David Quantick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
David Quantick on X
WHATEVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE AUSTEN? (French & Saunders, BBC Radio 4) writer. Hon. VP of Philip Larkin Society, Visiting Prof. at Sunderland Uni. Emmy (Veep).

Youtube: Online Video and Participatory Culture
Jean Burgess
21 years later, the world's first internet sitcom is up on YouTube in hi-rez. THE JUNKIES: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFOayYFu7Fs Written by Jane Bussmann & David Quantick. Starring Peter Baynham, Sally Phillips and Peter Serafinowicz Directed by Ian Denyer Produced by Jess Search
Hardcover, 2018
$69.95$44.95 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part II: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."
William Shakespeare
"The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers." #LouisWainShakespeare https://t.co/0O3VXbSbkp
Paperback, 2016
$9.74$4.87 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Set My Heart to Five
Simon Stephenson
SET MY HEART TO FIVE is a brilliant book. So good I can even forgive its author for writing a Louis Wain movie when that was what I would have done if I had thought of it. https://t.co/Uo99FbG4x2
Out of stock

Lucky Jim
Kingsley Amis
@frankcottrell_b @sallyephillips Kingsley Amis in Lucky Jim, the "mouse mausoleum" scene.
Paperback, 2012
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Man for All Seasons
Robert Bolt
“Why Richard, it profit a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world. . . but for *GB News!?*” ― Robert Bolt, A Man for All Seasons https://t.co/dMMhsDXDB5
Paperback, 1990
$15.00$7.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? the Deluxe Edition
Alan Moore
Alan Moore's ILLUMINATIONS is funny as well as scary, not least in the novella WHAT WE CAN KNOW ABOUT THUNDERMAN, which posits a Superman movie starring @Robin_Askwith. (art by Rick Veitch) https://t.co/sEllr8Xw6j
Hardcover, 2020
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Trees
Percival Everett
Asked to read an extract from his novel THE TREES, Percival Everett reads the book's list of lynched and murdered Black men and women. https://t.co/yk8pP6BDpq
Paperback, 2021
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alice in Wonderland
Lewis Carroll
@TheSimonBot That's brilliant, like all those things in Alice In Wonderland that are only remembered because Lewis Carroll took the piss out of them. But THE YOUNG VISITERS is just brilliant. I wrote a novel with it in, you know.
Hardcover, 2018
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party
Paul Du Noyer
Reading a book about Deaf School by Paul Du Noyer and in his first review of the band he called them "Bryan Ferry Cross The Mersey." RESPECT. https://t.co/ScXWFf1hEf
Paperback, 2013
$54.99$29.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Nice Work
David Lodge
@jonathancoe Nice work, as David Lodge once wrote.
Paperback, 1990
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book