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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This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). 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 - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone

Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Brian Jacques - Mossflower

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel

Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat

Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic

Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley

Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking

Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast

Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Jill Murphy - Worst Witch

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born

Madeline Linford - Out of the Window

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Charles Darwin - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo

John Ransom - The Gallopers

Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go

Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry

Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends

Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman

Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls

Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Nikki May - Wahala

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Octavia Butler - Kindred

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This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. 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

Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin

Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin

Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store

Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile

Much Ado Bookshop

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

Robert Lowell - Imitations

Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Roberto Bolano - 2666

Paul Beatty - The Sellout

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure

MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me

Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork

Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now

Tim Spector - Food For Life

Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People

Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street

David Niven - Moon's a Balloon

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025

Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lizzy Stewart - Alison

Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

Laurie colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time

India Knight - Darling

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin

Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue

Time Life Editors - Patisserie

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin

Bee Wilson - Swindled

Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World

Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Diana Vreeland - DV

Diana Vreeland - Memos

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