Home

Michael Chabon - Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay 

Jennifer Egan - Visit From the Goon Squad

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Robert Jones Jr - The Prophets

Susan Choi - My Education

Halle Butler - New Me

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Jia Tolentino - Trick Mirror

Maisy Card - These Ghosts are Family

Megan Giddings - Lakewood

Emily Temple - Lightness

Sarah Gerard - True Love

Alexandra Chang - Days of Distraction

Morgan Jerkins - Caul Baby

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

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This week we are nosing around the bookshelves of the author described as "the most talented new cookbook writer of a generation" by The Times, the wonderful Ella Risbridger! Ella is the author of Midnight Chicken, called "a manual for living and a declaration of hope" by Nigella Lawson. Ella is also the editor of the poetry anthology Set Me On Fire and her first book for children The Secret Detectives will be released later this year. We talked to her about nourishing poetry, smoking in the bath and why she still has Daisy's copy of Brother of the More Famous Jack.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Ella Risbridger - Midnight Chicken

Ella Risbridger - Secret Detectives

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

James Rebanks - English Pastoral

Ada Limon - Bright Dead Things

Hera Lindsay Bird - Hera Lindsay Bird

Kaveh Akbar - Calling a Wolf a Wolf

Richard Scott - Soho

Kayo Chingonyi - Kumukanda

Morgan Parker - There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé

Ellen Bass - Human Line

Gabrielle Calvocoressi - Rocket Fantastic

Marie Howe - What The Living Do

Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn

Mary Wesley - Haphazard House

Mary Wesley - Speaking Terms

Mary Wesley - Sixth Seal

Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Sarra Manning - You Don’t Have To Say You Love Me

Sarah Dessen - Lock and Key

Robin Stevens - Murder Most Unladylike

Louise Rennison- Angus, thongs and full-frontal snogging

Tana French - Secret Place

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - Rules of Attraction

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To The River Sea

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Eva Ibbotson - Song For Summer

Laura Wood - Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Judith Kerr - Small Person Far Away

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit 

Judith Kerr - Bombs on Aunt Dainty

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Penelope Mortimer - Pumpkin Eater

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jill Mansell - Millie’s Fling

Jill Mansell - Fast Friends

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

JB Priestley - Delight

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For this year's festive special, we are in the company of comedy royalty. It's the undisputed national treasure: Dawn French! As well as being part of the groundbreaking comedy duo French and Saunders, Dawn is the author of two books of memoir and four novels with the latest being the bestselling Because Of You. We talked to her about the funniest book she has ever read, fictional families, Ab Fab, Carrie Fisher, Beatrix Potter and unusual research methods.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Dawn French - Because of You

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit

Roald Dahl - The BFG

Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Ruth Jones - Us Three

Dawn French - Dear Fatty

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Dawn French - Oh Dear Silvia

Robert McFarlane - Old Ways

John Williams - Stoner

Pete Paphides - Broken Greek

Jessica Mitford - Letters

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Spike Milligan - Puckoon

Spike Milligan - Silly Verse For Kids

Jane Hirshfield - The Beauty

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Dorothy Wordsworth - Letters

John Lanchester - Debt to Pleasure

John Berger - And our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos

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For this very special festive episode, we have enlisted the help of former guest, Twitter's resident book concierge and one of our favourite people in the whole world - the great Sarra Manning - to help you select the perfect book for everyone in your life (including yourself). Whether you're looking for that ideal last minute present for an awkward relative, or want to get something delightful to read for yourself, Sarra has a title for you. Sarra's new book Rescue Me and out early next year and available for pre-order now.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

David Sedaris - Best of Me

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Craig Brown - Ma’am Darling

Hugo Vickers - Elizabeth, Queen Mother

Tina Brown - Diana Chronicles

Craig Brown - One, Two, Three, Four

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Becky Brown - Blitz Spirit

Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Laura Wood - A Snowfall of Silver

Laura Wood - A Sky Painted Gold

Laura Wood - Under a Dancing Star

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Anthony Quinn - Curtain Call

Anthony Quinn - Freya

Anthony Quinn - Eureka

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Terence Blacker - Willie Donaldson: You Cannot Live As I Have Lived and Not End Up Like This

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Kate Young - Little Library Christmas

Kate Young - Little Library Cookbook

Kate Young - Little Library Year

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

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This week we are delighted to have a rummage around the bookshelves of writer and presenter C.D. (Cesca) Major! Cesca is the prolific author of the bestselling thriller The Other Girl and also writes under the pseudonyms Rosie Blake and Ruby Hummingbird, producing a variety of brilliant books. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, literary sisters, funny books, Christmas reads and writing something so scary you can't read it yourself.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

CD Major - The Other Girl

Holly Miller - Sight of You

Rosamund Lupton - Three Hours

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Jodi Picoult - Spark of Light

Jodi Picoult - Book of Two Ways

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Enid Blyton - Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - St Clares

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Kirsty Greenwood - It Happened on Christmas Eve

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Baroness Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

 Mary Ann Shaffer & Annie Barrows - Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

CD Major - Thin Place

RL Stine- Babysitter

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson - Haunting of Hill House

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Kirsty Greenwood - He Will Be Mine

Curtis Sittenfeld - Man of My Dreams

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Natasha Solomon - Mr Rosenblum’s List

Ayisha Malik - Green and Pleasant Land

Natasha Solomon - Novel in the Viola

Natasha Solomon - Gallery of Vanished Husbands

Rosie Blake - Gin O’Clock Club

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This week we're giddy with excitement to speak with the author of one of our favourite book's of recent times, Patrick Freyne! Patrick is a journalist, musician and the author of the essay collection Ok, Let's Do Your Stupid Idea which is hilariously funny, wise and deeply moving. We talked to him about apocalypse strategies, the joy of short books and the power of Adrian Mole. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Patrick Freyne - Ok, Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea

Hilary Mantel - Mantel Pieces

Emily Pine - Notes To Self

Lorrie Moore - See What Can Be Done

Muriel Spark - Prime Of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Memento Mori

Max Porter. - Lanny

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Stephen King - The Stand

George RR Martin - Game of Thrones

Terry Pratchett - Discworld

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Lorrie Moore - Gate at the Stairs

Kristen Roupenian - You Know You Want This

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

CS Lewis - Prince Caspian

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachariah

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - Growing Pains of Adrian Mole

Ali Smith - Winter

Gene Wolfe - Book of the New Sun

John Wyndham - Chrysalids

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

Emily St John Mandle - Station 11

Cormac McCarthy - The Road

Brian K Vaughan - Y The Last Man

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Nuala O'Faolain - Are You Somebody

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

Zadie Smith - Intimations

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Ray Bradbury - Stories

Anna Carey - Boldness of Betty

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Neil Gaiman - Sandman

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