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Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of YA, her favourite authors and the person who gives her the best reading recommendations. Limelight is out now in paperback - signed copies can be ordered and shipped nationwide from The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about all the books Kezia mentioned at our shop on Bookshop.org.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightDonna Tartt - Secret HistoryEmily Henry - Beach ReadEmily Henry - Happy PlaceClaire Daverley - Talking at NightAnnie Lord - Notes on HeartbreakStephenie Meyer - TwilightPatrick Ness - The Knife of Never Letting GoBeth O'Leary - The Flat ShareDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableLisa Taddeo - AnimalNancy Mitford - The Pursuit of LoveLauren Bravo - PrelovedDodie Smith - I Capture the CastleAnnie MacManus - The Mess We're InDarren Coffield - Tales From the Colony RoomHanya Yanagihara - A Little LifeAM Homes - May We Be ForgivenAM Homes - This Book Will Save Your LifeSue Miller - MonogamyClaire Powell - At the TableEmma Jane Unsworth - AnimalsAndy Hussey, Rosie Venner -There's No Deer Around HereAndy Hussey, Rosie Venner - Any Trout About?Peter Bently - The Great Dog Bottom SwapNora Ephron - HeartburnNick Hornby - High FidelityCatherine Newman - We All Want Impossible ThingsAbigail Bergstrom - What a Shame Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, romance and football.More information about Daisy's Limelight launch at The Yard is HERE! Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSJilly Cooper - TackleJilly Cooper - RivalsJilly Cooper - How To Stay MarriedJilly Cooper - Imogen Jilly Cooper - HarrietDaisy Buchanan - CareeringGeorgette Heyer - Devil's CubJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceNancy Mitford - Pursuit of LoveBarbara Pym - Excellent WomenFederico Garcia Lorca - Selected PoemsGeorge Crabbe - Collected PoemsJilly Cooper - MountRichard Osman - Thursday Murder ClubGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchWalter Emanuel - A Dog DayBeatrix Potter - Tale of Mr Jeremy FisherBeatrix Potter - Tailor of GloucesterBeatrix Potter - Peter RabbitBeatrix Potter - Tom KittenRudyard Kipling - Just So StoriesRudyard Kipling - Cat That Walked by HimselfAnna Sewell - Black BeautyWilliam Boyd - Any Human HeartEM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial LadyAnthony Powell - A Question of UpbringingMarcel Proust - Remembrance of Things PastDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableMarquess of Anglesey - History of the British CavalryJilly Cooper - RidersJilly Cooper - Between the CoversBarbara Pym - Jane and PrudenceAndre Leon Talley - Chiffon TrenchesWilliam Wordsworth - Collected PoemsThomas Harding - The MaverickVladimir Nabokov - LolitaMary McCarthy - The GroupSimone De Beauvoir - The Second SexDiana Athill - StetJean Rhys - Wide Sargasso SeaJean Rhys - Good Morning MidnightJean Rhys - Voyage in the DarkKatherine May - Electricity of Every Living ThingGill Sims - Why Mummy DrinksGill Sims - Why Mummy Drinks at ChristmasJilly Cooper - How To Survive ChristmasJane Austen - EmmaWH Auden - RimbaudNick Hornby - Fever PitchJilly Cooper - WickedElizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet ChroniclesKingsley Amis - Lucky JimMartin Amis - MoneyIan Herbert - TinseltownDaisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown UpJack London - White Fang Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

