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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.
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To celebrate the release of Daisy's new novel, a modern retelling of the classic Little Women entitled All Grown Up, here's an exclusive reading from the first chapter from the author herself! After thirty long years, Louisa’s daughters can finally look after themselves… or so she thinks. Because suddenly, they’re back – apparently for good. Meg’s second-guessing her marriage. Jo’s career hangs in the balance. Amy has inexplicably quit university. None of them empty the dishwasher. Louisa knows it’s time for some life lessons. She adores her girls, but if she’s ever going to get her (sex) life back, they’ll have to grow up – and go. But maybe they’re not the only ones with lessons to learn… And Louisa might just discover that her daughters have something to teach her about being an adult too. All Grown Up is out on June 4th and available from Bookshop.org, Waterstones, and wherever great books are sold. The audio version of the books features Harriet Kemsley, Isy Suttie, Stevie Martin and Helen Bauer is available from Audible. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
To celebrate the paperback release of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy: How a Book Habit Can Make You Feel Better, here's an exclusive extract just for you! In a hectic world that can feel uncertain and overwhelming, Read Yourself Happy offers the perfect source of anti-anxiety, inviting you to discover the literary worlds that have helped and inspired Daisy. As well as interviews with authors (and YB favourites) like David Nicholls and Emma Gannon, Daisy provides personally curated reading lists and over 200 book recommendations to help you process your emotions and find more peace with every page. Read Yourself Happy is out now and available from Bookshop.org, Waterstones, Audible and wherever great books are sold. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's Jane Austen's 250th birthday! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than a conversation with the fabulous stand-up, actor, improviser and author Rachel Parris! Rachel's Austen credentials are acute. As well as being a founding member of the amazing Austen-inspired improv group Austentatious, alongside former YB guests Cariad Lloyd and Andrew Hunter Murray, her first novel, Introducing Mrs Collins, is a sequel, of sorts, to Pride and Prejudice. We talked to Rachel about Jane Austen (a lot), regency sex scenes, bookish palate cleansers and an adult version of the Jolly Postman. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up Rachel Parris - Introducing Mrs Collins Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Jane Austen - Persuasion Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre Monique Roffey - Mermaid of Black Conch Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things Ambrose Parry - The Way of all Flesh: A Raven and Fisher Mystery: Book 1 George Eliot - Middlemarch Julie Owen Moylan - Elizabeth and Marilyn Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Jilly Cooper - Rivals Jackie Collins - Vendetta: Lucky's Revenge Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffanys Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day Nikki May - This Motherless Land Jane Austen - Mansfield Park Louisa May Alcott - Little Women Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife Graydon Carter - When the Going Was Good Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries Andrew O'Hagan - Caledonian Road Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Louise Candlish - Our House Adele Parks - Just Between Us Lucy Foley - The Paris Apartment Lucy Foley - The Hunting Party Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst - S Janet and Allan Ahlberg - The Jolly Postman Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
It's the final episode of our Beach Reads series and we're finishing style... and snot. As this week Daisy has selected a collection of books designed to have you blubbing in your deckchair and drying your tears with a towel. These are titles with a passionate edge, a tragic element or just a feeling of sheer joy that will have you reaching for your hankie as fellow beachgoers worry about your emotional state. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Jack London - Call of the Wild Emily Henry - Beach Read AJ Pearce - Dear Mrs Bird Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
We're turning up the heat for this week's selection of beach reads! Daisy has selected some holiday books with a distinct side of raunch. These are titles to make you blush, gasp and get even hotter under the collar (if your swimsuit happens to have a collar). There are books with an erotic edge, and some that are flat out filth. But which one has a character that makes 'Christian Grey look like Dougal from Father Ted'? You'll have to listen to find out. Discover more about the titles mentioned at our Bookshop.org shop. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Carson McCullers - The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Tom Bissell and Greg Sestero - The Disaster Artist Susi Wyss - Guess Who is the Happiest Girl in Town Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Jilly Cooper - Polo Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.