Channel 4 News Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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A Christmas Carol: The Original Classic Story by Charles Dickens - Great Christmas Gift for Booklovers
Charles DickensEver since Charles Dickens 'A Christmas Carol' was first published in 1843 it has been reimagined thousands of times. @MinnieStephC4 reports on how the classic is being retold in 2022. https://t.co/VIjS6MykQe
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Behind Bars: The Truth about Prison from Britain's Most Notorious Inmate
Charles BronsonCharles Bronson tells parole hearing “I am almost an angel now” as he urges them to free him from prison after almost half a century behind bars. @MinnieStephC4 reports. https://t.co/uIHPNwaIKP
Paperback, 2022
$15.95Member price:$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tobacco: taxes owed, avoided, and evaded
United States Senate"She grew up... picking somebody else's cotton and somebody else's tobacco. But tonight she helped pick her youngest son as United States Senator." Democrat, Raphael Warnock wins the Georgia senate run-off and dedicates the victory to his mother. https://t.co/I7T09mdQRI
Paperback, 2017
$22.99Member price:$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Snowman: A Classic Children's Book
Raymond BriggsThe Snowman author and creator Raymond Briggs has died at the age of 88. It was turned into a Bafta TV award-winning animated TV film in 1982. @RiaChatter looks back at his life. https://t.co/Jly7vwkVlB
Board Book, 2019
$8.99Member price:$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mansfield Park
Jane Austen“We’re just taking a little look at it. Opening up the book and giving it a Black gaze instead of a white gaze.” The cast and directors of a new production of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park speak to @MinnieStephC4 about having an all-Black cast. https://t.co/1NU1GzF4JX
Paperback, 2003
$9.00Member price:$4.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Creative ACT: A Way of Being
Rick RubinFew people have done more to shape popular music than Rick Rubin. He joins @krishgm to talk about working with Run DMC, Slayer and Johnny Cash - and his new book ‘The Creative Act’. https://t.co/P8vb27QEfS
Hardcover, 2023
$32.00Member price:$16.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Queen: Portable Christian Notebook: 6"x9" Composition Notebook with Christian Quote: Inspirational Gifts for Religious Men &
Christian Life“I really wanted to capture that aspect of her personality that was about life and humour.” Artist Christian Furr tells @mattfrei what it was like to paint a portrait of the Queen when he was just 28 years old. https://t.co/DkoJ0h431J
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Nightcrawling
Leila Mottley“Black girls are often put in a position that from a very young age we are asked to carry things that we shouldn’t have to.” Writer @leilamottley explains the adultification and hypersexualisation of Black girls that she explores in her bestselling novel Nightcrawling. https://t.co/IZti6DTyus
Hardcover, 2022
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Latvia: The Challenges of Change
Artis Pabriks“At the mercy of Moscow.” Countries bordering Russia are looking for support from Ukraine because “there is no other alternative for these poor people” to deter an invasion, Artis Pabriks, Latvia's deputy prime minister, tells @krishgm. https://t.co/XLkG1mIbTK
Hardcover, 2001
$190.00Member price:$180.50 + Free shipping5% off
Milkman
Anna Burns"I’ve got 30 days to declare a change in circumstance and this is one hell of a change". The 2018 Man Booker prize winner Anna Burns discusses how she was forced to rely on benefits while writing her winning novel 'Milkman'. https://t.co/m0MquTy13d
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