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Kindle hacks! Reading slump fixes! Cosy reads! And a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joins us to help us with our reading resolutions. Discover the books you'll be snapping up in 2023, a few tips to get you back on the reading path if you've strayed and some excellent advice for those struggling with the classics. 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

Dale Shaw - Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - How to be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - London With Love

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Hannah Dolby - No Life For a Lady

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Tina Brown - Palace Papers

Kate Sawyer - This Family

Kate Sawyer - The Stranding

Various - Marple: 12 New Stories

JD Salinger: For Esme With Love and Squalor

Sylvia Plath - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

F Scott Fitzgerald - Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Dorothy Parker - Collected Stories

Various - Furies

Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Lucia Berlin - Manuel For Cleaning Women

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Noel Streatfeild - Gemma

Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

James Reeves - The Critical Sense

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Milly Johnson - Together Again

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Jojo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Katy Brent - How To Kill Men and Get Away With It

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Jennifer Saint - Atalanta

Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra

Katherine Bradley - The Sisterhood

Isabelle Schuler - Lady Macbethad

Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood

Niamh Hargan - The Break-Up Clause

Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Scandal

Sarra Manning - The Man of Her Dreams

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina

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Seasons greetings! And we can't think of anything more festive or merry-making than this glorious conversation with lexicographer, author and podcaster Susie Dent! As well as writing many books on words and language, with the latest being the brilliant An Emotional Dictionary, Susie resides in Dictionary Corner on Countdown and 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown and hosts the podcast Something Rhymes With Purple with Gyles Brandreth. We talked to her about tricky words in Dickens, the perils of reading your own audio books, the wonder of swearing and her favourite book to give as a gift. 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

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

Susie Dent - An Emotional Dictionary

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Twice Upon a Time: Susie Dent

Noel Streatfeild - Thursday's Child

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden

Francis Grose - The Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue

Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Dictionary

Michele Obama - Becoming

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Mr Wrong

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

DH Lawrence - Sons and Lovers

DH Lawrence - Short Stories

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Stephen Sondheim - Finishing the Hat

Louis Macneice - Autumn Journal

Christina Rossetti - Artists Studio

Mary Oliver - Collected Poems

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport

Gyles Brandreth - Dancing By the Light of the Moon

Sam West - Pandemic Poems

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Gyles Brandreth - Elizabeth: An Intimate Portrait

Alain-Fournier - La Grand Meaulnes

Julian Barnes - Le Grand Meaulnes Revisited

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

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As a festive treat, we are re-sharing our 2019 Christmas special! Here's what we said the first time around...

Merry Christmas! And welcome to the You're Booked Christmas extravaganza live from the fabulous Allbright Members Club in London's glamorous Mayfair. We are joined by High Low podcast legend and author of Everything I Know About Love Dolly Alderton, author of This Green and Pleasant Land and the Sofia Khan novels Ayisha Malik and author of Old Baggage and Their Finest Hour and a Half Lissa Evans. They discussed cosy Christmas reads, festive meals in favourite books and Rod Stewart's many turkeys.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Ayisha Malik - This Green and Pleasant Land

Lissa Evans - Old Baggage

Lissa Evans - Wed Wabbit

Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Apsley Cherry-Garrard - Worst Journey in the World

Annie Proulx - Shipping News

Rod Stewart - Autobiography

Alison Uttley - A Country Child

Nancy Parent - Disney's Storybook Collection

Jean Webster - Daddy Long Legs

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Susan Cain - Quiet

JL Carr - A Month in the Country

Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey - What Katy Did at School

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary

Nina Stibbe - Almost Perfect Christmas

Stephen King - 22/11/63

Kathy Lette - How To Kill Your Husband

David Nicholls - One Day

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Stella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm

Marilynne Robinson - Gilead

PL Travers - Mary Poppins

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

David Sedaris - Santaland Diaries

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid’s Tale

Margaret Atwood - The Testaments

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl, Woman, Other

James Joyce - Ulysses

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Hilary Mantel - Wolf Hall

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Anita Brookner - Hotel Du Lac

Anita Brookner - Look At Me

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies

Roger Deakin - Waterlogged

Lemn Sissay - My Name is Why

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus

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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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