The Literary Edit Podcast: Recent Episodes
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The Literary Edit Podcast is a place where host Lucy Pearson gets to wang on about books, glorious books to her heart's content. Each week, Lucy speaks to a new guest about the eight books they'd take with them to a desert island and why.
For the sixth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanne Harris. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
Myths of the Norsemen by H.A. Guerber
Gormenghast by Mervyn Peake
Les Misérables by Victor Hugo
R is for Rocket by Ray Bradbury
The Inimitable Jeeves by P.G. Wodehouse
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Perfumes, the Guide by Luca Turin and Tania Sanchez
Other books we spoke about included Like Water for Chocolate, by Laura Esquivel, Joanne’s Chocolat series, The Night at the Circus by Angela Carter, and The Lottery by Shirley Jackson.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the fifth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the gorgeous Jane Green. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
Bilgewater by Jane Gardam
On Writing by Stephen King
Great Expectations by Charles Dickens
May We Be Forgiven by A. M. Holmes
Other books we spoke about included Jane’s newest novel, Sister Stardust, The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier and Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the fourth episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Will Dean. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
A Kestrel for a Knave by Barry Hines
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters
Underland by Robert Mcfarlane
My Name is Leon by Kit de Waal
Under the Skin by Michael Faber
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Other books we spoke about included Will’s newest novel, First Born, Trainspotting, H is for Hawk, Frankenstein, On Writing and Danny the Champion of the World.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the third episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Justin Myers. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend
Last Night by Mhairi McFarlane
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Starlight Barking by Dodie Smith
This is Going to Hurt by Adam Kay
The Camomile Lawn by Mary Wesley
The Stud by Jackie Collins
Other books we spoke about included Justin’s newest novel, The Fake-Up, The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier, I Capture the Castle by Dodie Smith and Lucky by Jackie Collins.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the second episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the utterly divine Cressida Connolly. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
The Complete Stories of Anton Chekhov
Bleak House by Charles Dickens
All God’s Children Need Travelling Shoes by Maya Angelou
The Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Personality Types by Don Richardson Riso and Russ Hudson
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare
Friends & Relations by Elizabeth Bowen
Poems of Wang Wei translated by G W Robinson
Other books we spoke about included Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, Don’t Look Now by Daphne Du Maurier and Alice Munroe’s short stories.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the first episode of the second season of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by the utterly divine Markus Zusak. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Rumble Fish by S. E. Hinton
The Imaginary Girlfriend by John Irving
The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith
Wake in Fright by Kenneth Cook
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Night Train by Thom Jones
Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger
City of God by Paulo Lins
Other books we spoke about included A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton, 100 Remarkable Feats of Xander Maze By Clayton Zane Comber and Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twenty-fifth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by London-based author and writer, Robyn Donaldson. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
The Odyssey by Homer
Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth by Warsan Shire
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
The Collected Stories of Lorrie Moore by Lorrie Moore
A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway
Other books we spoke about included The Bricks that Built the Houses, All That Man is and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twenty-fourth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Namibia-based author, writer and all-round legend, Femi Kayode. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt
A Son of the Circus by John Irving
We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Razorblade Tears by S. A. Crosby
Sacred Games by Vikram Chandra
The Tradition by Jericho Brown
Other books we spoke about included A Prayer for Owen Meany, The Great Gatsby, Beloved and Harlem Shuffle.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twenty-third episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by US-based author and professor, Ali Hazelwood. You can read her list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Land of the Beautiful Dead by R Lee Smith
The Spare by Carolyn Jewel
Not Quite a Husband by Sherry Thomas
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Smooth Talking Stranger by Lisa Kleypas
The Wall of Winnipeg and Me by Mariana Zapata
Heart of Obsidian by Nalini Singh
Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow by Peter Hoeg
Other books we spoke about included Emma, Persuasion and The Love Hypothesis.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twenty-second episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Sydney-based writer and author, Andrew Pippos. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Radetzky March by Joseph Roth
The Puttermesser Papers by Cynthia Ozick
The Charterhouse of Parma by Stendhal
George Mills by Stanley Elkin
Praise and 1988 by Andrew McGahan
The Collected Poems of Riussell Edson
