Hurrah! This week we're featuring an author we've trying to tempt onto the show for ages. It's the brilliant Katherine May! Katherine is the New York Times-bestselling author of Wintering which has been translated into twenty-five languages around the world, the acclaimed The Electricity of Every Living Thing and her new book Enchantment: Reawakening Wonder in an Exhausted Age. She also hosts the podcast How We Live Now in which Katherine and her guests try to access wonder and joy in a world determined to elicit exhaustion and despair. We talked to Katherine about the brilliance of Jean Rhys, the profound influence of Sylvia Plath, the genius of Adrian Mole and getting uncomfortably close to Kate Bush. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy's next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Visit Daisy's Instagram page to enter the Careering cover creation challenge! And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.comBOOKSKatherine May - EnchantmentKatherine May - WinteringKatherine May - The Electricity of Every Living ThingShirley Hazzard - The Transit of VenusFay Weldon - The Life and Loves of a She-DevilStephen King - CarrieClaude Tardat - A Sweet DeathAngela Carter - Nights at the CircusBen Okri - The Famished RoadMilan Kundera - The Unbearable Lightness of BeingMichael Ondaatje - The English PatientCharlotte Bronte - Wuthering HeightsSue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian MoleSue Townsend - The Queen and IWilly Russell - Educating RitaGeorge and Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyErich Kastner - Lotte and LisaSylvia Plath - The Bell JarSylvia Plath - Collected PoemsCarrie Fisher - Postcards From the EdgeCathy Rentzenbrink - How To Feel BetterJenny Diski - Skating to AntarcticaElizabeth Wurtzel - Prozac NationAlan Rickman - DiariesSuzanne Buffam - A Pillow BookSei Shonagon - The Pillow BookJenny Offill - Department of SpeculationJennette McCurdy - I'm Glad My Mum DiedMiki Berenyi - Fingers CrossedElizabeth Gilbert - Big MagicFern Brady - Strong Female CharacterDiana Athill - StetJean Rhys - LettersJean Rhys - Wide Sargasso SeaMaggie Smith - You Could Make This Place BeautifulElissa Altman - On PermissionCookie Mueller - Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted BlackMichael Pollan - How To Change Your MindMiriam Toews - All My Puny SorrowsSylvia Townsend Warner - Lolly WillowesSylvia Townsend Warner - Winter in the Air Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.