The podcast format may well be the 2020s answer to 90s chat shows, questing into the lives and work of the famous by inviting them for a chinwag. And yet there is something more intimate about hearing an interviewee’s voice softly inside your ears than there ever was seeing them glad-ragged up in front of a studio audience with Parky.

Authors (not generally known for being extroverts) seem particularly to lend themselves to this calm, considered medium, and novelist Daisy Buchanan’s podcast You’re Booked takes full advantage of the format’s relaxed nature to gently grill guests on their working methods and formative books in their lives. 

Buchanan is interested in a huge range of writing, with guests varying from cult writers to literary megastars. The episode with Jilly Cooper is a treat as the pair geek out over EM Delafield, with Cooper rhapsodising about Proust and telling Buchanan how beautiful she is. Our host is similarly at ease with Ian Rankin, asking thoughtful, probing questions about his work, which leads to fascinating discussions about Muriel Spark, the Edinburgh gothic, crime writing in translation, and the role Rankin’s wife Miranda plays in editing his manuscripts. 

Buchanan is warm, charming and effervescent; the only time this sits oddly is when she comes up against literary cool kids, such as married couple Ottessa Moshfegh and Luke Goebel, and sounds a little nervous. But the back catalogue is sprawling and there is surely something in here for anyone with more than a passing interest in the world of books.

All episodes of You’re Booked are available now.