We are back at this year's Margate Bookie for a fun, frank and freewheeling conversation with three brilliant authors: Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay! Lucy Vine is a journalist and author of five novels including Hot Mess, Are We Nearly There Yet, What Fresh Hell, Bad Choices and her latest, the critically acclaimed Seven Exes. Yomi Adegoke is a journalist, podcaster and author, co-writing Slay in Your Lane with Elizabeth Uviebinené before releasing the bestselling, critically lauded novel The List. Laura Kay is a journalist and author of the much-loved novels Tell Me Everything, The Split and her latest Wild Things. We talked to them about alternative romance, star signs, writing routines, favourite reads and the genius of Sophie Kinsella.Katie Clapham's book recommendation Substack is HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightLucy Vine - Seven ExesYomi Adegoke - The ListLaura Kay - Wild ThingsLaura Kay - Tell Me EverythingMalinda Lo - Last Night at the Telegraph ClubJodie Chapman - Oh SisterHarriet Gibsone - Is This OkRebecca F Kuang - YellowfaceLisa Jewell - The Family UpstairsBess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But MeYomi Adegoke and Elizabeth Uvibene - Slay in Your LaneKate Young - ExperiencedKate Young - The Little Library CookbookLucy Vine - Date With DestinyMargaret Atwood - The Handmaid's TaleJilly Cooper - RivalsDanielle Steele - JewelsJackie Collins - The World is Full of Married MenLisa Jewell - Ralph's PartySophie Kinsella - The Secret Dreamworld of a ShopaholicMarian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona, Homesick For Another World, Death in Her Hands and McGlue. Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill Dick will be released in 2024. Together Ottessa and Luke wrote the screenplay for the film Causeway and have now collaborated on an adaptation of Ottessa's acclaimed novel Eileen, which is released in cinemas on December 1st. We talked to them about formative reads, phoning Ken Kesey, aliens and Metallica.Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightOttessa Moshfegh - EileenOttessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and RelaxationOttessa Moshfegh - Homesick For Another WorldLuke Goebel - Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are YoursElfriede Jelinek - The Piano TeacherJoAnna Novak - Contradiction DaysBret Easton Ellis - American PsychoBret Easton Ellis - The ShardsBen Ehrenreich - The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in PalestineGuy de Maupassant - The Necklace and Other StoriesRosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the WaltzKen Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestLawrence Ferlinghetti - Pictures of a Gone WorldDiane di Prima - Selected PoemsRoss Gay - Book of DelightsAbbott Kahler - Where You EndMargery Higdon - Alien Abduction of The Wyoming HunterWhitley Strieber - CommunionSimone de Beauvoir - The Second SexEdith Wharton - House of MirthHenry James - Portrait of a Lady Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's two returning champs this week as we present the brilliant and hilarious Lou Sanders and Andi Osho live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie literary festival. Lou and Andi are both stand-ups and both supreme authors. Lou recently published her memoir What's That Lady Doing? to widespread acclaim. Andi has published two celebrated novels: Tough Crowd and Asking for a Friend. In this frank, funny and freewheeling conversation Lou and Andi discuss romance, the fear of death (onstage), ice-skating, unfortunate text message mishaps, youthful indiscretions with towels and what makes them laugh.Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Get you hands on Helen Shaddock's lovely 2024 calendars by visiting http://www.helenshaddock.co.uk/. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightLou Sanders - What's That Lady Doing?Andi Osho - Tough CrowdAndi Osho - Asking For a FriendCurtis Sittenfeld - Romantic ComedyDolly Alderton - Good MaterialBarbara Payton - I am Not AshamedJada Pinkett Smith - WorthyMargaret Atwood - Cat's EyeWIll Smith - WillElizabeth Gilbert - Big MagicRosie Wilby - Breakup Monologues Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything, On Fire, No Is Not Enough, This Changes Everything, The Shock Doctrine and No Logo. Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World. We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry to add some delight to your life. