Podcast appearances and mentions of Nina Stibbe

Zibby is joined by beloved British author and National Book Award winner Nina Stibbe to discuss WENT TO LONDON, TOOK THE DOG, an endlessly funny, blissfully gossipy, and enviably well-observed memoir of a woman changing her life at 60. Nina shares the story behind her sabbatical in London (prompted by an empty nest and the need for creative renewal!), and explains how her private diary turned into this funny and vulnerable book about midlife, marriage, motherhood, and reinvention. The two also discuss the emotional risk of writing a memoir and the often-dismissed importance of women's inner lives. Purchase on Bookshop: https://bit.ly/3TkRvAyShare, rate, & review the podcast, and follow Zibby on Instagram @zibbyowens! Now there's more! Subscribe to Moms Don't Have Time to Read Books on Acast+ and get ad-free episodes. https://plus.acast.com/s/moms-dont-have-time-to-read-books. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Michael Berkeley shares festive music choices from Private Passions over the years. We'll hear how Handel can evoke memories of roast potatoes in the oven on Christmas day; we'll spend time by the fire in a remote Irish castle, take a seasonal trip to the ballet, and share heart-warming singing from a variety of traditions. His guests include Chris Addison, Nina Stibbe, Brian Moore, David Mitchell, Shirley Collins and Sue Black.

We are like two kids in a sweet shop today. Nina Stibbe has been our long-time girl crush, and this is our TayTay moment. Nina's new book, Went To London, Took The Dog: The Diary of a 60-Year-Old Runaway is out in paperback this week, and we urge you all to get ye to a copy ASAP. Nina brings her special blend of wit and warmth to this convo, which roams across such diverse topics as having a mental age of 11, her prudishness around sex and the response of certain men to her success as a writer. Nina's work was recently adapted by Nick Hornby into the hit BBC1 show Love, Nina starring Helena Bonham Carter, and feels in general like a deep and hilarious heart-to-heart with your dearest gal pal. Nina Stibbe is the absolute bomb. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

5x15 is delighted to announce a special event with Nina Stibbe, the 'funniest person who owns a computer' (in the words of Ann Patchett), in conversation with acclaimed memoirist Cathy Rentzenbrink. This is not to be missed! Ten years after her beloved and multi-award winning book Love, Nina, Nina is back with Went to London, Took the Dog, a diary of her return to London in her sixty-first year. After two decades away, Nina is back in the city she used to call home, with her dog, Peggy. Together they take up lodging in Camden for a 'year-long sabbatical'. It's a break from married life back in Cornwall, or even perhaps a fresh start altogether. Nina is not quite sure yet... By turns hilarious and irreverent, joyful as well as poignant, Went to London, Took the Dog is 'like spending an endless afternoon in the most sparkling company' (Frank Cottrell-Boyce). Join us for a sparkling evening in Nina's company, and an enlightening conversation on motherhood, independence, the menopause, branching out and growing up. Praise for Nina Stibbe and Went to London, Took the Dog ‘So sharp and funny, blissfully gossipy, enviably well-observed - it's like she has X-ray vision when it comes to human beings. I couldn't stop reading it. I wish it were twice as long. I loved it' - INDIA KNIGHT ‘I don't think I've enjoyed a diary so much since I read Adrian Mole for the first time - it's a pleasure and a privilege to live in her London.... A future classic. ...THIS is the book everyone is going to be quoting to each other over the table on Christmas Day.' - DAISY BUCHANAN 'Funny, warm, enlightening. The reading equivalent of getting the giggles in the back row of a school assembly' - SATHNAM SANGHERA Speakers Nina Stibbe is the author of seven books. Love, Nina won the Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award at the 2014 National Book Awards, and was shortlisted for Waterstones Book of the Year. The book was adapted by Nick Hornby for BBC Television. She is the author of four novels, all of which have been shortlisted for the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. Her third novel, Reasons to Be Cheerful, is the only novel to date to have won both the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction and the Comedy Women in Print Award for comic fiction. Cathy Rentzenbrink is an acclaimed memoirist whose books include The Last Act of Love, How to Feel Better and Dear Reader. Her first novel is Everyone is Still Alive and Write It All Down is a friendly and down to earth guide to writing a memoir. Cathy regularly chairs literary events, interviews authors, runs creative writing courses and speaks and writes on life, death, love, and literature. Despite being shortlisted for various prizes, the only thing Cathy has ever won is the Snaith and District Ladies' Darts Championship when she was 17. She is now sadly out of practice. Learn more about 5x15 events: 5x15stories.com Twitter: www.twitter.com/5x15stories Facebook: www.facebook.com/5x15stories Instagram: www.instagram.com/5x15stories

Nina Stibbe was fifty when she first became a published writer with Love Nina, a collection of letters she wrote to her sister in the 1980s about her time working as a very inexperienced young nanny for Mary-Kay Wilmers, editor of the London Review of books.She found herself running a home where Alan Bennett often appeared at suppertime and other famous neighbours and people would pop round - though Nina had often no idea who they were. Her affectionate, witty memoir won non-fiction Book of the Year in 2014 and was adapted by Nick Hornby into a BBC TV series.After nannying, Nina worked in publishing and then moved to Cornwall where she lived with her partner and children. Since the success of Love Nina, she has written six more books, four of them novels. Her latest, Went to London, Took the Dog, charts her first return to the capital for twenty years. It's a break from domestic life back in Cornwall, or perhaps a fresh start altogether. Nina's musical choices include music by Handel, Mozart, Brahms and Benjamin Clementine.

In this bonus episode I am joined again by Nina Stibbe; author of Went to London, Took the Dog.In this episode Nina, reads a passage from her new book and we went on to talk more about her life as a writer and a reader.Other books mentioned in this episode are:Started Early Took the Dog by Kate AtkinsonShrines of Gaiety by Kate AtkinsonThe Best Exotic Marigold Hotel by Deborah MoggachThe Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ by Sue TownsendDucks Newbury Port by Lucy EllmannThe Fortnight in September by R.C. SHerriff Remains of the Day by Kazuo IshiguroVera by Elizabeth Von ArnimRebecca by Daphne Du MaurierFrancis Plug - How To Be A Public Author by Paul EwenFrancis Plug: Writer In Residence by Paul EwenAuthors mentionedCathy RentzenbrinkLionel ShriverNick HornbyAlan BennettJonathan MillerHeather MorrisThomas HardyGeoffrey ChaucerElizabeth StroutAnne TylerDavid SedarisLydia DavisHilary MantelMargaret AtwoodI hope you have enjoyed this episode. I would be so grateful if you would take the time to like, subscribe and most importantly tell your friends about it. I'll be back next month talking to another author and I really hope you'll join me for that conversation.In the meantime, for more content from me you can follow me on Instagram or visit my website www.bestbookforward.org Best Book Forward is produced by Decibelle Creative

