We're heading back into the extensive YB archives to bring you one of our favourite episodes from yesteryear. This week we’re in Central London – home of some of the greatest shops in the world and our guest, the multimillion selling superstar novelist Sophie Kinsella ! Sophie is the author of over 30 books, including novels, children’s books and her hit Shopaholic series, and she’s as prolific a reader as she is a writer. Her latest is massive bestseller The Burnout . We talked to Sophie about ...
Apr 01, 2024•58 min•Season 14Ep. 160
This week, we are delving back into the archive to revisit our series 5 trip to America in the company of the incredible Taylor Jenkins Reid ! When we met Taylor in 2019, Daisy Jones and the Six had just been released. It went on to be a global smash with a recent, lauded Amazon adaptation and in this episode Taylor discusses many of the books that inspired the novel. Her other books, including The 7 Husbands of Evelyn Hugo , Malibu Rising and Carrie Soto is Back , have all been celebrated best-...
Mar 18, 2024•57 min•Season 14Ep. 159
While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're travelling all the way back to our first ever series for this chat with author, journalist and podcast supremo Elizabeth Day . Elizabeth is the author of five novels including Magpie and The Party plus her memoir, based on her massively successful podcast How To Fail and her most book Friendaholic: Confessions of a Friendship Addict . While snooping around her (small but perfectly...
Mar 04, 2024•48 min•Season 14Ep. 158
While we're taking a little break, we're revisiting just a few of our favourite ever You're Booked interviews. We're kicking off in style with this wonderful conversation with David Nicholls from season 4 in his beautiful North London home. At the time, David had just released his wonderful novel Sweet Sorrow. His new book, You Are Here, is out soon, while the brand new adaptation of One Day has just hit Netflix. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, Moomins, movies, adaptation a...
Feb 19, 2024•1 hr 5 min•Season 14Ep. 157
Surprise! We are back for a very special edition of YB. To celebrate the publication of Limelight in paperback, we're chatting to the winner of the YB Limelight competition Kezia Venner! As you will hear, Kezia is a woman of many talents. She's a lingerie designer, a writer, a former bookseller and a voracious reader, with excellent taste in books. We talked to her about her family's literary connections, the book that kicked off her reading journey, her bookshop buying techniques, her love of Y...
Feb 12, 2024•36 min•Season 14Ep. 156
Yes! It's finally happened! After 5 years and over 150 episodes, we have finally lured Jilly Cooper onto the podcast! Jilly is the author most discussed, swooned over and beatified on the show, so we are beyond delighted to sit down and talk to her. Jilly is the internationally bestselling author of iconic novels such as Riders, Rivals and The Man Who Made Husbands Jealous and her latest release Tackle! We talked to her about poetry, Nancy Mitford, jumpsuits, Penelope Keith, memorable villains, ...
Dec 11, 2023•53 min•Season 14Ep. 155
We are back at this year's Margate Bookie for a fun, frank and freewheeling conversation with three brilliant authors: Lucy Vine, Yomi Adegoke and Laura Kay! Lucy Vine is a journalist and author of five novels including Hot Mess , Are We Nearly There Yet , What Fresh Hell , Bad Choices and her latest, the critically acclaimed Seven Exes . Yomi Adegoke is a journalist, podcaster and author, co-writing Slay in Your Lane with Elizabeth Uviebinené before releasing the bestselling, critically lauded ...
Dec 04, 2023•50 min•Season 14Ep. 154
This week we are beyond excited to welcome an absolutely legendary author whose work has been a mainstay of the podcast since day one. It's Ottessa Moshfegh with her writing partner and husband Luke Goebel! Ottessa is the author of My Year of Rest and Relaxation (a YB staple), Lapvona , Homesick For Another World , Death in Her Hands and McGlue . Luke's debut Fourteen Stories, None of Them Are Yours won the Ronald Sukenick/American Book Review Innovative Fiction Prize while his next novel Kill D...
Nov 27, 2023•43 min•Season 14Ep. 153
It's two returning champs this week as we present the brilliant and hilarious Lou Sanders and Andi Osho live at the Turner Contemporary as part of the Margate Bookie literary festival. Lou and Andi are both stand-ups and both supreme authors. Lou recently published her memoir What's That Lady Doing? to widespread acclaim. Andi has published two celebrated novels: Tough Crowd and Asking for a Friend . In this frank, funny and freewheeling conversation Lou and Andi discuss romance, the fear of dea...
Nov 20, 2023•50 min•Season 14Ep. 152
Our season of writing legends continues with a true giant of literature: Naomi Klein ! Naomi is an activist, filmmaker, journalist and author. She is the bestselling and multi-award-winning author of How To Change Everything , On Fire , No Is Not Enough , This Changes Everything , The Shock Doctrine and No Logo . Her latest is Doppelganger: A Trip into the Mirror World . We talked to her about her family's Philip Roth connections, early illicit reads, the genius of James Baldwin and using poetry...
