This was so much fun! Get ready for a funny, frank and fulfilling conversation with the brilliant Nikki May! Nikki’s debut novel Wahala was a former Steal of the Week and one of our favourite books in recent times. It’s currently being adapted for TV and was recently shortlisted for the CWIP prize. We talked to Nikki about the problems associated with reading as a kid in Lagos, favourite food books, spies, crime and dystopias and what Nikki believes is the perfect book. 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.com. Details of Daisy’s event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – Careering

Daisy Buchanan – Limelight

Nikki May – Wahala

Enid Blyton – Famous Five

Nigella Lawson – How To Be a Domestic Goddess

Nigel Slater – Toast

Grace Dent – Hungry

Sue Grafton – A is for Alibi

Jilly Cooper – Imogen

Liane Moriarty – Big Little Lies

Sophie Kinsella – The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic

Ian McEwan – Atonement

Jade Beer – The Last Dress From Paris

Agatha Christie – The Blue Train

Alistair MacLean – Ice Station Zebra

John Le Carre – Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy

Enid Blyton – Malory Towers

Coco Mellors – Cleopatra and Frankenstein

Luke Jennings – Killing Eve

Patricia Highsmith – The Talented Mr Ripley

Mick Herron – Slow Horses

Percival Everett – The Trees

Percival Everett – Erasure

Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age

Anna Hope – Expectation

Candice Carty-Williams – Queenie

Wole Soyinka – Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth

Chinua Achebe – Things Fall Apart

Oyinkan Braithwaite – My Sister the Serial Killer

Damilare Kuku – Nearly All the Men in Lagos Are Mad

Nina Stibbe – Paradise Lodge

Abi Dare – The Girl with the Louding Voice

Ali Smith – How To Be Both

Sally Rooney – Normal People

Delia Owens – Where Did the Crawdads Sing

Kate Elizabeth Russell – My Dark Vanessa

Jeanine Cummins – American Dirt

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie – Reith Lecture

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Emily St John Mandel – Station 11

Bethany Clift – Last One at the Party

Laurie Colwin – Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin – More Home Cooking

Kazuo Ishiguro – Klara and the Sun

Kate Atkinson – Shrines of Gaiety

Monica Heisey – Really Good, Actually

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