Dr Francis Young Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Historian of religion and belief | folklorist | professional indexer | Reader in the CofE | tutor for @OxfordConted | Twilight of the Godlings out now with CUP
The Beetle
Richard MarshDr Francis Young@BibbyMiriam @RBmediaAuthors @cambUP_History Ah, brilliant! So not the same Richard Marsh who wrote ‘The Beetle’?
Hardcover, 2018
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Children of Green Knowe
L. M. BostonDr Francis YoungRe-reading The Children of Green Knowe, a memory suddenly comes flooding back that, as a child, I decided to imitate Boggis by filling one pocket of my waistcoat with sugar (yes I wore waistcoats as a child, yes I know that's weird...)
Paperback, 2002
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wroxeter: Ashes Under Uricon: A Cultural and Social History of the Roman City
Roger H. WhiteDr Francis YoungI’m intrigued to learn of Roger White’s new book about Wroxeter because its focus is the cultural and social history of Wroxeter *as an archaeological site*; this is a great genre and I wish we had more books like this https://t.co/8QvwM8moRH
Paperback, 2022
$36.00$18.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Stations of the Sun: A History of the Ritual Year in Britain. Ronald Hutton
Ronald HuttonDr Francis Young@KingCrawa Steve Roud, The English Year; Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun
Paperback, 2001
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Metamorphoses: New Edition in Large Print
OvidDr Francis Young@DannyBate4 My treasured copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses is the one he was given by one of his co-workers, who had survived a Japanese PoW camp in Burma
Paperback, Large Print, 2021
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
There Was A Man Dwelt by a Churchyard
M. R. JamesDr Francis YoungIt's the longest night of the year, so time for cathartic tales of terror as we shelter from the cold and darkness. My ghost story for Christmas for @TheCCT from 2020, 'There Was A Man Dwelt By A Churchyard', by M. R. James... https://t.co/4kh1LnOOKN
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A Simple Story: In Four Volumes, Volume 3
InchbaldDr Francis YoungThere's nothing new about that insight, but my small contribution was to identify which real-world plantation owners might have inspired the characters in Inchbald's A Simple Story
Hardcover, 2016
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Middle Kingdom: The Faerie World of Ireland
Dermot MacManusDr Francis YoungI recently finished reading The Middle Kingdom by Dermot MacManus, which is a collection of Irish fairy sightings compiled in the 1950s but stretching back into the late c19th - although that hardly does the book justice https://t.co/AYb8TPs9M5
Paperback, 1973
$13.48$6.74 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The English Year
Steve RoudDr Francis Young@KingCrawa Steve Roud, The English Year; Ronald Hutton, The Stations of the Sun
Paperback, 2008
$33.99$17.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hospitaller
J. K. SwiftDr Francis YoungGreat to see @RFMacLellan talking about the Knights Hospitaller in the latest @thetimeteam; I indexed his comprehensive book on the Hospitallers, which I highly recommend: https://t.co/cK1dFNQiEZ
Paperback, 2020
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book