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

London: The Biography
Peter Ackroyd
@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
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Pulitzer Prize Winner)
Andrea Elliott
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
The Candy House
Jennifer Egan
"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
The Trouble with Happiness: And Other Stories
Tove Ditlevsen
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
Viola Davis: Actress
Kathy Furgang
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
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally Rooney
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
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
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
Lessons in Chemistry
Bonnie Garmus
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
The Appeal
Janice Hallett
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
Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)
Douglas Stuart
"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