Last week, Nina Stibbe joined me on The Shift bookclub (if you're not a member, I've taken the "lock" off for a week or so, so you can check it out on Youtube) to talk about her new memoir, Went to London, Took The Dog - what happens when a 60-year-old menopausal woman does a runner. So now seemed like a good time to revisit the episode of The Shift that was recorded just before she did that runner!---What happens when “one of the great comic writers of our time” hits menopause? That's the conundrum that faced this week's guest, award-winning novelist Nina Stibbe when she sat down to write her new novel. With five bestselling books under her belt, including her first memoir, Love Nina, which was turned into a hit TV series starring Helena Bonham Carter. And three novels centred around the turbulent teens and twenties of her alter-ego Lizzie Vogel, Nina decided it was time to turn her hand to middle age. In One Day I Shall Astonish The World, Nina examines the heartbreak, hilarity and occasional hatred of a friendship that stretches from late teens to mid-50s by way of very different love, life and career choices.Nina joined me to talk about being hit by the menopause truck, the pressure to be always funny and why her greatest midlife inspiration has come from comedy women. She also said she looks older than her mum and shared her ultimate midlife relationship-saver (or not!): the sofa bed.You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including One Day I Shall Astonish The World and Went to London, Took The Dog by Nina Stibbe and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!* And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter plus loads more content including exclusive transcripts of the podcast, why not join The Shift community, come and have a look around at www.theshiftwithsambaker.substack.com• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode I was delighted to be joined by Nina Stibbe; who's latest book Went to London, Took the Dog is out 2 November and is such a brilliant read.I loved talking to Nina, and hearing her talk so patiently about her love of diaries has inspired me to try and keep my own diary. Nina's Desert Island Book choices are:Black Beauty by Anna SewellMy Side of the Mountain by Jean George (currently out of print)Secret Diary of Adrian Mole by Sue TownsendDiary of a Nobody by G&W GrossmithThroughout the discussion, various other books and authors were mentioned and these are all listed below.Other Books MentionedOne Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina StibbeLove, Nina by Nina StibbeWar Horse by Michael MorpurgoJill's Gymkhana by Ruby FergusonThe Snow & Works on the Northern Line by Ruth ThomasThe Adventures of Miss Barbara Pym by Paula BurnA Very Private Eye by Julie CooperAuthors mentionedDavid SedarisDeborah McGogachAlan BennettClaire TomlynMichael FrayneJonathan Miller Germaine Greer If you enjoyed this episode and would like to hear more from Nina, do keep an eye out as we have recorded a bonus episode which will be coming soon.For more content from me you can follow me on Instagram or visit my website www.bestbookforward.org Best Book Forward is produced by Decibelle Creative

Hannah August reviews Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe published by Pan Macmillan

Nina Stibbe – Went to London, Took the dog: A Diary...with TRE's Selina MacKenzie

Join Jericho Writers More about TAKE WHAT YOU NEED The books spoken about on the show: Fiction 1a: Penance by Eliza Clark 1b: Pretty as a Picture by Elizabeth Little 2a: In Memoriam by Alice Winn 2b: Ghost Girl, Banana by Wiz Wharton 3a: Mrs S by K Patrick 3b: Dryland by Sara Jaffe 4a: Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers by Jesse Sutanto 4b: Murder & Mamon by Mia P Manansala 5a: The List by Yomi Adegoke 5b: More Than You'll Ever Know by Katie Gutierrez Non-fiction 1a: The Woman in Me by Britney Spears 1b: Pageboy by Elliot Page 2a: Went to London, Took the Dog by Nina Stibbe  2b: Small Fires by Rebecca May Johnson 3a: Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann 3b: Furious Hours by Casey Cep  4a: The Golden Mole by Katherine Rundell 4b: Uprooting by Marchelle Farrell 5a: Stay True by Hua Hsu  5b: This Ragged Grace by Octavia Bright Book of the year: Open Throat by Henry Hoke

After charming the nation with Love, Nina - the collection of letters written to her sister during a five year stint as a nanny in '80s London, surrounded by literary types all new to her - Nina Stibbe returns to London once again, this time under the roof of author Deborah Moggach, with a hilarious diary of her life as a woman now in her 60's. Went to London, Took The Dog sees her wit as sparkling as ever, as she negotiates discarded takeaway on the streets of London, women's health issues amongst her circle of friends, and sharp observations on everything from dating profiles and literary festivals to the obsession with the whereabouts of Keir Starmer's charisma.

Trish & Lorraine find out what international best seller Nina Stibbe, author of the much-loved memoir Love, Nina, discovered about life, relationships - and herself - when she took a break from her long marriage in Cornwall to spend a year living alone in London. Expect hilarious tales from her new diary, Went to London, Took the Dog, with midlife antics aplenty from menopausal, pelvic-floor calamities to the art of loving flawed friends and creating a new social life in the city of your youth. Plus: What happened when Trish learnt the Wim Hoff method & took an ice bath for the first time; immune system boosting tricks for winter & it's back to the 90s in the Nostalgia Noodle time machine…Contact us: hello@postcardsfrommidlife.comFollow us on Instragram: @postcardsfrommidlife Join our private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/681448662400206/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Leigh-Anne Pinnock - a name you may know, as a member of one of the biggest girl bands in the world, Little Mix. This year - almost two years since the band announced a hiatus - Leigh-Anne has embarked on her own solo career. She tells Anita Rani about her new memoir Believe, all about her life growing up, what it was really like going through The X Factor and how she found her voice. Ukraine claims it has identified 20,000 children who it alleges have been abducted by Russia since the start of the war. Arrest warrants have been issued to President Putin and his Commissioner for Children's Rights. It's the subject of the latest work from film-maker Shahida Tulaganova, who joins us to discuss her ITV documentary Ukraine's Stolen Children. Lizzi Larbalestier has cared for 139 seals in her home in Cornwall. She also helped set up a new seal hospital with the British Divers Marine Life Rescue, and has just won an animal action award from the International Fund for Animal Welfare. Ruth Birch and Julia Curry are a couple from South Wales. They met as young women in the British Army, but had to leave because of the pressure they were under to lie about their sexuality and conceal their relationship. The stress led to them breaking up, but 20 years later they reunited. They join us to share their story. Britney Spears has been in the news again after spilling personal stories in a memoir. Are women being pressured to overshare in order to sell books? And are men also expected to publicise their personal lives? Nina Stibbe, whose newest memoir is Went to London, Took the Dog, and Caroline Sanderson, Associate Editor of The Bookseller, joins us to discuss. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Lucy Wai

Britney Spears has been in the news again after spilling personal stories in a memoir. Are women being pressured to overshare in order to sell books? And are men also expected to publicise their personal lives? Nina Stibbe, whose newest memoir is Went to London, Took the Dog, and Caroline Sanderson, Associate Editor of The Bookseller, joined Emma Barnett to discuss. Mary Turner Thomson found writing a memoir cathartic after discovering that her husband, William Allen Jordan, was not a spy as she had been told. He was actually a bigamist and a conman. Her story is now a documentary series, The Other Mrs Jordan: Catching the Ultimate Conman, which is available on ITVX. She and her daughter Eilidh told Emma about the day they discovered William's real identity. A report from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and Heriot Watt university says the number of children in the UK living in destitution has nearly trebled since 2017. Why are families struggling, and what could be done to help? Abby Jitendra, Principal Policy Adviser at the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and Sophia Worringer, Deputy Policy Director at the Centre for Social Justice, joined Emma. We also heard from Kimberley in Fife who contributed to the report. Dame Alison Rose, the former chief executive of NatWest, has been found to have breached data protection laws after she publicly discussed the closure of Nigel Farage's account with NatWest subsidiary bank Coutts. In the UK, banks closed more than 343,000 accounts in the last financial year. Gina Miller, the woman who spearheaded the anti-Brexit campaign before the 2016 referendum, was 'de-banked' and has called for an investigation into the practice. Presenter: Emma Barnett Producer: Hannah Sander

