While we take a little break, we're sharing just a few of our favourite ever episodes from the archives. This week we're with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes! Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages. When we chatted to Marian, she was about to release the brilliant, chart-topping Grown Ups. Since then we've seen a sequel to Rachel's Holiday, Again Rachel and her latest My Favourite Mistake. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen. And as this episode was released on the week Daisy's novel Insatiable was launched, there's a bonus, exclusive (and steamy!) clip from the audiobook. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the 6

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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We're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout. We talked to Sophie about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four copies of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (And, as you'll hear, it was our first introduction to the brilliant (and later YB guest) Katherine Heiny! Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella - I Owe You One

Norman Hunter - The Dribblesome Teapots

Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister

Beverly Cleary - Ramona

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

PG Wodehouse - Blandings

Sophie Kinsella - Undomesticated Goddess

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

JG Links - Venice For Pleasure

Leila Slimani - Adele

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights

Michael Grant - Gone

EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Lilly Singh - How To Be a Bawse

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Sophie Kinsella - Finding Audrey

Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - White Boots

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This week, we are delving back into the archive to revisit our series 5 trip to America in the company of the incredible Taylor Jenkins Reid! When we met Taylor in 2019, Daisy Jones and the Six had just been released. It went on to be a global smash with a recent, lauded Amazon adaptation and in this episode Taylor discusses many of the books that inspired the novel. Her other books, including The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back, have all been celebrated best-sellers. We met Taylor in West Hollywood, LA and the delightful confines of the great Book Soup bookstore and talked to her about rock memoirs, Bridget Jones, gift giving, influential reads and the delights of seeing your own book in the book shop.

BOOKS

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Allie Rowbottom - Jello Girls

Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers

Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends

Bessel van der Kolk - Body Keeps the Score

Byron Lane - A Star is Bored

Tom Shales, James Andrew Miller - Live From New York

James Andrew Miller - Powerhouse

Legs McNeil, Gillian McCain - Please Kill Me

Matt Zoller Seitz, Alan Sepinwall - Soprano Sessions

Emily Nussbaum - I Like To Watch

Blake Snyder - Save the Cat

Allen Rucker - Sopranos Family Cookbook

Jann Wenner - Rolling Stones Interviews

Michael Walker - Laurel Canyon

Keith Richards - Life

Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Kathy Iandoli - God Save the Queens

Ramin Setoodeh - Ladies Who Punch

Sally Field - In Pieces

Scotty Bowers - Full Service

Taylor Jenkins Reid - 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Various - Little People Big Dreams

Judith Kerr - Tiger Who Came To Tea

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Sarah Jane Hinder - Yoga Bear

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Lauren Bravo - How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You’ll Go

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Rebecca Traister - Good and Mad

Eve Babitz - I Used To Be Charming

Joan Didion - White Album

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Terry Newman - Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore

Laura Thompson - Take Six Girls

Jacqueline Susan - Valley of the Dolls

Mohsin Hamid - Exit West

Alex Michaelides - Silent Patient

Nina Freudenberger - Bibliostyle

Thatcher Wine - For The Love of Books

Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Gods of Jade & Shadow

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Etaf Rum - A Woman is No Man

Salman Rushdie - Quichotte

Alexi Zentner - Copperhead

Tana French - Wych Elm

Madeline Miller - Song of Achilles

Madeline Miller - Circe

Katherine Dunn - On Cussing

Mark Manson - Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck

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