What a way to start a new series! It's the author, classicist, broadcaster and bone fide National Treasure Dame Mary Beard. We were lucky enough to speak to Mary during the Jaiphur Literary Festival at Soneva Fushi in the Maldives. Mary is the author of many books about the ancient world including the global bestsellers Women & Power, SPQR and her latest Emperor of Rome: Ruling the Ancient Roman World. We talked to her about ancient Roman jokes, brutal writing advice, fearing fiction and the pros and cons of archaeology.
Daisy will be at Henley Literary Festival in early October and at the Margate Bookie at the end of October. Details of Daisy's How To Be a Grown Up event with Sarah Knight are available HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack and her Summer School Writing Course HERE or email: creativeconfidenceclinic@gmail.com. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. Find out more about all the books mentioned on the episode by visiting https://uk.bookshop.org/shop/booked
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Limelight
Daisy Buchanan - How To Be a Grown Up
Mary Beard - Women & Power
Mary Beard - Emperor of Rome
Charlotte Bronte - Jane Eyre
Jenny Diski - Stranger on a Train
Robert Graves - I, Claudius
Margaret Drabble - The Millstone
Margaret Drabble - The Garrick Year
Robert Harris - Pompeii
Heinrich Schliemann - Ilios, the City and Country of the Trojans
Lindsey Davis - The Silver Pigs
Mary Renault - The King Must Die
Peter Frankopan - The Silk Road
Kim Gordon, Sinead Gleason (Eds) - This Woman's Work
Sophocles - Antigone
Mary Beard - Roman Laughter
Seneca the Younger - Apocolocyntosis
Cassius Dio - The Roman History
Tom Holland - Slave of my Thirst
Tom Holland - Rubicon
Gavanndra Hodge - The Consequences of Love
George Orwell - Coming Up For Air
Laura Cumming - On Chapel Sands
Craig Brown - Maam Darling
Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham
Hilary Clinton - State of Terror
Tacitus - Annals
Prince Harry - Spare