Nov 06, 2023•54 min•Season 14Ep. 151
It's our 150th episode! And we can't think of a better way to celebrate than to welcome a true literary legend to the podcast: Ian Rankin! Ian is a broadcaster, musician, playwright and the globally renowned, multi-million-selling author of the Rebus crime novels, amongst many others. His latest book is the Amazon Original The Rise . We talked to Ian about Muriel Spark, using crime books as a travel guide, writing routines and his love for Jilly Cooper. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confi...
Oct 30, 2023•51 min•Season 14Ep. 150
This week on You're Booked we're talking to the hugely acclaimed, bestselling author Lauren Groff! Lauren is our favourite type of guest - a massive, voracious and indiscriminate reader. Lauren is the three-time National Book Award finalist and The New York Times–bestselling author of the novels The Monsters of Templeton, Arcadia , Fates and Furies and Matrix plus the short story collections Delicate Edible Birds and Florida . Her latest book is the amazing The Vaster Wilds . We talked to her ab...
Oct 23, 2023•53 min•Season 14Ep. 149
This week we are delighted to welcome the broadcaster, academic and bestselling author Emma Dabiri to You're Booked. Emma is the author of Don't Touch My Hair , What White People Can Do Next: From Allyship to Coalition and her latest book Disobedient Bodies: Reclaim Your Unruly Beauty , that accompanies The Cult of Beauty , a major exhibition at Wellcome Collection. We talked to Emma about fashion inspiration in Anne of Green Gables, the philosophy of beauty, the genius of Toni Morrison and E Ne...
Oct 16, 2023•52 min•Season 14Ep. 148
Our spectacular series of literary legends continues with the bestselling crime master Peter James ! Peter has written 19 Sunday Times number 1's, selling over 21 million books worldwide, with his Roy Grace series of books, including Want You Dead and Picture You Dead , turned into a hit ITV drama starring John Simm. His latest novel is Stop Them Dead . We talked to him about cleaning for Orson Welles, calling Kurt Vonnegut out of the blue, the scariest book he's ever read and writing to Enid Bl...
Oct 09, 2023•47 min•Season 14Ep. 147
Our series of LEGENDS continues with the absolute legend that is Lou Sanders ! Lou is a brilliant stand-up comedian, star of Taskmaster, co-host of Unforgivable alongside former YB guest Mel Giedroyc, podcaster and now the author of the unforgettable memoir What's That Lady Doing?: False Starts and Happy Endings . We talked to Lou about the genius of Deborah Levy, early spiritual dabblings, potential screen adaptations and the joy and pain of writing memoir. Daisy will be at Henley Literary Fest...
Oct 02, 2023•48 min•Season 14Ep. 146
Our season of the stars continues with a genuine literary legend. It's Ken Follett ! Ken is one of the world’s most successful authors, selling over 188 million copies of his books. He's the creator of Pillars of the Earth , World Without End , Never and his latest The Armour of Light . He recently launched an online course on Writing Bestselling Fiction with BBC Maestro . We talked to him about his formative reads, relishing Proust, creating believable villains and his appearance in the Alan Ri...
Sep 25, 2023•53 min•Season 14Ep. 145
What a way to start a new series! It's the author, classicist, broadcaster and bone fide National Treasure Dame Mary Beard . We were lucky enough to speak to Mary during the Jaiphur Literary Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. Mary is the author of many books about the ancient world including the global bestsellers Women & Power , SPQR and her latest Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World . We talked to her about ancient Roman jokes, brutal writing advice, fearing fiction and ...
Sep 18, 2023•55 min•Season 14Ep. 144
Hurrah! We are very excited to bring you a guest we've being trying to get on the podcast for flipping ages. It's the wonderful Yomi Adegoke ! Yomi is a podcaster, broadcaster, multi-award winning journalist and the author of Slay in Your Lane (with former YB guest Elizabeth Uviebinené ) and The Offline Diaries (also with Elizabeth). Yomi's debut novel is the hotly anticipated The List , described as 'the book of the Summer' by Vogue and currently in development for TV. We talked to her about th...
Jul 24, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 143
We are delighted to invite one of our all-time favourite authors to the podcast this week. It's the sensational Lisa Jewell ! Lisa is the Sunday Times and New York Times bestselling author of twenty novels, which have sold over 10 million copies internationally and translated into 29 languages. Her debut (and YB fave) was Ralph's Party and subsequent releases include The Family Upstairs, Then She Was Gone, Invisible Girl and Watching You. Her latest is the eagerly anticipated None of This is Tru...
