Boyd Tonkin Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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On the eve of #GustaveFlaubert's 200th birthday, it was a treat to talk to brilliant #PosySimmonds, creator of #GemmaBovery, about her inspired, and wickedly funny, updating of #MadameBovary as a graphic novel – now a classic in its own right. @ifru_london https://t.co/2gMLFmSX6f

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How a playwright's loyal colleagues 'managed to sprinkle the stardust of luxury, glamour and prestige over an assemblage of old plays'. As Shakespeare's #FirstFolio celebrates 400 years, I wrote @TheEconomist about a book that really did change the world. #ShakespearesBirthday https://t.co/ZkMeo8i1SN

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‘A grave homage flecked with irony and mischief - just the tone Thomas Mann himself perfected’. Congratulations to #ColmToibin, winner of @RathbonesFolio prize for #TheMagician @VikingBooks. My review @TheEconomist https://t.co/hEZnYoBBTe

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Act of Oblivion delivers a galloping adventure, with a novel of ideas craftily packed into its saddlebags ... [It] offers well-staged hideouts and escapes, ambushes and skirmishes, amid a wilderness adventure that recalls The Last of the Mohicans.

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The contemporary of #AnneBoleyn who kept her head: #Ukraine-born #HurremSultan, aka #Roxelana, a big winner in #ChristopherdeBellaigue's non-fiction novel about the rise of #SuleymantheMagnificent, #TheLionHouse @TheBodleyHead My review @ftweekend https://t.co/j6SjcuXX2Q

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Free expression is "the right without which all the other rights disappear". It is "the bedrock..If you compromise on that, you lose everything else." Get well, @SalmanRushdie; stay funny, fierce, brave. From my @Independent interview about his wonderful fatwa memoir #JosephAnton https://t.co/68lDoTbPRW

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How #Antwerp pioneered ‘a pragmatic kind of tolerance’ as a cosmopolitan, globalised city. My review of Michael Pye’s terrific history of its 16th century heyday @ftweekend @AllenLaneBooks https://t.co/p2k1cNyF7V

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Despots, deadlines, headlines: my review @ftweekend of @DeborahACohen's revelatory and action-packed #LastCallattheHotelImperial, about the star US reporters who made the news in the age of Hitler and Stalin @FT @WmCollinsBooks https://t.co/tCm9DCcO1e

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Spellbinding... [The] eerie landscape of snows, forests and torrents is beautifully evoked as Mr. Murakami the seasoned storyteller of loss, loneliness and passing time takes charge. The action dawdles, then leaps, with a trademark blend of soap opera and sublimity.

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‘The indelible imprints of history’: my review @FTWeekend of The Pages by #HugoHamilton, which sends a novel by #JosephRoth on a journey across Germany’s, and Europe’s, past and present @4thEstateBooks https://t.co/5jRcwSEuNW