While we're taking a little break, we're sharing some of our favourite episodes from previous series. This week, it's the amazing stand-up, author, actor and all around inspiration Sara Pascoe! Sara is one of the most heralded comedians working today and the immensely talented author of the books Animal, Sex Power Money and the novel Weirdo. We talked to her about reading habits during quarantine (the episode was recorded during lockdown), big lies involving hamsters, unspeakable acts committed against libraries and the saddest book she has ever read. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Sara Pascoe - Animal

Sara Pascoe - Sex Money Power

Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Anbara Salam - Belladonna

Hilary Mantel - The Mirror and the Light

Lynne Reid Banks - I Houdini

Kathy Reichs - The Bone Collection

Robert Sapolsky - Behave

Harriet Beecher Stowe - Uncle Tom’s Cabin

Jeanine Cummins - American Dirt

DH Lawrence - Lady Chatterley’s Lover

Kate Elizabeth Russell - My Dark Vanessa

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

Alissa Nutting - Tampa

Sally Rooney - Normal People

Graham Greene - End of the Affair

Andrew Sean Greer - Less

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Dodie Smith - I Capture The Castle

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

Jackie Collins - The Stud

JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

George Orwell - Keep The Aspidistra Flying

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

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While we take a little break, we're sharing just a few of our favourite ever episodes from the archives. This week we're with the author who has probably been discussed on the show more than any other and one of our favourite writers of all time - the legendary Marian Keyes! Marian is one of the most successful Irish novelists of all time, selling over 30 million books in 33 different languages. When we chatted to Marian, she was about to release the brilliant, chart-topping Grown Ups. Since then we've seen a sequel to Rachel's Holiday, Again Rachel and her latest My Favourite Mistake. We talked to Marian about the pleasures of reading, the joys of Jilly Cooper, why she's craving fictional glamour and struggling with Jane Austen. And as this episode was released on the week Daisy's novel Insatiable was launched, there's a bonus, exclusive (and steamy!) clip from the audiobook. Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Eva Ibbotson - Secret Countess

Marian Keyes - Grown Ups

Marian Keyes - The Break

Margaret Mitchell - Gone With the Wind

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Joseph Heller - Catch 22

Jilly Cooper - Octavia

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Man Who Made Husbands Jealous

Jilly Cooper - Polo

Shirley Conran - Lace

Fiona Walker - French Relations

Raven Leilani - Luster

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman Is in Trouble

Elinor Lipman - Good Riiddance

Elinor Lipman - On Turpentine Lane

Laurie Graham - Ten O’Clock Horses

Glennon Doyle - Untamed

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the 6

Eve Babitz - Slow Days Fast Company

Eve Babitz - Eve’s Hollywood

Barbara Trapido - Travelling Hornplayer

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Lee Tulloch - Fabulous Nobodies

Barbara Vine - Fatal Inversion

Tana French - In the Woods

Tana French - The Likeness

Jane Harper - The Dry

Tana French - The Searcher

Debra Dean - Madonnas of Leningrad

Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Lily King - Writers and Lovers

Lily King - Euphoria

Naoise Dolan - Exciting Times

Charlotte Wood - The Weekend

Bernardine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other

Ann Cleeves - Telling Tales

Philippa Gregory - Dark Tides

Frances Cha - If I Had Your Face

Louise O’Neill - After the Silence

Sarah Hilary - Fragile

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We're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout. We talked to Sophie about PG Wodehouse, Jilly Cooper, sex, jokes, bums and why she ended up buying four copies of Donna Tartt’s The Goldfinch. (And, as you'll hear, it was our first introduction to the brilliant (and later YB guest) Katherine Heiny! Find a full list of the books Sophie mentioned at our Bookshop.Org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and read an exclusive extract from the book at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Sophie Kinsella - I Owe You One

Norman Hunter - The Dribblesome Teapots

Dorothy Edwards - My Naughty Little Sister

Beverly Cleary - Ramona

Nick Hornby - High Fidelity

PG Wodehouse - The Code of the Woosters

PG Wodehouse - Blandings

Sophie Kinsella - Undomesticated Goddess

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Jilly Cooper - Imogen

Jilly Cooper - Harriet

Jilly Cooper - Riders

Shirley Conran - Lace

Sophie Kinsella - Can You Keep a Secret

Donna Tartt - The Goldfinch

JG Links - Venice For Pleasure

Leila Slimani - Adele

George & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody

EM Delafield - Diary of a Provincial Lady

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Phillip Pullman - Northern Lights

Michael Grant - Gone

EF Benson - Mapp and Lucia

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Sarra Manning - Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Lilly Singh - How To Be a Bawse

Dave Eggers - The Circle

Sophie Kinsella - Finding Audrey

Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - White Boots

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