Charles Boyle Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Charles Boyle on X
Founder editor of CB editions (fiction, poetry, other). Writes and publishes under the names Jack Robinson and Jennie Walker as well as his own name.
The Illiterate
Ágota KristófCharles BoyleSeriously good piece by Helen Oyeyemi on Kristof's The Illiterate, on the occasion of its US publication: https://t.co/ObqYGjcGv7. In the UK, from here: https://t.co/el8NOU1hZ7. Also her trilogy of short novels. "Somehow I've gone off literature."
Paperback, 2023
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Is Not a Novel
David MarksonCharles Boyle@Ofmooseandmen @StuHennigan @BorisJohnson @thebookseller @WstonesLeeds @gowerst_books @IndieBookshopUK @BlackwellsMcr @BookCornerHX On the tube, I once gave Johnson a copy of This Is Not a Novel by David Markson. He asked me if I was Markson (deceased). His minders looked twitchy.
Paperback, 2001
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Sing to It: Stories
Amy HempelCharles Boyle@Cormac_McCafe @thebooksdesk Through Abebooks I had a copy of Amy Hempel collected stories inscribed by her to "George" and X, met on holiday. I mentioned it last week to someone who knew her. "Ah," he said, "George ..."
Paperback, 2019
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Fragments of Lichtenberg
Pierre SengesCharles Boyle@wikeleyjb There's a wonderful novel by Pierre Senges (Fragments of Lichtenberg) that supposes L's aphorisms are the only surviving fragments of a lost masterwork (and I thought tweeting this would help me find my copy, but no).
Paperback, 2017
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Factotum in the Book Trade
Marius KociejowskiCharles BoyleSheila Ramage, who ran Notting Hill books (more a shed than a shop) for 44 years and died in 2020, is remembered in Marius Kociejowski's new A Factotum in the Book Trade as "the kindliest face in the trade". https://t.co/RtIC6dRGvW
Paperback, 2022
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book