This week's guest is a full-blown National Treasure. Mel Giedroyc is a versatile presenter, actor and comedian, who formed a formidable comedy partnership with Sue Perkins, hosted the iconic Great British Bake Off and has starred in West End musicals. And now Mel can add novelist to her list of achievements with her critically acclaimed debut The Best Things already topping the charts. We talked to her about her ferocious devotion to Jean Valjean, the funny book she always gives as a gift and the book so scary she'd only read it when other people were in the room.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things
Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind
Jane Austen - Persuasion
Victor Hugo - Les Miserables
Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights
Nigel Planer & Christopher Douglas - I an Actor
Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs
Robert Goddard - Past Caring
Robert Goddard - The Fine Art of Invisible Detection
Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter
Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickelby
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking
Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time
Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults
Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet
Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies
Lissa Evans - V For Victory
Mary Wesley - Sensible Life
Mary Welsley - Camomile Lawn
Zadie Smith - Swing Time
Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned
Dante - Inferno
Georgia Pritchett - My Mess is a Bit of a Life
Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful
Fanny Craddock - Fanny Craddock Invites
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