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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This week on the podcast, we visit the home of one of our favourite authors and favourite people, the brilliant Ericka Waller! Ericka is an award-winning columnist and the author of the acclaimed novels Dogs Days and Goodbye Birdie Greenwing. And, as you will hear, she is a voracious reader. We talked to her about filthy books, snacks in kids books and the genius of John Shuttleworth. Find out more about the books Ericka mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Order Daisy's new novel Pity Party HERE. More about the London Writer's Salon Podcast HERE.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Ericka Waller - Dog Days

Ericka Waller - Goodbye Birdie Greenwing

Cathy Rentzenbrink - Everyone is Still Alive

V. V. Ganeshananthan - Brotherless Night

Ann Morgan - Reading the World

Kristin Hannah - The Women

Isabella Hammad - Enter Ghost

Sarah Moss - The Good Bright Wolf

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Hans Christian Andersen - Matchstick Girl

Joanna Quinn - Whalebone Theatre

Michelle Magorian - Back Home

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Tayari Jones - An American Marriage

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Eva Ibbotson - Journey To the River Sea

Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Rebecca Makkai - The Great Believers

Ruth Coker Burks - All the Young Men

Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City

Armistead Maupin - Logical Family

Emma Donoghue - The Pull of the Stars

Jerry Zucker - True Story of Airplane!

Maeve Binchy - Scarlet Feather

Maeve Binchy - Circle of Friends

Maeve Binchy - Evening Class

Maeve Binchy - The Return Journey

Colm Toibin - Brooklyn

Colm Toibin - Long Island

Tommy Cooper - Joke Book

John Shuttleworth - Two Margarines

EL James - 50 Shades of Grey

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

Melissa Broder - The Pisces

Crystal Jeans - The Inverts

Paullina Simons - Bronze Horseman

Paullina Simons - Girl in Times Square

Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake

Marian Keyes - Sushi For Beginners

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nathan Hill - Wellness

Pierre Choderlos de Laclos - Liaisons Dangereuse

Philippe Djian - Betty Blue

Penelope Douglas - Bully

LJ Shen - Hunter

Sebastian Faulks - Birdsong

Ali Hazelwood - Love Hypothesis

Sally Thorne - Hating Game

Lindsey Kelk - Love Story

Emily Henry - Beach Read

Casey McQuiston - Red White and Royal Blue

Anthony Doerr - Cloud Cuckoo Land

Anthony Doerr - All The Light...

Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had

Claire Lombardo - Same As It Ever Was

Catherine Newman - We All Want...

Tish Delaney - Before My Actual Heart Breaks

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Mhairi McFarlane - Between Us

Jane Green - Jemima J

Freya North - Sally

Andy Weir - Project Hail Mary

Louise Beech - Lion Tamer Who Lost

Emma Jane Kirby - Optician of Lampedusa

Harriet F Townson - D is for Death

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Brianna Labuskes - Librarian of Burned Books

Liz Hyder - The Illusions

Joseph O'Connor - Star of the Sea

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Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.

Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...

BOOKS

Catherine Gray - Versions of a Girl

Catherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober

Daphne Du Maurier - Rebecca

Augusten Burroughs - Dry

Sarah Hepola - Blackout

Mark Williams and Denny Penman - Mindfulness

Sasha Scoblic - Unwasted

Rolad Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Lois Lowry - Anastasia Krupnik

The School of Life - How To Overcome Your Childhood

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Anne Helen Petersen - Can't Even

Vendela Veda - We Run the Tides

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Celeste Ng - Little Fires Everywhere

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Kiley Reid - Come and Get it

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Jane Austen - Emma

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big City

Jay McInerney - The Story of My Life

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife

David Sedaris - The Best of Me

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Joan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I Mean

Clare Keegan - Foster

Frances Quinn - That Bone Setter Woman

Jodi Picoult - By Any Other Name

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

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