This week's book guest is Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe with Rachel Parris.Sara and Cariad are joined by comedian, writer, improvisor and fellow Austentatious member Rachel Parris to discuss Camden, the London Review of Books, Alan Bennett and more! Thank you for reading with us. We like reading with you! Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe is available to buy here or on Apple Books here.Sara's debut novel Weirdo is published by Faber & Faber and is available to buy here.Cariad's book You Are Not Alone is published by Bloomsbury and is available to buy here.Follow Rachel on Instagram @rachelsvparris and Twitter @rachelparrisYou can book tickets to see Rachel's show Fool's Gold hereFollow Sara & Cariad's Weirdos Book Club on Instagram @saraandcariadsweirdosbookclub and Twitter @weirdosbookclub Recorded by ben Williams and edited by Naomi Parnell for Plosive.Artwork by Welcome Studio. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode is sponsored by BookFunnel. Jo Lyons is a huge wine and cheese enthusiast as well as the author of three bestselling romantic comedies including ‘Benidorm, actually' which was shortlisted for the Comedy Women in Print Awards 2021. Jo spent years working in Turkey as a holiday rep, in the Alpes working at a ski resort and in the south of France trying not to put a vineyard out of business before, eventually arriving in Spain to administer some poor linguistic skills on the unsuspecting population of Valencia. She now splits her time between Albir in Spain and Newcastle where she regularly tries to avoid her husband and two sons in order to improve on her embarrassing grasp of social media and to write her next novel.You can sign up to her newsletter and visit her website at www.jolyonsauthor.com for a behind the scenes look at how she cobbles together her books, get free signed copies and sneak previews of all of her upcoming novels.Find her on:Twitter: @J0LyonsInstagram: @hinnywhowritesAmazon: Books by this authorBook discussedMan at the Helm by Nina StibbeBookFunnel--Sponsor DetailsWhether it's delivering your reader magnet, sending out advanced copies of your book, handing out ebooks at a conference, or fulfilling your digital sales to readers, BookFunnel does it all. Just like you, we're in the business of making readers happy. Let us help you build your author career, no matter where you are in your journey.Twitter: @BookFunnelInstagram: @BookFunnelFacebook: BookFunnelKeep in touchOrder Chasing the Light, Julia's sequel to Shooters, here.I love our listeners, and I want to hear from you. Please leave a review on one of my podcast platforms and chat with me on social media:Twitter: @twolitchicksInstagram: @two_lit_chicksTikTok: @two_lit_chicksEmail: hello@twolitchicks.orgThank you so much for listening.Two Lit Chicks Podcast is recorded and produced by Your Voice HereFor a free 30-minute consultation with Jeremy about podcasting get in touch with the code TLCLOVE.Support the show

Welcome back Bookends to another Bonus books episode where we were joined by the powerhouse that is Daisy Buchanan! A journalist, novelist and host of a number of brilliant podcast series including the fan favourite 'You're Booked', we were delighted to have Bookend royalty on the podcast and her recommendations are certainly not in short supply! TW: This conversation includes mention of difficult topics such as sexual assault and cancer which may be triggering for some, listen with care.Aswell as deep diving into her brilliant new novel, we discuss online/offline identities, bodies and autonomy, sisterhood and so much more, we hope you love this episode as much as we do! To buy Daisy's latest book 'Limelight' from House of Books and Friends: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/limelight-daisy-buchanan/6403461?aid=9407&ean=9781408725597To buy 'Insatiable':https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/insatiable-a-frank-funny-account-of-21st-century-lust-independent-daisy-buchanan/4938039?ean=9780751580198To buy 'Careering':https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/careering-daisy-buchanan/4958437?ean=9780751580235To follow Daisy: https://www.instagram.com/thedaisybee/Listen to You're Booked: https://play.acast.com/s/bookedTo follow us:https://linktr.ee/apairofbookendspodBooks, Authors & Other Recs mentioned:Yellowface by R.F KuangThe 52 Seductions by Betty HerbertI Could Not Believe It: The 1979 Teenage Diaries of Sean DeLear by Sean DeLearPush Off from Here: Nine Essential Truths to Get You Through Sobriety (and Everything Else) by Laura McKowenWe Are the Luckiest: The Surprising Magic of a Sober Life by Laura McKowenBarbara PymNora EphronThe Other Side Of The Story by Marian KeyesMarian Keyes & Nina Stibbe on 'Book Off!': https://play.acast.com/s/bookoff/marian-keyes-and-nina-stibbe-id-like-to-live-in-a-cave-coverBetween Us by Mhairi McFarlaneRomantic Comedy by Curtis SittenfeldAmerican Wife by Curtis SittenfeldWild Geese by Mary OliverRachel's Holiday by Marian KeyesThank You For Listening by Julia WhelanBrother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido Polo by Jilly CooperLuster by Raven LeilaniInsatiable by Daisy BuchananIdol by Louise O'NeillThe Luckiest Girl Alive by Jessica KnollSuccession (TV- HBO)Strong Female Character by Fern BradyThe Electricity of Every Living Thing: A Woman's Walk in the Wild to Find Her Way Home by Katherine MayJoanna Scanlan on Bryony Gordon's Mad World Podcast : https://open.spotify.com/episode/4KbSp5A3DowlW5EVYCqhanKatherine May & Pico Iyer on The Half Known Life: https://soundcloud.com/5x15/pico-iyer-and-katherine-may-on-the-half-known-life-finding-paradise-in-a-divided-worldThe Watermelon Woman (Movie- currently showing on Prime)The List by Yomi AdegokeThanks so much for listening! Until next time, happy reading! Han & Lyd x

My guest today is Matson Taylor, author of Richard and Judy Bookclub pick THE MISEDUCATION OF EVIE EPWORTH about a young woman coming of age in the late 60's in rural Yorkshire and the follow-up novel, set ten years later, ALL ABOUT EVIE where Evie is finding out what living in the London she has always dreamed of is really like- both books are published by Simon & Schuster.Matson chats about:his work as a design historian at the V&A and how that fed into the Evie bookswriting through decades and writing funny stories about serious thingsthe fact that his first book is set home county of Yorkshirethe issues with writing dialecthow, though there is another Evie book planned, his next novel will be breaking away from the trilogy and heading to RomeGuest: Matson Taylor Twitter: @matson_taylor_ IG: @matson_taylor_Books:The Miseducation of Evie Epworth by Matson Taylor & All About Evie by Matson TaylorHost: Kate Sawyer Twitter: @katesawyer IG: @mskatesawyer Books: The Stranding by Kate Sawyer & This Family (coming May 2023. Available to pre-order now!)Matson's recommendations:A book for fan's of Matson's work: Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe, Behind The Scenes at the Museum by Matson TaylorA book Matson has always loved: Collected Stories by Katherine Mansfield, The Diary of a Provincial Lady by E.M. DelafieldA book that's been published recently or is coming soon: House Arrest by Alan Bennett, Small Joys by Elvin James MensahOther books discussed in this episode: Okay Then That's Great by Susannah Wise, Henry and June by Anais NinNovel Experience with Kate Sawyer is recorded and produced by Kate Sawyer - GET IN TOUCHTo receive transcripts and news from Kate to your inbox please SIGN UP FOR MY NEWSLETTER or visit https://www.mskatesawyer.com/novelexperiencepodcast for more information.

