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This week we're talking to the astonishingly prolific Anthony Horowitz! Anthony has written extensively for young adults, (especially his Alex Rider series), for adults (the Magpie and Moonflower Murder books), for the screen (Including the creation of Foyle's War) and updating both Sherlock Holmes and James Bond legacies with new stories plus many, many more. We discussed forgotten crime authors, funny books, writing inspiration, novels about writers and the sadness of finishing a beloved book.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants

Dale Shaw - Haunted Underpants on WFMU

Anthony Horowitz - Stormbreaker

Anthony Horowitz - Magpie Murders

Anthony Horowitz - Moonflower Murders

Don Winslow - Power of the Dog

Don Winslow - Cartel

Don Winslow - Border

John Dickson Carr - Hag's Nook

Soji Shimada - Tokyo Zodiac Murders

Soji Shimada - Crooked House

AE Ellis - The Rack

Albert Camus - Plague

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Anthony Horowitz - Oblivion

Anthony Horowitz - Switch

LP Hartley - Go-Between

William Golding - Spire

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

George MacDonald Fraser - Flashman

Thomas Hughes - Tom Brown’s Schooldays

Herman Wouk - Caine Mutiny

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Erich Remarque - All Quiet On the Western Front

TH White - Once and Future King

George Gissing - New Grub Street

George Gissing - Nether World

George Gissing - Unclassed

George Orwell - Keep the Aspidistra Flying

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Lissa Evans - Crooked Heart

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Angus Calder - People’s War

Norman Longmate - How We Lived Then

John Lukacs - Five Days in May

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves & Wooster

Tom Sharpe - Blott on the Landscape

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Craig Brown - 1, 2, 3, 4

Craig Brown - Imaginary Friends

Craig Brown - One on One

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Short History of Nearly Everything

Anthony Horowitz - Russian Roulette

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This week we are perusing the bookshelves of human rights campaigner, former Explosive Ordnance Disposal Officer, Love Island inhabiter and all-round inspiration Camilla Thurlow! Camilla has worked for land mine charity The Halo Trust, she's a vociferous reader and has recently published her first book, a memoir, called Not The Type. During a highly revealing conversation, we talked to her about the double-edged sword that is social media, the genius of Elizabeth Day, the appeal of old books and allowing stories to leak into your life.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Camilla Thurlow - Not The Type

David Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One Day

Lisa Taddeo - Three Woman

David Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes With Owls

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Elizabeth Macneal - The Doll Factory

Jessie Burton - The Muse

Alan Huffman - Here I Am

Paul Conroy - Under the Wire

Sebastian Junger - Tribe

David Nott - War Doctor

Anna Hope - Expectation

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Ken Follett - Pillars of the Earth

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Abbi Waxman - Bookish Life of Nina Hill

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Nimko Ali - What We’re Told Not To Talk About

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Marian Keyes - Other Side of the Story

Jamie Bartlett - The People Vs Tech

Rachel DeLoache Williams - My Friend Anna

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

George Orwell - 1984

Alain De Botton - School of Life

Bella Mackie - Jog On

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We are beyond excited to bring you this honest and illuminating conversation with author, influencer, blogger and founder of Make Motherhood Diverse - Candice Brathwaite! Candice's first book, You Are Not My Baby Mother was a former YB Steal of the Week and a critically lauded Sunday Times bestseller that unflinchingly looks at being a black British mother and strives to redefine the whole idea of motherhood in the 21st Century. We talked to Candice about the pressures of success, the delights of Oprah's Book Club, the genius of Toni Morrison and the importance of woo.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Candice Brathwaite - I Am Not Your Baby Mother

Lupita Nyong’o - Sulwe 

Sister Soulja - Coldest Winter Ever

Nelson Mandela - Long Road To freedom

Ilona Staller (Ed) - Erotic Tales

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Jacqueline Woodson - Red at the Bone

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nicholas Sparks - The Notebook

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

EB White - Charlotte’s Web

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Gary Zukav - Seat of the Soul

