You're Booked Daisy Buchanan

This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Ericka Waller - Dog Days
Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive
V. V. Ganeshananthan - Brotherless Night
Ann Morgan - Reading the World
Kristin Hannah - The Women
Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost
Sarah Moss - The Good Bright Wolf
Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen - Matchstick Girl
Joanna Quinn - Whalebone Theatre
Michelle Magorian - Back Home
Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song
Tayari Jones - An American Marriage
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Eva Ibbotson - Journey To the River Sea
Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers
Ruth Coker Burks - All the Young Men
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin - Logical Family
Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars
Jerry Zucker - True Story of Airplane!
Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather
Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends
Maeve Binchy - Evening Class
Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey
Colm Toibin - Brooklyn
Colm Toibin - Long Island
Tommy Cooper - Joke Book
John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines
EL James - 50 Shades of Grey
Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
Melissa Broder - The Pisces
Crystal Jeans - The Inverts
Paullina Simons - Bronze Horseman
Paullina Simons - Girl in Times Square
Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake
Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nathan Hill - Wellness
Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons Dangereuse
Philippe Djian - Betty Blue
Penelope Douglas - Bully
LJ Shen - Hunter
Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong
Ali Hazelwood - Love Hypothesis
Sally Thorne - Hating Game
Lindsey Kelk - Love Story
Emily Henry - Beach Read
Casey McQuiston - Red White and Royal Blue
Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land
Anthony Doerr - All The Light...
Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had
Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was
Catherine Newman - We All Want...
Tish Delaney - Before My Actual Heart Breaks
Miriam Toews - Fight Night
Mhairi McFarlane - Between Us
Jane Green - Jemima J
Freya North - Sally
Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary
Louise Beech - Lion Tamer Who Lost
Emma Jane Kirby - Optician of Lampedusa
Harriet F Townson - D is for Death
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Brianna Labuskes - Librarian of Burned Books
Liz Hyder - The Illusions
Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea

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Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.
Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...
BOOKS
Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl
Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober
Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca
Augusten Burroughs - Dry
Sarah Hepola - Blackout
Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness
Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted
Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik
The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even
Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides
Catherine Newman - Sandwich
Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Kiley Reid - Come and Get it
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Jane Austen - Emma
Nikki May - Wahala
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia
Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight
Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City
Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife
David Sedaris - The Best of Me
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit
Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean
Clare Keegan - Foster
Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman
Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name
Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

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Here's a bonus treat! And what a treat! To celebrate the release of Daisy's brand new book Pity Party, here's a very special live edition of You're Booked recorded at the glorious Bath Assembly Halls. Three returning champions - Nikki May, AJ Pearce and Andrew Hunter Murray - talk about their favourite Persephone Books in front of an audience of rabid Persephone fans, at the recent Persephone Festival, celebrating 25 years of the UK's premier publishing house. Each author picked and discussed their Persephone faves, plus other Persephones they love, consider the books they'd love to reissue and reveal the influence that authors such as Dorothy Whipple, RC Sherriff, Winifred Watson and DE Stevenson have had on their writing. Be warned - this episode will add many tomes to your TBR pile.
Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...
BOOKS
Nikki May - Wahala
Nikki May - This Motherless Land
AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird
AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully
AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling
Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering
Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book
RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
RC Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript
Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada
Dorothy Whipple - Somewhere at a Distance
Andy McNabb - Bravo Two Zero
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles
DE Stevenson - The Two Mrs Abbots
Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary
RC Sherriff - Greengates
RC Sherriff - Journey's End
Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Live in a Barn
E Nesbit - The Lark
Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song
Dorothy Whipple - Short Stories
RF Kuang - Yellowface
Percival Everett - Erasure
Marghanita Laski - To Bed With Grand Music
Rachel Ferguson - Alas Poor Lady
Vere Hodgson - Few Eggs and No Oranges
Mollie Panter-Downes - War Notes
Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married
Monica Dickens - Marianna
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout
PD James - Children of Men
Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening Mrs Craven
Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight
Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks
Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Pauline Burgess - Pony Party
Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana
Emily St John Mandel - Station 11
Virginia Graham - Consider the Years
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake
Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne
Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters

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The series 15 litany of legends continues with the man commonly known as Dr Buckles - yes, it's Adam Buxton! As you are all aware, Adam is a writer, comedian, massively successful podcast host, Bowie aficionado and the author of the bestselling memoir Ramble Book (with the sequel on its way - as you will hear). He's also responsible for You're Booked, as the podcast was 'inspired' by the Vinyl Justice segment of The Adam and Joe Show. We talked to him about Bowie book choices, trying to sleep with Edgar Allen Poe, funny books and saucy dreams involving June Whitfield. Find a full list of the books Adam mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Adam Buxton - Ramble Book
Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose
Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander
Roger Hargreaves - Mister Men
Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree
CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe
Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Major P R Reid - Colditz
MR James - Ghost Stories
Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat
Edgar Allen Poe - Pit and the Pendulum
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge
Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse
JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye
David Bowie's Top 100 Favourite Books
Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders
Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death
George Orwell - 1984
Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita
Colin Wilson - The Outsider
Nik Cohn -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum - I Want My MTV
Zadie Smith - Feel Free
Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities
Frederick Douglass - Narrative of Frederick Douglass
Bayard Rustin - Time on Two Crosses
Michel De Montaigne - Complete Essays
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
R.C. Sherriff - Fortnight in September
DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book
Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley - Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim
Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader
Steve Martin - Born Standing Up
Tim Key - He Used Thought For a Wife
Tim Key - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush
Daniil Kharms - Russian Absurd
Julian Fellowes - Snobs
Susan Sontag - On Photography
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Benjamin Moser - Sontag
Judith Schalansky - An Inventory of Losses
Sloan Crossley - Grief is for People
Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop

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Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.
BOOKS
Irenosen Okojie - Curandera
Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch
Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
June Jordan - Essential
Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In
Sylvia Plath - Collected
Katherine May - Wintering
Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am
Sinead Gleason - Hagstone
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Lauren Groff - Matrix
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Jackie Collins - The Stud
Maggie Nelson - Bluets
Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
David Nicholls - Us
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
Laline Paull - Pod
Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent
Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son
Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby
Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You
Deborah Levy - Black Vodka
Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Leone Ross - This One Sky Day
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Tawseef Khan - Determination
Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell

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This week we're delighted to share a conversation with an absolute legend, the punk singer, writer, artist, activist and all-around inspiration Kathleen Hanna! Kathleen is the iconic front-woman of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre and the inspiration behind of the clothing company tees4togo which benefits the Peace Sisters charity. Kathleen has just released her memoir Rebel Girl which became an instant New York Times bestseller. We talked to her about the brilliance of Viv Albertine, the genius of Gabor Maté and the formative influence of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile. Find a full list of the books Fearne mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.
BOOKS
Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys
Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened
Tiffany Haddish - The Last Black Unicorn
Chris L. Terry & James Spooner (Editors) - Black Punk Now
Jeffrey Gibson (Editor) - An Indigenous Present
Sarah Schulman - Conflict is Not Abuse
Sarah Hoagland - Lesbian Ethics
Ann Morgan - Reading the World
Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal
Stephanie Foo - What My Bones Know
Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things
ANN M Martin - Babysitter's Club
Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High
Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret
Bernard Waber - Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile
Don Freeman - Corduroy
Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy
Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective
Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew
Roger Steffens - So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley
Arthur Ashe - Days of Grace
Sarah Royal - A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball
Tina Turner - My Love Story
Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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