We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' folder, the importance of showing up for work, the power of the Famous Five, inspirational re-reads and the happiness experienced when a character's voice returns to you. 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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré - And So I Roar

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

James Patterson - Roses Are Red

John Grisham - The Rainmaker

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Tara Westover - Educated

Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

Safiya Sinclair - How To Say Babylon

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

William Boyd - Mirror and the Road

William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Charmaine Wilkerson - Good Dirt

Foluso Agbaje - Parlour Wife

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This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Temperance book, Deja Dead, won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Many other novels followed including Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Monday Mourning and many more. She also co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her latest thriller is Fire and Bones. Kathy also produced and wrote the hit TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. We talked to her about the mystery of the mobile library, the joy of audio books and the best forensic science books for kids! 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

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Kathy Reichs - Fire and Bones

Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead

Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

Michael Connelly - Desert Star

Karin Slaughter - Pieces of Her

Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

Kathy Reichs - Virals

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Michael Connelly - Concrete Blond

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Douglas P. Lyle - Forensics For Dummies

Chris Cooper - Forensic Science

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

HA Rey - Curious George

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem

Erik Larson - Devil in the White City

Erik Larson - Isaac's Strom

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Brene Brown - Daring Greatly

Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

Jacqueline Winspear - The Comfort of Ghosts

Alex Finlay - The Night Shift

Joseph Finder - Oligarch's Daughter

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This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive book collecting, Kurt Vonnegut's library, the importance of art and what to say when you meet Patti Smith. 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...

BOOKS

Robin Ince - Bibliomaniac

Rosie Dixon - Confessions from a Package Tour

Rosie Dixon - Confessions of a Physical WRAC

Jeremy Cooper - Brian

Geoff Dyer - Zona

Geoff Dyer - Colour of Memory

Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

Geoff Dyer - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

Various - For Ian Charleson: A Tribute

Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden

Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography

Margaret Rutherford - A Blithe Spirit

Robert Helpmann - Album

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

William Hughes - Performance

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Wintering

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Sinead O Connor - Rememberings

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Miranda Seymour - Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys - Letters

Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova - Dolls Alphabet

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Lewis Hancox - Welcome To St Hell

Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

Natasha Walter - Before the Light Fades

The Cut - Assisted Suicide...

Miranda July - All Fours

Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women

Natalie Haynes - Divine Might

Sam Hunter - Robert Rauschenberg

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

John Updike - More Matter

William Burroughs - Junky

Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero - Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Martin Ed Myrone - Gothic Reader

Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Sinead Gleason & Kim Gordon - This Woman's Work

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Arundhati Roy - AZADI

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

John Hegley - New & Selected Potatoes

John Le Carre - Letters

Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds

Polly Barton - Porn

Ronan Hession - Leonard & Hungry Paul

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Edna O'Brien - Country Girls

Claire Keegan - Foster

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