This week on the podcast we're entertaining one of our favourite writers and one of our favourite people. The brilliant Holly Williams! Holly is a journalist and author who writes about books and theatre for everyone from The Observer to the New York Times and is the author of two fantastic novels, What Time is Love and The Start of Something. We traveled to Holly's wonderful Sheffield home and talked to her about the Tolstoy family dynasty, cosy planning. life lessons from Marian Keyes, generating a poetry habit and books so engrossing you miss your train connection. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Preorder your copy of Daisy's new book Read Yourself Happy.
BOOKS
Holly Williams - What Time is Love
Holly Williams - Start of Something
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Holly Williams - Living With Leo
Ali Smith - Winter
Ali Smith - How To Be Both
Zadie Smith - On Beauty
Ted Hughes - Selected Poems
Seamus Heaney - Selected Poems
Paul Muldoon - Selected Poems
Don Paterson - Selected Poems
Julia Cameron - Artist's Way
Ocean Vuong - Time is a Mother
Ocean Vuong - On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
Helen Mort - Illustrated Woman
Hannah Sullivan - Three Poems
Sharon Olds - Stag's Leap
Ross Gay - The Book of Delights
JB Priestly - Delight
RC Sherriff - Fortnight in September
Lauren Bravo - Preloved
Claire Keegan - Small Things Like These
Claire Keegan - So Late in the Day
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Bernadine Evaristo - Girl Woman Other
Katherine Heiny - Games and Rituals
Katherine Heiny - Single, Carefree, Mellow
Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation
Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Marian Keyes - This Charming Man
Marian Keyes - Again Rachel
Marian Keyes - Rachel's Holiday
Celia Paul - Self-Portrait
Gary Shteyngart - Super Sad True Love Story
Daisy Buchanan - Careering
Arthur Schnitzler - La Ronde
Victoria Wood - Chunky
Jesse Armstrong - Succession scripts
JB Priestly - An Inspector Calls
Christopher Marlowe - Doctor Faustus
Timberlake Wertenbaker - The Love of the Nightingale
Timberlake Wertenbaker - Our Country's Good
Peter Barnes - The Ruling Class
Virginia Woolf - Mrs Dalloway
Virginia Woolf - Diaries
Virginia Woolf - Letters
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Various - Weird Walk
Jilly Cooper - Riders
Kathryn Scanlan - Kick the Latch
Rita Bullwinkel - Headshot
Ottessa Moshfegh - Lapvona
Jen Calleja - Vehicle
Akwaeke Emezi - You Made a Fool of Death With Your Beauty
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Adrian Tomine - New York Drawings
Ella Frears - Goodlord
Philip Pullman - Book of Dust
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
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