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Alex Peake-Tomkinson Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Misfits: A Personal Manifesto, Michaela Coel

Misfits: A Personal Manifesto

Michaela Coel
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

RT @alicevjones: MISFITS: A Personal Manifesto by Michaela Coel will be published on 7 September, the same day as Sally Rooney's Beautiful…

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Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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The Sweetness of Water

Nathan Harris
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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
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Book Cover for: No Such Thing as Perfect, Sarah Daltry

No Such Thing as Perfect

Sarah Daltry
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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Book Cover for: Cursed Bread, Sophie Mackintosh

Cursed Bread

Sophie Mackintosh
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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
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Book Cover for: Free Love, Tessa Hadley

Free Love

Tessa Hadley
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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Book Cover for: Normal People, Sally Rooney

Normal People

Sally Rooney
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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Book Cover for: Birnam Wood, Eleanor Catton

Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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Good Girls: A Story and Study of Anorexia

Hadley Freeman
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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

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My Phantoms

Gwendoline Riley
Alex Peake-TomkinsonAlex Peake-Tomkinson

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
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