Episode 1 - The Books that Made Us (The Princess Diaries, Ella Enchanted, North & South)

Show Notes - The Books that Made Us

A literary podcast by English authors Lauren James and Lucy Powrie full of book recommendations and writing advice.

Everything we discuss in the episode:
The Paper & Hearts Society by Lucy Powrie
The Princess Diaries by Meg Cabot
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13 3/4 by Sue Townsend
Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine
The Next Together by Lauren James
Read with Pride by Lucy Powrie (upcoming)
North & South (2004) - TV
Mary Poppins (1964) - Film
Bedknobs and Broomsticks (1971) - Film
Pride & Prejudice (2005) - Film
Pride & Prejudice (1995) - TV
Shirley by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
The Complete Poems by Emily Brontë
Literary critic George Henry Lewes
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Mansfield Park by Jane Austen
Elizabeth Gaskell, author of North and South and Cranford
Shades of Milk and Honey by Mary Robinette Kowal
https://www.jhupressblog.com/2014/04/23/g-i-jane-austen-goes-to-war/
https://www.tor.com/2019/01/22/why-science-fiction-authors-need-to-be-writing-about-climate-change-right-now/
His Dark Materials series by Philip Pullman
Nevermoor: The Trials of Morrigan Crow by Jessica Townsend
Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban by J K Rowling
Once and Future by Amy Rose Capetta and Cori McCarthy
Game of Thrones (2019) - TV
Doctor Who - TV
Good Omens (2019) - TV
Preludes & Nocturnes (The Sandman, #1)by Neil Gaiman
Killing Eve (2019) - TV
Emerald Fennell and Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Lauren’s Goodreads tags: https://www.goodreads.com/review/list/4254869-lauren-james
Northern Lights (2019) - TV
The Starlight Watchmaker by Lauren James

Lauren James is the Carnegie-nominated British Young Adult author of The Loneliest Girl in the Universe, The Quiet at the End of the World and The Next Together series. Her most recent release is the novella The Starlight Watchmaker.
https://laurenejames.co.uk | https://twitter.com/Lauren_E_James

Lucy Powrie is the author of The Paper & Hearts Society, the first book in a new series for teenagers (11+). She is an award-winning book blogger and YouTuber, as well as the Brontë Society’s Young Ambassador for 2018 and 2019.
http://lucythereader.com | http://youtube.com/lucythereader | https://twitter.com/lucythereader