Georgina Godwin speaks to author and winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction Nina Stibbe. Her letters to her sisters became her first book ‘Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life' which was adapted into the television series ‘Love, Nina' starring Helena Bonham Carter. Her latest book is the feel good novel ‘One Day I Shall Astonish the World'.

Hi :)In der heutigen Folge sprechen wir über die neusten Schlagzeilen aus der Welt der Stars und die Neuerscheinungen der letzten Woche. Neben unseren Meinungen zu Enola Holmes 2 und My Policeman unterhalten wir uns ebenfalls über Serien, die man eher nicht kennt und was Chris Evans, The Rock und Paul Rudd gemeinsam haben.Viel Spaß!

Record numbers of nurses are quitting the NHS in England, according to new data analysis by the Nuffield Trust for the BBC. More than 40,000 have left the health service in the past year. Another report published this week from NHS Providers said the squeeze on pay amid rising inflation is forcing nurses and other staff to stop contributions to their pension, skip meals and take on second jobs. Anita Rani speaks to Molly Case, a clinical specialist nurse, working in the community in South London. We talk about family WhatsApp group chats. They can be a source of great joy or great annoyance. We speak to author Nina Stibbe and Journalist Nell Frizzell who has been looking into this. Regarded as one of the greatest English-language novelists of this century, Dame Hilary Mantel was perhaps less well known for her brilliant writing on chronic illness. Throughout her life the author suffered from a severe form of endometriosis. Emma speaks to writer Sarah Perry, author of the Essex Serpent, who has had her own experience of chronic illness and Eleanor Thom, author of Private Parts, how to really live with endometriosis. Giorgia Meloni's election as the Prime Minister of Italy is just the latest victory for a woman on the right of the political spectrum. The vast majority of European women who have had true executive power come from the right, starting with Margaret Thatcher. Emma speaks to Professor Matthew Goodwin and the academic Costanza Hermanin to discuss why the Left have had fewer female leaders. 'Ladies shall we have some fun?' We speak to sex and relationship expert Oloni, who built an online community by speaking openly about sex and relationships. We discuss her new book 'The Big O'. Presenter: Anita Rani Producer: Surya Elango Editor: Emma Pearce

Sam can't get enough Proust, Javier Marias is the King of Redonda, and Nina Stibbe on her comedic novel about an every day hero, One Day I Shall Astonish the World.

If you haven't lost your taste for all things British folllowing Queen Elizabeth's Jubilee celebration, we've got you covered! On this edition of The Weekly Reader, we review two great new novels from across the pond: "An Olive Grove in Ends" by Moses McKenzie and "One Day I Shall Astonish the World" by Nina Stibbe. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Louise and Virginia chat about two books that they've been eagerly looking forward to. Louise went down the Crime route with a gripping detective story that spans Tokyo and London. Virginia finally got her hands on Nina Stibbe's new novel and as also with Nina Stibbe, the book is a complete delight.BooksThe Fine Art of Invisible Detection by Robert GoddardOne Day I Shall Astonish the World by Nina StibbeNetflixThe Staircase (Docuseries and Dramatisation)PodcastThis American Life – My Lying Eyes

eaturing the characters you loved in The Bookish Life of Nina Hill! From the author of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill comes a story about friends who become our chosen family, proving that, even as adults, we all need help from time time.... Perfect for fans of Marian Keyes and Nina Stibbe. When Laura Costello arrives in downtown Los Angeles, her life has somewhat fallen apart. Her apartment building has caught fire, her engagement to her high school sweetheart has been broken off and she's just been caught in a rare LA downpour and has no dry clothes. But when she seeks shelter in Nina Hill's local neighbourhood bookshop, she finds herself introduced to the people who will become her new family. And as Laura becomes friends with Nina, Polly and Impossibly Handsome Bob, things start to look up. Proving that—even as adults—we all sometimes need a little help assembling and re-assembling our lives....

What happens when “one of the great comic writers of our time” hits menopause? That's the conundrum that faced this week's guest, award-winning novelist Nina Stibbe when she sat down to write her new novel. With five bestselling books under her belt, including her memoir, Love Nina, which was turned into a hit TV series starring Helena Bonham Carter. And three novels centred around the turbulent teens and twenties of her alter-ego Lizzie Vogel, Nina decided it was time to turn her hand to middle age. In One Day I Shall Astonish The World, Nina examines the heartbreak, hilarity and occasional hatred of a friendship that stretches from late teens to mid-50s by way of very different love, life and career choices.Nina joined me from Cornwall to talk about being hit by the menopause truck, the pressure to be always funny and why her greatest midlife inspiration has come from comedy women. She also said she looks older than her mum and shared her ultimate midlife relationship-saver: the sofa bed.You can buy all the books mentioned in this podcast at Bookshop.org, including One Day I Shall Astonish The World by Nina Stibbe and the book that inspired this podcast, The Shift: how I lost and found myself after 40 - and you can too, by me!And if you'd like to support the work that goes into making this podcast and get a weekly newsletter, please join The Shift community. Find out more at https://steadyhq.com/en/theshift/• The Shift (on life after 40) with Sam Baker is created and hosted by Sam Baker and edited by Emily Sandford. If you enjoyed this podcast, please rate/review/follow as it really does help other people find us. And let me know what you think on twitter @sambaker or instagram @theothersambaker. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Bestselling authors Marian Keyes and Nina Stibbe go head to head in a war of the words in a bumper episode of Book Off. They shower admiration on to each other and their new books, "Again, Rachel" and "One Day I Shall Astonish The World" which they discuss with Joe Haddow. They also talk about their writing, inspirations, friendship, sex in older age, taking the waters in Bath, writing a sitcom and fabulous funny females. We get their recent book recommendations, and in the Book Off they pit "Gravity Is The Thing" by Jaclyn Moriarty against "The Fortnight In September" by R.C. Sherriff, but which one will win??? See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Werbung: MagentaTV sponsert unsere Streaming-Tipp-Rubrik MagentaTV Must-Watch, in der wir euch spannende Serien-Entdeckungen aus der Megathek näher vorstellen. Die britische Serie Love, Nina flog seit ihrer BBC-Ausstrahlung im Jahr 2016 unter dem Radar, ist aber ein echter Feelgood-Geheimtipp, der noch dazu mit Stars wie Helena Bonham Carter (Harry Potter) und Faye Marsay (Game of Thrones) punkten kann. In unserer Streamgestöber-Rubrik MagentaTV Must-Watch stellen wir euch die gutgelaunte Miniserie genauer vor, in der eine junge Frau vom Land sich nicht nur dem Londoner Großstadt-Leben sondern auch der Betreuung zweier frecher Kinder stellen muss. Schriftsteller Nick Hornby (About a Boy) adaptierte hier die Romanvorlage von Nina Stibbe.

