Our love of Jane Austen should be painfully aware. But this week's guest might put our devotion to shame. The brilliant Andrew Hunter Murray hosts two hit podcasts: No Such Thing as a Fish (Andrew is also a QI Elf) and Page 94: A Private Eye Podcast (Andrew also writes for the magazine). He was also part of the UK's premier (and possibly only) Jane Austen based comedy improv group Austentatious - so his devotion to the beloved author is assured. Andrew is also a bestselling author, his first novel The Last Day, was a Sunday Times Top 10 Bestseller, and one of the top 10 fiction debuts of 2020. His new book The Sanctuary has been described as 'A brilliantly clever thriller' by Richard Osman. We talked to Andrew about Douglas Adams, fabulous first editions, the brilliance of Persephone books, rewriting classics, sex and science and, of course, Jane Austen. Find out more about Andrew's picks at our Bookshop.org store.
Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Andrew Hunter Murray - The Sanctuary
Andrew Hunter Murray - The Last Day
John Wyndham - Day of the Triffids
George Orwell - Coming Up For Air
Jane Austen - Emma
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Jane Austen - Mansfield Park
Douglas Adams - Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Wendy Cooling - Puffin Book of Stories for Eight-year-olds
Ken Kesey - One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
George Eliot - Middlemarch
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Herman Melville - Moby Dick
Cervantes - Don Quixote
Dorothy Whipple - The Other Day
Dorothy Whipple - High Wages
Dorothy Whipple - Random Commentary
Dorothy Whipple - They Knew Mr Knight
Elizabeth Taylor - Angel
DH Lawrence - Lady's Chatterley's Lover
Winifred Watson - Miss Pettigrew Lives For a Day
Lucy Vine - Seven Exes
Amor Towles - A Gentleman in Moscow
Nora Ephron - Crazy Salad
Douglas Adams - So Long and Thanks For All the Fish
Mary Roach - Stiff
Mary Roach - Bonk
Mary Roach - Animals, Vegetable, Criminal
Evelyn Waugh - Sword of Honour
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
Evelyn Waugh - Scoop
Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall
Amanda Craig - Three Graces
Simon Raven - The Rich Pay Late
Evelyn Waugh - Handful of Dust
Nancy Mitford - The Pursuit of Love
Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time
Frank Herbert - Dune
PD James - Death Comes to Pemberley
Edith Wharton - House of Mirth
","author_name":"Daisy Buchanan"}