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Andrew Holgate Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Former Sunday Times Lit Editor. Now a literary agent at Andrew Nurnberg - fiction and all types of narrative non-fiction. https://t.co/sprf4O6POU

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Book Cover for: London: The Biography, Peter Ackroyd

London: The Biography

Peter Ackroyd
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

@john_self @Sathnam In Peter Ackroyd’s London book, I remember him writing about how they put wood down on Oxford Street (or Piccadilly, I can’t remember) to quieten the horse-drawn traffic in the 18th/19th century

Paperback, 2002

$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner), Andrea Elliott

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)

Andrea Elliott
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

Andrea Elliottt’s Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival and Hope in New York City has just won the Pulitzer Non-fiction prize. Our Sunday Times reviewer Christina Patterson adored it; here is her review… https://t.co/tfsWYoRMFB

Paperback, 2022

$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Candy House

Jennifer Egan
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

"At its best it reads as if AM Homes, George Saunders and David Foster Wallace took turns in rewriting Middlemarch for our modern age." The superb Johanna Thomas-Corr assesses Jennifer Egan's new novel, Sunday Times https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-candy-house-by-jennifer-egan-review-the-goon-squad-novelist-takes-aim-at-technology-nb3zcvntc

Paperback, 2023

$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories

Tove Ditlevsen
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

If you love short stories.... Sunday Times review of four new(ish) short story collections. The Danish writer Tove Ditlevsen's The Trouble with Happiness sounds particularly tempting https://t.co/wZVJjKJKj0

Paperback, 2023

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Viola Davis: Actress, Kathy Furgang

Viola Davis: Actress

Kathy Furgang
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

Has any other contemporary Hollywood star had quite such an extraordinary life as Viola Davis? Victoria Segal’s review of her memoir may leave you open-mouthed… https://t.co/1Wr3cilyva

Hardcover, 2018

$24.27$12.14 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Beautiful World, Where Are You, Sally Rooney

Beautiful World, Where Are You

Sally Rooney
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

Sally Rooney's novel Beautiful World, Where Are You has gone straight to No1 in the Sunday Times Fiction hardbacks list for this coming weekend, selling a whacking 46,065 copies

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: A Little Life, Hanya Yanagihara

A Little Life

Hanya Yanagihara
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

David Sexton loved Hanya Yanagihara’s first novel A Little Life. What does he make of her new second one, To Paradise, and the rest of the recent spate of Covid novels? https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/to-paradise-by-hanya-yanagihara-review-m5lzcw2cj

Paperback, 2016

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Lessons in Chemistry

Bonnie Garmus
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

I suspect that, when it comes to this year's Book of the Summer that everyone reads on holiday, it will come down to this novel versus Bonnie Garmus's Lessons in Chemistry, which is this week's Sunday Times hardback fiction No1... https://t.co/apHGCfOZZf

Hardcover, 2022

$29.00$14.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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The Appeal

Janice Hallett
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

Up early digitally ..... The Appeal's Janice Hallett has reviewed for the Sunday Times - and loved - a fascinating true-crime book about a poison case that influenced Agatha Christie and the Golden Age of crime writers @JaniceHallett https://t.co/KB8gPYmJC8

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner), Douglas Stuart

Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

Douglas Stuart
Andrew HolgateAndrew Holgate

"A rich and affecting group portrait of loneliness," but... Johanna Thomas-Corr assesses Douglas Stuart's follow-up to his Booker-winning Shuggie Bain, in today's Sunday Times https://t.co/mMuL3UdNsZ

Paperback, 2020

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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