Episodes

  • Daisy's Beach Reads: Summer Loving
    Jul 7 2025

    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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    7 mins
  • Donna Freitas and Daisy Buchanan - You're Booked Live at Backstory
    Jun 30 2025

    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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    1 hr and 10 mins
  • Coco Mellors - You're Booked
    Mar 3 2025

    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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    53 mins
  • Nina Stibbe and Daisy Buchanan - You're Booked Live at Ink 84
    Feb 10 2025

    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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    59 mins
  • Sarra Manning's Reading Resolutions - You're Booked
    Jan 2 2025

    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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    49 mins
  • Helen Lederer Live at the Margate Bookie - You're Booked
    Dec 18 2024

    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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    46 mins
  • Miranda Sawyer - You're Booked
    Nov 25 2024

    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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    59 mins
  • Amanda Prowse - You're Booked
    Nov 18 2024

    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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    57 mins