This week we are heading to beautiful Birmingham and visiting the home of politician, author and feminist superstar Jess Phillips! Jess is the MP for Birmingham Yardley, previously worked for Women's Aid and continues to campaign for equality and recognition on a vast array of issues. She's also the author of two books: Everywoman: One Woman’s Truth About Speaking the Truth and Truth to Power: 7 Ways to Call Time on B.S. We talked to Jess about her adoration of Sue Townsend, misleading English lessons and the problems connected to buying books in the middle of the night.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood
Jess Phillips - Everywoman
Jess Phillips - Truth to Power
Douglas Coupland - All Families Are Psychotic
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Margaret Atwood - The Testaments
Margaret Atwood - The Handmaid’s Tale
Aldous Huxley - Brave New World
Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I
George Orwell - 1984
Roald Dahl - The Twits
Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World
Roald Dahl - The Giraffe and the Pelly and Me
Roald Dahl - Boy
Roald Dahl - George’s Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl - Matilda
Roald Dahl - Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Philip Pullman - Amber Spyglass
L. Frank Baum - The Wizard of Oz
PL Travers - Mary Poppins
Judy Blume - Forever
Judy Blume - Starring Sally J Freedman As Herself
Salman Rushdie - Satanic Verses
Madonna - Sex
DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover
Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Urbervilles
Ada Calhoun - Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman
John Le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Le Carre - Constant Gardener
Sally Rooney - Normal People
Caitlin Moran - How To Be Famous
Anna Hope - Expectation
Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners
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