It's our season finale! And we are spending it with an absolute legend. Miranda Sawyer is a brilliant and inspirational journalist, broadcaster and author. She started her career at the iconic Smash Hits and has since worked for practically every major newspaper and magazine including The Face, Select, The Guardian, The Observer and Vogue. She's the author of the books Park and Ride, Out of Time and her latest Uncommon People: Britpop and Beyond in 20 Songs. We talked to Miranda about the women of Britpop, the genius of Smash Hits, corresponding with Joan Didion and getting off with Grace Jones. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Preorder your copy of Daisy's Read Yourself Happy by contacting The Margate Bookshop and visit Daisy's Substack to find out about her live dates. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party
Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy
Miranda Sawyer - Uncommon People
Miranda Sawyer - Out of Time
Holly Bourne - So Thrilled For You
Viv Albertine - Clothes, Music, Boys
Agatha Christie - And Then There Were None
Ian Fleming - Casino Royale
Raymond Chandler - The Long Goodbye
Truman Capote - In Cold Blood
Tom Wolfe - The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby
Hunter S Thompson - Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Lili Anolik - Didion and Babitz
Eve Babitz - Eve's Hollywood
Joan Didion - Slouching Towards Bethlehem
Jessica Stanley - Consider Yourself Kissed
Lily Allen - My Thoughts Exactly
Jude Rogers - The Sound of Being Human
Sylvia Patterson - I'm Not With the Band
Miki Berenyi - Fingers Crossed
Vivien Goldman - Rebel Musix, Scribe on a Vibe: Frontline Adventures Linking Punk, Reggae, Afrobeat and Jazz
Michael Cragg - Reach For the Stars
Craig Brown - One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time
Eva Rice - This Could Be Everything
Oliver Burkeman - Meditations For Mortals
Oliver Burkeman - Four Thousand Weeks
Patrick Freyne - Ok Lets Do Your Stupid Idea
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