As a little bonus treat, we are delighted to present this glorious, nourishing conversation with the fantastic Emma Black! Emma is a hugely talented opera director, veracious reader and winner of the You're Booked auction, raising funds for Book Fuel. Emma talks about her early fascination with Anne of Green Gables, a terrible crime committed to a copy of In Cold Blood in a New Zealand youth hostel, loving Meg Wolitzer, Katherine Heiny and Curtis Sittenfeld and the books she's looking forward to next year (and much more!) If you would like to find out more or donate to National Energy Action, who are attempting to eradicate fuel poverty, then please visit NEA.org.uk. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark

Jill Tomlinson - Penguin's Who Wanted To Find Out

Jill Murphy - Five Minutes Peace

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Journals

LM Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

EM Brent-Dyer - The Chalet School

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Ann M. Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory

Deborah Davis - Party of the Century

Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song

Andy Miller - Year of Reading Dangerously

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion

Meg Wolitzer - The Wife

Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings

Meg Wolitzer - Ten Year Nap

Emma Straub - This Time Tomorrow

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back 

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep

Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charle Dickens - David Copperfield

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles

Kate Atkinson - Life After Life

Amor Towles - Lincoln Highway

Amor Towles - Rules of Civility

Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow

Jonathan Coe - Bourneville

Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club

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As an extra pre-Christmas treat - here's the latest episode of Daisy is Careering with the bestselling author of The Push, Ashley Audrain!

In this episode we speak to international bestselling author of The Push Ashley Audrain. We talk about how our family's attitudes to work and money have a dramatic impact on our own, and how many of us push our dreams aside while we try to build ourselves a safety net. Ashley generously shares information about her own career path. She talks about how writing was and is her ultimate dream job, and how easy it is for us all to make compromises that serve our anxiety – until playing it safe becomes dangerous . . .

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This week we are delighted to present someone we've been attempting to lure into YB Towers for quite a while. It's AJ Pearce! We are huge fans of AJ, with Dear Mrs Bird being a previous Steal of the Week and perennial favourite, as was the equally wonderful sequel Cheerfully Yours. As you will hear, we are beyond excited to hear of a third instalment in the Emmy Lake chronicles, as AJ reveals a few tantalising nuggets about her new book. She also talks about books from the 30s and 40s, how a former You're Booked guest is her comfort read, her love of pony books and finding delight in the ordinary. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncles Book

DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married

DE Stevenson - Mrs Tim of the Regiment

Joyce Denys - Henrietta's War

Joyce Denys - Henrietta Sees It Through

Rosamond Lehmann - Weather in the Streets

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz

Angela Thirkell - Cheerfulness Breaks In

Frederik Backman - A Man Called Ove

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Jo Thomas - Keeping a Christmas Promise

AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling

Julian Fellowes - Past Imperfect

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Catherine Gray - Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary

Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Katie Fforde - A French Affair

Jill Mansell - Promise Me

Nina de Gramont - The Christie Affair

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Nadia Shireen - Barbara Throws a Wobbler

Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

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This week we are delighted to welcome the fabulous (and partly Thanet based) Rosa Rankin-Gee to the podcast! Rosa is the author of the critically acclaimed The Last King of Sark and the recent blockbuster Dreamland. You can also read her work in The Paris Review, Esquire, Vogue, The Guardian, The New Yorker and many more. We talked to her about growing up in a literary family, the formative power of Adrian Mole and Louise Rennison, the pros and cons of communal reading and using poetry (and emojis) to court your beau. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Rosa Rankin-Gee - The Last Kings of Sark

Rosa Rankin-Gee - Dreamland

Max Brooks - World War Z

Robert C. O'Brien - Z For Zachariah

Gary Paulsen - Hatchet

CS Lewis - The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

E Nesbit - The Lark

E Nesbit - Five Children and It

E L Konigsburg - From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

GB Shaw - Pygmalion

Maggie Gee - The Ice People

Maggie Gee - The White Family

Doris Lessing - Mara and Dann

Doris Lessing - The Fifth Child

Doris Lessing - Ben in the World

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Doris Lessing - Golden Notebook

George Saunders - A Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Ann Patchett - These Precious Days

