This week, we are delighted to present a very funny, thoughtful and free-flowing conversation with a very old friend of the podcast, Nell Frizzell! We’ve been dreaming of having Nell appear on the show since it began, so we’re delighted to finally get the chance to chat. Nell is an author, journalist and podcaster. Her first novel was the hilarious Square One, while her first book, The Panic Years, dealt with womanhood, motherhood and… panic. Her latest is Holding the Baby, a memoir on parenting that culminates in a manifesto. We talked to Nell about fantastic literary fathers, the forbidden fruit of Bridget Jones, great fictional witches and deliberately not finishing a book because you love it so much. For your chance to appear on the podcast, pre-order Daisy’s next book Limelight from Bookshop.org. Details of Daisy’s event in Bath with Pineapple Street author Jenny Jackson are here.
BOOKS
Nell Frizzell – Square One
Nell Frizzell – Holding the Baby
Nell Frizzell – The Panic Years
Melissa Fu – Peach Blossom Spring
Anne Bronte – Tenant of Wildfell Hall
Arundhati Roy – God of Small Things
Barbara Comyns – Our Spoons Came From Woolworths
Lemn Sissay – My Name is Why
Jane Austen – Sense and Sensibility
Rob Delaney – Heart That Works
Elizabeth Strout – Lucy By the Sea
David Nichols – Us
Elizabeth Strout – Oh William
Jonathan Coe – Bourneville
Jonathan Coe – Rotters Club
Jonathan Coe – What a Carve Up
Katherine Heiny – Early Morning Riser
Helen Fielding – Bridget Jones’s Diary
Helen Fielding – Cause Celebre
Jacqueline Susan – Valley of the Dolls
Tony Bradman – Sam the Girl Detective
Kaye Umansky – Pongwiffy
Spike Milligan – Badjelly
Korky Paul and Valerie Thomas – Winnie the Witch
Vikram Seth – Suitable Boy
Vikram Seth – Equal Music
Johanna Spyri – Heidi
Roald Dahl – Fantastic Mr Fox
Bill Bryson – Notes From a Small Island
Bill Bryson – The Body
Bill Bryson – Down Under
Arthur Conan Doyle – Sherlock Holmes
Michael Palin – Hemingway’s Chair
Cesca Major – Maybe Next Time
Naomi Wood – Mrs Hemingway
Martha Gellhorn – Travels with Myself and Another
Dervla Murphy – Wheels Within Wheels
Freya Stark – Valleys of the Assassins
Rosita Boland – Elsewhere
Mary Wollstonecraft- Letters from Sweden, Norway and Denmark
Musa Okwonga – One of Them
Jilly Cooper – Class
Leo Tolstoy – Anna Karenina
Jilly Cooper – Riders
Josie Long – BecauseI Don’t Know What You Mean And What You Don’t
Jean Rhys – Voyage in the Dark
Nella Larsen – Passing
Sarah Gilmartin – Dinner Party
Philip Larkin – Whitsun Weddings
Rose Tremain – The Colour
AJ Pearce – Mrs Porter Calling
AJ Pearce – Dear Mrs Bird
Tim Burrows – Invention of Essex
Henry James – The Europeans
Clover Stroud – My Wild & Sleepless Nights
Katy Wix – Delicacy
Alice Vincent – Rootbound
Amy Liptrot – The Instant
Steve Jones – Call Time
Ian Fleming – Casino Royale
Chelsea Conaboy – Mother Brain
Rosie Kinchen – Ballast Seed
Paul Morgan-Bentley – Equal Parent
Philip Larkin – A Girl in Winter
Luiza Sauma – Everything You Ever Wanted
Luiza Sauma – Flesh & Bone & Water
Mary Beard – Good Working Mother’s Guide
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