Irenosen Okojie - You're Booked

Our series of legends continues with the novelist, short story writer, playwright and podcaster Irenosen Okojie MBE! Irenosen's debut, Butterfly Fish, won the Betty Trask Award and her short story collection, Speak Gigantular was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. Her collection Nudibranch was selected as one of the best books of the year in the Guardian. She was a judge for the Women’s Prize for Fiction in 2023 and in 2021 she was awarded an MBE For Services to Literature. Her latest work is the highly anticipated novel Curandera. We talked to her about poetry, charity shop finds, inspirational short stories and the inside scoop on the Women's Prize Whatsapp group. Find a full list of the books Irenosen mentioned at our Bookshop.org store. Pre-order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and enter the Pity Party competition and book tour dates at Daisy's Substack - Creative Confidence Clinic... 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 Irenosen Okojie - Curandera Irenosen Okojie - Nudibranch Rachel Ingalls - Mrs Caliban June Jordan - Essential Lemn Sissay - Let the Light Pour In Sylvia Plath - Collected Katherine May - Wintering Maggie O'Farrell - I Am I Am I Am Sinead Gleason - Hagstone Margaret Atwood - Cat's Eye Jamaica Kincaid - At the Bottom of the River Lauren Groff - Matrix Toni Morrison - Beloved Jackie Collins - The Stud Maggie Nelson - Bluets Maggie Nelson - Argonauts Daisy Buchanan - Read Yourself Happy David Nicholls - Us Katherine Heiny - Standard Deviation Laurie Colwin - Happy All the Time Carol Shields - Larry's Party Laline Paull - Pod Camilla Grudova - Doll's Alphabet Camilla Grudova - Coiled Serpent Jacqueline Crooks - Fire Rush Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead Lauren Bravo - Probably Nothing Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - Half of a Yellow Son Torrey Peters - Detransition Baby Andrea Lawlor - Paul Takes the Form of a Mortal Girl Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower Octavia Butler - Wild Seed Miranda July - Nobody Belongs Here More Than You Deborah Levy - Black Vodka Rachel Ingalls - No Love Lost Leone Ross - Come Let Us Sing Anyway Leone Ross - This One Sky Day Denis Johnson - Jesus' Son Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train J. California Cooper - Some Love, Some Pain, Sometime Raymond Carver - Cathedral Tawseef Khan - Determination Victoria Kennefick - Egg/Shell Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.