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This week, we are delving back into the archive to revisit our series 5 trip to America in the company of the incredible Taylor Jenkins Reid! When we met Taylor in 2019, Daisy Jones and the Six had just been released. It went on to be a global smash with a recent, lauded Amazon adaptation and in this episode Taylor discusses many of the books that inspired the novel. Her other books, including The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back, have all been celebrated best-sellers. We met Taylor in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore and talked to her about rock memoirs, Bridget Jones, gift giving, influential reads and the delights of seeing your own book in the book shop.

BOOKS

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Byron Lane - A Star is Bored

Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York

James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews

Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon

Keith Richards - Life

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens

Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch

Sally Field - In Pieces

Scotty Bowers - Full Service 

Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Various - Little People Big Dreams

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming

Joan Didion - White Album

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient

Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle

Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Alexi Zentner - Copperhead

Tana French - Wych Elm

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Circe

Katherine Dunn - On Cussing

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're travelling all the way back to our first ever series for this chat with author, journalist and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is the author of five novels including Magpie and The Party plus her memoir, based on her massively successful podcast How To Fail and her most book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. While snooping around her (small but perfectly formed) flat, we discussed being nosey, literary heroines, EM Forster related tattoos and learning the facts of life from The Thorn Birds. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting the You're Booked page at Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Sea Change

Elizabeth Jane Howard - After Julius

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View

Elizabeth Day - Scissors, Paper, Stone

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Elizabeth Day - Home Fires

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

TC Boyle - The Terranauts

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

Muriel Spark - Momento Mori

Muriel Spark - The Girls of Slender Means

Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay

Aldous Huxley - Two or Three Graces

Tara Westover - Educated

Simon Reid-Henry - Fidel & Che

Sally Field - In Pieces

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

James O'Brien - How To Be Right

Damian Dibben - Tomorrow

Leila Slimani - Adele

Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance

John Banville - The Sea

Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered

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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're kicking off in style with this wonderful conversation with David Nicholls from season 4 in his beautiful North London home. At the time, David had just released his wonderful novel Sweet Sorrow. His new book, You Are Here, is out soon, while the brand new adaptation of One Day has just hit Netflix. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, Moomins, movies, adaptation and Billy Wilder. Find out more about all the books mentioned at our Bookshop.org.uk Store.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

David Nicholls - The Understudy

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar

Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story

Tobias Wolff - Stories of

Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

John Cheever - Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Phillip Larkin - Jill

Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere

Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty

EM Forster - Howards End

Helen Garner - The Spare Room

Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach

Penelope Lively - Heat Wave

Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s

Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations

Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder

Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock

Elif Bautman - The Idiot

Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

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Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of YA, her favourite authors and the person who gives her the best reading recommendations. Limelight is out now in paperback - signed copies can be ordered and shipped nationwide from The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about all the books Kezia mentioned at our shop on Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Claire Daverley - Talking at Night

Annie Lord - Notes on Heartbreak

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go

Beth O'Leary - The Flat Share

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Animal

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Annie MacManus - The Mess We're In

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

AM Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Claire Powell - At the Table

Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner -There's No Deer Around Here

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner - Any Trout About?

Peter Bently - The Great Dog Bottom Swap

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Abigail Bergstrom - What a Shame

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Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football.

More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard 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

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - How To Stay Married

Jilly Cooper - Imogen 

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems

George Crabbe - Collected Poems

Jilly Cooper - Mount

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Walter Emanuel - A Dog Day

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter - Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by Himself

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marquess of Anglesey - History of the British Cavalry

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

William Wordsworth - Collected Poems

Thomas Harding - The Maverick

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas

Jilly Cooper - How To Survive Christmas

Jane Austen - Emma

WH Auden - Rimbaud

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

Jilly Cooper - Wicked

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Martin Amis - Money

Ian Herbert - Tinseltown

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Jack London - White Fang

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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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