Galley Beggar Press Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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One Day I Shall Astonish the World
Nina Stibbe
Delighted to see @FictionAtelier as one of the brilliant @ninastibbe’s picks in May’s Good Housekeeping. (Everyone should read Nina’s new book too! One Day I Shall Astonish The World, out today with Viking.) https://t.co/l0puXpJvau
Hardcover, 2022
$27.00$13.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beloved: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Toni Morrison
Sam is teaching two of these books - Beloved and The God of Small Things - in the current Galley Beggar critical reading class 🥳. Three cheers for Toni Morrison and Arundhati Roy. https://t.co/geYLpZSiuS
Paperback, 2004
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned: Stories
Wells Tower
"I love Deborah Eisenberg for her phenomenal wit; Danielle Evans for the seductive ease of her stories; Wells Tower for his observational power... and Jenny Zhang for her absolute filth." Read our interview with GBP Short Story Prize author Naomi Wood: https://t.co/0P7MpABa1z https://t.co/2KvXorgFff
Paperback, 2010
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
After Sappho
Selby Wynn Schwartz
Overjoyed that our brilliant author Selby Wynn Schwartz and AFTER SAPPHO are on the James Tait Black Prize shortlist: Hooray Selby! Hooray! (Congratulations to all of the other nominees, too: fantastic writers, fantastic publishers, a fantastic prize.) https://t.co/vVSxrOHC2U
Paperback, 2024
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Monday or Tuesday: Eight Stories
Virginia Woolf
Fresh through the postbox: a knackered but magical US first edition of Virginia Woolf’s Monday or Tuesday. “After a time, so far as I can remember, we drew around the fire and began to praise men - how strong, how noble, how brilliant, how courageous…” https://t.co/wa41IxdNhC
Paperback, 2018
$11.82$5.91 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Awakening: And Other Stories
Kate Chopin
There's still time to join the second strand (first one's sold out) in our critical reading course - and read the incredible Kate Chopin novella The Awakening: https://t.co/sOLwrAvcas Just a few more places to fill - all keen readers are welcome!
Paperback, 2008
$7.95$3.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Twilight of the Superheroes: Stories
Deborah Eisenberg
"I love Deborah Eisenberg for her phenomenal wit; Danielle Evans for the seductive ease of her stories; Wells Tower for his observational power... and Jenny Zhang for her absolute filth." Read our interview with GBP Short Story Prize author Naomi Wood: https://t.co/0P7MpABa1z https://t.co/2KvXorgFff
Paperback, 2007
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Daylight Gate
Jeanette Winterson
@petipaw So many! Too many! (But just finished Jeanette Winterson's The Daylight Gate.)
Paperback, 2014
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
These are the books we’ll be reading: Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God Denis Johnson, Jesus’ Son Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia Beryl Bainbridge, Master Georgie
Paperback, 1994
$6.00$3.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Perdido Street Station
China Miéville
"Not since China Miéville’s Perdido Street Station have I read a novel this wild and overflowing with ideas, where the conventional rules of the fantasy genre do not seem to apply." Ian Mond's wonderful review for Malarkoi in Locus Magazine, now online: https://t.co/DX24BMi3uO
Paperback, 2001
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book