This week's guest is a full-blown National Treasure. Mel Giedroyc is a versatile presenter, actor and comedian, who formed a formidable comedy partnership with Sue Perkins, hosted the iconic Great British Bake Off and has starred in West End musicals. And now Mel can add novelist to her list of achievements with her critically acclaimed debut The Best Things already topping the charts. We talked to her about her ferocious devotion to Jean Valjean, the funny book she always gives as a gift and the book so scary she'd only read it when other people were in the room.

BOOKS

Daisy Buchanan - Insatiable

Mel Giedroyc - The Best Things

Margaret Mitchell - Gone with the Wind

Jane Austen - Persuasion

Victor Hugo - Les Miserables

Emily Bronte - Wuthering Heights

Nigel Planer & Christopher Douglas - I an Actor

Thomas Harris - Silence of the Lambs

Robert Goddard - Past Caring

Robert Goddard - The Fine Art of Invisible Detection

Alice Thomas Ellis - Unexplained Laughter

Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickelby

Charles Dickens - Bleak House

Laurie Colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy All The Time

Elena Ferrante - Lying Life of Adults

Elena Ferrante - Neapolitan Quartet

Evelyn Waugh - Vile Bodies

Lissa Evans - V For Victory

Mary Wesley - Sensible Life

Mary Welsley - Camomile Lawn

Zadie Smith - Swing Time

Donatella Di Pietrantonio - A Girl Returned

Dante - Inferno

Georgia Pritchett - My Mess is a Bit of a Life

Nina Stibbe - Reasons To Be Cheerful

Fanny Craddock - Fanny Craddock Invites

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