This week we're delighted to welcome the author of one of our favourite novels of recent times Clare Chambers! Clare's novel Small Pleasures was a Women's Prize nominee and a book of the Year in The Times, Daily Telegraph, Evening Standard, Daily Express, Metro and many more and beloved over here at You're Booked towers. We talked to her about Katherine Heiny, out of print revelations, slow reading and using Nina Stibbe as a friendship barometer.BOOKSDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableClare Chambers - Small PleasuresAmor Towles - Gentleman in MoscowAnn Patchett - Bel CantoTara Westover - EducatedJeannette Walls - Glass CastleGerald Durrell - My Family and Other AnimalsNina Stibbe - Love NinaLaura Ingalls Wilder - Little House on the PrairieJane Austen - Northanger AbbeyCharlotte Bronte - Jane EyreAlexander Dumas - Count of Monte ChristoThomas Hardy - Mayor of CasterbridgeThomas Hardy - Return of the NativeThomas Hardy - Tess of the d'UrbervillesThomas Hardy - Far From the Madding CrowdAlain-Fournier - Grand Meaulnes Jane Austen - PersuasionPaulette Jiles - News of the WorldTayari Jones - American MarriageTayari Jones - Silver SparrowCharles Palliser - Quincunx Katherine Heiny - Early Morning RiserKatherine Heiny - Standard DeviationWinifred Holtby - South RidingJosephine Tey - Franchise AffairJosephine Tey - Brat FarrarElizabeth Jane Howard - Mr WrongIngrid Persaud - Love After LoveZoe Pilger -

This week we are delighted to welcome author, award-winner and Books to Nourish auction victor Emma Batchelor! Emma’s debut book, Now That I See You, is an acclaimed love story, told through letters and diary entries, reflecting Emma’s own experience of identity, gender and grief. The book won the Vogel Literary Award, Australia's most prestigious prize for an unpublished manuscript. We talked to her about great Australian literature, lady detectives, eroticism in Jane Austen and the genius of Nina Stibbe. For more on Books to Nourish visit bookstonourish.wordpress.com/ and discover more about FareShare at fareshare.org.BOOKSEmma Batchelor - Now That I See YouTorrey Peters - Detransition BabyAlexandra Heminsley - Some Body To LoveKerry Greenwood - Phryne Fisher MysteriesJoan Lindsay - Picnic at Hanging RockRuth Park - Harp in the SouthMelina Marchetta - Looking for AlibrandiJessie Tu - Lonely Girl is a Dangerous ThingDaisy Buchanan - InsatiableNaoise Dolan - Exciting TimesKabi Nagata - My Lesbian Year of LonelinessSophie Kinsella - Undomestic GoddessSophie Kinsella - Secret Dreamworld of a ShopaholicJane Austen - EmmaJane Austen - Sense and SensibilityJane Austen - Pride and PrejudiceHelen Halstead - A Private PerformanceElla Baxter - New AnimalNancy Mitford - Pursuit of LoveSheila Heti - MotherhoodNell Frizzell - Panic YearsEmma Jane Unsworth - AdultsHelen Fielding - Bridget Jones’s DiaryRuby Tandoh - Eat UpLaurie Colwin - Home CookingNina Stibbe -

This week we talk to my friend Lisa about Man at the Helm by Nina Stibbe. If you love talking about the darkest parts of humanity with a light and wry sense of humor, then you will love this book. This was recorded while we were both in the middle of evening dinner prep, so you are lucky to listen in..... We are now on Apple Podcasts!!!!! Yippe! listen to us there, or Spotify, or Anchor! Wherever you get your podcasts! --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/molly-tallon/support

What we read in this terrible, horrible, no good, very bad year.  Books: The Vanishing Half, Brit Bennett; Field Work, Mischa Berlinski; I Remember You, Yrsa Sigurdardóttir; Kindred, Octavia Butler; The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle, Stuart Turton; This is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone; Cleanness, Garth Greenwell; The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Suzanne Collins; Red Rising trilogy, Pierce Brown; The House in the Cerulean Sea, T.J. Klune; An Extraordinary Union, Alyssa Cole; Secondhand Time: The Last of the Soviets, Svetlana Alexievich; Hamnet, Maggie O'Farrell; Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life, Nina Stibbe; The Last Samurai, Helen DeWitt; Peggy Guggenheim: The Shock of the Modern, Francine Prose; The Sally Lockhart series, Phillip Pullman; Americanah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; The Gifted School, Bruce Holsinger; The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again, M. John Harrison; Uncanny Valley: A Memoir, Anna Wiener; Mexican Gothic, Silvia Moreno-Garcia; The Great Fire, Shirley Hazzard; The City We Became, N.K. Jemisin.  Articles: John le Carré obit (NYT) Barbara Cartland (Jezebel)

How does the feminisation of alcohol work? We hear from Carol Emslie a Professor of substance use and misuse at the School of Health and Life Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University, Kate Baily a podcast host and the co-author of Love Yourself Sober – a self-care guide to alcohol-free living for busy mothers and from Dr Athanasia Daskalopoulou, a Lecturer in Marketing at the University of Liverpool Management School. What are the pros and cons of being naked in front of your children? Rosie Haine, a writer and illustrator whose book is called “It Isn’t Rude to be Nude and Dr Keon West, a psychologist at Goldsmiths, University of London, discuss. Three quarters of black women do not feel the NHS protects them equally. That’s according to the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights which commissioned a poll on being Black in the UK. We hear from researcher Celine Henry and Harriet Harman MP Chair of the Joint Committee on Human Rights. Julia Gillard, once Prime Minister of Australia, and Dr Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, economist and international development expert from Nigeria and also a woman with experience at the top of the Nigerian politics, have come together to explore women and leadership. They tell us about the book they’ve written together. Bridget McCrum didn’t start her career as a sculptor until she was in her forties. Now at 86 she is still working with stone and in the last 10 years has had more interest in her work than ever - a recent commission sold for 68, 000 pounds. The author Nina Stibbe tells us about winning the Comedy Women in Print Prize with her book ‘Reasons To Be Cheerful’ with chair of the judges Marian Keyes. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Rabeka Nurmahomed Editor: Sarah Crawley

