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This week, we are delighted to present a very funny, thoughtful and free-flowing conversation with a very old friend of the podcast, Nell Frizzell! We've been dreaming of having Nell appear on the show since it began, so we're delighted to finally get the chance to chat. Nell is an author, journalist and podcaster. Her first novel was the hilarious Square One, while her first book, The Panic Years, dealt with womanhood, motherhood and... panic. Her latest is Holding the Baby, a memoir on parenting that culminates in a manifesto. We talked to Nell about fantastic literary fathers, the forbidden fruit of Bridget Jones, great fictional witches and deliberately not finishing a book because you love it so much.  For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Nell Frizzell - Square One

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Nell Frizzell - The Panic Years

Melissa Fu - Peach Blossom Spring

Anne Bronte - Tenant of Wildfell Hall

Arundhati Roy - God of Small Things

Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Rob Delaney - Heart That Works

Elizabeth Strout - Lucy By the Sea

David Nichols - Us

Elizabeth Strout - Oh William

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Helen Fielding - Cause Celebre

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Tony Bradman - Sam the Girl Detective

Kaye Umansky - Pongwiffy

Spike Milligan - Badjelly

Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas - Winnie the Witch

Vikram Seth - Suitable Boy

Vikram Seth - Equal Music

Johanna Spyri - Heidi

Roald Dahl - Fantastic Mr Fox

Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island

Bill Bryson - The Body

Bill Bryson - Down Under

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

Michael Palin - Hemingway's Chair

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Naomi Wood - Mrs Hemingway

Martha Gellhorn - Travels with Myself and Another

Dervla Murphy - Wheels Within Wheels

Freya Stark - Valleys of the Assassins

Rosita Boland - Elsewhere

Mary Wollstonecraft - Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark

Musa Okwonga - One of Them

Jilly Cooper - Class

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean And What You Don't 

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Nella Larsen - Passing

Sarah Gilmartin - Dinner Party

Philip Larkin - Whitsun Weddings

Rose Tremain - The Colour

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Tim Burrows - Invention of Essex

Henry James - The Europeans

Clover Stroud - My Wild & Sleepless Nights

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Alice Vincent - Rootbound

Amy Liptrot - The Instant

Steve Jones - Call Time

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Chelsea Conaboy - Mother Brain

Rosie Kinchen - Ballast Seed

Paul Morgan-Bentley - Equal Parent

Philip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Luiza Sauma - Everything You Ever Wanted

Luiza Sauma - Flesh & Bone & Water

Mary Beard - Good Working Mother's Guide

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This was so much fun! Get ready for a funny, frank and fulfilling conversation with the brilliant Nikki May! Nikki's debut novel Wahala was a former Steal of the Week and one of our favourite books in recent times. It's currently being adapted for TV and was recently shortlisted for the CWIP prize. We talked to Nikki about the problems associated with reading as a kid in Lagos, favourite food books, spies, crime and dystopias and what Nikki believes is the perfect book. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Nikki May - Wahala

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Nigella Lawson - How To Be a Domestic Goddess

Nigel Slater - Toast

Grace Dent - Hungry

Sue Grafton - A is for Alibi

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Ian McEwan - Atonement

Jade Beer - The Last Dress From Paris

Agatha Christie - The Blue Train

Alistair MacLean - Ice Station Zebra

John Le Carre - Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Luke Jennings - Killing Eve

Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley

Mick Herron - Slow Horses

Percival Everett - The Trees

Percival Everett - Erasure

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

Anna Hope - Expectation

Candice Carty-Williams - Queenie

Wole Soyinka - Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Damilare Kuku - Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Nina Stibbe - Paradise Lodge

Abi Dare - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Ali Smith - How To Be Both

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Delia Owens - Where Did the Crawdads Sing

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Reith Lecture

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Bethany Clift - Last One at the Party

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara and the Sun

Kate Atkinson - Shrines of Gaiety

Monica Heisey - Really Good, Actually

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She's the writer of one of our favourite novels in recent times and one of the funniest people on the planet, so we are delighted to welcome Sunny author Sukh Ojla to the podcast! As well as being a fabulous novelist, Sukh is a comedian, actor and playwright. Her debut novel Sunny is a joyously funny story of love, loss and heartbreak. We talked to her about 90s cosplay, failing to impress Richard E Grant, books you must (and mustn't) read on holiday and the ongoing genius of Marian Keyes. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Details of Daisy's event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Sukh Ojla - Sunny

