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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