This week on the show we're delighted to present the legend that is Robin Ince! Robin is an acclaimed stand-up, star of Infinite Monkey Cage, podcast host and the author of Importance of Being Interested, I'm a Joke, Bibliomaniac and more! We talked to him outside the Tom Thumb Theatre in Margate (sorry about the extraneous noise) about obsessive book collecting, Kurt Vonnegut's library, the importance of art and what to say when you meet Patti Smith. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of Daisy's new novel Pity Party RIGHT HERE and see book tour dates at Daisy's Substack...

BOOKS

Robin Ince - Bibliomaniac

Rosie Dixon - Confessions from a Package Tour

Rosie Dixon - Confessions of a Physical WRAC

Jeremy Cooper - Brian

Geoff Dyer - Zona

Geoff Dyer - Colour of Memory

Geoff Dyer - But Beautiful

Lisa Jewell - Ralph's Party

Boris and Arkady Strugatsky - Roadside Picnic

Geoff Dyer - Broadsword Calling Danny Boy

Various - For Ian Charleson: A Tribute

Nancy Friday - My Secret Garden

Margaret Rutherford - Autobiography

Margaret Rutherford - A Blithe Spirit

Robert Helpmann - Album

Kenneth Williams - Diaries

William Hughes - Performance

Henry Williamson - Tarka the Otter

Josie Long - Because I Don't Know What You Mean and What You Don't

Fern Brady - Strong Female Character

Katherine May - Wintering

Jean Rhys - Good Morning Midnight

Sinead O Connor - Rememberings

Diana Athill - Stet

Jean Rhys - Wide Sargasso Sea

Miranda Seymour - Haunted Life of Jean Rhys

Jean Rhys - Letters

Camilla Grudova - Children of Paradise

Camilla Grudova - Dolls Alphabet

Octavia Butler - Parable of the Sower

Toni Morrison - Beloved

Margaret Atwood - Handmaid's Tale

Lewis Hancox - Welcome To St Hell

Natasha Walter - Living Dolls

Natasha Walter - Before the Light Fades

The Cut - Assisted Suicide...

Miranda July - All Fours

Laura Bates - Men Who Hate Women

Natalie Haynes - Divine Might

Sam Hunter - Robert Rauschenberg

Olivia Laing - Funny Weather

John Updike - More Matter

William Burroughs - Junky

Alexander Trocchi - Cain's Book

Gabriel Garcia Marquez - 100 Years of Solitude

Michael Blair & Joe Bucciero - Young Marble Giants' Colossal Youth

Martin Ed Myrone - Gothic Reader

Colin MacInnes - Absolute Beginners

Sinead Gleason & Kim Gordon - This Woman's Work

Patricia Highsmith - Strangers on a Train

Patricia Highsmith - Price of Salt

Arundhati Roy - AZADI

Alan Moore - Lost Girls

John Hegley - New & Selected Potatoes

John Le Carre - Letters

Polly Barton - Fifty Sounds

Polly Barton - Porn

Ronan Hession - Leonard & Hungry Paul

Maggie Nelson - Bluets

Edna O'Brien - Country Girls

Claire Keegan - Foster

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