We're back! And we can't think of a better way to kick off the new series than a fascinating conversation with one of our favourite authors: Tessa Hadley! Tessa's books are constantly being discussed on the podcast so it's an absolute honour to finally have her on the show. And what a treat it was! Tessa discusses formative children's books, being shocked by John Updike, possessing a fear of fairy tales and why every teenager needs to read Jane Eyre. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org.

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden

Nell Dunn - Up the Junction

Jonathon Green - Days in the Life

Elizabeth Bowen - House in Paris

George Eliot - Mill on the Floss

Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Lived in the Barn

Lois Lenski - Papa Small

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Oscar Wilde - Happy Prince

Eve Garnett - Family at One End Street

Elena Ferrante - Story of a New Name

Alice Munro - Open Secrets

Jean Plaidy - Murder Most Royal

Rumer Godden - The Greengage Summer

Pamela Frankau - Wreath for the Enemy

Jane Gardam - Summer After the funeral

Jane Gardam - Long Way from Verona

Virginia Woolf - Diaries

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jane Austen - Persuasion

John Updike - Couples

James Joyce - Ulysses

Grace Metallous - Peyton Place

Katy Wix - Delicacy

Cyra McFadden - The Serial

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Hilary Mantel - Beyond Black

Hilary Mantel - Giving Up the Ghost

Gwendoline Riley - My Phantoms

Claire Louise Bennett - Pond

Philippa Pearce - Tom's Midnight Garden

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Frances Hodgson Burnett - A Little Princess

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Henry James - Wings of the Dove

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Charlotte Bronte - Villette

Jane Austen - Emma

Elizabeth Taylor - A Wreath of Roses

TJ Clark - If These Apples Should Fall

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