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Get ready for a really fun, warm and refreshing chat with one of our favourite authors, the brilliant Amanda Prowse! Amanda is an Internationally bestselling author of novels, non-fiction books and short stories, whose books have been published worldwide in dozens of languages. Her chart topping titles include What Have I Done?, Perfect Daughter, My Husband’s Wife, The Girl in the Corner and her latest is the wonderful Swimming to Lundy. We talked to her about magic, library love, literary Christmas gift ideas, the joy of annuals and the genius of Maeve Binchy. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds The Bunty Annual The Mandy Annual The Beano Annual Jackie - 60 Years of Magic Jill Mansell - Promise Me Katie Hickman - She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Dorothy Whipple - High Wages Persephone Books Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls Shirley Conran - Lace Danielle Steele - Palazzo VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jilly Cooper - Polo Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers Rufi Thorpe - Margot's Got Money Troubles Callum Robinson - Ingrained Carol Ann Duffy - Three Wise Men Chapter 34 Books Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You'll Go Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas Diana Henry - Simple Nigel Slater - A Thousand Feasts Jane Austen - Persuasion Thomas Hardy - Collected Poems Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Charles Dickens - Bleak House Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd Maeve Binchy - Evening Class Stephenie Meyer - Twilight Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You Holly Bourne - You Could Be So Pretty Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events Daniel Handler - And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life Bruce Omar Yates - The Muslim Cowboy Shelby Van Pelt - Remarkably Bright Creatures Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit Brian Jacques - Mossflower Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking Nadia Shireen - Grimwood Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban Jill Murphy - Worst Witch Philip Pullman - Northern Lights Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born Madeline Linford - Out of the Window Tessa Hadley - Free Love Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light Charles Darwin - Bleak House George Eliot - Middlemarch Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo John Ransom - The Gallopers Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden Nikki May - This Motherless Land Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Nikki May - Wahala Ann Patchett - Tom Lake Ann Patchett - Bel Canto Octavia Butler - Kindred Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile Much Ado Bookshop Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble Robert Lowell - Imitations Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey Donna Tartt - The Secret History Roberto Bolano - 2666 Paul Beatty - The Sellout Philip Pullman - Northern Lights Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga Jilly Cooper - Rivals John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now Tim Spector - Food For Life Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts Lucy Mangan - Bookworm Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street David Niven - Moon's a Balloon Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025 Noel Streatfeild - Saplings Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Lizzy Stewart - Alison Jane Oliver - Business as Usual Dorothy Whipple - High Wages Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee - Pachinko Laurie colwin - Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time India Knight - Darling Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue Time Life Editors - Patisserie Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin Bee Wilson - Swindled Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up Diana Vreeland - DV Diana Vreeland - Memos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This week we welcome another publishing legend onto the podcast. It's the amazing Liane Moriarty! Liane has sold over 20 million books worldwide and her novels have been translated into forty languages. Her blockbusters Big Little Lies, Apples Never Fall and Nine Perfect Strangers have been adapted into hugely successful TV shows. Her latest novel is the gripping, mysterious Here One Moment. We talked to her about her fellow novelist sisters, extended literary universes, the first book to make her cry and a particularly disturbing sex scene from Jaws. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Liane Moriarty - Nine Perfect Strangers Liane Moriarty - Big Little Lies Liane Moriarty - Here One Moment Anna Quindlen - After Annie Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths Ethel Turner - Seven Little Australians PL Travers - Mary Poppins Peter Benchley - Jaws Michael Coleman - One, Two, Three, Oops!  LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery - Emily of New Moon Joanna Trollope - The Choir Alice Winn - In Memoriam Rebecca Makkai - Great Believers Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Catherine Newman - Sandwich Maeve Binchy - Light a Penny Candle Michelle Gallen - Factory Girls Claire Lombardo - Same as it Ever Was Claire Lombardo - Most Fun We Ever Had Anne Tyler - Accidental Tourist Shelia Heti - Motherhood Ottessa Moshfegh - My Year of Rest and Relaxation Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Karen Joy Fowler - Booth Mary Wesley - A Sensible Life Mary Wesley - Camomile Lawn Daisy Buchanan - Careering Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Lizzy Stewart - Alison Barbara Trapido - Noah's Ark Barbara Trapido - Traveling Hornplayer Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes - Rachels Holiday Marian Keyes - Again Rachel Marian Keyes - Anybody Out There Nicola Moriarty - You Need To Know Jaclyn Moriarty - Gravity is the Thing Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Kate Atkinson - Life After Life Audrey Niffenegger - Time Traveler's Wife Dorothy Whipple - High Wages Barbara Pym - Excellent Women Nina Stibbe - Love Nina Jane Harper - The Dry Sally Hepworth - The Family Next Door Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train Patricia Highsmith - Diaries Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin Sally Rooney - Intermezzo Emma Forrest - Father Figure Matt Haig - Midnight Library Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time Bella Mackie - What a Way to Go Mary Beth Keane - The Half Moon Mary Lawson - Crow Lake Elizabeth Berg - Say When Jo Jo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

More legends of literature are dropping by as we welcome bestselling author and crime icon Paula Hawkins! Paula's first book was the phenomenal The Girl on the Train which sold over 20 million copies and was translated into over 50 languages. She followed it up with the bestsellers Into the Water and A Slow Fire Burning. Her latest is the highly anticipated The Blue Hour. We talked to her about art books, the writers so good they make you want to give up, great authors from Zimbabwe and being disappointed by a lack of Wombles. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and see book tour dates and find out about Daisy's Creative Confidence Clinic writing course at Daisy's Substack. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Paula Hawkins - The Girl on the Train Paula Hawkins - The Blue Hour Eleanor Clayton - Barbara Hepworth Celia Paul - Self Portrait Patrick Elliot - Joan Eardley Walter De La Mare - The Three Royal Monkeys Enid Blyton - The Famous Five Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers Elisabeth Beresford - The Wombles Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase Geoffrey of Monmouth - History of the Kings of Britain Ali Smith - Autumn Zadie Smith - Intimations Sarah Moss - The Fell Sigrid Nunez - The Friend Sigrid Nunez - What Are You Going Through Sigrid Nunez - The Vulnerables Benjamin Moser - Sontag Sigrid Nunez - Sempre Susan Kate Atkinson - Life After Life Pat Barker - The Regeneration Trilogy Pat Barker - Life Class Pat Barker - Silence of the Girls Pat Barker - The Women of Troy Pat Barker - Voyage Home Penelope Lively - Moon Tiger Patricia Highsmith - The Talented Mr Ripley Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Ruth Rendell - A Judgement in Stone Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Molly Keane - Good Behaviour Caroline Kepnes - You Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer George Eliot - Middlemarch Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights Colleen Hoover - It Ends With Us Sally Rooney - Conversations With Friends Sally Rooney - Normal People Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These Carys Davies - Clear Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting Tsitsi Dangarembga - This Mournable Body Tsitsi Dangarembga - Nervous Conditions Petina Gappah - An Elegy for Easterly Petina Gappah - Rotten Row Raymond Carver - Cathedral Kate Atkinson - Normal Rules Don't Apply Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge Evie Wyld - The Echoes Evie Wyld - All the Birds Singing Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional Charlotte Wood - The Weekend Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.