You're Booked Daisy Buchanan

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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