Hurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys, the profound influence of Sylvia Plath, the genius of Adrian Mole and getting uncomfortably close to Kate Bush. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com
BOOKS
Katherine May - Enchantment
Katherine May - Wintering
Katherine May - The Electricity of Every Living Thing
Shirley Hazzard - The Transit of Venus
Fay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-Devil
Stephen King - Carrie
Claude Tardat - A Sweet Death
Angela Carter - Nights at the Circus
Ben Okri - The Famished Road
Milan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Michael Ondaatje - The English Patient
Charlotte Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Sue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole
Sue Townsend - The Queen and I
Willy Russell - Educating Rita
George and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a Nobody
Erich Kastner - Lotte and Lisa
Sylvia Plath - The Bell Jar
Sylvia Plath - Collected Poems
Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge
Cathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel Better
Jenny Diski - Skating to Antarctica
Elizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac Nation
Alan Rickman - Diaries
Suzanne Buffam - A Pillow Book
Sei Shonagon - The Pillow Book
Jenny Offill - Department of Speculation
Jennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum Died
Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
Fern Brady - Strong Female Character
Diana Athill - Stet
Jean Rhys - Letters
Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea
Maggie Smith - You Could Make This Place Beautiful
Elissa Altman - On Permission
Cookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black
Michael Pollan - How To Change Your Mind
Miriam Toews - All My Puny Sorrows
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air
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