Collected Fictions by Jorges Louis Borges
Men in the Off Hours by Anne Carson
Other books we spoke about included Great Expectations by Charles Dickens, White Teeth by Zadie Smith and The Scapegoat by Daphne Du Maurier.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twenty-first episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by poet, writer and author, JJ Bola. I absolutely adored my conversation with JJ, and of all the guests I’ve had on my podcast, speaking to him about not only his love of books – but the stories behind them - really reminded me of why I started my podcast in the first place. You can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Season of Migration to the North by Tayib Saleh
We Real Cool and Will to Change by bell hooks
The Very Hungry Caterpillar by Eric Carle
The Wretched of the Earth by Frantz Fanon
Of Water and the Spirit by Malidoma Patrice Some
Songs from Under the River by Anis Mojgani
Basketball (And Other Things) by Shea Serrano
Two Thousand Seasons by Ayi Kwei Armah
Other books we spoke about included Behold the Dreamers by Imbole Mbue and A Little Life by Hanya Yanigaraha.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twentieth episode of The Literary Edit podcast, I was joined by Sylvester Onwordi, the son of the late, great Buchi Emecheta. A psychologist, medical anthropologist and publisher, you can read his list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in the episode are:
Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
Nightwood by Djuna Barnes
2001 Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke
In the Ditch by Buchi Emecheta
Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carol
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
Fictions by Jorges Louis Borges
Other books we spoke about included Second Class Citizen by Buchi Emecheta, The Stranger by Albert Camus, Nostromo by Joseph Conrad and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the nineteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by Australian author, journalist and activist Bri Lee, whose books Eggshell Skull, Beauty and Who Gets to Be Smart are among my favourite non-fiction reads.
You can read about Bri’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Harry Potter Series by J K Rowling
The Outline Trilogy by Rachel Cusk
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Superior by Angela Saini
Orchid & the Wasp by Caoilinn Hughes
No Friend but the Mountains by Behrouz Boochani
Less by Andrew Sean Greer
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Other books we spoke about included Count the Ways by Joyce Maynard, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving and Flames by Robbie Arnott.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created for Bri on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the eighteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by travel blogger, writer and author Phil Rosen, whose debut novel, Everywhere But Home, was an Amazon bestseller.
You can read about Phil’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
Wild by Cheryl Strayed
Island by Aldous Huxley
All the Light We Cannot See
The Plague by Albert Camus
The Razor’s Edge by W. Somerset Maugham
Other books we spoke about included On Writing by Stephen King, Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott, Travels with Charley by John Steinbeck and Dune by Frank Herbert. For those interested in John Steinbeck’s Sag harbour home that Phil and I discussed, you can have a look at it here. Le swoon.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the seventeenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author Chibundu Onuzo, whose debut novel, The Spider King's Daughter, was the winner of a Betty Trask Award, shorted for the Dylan Thomas Prize and the Commonwealth Book Prize and longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and Etisalat Literature Prize.
You can read about Chibundu’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Everything Good Will Come by Sefi Atta
The Earth Sea Quartet by Ursula Le Guin
The First Woman by Jennifer Makumbi
Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison
Ake by Wole Soyinka
Outline Series by Rachel Cusk
The Horse and His Boy by C.S Lewis
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Other books we spoke about included Chibundu’s books, Sankofa and The Spider King’s Daughter, Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi and Elena Ferrante’s My Brilliant Friend series.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the sixteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and editor Tobias Madden, who’s debut novel, Anything But Fine, was released on Tuesday.
You can read about Tobias’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell
The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven
Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend
The Magician King by Lev Grossman
A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
Other books we spoke about included Still Life by Sarah Winman, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and On Beauty by Zadie Smith.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the fifteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and journalist Sophie Heawood, who’s debut memoir, The Hungover Games is one of my all-time favourite books.
You can read about Sophie’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara
A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre
The Rules Do Not Apply by Andrea Levy
My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud
Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud
Freaky Dancin’ by Bez
Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut
Christmas in Exeter Street
Other books we spoke about included Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, I Couldn’t Love You More by Esther Freud and The Wild Other by Clover Stroud.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the fourteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author Jyoti Patel, winner of the second #Merky Books New Writers Prize, for her forthcoming novel, Six of One. She also wrote short story Break for We Transfer’s Literally platform.
