This week we're delighted to bring you this delicious and delectable conversation with the amazing Rukmini Iyer! Rukmini is the visionary behind the multi-million-selling Roasting Tin series of cookbooks with the latest being the Green Roasting Tin. She is also a voracious and wide-ranging reader. We talked to her about Jilly Cooper, early, eye-popping reads, life-changing food writing and she reveals her secret, and surprising passion. Find out more about all the books mentioned by visiting our Bookshop.org store. Order your copy of The Book Lovers Journal HERE. Find out more about Daisy's Read Yourself Happy retreat at Aweventurer.com/daisy. 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

Daisy Buchanan - Pity Party

Rukmini Iyer - The Roasting Tin

Rukmini Iyer - The Green Roasting Tin

Miye Lee - Dallergut Dream Department Store

Gabrielle Zevin - Storied Life of AJ Fikry

Gabrielle Zevin - Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow

TS Eliot - Waste Land Facsimile

Much Ado Bookshop

Taffy Brodesser-Akner - Fleishman is in Trouble

Robert Lowell - Imitations

Homer (Trans: Emily Wilson) - Odyssey

Donna Tartt - The Secret History

Roberto Bolano - 2666

Paul Beatty - The Sellout

Philip Pullman - Northern Lights

Francesa Segal - Welcome to Glorious Tuga

Jilly Cooper - Rivals

John Lanchester - The Debt To Pleasure

MFK Fisher - Gastronomical Me

Bee Wilson - Consider the Fork

Bee Wilson - The Way We Eat Now

Tim Spector - Food For Life

Chris van Tulleken - Ultra Processed People

Sanjana Modha - Sanjana Feasts

Lucy Mangan - Bookworm

Eve Garnett - Family At One End Street

David Niven - Moon's a Balloon

Caitlin Moran - How To Be a Woman

Stewart Granger - Sparks Fly Up

Roger Lewis - Erotic Vagrancy

Kate Andersen Brower - Elizabeth Taylor

Stefan Zweig - Beware of Pity

Various - Book Lovers Journal 2025

Noel Streatfeild - Saplings

Noel Streatfeild - Ballet Shoes

Bonnie Garmus - Lessons in Chemistry

Noel Streatfeild - A Vicarage Family

Dodie Smith - I Capture the Castle

Lizzy Stewart - Alison

Jane Oliver - Business as Usual

Dorothy Whipple - High Wages

Min Jin Lee - Free Food for Millionaires

Min Jin Lee - Pachinko

Laurie colwin - Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - More Home Cooking

Laurie Colwin - Happy all the Time

India Knight - Darling

Nancy Mitford - Pursuit of Love

Rukmini Iyer - Quick Roasting Tin

Rukmini Iyer - Green Barbecue

Time Life Editors - Patisserie

Helen Fielding - Bridget Jones's Diary

Rukmini Iyer - Sweet Roasting Tin

Bee Wilson - Swindled

Rukmini Iyer - Roasting Tin Around the World

Ruby Tandoh - Cook as You Are

Ruby Tandoh - Eat Up

Diana Vreeland - DV

Diana Vreeland - Memos

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