Aitken Alexander Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Hungry Ghosts
Robert Klein Engler
Today is the day: Kevin Jared Hosein’s “harrowing, fiercely beautiful and deeply human” novel HUNGRY GHOSTS is out now in the UK. https://t.co/9LsIKuRidQ @kevinjhosein @BloomsburyBooks https://t.co/p2BpxKbelr
Paperback, 2011
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthy
"...a tale in the Gothic tradition: think Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea or Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy...a superlative book that deserves to win prizes." We're delighted to see this rave for HUNGRY GHOSTS in the @theipaper: https://t.co/PQi4tPjwFw
Paperback, 1992
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dark Neighbourhood
Vanessa Onwuemezi
Huge congratulations to Vanessa @onwuemezi as DARK NEIGHBOURHOOD is included on the longlist for the 2022 Edge Hill Prize 🎉 @FitzcarraldoEds https://t.co/Tq3DAZ63MV
Out of stock

Fiction Unbound: Bernardine Evaristo
Sebnem Toplu
💫We are so pleased to see A HOUSE FOR ALICE out in the world - congratulations to @DianaEvansOP 💫 'A gorgeous novel from one of our most outstanding writers' BERNARDINE EVARISTO 'A wise, tender novel' MONICA ALI 'A lyrical and glorious writer' NAOMI ALDERMAN @ChattoBooks https://t.co/xyhv3iF8ew
Paperback, 2014
$49.95$24.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Someday, Maybe: A Good Morning America Book Club Pick
Onyi Nwabineli
💫The 'astonishing' Someday, Maybe by @OnyiWrites is out today💫@OneworldNews ‘Nwabineli is magic with words’ - Bolu Babalola ‘Touching, funny, insightful and, well, beautiful.’- Dorothy Koomson ‘Nwabineli [creates] a funny, realistic elegy to love’ - The Irish Examiner https://t.co/AYxeNrAIqa
Hardcover, 2022
$27.99$13.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Quiet: Poems
Victoria Adukwei Bulley
This is wonderful news. Congratulations to Victoria Adukwei Bulley, whose poetry collection QUIET has been shortlisted for the #PollardPoetryPrize. @FaberBooks @victoriaadukwei https://t.co/aBbSBwrkBj
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
How to Read Now: Essays
Elaine Castillo
Elaine Castillo will be in London speaking to @PretiTaneja about her radical, insightful essay collection HOW TO READ now at @BurleyFisher on Sept 20th. Get your tickets here💥 https://t.co/t167NwOB4h
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Aftermath
Preti Taneja
We are thrilled that Preti Taneja has won the Gordon Burn Prize 2022 for her vitally important work AFTERMATH. Congratulations, @PretiTaneja! @andothertweets @NewWritingNorth https://t.co/xAJiLc9Luk
Paperback, 2021
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Forgotten Women: The Women Who Shaped and Were Erased from Our History
Zing Tsjeng
Happy publication day to Zing Tsjeng, whose book FORGOTTEN WOMEN is published today by @Octopus_Books🧡📙 An anthology of all 4 previous FW books, it rediscovers, retells and reinstates the lives of over 190 important and significant women. Congratulations, @misszing! https://t.co/92CBR9DSEp
Hardcover, 2023
$34.99$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Little Mix: Test Your Super-Fan Status
Jack Thorpe
Congratulations to Shon Faye, whose landmark work THE TRANSGENDER ISSUE is published today in paperback by @AllenLaneBooks in the UK An Instant Sunday Times bestseller, it has been praised by Judith Butler, Margaret Atwood, Little Mix, Florence Welch, Maggie Nelson and many more https://t.co/Fwfn5Wjidq
Paperback, 2019
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book