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David Quantick Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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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).

12 books
Book Cover for: Youtube: Online Video and Participatory Culture, Jean Burgess

Youtube: Online Video and Participatory Culture

Jean Burgess
David QuantickDavid Quantick

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)
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William Shakespeare - Henry VI, Part II: "The first thing we do, let's kill all the lawyers."

William Shakespeare
David QuantickDavid Quantick

"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
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Set My Heart to Five

Simon Stephenson
David QuantickDavid Quantick

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

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Lucky Jim

Kingsley Amis
David QuantickDavid Quantick

@frankcottrell_b @sallyephillips Kingsley Amis in Lucky Jim, the "mouse mausoleum" scene.

Paperback, 2012

$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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A Man for All Seasons

Robert Bolt
David QuantickDavid Quantick

“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
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Superman: Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? the Deluxe Edition

Alan Moore
David QuantickDavid Quantick

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
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The Trees

Percival Everett
David QuantickDavid Quantick

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
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Alice in Wonderland

Lewis Carroll
David QuantickDavid Quantick

@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
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Deaf School: The Non-Stop Pop Art Punk Rock Party

Paul Du Noyer
David QuantickDavid Quantick

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)
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Nice Work

David Lodge
David QuantickDavid Quantick

@jonathancoe Nice work, as David Lodge once wrote.

Paperback, 1990

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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