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Daisy Buchanan

Welcome to You’re Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favourite authors’ bookshelves.I’m Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I’ll be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants – even though they couldn’t get beyond the first twenty pages.We’ll also be talking about what makes readers into writers, how our guests became book lovers and their favourite reading memories, all with a dash of intelligence and a dollop of irreverence. Our guests include Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla, and many more favourites from our own bookshelves.

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You're Booked

Christmas has come early! And do we have a festive treat for you! It's a funny, thrilling and thorough chat with returning champ Helen Lederer! We visited Helen's home back in 2019, but now she's coming to us, visiting the prestigious Margate Bookie book festival in front of an ecstatic audience. We talked to her about her legendary comedy career (including the people she got off with), the game-changing Comedy Women in Print Prize that she instigated, her hilarious books Losing It and Not That I'm Bitter, the mindbending experience that was Celebrity Big Brother and almost getting a tattoo. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. 

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Helen Lederer - Not That I'm Bitter

Helen Lederer - Losing It

Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking

Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her?

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Miranda July - All Fours

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

John Betjeman - Collected Poems

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Helen Lederer Live at the Margate Bookie - You're Booked

As a treat, we're resharing one of our most beloved and popular archive episodes from 2023. Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joined us to help us with our reading resolutions. Featuring Kindle hacks, reading slump fixes, cosy reads and a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Discover the books you'll be snapping up, 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. 

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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Sarra Manning's Reading Resolutions - You're Booked

To celebrate the release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy (out now!), here's a very special conversation with a returning champion. Daisy was interviewed by the great Nina Stibbe at Ink@84 in North London in front of a packed audience. There's lots of chat about books that bring you joy, the fear and ecstasy of reviews, book club horror stories and Nina's legendary pony story. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit DK RED to find out about her live dates.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took The Dog

The Pound Project

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Pandora Sykes - What Writer's Read

Jean George - My Side of the Mountain

Rebecca F Kuang - Babel

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

The Beano Annual

Lizzy Stewart - Alison

Joff Winterheart - Days of the Bagnold Summer

Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach

Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens

Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her

Monica Dickens - My Turn To Make the Tea

Nina Hamnet - Laughing Torso

Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Elspeth Barker - Notes From the Hen House

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This

Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy

Nina Stibbe - Love Nina

Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Deborah Moggach - Best Exotic Marigold Hotel

David Seabrook - All the Devils are Here

Danielle Steele - Joy

Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Noel Streatfeiled - Ballet Shoes

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May - Wintering

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Nina Stibbe and Daisy Buchanan - You're Booked Live at Ink 84

This week we're delighted to spend some time with the magnificent Coco Mellors. Coco's books, Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters have been frequent picks by former You're Booked guests, so it's an absolute treat to welcome her to YB Towers. We talked to her about boxing, being taught by Martin Amis, books about motherhood, her next novel and trying to find the rude bits in The Golden Notebook. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about the Shelter Box Book Club by HEADING HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - ﻿Read Yourself Happy

Coco Mellors -Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Martin Amis - London Fields

Martin Amis - Money

Claire Dederer - Monsters

James Baldwin - The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2

Ursula Parrot - Ex Wife

Doris Lessing - Golden Notebook

Doris Lessing - Martha Quest

Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle

Sally Rooney - Intermezzo

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Mary Oliver - New and Selected Poems

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Bernadine Evaristo - Mr Loverman 

Ada Calhoun - Why We Cant Sleep

Nell Frizzell - Panic Years

Lindsay Nicholson - Perfect Bound 

Leslie Jamison - Splinters

Caroline O'Donoghue - The Rachel Incident

Martin Amis - Inside Story

AA Gill - Pour Me

Tessa Hadley - The Past

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

Juhea Kim - Beasts of a Little Land

Juhea Kim - City of Night Birds

Joyce Carol Oates - On Boxing

Ballet Shoes

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Coco Mellors - You're Booked

Welcome to You're Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers.

Join your Book Inspector, Daisy Buchanan, as she enters the homes of your favourite authors and snoops around their bookshelves. She'll uncover forbidden reads, books borrowed and never returned, bad reading habits, those embarrassing tomes hidden at the back of the pile and formative literary experiences.

Take a listen to a few choice moments from some upcoming episodes featuring Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla and Lucy Vine.

The first episode of You're Booked with special guest Dolly Alderton, will be out soon.

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Welcome to You're Booked

Episode one takes place in leafy, literary North London, a place that has inspired many Very Important Pens – including those belonging to Virginia Woolf, JG Ballard, and that of our very first guest Dolly Alderton.

