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Jo Bratten Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Book Cover for: Lolly Willowes, Sylvia Townsend Warner

Lolly Willowes

Sylvia Townsend Warner
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

@lm2020uk Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner. It goes to sone unexpected and weird places!

Hardcover, 2024

$18.00Member price:$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: There Was No Possibility of Taking a Walk That Day: A Collection of Poems from the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown by the Members of A Walk Around the Bronte T, Kay Fairhurst Adkins Editor

There Was No Possibility of Taking a Walk That Day: A Collection of Poems from the 2020 COVID-19 Lockdown by the Members of A Walk Around the Bronte T

Kay Fairhurst Adkins Editor
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

‘There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. […] The cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further outdoor exercise was now out of the question.’ My best girl, Jane Eyre, published 175 years and one day ago. https://t.co/8G3oUxJTcc

Paperback, 2020

$9.75Member price:$4.88 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

Fizzing with excitement at prospect of seeing the great @eddieizzard perform Great Expectations in Charles Dickens’s actual sodding house - what larks! https://t.co/Jl6jI65ywS

Paperback, 2018

$32.25Member price:$16.13 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Christmas: Merry Moments at Home (in the Kitchen), Allison Waggoner

Christmas: Merry Moments at Home (in the Kitchen)

Allison Waggoner
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

I got this collection by @adalimon for Christmas and don’t think I’ve ever read a book where every single page resonated so intensely. This is a particularly extraordinary one. https://t.co/EolMCOnBp5

Paperback, 2016

$6.99Member price:$3.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Pit Lullabies, Jessica Traynor

Pit Lullabies

Jessica Traynor
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

Have just consumed Pit Lullabies by @JessicaTraynor6 in one greedy go - what a brilliant book it is https://t.co/QWJC1gLZqA

Paperback, 2022

$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Climacterics, Jyoti Matania

Climacterics

Jyoti Matania
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

An enormous thank you to @TheFridayPoem and to @matriches for this review of Climacteric; such an attentive reading of the poems, once again demonstrating that a good reviewer/reader notices things that the poet does not! https://t.co/MSmEiuPlds

Paperback, 2021

$12.99Member price:$11.69 + Free shipping10% off
Book Cover for: Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara Pym

Some Tame Gazelle

Barbara Pym
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

Reading Barbara Pym for the first time (Some Tame Gazelle) and it’s page after page of jokes about curates and marrows and I am here for it https://t.co/56sPpi6AKr

Paperback, 2013

$18.99Member price:$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

Great Expectations

Charles Dickens
Jo BrattenJo Bratten

Fizzing with excitement at prospect of seeing the great @eddieizzard perform Great Expectations in Charles Dickens’s actual sodding house - what larks! https://t.co/Jl6jI65ywS

Paperback, 2002

$11.00Member price:$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book