For the sixteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and editor Tobias Madden, who’s debut novel, Anything But Fine, was released on Tuesday.

You can read about Tobias’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:

Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell

The Signature of All Things by Elizabeth Gilbert

Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

Nevermoor by Jessica Townsend

The Magician King by Lev Grossman

A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara

Other books we spoke about included Still Life by Sarah Winman, The Secret History by Donna Tartt, The Midnight Library by Matt Haig and On Beauty by Zadie Smith.

If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country.

To contact me, email lucy@thelitedit.com

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