5x15 Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Being You: A New Science of Consciousness
Anil Seth5x15Tonight we are delighted to be celebrating the publication of #BeingYou by @anilkseth. It’s been hailed by @WanderingGaia as ‘A vast-ranging, phenomenal achievement that will undoubtedly become a seminal text’ - and you can buy your copy now from @NewhamBookshop! #5x15stories https://t.co/iIdXLPzURg
Hardcover, 2021
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks
Patrick Radden Keefe5x15What a jaw-dropping, eye-opening, timely evening of discussion - huge thanks @praddenkeefe, and to @RosieBoycott for hosting. EMPIRE OF PAIN is out now @picadorbooks, and Patrick's new book, ROGUES, will be published by Picador in July. Do buy from @NewhamBookshop! https://t.co/REmg2YjQUe
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George Orwell5x15'Love is subversive, memory is subversive, hope is subversive' - #RebeccaSolnit on George Orwell's classic 1984. An inner life is a tool of resistance to authoritarianism. #5x15stories @TheOrwellPrize https://t.co/KMuMrboM2g
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Reality and Other Stories
John Lanchester5x15A ghost story is something that you tell, or someone tells you. There's an element of personal connection - John Lanchester on his spine-tingling tales of the contemporary uncanny, REALITY, AND OTHER STORIES @FaberBooks #5x15stories https://t.co/1XgGvgfykJ
Hardcover, 2021
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Princess Casamassima
Henry James5x15'I finally got to write a novel by realising that the life I'd been brought up in to was funny' - Howard Jacobson on giving up trying to write like Henry James, and finding the humour closer to home. #5x15stories @JonathanCape
Paperback, 2022
$24.95$12.48 + Free shipping50% off your first bookFloods of the Future
Paul Stein5x15Our @kewgardens panel on Foods of the Future begins with Sarah Langford @wigsandwords, author of the brilliant book #Rooted - speaking about a transitional moment for agriculture & the importance of regenerative farming - returning to old methods while making use of new… https://t.co/nIVnCNomz0 https://t.co/nmiyKI3DtI
Hardcover, 2001
$37.13$18.57 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Beauty in the World: The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Me
Patrick Bringley5x15Our third guest tonight is Patrick Bringley, author of the beautiful memoir ALL THE BEAUTY IN THE WORLD, which records his experiences as a guard in New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art. 'A beautifully written manual on how to appreciate art, and life' - Tracy Chevalier Out… https://t.co/6u0wg7qjFj https://t.co/n00oJeaDmN
Paperback, 2024
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea Wulf5x15Discover the radical ideas of a free new world created out of poetry, sex, music, and romanticism. Join @thatkirstylang in conversation with acclaimed biographer @andrea_wulf on her new book Magnificent Rebels. Follow link to listen to the full podcast: https://t.co/0zn8lub1DC https://t.co/dZaB3tz6vG
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Speak Whale: The Power and Wonder of Listening to Animals
Tom Mustill5x15Next week we're thrilled to have Tom Mustill @tommustill at 5x15, in conversation with Lucy Jones @lucyjones, about decoding the secrets of animal communication & his new book How to Speak Whale 🐳 Monday 24th October, 6.30pm, online via Zoom. Tickets available on our website! https://t.co/fb5soAvolt
Paperback, 2023
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Piranesi
Susanna Clarke5x15Susanna Clarke reflects on the intoxicating experience of listening to Chiwetel Ejiofor narrate her New York Times and Sunday Times bestseller Piranesi which won the Audies Audiobook of the year. #ChiwetelEjiofor @BloomsburyBooks #5x15stories #NeilGaiman #Pirianesi #SusannaClarke https://t.co/3nPCQLuPGH
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book