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 HEREand 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

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