We're doing something a little different this summer. For the next few weeks Daisy will be curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease into a reading habit, if you've had some time away, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. We're kicking off with some saucy, spicy, swooning romantic favourites to slip into your luggage. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Lucy Vine - Book Boyfriend

Freya North - Fen

Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing

Barbara Trapido - Brother of the More Famous Jack

Jojo Moyes - We All Live Here

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

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You're Booked is on its travels! Here's a very special live episode recorded at Backstory Bookshop in Barcelona with with the wonderful Donna Freitas! Donna resides in Barcelona and is the author of many books including Stefi and the Spanish Prince (set in the city), The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano and Wishful Thinking. She interviewed Daisy to celebrate the release of Read Yourself Happy and they discussed conquering difficult reads, childhood library etiquette and we discover what books the residents of Barcelona can't live without. Thanks to the Grand Hotel Central for hosting us during our stay. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

Donna Freitas - The Nine Lives of Rose Napolitano

Donna Freitas - Stefi and the Spanish Prince

Daisy Buchanan - Limelight

Ann M Martin - Babysitters Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility

Enid Blyton - Famous Five

Dick King Smith - The Sheep Pig

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew Mysteries

Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events

Beverley Cleary - Beezus and Ramona

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Noel Streatfeild - Curtain Up

Samuel Richardson - Pamela

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Laurent de Brunhoff - Babar's World Tour

Nikki May - Wahala

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

Alexander Chee - Queen of the Night

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Sophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Khaled Hosseini - A Thousand Splendid Suns

Khaled Hosseini - Kite Runner

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Sue Townsend - Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Alberto Moravia - Contempt

Alberto Moravia - Time of Indifference

Ann Morgan - Reading the World

Ann Morgan - Unlearning to Read

David Whitehouse - Saltwater Mansions

Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels

Joyce Carol Oates - Book of American Martyrs

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

Carlos Ruiz Zafon - The Shadow of the Wind

Natasha Lunn - Conversations on Love

Niall Williams - This is Happiness

Olga Tokarczuk - Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Henri Cole - Orphic Paris

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Alice Winn - In Memoriam

Daisy Buchanan - All Grown Up

Louisa May Alcott - Little Women

Susan Morrison - Lorne

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Charles Baudelaire - Collected Poems

Rebecca Stead - When You Reach Me

Gillian Flynn - Gone Girl

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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

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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

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As a treat, we're resharing one of our most beloved and popular archive episodes from 2023. Author, book aficionado and YB favourite Sarra Manning joined us to help us with our reading resolutions. Featuring Kindle hacks, reading slump fixes, cosy reads and a whole slew of books to look forward to in the new year! Discover the books you'll be snapping up, a few tips to get you back on the reading path if you've strayed and some excellent advice for those struggling with the classics. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop.

BOOKS

Dale Shaw - Help! I Think My Baby Brother is Henry the Eighth!

Daisy Buchanan - Careering

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Daisy Buchanan - How to be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood

Sarra Manning - Unsticky

Sarra Manning - London With Love

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Leo Tolstoy - Anna Karenina

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Hannah Dolby - No Life For a Lady

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Tina Brown - Palace Papers

Kate Sawyer - This Family

Kate Sawyer - The Stranding

Various - Marple: 12 New Stories

JD Salinger: For Esme With Love and Squalor

Sylvia Plath - Johnny Panic and the Bible of Dreams

F Scott Fitzgerald - Diamond as Big as the Ritz

Dorothy Parker - Collected Stories

Various - Furies

Danielle Evans - The Office of Historical Corrections

Danielle Evans - Before You Suffocate Your Own Fool Self

Lucia Berlin - Manuel For Cleaning Women

Penelope Mortimer - Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Noel Streatfeild - Gemma

Sarra Manning - The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

Sarra Manning - Rescue Me

James Reeves - The Critical Sense

Sarra Manning - Guitar Girl

Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday

Holly Bourne - Pretending

Milly Johnson - Together Again

Marian Keyes - Again Rachel

Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic

Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Jojo Moyes - Someone Else's Shoes

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy

Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow

Lauren Bravo - Preloved

Emily Henry - Happy Place

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Katy Brent - How To Kill Men and Get Away With It

Alice Slater - Death of a Bookseller

Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface

Jennifer Saint - Atalanta

Costanza Casati - Clytemnestra

Katherine Bradley - The Sisterhood

Isabelle Schuler - Lady Macbethad

Eleanor Catton - Birnam Wood

Niamh Hargan - The Break-Up Clause

Sophie Irwin - A Lady's Guide to Scandal

Sarra Manning - The Man of Her Dreams

Cesca Major - Maybe Next Time

Lucy Vine - Seven Exes

Nina Stibbe - Went to London, Took the Dog

Nina Stibbe - Love, Nina

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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

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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

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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

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