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This week we're delighted to delve into the reading habits of a genuine living legend: Irvine Welsh! Irvine is an acclaimed and frequently controversial novelist, playwright, director screenwriter and short story writer. His first novel was the massively popular Trainspotting (turned into an equally popular film) and he has produced 10 more novels with the latest being The Seal Club, a collaboration with Alan Warner and John King. We talked to him about rereading, music books, the joys of a chunky read, the importance of Evelyn Waugh and how he may have inadvertently killed Waugh's son, Auberon. To learn more or donate to the charity FareShare visit FareShare.org.uk
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Irvine Welsh - Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh - Seal Club
Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles
Alan Warner - Kitchenly 434
Michel Faber - Crimson Petal and the White
Don DeLillo - Underworld
James Joyce - Ulysses
Alasdair Gray - Lanark
William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
Raven Leilani - Luster
Jenni Fagan - Luckenbooth
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
Evelyn Waugh - Men at Arms
Penelope Lively - Perfect Happiness
JT Leroy - Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
James Frey - A Million Little Pieces
James Frey - Bright Shiny Morning
F Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night
Jenni Fagan - Sunlight Pilgrims
Mark Lanegan - Sing Backwards and Weep
Cat Marnell - How To Murder Your Life
Irvine Welsh - Glue
Irvine Welsh - Marabou Stork Nightmares
Irvine Welsh - Skag Boys
Ned Beauman - Boxer Beetle
 
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This week we are honoured to be talking to the astounding author Nikita Lalwani! Nikita's first book, Gifted, was long-listed for the Booker Prize and shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and won the Desmond Elliott Prize. Her next novel The Village won the Jerwood Fiction Uncovered award. Her latest novel is the breathtaking, You People, which has been widely critically acclaimed. We talked to her about fictional secrets, the power of the single line, literary families and pretending to be Stig of the Dump.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nikita Lalwani - Gifted
Nikita Lalwani - You People
Mary Norton - Borrowers
Clive King - Stig of the Dump
Salman Rushdie - Midnight’s Children
Bharati Mukherjee - Wife
James Salter - Light Years
James Salter - Sport and a Pasttime
James Salter - Life is Meals
James Salter - Hunters
James Salter - Last Night
Doris Lessing - Stories
Maeve Brennan - Rose Garden
Mavis Gallant - Stories
Grace Paley - Stories
Doris Lessing - Winter in July
Doris Lessing - Martha Quest
Tessa Hadley - Bad Dreams
Tessa Hadley - Late in the Day
Sue Miller - Monogamy
Carol Shields - Larry’s Party
Sonia Faleiro - Good Girls
Janet Malcolm - Journalist & the Murderer
Toni Cade Bambara - Gorilla My Love
Zadie Smith - Intimations
Sinead Gleeson - Constellations
Patrick Freyne - Ok Let’s Do Your Stupid Idea
John Irving - World According To Garp
Don DeLillo - White Noise
Tillie Olsen - Tell Me a Riddle
Darcy O’Brien - A Way of Life Like Any Other
CS Lewis - Chronicles of Narnia
Arthur Ransome - Swallows & Amazons
Enid Blyton - Malory Towers
Enid Blyton - Enchanted Wood
Vivek Shanbhag - Ghachar Ghochar
Zaina Arafat - You Exist Too Much
Muriel Spark - Far Cry From Kensington
Mary Wesley - Imaginative Experience
Pamela Frankau - Wreath For the Enemy
F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
Zadie Smith - NW
Anita Brookner - Look At Me
Anita Brookner - Friend From England
Andrew O’Hagan - Mayflies
 
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This week we are snuffling around the bookshelves of comedian and author Mark Watson! Mark is a well-known face on British TV, appearing on show such as QI and Taskmaster and he's renowned as an award-winning stand-up. He's also the author of nine books including the graphic novel Dan and Sam, the non-fiction work Crap at the Environment and novels including Eleven, Hotel Alpha and his latest Contacts (which deals with issues surrounding suicide and mental health - if you're affected by this then the Samaritans are always there). We talked to him about loving Agatha Christie, bookshop positioning, reading on planes and why you should never trust a book that features a map. For details on how you can bid to be a guest on You're Booked (and win lots of lovely books) head to Books To Nourish.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Mark Watson - Contacts
Derren Brown - Happy
Derren Brown - A Little Happier
James Smythe - I Still Dream
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six
Sarah Waters - Little Stranger
Sarah Waters - Fingersmith
Agatha Christie - Murder on the Orient Express
Agatha Christie - A Murder is Announced
Richard Powers - The Overstory
Lucy Ellmann - Ducks, Newburyport
Ros Barber - Marlowe Papers
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Ann Patchett - Dutch House
Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers
EL Doctorow - Ragtime
Mohsin Hamid - How To Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia
Mohsin Hamid - Exit West
Mohsin Hamid - Reluctant Fundamentalist
George Orwell - 1984
Extinction Rebellion - This is Not a Drill
Jonathan Safran Foer - We Are The Weather
Jonathan Safran Foer - Everything is Illuminated
Daphne Du Maurier - Rule Britannia
David Nicholls - One Day
Flann O’Brien - Third Policeman
John Fowles - Magus
Flann O’Brien - At Swim Two Birds
 
