{"version":"1.0","type":"rich","provider_name":"Acast","provider_url":"https://acast.com","height":250,"width":700,"html":"<iframe src=\"https://embed.acast.com/$/88c77d59-05df-402d-8195-2dfc83d7a3e9/64a01408318bac0012ab534e?\" frameBorder=\"0\" width=\"700\" height=\"250\"></iframe>","title":"DBC Pierre - You're Booked","thumbnail_width":200,"thumbnail_height":200,"thumbnail_url":"https://open-images.acast.com/shows/60ef0dd159ecdb1bc24de1e2/show-cover.jpg?height=200","description":"<p>We are back at the <a href=\"https://jaipurliteraturefestival.org/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Jaipur Literature Festival</a> at <a href=\"https://soneva.com/resorts/soneva-fushi/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Soneva Fushi</a> in the Maldives for this freewheeling conversation with the legend that is<a href=\"https://www.dbcpierre.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong> DBC Pierre</strong></a>! Pierre's debut novel <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9780571215164\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Vernon God Little</a> was the winner of the Man Booker Prize for Fiction and the Whitbread First Novel Award.&nbsp;He followed this with a series of acclaimed works in fiction and non-fiction including Ludmila's Broken English, Breakfast with the Borgias, Release the Bats and his latest <a href=\"https://uk.bookshop.org/a/3827/9781788169776\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Big Snake, Little Snake </a>which is a meditation on fate, risk and luck. We talked to him about illicit reading in the barber's chair, writing tips and routines, hopeful books, debauchery, decadence and the necessary joy of plodding.</p><p><br></p><p>Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour and the Ty the Beach Hut Guy Limelight competition on her Instagram page <a href=\"https://www.instagram.com/thedaisybee/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">@TheDaisyBee</a>. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course<a href=\"https://creativeconfidenceclinic.substack.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&nbsp;HERE</strong></a> or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to:<a href=\"https://furtherreading.substack.com/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>&nbsp;FurtherReading.Substack.com</strong></a>.</p><p><br></p><p><strong>BOOKS</strong></p><p>DBC Pierre - Vernon God Little</p><p>DBC Pierre -Big Snake Little Snake</p><p>William Golding - Lord of the Flies</p><p>James Michener - The Drifters</p><p>Naguib Mahfouz - Adrift on the Nile</p><p>Peter Frankopan - The Silk Roads</p><p>William Dalrymple - The Anarchy</p><p>Evelyn Waugh - Decline and Fall</p><p>James Salter - A Sport and a Pastime</p><p>Marquis De Sade - 120 Days of Sodom</p><p>Marquis De Sade - Juliette</p><p>Henri Charrière - Papillion</p><p>DBC Pierre - Release the Bats</p><p>Sarah Knight - Grow the F*** Up</p><p>Stephen King - On Writing</p><p>Stephen King - Dolores Claiborne</p><p>Anne Lamott - Bird By Bird</p><p>Viv Albertine -&nbsp;Clothes, Music, Boys</p><p>Alejandro Zambra - My Documents</p><p>Isabel Allende - House of the Spirits</p><p>Julio Cortazar - Hopscotch</p><p>James Joyce - Ulysses</p><p>Grigor Narekatsi - The Book of Sadness</p><p>Katherine Heiny - Early Morning Riser</p><p>Joris-Karl Huysmans - Against Nature</p><p>Jack Kerouac - Big Sur</p>","author_name":"Daisy Buchanan"}