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSNaomi Klein - No LogoNaomi Klein - DopplegangerDeborah Levy - August BlueOtto Rank - The DoubleSigmund Freud - The UncannyFrancine Pascal - Sweet Valley HighJames Baldwin - The Fire Next TimePhilip Roth - Portnoy's ComplaintPhilip Roth - Goodbye ColumbusPhilip Roth - Professor of DesireThomas Gordon - Parent Effectiveness TrainingJoseph Heller - Catch 22Bret Easton Ellis - American PsychoArmistead Maupin - Tales of the CityJohn Updike - CouplesNaomi Klein - Shock DoctrineEddie Glaude - James Baldwin: To Begin AgainZadie Smith - Feel FreePhilip Roth - Operation ShylockGraham Greene - Collected EssaysLisa Jones - Bulletproof DivaNora Ephron - Crazy SaladNora Ephron - Scribble ScribbleNora Ephron - Wallflower at the OrgyOriana Fallaci - Interviews with History and PowerMolly Ivins - Shrub: The Short But Happy Political Life of George W. BushNina Stibbe - Went to London Took the DogSusan Mulcahy - My Lips are SealedEduardo Galeano - Open Veins of Latin AmericanYomi Adegoke - The ListYomi Adegoke & Elizabeth Uviebinene - Slay in Your LaneMarge Piercy - Made in DetroitSusan Griffin - Bending HomeMaya Angelou - The Complete PoetryJorie Graham - To 2040Ross Gay - The Book of DelightsKyo Maclear - Birds Art LifeKyo Maclear - UnearthingBarbara Kingsolver - Demon CopperheadKatrina Diamond - The SilenceAdania Shibli - Minor Detail Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our 150th episode! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise. We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightIan Rankin - The RiseMuriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean BrodieMuriel Spark - Hothouse by the East RiverAlain Robbe-Grillet - Last Year at MarienbadMuriel Spark - The Drivers SeatMuriel Spark - Girls of Slender MeansMuriel Spark - Loitering With IntentReginald Hill - Asking Fo the MoonGillian Flynn - Gone GirlRobert Louis Stevenson - Dr Jekyll and Mr HydeAnbara Salam - Hazardous SpiritsEvelyn Waugh - Vile BodiesMuriel Spark - The BachelorsArthur Conan Doyle - Complete Sherlock HolmesJames Hogg - The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified SinnerAnthony Burgess - A Clockwork OrangeJoseph Heller - Catch 22Mario Puzo - The GodfatherKen Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestRobin Moore - The French ConnectionWilliam Peter Blatty - The ExorcistDorothy Whipple - Someone at a DistanceIan Rankin - The FloodIan Rankin - Knots and CrossesIan Rankin - WatchmanGraham Greene - Human FactorIan Rankin - WestwindMichael Connelly - Desert StarJames Ellroy - LA ConfedentialLawrence Block - A Drop of the Hard StuffWilliam McIlvanney - LaidlawDenise Mina - The Long DropAnita Nair - Cut Like WoundThomas Pynchon - Short StoriesStieg Larsson - Girl with the Dragon TattooHenning Mankell - Faceless KillersJo Nesbo - The SnowmanHanya Yanagihara - A Little LifeAlasdair Gray - Poor ThingsAlasdair Gray - LanarkJohn Niven - Oh BrotherJilly Cooper - Tackle Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week on You're Booked we're talking to the hugely acclaimed, bestselling author Lauren Groff! Lauren is our favourite type of guest - a massive, voracious and indiscriminate reader. Lauren is the three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia, Fates and Furies and Matrix plus the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida. Her latest book is the amazing The Vaster Wilds. We talked to her about inappropriate early (caveman) reads, the joy of a huge book, Shakespeare's suckiest plays and reading poetry to your dog. