We are back at this year's Margate Bookie for a fun, frank and freewheeling conversation with three brilliant authors: Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay! Lucy Vine is a journalist and author of five novels including Hot Mess, Are We Nearly There Yet, What Fresh Hell, Bad Choices and her latest, the critically acclaimed Seven Exes. Yomi Adegoke is a journalist, podcaster and author, co-writing Slay in Your Lane with Elizabeth Uviebinené before releasing the bestselling, critically lauded novel The List. Laura Kay is a journalist and author of the much-loved novels Tell Me Everything, The Split and her latest Wild Things. We talked to them about alternative romance, star signs, writing routines, favourite reads and the genius of Sophie Kinsella.

Katie Clapham's book recommendation Substack is HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Laura Kay - Wild Things

Laura Kay - Tell Me Everything

Malinda Lo - Last Night at the Telegraph Club

Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister

Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Lisa Jewell - The Family Upstairs

Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uvibene - Slay in Your Lane

Kate Young - Experienced

Kate Young - The Little Library Cookbook

Lucy Vine - Date With Destiny

Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid's Tale

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Danielle Steele - Jewels

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Married Men

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona, Homesick For Another World, Death in Her Hands and McGlue. Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill Dick will be released in 2024. Together Ottessa and Luke wrote the screenplay for the film Causeway and have now collaborated on an adaptation of Ottessa's acclaimed novel Eileen, which is released in cinemas on December 1st. We talked to them about formative reads, phoning Ken Kesey, aliens and Metallica.

Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ottessa Moshfegh - Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Ottessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another World

Luke Goebel - Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours

Elfriede Jelinek - The Piano Teacher

JoAnna Novak - Contradiction Days

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis - The Shards

Ben Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine

Guy de Maupassant - The Necklace and Other Stories

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Lawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of a Gone World

Diane di Prima - Selected Poems

Ross Gay - Book of Delights

Abbott Kahler - Where You End

Margery Higdon - Alien Abduction of The Wyoming Hunter

Whitley Strieber - Communion

Simone de Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

Henry James - Portrait of a Lady

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It's two returning champs this week as we present the brilliant and hilarious Lou Sanders and Andi Osho live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie literary festival. Lou and Andi are both stand-ups and both supreme authors. Lou recently published her memoir What's That Lady Doing? to widespread acclaim. Andi has published two celebrated novels: Tough Crowd and Asking for a Friend. In this frank, funny and freewheeling conversation Lou and Andi discuss romance, the fear of death (onstage), ice-skating, unfortunate text message mishaps, youthful indiscretions with towels and what makes them laugh.

Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Get you hands on Helen Shaddock's lovely 2024 calendars by visiting http://www.helenshaddock.co.uk/. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing?

Andi Osho - Tough Crowd

Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Dolly Alderton - Good Material

Barbara Payton - I am Not Ashamed

Jada Pinkett Smith - Worthy

Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye

WIll Smith - Will

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Rosie Wilby - Breakup Monologues

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Our season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry to add some delight to your life. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Naomi Klein - No Logo

Naomi Klein - Doppleganger

Deborah Levy - August Blue

Otto Rank - The Double

Sigmund Freud - The Uncanny

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

James Baldwin - The Fire Next Time

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Philip Roth - Goodbye Columbus

Philip Roth - Professor of Desire

Thomas Gordon - Parent Effectiveness Training

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

John Updike - Couples

Naomi Klein - Shock Doctrine

Eddie Glaude - James Baldwin: To Begin Again

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Roth - Operation Shylock

Graham Greene - Collected Essays

Lisa Jones - Bulletproof Diva

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

Nora Ephron - Wallflower at the Orgy

Oriana Fallaci - Interviews with History and Power

Molly Ivins - Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. Bush

Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took the Dog

Susan Mulcahy - My Lips are Sealed

Eduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin American

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Yomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinene - Slay in Your Lane

Marge Piercy - Made in Detroit

Susan Griffin - Bending Home

Maya Angelou - The Complete Poetry

Jorie Graham - To 2040

Ross Gay - The Book of Delights

Kyo Maclear - Birds Art Life

Kyo Maclear - Unearthing

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Katrina Diamond - The Silence

Adania Shibli - Minor Detail

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It's our 150th episode! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise. We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ian Rankin - The Rise

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - Hothouse by the East River

Alain Robbe-Grillet - Last Year at Marienbad

Muriel Spark - The Drivers Seat

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Loitering With Intent

Reginald Hill - Asking Fo the Moon

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Robert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde

Anbara Salam - Hazardous Spirits

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Muriel Spark - The Bachelors

Arthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock Holmes

James Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner

Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Mario Puzo - The Godfather

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Robin Moore - The French Connection

William Peter Blatty - The Exorcist

Dorothy Whipple - Someone at a Distance

Ian Rankin - The Flood

Ian Rankin - Knots and Crosses

Ian Rankin - Watchman

Graham Greene - Human Factor

Ian Rankin - Westwind

Michael Connelly - Desert Star

James Ellroy - LA Confedential

Lawrence Block - A Drop of the Hard Stuff

William McIlvanney - Laidlaw

Denise Mina - The Long Drop

Anita Nair - Cut Like Wound

Thomas Pynchon - Short Stories

Stieg Larsson - Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Henning Mankell - Faceless Killers

Jo Nesbo - The Snowman

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Alasdair Gray - Poor Things

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

John Niven - Oh Brother

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

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This week on You're Booked we're talking to the hugely acclaimed, bestselling author Lauren Groff! Lauren is our favourite type of guest - a massive, voracious and indiscriminate reader. Lauren is the three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix plus the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her latest book is the amazing The Vaster Wilds. We talked to her about inappropriate early (caveman) reads, the joy of a huge book, Shakespeare's suckiest plays and reading poetry to your dog. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds

