Episode 1

Daisy Buchanan on reading yourself happy

Published on: 12th February, 2025

Daisy Buchanan is a bestselling author, journalist and broadcaster. Today we're talking about her latest book Read Yourself Happy and the unique power of books to make us feel better, as well as how reading makes us better writers.

Read Yourself Happy is out now

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Exit Interview - Kristi Coulter

Can You Ever Forgive Her? - Anthony Trollope

So Thrilled For You - Holly Bourne

Mad Woman - Bryony Gordon

This Is Not A Pity Memoir - Abi Morgan

The Come Up - Jonathan Abrams

The Lost Art of Keeping Secrets - Eva Rice

Happy All The Time - Laurie Colwin

Middlemarch - George Elliot

Alison - Lizzy Stewart

A Little Life - Hanya Yanagihara 

The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai

Don't Look At Me Like That - Diana Athill

Rachel's Holiday - Marian Keyes

I Capture the Castle - Dodi Smith

Probably Nothing - Lauren Bravo

When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit - Judith Kerr

Cazelet Chronicles - Elizabeth Jane Howard

Into the Woods - John Yorke

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Not Too Busy To Write
Writing amongst life's many other demands
Penny Wincer is not too busy to write. Except of course, sometimes she is too busy to write as much as she would like. Join Penny as she has conversations with other writers about writing, publishing and creativity whilst juggling all the demands on them such as motherhood, caring and other paid work.

Penny Wincer is the author of two narrative non-fiction books, Tender and Home Matters and a non-fiction writing coach. She's an Australian and long-term resident of London, a mother of two teenagers, an unpaid carer and always attempting to get just a little more writing done.

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Penny Wincer

Penny Wincer is the author of Tender: The Imperfect Art of Caring (Hodder, June 2020) and is a single parent to two kids, one of whom is disabled. She is also a non-fiction book coach and an Australian and long-term resident of London. She’s currently writing her second non-fiction book and working her first novel.