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Mary Oliver - Wild Geese

Elena Ferrante - My Brilliant Friend

Louise Rennison - Angus, Thongs and Full Frontal Snogging

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - One Day

Sarra Manning - From London With Love

Eva Rice - Lost Art of Keeping

Alex Garland - The Beach

Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting

Emily St John Mandel - Sea of Tranquility

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Don Delillo - Underworld

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Book obsessives everywhere, rejoice! This week we are delighted to present this conversation with the brilliant author, presenter, DJ and constant inspiration Sara Cox! As well as hosting TV's premier book show Between the Covers (Tuesdays at 7pm on BBC Two) Sara is the author of the bestselling booksTill the Cows Come Home (a memoir) and Thrown (a novel). As you'll hear, she's currently working on her next novel while trying to traverse her teetering TBR pile. She also discussed her formative reads (Jilly, Jackie and Judy Blume), favourite audiobooks, inspirational reads and Jeremy Vine's saucy dalliances. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Sara Cox - Till the Cows Come Home

Sara Cox - Thrown

Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy

Joseph Heller - Catch-22

Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died

Raynor Winn - Salt Path

Abi Dare - Girl With The Louding Voice

Jane Fallon - Just Got Real

Andrea Levy - Long Song

Kazuo Ishiguro - Remains of the Day

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Alberto Moravia - Time of Indifference

David Nichols - Us

David Nichols - One Day

Julia Whelan - My Oxford Year

Julia Whelan - Thank You For Listening

William Boyd - Love is Blind

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Rob Delaney - A Heart That Works

Monica Heisey - Really Good Actually

Tom Allen - No Shame

Tom Allen - Too Much

David Mitchell - Back Story

Louis Theroux - Theroux the Keyhole

Adam Buxton - Ramble Book

Bob Mortimer - And Away

Richard E Grant - Pocketful of Happiness

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jackie Collins - Vendetta

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

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Jeremy Vine - Diver and the Lover

David Mitchell - Cloud Atlas

Graham Norton - Forever Home

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Annie Mac- Mother Mother

Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary

EM Delafield - Diary of Provincial Lady

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Jess Kidd - Night Ship

John Boyne - Heart's Invisible Furies

John Boyne - Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

John Boyne - Echo Chamber

John Boyne - Ladder to the Sky

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You are in for a treat! As stated during the show, this week's guest is the 'platonic ideal of a You're Booked guest'. Lucy Easthope is one of the UK's leading authorities on emergency planning, a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard, co-founder of the After Disaster Network and has advised on nearly every major disaster of the past two decades, including 9/11, the 7/7 bombings, Grenfell and the Covid-19 pandemic. Her book When the Dust Settles is a Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As well as taking the reader behind the scenes of disaster planning and reaction, it's also a funny and painfully moving memoir about Lucy's life. And, as you'll hear, Lucy is an absolute delight to spend some time with. Everything from Judy Blume to Louise Bagshawe are discussed, via Charles Dickens, Willy Russell, Caitlin Moran and the disaster management credentials of Enid Blyton. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Easthope - When the Dust Settles

Alan Cumming - Baggage

Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations

Gavin Francis - Recovery

Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It

Myleene Klass - They Don't Teach This at School

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Girl

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Francis Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

Judy Blume - Forever

Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Enid Blyton - Secret Seven

Enid Blyton - Brer Rabbit

Brian Jacques - Redwall

Willy Russell - Our Day Out

Willy Russell - Blood Brothers

Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes

Beverly Cleary - Ramona

Elizabeth Laird - Red Sky in the Morning

Patricia Cornwell - From Potter's Field

Jane Austen - Collected Works

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracey Beaker

Francesca Simon - Horrid Henry

Jane Fallon - Just Got Real

Melanie Rice - Pompeii: the Day a City Was Buried

Ian Schott - World Famous Dictators

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Sue Townsend - The Queen and I

