As a little bonus treat, we are delighted to present this glorious, nourishing conversation with the fantastic Emma Black! Emma is a hugely talented opera director, veracious reader and winner of the You're Booked auction, raising funds for Book Fuel. Emma talks about her early fascination with Anne of Green Gables, a terrible crime committed to a copy of In Cold Blood in a New Zealand youth hostel, loving Meg Wolitzer, Katherine Heiny and Curtis Sittenfeld and the books she's looking forward to next year (and much more!) If you would like to find out more or donate to National Energy Action, who are attempting to eradicate fuel poverty, then please visit NEA.org.uk. Find out more about the books mentioned on the episode by visiting our bookshop.org shop. Sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com BOOKS Jill Tomlinson - The Owl Who Was Afraid of the Dark Jill Tomlinson - Penguin's Who Wanted To Find Out Jill Murphy - Five Minutes Peace LM Montgomery - Anne of Green Gables LM Montgomery - Journals LM Montgomery - Anne of Avonlea EM Brent-Dyer - The Chalet School Enid Blyton - Malory Towers Ann M. Martin - The Baby-Sitters Club JK Rowling - Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone Truman Capote - In Cold Blood Truman Capote - Breakfast at Tiffany's Truman Capote - A Christmas Memory Deborah Davis - Party of the Century Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott - Swan Song Andy Miller - Year of Reading Dangerously Jilly Cooper - Imogen Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic Meg Wolitzer - Female Persuasion Meg Wolitzer - The Wife Meg Wolitzer - The Interestings Meg Wolitzer - Ten Year Nap Emma Straub - This Time Tomorrow Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Katherine Heiny - Single Carefree Mellow Meg Mason - Sorrow and Bliss Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Taylor Jenkins Reid - Carrie Soto is Back  Katy Wix - Delicacy Curtis Sittenfeld - Romantic Comedy Curtis Sittenfeld - Rodham Curtis Sittenfeld - American Wife Curtis Sittenfeld - Prep Curtis Sittenfeld - Eligible Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charle Dickens - David Copperfield Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Joanna Quinn - The Whalebone Theatre Elizabeth Jane Howard - The Cazelet Chronicles Kate Atkinson - Life After Life Amor Towles - Lincoln Highway Amor Towles - Rules of Civility Amor Towles - Gentleman in Moscow Jonathan Coe - Bourneville Jonathan Coe - Rotters Club Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.