Jenny Jackson - Pineapple Street

Andrew Davidson - The Gargoyle

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Marian Keyes - Last Chance Saloon

Elizabeth Gilbert - Eat Pray Love

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Ravinder Randhawa - Beauty and the Beast

Barbara Wersba - Fat, a Love Story

Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts We Never Gibe

Ada Calhoun - Why We Don't Sleep

Barbara Wersba - Beautiful Losers

Rani Manicka - The Rice Mother

Nell Frizzell - Holding the Baby

Rhik Samadder - I Never Said I Love You

Alex Smith - Paper Girls

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Marian Keyes - The Other Side of the Story

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Lisa Jewell - After the Party

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Melvin Burgess - Junk

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Sheryl Garratt - Adventures in Wonderland

Jilly Cooper - The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Dawn Winter - Sedating Elaine

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Emma Haughton - The Sanctuary

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

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We've got Zott! Or the closest we're going to get until we can convince fictional characters to come onto the podcast. Yes, it's Lessons in Chemistry author Bonnie Garmus! Bonnie's book, about chemist turned TV cook Elizabeth Zott (and her dog Six-Thirty) has been a huge and already beloved international bestseller, translated into 39 languages and with a TV adaptation in the works. We talked to her about, unsurprisingly, dogs in literature, plus the importance of Harriet the Spy, how science could save the world in a myriad of ways and how poets have the roughest time in literature. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.

BOOKS

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Oscar Wilde - Only Dull People are Brilliant at Breakfast

Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy

Louise Fitzhugh - The Long Secret

Leslie Brody - Sometimes You Have to Lie: The Life and Times of Louise Fitzhugh

Charles Schulz - Peanuts

Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment

Kate Baer - What Kind of Woman

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

Gustave Flaubert - Madame Bovary

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jack Kerouac - On the Road

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Barbara Kingsolver - Poisonwood Bible

John Irving - World According To Garp

Steven Pinker - Rationality

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time to Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing to See Here

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Erich Remarque - All Quiet on the Western Front

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Ed Yong - An Immense World

Eric Knight - Lassie Come Home

Jim Kjelgaard - Big Red

Ayisha Malik - The Movement

Aesop - Fables

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Hurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys, the profound influence of Sylvia Plath, the genius of Adrian Mole and getting uncomfortably close to Kate Bush. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Katherine May - Enchantment

Katherine May - Wintering

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus

Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil

Stephen King - Carrie

Claude Tardat - A Sweet Death

Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus

Ben Okri - The Famished Road

Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient

Charlotte Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

Willy Russell - Educating Rita

George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

Erich Kastner - Lotte and Lisa

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems

Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge

Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better

Jenny Diski - Skating to Antarctica

Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Suzanne Buffam - A Pillow Book

Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book

Jenny Offill - Department of Speculation

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Letters

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful

Elissa Altman - On Permission

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

Michael Pollan - How To Change Your Mind

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air

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Happy World Book Day! To celebrate, here's an essay Daisy wrote while working on her Pound Project book Burn Before Reading. It's about the joy and redemption associated with reading. How reading can help us understand each other and overcome difficult times. Why reading should have no rules, no judgement and no boundaries. It's there to be absorbed and relished. Enjoy!

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This is such a treat! Prepare for the wise words, dulcet tones and excellent book taste of the great Kevin Wilson! Kevin is the author of the massive bestseller Nothing to See Here, The Family Fang which was turned into an acclaimed film with Nicole Kidman, the critically lauded novel Perfect Little World and two story collections Tunnelling To the Centre of the Earth and Baby, You're Gonna Be Mine and his latest, the brilliant Now is Not the Time to Panic. We talked to him about his love of British pop music, Shirley Jackson as a comfort read, a deep dive into the Babysitters Club, Ann Patchett as a writing and book selling inspiration and the emotional impact of Origami Yoda. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge!

