Alex Marshall 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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European culture reporter @nytimes. Author, Republic or Death! Travels in Search of National Anthems (https://t.co/75QXunVTAR)
Stay True: A Memoir (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Hua HsuAlex MarshallOur 10 best books of the year include two I've been meaning to read for time - Ed Yong's "An Immense World" and Hua Hsu's "Stay True" - and one, Claire-Louise Bennett, "Checkout 19" whose blurb here makes it sound utterly, utterly essential https://t.co/olNzWsJefX
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellAlex MarshallLearned last night that George Orwell predicted A.I. music in ‘1984’. “Dreadful rubbish” it seems! https://t.co/SBfpvTAw4D
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
$10.99$5.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Reads
Charles PrierAlex MarshallJust seen our piece on The Walk is today's Great Read so you really should read it. With reporting from @carlottagall in Gaziantep, @EPovoledo in Rome, @NikiKitsantonis in Athens, and me in France and Britain https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/10/theater/little-amal-the-walk.html
Paperback, 2017
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Parthenon: Revised Edition
Mary BeardAlex MarshallFT's done a long read on the Parthenon marbles https://t.co/JBZBVIz8za which unsurprisingly confirms the same details from Kathimerini and us (https://t.co/kdO3897R8B) Has Mitsotakis on the record and an amazing quote from Mary Beard that she wants the marbles to globe trot
Paperback, 2010
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Checkout 19
Claire-Louise BennettAlex MarshallOur 10 best books of the year include two I've been meaning to read for time - Ed Yong's "An Immense World" and Hua Hsu's "Stay True" - and one, Claire-Louise Bennett, "Checkout 19" whose blurb here makes it sound utterly, utterly essential https://t.co/olNzWsJefX
Paperback, 2023
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Great Circle: A Read with Jenna Pick: A Novel (Man Booker Prize Finalist)
Maggie ShipsteadAlex MarshallHere's the Booker shortlist: Anuk Arudpragasam, “A Passage North” Damon Galgut, “The Promise” Patricia Lockwood, “No One Is Talking About This” Nadifa Mohamed, “The Fortune Men” Richard Powers, “Bewilderment” Maggie Shipstead, “Great Circle” The Fortune Men sounds *really* good
Paperback, 2022
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Retrograde
Ryan Calais CameronAlex MarshallVery much enjoyed listening to Ryan Calais Cameron on this, very much looking forward to whatever he does next since I've missed Retrograde https://t.co/x92sBuqNNs
Paperback, 2023
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Time Shelter
Georgi GospodinovAlex MarshallI am at the #internationalbooker2023 dinner with the very dapper Georgi Gospodinov, author of “Time Shelter,”who - based purely on proximity to me - let’s hope wins! https://t.co/fAsBuAGgCj
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us
Ed YongAlex MarshallOur 10 best books of the year include two I've been meaning to read for time - Ed Yong's "An Immense World" and Hua Hsu's "Stay True" - and one, Claire-Louise Bennett, "Checkout 19" whose blurb here makes it sound utterly, utterly essential https://t.co/olNzWsJefX
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam KayAlex MarshallReally enjoyed "This is Going to Hurt" last night, and, as this makes clear, the most surprising thing about it was it dwelt as much on the exhaustion and horrible parts of doctoring - death, horrific patients https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/08/this-is-going-to-hurt-review-ben-whishaw-stars-in-a-realism-packed-adaptation as the book's comedy
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