The Comedy Women in Print Prize is the only literary prize in the UK and Ireland to spotlight funny writing by women. Now in its second year, it was launched by comedian and actress Helen Lederer in response to the lack of exposure for female comedy writing. The 2020 shortlist for Published Comic Novel included the likes of Candice Carty-Williams, and Jeanette Winterson, but the winner was announced on Monday evening as Nina Stibbe for her novel Reasons to be Cheerful. We’re joined by Nina and the Chair of Judges and bestselling author Marian Keyes. A study by Imperial College London suggests that providing financial incentives for GPs to offer information about long-acting reversible contraceptives, such as the hormonal implant, is associated with an increase in their use and a reduction in the number of abortions, particularly in young women ages 20-24 and those from deprived backgrounds. The study used anonymised data from over 3 million women over a 10 year period. Jenni speaks to Professor Sonia Saxena, one of the co-authors of the research. When listener Christine was a kid she was told never to talk to neighbours or answer any of their questions and people outside the family weren’t allowed in the house. She never knew the reason why. But she has just discovered a shocking secret and now has answers. Christine spoke to reporter Jo Morris. A new series of Ambulance starts on Wednesday 16th September on BBC One. Jenni speaks to one of the people featured, an emergency medical dispatcher called Mandy Cassidy, who was motivated to work for the Ambulance Service when she lost her son. He was just 18 years old and was a victim of knife crime. He wasn’t in a gang, but simply had gone out with friends. There was an argument that night and he was stabbed. Presenter: Jenni Murray Producer: Sarah Crawley

Marc happened upon this lovely clip of writers talking to Women's Hour about their writing tips and advice. Writers such as Prue Leith, Angie Thomas, Ruby Wax, Allison Pearson and Nina Stibbe talk about how to write and how they write, and how to write that book! Jenni and Marc pull out their highlights, what resonated with them, and also how Prue Leith manages to get her laptop into the toilets at cocktail parties (what if she needs a plug? Does she carry a rucksack? Does everyone else think she's just doing a massive poo? SO MANY QUESTIONS!).   Find full show notes on our website

Journalist Hazel Davis had The Best Time when we sent her to the British Library to chat with author and all-round hilarious woman Nina Stibbe. Chat veers delightfully wildly from Nina's first book, Love, Nina, to wayward mothers, prudish teens, being first published at 50, and when it's okay to risk pissing off your entire family. Nina's novel Reasons To Be Cheerful is out in paperback now. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, authors of the best-selling book I’m Absolutely Fine!, are now here weekly. This week we’ve made an appointment with the book doctor. We talk to writer, podcaster and professional bookworm Daisy Buchanan about her literary prescriptions for heartbreak, trauma, envy, loneliness and money panic. P.S. Here are all the books we talked about… ENVY Adults by Emma Jane Unsworth Crazy Salad & Scribble Scribble by Nora Ephron Little Women by Louisa May Alcott GRUMPINESS The whole of Adrian Mole by Sue Townsend Diary Of A Nobody by George Grossmith HEARTBREAK Imogen by Jilly Cooper Wedding Toasts I’ll Never Give by Ada Calhoun LONELINESS The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter Carson McCullers MONEY WORRIES The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella Ballet Shoes by Noel Streatfeild OPTIMISM Almost Everything: Notes On Hope by Anne Lamott Rachel’s Holiday by Marian Keyes TRAUMA The Lark by E Nesbit Man At The Helm by Nina Stibbe

Hello! The typical FTSE 100 CEO only had to work until 5pm last Monday (6th January) to earn as much as the average worker in the entire year. We chat to Deborah Hargreaves, director of the High Pay Centre, about rising executive pay and why she advocates including workers on company boards to tackle it. Then legal history whizz Ewan McGaughey explains what we can learn from the history of worker representation in the UK and around the world.AND Fabulous author Nina Stibbe is here to talk about her latest book, ‘Reasons to be Cheerful’ (nice title…!)Subscribe to the new Cheerful Book Club feed!Get tickets for our Kings Place show on Thursday 12th March See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Hosted by acclaimed author Cathy Rentzenbrink, the twelfth edition of The Bookseller Podcast features our very own Philip Jones, Alice O'Keeffe and Caroline Sanderson in a 2019 round-up. Cathy asks an impossible question – what was your favourite book of the year? – and the hosts share what books they would like to see underneath the Christmas tree… Cathy interviews not one but two of this year's award-winning novelists: Bernardine Evaristo, winner of the 2019 Booker Prize with Girl, Woman, Other; and Nina Stibbe, author of Reasons to be Cheerful and winner of this year's Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction. In this month's Meet the Indie section Nigel chats to Andy Rossiter from Rossiter Books in Ross-on-Wye. This month on Bookgig there's a City Focus on Edinburgh, highlighting events with authors such as Erin Morgenstern and Nigel Slater taking place in the Scottish capital. And playing us out – an extract from The Beast of Buckingham Palace written and read by David Walliams. The Bookseller Podcast is a Heavy Entertainment Production.

This week, Liberty and Vanessa discuss Gods of Jade and Shadow, Theme Music, The Marriage Clock, and more great books. This episode was sponsored by the Versify podcast, ThirdLove, and Doubleday and The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Pick up an All the Books! 200th episode commemorative item here. Subscribe to All the Books! using RSS, iTunes, or Spotify and never miss a beat book. Sign up for the weekly New Books! newsletter for even more new book news. Books discussed on the show: The Unlikely Escape of Uriah Heep by H. G. Parry Gods of Jade and Shadow: A Novel by Silvia Moreno-Garcia Theme Music: A Novel by T. Marie Vandelly Three Women by Lisa Taddeo The Marriage Clock by Zara Raheem How to Hack a Heartbreak by Kristin Rockaway Tell Me Everything by Cambria Brockman Because Internet: Understanding the New Rules of Language by Gretchen McCulloch  What we're reading: The Golden Tresses of the Dead: A Flavia de Luce Novel by Alan Bradley Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu More books out this week: Beijing Payback: A Novel by Daniel Nieh Black Sun: A Novel by Owen Matthews Medusa in the Graveyard: Book Two of the Medusa Cycle by Emily Devenport  Jade War (The Green Bone Saga) by Fonda Lee  The Lager Queen of Minnesota: A Novel by J. Ryan Stradal Cowboy Up by Stacy Finz  History. A Mess. by Sigrún Pálsdottír and Lytton Smith The Two Lila Bennetts by Liz Fenton and Lisa Steinke  Hummingbird in Underworld: Teaching in a Men’s Prison, A Memoir by Deborah Tobola  Desdemona and the Deep by C. S. E. Cooney A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet A. Washington  Gravity Is the Thing: A Novel by Jaclyn Moriarty  Bagehot: The Life and Times of the Greatest Victorian by James Grant A Stranger on the Beach: A Novel by Michele Campbell  Meet Me in Monaco by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb You've Been Volunteered: A Class Mom Novel by Laurie Gelman  Love Street: Pulp Romance for Modern Women by Leah Rachel Lady in the Lake by Laura Lippman We Love Anderson Cooper: Short Stories by R.L. Maizes  Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe   Screen Tests: Stories and Other Writing by Kate Zambreno The Violent Century: A Novel by Lavie Tidhar The Undoing of Thistle Tate by Katelyn Detweiler The Last Astronaut by David Wellington The Pillars by Peter Polites My Friend Anna: The True Story of a Fake Heiress by Rachel DeLoache Williams Home for Erring and Outcast Girls: A Novel by Julie Kibler  The Redeemed: The West Country Trilogy by Tim Pears  The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra The Floating Feldmans by Elyssa Friedland  The Possession (The Anomaly Files) by Michael Rutger  The Dark Above: A Novel by Jeremy Finley  Furnace of This World: Or, 36 Observations About Goodness by Ed Simon Skulls! by Blair Thornburgh, Scott Campbell (Illustrator)

29/06/2019: What was that last book that made you laugh out loud? Co-founder of Dubomedy Mina Liccione reviews Reasons to Be Cheerful by Nina Stibbe, a hilarious and moving story of a young woman figuring out how to adult. The novel won the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction - does it live up to the hype? Plus the books and writers that make the Dubai Eye team chuckle.  

