BBC Woman's Hour Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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‘The great thing about being older is that you have a bigger suitcase of experiences to draw from’ @BonnieGarmus had her books rejected 98 times before writing Lessons in Chemistry. She told us why she’s grateful to be publishing her debut novel aged 64 https://t.co/XBbEu5XTLt https://t.co/RhToAGtTPX

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📢 Coming up: Cleo Watson, former political adviser to Boris Johnson, joins @itsanitarani for her first radio interview about her new book, Whips. 📚 It's Fifty Shades of Grey meets Prime Minister's Questions. 🎧 Listen from 10am ⬇️ @TheGazelle69

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Did you miss our exclusive interview with Kate Bush? She reacted to #RunningUpThatHill reaching number 1, 37 years after its release, thanks to @Netflix's Stranger Things. Read our new article for six things we learnt from her interview with @emmabarnett: https://t.co/q5XlqP9ct7

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‘I think we don’t talk about it enough and especially for women’ 📣 Author Gabrielle Zevin told @itsanitarani why she wants us all to embrace the idea of failure. She was discussing the overnight success of her novel Tomorrow And Tomorrow And Tomorrow. 🎧Listen here ⬇️

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What's 'hag horror' or 'hagsploitation'? In her latest book, Crazy Old Ladies - The Story Of Hag Horror, @Caroline79 explores the sub-genre of horror movies that cast iconic movie stars in often grotesque roles. Listen to the interview here ⬇️🎧

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Can you write an upbeat book about the end of life? Author Catherine Newman speaks to @bbcnuala about the inspiration behind her new book, We All Want Impossible Things. It’s set in a hospice but is full of jokes and sex and all sorts of love. Listen on @bbcsounds ⬇️🎧

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Lady-in-waiting to Princess Margaret for three decades, Lady Glenconner, Anne Tennant joins @emmabarnett to talk about her latest memoir ‘Whatever Next? Lessons From An Unexpected Life’. What compelled her to start writing in her late eighties?

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Wild Swans author Jung Chang tells us about the the woman who began the modernisation of China with a coup from the Emperor’s harem as a lowly concubine. Hear more about Empress Dowager Cixi now: https://t.co/jnaRbqtvau https://t.co/97g4nDkaCx

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🗣 'We've looked at stories through a certain lens for a very long time... Now there are different voices coming through' Playwright and actor @Lolitachakra discusses taking Maggie O’Farrell’s Hamnet from the page to the stage and why now's the time to platform these stories ⬇️

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The author @susancain wants to change the whole way we think about sadness. She spoke to @Emmabarnett about her new book Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole: https://t.co/0ZSClBm1TS https://t.co/5wxjQiMCvO