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We're down in sunny Brighton (or Hove, actually) to meet the award-winning, bestselling author, screenwriter, journalist and activist Juno Dawson! Juno is the author of 17 books including the YA works Clean and Meat Market, the non-fiction This Book is Gay and her first book aimed at adults The Gender Games. We talked to her about horror, meeting your heroes, education and the importance of Tales of the City.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

E. A. Jones - Hermits and Anchorites in England

Juno Dawson - The Gender Games

Juno Dawson - This Book is Gay

Juno Dawson - Meat Market

Juno Dawson - Cruel Summer

Juno Dawson - Margot & Me

Juno Dawson - Mind Your Head

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Tabitha Suzuma - Forbidden

Malorie Blackman - Noughts & Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Kate Mosse - I Am Heathcliff

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Roald Dahl - George’s Marvellous Medicine

Roald Dahl - Matilda

Stephen King - Pet Sematary

LJ Smith - Forbidden Game

LJ Smith - The Vampire Diaries

Angela Carter - Bloody Chamber

Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus

Angela Carter - New Eve

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Angela Carter - Wise Children

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Simon James Green - Noah Can’t Even

Tom Ellen & Lucy Ivison - Lobsters

Armistead Maupin - Babycakes

Armistead Maupin - More Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Significant Others

Armistead Maupin - Further Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Sure of You

Armistead Maupin - Michael Tolliver Lives

Armistead Maupin - Mary Ann in Autumn

Armistead Maupin - Days of Anna Madrigal

Judith Kerr - A Small Person Far Away

Stephen King - Misery

Juno Dawson - Say Her Name

Michelle Paver - Dark Matter

Patrick Ness - Chaos Walking

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go

Patrick Ness - A Monster Calls

Louise O'Neill - Only Ever Yours

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Dick Bruna - A Story To Tell

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Juno Dawson - Hollow Pike

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - The Rules of Attraction

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Angie Thomas - Hate U Give

Frances Hardinge - The Lie Tree

John Green - The Fault in Our Stars

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We're back in London town this week and in the home of the phenomenal Holly Bourne! Holly is the celebrated, award-winning YA author of such books as It Only Happens in the Movies and Are We All Lemmings and Snowflakes? Her debut adult novel was the critically acclaimed How Do You Like Me Now? We talked to Holly about getting books signed, colour co-ordination, meeting Metallica and troubling literary crushes.

BOOKS:

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sonder & Tell (Edit) - Comfort Zones

Holly Bourne - How Do You Like Me Know?

Harper Lee - To Kill a Mockingbird

Harper Lee - Go Set a Watchman

Irvin D Yalom - Love’s Executioner

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Will Storr - Science of Storytelling

Stephen King - On Writing

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Judy Blume - Forever

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

Judy Blume - Summer Sisters

Elizabeth Gilbert - Committed

Germaine Greer - Female Eunuch

Molly Keane - Good Behaviour

Maggie Nelson - The Argonauts

Leila Slimani - Adele

Leila Slimani - Lullaby

Louise Rennison - Complete Georgia Nicolson

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Holly Bourne - It Only Happens in the Movies

David Nicholls - One Day

Jojo Moyes - Me Before You

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Marian Keyes - This Charming Man

Louise Rennison - Knocked Out by my Nunga-Nungas 

Louise Rennison - And That's When It Fell Off in My Hand 

Gabrielle Moss - Paperback Crush

Kate Cann - Hard Cash

Kate Cann - Footloose

Kate Cann - In The Deep End

Sharon Creech - Walk Two Moons

Anonymous - Go Ask Alice

Holly Bourne - What a Girls Gotta Do

Holly Smale - Geek Girl

Angie Thomas - Hate U Give

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

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Today we travel to, appropriately enough, Reading to visit with the award-winning, multi-million-selling author Julie Cohen! Born in Maine (and yes, Stephen King looms large in her life) Julie cut her teeth writing Mills & Boon romances before constructing her critically acclaimed novels Dear Thing, Together and Louis and Louise. We discussed Irving, Vonnegut, New England, libraries, learning your craft, teaching and the troubles she faced with her book Together.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Anna Hope - Expectation

