This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television documentaries and hosts the 'Dawn Loves' WH Smith book club. We talked to her about the genius of Jeanette Winterson, inappropriate honeymoon beach reading, books about farts and how deviating from the TBR pile can lead you to your new favourite book. 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 and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

BOOKS

Dawn O'Porter - Honey Bee

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplanes

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Paul Murray - The Bee Sting

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews -Fight Night

Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz - Two By Two

Eve Babitz - I Used to be Charming

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

James Carlisle - The Big Book of Farts

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Dawn O'Porter - Cat Lady

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Miranda July - The First Bad Man

Miranda July - All Fours

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Asako Yuzuki - Butter

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Laura Dockrill - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

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We're back! And we're kicking off series 16 in style with the brilliant author, journalist and broadcaster Bella Mackie! Bella is the author of the inspirational running book Jog On, the bestselling How To Kill Your Family and her highly anticipated latest What a Way To Go. We talked to her about the importance of Judy Blume, funny books, finding the right book at the right time and vanishing chickens. 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 and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Bella Mackie - What a Way To Go

Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

George Eliot - Middlemarch

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - Hobbit

Ian Serraillier - Silver Sword

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Night

Richie Tankersley Cusick - Point Horror: The Lifeguard

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Forever

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High: Perfect Summer

Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Marina Hyde - What Just Happened

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Lili Anolik - Didion & Babitz

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Long Island Compromise

Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Taylor Jenkins-Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Robert Harris - Precipice

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Jonathan Keates - La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Sloane Crosley - Grief is For People

James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Joel Golby - Four Stars

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Elizabeth Heichelbech - Chopin in Kentucky

Tom Lamont - Going Home

LP Hartley - The Go Between

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

EB White - Essays

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Gay Talese - Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Calvin Trilling - The Chicken Vanishes

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We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, disaster reading, the importance of pretension and reading the Ikea catalogue for fun. 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. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object

Nora Ephron - Most of Nora Ephron

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good...

Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Madeleine L'engle - Wrinkle in Time

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Arthur Ramsome - Swallows and Amazons

E Nesbit - The Lark

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom

Eva Ibbotson - Dragonfly Pool


Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea

Roald Dahl - Henry Sugar

Miye Lee - DallerGut Dream Department Store

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - The Shining

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

James Joyce - Ulysses

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths

Italio Calvino - If On a Winter's Night...

Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Carol Shields - Larry's Party

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Tessa Hadley - After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Alison Espach - The Wedding People

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

Rufi Thorpe - Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe - The Knockout Queen

Nussaibah Younis - Fundamentally

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We are so, so excited about this one. Abi Daré wrote one of our favourite books of all time, the unforgettable novel The Girl with the Louding Voice. She has just released a sequel And So I Roar, which is just as compelling and delightful as the original. In a fascinating, revealing conversation, Abi discusses the contents of her 'Do Not Delete' folder, the importance of showing up for work, the power of the Famous Five, inspirational re-reads and the happiness experienced when a character's voice returns to you. 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. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Abi Daré - The Girl with the Louding Voice

Abi Daré - And So I Roar

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Zadie Smith - White Teeth

Elizabeth Strout - Olive Kitteridge

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Sidney Sheldon - The Other Side of Midnight

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Enid Blyton - Mallory Towers

James Patterson - Roses Are Red

John Grisham - The Rainmaker

Oyinkan Braithwaite - My Sister the Serial Killer

Chinua Achebe - Things Fall Apart

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Alice Walker - Colour Purple

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Tara Westover - Educated

Nadia Owusu - Aftershocks

Safiya Sinclair - How To Say Babylon

Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

Elizabeth Jane Howard - Cazalet Chronicles

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us

William Boyd - Mirror and the Road

William Boyd - Brazzaville Beach

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Julia Cameron - The Artist's Way

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Charmaine Wilkerson - Good Dirt

Foluso Agbaje - Parlour Wife

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This week we are entertaining crime writing royalty on the podcast as we welcome the legend that is Dr Kathy Reichs! Kathy is a forensic anthropologist and academic who, amongst many other things, taught FBI agents how to detect and recover human remains. She used her forensic knowledge to create the character Temperance Brennan and the first Temperance book, Deja Dead, won the 1997 Ellis Award for Best First Novel. Many other novels followed including Death du Jour, Deadly Decisions, Fatal Voyage, Monday Mourning and many more. She also co-authored the Virals young adult series with her son, Brendan Reichs. Her latest thriller is Fire and Bones. Kathy also produced and wrote the hit TV series, Bones, which is based on her work and her novels. We talked to her about the mystery of the mobile library, the joy of audio books and the best forensic science books for kids! 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. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Kathy Reichs - Fire and Bones

Kathy Reichs - Deja Dead

Ian Rankin - A Heart Full of Headstones

Michael Connelly - Desert Star

Karin Slaughter - Pieces of Her

Dennis Lehane - Small Mercies

Kathy Reichs - Virals

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Howard Pyle - Merry Adventures of Robin Hood

Michael Connelly - Concrete Blond

Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved

Douglas P. Lyle - Forensics For Dummies

Chris Cooper - Forensic Science

Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes

HA Rey - Curious George

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Cixin Liu - The Three Body Problem

Erik Larson - Devil in the White City

Erik Larson - Isaac's Strom

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's

Brene Brown - Daring Greatly

Kathy Reichs - Death Du Jour

Jacqueline Winspear - The Comfort of Ghosts

Alex Finlay - The Night Shift

Joseph Finder - Oligarch's Daughter

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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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