This week we are in the esteemed company of novelist, journalist, broadcaster and all-around inspiration, the wonderful Dawn O'Porter! Dawn is the author of the bestselling mega-hits The Cows, So Lucky, Cat Lady and her latest is the highly anticipated sequel to Paper Aeroplanes and Goose, Honey Bee. She has presented a vast array of television documentaries and hosts the 'Dawn Loves' WH Smith book club. We talked to her about the genius of Jeanette Winterson, inappropriate honeymoon beach reading, books about farts and how deviating from the TBR pile can lead you to your new favourite book. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy.

BOOKS

Dawn O'Porter - Honey Bee

Jeanette Winterson - Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit

Jeanette Winterson - Why Be Happy When You Can Be Normal

Dawn O'Porter - Paper Aeroplanes

Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Paul Murray - The Bee Sting

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Miriam Toews -Fight Night

Chris Whitaker - All The Colours of the Dark

Jonathan Abrams - The Come Up

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Malibu Rising

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Eve Babitz - Two By Two

Eve Babitz - I Used to be Charming

Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Emily St John Mandel - Station 11

James Carlisle - The Big Book of Farts

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone

Lionel Shriver - We Need To Talk About Kevin

Lisa Jewell - None of This is True

Dawn O'Porter - Cat Lady

Gail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

Miranda July - The First Bad Man

Miranda July - All Fours

Elaine Dundy - Dud Avocado

Asako Yuzuki - Butter

Kaveh Akbar - Martyr

Caleb Azumah Nelson - Open Water

Laura Dockrill - I Love You, I Love You, I Love You

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We're back! And we're kicking off series 16 in style with the brilliant author, journalist and broadcaster Bella Mackie! Bella is the author of the inspirational running book Jog On, the bestselling How To Kill Your Family and her highly anticipated latest What a Way To Go. We talked to her about the importance of Judy Blume, funny books, finding the right book at the right time and vanishing chickens. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates and virtual appearances at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Bella Mackie - How To Kill Your Family

Bella Mackie - What a Way To Go

Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy

George Eliot - Middlemarch

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - Hobbit

Ian Serraillier - Silver Sword

Judith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Dorothy L Sayers - Gaudy Night

Richie Tankersley Cusick - Point Horror: The Lifeguard

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Judy Blume - Forever

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High: Perfect Summer

Holly Bourne - Girl Friends

Juno Dawson - Her Majesty's Royal Coven

Marina Hyde - What Just Happened

Jacqueline Susann - Valley of the Dolls

Lili Anolik - Didion & Babitz

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Long Island Compromise

Bess Kalb - Nobody Will Tell You This But Me

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Taylor Jenkins-Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Robert Harris - Precipice

William Boyd - Any Human Heart

Samantha Harvey - Orbital

Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These

Ann Patchett - The Dutch House

Anne Glenconner - Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown - Ma'am Darling

Jonathan Keates - La Serenissima: The Story of Venice

Paulo Coelho - The Alchemist

Sloane Crosley - Grief is For People

James Frey - A Million Little Pieces

Cathy Rentzenbrink - The Last Act of Love

PG Wodehouse - Jeeves and Wooster

Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile

Joel Golby - Four Stars

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Elizabeth Heichelbech - Chopin in Kentucky

Tom Lamont - Going Home

LP Hartley - The Go Between

Ian McEwan - On Chesil Beach

Kiley Reid - Come and Get It

Kiley Reid - Such a Fun Age

EB White - Essays

EB White - Charlotte's Web

Gay Talese - Frank Sinatra Has a Cold

Calvin Trilling - The Chicken Vanishes

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We are ending series 15 in style with one of our all-time favourite authors Catherine Newman! Catherine wrote the memoirs Catastrophic Happiness and Waiting for Birdy, novel for kids One Mixed-Up Night, craft book Stitch Camp and the acclaimed novels We All Want Impossible Things and Sandwich. We talked to her about food in books, Laurie Colwin, disaster reading, the importance of pretension and reading the Ikea catalogue for fun. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. This week's Steal of the Week is sponsored by Action Tutoring - to find out more at: https://actiontutoring.org.uk/

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Catherine Newman - We All Want Impossible Things

Catherine Newman - Sandwich

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Laurie Colwin - Shine On Bright and Dangerous Object

Nora Ephron - Most of Nora Ephron

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House in the Big Woods

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Farmer Boy

Coco Mellors - Blue Sisters

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

F Scott Fitzgerald - Great Gatsby

Kristi Coulter - Nothing Good...

Joan Aiken - Black Hearts in Battersea

Joan Aiken - Wolves of Willoughby Chase

Madeleine L'engle - Wrinkle in Time

Roald Dahl - James and the Giant Peach

Anne Lamott - Almost Everything

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone

Enid Blyton - Naughtiest Girl in the School

William Golding - Lord of the Flies

Arthur Ramsome - Swallows and Amazons

E Nesbit - The Lark

Michelle Magorian - A Little Love Song

Michelle Magorian - Goodnight Mr Tom

Eva Ibbotson - Dragonfly Pool


Eva Ibbotson - Journey to the River Sea

Roald Dahl - Henry Sugar

Miye Lee - DallerGut Dream Department Store

Stephen King - Carrie

Stephen King - The Shining

Lily King - Writers & Lovers

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Nina Stibbe - Went To London Took the Dog

Samantha Irby - Wow, No Thank You

James Joyce - Ulysses

Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being

Jorge Luis Borges - Labyrinths

Italio Calvino - If On a Winter's Night...

Charles Baudelaire - Flowers of Evil

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Ann Patchett - State of Wonder

Carol Shields - Larry's Party

Sue Miller - Monogamy

Tessa Hadley - After the Funeral

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Miriam Toews - Fight Night

Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows

Alison Espach - The Wedding People

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Donna Freitas - Wishful Thinking

Rufi Thorpe - Margo's Got Money Troubles

Rufi Thorpe - The Knockout Queen

Nussaibah Younis - Fundamentally

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