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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.

It's holiday time! And over the next few weeks Daisy is curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease back into a reading habit, if you've had some time away from your bookshelves, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of dreamy, memorable adventures as we experience some Holiday Escapism. Sit by the pool and let your mind travel to some extraordinary locations. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Emma Forrest - Cherries in the Snow Siri Hustvedt - What I Loved Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital Taylor Jenkins Reid - Atmosphere Georgina Moore - River of Stars Nikki May - This Motherless Land Marian Keyes - My Favourite Mistake Marian Keyes - Anybody Out There Ingrid Persaud - Love After Love Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For the next few weeks Daisy is curating a selection of the perfect beach reads, designed to delightfully compliment your summer getaway. As well as some tips to help you ease back into a reading habit, if you've had some time away from your bookshelves, each week there'll be a themed collection of wondrous books. This week's selection involves a collection of exciting, far-flung exotic locales (and Cornwall) as we explore some literary Perfect Places. These are books that help you travel to incredible landscapes, both real and imaginary. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Richard Osman - Thursday Murder Club Rebecca F Kuang - Yellowface Maeve Binchy - Evening Class Shirley Conran - Lace Elspeth Barker - O Caledonia Sarah Winman - Tin Man David Nicholls - Us Jess Walter - Beautiful Ruins Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City Margaret Kennedy - The Feast Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. This week's selection involves a collection of thrilling, gripping crime-related greats. Books that will have you on the edge of your seat, or possibly your sun lounger. Find out more about Daisy's upcoming live events at her Creative Confidence Clinic. BOOKS Lauren Groff - The Vaster Wilds Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Julia Raeside - Don't Make Me Laugh Kate Weston - How To Make a Killing Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train Elizabeth Bowen - The Heat of the Day Caroline Corcoran - Tiny Daggers Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.