Catherine Gray - You're Booked

Our series 15 cavalcade of champions continues with the wonderful Catherine Gray! Catherine is an award-winning author, editor and podcaster whose writing has been seen in the Guardian, Stylist, Telegraph, Grazia and Stella. Catherine's hit debut book, The Unexpected Joy of Being Sober, became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller, followed by the acclaimed The Unexpected Joy of the Ordinary, The Unexpected Joy of Being Single and Sunshine Warm Sober. Her debut novel Versions of a Girl has just been released. We talked to her about sobriety memoirs, formative reads, historical troublemakers, David Sedaris writing advice and more on the often fraught Fanny Price debate.Find out more about all the books Catherine mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store.Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic...BOOKSCatherine Gray - Versions of a GirlCatherine Gray - The Unexpected Joy of Being SoberDaphne Du Maurier - RebeccaAugusten Burroughs - DrySarah Hepola - BlackoutMark Williams and Denny Penman - MindfulnessSasha Scoblic - UnwastedRolad Dahl - James and the Giant PeachLois Lowry - Anastasia KrupnikThe School of Life - How To Overcome Your ChildhoodJilly Cooper - RivalsPhilip Pullman - Northern LightsAnne Helen Petersen - Can't Even Vendela Veda - We Run the TidesCatherine Newman - SandwichCeleste Ng - Little Fires EverywhereCoco Mellors - Blue SistersKiley Reid - Come and Get itJane Austen - Mansfield ParkJane Austen - EmmaNikki May - WahalaNikki May - This Motherless LandJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceSylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly WillowesKatherine May - The Electricity of Every Living ThingElspeth Barker - O CaledoniaGail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely FineHelen Fielding - Bridget Jones's DiaryDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableJean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight Jay McInerney - Bright Lights Big CityJay McInerney - The Story of My LifeGeorge Eliot - MiddlemarchKatherine Heiny - Early Morning RiserCatherine Newman - We All Want Impossible ThingsGabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and TomorrowCurtis Sittenfeld - American WifeDavid Sedaris - The Best of MeDaisy Buchanan - Read Yourself HappyJudith Kerr - When Hitler Stole Pink RabbitJoan Didion - Let Me Tell You What I MeanClare Keegan - FosterFrances Quinn - That Bone Setter WomanJodi Picoult - By Any Other NameBonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Welcome to You’re Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers who would like the chance to snoop around their favourite authors’ bookshelves.I’m Daisy Buchanan, your Book Inspector, and I’ll be asking our guests all about the first forbidden books they read under the covers, the beloved books they have borrowed, and never given back, and those impressive heavyweight hardbacks that make them look like intellectual giants – even though they couldn’t get beyond the first twenty pages.We’ll also be talking about what makes readers into writers, how our guests became book lovers and their favourite reading memories, all with a dash of intelligence and a dollop of irreverence. Our guests include Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla, and many more favourites from our own bookshelves. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.