Julie Cohen - Together

Julie Cohen - Louis & Louise

Stephen Wade - Conan Doyle & the Crimes Club

Arthur Conan Doyle - Original Illustrated Sherlock Holmes

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes

Judy Blume - Forever

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

William March - The Bad Seed

Phillip Roth - The Breast

William Peter Blatty. - The Exorcist

Stephen King - Elevation

Julian Barnes - Arthur & George

John Irving - Cider House Rules

John Irving - A Prayer For Owen Meany

Jody Picoult - A Spark of Light

Kurt Vonnegut - Cat’s Cradle

Julie Cohen - One Night Stand

Julie Cohen - Being a Bad Girl

William Goldman - Princess Bride

Julie Cohen - Featured Attraction

Julie Cohen - Delicious

Julie Cohen - Driving Him Wild

Julie Cohen - All Work and No Play

Barbara Sleigh - Carbonel

Julie Cohen - Spirit Willing, Flesh Weak

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Thomas Hardy - Far From The Madding Crowd

Louis Sachar - Holes

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Clare Mackintosh - I Let You Go

Ann Rule - Stranger Beside Me

Hallie Rubenhold - The Five

Hallie Rubenhold - Covent Garden Ladies

Ric Menck - Notorious Byrd Brothers

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson

Georgette Heyer - The Grand Sophy

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Jackie Collins - World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Thrill

Tara Westover - Educated

Anne Fadiman - Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down

Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt

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This week we're visiting Erin Kelly, the critically acclaimed author adored by hundreds of thousands of readers – she’s been topping bestseller lists since the publication of her debut, The Poison Tree. Her latest novel, Stone Mothers, is an addictive story about love, lies and secrets. Erin is a reading addict and a true scholar of fiction. We talked about writing ambitions, failures that lead to success and being mentored by Ruth Rendell from beyond the grave.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Elaine Dundy - The Injured Party

Erin Kelly - The Poison Tree

Erin Kelly - Stone Mothers

Kerry Hudson - Thirst

Ruth Rendell - Make Death Love Me

Ruth Rendell - A Fatal Inversion

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Jacqueline Wilson - Tracy Beaker

Jacqueline Wilson - The Suitcase Kid

Paula Danziger - Cat Ate My Gymsuit

Lois Duncan - Stranger With My Face

Lois Duncan - I Know What You Did Last Summer

Stephen King - Carrie

Virginia Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Virginia Andrews - Garden of Shadows

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Norton Anthology of English Literature

Shelley Harris - Vigilante

Carol Ann Duffy - Collected Poems

Erin Kelly - He Said She Said

Erin Kelly - The Burning Air

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

SJ Watson - Before I Go To Sleep

Paula Hawkins - Girl On The Train

Andrea Newman - Bouquet of Barbed Wire

Andrea Newman - A Sense of Guilt

Andrea Newman -Three Into Two Won’t Go

Andrea Newman - A Share of the World

Daisy Johnson - Fen

Eley Williams - Attrib

Helen Simpson - Cockfosters

Anna Hope - Expectation

Anna Hope - The Ballroom

Sally Rooney - Normal People

JT Leroy - Sarah

JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

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This week we're travelling to Dublin to meet the wonderful author, poet, journalist and podcaster Sarah Maria Griffin. Sarah's first book, Not Lost was an essay collection concerning a year spent in San Francisco. She then authored the critically acclaimed novels Spare and Found Parts and Other Words for Smoke. We talked to her about pilgrimages, the importance of helping others, video games and the amazing array of Irish women writers currently working.

BOOK (CLICK ON TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarah Maria Griffin - Not Lost

Sarah Maria Griffin - Found and Spare Parts

Sarah Maria Griffin - Other Words For Smoke

Aoife Dooley - How to Deal with Poxes 

Shanny Jean Maney - I Love Science

Anthony Bourdain - Hungry Ghosts

Anthony Bourdain - Kitchen Confidential

MFK Fisher - Consider the Oyster

Erin Morgenstern - The Night Circus

Maeve Higgins - Maeve in America

Emilie Pine - Notes to Self

Sinead Gleeson - Constellations

Deirdre Sullivan - Tangleweed and Brine

Moira Fowley-Doyle - The Accident Season

June Caldwell - Little Town Moone

Louise O’Neill - The Surface Breaks

Eimear McBride - A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing

Sara Baume - A Line Made by Walking

Caroline O’Donoghue - Promising Young Women

Dorothy Macardle - The Uninvited

Tana French - In The Woods

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run The Frog Hospital

Belinda McKeon - Tender

Belinda McKeon - Solace

Dave Rudden - 12 Angels Weeping

Sarah Davis Goff - Last Ones Left Alive

Douglas Coupland - Life After God

Douglas Coupland - Bit Rot

Douglas Coupland - Generation X

Glen David Gold - Carter Beats the Devil

Douglas Coupland - Microserfs

Jilly Cooper - Riders

C. Spike Trotman - Smut Peddler

Luke Pearson - Hilda

Nuala O’Connor - Becoming Belle 

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Sarah Manguso - 300 Arguments

