We are Shelf Isolating once again this week, where we talk to some of our favourite former guests, friends of the YB family and people we adore about how books and reading are helping them get through the lockdown. This week’s guest falls into all three categories as we pay a return visit to journalist and author Lauren Bravo! Lauren is the author of How to Break Up with Fast Fashion and What Would the Spice Girls Do? We talked to her about her funniest ever reads, cookery books as fiction, the genius of Barbara Trapido and YA comfort reads.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan – The Sisterhood

Daisy Buchanan – Insatiable

Lauren Bravo – How To Break Up With Fast Fashion

Lauren Bravo – What Would The Spice Girls Do

Kiley Reid – Such a Fun Age

Jean Ure – Jo in the Middle

Jaqueline Wilson – Girls in Tears

Jaqueline Wilson – Girls Out Late

Jaqueline Wilson – Story of Tracey Beaker

Jaqueline Wilson – Suitcase Kid

Barbara Trapido – Brother of the More Famous Jack

Marian Keyes – Other Side of the Story

Marian Keyes – Last Chance Saloon

Bill Bryson – Notes From a Big Country

EM Delafield – Diary of a Provincial Lady

George and Weedon Grossmith – Diary of a Nobody

Lauren Bravo – Litmus Test Books

Mary Wesley – An Imaginative Experience

Mary Wesley – Camomile Lawn

Laura Goodman – Carbs

Anna Jones – A Modern Cook’s Year

David Sedaris – Me Talk Pretty One Day

Ottessa Moshfegh – Year of Rest and Relaxation

Mary Norton – Borrowers

Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge

Nina Stibbe – Man at the Helm

Nina Stibbe – Reasons to be Cheerful

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