Alex Peake-Tomkinson 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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Misfits: A Personal Manifesto
Michaela Coel
RT @alicevjones: MISFITS: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel will be published on 7 September, the same day as Sally Rooney's Beautiful…
Out of stock

Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
RT @joshsm_th: Unveiling the cover for Sally Rooney's Beautiful World, Where Are You. Design by @gray318, art direction by @SaysDonna, il…
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Sweetness of Water
Nathan Harris
My verdict on the the Booker Prize-longlisted The Sweetness of Water, Nathan Harris’ debut. https://t.co/JfGOgRb1w0
Hardcover, Large Print, 2021
$47.00$23.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
No Such Thing as Perfect
Sarah Daltry
Even if you don't owe @emmahdhughes' money for an Uber, I recommend preordering her novel No Such Thing As Perfect because it's brilliant. Katherine Heiny says "this book will make your world a brighter place" and if you fancy some of that, here's the link https://t.co/xMoqs2R77P https://t.co/TxvCohgBZj
Paperback, 2014
$12.99$6.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cursed Bread
Sophie Mackintosh
And Sophie Mackintosh’s new novel Cursed Bread 🍞 which will be published by Penguin next March and which I’m nervous to read! https://t.co/RRf4UaUsbi
Paperback, 2024
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Free Love
Tessa Hadley
Cock-a-hoop that I’ll be chairing some brilliant novelists @edbookfest this month, including @CharlotteMende1 and Tessa Hadley discussing their novels The Exhibitionist and Free Love on August 23rd at 4pm, tickets here https://t.co/cBlvDKNx3p https://t.co/vTgQudbaPZ
Paperback, 2023
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Normal People
Sally Rooney
A year ago today, I’d just finished reading Sally Rooney’s NORMAL PEOPLE at breakneck speed and started talking again on my summer holiday. It’s the happiest reading experience of my adult life and I wish I could read it again for the first time. https://t.co/mh0EOWMqrF
Paperback, 2020
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Birnam Wood
Eleanor Catton
WAAA, I’ve been waiting for this one since I heard it’s Macbeth-signalling title a while ago. Eleanor Catton’s new psychological thriller Birnam Wood is out from @GrantaBooks next March. https://t.co/t8o7uFPZMY
Paperback, 2024
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia
Hadley Freeman
I wasn’t sure I was the right person to review a book on anorexia but I’m glad I did, as heart-breaking as it was — piece on Hadley Freeman’s Good Girls in yesterday’s Mail on Sunday. https://t.co/LLekCKkH6O
Out of stock

My Phantoms
Gwendoline Riley
RT @GrantaBooks: 'Gwendoline Riley is a genius and MY PHANTOMS is her best novel to date' @AlexPeakeTom has glowing praise for MY PHANTOMS…
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book