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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We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina Lamb OBE. Christina is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she's reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She's been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. 

She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books including Our Bodies Their Battlefield, House of Stone, The Africa House, The Sewing Circles of Herat and co-writer of the global phenomenon I Am Malala. Her latest book, The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless, looked at the pandemic response in the UK. Our interview with Christina took place during the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives and covers the joy of discovering new foreign authors, the wonders of poetry, books you can't put down and the importance of literature in a war zone.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Christina Lamb - The Prince Rupert Hotel for the Homeless

Christina Lamb - The Africa House

Christina Lamb - The Sewing Circles of Herat

Malala Yousafzai with Christina Lamb - I am Malala

Christina Lamb - Our Bodies, Their Battlefield: What War Does to Women

Dennis Wheatley - The Devil Rides Out

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Brothers Karamazov

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Tove Jansson - Tales From Moominvalley

Various - The Fireside Book

Wisława Szymborska - View With a Grain of Sand

Jonny Steinberg - Winnie and Nelson

Ryszard Kapuściński - The Soccer War

Svetlana Alexievich - The Unwomanly Face of War

Ernest Hemingway - A Farewell To Arms

Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Andrey Kurkov - Death and the Peguin

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Claire Dederer - Love and Trouble

Virginia Woolf - Orlando

Alexander Pushkin - Eugene Onegin

Nadia Anjuman - Gule Dudi

Farzana Marie (Editor) - Load Poems Like Guns: Women's Poetry from Herat, Afghanistan 

Claire Dederer - Monsters

William Boyd - The Romantic

Peter Frankopan - The Earth Transformed

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Scholastique Mukasonga - Barefoot Woman

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Our love of Jane Austen should be painfully aware. But this week's guest might put our devotion to shame. The brilliant Andrew Hunter Murray hosts two hit podcasts: No Such Thing as a Fish (Andrew is also a QI Elf) and Page 94: A Private Eye Podcast (Andrew also writes for the magazine). He was also part of the UK's premier (and possibly only) Jane Austen based comedy improv group Austentatious - so his devotion to the beloved author is assured. Andrew is also a bestselling author, his first novel The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020. His new book The Sanctuary has been described as 'A brilliantly clever thriller' by Richard Osman. We talked to Andrew about Douglas Adams, fabulous first editions, the brilliance of Persephone books, rewriting classics, sex and science and, of course, Jane Austen. Find out more about Andrew's picks at our Bookshop.org store.

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary

Andrew Hunter Murray - The Last Day

John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids

George Orwell - Coming Up For Air

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Wendy Cooling - Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Herman Melville - Moby Dick

Cervantes - Don Quixote

Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight

Elizabeth Taylor - Angel

DH Lawrence - Lady's Chatterley's Lover

Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks For All the Fish

Mary Roach - Stiff

Mary Roach - Bonk

Mary Roach - Animals, Vegetable, Criminal

Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Evelyn Waugh - Scoop

Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall

Amanda Craig - Three Graces

Simon Raven - The Rich Pay Late

Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Frank Herbert - Dune

PD James - Death Comes to Pemberley

Edith Wharton - House of Mirth

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Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbread was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Us has just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about formative reading adventures in Russia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, stories of female solidarity, the book that made her want to build worlds and the unfortunate consequences of starting your own detective club. 

Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows

Roald Dahl - The Twits

Roald Dahl - The Witches

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins

Judy Blume - Forever

Beverly Cleary - Ramona Forever

Beverly Cleary - Fifteen

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Various - The Bookworm Club

Various - The Bookworm Gang

RL Stein - Goosebumps

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

RL Stein - Fear Street

Judith Krantz - Scruples

Shirley Conran - Lace

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar

Abigail Burdess - Mother's Day

Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls

Kent Haruf - Plainsong

Coco Mellors - Cleo and Frankenstein

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Patrick deWitt - French Exit

Ann M. Martin - Babysitter's Club

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Kayla Rae Whitaker - The Animators

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Hema Sukumar - Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice

Madhuri Vijay - The Far Field

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