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Kevin Wilson - Now is Not the Time To Panic

Kevin Wilson - Nothing To See Here

Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings - The Yearling

Stephen H. Provost - The Legend of Molly Bolin

CS Lewis - The Chronicles of Narnia

Ann M. Martin - Babysitters Club

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

John Cheever - Falconer

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Rick Riordan - Percy Jackson and the Olympians

Nicola Skinner - Bloom

Tom Angleberger - Origami Yoda

Jennifer L. Holm - Babymouse

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

F Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

William Faulkner

Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

JD Salinger - 9 Stories

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Melissa Rossi - Courtney Love: Queen of Noise

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Aaron Burch - Year of the Buffalo

Shirley Jackson - The Lottery

Shirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Jennifer Egan - A Visit From the Goon Squad

Ruth Franking - Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Paz Pardo - The Shamshine Blind

Amanda Lohrey - The Labyrinth

Will Leitch - The Time Has Come

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This week we're delighted to bring you an author we've been trying to tempt onto the podcast since day one. Finally, it's Eva Rice! Eva's wonderful books are mentioned frequently on the show, so we are beyond excited to present this wide-ranging conversation with her. There's a discussion about Eva's wonderful new book This Could be Everything plus the influence of her dad (legendary lyricist Sir Tim Rice) on her writing, Jesus as a teen icon, deep dives into Enid Blyton, some very exciting Jilly Cooper news and how Mellors from Lady Chatterley's Lover might be the prototype Harry Styles. Plus, as an added bonus, some music inspired by Eva's latest novel! Make sure you listen to the end of the show. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Eva Rice - The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Hanif Kureishi - The Buddha of Suburbia

Eva Rice - The Misinterpretation of Tara Jupp

Marianne Faithfull - Faithfull

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Nina Stibbe - One Day I Shall Astonish the World

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Ted Hughes - Collected Poems

Thom Gunn - Collected Poems

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Alan J Lerner - The Street Where I Live

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Jump

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Linda Rosenkrantz - Peter Hujar's Day

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Eva Rice - Who's Who in Enid Blyton

Enid Blyton - Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - St Clares

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Shirley Hughes - Alfie

Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Katherine Rundell - Rooftoppers

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Linda Dawson - Phoebe and the Hot Water Bottles

David Peace - Red or Dead

Sheryl Garratt - Adventures in Wonderland

Georgina Moore - The Garnett Girls

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner - Look at Me

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

Nancy Mitford - Don't Tell Alfred

Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited

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We are so delighted to bring you this nourishing, fascinating and frequently hilarious conversation with comedian, podcaster, Taskmaster alumnus and now memoirist Fern Brady! Fern is an acclaimed and celebrated stand-up (currently on tour around the UK), co-hosted the BBC podcast Wheel of Misfortune with Alison Spittle and has just released the remarkable memoir Strong Female Character which covers autism, stripping and Catholicism. It's very funny. We talked to Fern about Jean Rhys, her obsession with Jeanette Winterson, memoir qualms and why teenage boys don't eat vegetables. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Diablo Cody - Candy Girl

Lisa Alther - Kinflicks

Holly Smales - The Cassandra Complex

Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges are Not the Only Fruit

Joanne Limburg - Letters to My Weird Sisters

Jeanette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mom Died

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Diana Athill - Stet

Diana Athill - Don't Look at Me Like That

Caroline Corcoran - What Happened on Floor 34

Lucy Easthope - When the Dust Settles

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Augusten Burroughs - Running With Scissors

Mary Karr - Art of Memoir

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Marise Gaughan - Trouble

Irvine Welsh - Porno

Rebecca Ray - A Certain Age

DH Lawrence - Women in Love

F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Decca Aitkenhead - All at Sea

James Joyce - Ulysses

Bee Wilson - First Bite

Andrea Ashworth - Once in a House on Fire

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We're back! And we can't think of a better way to kick off the new series than a fascinating conversation with one of our favourite authors: Tessa Hadley! Tessa's books are constantly being discussed on the podcast so it's an absolute honour to finally have her on the show. And what a treat it was! Tessa discusses formative children's books, being shocked by John Updike, possessing a fear of fairy tales and why every teenager needs to read Jane Eyre. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden

Nell Dunn - Up the Junction

Jonathon Green - Days in the Life

Elizabeth Bowen - House in Paris

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Lived in the Barn

Lois Lenski - Papa Small

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince

Eve Garnett - Family at One End Street

Elena Ferrante - Story of a New Name

Alice Munro - Open Secrets

Jean Plaidy - Murder Most Royal

Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer

Pamela Frankau - Wreath for the Enemy

Jane Gardam - Summer After the funeral

Jane Gardam - Long Way from Verona

Virginia Woolf - Diaries

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jane Austen - Persuasion

John Updike - Couples

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grace Metallous - Peyton Place

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel - Giving Up the Ghost

Gwendoline Riley - My Phantoms

Claire Louise Bennett - Pond

Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Henry James - Wings of the Dove

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Jane Austen - Emma

Elizabeth Taylor - A Wreath of Roses

TJ Clark - If These Apples Should Fall

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