S1, E15: The Literary Edit Podcast with Sophie Heawood

For the fifteenth episode of The Literary Edit Podcast, I was joined by author and journalist Sophie Heawood, who’s debut memoir, The Hungover Games is one of my all-time favourite books.   You can read about Sophie’s Desert Island Books here, and the ones we discuss in this episode are:   Lunch Poems by Frank O’Hara A Journey Around My Room by Xavier de Maistre The Rules Do Not Apply by Andrea Levy My Wild and Sleepless Nights by Clover Stroud Hideous Kinky by Esther Freud Freaky Dancin’ by Bez Cat’s Cradle by Kurt Vonnegut Christmas in Exeter Street   Other books we spoke about included Winnie the Pooh by A A Milne, The Cost of Living by Deborah Levy, Female Chauvinist Pigs by Ariel Levy, I Couldn’t Love You More by Esther Freud and The Wild Other by Clover Stroud.   If you’d like to buy any of the books we discussed in the episode, please consider doing so from the list I created on Bookshop.org, an online bookstore with a mission to financially support local, independent bookstores. If you’re based in Australia, please consider buying them from Gertrude & Alice, who deliver all over the country. To contact me, email [email protected]   Facebook The Literary Edit   Instagram: @the_litedit @heawood   Twitter: @thelitedit @heawood