David Nicholls - You're Booked

We're kicking off season 4 in style by visiting the beautiful North London home of the magnificent David Nicholls! As we are sure you are aware, David is massively bestselling internationally renowned author of novels such as One Day, Us and most recently Sweet Sorrow as well adapting work such as Edward St Aubyn's Patrick Melrose and Great Expectations for the screen. We spoke to David about being an understudy, Dickens, adaptation and Billy Wilder. BOOKS Daisy Buchanan - The Sisterhood David Nicholls - One Day David Nicholls - Starter For Ten David Nicholls - The Understudy David Nicholls - Us David Nicholls - Sweet Sorrow Jean De Brunhoff - Colourful World of Babar Daniel Rosenthal - National Theatre Story Tobias Wolff - Stories of Edward St Aubyn - Never Mind Roald Dahl - Danny the Champion of the World Ford Maddox Ford - The Good Soldier Patrick Hamilton - Hangover Square Muriel Spark - Girls of Slender Means Muriel Spark - Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Muriel Spark - The Driver’s Seat Charles Dickens - Great Expectations Charles Dickens - David Copperfield Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist Charles Dickens - Bleak House Charles Dickens - Our Mutual Friend Lucia Berlin - Evening in Paradise Lucia Berlin - Manual For Cleaning Women Nell Zink - The Wallcreeper Nell Zink - Mislaid Ken Kesey - One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest John Cheever - Stories F. Scott Fitzgerald - Tender is the Night F. Scott Fitzgerald - The Great Gatsby Thomas Hardy - Tess of the d'Ubervilles Phillip Larkin - A Girl in Winter Phillip Larkin - Jill Milan Kundera - Book of Laughter and Forgetting Milan Kundera - Unbearable Lightness of Being Milan Kundera - Life is Elsewhere Alan Hollinghurst - Line of Beauty EM Forster - Howards End Helen Garner - The Spare Room Helen Garner - The Children’s Bach Penelope Lively - Heat Wave Penelope Fitzgerald - At Freddie’s Choderlos de Laclos - Les Liaisons Dangereuses Michael Ondaatje - The Conversations Cameron Crowe - Conversations With Wilder Francois Truffaut - Hitchcock Elif Batuman - The Idiot Tove Jansson - Moominvalley in November Lorrie Moore - Who Will Run the Frog Hospital? Lorrie Moore - Collected Stories Zadie Smith - Feel Free Philip Gourevitch - Paris Review Interviews Joan Didion - Play It As It Lays Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.