You can read about Jyoti’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart
Emergency Kit: Poems For Strange Times, edited by Jo Shapcott & Matthew Sweeney
Atonement by Ian McEwan
The Good Immigrant, edited by Nikesh Shukla
Open Water by Caleb Azumah Nelson
Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge
The Boy, The Mole, The Fox and The Horse by Charlie Mackesy
Other books we spoke about included Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, On Chesil Beach by Ian McEwan, The Season of Phantasmal Peace by Derek Walcott and That Reminds Me by Derek Owusu.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the thirteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by Briony Benjamin, keynote speaker, global storyteller, and author of Life is Tough But So Are You.
You can read about Briony’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Factfulness by by Anna Rosling Rönnlund, Hans Rosling, and Ola Rosling
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
Why We Sleep by Matthew Walker
Mindset by Carol Dweck
How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carneige
The Proof is in the Plants by Simon Hill
The Barefoot Investor by Scott Pape
Pride and Prejudice
Other books we spoke about included The Artist’s Way, Little Women, Sorrow and Bliss, For One More Day and Anne of Green Gables.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.
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For the twelfth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by Clay Zane Comber, author and owner of Bouquiniste; a beautiful bookstore-café in Kiama.
You can read about Clay’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald
Looking for Alaska by John Green
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
I am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes
The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruis Zafon
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne
The Outsiders by S E Hinton
Other books we spoke about included The Secret Friend by Donna Tartt, A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara, Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro and Tender is the Night by F Scott Fitzgerald.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, or Clay’s brilliant bookshop, Bouquiniste.
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For the eleventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by columnist, journalist and author, Jacqueline Maley.
You can read about Jacqueline’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Commonwealth by Ann Patchett
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Mosfegh
Actress by Ann Enright
The Master by Colm Toibin
Anything is Possible by Elizabeth Strout
Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev
The Watch Tower by Elizabeth Harrower
Other books we spoke about included Eileen by Ottessa Mosfegh, Monkey Grip by Helen Garner, The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte, A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara, Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart and Olive Kitteridge by Lucie Barton.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the tenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast (I said in the podcast itself that it was the eleventh episode, I’m 27 days into lockdown down-under which is the only excuse I have to offer) I was joined by author, documentary film maker and philanthropist, Hannah Rothschild.
You can read about Hannah’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Way we Live Now by Anthony Trollope
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
The Neapolitan Series by Elena Ferrante
Scoop by Evelyn Waugh
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
The Overstory by Richard Power
Three Wishes by Nica de Koenigswater
Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
Old Filth by Jane Gardam
Other books we spoke about included Rebecca, Sons and Lovers, Half of a Yellow Sun, The Cazalet Chronicles, A Christmas Carol, The Leopard and The Hungover Games.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the ninth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by Ed Cunningham, podcaster at A Need to Read.
You can read about Ed’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Lost Connections by Johan Hari
The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff
Man’s Search for Meaning by Victor Frankl
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight
The Happiness Trap by Russ Harris
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamont
The Alchemist by Paulo Coehlo
Other books we spoke about included The Power of Now, 10% Happier, Shuggie Bain, The Midnight Library, The War of Art and Big Magic.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the eighth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the divine Cole Brown. His first book, brilliant memoir Grey Boy, was not only picked by Stephen Curry for his Underrated Book Club, but it too is being developed into a TV series by Yarra and Keri Shahidi.
You can read about Cole’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Phantom Tollboth by Norton Juster
The Known World by Edward P. Jones
Native Son by Richard Wright
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
Between the World and Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
The Warmth of Other Suns by Isabel Wilkerson
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
Other books we spoke about included Cole’s book Grey Boy, The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead, The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates, Go Tell it on the Mountain by James Baldwin and Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the seventh episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the wonderful Joanna Rakoff. Her first book, the charming memoir My Salinger Year, has recently been adapted to the big screen starring Sigourney Weaver.
You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton
On Beauty by Zadie Smith
Howard’s End by E. M. Forster
Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
Passing by Nella Larsen
Le Divorce by Diane Johnson
Foreign Affairs by Alison Lurie
Free Food For Millionaires by Min Jin Lee
Family Happiness by Laurie Colwin
Other books we spoke about included Joanna’s books My Salinger Year and A Fortunate Age, The Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas Pychon, Eligible by Curtis Sittenfeld, Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen, Pachinko by Min Jin Lee and Persian Nights by Diane Johnson.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the sixth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the brilliant former actress, playwright, writer and author, Esther Freud. Her first book, the semi-autobiographical Hideous Kinky, was made into a film starring Kate Winslet. She is the author of eight other critically acclaimed books.
