Sarra Manning's Reading Resolutions - You're Booked

This week we're delighted to spend some time with the magnificent Coco Mellors. Coco's books, Cleopatra and Frankenstein and Blue Sisters have been frequent picks by former You're Booked guests, so it's an absolute treat to welcome her to YB Towers. We talked to her about boxing, being taught by Martin Amis, books about motherhood, her next novel and trying to find the rude bits in The Golden Notebook. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop. Find out more about the Shelter Box Book Club by HEADING HERE. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Coco Mellors -Cleopatra and Frankenstein Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters Martin Amis - London Fields Martin Amis - Money Claire Dederer - Monsters James Baldwin - The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 2 Ursula Parrot - Ex Wife Doris Lessing - Golden Notebook Doris Lessing - Martha Quest Rosamond Lehmann - Invitation to the Waltz George Eliot - Middlemarch Karl Ove Knausgård - My Struggle Sally Rooney - Intermezzo Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love Mary Oliver - New and Selected Poems Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Bernadine Evaristo - Mr Loverman Ada Calhoun - Why We Cant Sleep Nell Frizzell - Panic Years Lindsay Nicholson - Perfect Bound Leslie Jamison - Splinters Caroline O'Donoghue - The Rachel Incident Martin Amis - Inside Story AA Gill - Pour Me Tessa Hadley - The Past Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers Juhea Kim - Beasts of a Little Land Juhea Kim - City of Night Birds Joyce Carol Oates - On Boxing Ballet Shoes Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

To celebrate the release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy (out now!), here's a very special conversation with a returning champion. Daisy was interviewed by the great Nina Stibbe at Ink@84 in North London in front of a packed audience. There's lots of chat about books that bring you joy, the fear and ecstasy of reviews, book club horror stories and Nina's legendary pony story. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit DK RED to find out about her live dates. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Nina Stibbe - Went to London Took The Dog The Pound Project Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazalet Chronicles Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood Pandora Sykes - What Writer's Read Jean George - My Side of the Mountain Rebecca F Kuang - Babel Charles Dickens - Bleak House The Beano Annual Lizzy Stewart - Alison Joff Winterheart - Days of the Bagnold Summer Diana Henry - How To Eat a Peach Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Claire Tomalin - Charles Dickens Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her Monica Dickens - My Turn To Make the Tea Nina Hamnet - Laughing Torso Barbara Comyns - Our Spoons Came From Woolworths Catherine Newman - Sandwich Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things Elspeth Barker - Notes From the Hen House Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers Patricia Lockwood - No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood - Priestdaddy Nina Stibbe - Love Nina Lauren Bravo - What Would the Spice Girls Do Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up Daisy Buchanan - Careering Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy Deborah Moggach - Best Exotic Marigold Hotel David Seabrook - All the Devils are Here Danielle Steele - Joy Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dubner - Freakonomics Barbara Pym - Excellent Women Noel Streatfeiled - Ballet Shoes Fern Brady - Strong Female Character Katherine May - Electricity of Every Living Thing Katherine May - Wintering Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Christmas has come early! And do we have a festive treat for you! It's a funny, thrilling and thorough chat with returning champ Helen Lederer! We visited Helen's home back in 2019, but now she's coming to us, visiting the prestigious Margate Bookie book festival in front of an ecstatic audience. We talked to her about her legendary comedy career (including the people she got off with), the game-changing Comedy Women in Print Prize that she instigated, her hilarious books Losing It and Not That I'm Bitter, the mindbending experience that was Celebrity Big Brother and almost getting a tattoo. 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. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Helen Lederer - Not That I'm Bitter Helen Lederer - Losing It Carrie Fisher - Wishful Drinking Anthony Trollope - Can You Forgive Her? Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Miranda July - All Fours Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole John Betjeman - Collected Poems Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's our season finale! And we are spending it with an absolute legend. Miranda Sawyer is a brilliant and inspirational journalist, broadcaster and author. She started her career at the iconic Smash Hits and has since worked for practically every major newspaper and magazine including The Face, Select, The Guardian, The Observer and Vogue. She's the author of the books Park and Ride, Out of Time and her latest Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs. We talked to Miranda about the women of Britpop, the genius of Smash Hits, corresponding with Joan Didion and getting off with Grace Jones. 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 Miranda Sawyer - Uncommon People Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None Ian Fleming - Casino Royale Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye Truman Capote - In Cold Blood Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem Jessica Stanley - Consider Yourself Kissed Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly Jude Rogers - The Sound of Being Human Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With the Band Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed Vivien Goldman - Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz Michael Cragg - Reach For the Stars Craig Brown - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything Oliver Burkeman - Meditations For Mortals Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks Patrick Freyne - Ok Lets Do Your Stupid Idea Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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.