We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, disaster reading, the importance of pretension and reading the Ikea catalogue for fun. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things
Catherine Newman - Sandwich
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time
Laurie Colwin - Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object
Nora Ephron - Most of Nora Ephron
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods
Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy
Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby
Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good...
Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea
Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase
Madeleine L'engle - Wrinkle in Time
Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach
Anne Lamott - Almost Everything
JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School
William Golding - Lord of the Flies
Arthur Ramsome - Swallows and Amazons
E Nesbit - The Lark
Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song
Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom
Eva Ibbotson - Dragonfly Pool
Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea
Roald Dahl - Henry Sugar
Miye Lee - DallerGut Dream Department Store
Stephen King - Carrie
Stephen King - The Shining
Lily King - Writers & Lovers
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog
Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You
James Joyce - Ulysses
Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being
Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths
Italio Calvino - If On a Winter's Night...
Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Ann Patchett - State of Wonder
Carol Shields - Larry's Party
Sue Miller - Monogamy
Tessa Hadley - After the Funeral
Tessa Hadley - Free Love
Miriam Toews - Fight Night
Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows
Alison Espach - The Wedding People
Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back
Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking
Rufi Thorpe - Margo's Got Money Troubles
Rufi Thorpe - The Knockout Queen
Nussaibah Younis - Fundamentally
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