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jane davis Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Currently ‘free, enfranchised and at large.’ Last time I felt like this I founded https://t.co/3SIFm95pl8

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Book Cover for: When the Lights Go Out, Carys Bray

When the Lights Go Out

Carys Bray
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just finished When The Lights Go Out by Carys Bray. Excellent novel about eco-apocalypse-anxiety, marriage&family & a very specific Lancashire terrain. What a good writer @penguinrandom highly recommended, Reader Leaders @thereaderorg https://t.co/fCmfAYwr3W

Hardcover, 2021

$28.95$14.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Bleak House

Charles Dickens
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@DerekVsOwusu Another thought - try Bleak House by Charles Dickens - if you can take ‘bleak’ - so many people living through human breakage …

Paperback, 2017

$21.25$10.63 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Atlantis: Poems by, Mark Doty

Atlantis: Poems by

Mark Doty
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Wardrobe prep for sold out #pennyreadings today (1p to get in £££ to get out) with readings by @frankcottrell_b @Jacquel27815478 @Calderstones I’m reading poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Greg Pardlo & Mark Doty https://t.co/GyvaywJPYJ

Paperback, 1995

$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Bleak House, Charles Dickens

Bleak House

Charles Dickens
jane davisjane davis

@DerekVsOwusu Another thought - try Bleak House by Charles Dickens - if you can take ‘bleak’ - so many people living through human breakage …

Paperback, 2003

$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5, Doris Lessing

Shikasta: Re, Colonised Planet 5

Doris Lessing
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Rereading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin which I first read with enormous admiration nearly 50 years ago - can that be true? - still finding it absorbing & impressive. Influenced Doris Lessing’s Shikasta I’m sure. https://t.co/gUdMPsUq2d

Paperback, 1981

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes, Jonathan Rose

The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes

Jonathan Rose
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@TrevorPTweets @tomowolade @thetimes @rolandwatson66 ‘My mind clicked open’ says Tom, reminding me of The Intellectual Life of the British Working Classes by Jonathan Rose, where a Northampton cow man says learning to read & reading the great books,‘was coming up from the bottom of the ocean and seeing the world for the first time’

Paperback, 2021

$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Source: Poems, Mark Doty

Source: Poems

Mark Doty
jane davisjane davis

Wardrobe prep for sold out #pennyreadings today (1p to get in £££ to get out) with readings by @frankcottrell_b @Jacquel27815478 @Calderstones I’m reading poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Greg Pardlo & Mark Doty https://t.co/GyvaywJPYJ

Paperback, 2015

$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Majors and Minors: Poems, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Majors and Minors: Poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar
jane davisjane davis

Wardrobe prep for sold out #pennyreadings today (1p to get in £££ to get out) with readings by @frankcottrell_b @Jacquel27815478 @Calderstones I’m reading poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Greg Pardlo & Mark Doty https://t.co/GyvaywJPYJ

Hardcover, 2022

$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

The Dispossessed

Ursula K. Le Guin
jane davisjane davis

Rereading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin which I first read with enormous admiration nearly 50 years ago - can that be true? - still finding it absorbing & impressive. Influenced Doris Lessing’s Shikasta I’m sure. https://t.co/gUdMPsUq2d

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Book Cover for: Majors and Minors: Poems, Paul Laurence Dunbar

Majors and Minors: Poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar
jane davisjane davis

Wardrobe prep for sold out #pennyreadings today (1p to get in £££ to get out) with readings by @frankcottrell_b @Jacquel27815478 @Calderstones I’m reading poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar, Greg Pardlo & Mark Doty https://t.co/GyvaywJPYJ

Hardcover, 2022

$31.95$15.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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