It's our season finale! And we are spending it with an absolute legend. Miranda Sawyer is a brilliant and inspirational journalist, broadcaster and author. She started her career at the iconic Smash Hits and has since worked for practically every major newspaper and magazine including The Face, Select, The Guardian, The Observer and Vogue. She's the author of the books Park and Ride, Out of Time and her latest Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs. We talked to Miranda about the women of Britpop, the genius of Smash Hits, corresponding with Joan Didion and getting off with Grace Jones. 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

Miranda Sawyer - Uncommon People

Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time

Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Ian Fleming - Casino Royale

Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye

Truman Capote - In Cold Blood

Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby

Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem

Jessica Stanley - Consider Yourself Kissed

Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly

Jude Rogers - The Sound of Being Human

Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With the Band

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Vivien Goldman - Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz

Michael Cragg - Reach For the Stars

Craig Brown - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time

Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything

Oliver Burkeman - Meditations For Mortals

Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks

Patrick Freyne - Ok Lets Do Your Stupid Idea

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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

Persephone Books

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

Chapter 34 Books

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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This week we are welcoming podcast, comedy and writerly royalty to the show. It's the amazing Cariad Lloyd! Cariad is the host of the podcasts Weirdos Book Club, alongside former guest Sara Pascoe, and the award-winning Griefcast, plus a book based on the podcast You Are Not Alone. She is an actor, comedian and improviser and has just released her first children's book The Christmas Wish-tastrophe (plus another one soon - revealed exclusively during the show!) We talked to her about helpful reading habits, the importance of a great booklight, good books about grief and a surprising literary obsession (with a former guest). 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 - Read Yourself Happy

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Cariad Lloyd - You Are Not Alone

Cariad Lloyd - The Christmas Wishtastrophe

Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz

JRR Tolkien - Lord of the Rings

JRR Tolkien - The Hobbit

Brian Jacques - Mossflower

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

AA Milne - Winnie the Pooh

Brothers Grimm - Fairy Tales

Lynne Reid Banks - Fairy Rebel

Anne Fine - Diary of a Killer Cat

Terry Pratchett - Colour of Magic

Tove Jansson - Tales from Moominvalley

Astrid Lindgren - Pippi Longstocking

Nadia Shireen - Grimwood

Nadia Shireen - Billy and the Beast

Nadia Shireen - Bumblebear

Douglas Adams - Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy

JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

Jill Murphy - Worst Witch

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Jeffrey Archer - As the Crow Flies

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Lucy Ellmann - Ducks Newburyport

George Saunders - Lincoln in the Bardo

George Saunders - Swim in the Pond in the Rain

Guadalupe Nettel - Still Born

Madeline Linford - Out of the Window

Tessa Hadley - Free Love

Joe Heap - Rules of Seeing

Hilary Mantel - Mirror and the Light

Charles Darwin - Bleak House

George Eliot - Middlemarch

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life

Douglas Stuart - Young Mungo

John Ransom - The Whale Tattoo

John Ransom - The Gallopers

Cariad Lloyd - Where Did She Go

Tom Percival - Ruby's Worry

Tom Percival - Meesha Makes Friends

Tom Percival - Perfectly Norman

Julia Donaldson - Paper Dolls

Oliver Jeffers - Heart and the Bottle

Frances Hodgson Burnett - Secret Garden

Nikki May - This Motherless Land

Jane Austen - Mansfield Park

Nikki May - Wahala

Ann Patchett - Tom Lake

Ann Patchett - Bel Canto

Octavia Butler - Kindred

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