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - Oh My God, What a Complete Aisling

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - The Importance of Being Aisling

Marian Keyes - Sushi for Beginners

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We are beyond excited and honoured to bring you this conversation with one of our all-time favourite authors Barbara Trapido! Barbara is the author of seven novels including Brother of the More Famous Jack, The Travelling Hornplayer and Frankie and Stankie. All are beautifully written, gloriously funny and incredibly moving. Barbara is a true marvel and we were thrilled to travel to her home in Oxford to talk about sex, feet, work habits and future projects.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Barbara Trapido - Noah’s Ark

Barbara Trapido - Juggling

Barbara Trapido - The Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Sex and Stravinsky

Barbara Trapido - Frankie and Stankie

Jane Gardam - Queen of the Tambourine

Jane Gardam - Bilgewater

Jane Gardam - A Long Way From Verona

Jane Gardam - Crusoe's Daughter

Jane Gardam - Old Filth

Mary Wesley - Not That Sort of Girl

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Lorna Hill - A Dream of Sadlers Wells 

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Keith Gessen - A Terrible Country

Iris Murdoch - Under The Net

Heinrich Hoffmann - Der Struwwelpeter 

Lewis Carroll - Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

Mark Twain - Huckleberry Finn

Cicely Mary Barker - Flower Fairies

Beatrix Potter - Complete Tales

Luis Coloma - Perez The Mouse

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

Virginia Woolf - To the Lighthouse

Lucy Mair - Witchcraft

Mary Douglas - Leviticus as Literature

FG Bailey - Gifts and Poisons

Yasmin Khan - Zaitoun: Recipes and Stories from the Palestinian Kitchen

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Deborah Moggach - These Foolish Things 

Elaine Dundy - The Dud Avocado

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Peter May - China Thrillers

James Joyce - Ulysses

Shena Mackay - Orchard on Fire

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jack Newnham - Kites To Make and Fly

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

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For our first ever live episode, from the London Book Fair, we are delighted to present the author and screenwriter Deborah Moggach. Deborah wrote the bestsellers The Ex-Wives, Tulip Fever (made into a film of the same name), These Foolish Things (made into the film The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) and Heartbreak Hotel. She also adapted classics such as Pride and Prejudice and Love in a Cold Climate for the screen. Deborah discussed her mum's sex manual appearance, writers that make her sick and loving Just William.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Deborah Moggach - The Carer

Deborah Moggach - Tulip Fever

Deborah Moggach - These Foolish Things

Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day

E Griffith - Modern Marriage and Birth Control

Beatrix Potter - Tale of the Flopsy Bunnies

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Tom Kitten

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Love in a Cold Climate

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Anne Frank - Diary of a Young Girl

Eve Babitz - Black Swans

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and The Six

Richmal Crompton - Just William

Arnold Bennett - The Old Wives Tale

Anne Tyler - The Accidental Tourist

Arnold Bennett - Riceyman Steps

Deborah Moggach - The Ex Wives

Saul Bellow - Herzog

Deborah Moggach - Changing Babies

JG Farrell - The Siege of Krishnapur

George Eliot - Middlemarch

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It's our first INTERNATIONAL edition as we travel to Dublin to talk to author, journalist, poet and broadcaster Sinéad Gleeson. Sinéad is a powerhouse who has written essays and poems for a huge range of publications, edited various anthologies and hosted the Book Show on RTÉ Radio One. Her acclaimed new essay collection Constellations deals with the body in its various incarnations. We talked to Sinéad about poetry, horror, frogs and inappropriate literary crushes.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Paige Toon - If You Can Go Anywhere

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sinéad Gleeson - Constellations

Niven Govinden - This Brutal House

Niven Govinden - Black Bread White Beer

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Agatha Christie - Murder on the Links

Agatha Christie - Why Didn’t They Ask Evans?

