Dawn French - You're Booked
For this year's festive special, we are in the company of comedy royalty. It's the undisputed national treasure: Dawn French! As well as being part of the groundbreaking comedy duo French and Saunders, Dawn is the author of two books of memoir and four novels with the latest being the bestselling Because Of You. We talked to her about the funniest book she has ever read, fictional families, Ab Fab, Carrie Fisher, Beatrix Potter and unusual research methods.
BOOKS
Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable
Dale Shaw - Painfully British Haikus
Dawn French - Because of You
Beatrix Potter - Tale of Mrs Tiggywinkle
Beatrix Potter - Tale of Peter Rabbit
Roald Dahl - The BFG
Eve Garnett - Family From One End Street
Carrie Fisher - Postcards From the Edge
Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice
Ruth Jones - Us Three
Dawn French - Dear Fatty
Diablo Cody - Candy Girl
Dawn French - Oh Dear Silvia
Robert McFarlane - Old Ways
John Williams - Stoner
Pete Paphides - Broken Greek
Jessica Mitford - Letters
Charles Dickens - Bleak House
Charles Dickens - Christmas Carol
Charles Dickens - David Copperfield
Charles Dickens - Oliver Twist
Spike Milligan - Puckoon
Spike Milligan - Silly Verse For Kids
Jane Hirshfield - The Beauty
Brene Brown - Gifts of Imperfection
Elizabeth Gilbert - Big Magic
Dorothy Wordsworth - Letters
John Lanchester - Debt to Pleasure
John Berger - And our Faces, My Heart, Brief as Photos
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