Jul 17, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 142
Comedian. Podcaster. Actor. Author. Is there anything that this woman can't do? Yes, we're welcoming the amazing Andi Osho to YB Towers this week. Andi is a talented stand-up, has starred or been involved with such TV and movie favourties as Line of Duty, Death In Paradise, Holby, I May Destroy You, Breeders, Good Omens and her own sketch show The Andi O Show. She hosts the Creative Sauce podcast and her debut novel Asking For a Friend was a bestseller! Her second novel is the highly anticipated...
Jul 10, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 141
We are back at the Jaipur Literature Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is DBC Pierre ! Pierre's debut novel Vernon God Little was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award. He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest Big Snake, Little Snake which is a meditation on f...
Jul 03, 2023•50 min•Season 13Ep. 140
We are beyond honoured and excited to bring you this conversation with the legendary Christina Lamb OBE . Christina is the chief foreign correspondent of The Sunday Times and during her illustrious career she's reported from hot spots and war zones including Afghanistan, Nigeria, Zimbabwe and currently Ukraine. She's been named Foreign Correspondent of the Year on five occasions and winner of Europe’s top war reporting prize, the Prix Bayeux. She is the bestselling, acclaimed author of 10 books ...
Jun 26, 2023•42 min•Season 13Ep. 139
Our love of Jane Austen should be painfully aware. But this week's guest might put our devotion to shame. The brilliant Andrew Hunter Murray hosts two hit podcasts: No Such Thing as a Fish (Andrew is also a QI Elf) and Page 94: A Private Eye Podcast (Andrew also writes for the magazine). He was also part of the UK's premier (and possibly only) Jane Austen based comedy improv group Austentatious - so his devotion to the beloved author is assured. Andrew is also a bestselling author, his first nov...
Jun 19, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 138
Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal ! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbread was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Us has just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about...
Jun 12, 2023•58 min•Season 13Ep. 137
We are so excited to welcome one of our absolute heroes to the podcast. It's Josie Long ! Josie is an internationally renowned, beloved and multi-award-winning stand-up, podcaster, actor, playwright and radio presence. Her first short story collection, Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't has just been released. We talked to Josie about favourite short story collections, books to make you laugh on the bus, attempting sainthood, radical texts and trying to get your kids to love t...
Jun 05, 2023•55 min•Season 13Ep. 136
This week we are welcoming legendary TV royalty to You're Booked Towers. It's Steve Jones ! Steve is an instantly recognisable face to anyone with a telly, presenting T4 for many years, plus The X Factor USA, Hair, Drop Zone and F1 coverage on Channel 4. Steve has recently released his first novel the very funny Call Time to rave reviews (and as you'll hear, already has books 2 and 3 in the bag). We talked to him about loving Tolkien, having fun with Filth, writing routines, the power of Stephen...
May 29, 2023•54 min•Season 13Ep. 135
Dream guest alert! We are very, very excited to welcome the wonderful Jenny Jackson to You're Booked! As well as being the author of smash hit novel Pineapple Street , Jenny has been a book editor for many years working with such YB faves as Katherine Heiny and Helen Fielding. So we had much to talk about. On the agenda is the genius of Laurie Colwin, the joy (and stress) of discovering new authors, some great, secret Katherine Heiny insight and Helen Fielding's paramedic skills (plus the record...
May 22, 2023•42 min•Season 13Ep. 134
This week we are delighted to welcome superstar author Caleb Azumah Nelson to the YB airwaves. As I'm sure you're well aware, Caleb's first book Open Water was a massive, bestselling success and won the prestigious Costa First Book award. His follow-up is the highly-anticipated Small Worlds which Candice Carty-Williams calls 'Beautiful, unforgettable and all-consuming'. We talked to Caleb about the joys of the Scholastic book fair, writing routines, the beauty of rereading, love stories in all t...
May 15, 2023•52 min•Season 13Ep. 133
We can't think of a better way to kick off a new series than a fabulously fun and illuminating chat with one of our favourite authors: Mhairi McFarlane ! Mhairi has been mentioned frequently on the podcast since we began and she is the beloved author of Mad About You , You Had Me At Hello , Here’s Looking At You , It’s Not Me It’s You , Last Night , Who’s That Girl and her latest Between Us . We talked to her about illicit uses of Judy Blume's Forever, formatively reading Fay Weldon and Gloria S...
May 08, 2023•53 min•Season 13Ep. 132
Book lovers everywhere, you are in for a treat! It's the brilliant, global sensation Emily Henry ! Emily is the New York Times bestselling author of Book Lovers , People We Meet on Vacation and Beach Read , as well as her latest, soon-to-be blockbuster: Happy Place . We talked to her about libraries as her Narnia, books as a curse (in a good way), reading crushes, and a deep dive into literary astrology. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE . For your chance to appear on...
Apr 17, 2023•58 min•Season 12Ep. 131