 

Dolly, the author of Everything I Know About Love, the co-presenter of chart topping podcast The High Low and the Sunday Times columnist, is a voracious reader. Her book filled flat yielded some serious treasures, with a library featuring names fit to grace the guest list of the ultimate paper party, from JB Priestley to…Rod Stewart. Dolly told us about the intimacy of reading and writing, the reality of sharing so much of your life with strangers and why she’ll never stop reading love stories. It must be said that she's a host nonpareil - she makes the greatest cup of coffee in the capital.

THIS WEEK'S BOOKS

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Alex Comfort - The Joy of Sex

Judy Blume - Forever

Chris Kraus - I Love Dick

Stefan Bollman - Women Who Read Are Dangerous

Pauline Reage - The Story of O

Rachael Oakes-Ash - Good Girls Do Swallow

Matt Haig - Reasons To Stay Alive

JB Priestley - Delight

Various - Modern Delight

Rod Stewart - Rod: The Autobiography

Cherie Curry - Neon Angel: A Memoir of a Runaway

Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Lynn Barber - How To Improve Your Man in Bed

Woody Allen - Without Feathers

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Derek Walcott - The Poetry of Derek Walcott

Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened

Viv Albertine - Clothes Clothes Clothes Music Music Music Boys Boys Boys

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1. Dolly Alderton

For Episode 2, we’re off to Falmouth, Cornwall. The Wild West has been inspiring writers for 100s of years, from Du Maurier to DH Lawrence and it’s the home of our very special guest, Cathy Rentzenbrink. Many readers will be familiar with Cathy from her bestselling memoir, The Last Act Of Love and her beautiful book, A Manual For Heartache. So you might not associate Cathy with comedy – but she’s fiercely funny. Her books will make you cry, but her conversation will definitely make you laugh. Cathy also talks, openly and honestly, about how books saved her life…

BOOKS

Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love

Cathy Rentzenbrink - A Manual For Heartache

Hilary Mantel - Giving Up the Ghost

Julian Barnes - Nothing to Be Frightened Of 

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Erica Jong - Fear of Flying

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley's Lover

DH Lawrence - Women in Love

DH Lawrence - The Rainbow

Jane Austen - Emma

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed

Caroline Kepnes - You

Julian Barnes - Flaubert's Parrot

Julian Barnes - A History of the World in 10 1/2 Chapters

Mary Wesley - Not That Sort of Girl

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nora Ephron - Scribble Scribble

LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon

LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables

LM Montgomery - Anne of the Island

LM Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea

LM Montgomery - Complete Journals

Susan Coolidge - What Katy Did

Susan Coolidge - Clover

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Georgette Heyer - Frederica

Alberto Manguel - History of Reading

Beryl E Escott - Heroines of SOE

Agatha Christie - The Clocks

WE Johns - Biggles

Jeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy Kid

Andy Griffiths - 13-Story Treehouse

John Niven - Kill Your Friends

David Nicholls - One Day

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Ryan Holiday - Daily Stoic

Various - Assassin's Cloak

William Boyd - Any Human Heart 

Rachel Joyce - The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

JK Rowling - Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix

Tom Palmer - Armistice Runner

AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird

Lissa Evans - Their Finest Hour and a Half

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2. Cathy Rentzenbrink

It's Muswell Hill for Ep 3, not far from the desks of Alan Bennett, Zadie Smith, and today’s guest Sarra Manning. Sarra is a bestselling, prolific novelist, literary editor of Red, alumni of several top teen mags and one of the most prolific readers around. She told us she got rid of 800 books before our visit, just so we could move freely around her flat. But there were tons of treasure left including a precious collection of rare Noel Streatfeilds, a copy of proto bonkbuster Lace, a gorgeous collection of vintage Chalet Schools with an origin story that will make you weep, and tales about books she’s bought, borrowed and stolen.

BOOKS

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Thackeray - Vanity Fair

Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat

Charles Creed - Maid to Measure

Ginette Spanier - It Isn't All Mink

Anne Scott-James - In The Mink

Edna Woolman Chase - Always in Vogue

Ernestine Carter - With Tongue in Chic

Sylvia Plath - Bell Jar

JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey

JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters

William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Silwyn Williams - Give Me Back My Pride

Pam Lyons - He Was Bad

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself

EM Brent Dyer - Gay From China at the Chalet School 

EM Brent Dyer - Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Shirley Conran - Lace

Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy

Judith Krantz - I'll Take Manhattan

Jilly Cooper - Riders

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

Blake Nelson - Girl

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

James Salter & Kay Salter - Life Is Meals

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Emily St. John Mandel - Station 11

Susan Scarlett - Clothes Pegs

Noel Streatfeild - Myra Carrol

Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

Marjorie Hillis - Live Alone & Like It

Janey Scott - Sara Gay Model Girl

Fred Vermorel - Starlust

Frederick Carter - London at Night

Francis Marshall - London West

Mary R Richardson - Laugh a Defiance

Lorna Hill - Dream of Sadlers Wells 

Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck

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3. Sarra Manning

For episode 4 we're heading to Ashford - the home of the Eurostar, Vic Reeves, Bob Holness and the journalistic power couple Stuart Heritage and Robyn Wilder. Stuart is the author of the brilliantly funny memoir Don't Be a Dick Pete, Robyn writes a weekly parenting column for The Pool and they both host the excellent Naughty Step podcast. We huddled around their kitchen table to discuss comedy cookbooks, Misty comics and upsetting Paul Hollywood.

