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James McConnachie Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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James McConnachie is a book critic and author. Writer, Sunday Times reviewer, editor of The Author. Please sponsor my April 2023 London Marathon for the Epilepsy Society: https://t.co/pqdDwuzXT5

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Book Cover for: An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us, Ed Yong

An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

Ed Yong
James McConnachieJames McConnachie

Yong calls his book a 'call for humility,' ... But it goes further ... [An Immense World] prompts a radical rethink about the limits of what we know — what the world is, even ... It is quite a book ... And, I felt, putting it down, quite a world.

Paperback, 2023

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Book Cover for: Ulysses, James Joyce

Ulysses

James Joyce
James McConnachieJames McConnachie

The book opens in Sandycove, under the Martello tower where James Joyce begins Ulysses. The hammer attack is recounted at the halfway point... And throughout, O’Connell scrapes away at questions of truth, motivation and unreliable narration. https://t.co/rGlGc643Ek

Paperback, 1990

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Book Cover for: Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club), Curtis Sittenfeld

Romantic Comedy (Reese's Book Club)

Curtis Sittenfeld
James McConnachieJames McConnachie

Loving this from @JohannaTC's review of the new Curtis Sittenfeld novel – a publisher friend wrote to her to say that “It will appeal to people too literary to admit they like to read the odd reverse-grumpy-sunshine F2L story with an HEA,”'https://t.co/E3GuHNTFle

Paperback, Large Print, 2023

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