This week The Verb comes from The Hay Festival, recorded in front of an audience at the BBC Tent. Ian's guests are the writer John Lanchester on his new dystopian novel 'The Wall' (Faber), poet Hannah Sullivan who recently won the TS Eliot Prize for her debut collection 'Three Poems' (Faber), comedian and 'Mash Report' star Rachel Parris on the art of the musical parody and Nina Stibbe whose novel 'Reasons to Be Cheerful was awarded The Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic fiction. Presenter: Ian McMillan Producer: Jessica Treen

Adam talks with British writer Nina Stibbe, about David Sedaris, sex and inappropriate male behaviour from the 70s and beyond, and the dangers of writing about real people. There's also some discussion of dentistry and thigh vaginas.Nina is the author of 'Love Nina- Dispatches From Family Life' (2013), a collection of letters that she wrote to her sister Vicky in the 80s while working in North London as a nanny to the children of Mary-Kay Wilmers, who was the editor of the London Review of Books.'Man At The Helm' (2014), is the first in a series of comic novels about Nina's fictional alter ego Lizzie Vogel, in which the young Lizzie and her siblings trying to find a suitable man for their wayward Mum.'Paradise Lodge' (2016) finds the teenaged Lizzie working at a care home for the elderly.The latest in the Lizzie Vogel series is called 'Reasons To Be Cheerful' (2019) and this time the story takes place in the early 80s as Lizzie finds work as a dental assistant, a job that Nina herself did for several years as a young woman.This conversation was recorded in London, March 2019Thanks to Séamus Murphy-Mitchell for production support and to Matt Lamont for additional editing.RELATED LINKSNINA RECEIVES AN HONORARY DEGREE FROM THE UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTERhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-5cE8X5MQY'APOLLO 11' DOCUMENTARY TRAILER https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Co8Z8BQgWcGIL SCOTT-HERON - WHITEY ON THE MOONhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=goh2x_G0ct4THE ADAM BUXTON APPhttps://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/the-adam-buxton-app/id1264624915?mt=8 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

When Guy Chambers teamed up with Robbie Williams in 1997, they created one of the most successful songwriting partnerships in British pop history. Now Guy has released his debut solo album called Go Gentle into the Light, performing hits such as Angels and Millennium on the piano. Writer Nina Stibbe has been announced as the winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for her novel, Reasons to be Cheerful. She discusses the art of comic writing. Even a small amount of creativity can help you cope with modern life - so says new research by BBC Arts and University College London. The BBC Arts Great British Creativity Test surveyed almost 50,000 people to explore links between arts activities and wellbeing. Dr Daisy Fancourt, UCL Senior Research Fellow shares the key findings. Presenter: Stig Abell Producer: Edwina Pitman

This week we talk comedy with Nina Stibbe and turn to the serious topic of booksellers’ pay. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/bookspod

In this edition of The Magic Book Club Podcast, Tom Price chats to Nina Stibbe about her new book Reasons To Be Cheerful. They talk about how she blurs the lines between fact and fiction as well as giving an insight into what life was like in the 80's.

For our very, very special Christmas extravaganza we visit the Cornwall home of the brilliant Nina Stibbe. Nina is the celebrated author of the beloved memoir Love Nina, plus the novels Paradise Lodge and Man at the Helm. Her collection of festive stories An Almost Perfect Christmas is an ideal gift at any time of year. We talked about funny books, Harry Potter, suspect driving instructors and, of course, Adrian Mole.BOOKS (Click on the titles to find out more)Nina Stibbe - Love NinaNina Stibbe - Man at the HelmNina Stibbe - Paradise LodgeNina Stibbe - An Almost Perfect ChristmasNina Stibbe - Reasons To Be CheerfulMargaret Drabble - The MillstoneEdna O'Brien - The Country GirlsTina Brown - The Vanity Fair DiariesLissa Evans - Old BaggageJK Rowling - Harry Potter Complete CollectionSue Townsend - The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4David Sedaris - CalypsoDavid Sedaris - Me Talk Pretty One DayDavid Sedaris - Let's Explore Diabetes With OwlsPatrick Gale - Take Nothing With YouAndy Stanton - You're a Bad Man Mr GumJeff Kinney - Diary of a Wimpy KidRoger Hargreaves - Mr MenLucy Mangan - BookwormJulia Donaldson - Room on the BroomGarth Jennings - The Wildest CowboyLucia Berlin - A Manual For Cleaning WomenGeorge & Weedon Grossmith - Diary of a NobodyPaul Ewen - Francis Plug - How To Be a Public AuthorCaitlin Moran - How To Build a GirlJackie Collins - The World is Full of Married MenColleen McCullough - The Thorn BirdsAndrew Sean Greer - LessDM Thomas - The White HotelEdward St Aubyn - The Patrick Melrose NovelsAnthony Powell - Dance To The Music of TimeMaria Semple - Where'd You Go Bernadette?Katherine Heiny - Standard DeviationElizabeth McKenzie - The Portable VeblenGail Honeyman - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Happy Hanukkah!  Visiting the Barnes.  NBA talk with Granger.  The Weavers.  Christmas with Nina Stibbe.  Rome with David Laskin.  Dan and Christmas Trees.  Remembering Bertolucci. Tribute to the "inventor" of Mr. Whippy.  Bon mots from Jane Maas. Credits: Talent:  Tamsen Granger and Dan Abuhoff Special Guest: Granger Abuhoff Engineer:  Ellie Suttmeier Art:  Zeke Abuhoff

Welcome to You're Booked, the podcast for literary nosy parkers.Join your Book Inspector, Daisy Buchanan, as she enters the homes of your favourite authors and snoops around their bookshelves. She'll uncover forbidden reads, books borrowed and never returned, bad reading habits, those embarrassing tomes hidden at the back of the pile and formative literary experiences.Take a listen to a few choice moments from some upcoming episodes featuring Dolly Alderton, Nina Stibbe, Nikesh Shukla and Lucy Vine.The first episode of You're Booked with special guest Dolly Alderton, will be out soon. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Patrick Gale and Nina Stibbe discuss their 1970s-set novels, Take Nothing With You and Paradise Lodge, and their mothers, their adolescences and and and... Recorded on Saturday 6th October 2018.

