Get ready for a fun, thorough and frequently mirth-filled conversation with the internationally bestselling author Jessie Burton! Jessie’s first book was the monster hit The Miniaturist, followed up by the exceptional The Muse and her latest, the chart-topping The Confession. We talked to Jessie about the joys of living with a bookseller, the particular pain associated with rereading, her favourite funny books and the all-around inspiration that is Princess Margaret.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – How To Be a Grown Up

Daisy Buchanan – Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable

Jessie Burton – Miniaturist

Jessie Burton – Confession

Baroness Glenconner – Lady in Waiting

Craig Brown – Maam Darling

Octavia Butler – Kindred

Marlon James – Book of Night Women

Andrea Levy – Long Song

Gayl Jones – Corregidora

Sheila Heti – Motherhood

Lauren Groff – Fates & Furies

Tracy Chevalier – Girl With a Pearl Earring

Charlotte Bronte – Jane Eyre

Daphne Du Maurier – Rebecca

Roald Dahl – Matilda

LP Hartley – Go Between

Jane Austen – Pride and Prejudice

Margaret Atwood – Cats Eye

Thom Gunn – Selected Poems

Noel Streatfeild – Ballet Shoes

Jessie Burton – Restless Girls

Ann Patchett – Dutch House

Lissa Evans – V For Victory

Eva Ibbotson – Secret Countess

Elizabeth Jane Howard – Cazelet Chronicles

Penelope Mortimer – Saturday Lunch with the Brownings

Jessie Burton – Muse

Edward St Aubyn – Patrick Melrose

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