Balli Kaur Jaswal - You're Booked
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Now this is a treat! Get ready for a fun, frank and fascinating conversation with the great Balli Kaur Jaswal! Balli is the author of five award-wining, bestselling novels, translated into fifteen languages. Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows was picked by Reese Witherspoon for her book club, Sugarbread was a finalist for the Epigram Books Fiction Prize and the 2018 Singapore Literature Prize and her new novel Now You See Us has just been released to international acclaim. We talked to her about formative reading adventures in Russia, Japan, Singapore and the Philippines, stories of female solidarity, the book that made her want to build worlds and the unfortunate consequences of starting your own detective club.  Find out about Daisy's Limelight book tour on her Instagram page @TheDaisyBee. Find out more about Daisy's Creative Confidence Substack HERE. And sign up for the You're Booked newsletter by heading to: FurtherReading.Substack.com. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Limelight Balli Kaur Jaswal - Now You See Us Balli Kaur Jaswal - Erotic Stories for Punjabi Widows Roald Dahl - The Twits Roald Dahl - The Witches Francine Pascal - Sweet Valley Twins Judy Blume - Forever Beverly Cleary - Ramona Forever Beverly Cleary - Fifteen Laura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the Prairie Various - The Bookworm Club Various - The Bookworm Gang RL Stein - Goosebumps Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable RL Stein - Fear Street Judith Krantz - Scruples Shirley Conran - Lace Samantha Irby - Quietly Hostile Avni Doshi - Burnt Sugar Abigail Burdess - Mother's Day Tayari Jones - Silver Sparrow Tayari Jones - An American Marriage Elizabeth Gilbert - City of Girls Kent Haruf - Plainsong Coco Mellors - Cleo and Frankenstein Hanya Yanagihara - A Little Life Patrick deWitt - French Exit Ann M. Martin - Babysitter's Club Jane Austen - Sense and Sensibility Kayla Rae Whitaker - The Animators Louise Bagshawe - Career Girls Daisy Buchanan - Careering Hema Sukumar - Minor Disturbances at Grand Life Apartments Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Abi Dare - Girl With the Louding Voice Madhuri Vijay - The Far Field Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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