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This week we are in the fine company of writer, performer and former doctor Adam Kay! Adam's first book This is Going To Hurt spent over a year at number one in the bestseller list. It became the bestselling non-fiction title of the decade, the bestselling non-fiction e-book of all time and the winner of four National Book Awards. His next three titles, Twas the Nightshift Before Christmas, Dear NHS and his new book for children Kay's Anatomy have become instant bestsellers. We talked to Adam about the therapy of reading and writing, bizarre bodily functions, funny books and why you should never read on the toilet.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Adam Kay - This is Going To Hurt
Adam Kay - Kay’s Anatomy
Adam Kay (Editor) - Dear NHS
Mark Watson - Contacts
F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
Alan Bennett - Lady in the Van
Graham Greene - Brighton Rock
Victoria Wood - Plays
Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It
Alan Partridge - I, Partridge
Alan Partridge - Nomad
Richmal Crompton - Just William
PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster
Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane
Eric Carle - Very Hungry Caterpillar
Jonathan Coe - What a Carve Up
Jonathan Coe - Middle England
Jonathan Coe - House of Sleep
Jonathan Coe - Rotter’s Club
Matthew Walker - Why We Sleep
Nina Stibbe - Love Nina
Sue Townsend. - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Norton Juster - Phantom Tollbooth
Lucy Mangan - Bookworm
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Dear Reader
Cathy Rentzenbrink- Last Act of Love
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Manual for Heartache
Nick Hornby - How To Be Good
Zadie Smith - Intimations
Zadie Smith - White Teeth
JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s Diary
 
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With around 300 million books sold in 97 countries and translated into 33 languages, who wouldn't want to know about the reading habits and writing tips of Jeffrey Archer? Since writing his first book, Not a Penny More, Not a Penny Less, in 1974, Jeffrey has written nearly 50 titles, the latest being Hidden in Plain Sight, and is the only author to have been number 1 in fiction, non-fiction and short stories. We talked to him about his favourite author, being huge in India, being disappointed by book sales and prison reading.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Jeffrey Archer - Hidden in Plain Sight
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow
Heather Morris - Tattooist of Auschwitz
Dickens - Tale of Two Cities
Dickens - Christmas Carol
Dumas - Count of Monte Cristo
Dumas - Three Musketeers
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Jeffrey Archer - Kane and Abel
Patrick Freyne - Ok Let's Do Your Stupid Idea
Jeffrey Archer - Prison Diaries
James Joyce - Finnegans Wake
Lampedusa - Leopard
Jane Austen - Emma
Agatha Christie - Poirot
Jeffrey Archer - Clifton Chronicles
PG Wodehouse - Jeeves
Alberto Moravia - Woman of Rome
Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved
Lissa Evans - V for Victory
Bill Bryson - The Body
Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
Jeffrey Archer - Paths of Glory
Elif Shafak - Three Daughters of Eve 
Stefan Sweig - Farewell to Europe
Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice
Jung Chang - Wild Swans
Richard Adams - Watership Down
CS Lewis - Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Roald Dahl - BFG
Jeffrey Archer - Not a Penny More
 
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This week we are delighted to spend some time with the author, playwright, screenwriter, performer and all-around inspiration Alex Wheatle MBE! Alex's first book was 1995's award-winning Brixton Rock and he has followed that with numerous critically acclaimed works for adults, young adults and children with the latest being Cane Warriors. We talked to Alex about the importance of music in his work, being inspired by the Beano, learning to love reading while in prison and the experience of having your life story turned into a film by the Oscar-winning Steve McQueen. You can find the Dialogue Books Black History Month reading list HERE.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Alex Wheatle - Cane Warriors
CLR James - Black Jacobins
Malcolm X - Autobiography
Alex Haley - Roots
Langston Hughes - Collected Poems
Chester Himes - Rage in Harlem
James Baldwin - Fire Next Time
Mark Twain - Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
Linton Kwesi Johnson - Selected Poems
Marcia Williams - Baby Mother
Naomi King - OPP
Karline Smith - Moss Side Massive
Courttia Newland - The Scholar
Stephen Thompson - Toy Soldiers
Peter Kalu - Lick Shot
Alex Wheatle - Brixton Rock
Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
EA Ritter - Shaka Zulu
Alex Wheatle - Liccle Bit 
Alex Wheatle - Crongton Knights
Danielle Jawando - And The Stars Were Burning Brightly
Raymond Chandler - Big Sleep
Colleen McCullough - Thorn Birds
Vivien M Goldman - Book of Exodus
Marlon James - Brief History of 7 Killings
Timothy White - Catch a Fire
Steve McQueen - Small Axe
Patrice Lawrence - Eight Pieces of Silva
 
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