This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. The episode is sponsored by Serious Readers. To get £100 off your HD Serious Readers reading lamp (and free delivery), visit seriousreaders.com/booked and use the code: BOOKED at checkout. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile Much Ado Bookshop Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble Robert Lowell - Imitations Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey Donna Tartt - The Secret History Roberto Bolano - 2666 Paul Beatty - The Sellout Philip Pullman - Northern Lights Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga Jilly Cooper - Rivals John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now Tim Spector - Food For Life Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts Lucy Mangan - Bookworm Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street David Niven - Moon's a Balloon Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025 Noel Streatfeild - Saplings Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle Lizzy Stewart - Alison Jane Oliver - Business as Usual Dorothy Whipple - High Wages Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires Min Jin Lee - Pachinko Laurie colwin - Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time India Knight - Darling Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue Time Life Editors - Patisserie Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin Bee Wilson - Swindled Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up Diana Vreeland - DV Diana Vreeland - Memos Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.