You can read about Esther’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Little House on the Prairie by Laura Ingles Wilder
Voyage in the Dark by Jean Rhys
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
A Strange Eventful History: The dramatic lives of Ellen Terry, Henry Irving and their Remarkable Families by Michael Holroyd
Girl Woman Other by Bernardine Evaristo
Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh
A House Full of Daughters by Juliet Nicolson
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
Other books we spoke about included Rebecca, The Hobbit, The Shell Seekers, Hideous Kinky, I Couldn’t Love You More, Wuthering Heights, Dracula, Gone with the Wind and Shadow Play by Joseph O’Connor.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the fifth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the lovely Helen Russell. author, journalist and speaker. Her first book, The Year of Living Danishly, became an international bestseller and has been optioned for television. She is the author of four other critically acclaimed books, translated into 21 languages.
You can read about Helen’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
What I Loved by Siri Hustvedt
Notes on a Scandal by Zoe Heller
Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery
How Proust Can Change Your Life by Alain de Botton
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
Mythos by Stephen Fry
Bonjour Tristesse by François Sagan
The Versions of Us by Laura Barnett
Other books we spoke about included Hotel Du Lac, Wuthering Heights, The Worst Witch, Mallory Towers, The Course of Love, My Judy Garland Life and Helen’s books, which include The Year of Living Danishly, The Atlas of Happiness and Leap Year.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the fourth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by the divine Damian Barr. Author, broadcaster, and creator and host of the Literary Salon, which started at Shoreditch House in 2008, Damian hosts live literary events worldwide.
You can read about Damian Barr’s original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie by Muriel Spark
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
This is Not About Me by Janice Galloway
A Scots Dictionary of Nature by Amanda Thomson
Scabby Queen by Kirstin Innes
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
Other books we spoke about included The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway, The Third Life of Grange Copeland by Alice Walker, Damian’s books, Maggie and Me and You Will be Safe Here and Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the third episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and journalist, Sophia Money-Coutts.
You can read about Sophia Money-Coutts original list of Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
A New Earth by Eckhart Tolle
Notes from a Big Country by Bill Bryson
Standard Deviation by Katherine Heiny
Gone with the Windsors by Laurie Graham
The Morning Gift by Eva Ibbotson
The Consequences of Love by Gavanndra Hodge
Wave by Sonali Deraniyagala
Simple by Yotam Ottolenghi
Other books we spoke about included The Chimp Paradox, The Power of Now. Rodham, Prep, American Wife and Notes on a Small Island.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice.
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For the second episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by co-owner of Bondi bookshop Gertrude + Alice, blogger at Mr Turner and one of my all-time favourite bookish peeps, the brilliant Jordan Turner.
You can read about Jordan’s original list of Desert Island Books here (https://thelitedit.com/jordan-from-mr-turner/), and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
Places I Stopped on the Way Home by Meg Fee
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kid
Just Mercy by Bryan Stevenson
Betty by Tiffany McDaniel
Other books we spoke about included Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier, A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving, Free Food for Millionaires by Min Jin Lee, The Hungover Games by Sophie Heawood, Wild by Cheryl Strayed and Ulysees by James Joyce.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/lists/the-literary-edit-podcast-picks-jordan-turner), an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores.
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For the very first episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by OBE, Sunday Times bestselling author and founder of The Women's Prize for Fiction, the utterly wonderful Kate Mosse.
You can read about Kate’s original list of Desert Island Books here (https://thelitedit.com/desert-island-books-kate-mosse/) and the ones we discuss in this episode are:
Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
Sleeping Murder by Agatha Christie
Small Island by Andrea Levy
The Country Girls by Edna O’Brien
The Street by Ann Petry
The Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu
Dear Life by Rachel Clarke
Silent Spring by Rachel Carson
Other books we spoke about included Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo, Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell, We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver and this year’s Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist.
If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org (https://bookshop.org/lists/the-literary-edit-podcast-picks-kate-mosse), an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores.
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