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Rhonda Byrne - The Secret

Paul Harrington - Secret to Teen Power

Jen Sincero - You Are a Badass

Shahroo Izadi - Kindness Method

Shahroo Izadi - Last Diet

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

bell hooks - All About Love

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We're Doing It Right

Emma Gannon - Olive

Kenya Hunt - Girl

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We're delighted to bring you this frank, revealing and fascinating interview with the author and journalist Lisa Taddeo. Lisa's book Three Women is a Sunday Times #1 bestseller, winner of the narrative non-fiction book of the year at the British Book Awards and one of the most frequently spotted titles on the bookshelves of You're Booked guests. We talked to her about the negative effects of fame, Lucia Berlin, the genius of Elena Ferrante and the cinematic legacy of Anthony Hopkins.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Elena Ferrante - Lost Daughter

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Elena Ferrante - Days of Abandonment

Elena Ferrante - Troubling Love

John Grisham - Camino Winds

Stephen King - Rose Madder

Stephen King - Misery

Stephen King - The Stand

Stephen King - Hearts in Atlantis

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Grace Paley - Collected Stories

Joy Williams - Visiting Privilege

William Trevor - Collected Stories

Natalia Ginzburg - Dry Heart

James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime

Barry Hannah - Long Last Happy

Nicholson Baker - House of Holes

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons dangereuses

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Kay Thompson - Eloise in Moscow

JM Barrie - Peter Pan

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Scott Stossel - My Age of Anxiety

David Foster Wallace - The Depressed Person

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden 

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

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This week we're riffling through the shelves of author, broadcaster, journalist and podcast superstar Pandora Sykes! Pandora is the co-host of the smash hit The High Low and her own chart-topping new podcast Doing It Right. Her first essay collection is the hotly anticipated How Do We Know We're Doing It Right. We talked to her about formative reading, High Low favourites and Jilly Cooper's nether regions.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Pandora Sykes - How Do We Know We’re Doing It Right?

William Davies - Nervous States

Paul Bloom - Against Empathy

William Davies - Happiness Industry

Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Clare Chambers - Small Pleasures

Candice Brathwaite - I am Not Your Baby Mother

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Britt Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Britt Bennett - The Mothers

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Meg Wolitzer- The Interestings

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Nesrine Malik - We Need New Stories

Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins

Zadie Smith - NW

Mary Gaitskill - Lost Cat

Mary Gaitskill - Bad Behaviour

Mary Gaitskill - Veronica

Mary Gaitskill - Two Girls Fat & Thin

Deborah Levy - Cost of Living

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones & the Six

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jessica Knoll - Luckiest Girl Alive

Emma Morgan - Love Story For Bewildered Girls

Melissa Bank - Girls Guide To Hunting & Fishing

Melissa Bank - Wonder Spot

John Boyne - Ladder To The Sky

John Boyne - Heart’s Invisible Furies

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Betty Friedan - Feminine Mystique

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Nikesh Shukla - Brown Baby

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant

Nikesh Shukla - Good Immigrant USA

Nikesh Shukla - One Who Wrote Destiny

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I loved You

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This week we are Shelf Isolating with the journalist, columnist and author Gavanndra Hodge! Gavanndra has worked in newspapers and magazines for over twenty years at publications such as Tatler, Sunday Times, Independent and ES Magazine. Her memoir, The Consequences of Love, has received widespread critical acclaim. We talked to her about rereading, food in books, Lace and being led astray by the Chalet School books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Vladimir Nabokov - Speak Memory

Sybille Bedford - Jigsaw

Elinor M. Brent-Dyer - Chalet School

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Virgil - Aenid

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Rose Macaulay - Towers of Trebizond

Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Deborah Levy - Swimming Home

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Last Act of Love

Justine Picardie - If the Spirit Moves You

JK Rowling - Harry Potter

Sophie Heawood - Hungover Games

Ursula Le Guin - The Dispossessed

Daniel Kehlmann - Tyll

Shirley Conran - Lace

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We're still stuck at home and Shelf Isolating this week - but we have a fabulous guest to share all that isolation with: Sali Hughes! Sali is a podcast host, broadcaster, Guardian Weekend's resident beauty expert and the author of the books Pretty Honest, Pretty Iconic and Our Rainbow Queen. We talked to her about the great Nora Ephron, the joy of reading about parties, fraternal favourites and the best literary families. Head to Instagram and search for #BlackOutBestSellerList to find out more about the campaign.

