What happens when one of Britain’s bestselling crime writers hands over 25 years of Amazon history?

This week on My Mate Bought A Toaster, Tom rifles through the online shopping history of bestselling author and The Traitors star Harriet Tyce… and uncovers everything from cutting-edge MP3 players to Baby Mozart DVDs, dinner party cookbooks, rowing gloves, weighted blankets and even the book she accidentally bought… that she wrote herself.

Along the way Harriet opens up about life as a criminal barrister, the crippling nerves she battled in court, the moment she realised she wanted to become a novelist, why Blood Orange changed everything, and what really happened behind the scenes on The Traitors.

There are stories about illegal MP3 downloads, disastrous dinner parties, parenting fads we all fell for, lockdown puzzles, marathon misery, moonwalking in a Wonderbra, and why she still can’t quite believe her entire life has been preserved in Amazon order history since 2001. It's quite literally ALL HERE UNDER ONE PODCAST ROOF GUYS!

As ever we root around and find laughs, truths and a spot of the surprisingly moving… and occasionally things do get quite forensic.

Products we dig into include (roughly in order):

• 2001 – Intel Pocket Concert MP3 Player
• 2002 – Toshiba DVD Player
• 2002 – The Matrix DVD
• 2002 – The Lord of the Rings DVD
• 2002 – Gladiator DVD
• 2002 – Monsters, Inc. DVD
• 2003 – Entertaining cookbook by Victoria Blashford-Snell
• 2004 – Baby Beethoven / Baby Van Gogh / Baby Mozart DVDs
• 2004 – Children’s vegetarian recipe books
• 2004 – Finger food book for babies & toddlers
• 2004 – Brain games for babies
• 2004 – Black & Decker drill
• 2007 – Nigel Slater’s The Kitchen Diaries / Express-style recipe books
• 2007 – The Fussy Eaters’ Recipe Book
• 2007 – Preserved (home preserving cookbook)
• 2007 – Christopher Hitchens’ God Is Not Great
• 2009 – The French Laundry Cookbook
• 2014 – I Hate Literary Agents (guide to getting published)
• 2019/2020 – Saving Missy by Beth Morrey
• 2020 – Pink rowing gloves
• 2020 – Thames Path walking guide
• 2020 – 11kg weighted blanket
• 2020 – Harriet’s own novel, Blood Orange
• 2020 – Jigsaw puzzles (lockdown purchases)
• Recent years – Poetry collections

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