Alfred Hitchcock - Bar the Doors

Alfred Hitchcock - Ghostly Gallery

Various - Irish Tales of Terror

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Judy Blume - Forever

Edna O’Brien - Country Girls

Various - The Long Gaze Back

Nora Hoult - Cocktail Bar

Daphne Du Maurier - Don’t Look Now

Daphne Du Maurier - House on the Strand

Daphne Du Maurier - The Birds

Jane Bowles - Two Serious Ladies

Evie Wyld - After the Fire a Still Small Voice

Evie Wyld - All the Birds Singing

Kate Chopin - The Awakening

Charlotte Perkins Gilman - The Yellow Wallpaper

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Nella Larsen - Passing

Zora Neale Hurston - Their Eyes Were Watching God

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital

Robert Seethaler - A Whole Life

Patrick deWitt - The Sisters Brothers

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Edna O’Brien - Paradise

Sally Rooney - Mr Salary

Djuna Barnes - Nightwood

Samuel Beckett - Dante and the Lobster

Jon Day - Cyclogeography

Darryl Jones - Sleeping With the Lights On

Joanna Walsh - Hotel

AN Devers - Trains

Leslie Jamison - Empathy Exams

Roxanne Gay - Hunger

Sarah Davis-Goff - Last Ones Left Alive

Anne Boyer - Garments Against Women

Olivia Sudjic - Sympathy

Olivia Sudjic - Exposure

Martina Evans - We Can Talk Openly About Men

Liz Berry - Republic of Motherhood

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This week we're in a converted school in London to meet with author, journalist and broadcaster Christina Patterson. Christina's memoir The Art of Not Falling Apart is a remarkable and moving look at our emotional relationship with work and expectation. As both a book lover and a book reviewer, Christina might hold the record for You're Booked guest with the largest library. We talked to her about sex, death, poetry and Enid Blyton.

BOOKS (CLICK ON THE TITLES FOR MORE)

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Christina Patterson - The Art of Not Falling Apart

Nick Hornby - How To Be Good

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Laurence Sterne - Tristram Shandy

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

James Joyce - Finnegans Wake

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Elizabeth Strout - Anything is Possible

Elizabeth Strout - My Name is Lucy Barton

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Jonathan Coe - Middle England

Jonathan Coe - The House of Sleep

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Iris Murdoch - Sacred & Profane Love Machine

Iris Murdoch - The Sea The Sea

Patricia Volk - The Art of Being a Woman

AL Kennedy - The Little Snake

Doris Lessing - The Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

John Burnside - A Summer of Drowning

John Burnside - The Mercy Boys

John Burnside - The Locust Room

John Burnside - Burning Elvis

Candace Bushnell - Sex and the City

Candace Bushnell - 1 Fifth Avenue

Mary Dearborn - Ernest Hemingway: A Biography

Ernest Hemingway - Old Man and The Sea

Roland Barthes - Image Music Text

Various - Every Woman’s Book of Health and Beauty

Nora Ephron - I Remember Nothing

Raymond Carver - All of Us

Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

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This week we're jetting off to sun-kissed St Albans to meet crime writer, journalist, former fashionista, broadcaster, playwright, screenwriter and campaigner Angela Clarke. Angela attracted a gaggle of devoted fans with her Social Media Murder series of books. Her highly-anticipated new thriller On My Life has just been released. We talked to her about loving Marple, being haunted by Chandler, the filth in John Donne and getting gooey over Irvine Welsh.

BOOKS (CLICK TITLES FOR MORE)

Joseph Mitchell - McSorley’s Wonderful Saloon

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Angela Clarke - On My Life

Angela Clarke - Follow Me

Angela Clarke - Watch Me

Angela Clarke - Trust Me

Roald Dahl - Cruelty/Madness/Lust

Steve Cavanagh - Twisted

Alan Partridge - Nomad

Artemis Cooper - Elizabeth Jane Howard: Dangerous Innocence

Claire McGowan - Dead Ground

Claire McGowan - Savage Hunger

Claire McGowan - Silent Dead

Dorothy L Sayers - Lord Peter Wimsey Stories

Dorothy L Sayers - Strong Poison

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Louisa M Alcott - Little Women

Agatha Christie - 4.50 From Paddington

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Agatha Christie - Curtain

Nikita Gill - Fierce Fairytales

John Donne - Selected Poems

Ernest Hemingway - For Whom The Bell Tolls

George Orwell - 1984

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Judy Blume - Forever

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Susan Meredith - Usborne Facts of Life, Growing Up

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Carl E. Rollyson - Martha Gellhorn: Beautiful Exile

Manolo Blahnik - Fleeting Gestures and Obsessions

Stephan P Clarke - The Lord Peter Wimsey Companion

Luke Jennings - Codename Villanelle

Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do

John Curran - Agatha Christie’s Complete Secret Notebooks

Agatha Christie - An Autobiography

William Goldman - Adventures in the Screen Trade

Georgette Heyer - Christmas Party

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

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