Daisy Buchanan - Burn Before Reading

Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In

Sheryl Sandberg - Option B

Jade Goody - Forever in My Heart

Ilan Kelman - Disaster By Choice

Samantha Montano - Disasterology

Gill Kernick - Catastrophe and Systemic Change

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Write It All Down

Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls

Maeve Binchy - Collection

Cathy Rentzenbrink - A Manual For Heartache

Val McDermid - Christmas is Murder

Andrew Doig - This Mortal Coil

Richard E Grant - A Pocketful of Happiness

Matthew Perry - Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing

Alan Rickman - Diaries

Anna Kent - Frontline Midwife

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There's a true rock and roll legend entering You're Booked Towers this week and we couldn't be happier. Kid Congo Powers has played in such beloved bands as The Cramps, The Gun Club, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds and his own Pink Monkey Birds. His astonishing new memoir Some New Kind of Kick talks about growing up queer and Mexican-American in 1970s, the glam rock and punk rock scenes, music, addiction, fandom, tragedy and fun. It's utterly compelling and sure to enter the pantheon of great music memoirs. We talked to Kid about Nick Cave's book recommendations, the power of Eve Babitz, great grudge writing, appearing in the classic film Wings of Desire and the troubling book that appeared on Lux Interior's coffee table. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

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

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Ludwig Bemelmans - Madeline

William Burroughs - Naked Lunch

Herbert Huncke - Reader

Herbert Huncke -The Evening Sun Turned Crimson

John Rechy - City of Night

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Clothes, Clothes. Music, Music, Music. Boys, Boys, Boys.

Ian Hunter - Diary of a Rock 'n' Roll Star

Barry Adamson - Up Above the City, Down Beneath the Stars

Warren Ellis - Nina Simone's Gum

Wreckless Eric - A Dysfunctional Success

Harriet Evans - Going Home

Derek Raymond - I Was Dora Suarez

James Ellroy - The LA Quartet

Flora Rheta Schreiber - The Shoemaker

K Mason - Concentration Camp Bestiality

William Burroughs - Junky

Geoffrey Wolff - Black Sun

J. Randy Taraborrelli - Call Her Miss Ross

Kitty Kelly - His Way

Albert Goldman - Elvis

Nick Tosches - Hellfire: The Jerry Lee Lewis Story

Caryn Rose - Why Patti Smith Matters

Rimbaud - Collected Poems

Baudelaire - Complete Poems

Fred Vermorel - Starlust

John Rechy - Sexual Outlaw

Raquel Gutierrez - Brown Neon

Chris Womersley - The Diplomat

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Patricia Highsmith - Ripley's Game

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National treasure alert! We are so, so honoured to bring you this conversation with legendary author, scriptwriter, multi-award winner and former children's laureate Malorie Blackman OBE. Malorie is one of Britain's best and most beloved children's authors who has written over 70 books including the acclaimed Noughts & Crosses series, which was recently turned into a hit TV series. Malorie has just released her autobiography, Just Sayin', which is wise, wonderful, distressing, hilarious and completely engrossing. Her enthusiasm for books and reading shines through this interview, as she discusses her formative years at the library, beating writers block, her love of poetry and the genius of short stories. Prepare to be inspired. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Alan Moore - V for Vendetta

Charles Dickens - Pickwick Papers

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

William Shakespeare - Troilus and Cressida

William Shakespeare - Othello

Alice Walker - The Colour Purple

Yann Martel - Life of Pi

Ovid - Metamorphosis

Felix Guirand (Ed) - New Larousse Encyclopaedia of Mythology

John Wyndham - Chocky

Daphne Du Maurier - The Blue Lenses

Stephen King - Needful Things

Stephen King - Four Past midnight

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - Misery

Charles Burns - Black Hole

Hans Christian Anderson - Little Mermaid

Holly Williams - What Time is Love

Lewis Carroll - Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll - Through the Looking Glass

