It's Muswell Hill for Ep 3, not far from the desks of Alan Bennett, Zadie Smith, and today’s guest Sarra Manning. Sarra is a bestselling, prolific novelist, literary editor of Red, alumni of several top teen mags and one of the most prolific readers around. She told us she got rid of 800 books before our visit, just so we could move freely around her flat. But there were tons of treasure left including a precious collection of rare Noel Streatfeilds, a copy of proto bonkbuster Lace, a gorgeous collection of vintage Chalet Schools with an origin story that will make you weep, and tales about books she’s bought, borrowed and stolen.
BOOKS
Sarra Manning - You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp
Francesca Lia Block - Weetzie Bat
Charles Creed - Maid to Measure
Ginette Spanier - It Isn't All Mink
Anne Scott-James - In The Mink
Edna Woolman Chase - Always in Vogue
Ernestine Carter - With Tongue in Chic
JD Salinger - Franny and Zooey
JD Salinger - Raise High the Roof Beam Carpenters
William Burroughs - Cities of the Red Night
Silwyn Williams - Give Me Back My Pride
Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman as Herself
EM Brent Dyer - Gay From China at the Chalet School
EM Brent Dyer - Lavender Laughs at the Chalet School
Judith Krantz - Princess Daisy
Judith Krantz - I'll Take Manhattan
Judy Blume - Are You There God It's Me Margaret
James Salter & Kay Salter - Life Is Meals
EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady
Emily St. John Mandel - Station 11
Noel Streatfeild - Myra Carrol
Marjorie Hillis - Live Alone & Like It
Janey Scott - Sara Gay Model Girl
Frederick Carter - London at Night
Francis Marshall - London West
Mary R Richardson - Laugh a Defiance
Lorna Hill - Dream of Sadlers Wells
Georgette Heyer - Regency Buck
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