Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... 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

Irenosen Okojie - Curandera

Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch

Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban

June Jordan - Essential

Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In

Sylvia Plath - Collected

Katherine May - Wintering

Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am

Sinead Gleason - Hagstone

Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye

Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River

Lauren Groff - Matrix

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Jackie Collins - The Stud

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Maggie Nelson - Argonauts

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

David Nicholls - Us

Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation

Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time

Carol Shields - Larry's Party

Laline Paull - Pod

Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet

Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent

Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush

Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead

Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son

Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby

Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

Octavia Butler - Wild Seed

Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You

Deborah Levy - Black Vodka

Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost

Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway

Leone Ross - This One Sky Day

Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime

Raymond Carver - Cathedral

Tawseef Khan - Determination

Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell

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This week we're delighted to share a conversation with an absolute legend, the punk singer, writer, artist, activist and all-around inspiration Kathleen Hanna! Kathleen is the iconic front-woman of the bands Bikini Kill and Le Tigre and the inspiration behind of the clothing company tees4togo which benefits the Peace Sisters charity. Kathleen has just released her memoir Rebel Girl which became an instant New York Times bestseller. We talked to her about the brilliance of Viv Albertine, the genius of Gabor Maté and the formative influence of Lyle, Lyle Crocodile. Find a full list of the books Fearne mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... 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

Kathleen Hanna - Rebel Girl

Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys

Viv Albertine - To Throw Away Unopened

Tiffany Haddish - The Last Black Unicorn

Chris L. Terry & James Spooner (Editors) - Black Punk Now

Jeffrey Gibson (Editor) - An Indigenous Present

Sarah Schulman - Conflict is Not Abuse

Sarah Hoagland - Lesbian Ethics

Ann Morgan - Reading the World

Gabor Maté - The Myth of Normal

Stephanie Foo - What My Bones Know

Jennie Godfrey - The List of Suspicious Things

ANN M Martin - Babysitter's Club

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Sarah J Maas - A Court of Thorns and Roses

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Judy Blume - Are You There God, It's Me Margaret

Bernard Waber - Lyle, Lyle, Crocodile

Don Freeman - Corduroy

Louise Fitzhugh - Harriet the Spy

Donald J. Sobol - Encyclopedia Brown, Boy Detective

Carolyn Keene - Nancy Drew

Roger Steffens - So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley

Arthur Ashe - Days of Grace

Sarah Royal - A.K.A. Lucy: The Dynamic and Determined Life of Lucille Ball

Tina Turner - My Love Story

Hanif Abdurraqib - There's Always This Year: On Basketball and Ascension

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We are back! And we are starting the new series off with a bang! It's the legendary broadcaster, podcaster, author and now novelist Fearne Cotton! Fearne is the host of the massively successful Happy Place podcast and the author of many books including Sunday Times bestsellers Happy, Cook Eat Love, Speak Your Truth, Bigger Than Us and many more. She has just released her first novel: Scripted. We talked to her about inspirational reading, classic rock biographies, generating confidence, Californian literary road trips and tortoises. Find a full list of the books Fearne mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... The episode is sposored 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

Fearne Cotton - Happy

Fearne Cotton - Scripted

Sue Perkins - Spectacles

Paloma Faith - MILF

Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing

Katherine May - Wintering

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

Priscilla Presley - Elvis and Me

Rita Marley - No Woman No Cry

Pamela Des Barres - I'm With the Band

Anjelica Huston - A Story Lately Told

Anjelica Huston - Watch Me

Rupert Everett - Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins

Rupert Everett - Vanished Years

Zandra Rhodes - Iconic: My Life in Fashion in 50 Objects

Tina Brown - The Vanity Fair Diaries

Alan Rickman - Madly, Deeply: The Alan Rickman Diaries

Elton John - Me

Debbie Harry - Face It

Pamela Des Barres - Take Another Little Piece of my Heart

Pamela Des Barres - Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies

Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Daisy Jones and the Six

Brian Hiatt - Springsteen: Stories Behind the Songs

Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed

Lucy Vine - Date with Destiny

Diana Cooper - A New Light on Angels

Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None

Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley High

Enid Blyton - The Magic Faraway Tree

Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection

Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy

Don Miguel Ruiz - The Four Agreements

Erling Kagge - Silence

Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back

Yungblud - You Need to Exist

Helene Hanff - Letter from New York

Matt Haig - Impossible Life

Lisa Taddeo - Three Women

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