You're Booked

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Here's a bonus treat! And what a treat! To celebrate the release of Daisy's brand new book Pity Party, here's a very special live edition of You're Booked recorded at the glorious Bath Assembly Halls. Three returning champions - Nikki May, AJ Pearce and Andrew Hunter Murray - talk about their favourite Persephone Books in front of an audience of rabid Persephone fans, at the recent Persephone Festival, celebrating 25 years of the UK's premier publishing house. Each author picked and discussed their Persephone faves, plus other Persephones they love, consider the books they'd love to reissue and reveal the influence that authors such as Dorothy Whipple, RC Sherriff, Winifred Watson and DE Stevenson have had on their writing. Be warned - this episode will add many tomes to your TBR pile. 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 Nikki May - Wahala Nikki May - This Motherless Land AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird AJ Pearce - Yours Cheerfully AJ Pearce - Mrs Porter Calling Andrew Hunter Murray - A Beginner's Guide to Breaking and Entering Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day RC Sherriff - The Hopkins Manuscript Bill Bryson - Notes From a Small Island Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Dorothy Whipple - High Wages Lauren Weisberger - The Devil Wears Prada Dorothy Whipple - Somewhere at a Distance Andy McNabb - Bravo Two Zero Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles DE Stevenson - The Two Mrs Abbots Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary RC Sherriff - Greengates RC Sherriff - Journey's End Eleanor Graham - The Children Who Live in a Barn E Nesbit - The Lark Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song Dorothy Whipple - Short Stories RF Kuang - Yellowface Percival Everett - Erasure Marghanita Laski - To Bed With Grand Music Rachel Ferguson - Alas Poor Lady Vere Hodgson - Few Eggs and No Oranges Mollie Panter-Downes - War Notes Noel Streatfeild - Saplings DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle Married Monica Dickens - Marianna George Eliot - Middlemarch Richmal Crompton - Family Roundabout PD James - Children of Men Mollie Panter-Downes - Good Evening Mrs Craven Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight Mary Wesley - Harnessing Peacocks Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Pauline Burgess - Pony Party Ruby Ferguson - Jill's Gymkhana Emily St John Mandel - Station 11 Virginia Graham - Consider the Years Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake Dorothy Whipple - Young Anne Dorothy Whipple - They Were Sisters Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The series 15 litany of legends continues with the man commonly known as Dr Buckles - yes, it's Adam Buxton! As you are all aware, Adam is a writer, comedian, massively successful podcast host, Bowie aficionado and the author of the bestselling memoir Ramble Book (with the sequel on its way - as you will hear). He's also responsible for You're Booked, as the podcast was 'inspired' by the Vinyl Justice segment of The Adam and Joe Show. We talked to him about Bowie book choices, trying to sleep with Edgar Allen Poe, funny books and saucy dreams involving June Whitfield. Find a full list of the books Adam mentioned at 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... 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 Adam Buxton - Ramble Book Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog Nina Stibbe - Love Nina Umberto Eco - The Name of the Rose Patrick O'Brian - Master and Commander Roger Hargreaves - Mister Men Enid Blyton - Magic Faraway Tree CS Lewis - The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach Major P R Reid - Colditz MR James - Ghost Stories Edgar Allen Poe - The Black Cat Edgar Allen Poe - Pit and the Pendulum George Eliot - Middlemarch Thomas Hardy - Mayor of Casterbridge Virginia Woolf - To The Lighthouse JD Salinger - Catcher in the Rye David Bowie's Top 100 Favourite Books Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil Vance Packard - The Hidden Persuaders Neil Postman - Amusing Ourselves To Death George Orwell - 1984 Vladimir Nabokov - Lolita Colin Wilson - The Outsider Nik Cohn -Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom Sarah Waters - Fingersmith Craig Marks & Rob Tannenbaum - I Want My MTV Zadie Smith - Feel Free Adam Gopnik - A Thousand Small Sanities Frederick Douglass - Narrative of Frederick Douglass Bayard Rustin - Time on Two Crosses Michel De Montaigne - Complete Essays Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day R.C. Sherriff - Fortnight in September DE Stevenson - Miss Buncle's Book Tessa Norton & Bob Stanley - Excavate!: The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall David Sedaris - Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim Fran Lebowitz - The Fran Lebowitz Reader Steve Martin - Born Standing Up Tim Key - He Used Thought For a Wife Tim Key - Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush Daniil Kharms - Russian Absurd Julian Fellowes - Snobs Susan Sontag - On Photography Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Benjamin Moser - Sontag Judith Schalansky - An Inventory of Losses Sloan Crossley - Grief is for People Jarvis Cocker - Good Pop Bad Pop Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... 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 Irenosen Okojie - Curandera Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban June Jordan - Essential Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In Sylvia Plath - Collected Katherine May - Wintering Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am Sinead Gleason - Hagstone Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River Lauren Groff - Matrix Toni Morrison - Beloved Jackie Collins - The Stud Maggie Nelson - Bluets Maggie Nelson - Argonauts Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy David Nicholls - Us Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Carol Shields - Larry's Party Laline Paull - Pod Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler - Wild Seed Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You Deborah Levy - Black Vodka Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway Leone Ross - This One Sky Day Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime Raymond Carver - Cathedral Tawseef Khan - Determination Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.