While we're taking a little break, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from previous series. This week, it's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe! Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal, Sex Power Money and the novel Weirdo. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine (the episode was recorded during lockdown), big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read. 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 - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tampa

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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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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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're travelling all the way back to our first ever series for this chat with author, journalist and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day. Elizabeth is the author of five novels including Magpie and The Party plus her memoir, based on her massively successful podcast How To Fail and her most book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict. While snooping around her (small but perfectly formed) flat, we discussed being nosey, literary heroines, EM Forster related tattoos and learning the facts of life from The Thorn Birds. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting the You're Booked page at Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Elizabeth Day - The Party

Elizabeth Day - How To Fail

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Sea Change

Elizabeth Jane Howard - After Julius

Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Long View

Elizabeth Day - Scissors, Paper, Stone

Judy Blume - Forever

Judy Blume - Deenie

Elizabeth Day - Home Fires

Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway

TC Boyle - The Terranauts

Neel Mukherjee - The Lives of Others

Alasdair Gray - Lanark

Muriel Spark - Momento Mori

Muriel Spark - The Girls of Slender Means

Aldous Huxley - Beyond the Mexique Bay

Aldous Huxley - Two or Three Graces

Tara Westover - Educated

Simon Reid-Henry - Fidel & Che

Sally Field - In Pieces

Sophie Mackintosh - The Water Cure

Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

James O'Brien - How To Be Right

Damian Dibben - Tomorrow

Leila Slimani - Adele

Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds

Barbara Taylor Bradford - A Woman of Substance

John Banville - The Sea

Barbara Kingsolver - Unsheltered

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While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're kicking off in style with this wonderful conversation with David Nicholls from season 4 in his beautiful North London home. At the time, David had just released his wonderful novel Sweet Sorrow. His new book, You Are Here, is out soon, while the brand new adaptation of One Day has just hit Netflix. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, Moomins, movies, adaptation and Billy Wilder. Find out more about all the books mentioned at our Bookshop.org.uk Store.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

David Nicholls - One Day

David Nicholls - Starter For Ten

David Nicholls - The Understudy

David Nicholls - Us

David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow

Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar

Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story

Tobias Wolff - Stories of

Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind

Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World

Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier

Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square

Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means

Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat

Charles Dickens - Great Expectations

Charles Dickens - David Copperfield

Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend

Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise

Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women

Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper

Nell Zink - Mislaid

Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest

John Cheever - Stories

F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night

F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby

Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles

Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter

Phillip Larkin - Jill

Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere

Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty

EM Forster - Howards End

Helen Garner - The Spare Room

Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach

Penelope Lively - Heat Wave

Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s

Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses

Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations

Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder

Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock

Elif Bautman - The Idiot

Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November

Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?

Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories

Zadie Smith - Feel Free

Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews

Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays

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Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of YA, her favourite authors and the person who gives her the best reading recommendations. Limelight is out now in paperback - signed copies can be ordered and shipped nationwide from The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about all the books Kezia mentioned at our shop on Bookshop.org.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Donna Tartt - Secret History

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Claire Daverley - Talking at Night

Annie Lord - Notes on Heartbreak

Stephenie Meyer - Twilight

Patrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting Go

Beth O'Leary - The Flat Share

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Lisa Taddeo - Animal

Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Annie MacManus - The Mess We're In

Darren Coffield - Tales From the Colony Room

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

AM Homes - May We Be Forgiven

AM Homes - This Book Will Save Your Life

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Claire Powell - At the Table

Emma Jane Unsworth - Animals

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner -There's No Deer Around Here

Andy Hussey, Rosie Venner - Any Trout About?

Peter Bently - The Great Dog Bottom Swap

Nora Ephron - Heartburn

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Abigail Bergstrom - What a Shame

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Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football.

More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard is HERE! Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked

BOOKS

Jilly Cooper - Tackle

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - How To Stay Married

Jilly Cooper - Imogen 

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Georgette Heyer - Devil's Cub

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Barbara Pym - Excellent Women

Federico Garcia Lorca - Selected Poems

George Crabbe - Collected Poems

Jilly Cooper - Mount

Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Walter Emanuel - A Dog Day

Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy Fisher

Beatrix Potter - Tailor of Gloucester

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit

Beatrix Potter - Tom Kitten

Rudyard Kipling - Just So Stories

Rudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by Himself

Anna Sewell - Black Beauty

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Anthony Powell - A Question of Upbringing

Marcel Proust - Remembrance of Things Past

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marquess of Anglesey - History of the British Cavalry

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers

Barbara Pym - Jane and Prudence

Andre Leon Talley - Chiffon Trenches

William Wordsworth - Collected Poems

Thomas Harding - The Maverick

Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita

Mary McCarthy - The Group

Simone De Beauvoir - The Second Sex

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jean Rhys - Voyage in the Dark

Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks

Gill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at Christmas

Jilly Cooper - How To Survive Christmas

Jane Austen - Emma

WH Auden - Rimbaud

Nick Hornby - Fever Pitch

Jilly Cooper - Wicked

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Kingsley Amis - Lucky Jim

Martin Amis - Money

Ian Herbert - Tinseltown

Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up

Jack London - White Fang

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