BOOKS

Abi Daré - Girl With the Louding Voice

Angela Makholwa - Blessed Girl

Sali Hughes - Pretty Honest

Sali Hughes - Pretty Iconic

Sali Hughes - Our Rainbow Queen 

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Phyllis Grant - Everything is Under Control

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Delia Ephron - Hanging Up

Noras Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

John Irving - Hotel New Hampshire

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Jeffrey Eugenides - Virgin Suicides

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Gordon Burn - Somebody's Husband, Somebody's Son

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Tara Westover - Educated

Leah Remini - Troublemaker

Beau Donelly, Nick Toscano - Woman Who Fooled The World

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Greg Sestero - Disaster Artist

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

Terri White - Coming Undone

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Armistead Maupin - Maybe the Moon

Armistead Maupin - Night Listener

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

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We couldn't be happier to be Shelf Isolating with this week's guest - author, journalist and all around book guru Sarra Manning! Sarra is one of our favourite people on the planet as well as a brilliant former guest who has impeccable book taste. We talked to her about foisting favourite books, rigorous rereading, investigating the aristocracy and there are many, many book recommendations.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

Anne de Courcy - Debs at War

Anne de Courcy - Viceroy’s daughters

Nicolas Coleridge - Glossy Years

PG Wodehouse - Indiscretions of Archie

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Susie Steiner - Missing Presumed

Jane Casey - The Burning

Louise Cavendish - Our House

Penny Vincenzi - No Angel

RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September

Angela Thirkell - Before Lunch

Victoria Wood - Chunky

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader

Sara Davidson - Loose Change

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Cathleen Schine - Grammarians

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Eva Ibbotson - Morning Gift

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck

LM Montgomery - Blue Castle

Noel Streatfeild - Vicarage Family

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth David

Hannah Tovey - Education of Ivy Edwards

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Holly Bourne - Pretending

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

Sarra Manning - Let’s Get Lost

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

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It's another Shelf Isolation bonus episode this week, where we peruse the bookshelves of a favourite author from a safe distance. This week it's a ridiculously entertaining chat with the wonderful Clare Mackintosh. Clare is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of I

Let You Go, Let Me Lie and her latest After The End. We talked to her about providing a retirement home for books, her secret library, Just William and who, from books, she'd hate to be locked down with.

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BOOKS

Layla F Saad - Me & White Supremacy

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Clare Mackintosh - After The End

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jodi Picoult - Small Great Things

Jodi Picoult - A Spark of Light

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Eleanor H. Porter - Pollyanna

Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Richmal Crompton - William Carries On

HV Morton - Traveller in Rome

Edward Lear - Complete Nonsense

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Nikesh Shukla (ed) - Good Immigrant

Jasbinder Bilan - Asha & the Spirit Bird

Arthur Ransome - Swallows and Amazons

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London

Mark Haddon - Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time

James Goodhand - Last Lesson

AA Dhand - Darkness Rising

John Steinbeck - Of Mice and Men

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We are still somewhat locked down this week, but rather than binge watching old episodes of Keeping Up Appearances we are talking to out nearest and dearest about literary life in quarantine. This week it's the mega-selling author and critic Louise Doughty! Louise is the author of nine novels, with her most recent being Platform Seven. Her previous book, Black Water, was a New York Times Notable Book and Apple Tree Yard was adapted into a successful TV series starring Emily Watson. We talked to her about which character she'd like to be in lockdown with, Ursula Le Guin and holidaying vicariously via books.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Louise Doughty - Platform Seven

Louise Doughty - Whatever You Love

Hillary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Sandra Horley - Power And Control: Why Charming Men Can Make Dangerous Lovers

Alice Jolly - Dead Babies and Seaside Towns

Gavanndra Hodge - Consequences of Love

Stephanie Scott - What’s Left of Me Is Yours

Polly Samson - Theatre for Dreamers

Ursula Le Guin - Wizard of Earthsea

Ursula Le Guin - Left Hand of Darkness

CS Lewis - The Lion the Witch and the Wardrobe

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Ralph Ellison - Invisible Man

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Louise Doughty - Stone Cradle

Amanda Craig - The Golden Rule

Michael Arditti - The Anointed

Paul Mendez - Rainbow Milk

Guinevere Glasfurd - The Year Without Summer

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