For the final episode recorded at this year's Port Eliot festival in Cornwall, John and Andy are joined by authors Nina Stibbe and returning guest Simon Garfield to discuss Philip Larkin's second and final novel A Girl In Winter, and Larkin's place in the national psyche. Warning: this episode contains poetry readings, dentistry and a hip-hop remix of This Be The Verse.

For today's Tea Reads, I'm sharing an article by Nina Stibbe on the importance of listening to your own instincts, even if it means ignoring the advice of supposed experts. Read the show notes: teaandtattlepodcast.com/home/teareads20 Get in touch! Email: teaandtattlepodcast@gmail.com Instagram: Miranda ~ @mirandasnotebook and @mirandasbookcase If you enjoy Tea & Tattle, please do rate and leave a review of the show on iTunes, as good reviews help other people to find and enjoy the show. Thank you!

Writer and performer Isy Suttie (Peep Show, The Actual One, Damned) chooses Nina Stibbe's book "Love Nina" as her funny thing that she loves, to discuss with comedy writers Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Writers Nina Stibbe and Kit de Waal share their recommendations for good reads

(Quick apology for some of the audio this week, between missing microphones and babies, it has some issues, bear with us, it will get better...)This week's film — and the next in our Nicolas Winding Refn mini-season — is one close to Rob's heart: VALHALLA RISING (2009). We get the inside scoop on some of the decisions made by the director, as well as considering some of the mythical/religious ideas behind the film — and if this is a film about giving or withholding answers. Next WeekOur next NWR film is 2011's DRIVE. Watch it online, ready for next week's episode, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Drive-Ryan-Gosling/dp/B00NSLMWF4. This Week's MediaSHE'S THE MAN (2006): Andy Fickman, Amanda Bynes, Laura RamseyLOVE, NINA (2016): S.J. Clarkson, Nina Stibbe, Faye Marsay RecommendationsFLORENCE FOSTER JENKINS (2016): Stephen Frears, Meryl Streep, Hugh GrantPSYCHO (1960): Alfred Hitchcock, Anthony Perkins, Janet LeighAMERICAN GODS (2017-): Chris Byrne, Ricky Whittle, Emily Browning GANGS OF NEW YORK (2002): Martin Scorsese, Leonardo DiCaprio, Cameron DiazFootnotesThe footnotes are a little sparse this week, owing to the intervention of a third presenter during the time Sam is usually writing them (4 months old, and already podcasting!). This is a good starting-point for some of the mythology which may or may not be behind this story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Norse_mythology. This is also a good primer: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity. Finally, for more on what Rob was doing to get such brilliant (in all senses of the word) visuals, see here: https://nofilmschool.com/2014/09/colorist-really-films-video-takes-look. And here: https://ideas.ted.com/how-color-helps-a-movie-tell-its-story/amp. And here: https://digitalsynopsis.com/design/film-movies-color-psychology.

Author of 'Love, Nina’ (adapted for TV starring Helena Bonham Carter) and the critically acclaimed novels, 'Man at the Helm' and 'Paradise Lodge', Nina Stibbe joins Konnie Huq in the Penguin studio. Nina talks about her new book 'An Almost Perfect Christmas' and kicks off the festive season by bringing in objects including an unusual Christmas tree, a turkey on the loo and her mum. #PenguinPodcast See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Nina Stibbe, author of Love, Nina and An Almost Perfect Christmas, talks to Stylist's deputy editor Susan Riley about her little pleasures See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Already a wildly popular author thanks to her memoir Love, Nina and bestselling debut novel, Man at the Helm, Nina Stibbe returns with Paradise Lodge. Set in a 1970s ramshackle old people's home, this lovingly created story of chaos, love and elderly people is told from the perspective of a 15 year old girl who works there. If there's an heir to Sue Townsend, it's surely Nina Stibbe. In this event recorded live at the 2016 Edinburgh International Book Festival, she talks to James Runcie.

Nina Stibbe's latest novel Paradise Lodge follows Lizzie Vogel as she skips school to work at a residential care home. The book draws on the author's own experience as a teenager and is the second of a trilogy of Lizzie Vogel novels. Nick Hornby's TV adaptation of Stibbe's highly successful first book Love, Nina - based on the author's time as a nanny to a literary north London family - is currently on BBC1 on Saturday nights starring Helena Bonham Carter.Russell Crowe and Ryan Gosling team up in The Nice Guys, the neo-noir crime buddy comedy film directed and co-written by Shane Black in which the unlikely pair investigate the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s LA.Michael Pennington talks to Samira about his new book King Lear in Brooklyn, a combination of an analysis of the play and its characters, alongside his experiences playing the role for the first time - in Brooklyn, New York.Moby's memoir Porcelain details the electronic musician's life before he released his album Play in 1999 and became an international star. He tells us about what made the club scene in '90s New York so special and how he copes with his critics.

We chat Nick Hornby’s adaptation of Nina Stibbe’s literary memoir (04:30), our histories on the internet (13:05), and an Oscar-winning 2009 Argentinian thriller (23:19). Show notes: http://bit.ly/20BbQhz See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The British author of Love, Nina remembers a doomed teenage romance

Richard Coles and Aasmah Mir are joined by the columnist Katharine Whitehorn, the writer Nina Stibbe, and Nikki King, Honorary Chairman of Isuzu Truck UK, who shares her stories of doing business in Japan. Louise Johncox describes how her baker father inspired her love of the sound of a whisk. Nigel Brazier on four generations of his family business and traditional Black Country recipes. Stephen Evans explains why he learned to ride a bike at the age of 49 and a quarter and the singer Natalie Cole shares her Inheritance Tracks. Man at the Helm, by Nina Stibbe. The Baker's Daughter, by Louise Johncox. Stephen Evans is cycling 100 miles for Joining Jack a Charity that helps fight Duchene's Muscular Dystrophy. Natalie Cole inherits Smile, from her father Nat King Cole and passes on You Gotta Be by Des'ree. Nat King Cole: Afraid Of The Dark is released through Universal Music, and features a brand new, previously unheard Nat King Cole track. Producer: Louise Corley.

Nebraska is the latest road movie from Alexander Payne, the director of oenophile comedy Sideways. In Nebraska, Bruce Dern plays an ageing father who takes a trip with his son across the mid-west to pick up a million-dollar prize. Critic Leslie Felperin delivers her verdict. Josephine Baker, Billie Holiday and Julie Andrews have all appeared on the London stage this year, in one-woman shows performed by Cush Jumbo, Nina Kristofferson and Sarah-Louise Young respectively. The three actresses reflect on the pitfalls of dedicating a show to a beloved performer, and how it feels to have a close friend of that performer make themselves known in the audience. Philomena director Stephen Frears reveals the part he played in one of this year's surprise hits in publishing, Love, Nina, a nanny's account of family life by Nina Stibbe. Investigative journalist John Pilger turns his gaze on his home country of Australia and the treatment of indigenous people, in his latest documentary Utopia. He tells Mark about the reception he is expecting down under. Producer: Stephen Hughes.