BOOKS

Stuart Heritage - Don't Be a Dick Pete

Various - Lonely Planet Trans-Siberian Railway

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Belle de Jour - Intimate Adventures of a London Call Girl

Belle de Jour - Playing the Game

Ben Myers - The Book of Fuck

Coolio - Cookin' With Coolio

Tove Jansson - Moomins Cookbook

Paul Hollywood - Bread

Sarah Gomes Harris - Sarah and Duck

Lucy M Boston - Children of Green Knowe

CS Lewis - Complete Chronicles of Narnia

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic

Judy Blume - Then Again Maybe I Won't

Christina Patterson - The Art of Not Falling Apart

Graham Greene - Brighton Rock

George Orwell - 1984

Fyodor Dostoevsky - Crime and Punishment

Simone Cave - Coping With Two

Various - Babies: Mumsnet Guide

Harvey MD Karp - Happiest Baby on the Block

Michael Rosen - You're Thinking About Doughnuts

J Maarten Troost - Sex Lives of Cannibals

EL James - 50 Shades Trilogy

Marian Keyes - The Break

Philip Pullman - Belle Sauvage

George RR Martin - Song of Ice and Fire

Noah Hawley - Before The Fall

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

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4. Robyn Wilder and Stuart Heritage

This week, we're off to Cambridge, home of some of the greatest scientific minds - and pens - known to human existence. from Charles Darwin to Douglas Adams and this week's guest, romantic comedy writer and zombie lit lover Lucy Vine. Lucy comes from a family of writers, and she tells us about an early run in with Roald Dahl, her surprisingly scatological filing system and her belief that no-one is too grand for Dan Brown. We were also joined by a puppy posse - listen out for Ivy, Teddy and Sonny.

BOOKS

Lucy Vine - What Fresh Hell?

Lucy Vine - Hot Mess

Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Deborah Frances-White - The Guilty Feminist

Sarah Silverman - The Bedwetter

AA Milne - Winnie The Pooh

John Wyndham - The Day of the Triffids

Jon Ronson - So You've Been Publicly Shamed

HG Wells - The Time Machine

Gabrielle Fernie - Lush

Emer McLysaght and Sarah Breen - Oh My God What a Complete Aisling

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Dolly Alderton - Everything I Know About Love

Louise O'Neill - The Surface Breaks

Sophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Sarah Hodgson - Modern Dog Parenting

Piers Morgan - Don't You Know Who I Am?

Simon Amstell - Help

Daisy Johnson - Everything Under

Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life

David Nicholls - One Day

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Sylvia Waugh - The Mennyms

Robert C O'Brien - The Silver Crown

Richard Adams - Watership Down

Cecelia Ahern - Roar

Dan Brown - The Da Vinci Code

Caitlin Moran - How To Build a Girl

Lena Dunham - Not That Kind of Girl

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5. Lucy Vine

For the grand finale of our fifth season American adventure (and our 50th episode!), we find ourselves in... Bloomsbury. But we are there for a wonderful reason. To meet the legendary novelist, feminist, and philanthropist Isabel Allende! Isabel is the internationally renowned, bestselling author of works such as House of the Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, and her latest breathtaking epic A Long Petal of the Sea. We talked to her about illicit reads, writing superstitions, dogs, poetry and Elvis. For more information about Daisy's new newsletter Further Reading visit: https://furtherreading.substack.com/p/coming-soon

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Isabel Allende - Long Petal of the Sea

Peter Christen Asbjørnsen - Fairytales From the Far North

Various - Arabian Nights

Ta-Nehisi Coates - The Water Dancer

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits

Johnston McCulley, - Zorro

Henri Troyat -Tant Que La Terre Durera (While the Earth Endures)

Cherie Currie - Neon Angel

The Isabel Allende Foundation

Isabel Allende - Paula

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

Colum McCann - Let the Great World Spin

Colum McCann - Apeirogon

Pablo Neruda - Memoirs

Pablo Neruda - Selected Poems

Isabel Allende - Ripper

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

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Isabel Allende - You're Booked

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