Get ready for a really fun, warm and refreshing chat with one of our favourite authors, the brilliant Amanda Prowse! Amanda is an Internationally bestselling author of novels, non-fiction books and short stories, whose books have been published worldwide in dozens of languages. Her chart topping titles include What Have I Done?, Perfect Daughter, My Husband’s Wife, The Girl in the Corner and her latest is the wonderful Swimming to Lundy. We talked to her about magic, library love, literary Christmas gift ideas, the joy of annuals and the genius of Maeve Binchy. 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
Amanda Prowse - Swimming to Lundy
Colleen McCullough - The Thorn Birds
The Bunty Annual
The Mandy Annual
The Beano Annual
Jackie - 60 Years of Magic
Jill Mansell - Promise Me
Katie Hickman - She-Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen: British Women in India
Clarissa Pinkola Estes - Women Who Run With the Wolves
Armistead Maupin - Tales of the City
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls
Shirley Conran - Lace
Danielle Steele - Palazzo
VC Andrews - Flowers in the Attic
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
Jilly Cooper - Polo
Jilly Cooper - Between the Covers
Rufi Thorpe - Margot's Got Money Troubles
Callum Robinson - Ingrained
Carol Ann Duffy - Three Wise Men
Dr Seuss - Oh The Places You'll Go
Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better
Nigella Lawson - Nigella Christmas
Diana Henry - Simple
Nigel Slater - A Thousand Feasts
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Thomas Hardy - Collected Poems
Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Thomas Hardy - Far From the Madding Crowd
Maeve Binchy - Evening Class
Stephenie Meyer - Twilight
Joyce Lankester Brisley - Milly Molly Mandy
Joyce Lankester Brisley - Marigold in Godmother's House
Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You
Holly Bourne - You Could Be So Pretty
Lemony Snicket - A Series of Unfortunate Events
Daniel Handler - And Then? And Then? What Else?: A Writer's Life
Bruce Omar Yates - The Muslim Cowboy
Shelby Van Pelt - Remarkably Bright Creatures
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