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSDaisy Buchanan - LimelightLauren Groff - The Vaster WildsLauren Groff - Fates and FuriesLauren Groff - MatrixLeo Tolstoy - War and PeaceGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchMargaret Mitchell - Gone with the WindCharlotte Bronte - Jane EyreJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceElse Holmelund Minarik - Little BearJean M. Auel - Clan of the Cave BearPhilip Roth - Portnoy's ComplaintAesop - FablesFrancoise Sagan - Bonjour TristesseEM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial LadyKatherine May - WinteringKatherine May - Electricity of Every Living ThingVasily Grossman - Life and FateCervantes - Don QuixoteJen Beagin - Big SwissHerman Melville - Moby DickJon Fosse - SeptologyLucy Ellmann - Ducks NewburyportZadie Smith - On BeautyZadie Smith - NWZadie Smith - Changing My MindDavid Foster Wallace - Infinite JestMonica Heisey - Really Good ActuallyJulia Whelan - My Oxford YearJulia Whelan - Thank You For ListeningEmily Dickinson - Collected PoemsKaveh Akbar - Pilgrim BellKaveh Akbar - MartyrAda Limon - The CarryingHomer / Emily Wilson - IliadHomer / Emily Wilson - The OdysseyShakespeare - Romeo and JulietShakespeare - HamletShakespeare - Richard IIIShakespeare - PericlesKatherine Heiny - Single Carefree MellowRachel Cusk - OutlineChristopher Isherwood - Berlin StoriesSean DeLear - I Could Not Believe ItJenny Erpenbeck - KairosDon DeLillo - LibraDon DeLillo - White NoiseDon DeLillo - Underworld Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are delighted to welcome the broadcaster, academic and bestselling author Emma Dabiri to You're Booked. Emma is the author of Don't Touch My Hair, What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition and her latest book Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty, that accompanies The Cult of Beauty, a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection. We talked to Emma about fashion inspiration in Anne of Green Gables, the philosophy of beauty, the genius of Toni Morrison and E Nesbit being the gateway to a lifelong love of books.Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSEmma Dabiri - Disobedient BodiesEmma Dabiri - Don't Touch My HairEmma Dabiri - What White People Can Do NextE Nesbit - Five Children and ItMarge Piercy - Woman on the Edge of TimeFred Moten and Stefano Harney - The UndercommonsR. F. Kuang - YellowfaceTracy King - Learning to ThinkCarl Sagan - CosmosZadie Smith - Changing My MindElizabeth Grosz - The Nick of TimeFriedrich Nietzsche - Thus Spoke ZarathustraGaye Theresa Johnson and Alex Lubin (Eds) - Futures of Black RadicalismFélix Guattari and Gilles Deleuze - A Thousand PlateausMark Fisher - Capitalist RealismKatherine May - Electricity of Every Living ThingShaparak Khorsandi - Scatter BrainAnn Patchett - Tom LakeToni Morrison - Song of SolomonToni Morrison - ParadiseToni Morrison - Bluest EyeOliver Burkeman - 4000 WeeksToni Morrison - Paris Review InterviewDaisy Buchanan - LimelightJudith Watt (ed) - Penguin Book of 20th Century Fashion WritingStella Gibbons - Cold Comfort Farm Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead, turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead. We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Blyton about her characters' toilet habits!Daisy will be at the Margate Bookie at the end of October with former podcast guests Lou Sanders, Andi Osho, Yomi Adegoke, Lucy Vine and many more. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:  FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/bookedBOOKSPeter James - Stop them DeadDaisy Buchanan - LimelightRL Stine - GoosebumpsRoald Dahl - The TwitsEnid Blyton - Five on a Treasure IslandPeter James - Dead Letter DropElizabeth Buchan - The New Mrs CliftonGraham Greene - Brighton RockKurt Vonnegut - Slaughterhouse FiveElspeth Barker - O CaledoniaDodie Smith - I Capture the CastleShirley Jackson - We Have Always Lived in the CastleSylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly WillowesJohn Marrs - The OneMW Craven - The BotanistJilly Cooper - TackleHenry Williamson - Tarka the OttterAnna Sewell - Black BeautyKenneth Grahame - Wind in the WillowsStuart McBride - The Dead of WinterThomas Harris - Silence of the LambsPeter James - Dead SimpleNatalie Tambini - The Nail SalonNatalie Tambini - The PublicistRutger Bregman - HumankindWilliam Golding - Lord of the FliesE Nesbit - The LarkE Nesbit - Five Children and It Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.