It's our season finale! And we are spending it with an absolute legend. Miranda Sawyer is a brilliant and inspirational journalist, broadcaster and author. She started her career at the iconic Smash Hits and has since worked for practically every major newspaper and magazine including The Face, Select, The Guardian, The Observer and Vogue. She's the author of the books Park and Ride, Out of Time and her latest Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs. We talked to Miranda about the women of Britpop, the genius of Smash Hits, corresponding with Joan Didion and getting off with Grace Jones. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Miranda Sawyer - Uncommon People

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Jessica Stanley - Consider Yourself Kissed

Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

Jude Rogers - The Sound of Being Human

Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With the Band

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Vivien Goldman - Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz

Michael Cragg - Reach For the Stars

Craig Brown - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Oliver Burkeman - Meditations For Mortals

Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks

Patrick Freyne - Ok Lets Do Your Stupid Idea

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