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Bella Mackie - You're Booked

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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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