Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... 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
Irenosen Okojie - Curandera
Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch
Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban
June Jordan - Essential
Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In
Sylvia Plath - Collected
Katherine May - Wintering
Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am
Sinead Gleason - Hagstone
Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye
Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River
Lauren Groff - Matrix
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Jackie Collins - The Stud
Maggie Nelson - Bluets
Maggie Nelson - Argonauts
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
David Nicholls - Us
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
Laline Paull - Pod
Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet
Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent
Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son
Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby
Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl
Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower
Octavia Butler - Wild Seed
Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You
Deborah Levy - Black Vodka
Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost
Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway
Leone Ross - This One Sky Day
Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son
Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train
J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime
Raymond Carver - Cathedral
Tawseef Khan - Determination
Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell
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