S9 Ep1: Bookshelfie: Charli Howard

S9 Ep1: Bookshelfie: Charli Howard

From Bookshelfie: Women’s Prize Podcast by Women’s Prize Podcast/ Bird Lime Media

March 10, 2026 · 47 min · Season 9 · Episode 1

About this episode

Charli Howard discusses confidence, dating disasters, and her latest book in this episode of Bookshelfie.

To kick off a new season of Bookshelfie, author, model, entrepreneur and women’s rights activist Charli Howard talks to Vick about finding confidence in your 30s, dating disasters and the therapeutic process of writing her latest book. Charli’s coming-of-age memoir, Misfit, was published in 2019, which followed her rise in the modelling industry, her battle against body shaming and the normalisation of size zero. She’s also the author of children’s novel, Splash, which Jacqueline Wilson called a ‘much needed book that will strike a chord with so many girls – and help them dare to be different.’ Charli is an ambassador for Refuge and has successfully lobbied the UK government to criminalise the creation of non-consensual deepfake pornography. Her new book, Flesh, is an urgent and powerful series of essays on how society has dissected and sexualised the female body throughout time, and what it means to be a woman in the twenty-first century. Charli’s book choices are: ** Sleepovers by Jacqueline Wilson ** Hunger by Roxane Gay ** The Eyes are the Best Part by Monika Kim ** Women Who Love Too Much by Robin Norwood ** I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jeanette McCurdy You can buy all books…

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Host: Vick Hope

Guest: Charli Howard

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Books & works: Misfit, Splash, Sleepovers, Hunger, The Eyes are the Best Part, Women Who Love Too Much, I’m Glad My Mom Died

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