Hilaire Belloc - Cautionary Verses

Gavin Ewart (Ed) - Penguin Book of Light Verse

Ogden Nash - Golden Trashery of Ogden Nashery

JM Cohen (Ed) - A Choice of Comic and Curious Verse

Paula Burnett (Ed) - Penguin Book of Caribbean Verse

Maya Angelou - Complete Poetry

Wendy Cope - Two Cures for Love

Sarah Crossan - One

Dean Atta - Black Flamingo

Malorie Blackman - Cloud Busting

Malorie Blackman - Hackers

Agatha Christie - The Murder of Roger Ackroyd

Various - Marple

Toni Morrison - The Bluest Eye

Isaac Asimov - I Robot

Gloria Naylor - Women of Brewster Place

Homer - The Odyssey

Isaac Asimov - Tales of Black Widowers

Daisy Buchanan - Burn After Reading

Malorie Blackman - Noughts and Crosses

Mark Haddon - The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

RJ Palacio - Wonder

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Anne Frank - Diary

Malorie Blackman - Pig Heart Boy

Art Spiegelman - Maus

Louis Sachar - Holes

Susan Varley - Badger's Parting Gifts

Garth Ennis - The Boys

Garth Ennis - Preacher

Hayley Campbell - All the Living and the Dead

Rosa Parks - My Story

Paterson Joseph - The Secret Diaries of Charles Ignatius Sancho

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This week we are delighted to present a fascinating conversation with Amanda Owen, better known as The Yorkshire Shepherdess! Amanda is the star of the glorious, incredibly popular television series Our Yorkshire Farm, about her rural life in the Dales and also the author of five books, with the most recent being Celebrating the Seasons, about life with her family at Ravenseat Farm, plus a number of delicious recipes. Amanda told us about her collection of antiquated books on agriculture, the book that set her onto her shepherding path, the reads she has shared with her children, a couple of pleas for loaned books to be returned and an unimaginable end for her copy of Judy Blume's Forever. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Amanda Owen - Celebrating the Seasons

Mary Berry - Baking Bible

Nigella Lawson - Howe To Be a Domestic Goddess

Paul Hollywood - Bread

Clarissa Dickson Wright and Jennifer Paterson - Ride Again

Khaled Hosseini - The Kite Runner

Zadie Smith - Changing My Mind

James Herriot - All Creatures Great and Small

WJ Miles - Modern Practical Farriery

James Herriot - If Only They Could Talk

James Herriot - Yorkshire

John and Eliza Forder - Hill Shepherd

Edward Boden - Black's Veterinary Dictionary 

Tabatha Lasley - Sea State

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracy Beaker

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar

James Herriot - Moses the Kitten

Banjo Paterson - Man from Snowy River

Malorie Blackman - Just Sayin'

Lady Diana Shedden & Lady Apsley - To Whom the Goddess

Kim Hamer and Phillipa Page - Sheep Keeping

Hannah Hauxwell - Seasons of My Life

Pema Chödrön - Welcoming the Unwelcome

Iain R Thomson - Isolation Shepherd

Edmund Cooper - Men of Swaledale

HM Fraser - History of Beekeeping

Captain John Harland - A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Judy Blume - Forever

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This week we are beyond delighted to present this conversation with the brilliant, bestselling Lucy Foley! Lucy is the author of the crime blockbusters The Hunting Party and The Guest List and her latest smash hit is the chart-topping The Paris Apartment. She's also contributed to the recent Marple collection, so it's no surprise that there's plenty of Christie chat during the show. There's also lots of love for Jilly Cooper, Malory Towers expectations, loving naughty heroines and unusual beach reads. Find out more about the titles mentioned at our Lucy Foley page on our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment

Lucy Foley (et al) - Marple

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party

Agatha Christie - Crooked House

Enid Blyton - The Faraway Tree

Enid Blyton - The Wishing Chair

Enid Blyton - Malory Towers

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Little Princess

Ursula Moray Williams - Adventures of the Little Wooden Horse

Jill Murphy - The Worst Witch

Bel Mooney - Oh Kitty

Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who's Afraid of the Dark

Dr Seuss - Oh the Places You'll Go

Judith McNaught - A Kingdom of Dreams

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

Nikki May - Wahala

Patricia Highsmith - Talented Mr Ripley

Polly Samson - Theatre For Dreamers

Louis de Bernières - Captain Corelli's Mandolin

Caroline Kepnes - You

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Francois Sagan - Bonjour Tristesse

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Julia May Jonas - Vladimir

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Agatha Christie - Sleeping Murder

Truman Capote - Other Voices Other Rooms

Douglas Adams. - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Various - The Paris Review Interviews

Patricia Highsmith - Diaries, Notebooks

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Bret Easton Ellis - American Psycho

Charmaine Wilkerson - Black Cake

Coco Mellors - Cleopatra and Frankenstein

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