This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. 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
Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin
Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin
Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store
Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry
Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow
TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile
Much Ado Bookshop
Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble
Robert Lowell - Imitations
Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey
Donna Tartt - The Secret History
Roberto Bolano - 2666
Paul Beatty - The Sellout
Philip Pullman - Northern Lights
Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga
Jilly Cooper - Rivals
John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure
MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me
Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork
Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now
Tim Spector - Food For Life
Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People
Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts
Lucy Mangan - Bookworm
Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street
David Niven - Moon's a Balloon
Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman
Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up
Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy
Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor
Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity
Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025
Noel Streatfeild - Saplings
Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes
Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry
Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family
Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle
Lizzy Stewart - Alison
Jane Oliver - Business as Usual
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires
Min Jin Lee - Pachinko
Laurie colwin - Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time
India Knight - Darling
Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love
Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin
Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue
Time Life Editors - Patisserie
Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary
Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin
Bee Wilson - Swindled
Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World
Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are
Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up
Diana Vreeland - DV
Diana Vreeland - Memos
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