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

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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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