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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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What a way to start a new series! It's the author, classicist, broadcaster and bone fide National Treasure Dame Mary Beard. We were lucky enough to speak to Mary during the Jaiphur Literary Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. Mary is the author of many books about the ancient world including the global bestsellers Women & Power, SPQR and her latest Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World. We talked to her about ancient Roman jokes, brutal writing advice, fearing fiction and the pros and cons of archaeology.

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

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Mary Beard - Women & Power

Mary Beard - Emperor of Rome

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train

Robert Graves - I, Claudius

Margaret Drabble - The Millstone

Margaret Drabble - The Garrick Year

Robert Harris - Pompeii

Heinrich Schliemann - Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans

Lindsey Davis - The Silver Pigs

Mary Renault - The King Must Die

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Road

Kim Gordon, Sinead Gleason (Eds) - This Woman's Work

Sophocles - Antigone

Mary Beard - Roman Laughter

Seneca the Younger - Apocolocyntosis

Cassius Dio - The Roman History

Tom Holland - Slave of my Thirst

Tom Holland - Rubicon

Gavanndra Hodge - The Consequences of Love

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Laura Cumming - On Chapel Sands

Craig Brown - Maam Darling

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Hilary Clinton - State of Terror

Tacitus - Annals

Prince Harry - Spare

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Hurrah! We are very excited to bring you a guest we've being trying to get on the podcast for flipping ages. It's the wonderful Yomi Adegoke! Yomi is a podcaster, broadcaster, multi-award winning journalist and the author of Slay in Your Lane (with former YB guest Elizabeth Uviebinené) and The Offline Diaries (also with Elizabeth). Yomi's debut novel is the hotly anticipated The List, described as 'the book of the Summer' by Vogue and currently in development for TV. We talked to her about the icon that is Jackie Collins, books so good they make you want to give up, the joy of Jacqueline Wilson and the genius of Peep Show. Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. 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.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Slay in Your Lane

Yomi Adegoke - The List

Jackie Collins - The World is Full of Divorced Women

Jackie Collins - Lucky

Omar Tyree - Flyy Girl

Eric Jerome Dickey - Milk in My Coffee

Jaqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Yomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uviebinené - Offline Diaries

Jaqueline Wilson - Dustbin Baby

Jaqueline Wilson - The Illustrated Mum

Robert Swindells - Brother in the Land

Robert C O'Brien - Z for Zachiariah

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

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Raven Leilani - Luster

Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Naoise Dolan - Happy Couple

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Harriet Gibsone - Is This Ok?

Katie Price - Being Jordan

Jodie Marsh - Keeping It Real

Barack Obama - Promised Land

Michelle Obama - Becoming

Nelson Mandela - Long Walk To Freedom

Jodie Chapman - Oh Sister

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Eliza Clark - Penance

Eliza Clark - Boy Parts

Megan Nolan - Ordinary Human Failings

Megan Nolan - Acts of Desperation

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Rebecca F Kuang - Babel

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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We are delighted to invite one of our all-time favourite authors to the podcast this week. It's the sensational Lisa Jewell! Lisa is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, which have sold over 10 million copies internationally and translated into 29 languages. Her debut (and YB fave) was Ralph's Party and subsequent releases include The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated None of This is True. We talked to her about her shelf of joy, curating your holiday read selection, 90s/Noughties favourites, the books that made her want to write and formative reads.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. 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.

BOOKS

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Ashley Audrain - The Push

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Geoff Dyer - The Colour of Memory

Agatha Christie - Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Angela Banner - Ant and Bee

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

John Fowles - The Collector

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Carla McGuire - Perfect Victim

Brian Greenaway - Hell's Angels

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Bret Easton Ellis - Imperial Bedrooms

Rebecca F. Kuang - Yellowface

Caroline O'Donoghue - Rachel Incident

Colin Walsh - Kala

Kia Abdullah - Next of Kin

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Bonnie Garmus - Lesson in Chemistry

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Isabelle Broom - The Beach Holiday

Candace Bushnell - Four Blondes

Anouchka Grose Forrester - Darling Daisy

Jane Owen - Camden Girls

Alain de Botton - Essays in Love

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Julie Myerson - The Stopped Heart

Alex Garland - The Beach

Louise Doughty - Apple Tree Yard

Harriet Lane - Alys Always

David Nicholls - One Day

Amy Jenkins - Honeymoon

William Sutcliffe - Are You Experienced

Andrea Levy - Small Island

Josie Lloyd and Emlyn Rees - Come Together

Kate Hamer - A Girl in the Red Coat

Paula Yates - The Autobiography

Caroline Kepnes - You

Lisa Jewell - Before I Met You

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sabine Durrant - Lie With Me

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Amanda Jennings - The Judas Tree

Tammy Cohen - The Wedding Party

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Comedian. Podcaster. Actor. Author. Is there anything that this woman can't do? Yes, we're welcoming the amazing Andi Osho to YB Towers this week. Andi is a talented stand-up, has starred or been involved with such TV and movie favourties as Line of Duty, Death In Paradise, Holby, I May Destroy You, Breeders, Good Omens and her own sketch show The Andi O Show. She hosts the Creative Sauce podcast and her debut novel Asking For a Friend was a bestseller! Her second novel is the highly anticipated Tough Crowd, set in the world of stand up. We talked to her about funny books, reading slump revitalisers, self-help, movie adaptations and how her mum is a creative inspiration. Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. 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.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andi Osho - Tough Crowd

Andi Osho - Asking For a Friend

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy

Terry Pratchett - The Colour of Magic

Terry Pratchett - The Light Fantastic

Brit Bennett - Vanishing Half

Tayari Jones - American Marriage

Jesse Q. Sutanto - Dial A For Aunties

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Dolly Alderton - Good Material

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a F**k

M Scott Peck - Road Less Travelled

Sarah Knight - The Life Changing Magic of Not Giving a F**k

Sarah Knight - Grow the F**k Up

Susan Jeffers - Feel the Fear

Deepak Chopra - Seven Laws of Spiritual Success

Julia Cameron - Artists Way

Betty Herbert - 52 Seductions

Anne Lamott - Bird by Bird

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Will Smith - Will

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Tembe Denton-Hurst - Homebodies

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Diana Evans - 26a

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

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We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. 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.

BOOKS

DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little

DBC Pierre -Big Snake Little Snake

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

James Michener - The Drifters

Naguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the Nile

Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads

William Dalrymple - The Anarchy

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime

Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom

Marquis De Sade - Juliette

Henri Charrière - Papillion

DBC Pierre - Release the Bats

Sarah Knight - Grow the F*** Up

Stephen King - On Writing

Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Alejandro Zambra - My Documents

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grigor Narekatsi - The Book of Sadness

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature

Jack Kerouac - Big Sur

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