You are in for a treat! As stated during the show, this week's guest is the 'platonic ideal of a You're Booked guest'. Lucy Easthope is one of the UK's leading authorities on emergency planning, a Professor in Practice of Risk and Hazard, co-founder of the After Disaster Network and has advised on nearly every major disaster of the past two decades, including 9/11, the 7/7 bombings, Grenfell and the Covid-19 pandemic. Her book When the Dust Settles is a Sunday Times bestseller and a BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week. As well as taking the reader behind the scenes of disaster planning and reaction, it's also a funny and painfully moving memoir about Lucy's life. And, as you'll hear, Lucy is an absolute delight to spend some time with. Everything from Judy Blume to Louise Bagshawe are discussed, via Charles Dickens, Willy Russell, Caitlin Moran and the disaster management credentials of Enid Blyton. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Lucy Easthope - When the Dust Settles
Alan Cumming - Baggage
Minnie Driver - Managing Expectations
Gavin Francis - Recovery
Jasper Rees - Victoria Wood: Let's Do It
Myleene Klass - They Don't Teach This at School
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Girl
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Francis Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess
Judy Blume - Forever
Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Great Expectations
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Enid Blyton - Famous Five
Enid Blyton - Secret Seven
Enid Blyton - Brer Rabbit
Brian Jacques - Redwall
Willy Russell - Our Day Out
Willy Russell - Blood Brothers
Judy Blume - Tiger Eyes
Beverly Cleary - Ramona
Elizabeth Laird - Red Sky in the Morning
Patricia Cornwell - From Potter's Field
Jane Austen - Collected Works
Jacqueline Wilson - The Story of Tracey Beaker
Francesca Simon - Horrid Henry
Jane Fallon - Just Got Real
Melanie Rice - Pompeii: the Day a City Was Buried
Ian Schott - World Famous Dictators
Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I
Daisy Buchanan - Burn Before Reading
Sheryl Sandberg - Lean In
Sheryl Sandberg - Option B
Jade Goody - Forever in My Heart
Ilan Kelman - Disaster By Choice
Samantha Montano - Disasterology
Gill Kernick - Catastrophe and Systemic Change
Cathy Rentzenbrink - Write It All Down
Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls
Maeve Binchy - Collection
Cathy Rentzenbrink - A Manual For Heartache
Val McDermid - Christmas is Murder
Andrew Doig - This Mortal Coil
Richard E Grant - A Pocketful of Happiness
Matthew Perry - Friends, Lovers and the Big Terrible Thing
Alan Rickman - Diaries
Anna Kent - Frontline Midwife
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