Lauren Groff - Fates and Furies

Lauren Groff - Matrix

Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Else Holmelund Minarik - Little Bear

Jean M. Auel - Clan of the Cave Bear

Philip Roth - Portnoy's Complaint

Aesop - Fables

Francoise Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Katherine May - Wintering

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Vasily Grossman - Life and Fate

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Jen Beagin - Big Swiss

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Jon Fosse - Septology

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

Zadie Smith - On Beauty

Zadie Smith - NW

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

David Foster Wallace - Infinite Jest

Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually

Julia Whelan - My Oxford Year

Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening

Emily Dickinson - Collected Poems

Kaveh Akbar - Pilgrim Bell

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

Ada Limon - The Carrying

Homer / Emily Wilson - Iliad

Homer / Emily Wilson - The Odyssey

Shakespeare - Romeo and Juliet

Shakespeare - Hamlet

Shakespeare - Richard III

Shakespeare - Pericles

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Rachel Cusk - Outline

Christopher Isherwood - Berlin Stories

Sean DeLear - I Could Not Believe It

Jenny Erpenbeck - Kairos

Don DeLillo - Libra

Don DeLillo - White Noise

Don DeLillo - Underworld

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This week we are delighted to welcome the broadcaster, academic and bestselling author Emma Dabiri to You're Booked. Emma is the author of Don't Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition and her latest book Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty, that accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection. We talked to Emma about fashion inspiration in Anne of Green Gables, the philosophy of beauty, the genius of Toni Morrison and E Nesbit being the gateway to a lifelong love of books.

Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Emma Dabiri - Disobedient Bodies

Emma Dabiri - Don't Touch My Hair

Emma Dabiri - What White People Can Do Next

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

Marge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of Time

Fred Moten and Stefano Harney - The Undercommons

R. F. Kuang - Yellowface

Tracy King - Learning to Think

Carl Sagan - Cosmos

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

Elizabeth Grosz - The Nick of Time

Friedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke Zarathustra

Gaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Eds) - Futures of Black Radicalism

Félix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze - A Thousand Plateaus

Mark Fisher - Capitalist Realism

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Shaparak Khorsandi - Scatter Brain

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Toni Morrison - Song of Solomon

Toni Morrison - Paradise

Toni Morrison - Bluest Eye

Oliver Burkeman - 4000 Weeks

Toni Morrison - Paris Review Interview

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Judith Watt (ed) - Penguin Book of 20th Century Fashion Writing

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

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Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead, turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead. We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Blyton about her characters' toilet habits!

Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Peter James - Stop them Dead

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

RL Stine - Goosebumps

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Enid Blyton - Five on a Treasure Island

Peter James - Dead Letter Drop

Elizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs Clifton

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

Kurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse Five

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

John Marrs - The One

MW Craven - The Botanist

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Ottter

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

Kenneth Grahame - Wind in the Willows

Stuart McBride - The Dead of Winter

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Peter James - Dead Simple

Natalie Tambini - The Nail Salon

Natalie Tambini - The Publicist

Rutger Bregman - Humankind

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

E Nesbit - The Lark

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

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Our series of LEGENDS continues with the absolute legend that is Lou Sanders! Lou is a brilliant stand-up comedian, star of Taskmaster, co-host of Unforgivable alongside former YB guest Mel Giedroyc, podcaster and now the author of the unforgettable memoir What's That Lady Doing?: False Starts and Happy Endings. We talked to Lou about the genius of Deborah Levy, early spiritual dabblings, potential screen adaptations and the joy and pain of writing memoir.

Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Lou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing?

Louise Hay - You Can Heal Your Life

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Emma Gannon - The Success Myth

James McNicholas - Champ and the Chump

Steven Pressfield - The War of Art

Eckhart Tolle - Power of Now

Neale Donald Walsch - Conversations With God

Pam Grout - Course in Miracles

Julia Cameron - Write for Life

Martha Wainwright - Stories I Might Regret Telling You

Regena Thomashauer - Pussy: A Reclamation

Charlotte Roche - Wetlands

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Deborah Levy - The Cost of Living

Deborah Levy - Things I Don't Want To Know

Deborah Levy - Hot Milk

Deborah Levy - Real Estate

Michelle Gallen - Factory Girls

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

Marian Keyes - The Break

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre - Big Snake Little Snake

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Lucy-Anne Holmes - Don't Hold My Head Down

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Nell Frizzell - Square One

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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Our season of the stars continues with a genuine literary legend. It's Ken Follett! Ken is one of the world’s most successful authors, selling over 188 million copies of his books. He's the creator of Pillars of the Earth, World Without End, Never and his latest The Armour of Light. He recently launched an online course on Writing Bestselling Fiction with BBC Maestro. We talked to him about his formative reads, relishing Proust, creating believable villains and his appearance in the Alan Rickman Diaries.

Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: [email protected]. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Anthony Trollope - The Warden

Ken Follett - The Pillars of the Earth

Thomas Harris - The Silence of the Lambs

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

Ken Follett - The Eye of the Needle

Ken Follett - World Without End

Ken Follett - Column of Fire

Ian Fleming - Live and Let Die

John Steinbeck - Tortilla Flat

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Karl Ove Knausgaard - My Struggle

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

DH Lawrence - Collected Poems

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Edward Albee - Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf

Ash Carter and Sam Kashner  - Mike Nichols: Life Isn't Everything

William Shakespeare - Hamlet

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Ken Follett - Never

Erskine Childers - The Riddle of the Sands

John Buchan - The 39 Steps

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Agatha Christie - Complete Poirot

Lisa Jewell - The Night She Disappeared

Marcel Proust - 75 Folios

Marcel Proust - Swann in Love

Anthony Trollope - Orley Farm

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