ABC Radio National Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Cult Classic
Sloane CrosleyABC Radio NationalSloane Crosley (@askanyone) joined the #BigWeekendofBooks to discuss her funny novel, Cult Classic (@BloomsburySyd), where the heroine meets her exes day after day, on the same block. Listen back: https://t.co/l0V4Vqqn3s 🧵
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Have Some Questions for You
Rebecca MakkaiABC Radio NationalAmerican author @rebeccamakkai discusses her new novel, I Have Some Questions for You, and the 'true crime industrial complex' with ABC RN's @andy_park for #BigWeekendofBooks https://t.co/MaZkWILx8A
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
David GrannABC Radio NationalWell this is a rollicking tale. Listen to @sarahdingle_ chat to best-selling author @DavidGrann about his latest book & incredible true story "The Wager – a tale of shipwreck mutiny and murder". #LateNightLive https://t.co/dFogBaZ6ko
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hammarskjöld: A Life
Roger LipseyABC Radio NationalUN Sec Gen Dag Hammarskjöld died in a plane crash on Sept 18 1961. The crash was suspicious and remains unsolved. Will a new UN report shed any light? @julesmorrow spoke to Hammarskjöld biographer, Roger Lipsey https://t.co/C05KEjYFXD
Paperback, 2015
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality
Angela SainiABC Radio NationalTonight on LNL with @PhillipAdams_1 a study of female and male power. Angela Merkel, a triple political outsider – a woman, a scientist, and an East German, with film-makers @lizziegillett @evaoddgirlout And Angela Saini on her acclaimed book The Patriarchs: How Men Came to Rule
Hardcover, 2023
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Strangers I Know
Claudia DurastantiABC Radio NationalOne of our favourite sessions: novelist/translator/journo @CDurastanti (Strangers I Know, @FitzcarraldoEds @riverheadbooks) grew up with parents who were #deaf but didn't want to learn #signlanguage. On the complexity of telling family stories and #memoir: https://t.co/MmVgRdnWju
Paperback, 2023
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Idiot
Elif BatumanABC Radio NationalRight now, Elif Batuman (The Idiot, Either/Or) @BananaKarenina is speaking with @SarahKanowski about #consent, writing #trauma & how novels influence us. Tune in to the Radio National #BigWeekendofBooks on your radio, online or on ABC listen https://t.co/um5q9hp5Pt https://t.co/dBNNJbY9NX
Paperback, 2018
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trust (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hernan DiazABC Radio NationalIn Trust, @PulitzerPrizes winner Hernan Diaz takes on a taboo topic: money. Hear Diaz discuss his book with ABC RN's @LEstrangeTimes for #BigWeekendofBooks: https://t.co/kbwpMmquTl
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Dangerous Business
Jane SmileyABC Radio NationalPulitzer Prize winner Jane Smiley - who recently published her 16th novel, A Dangerous Business - tells ABC RN's @GreenJ how she loves to listen in to other people's conversations... #BigWeekendofBooks (Listen here: https://t.co/rlfPp5uv5i) https://t.co/D9nAujmN9K
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Biography of X
Catherine LaceyABC Radio NationalAmerican author @_catherinelacey discusses her latest novel - her fifth - The Biography of X, with Big Ideas host @natashamitchell for #BigWeekendofBooks: https://t.co/DQ49u0XhzZ
Hardcover, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book