John Mitchinson 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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Co-Founder of @unbounders. Co-host of https://t.co/pHbghNxTWT. Writer for @qikipedia. Keeper of #pigs, #sheep & #bees. He/him.

So Long, See You Tomorrow: National Book Award Winner
William Maxwell
Almost all the books mentioned in the William Maxwell @BacklistedPod re-release are available via our bookshop on @bookshop_org_uk - this helps support the podcast and indie bookshops and is therefore a SPLENDID idea... https://t.co/dqZHBCSkJq
Paperback, 1996
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James Joyce
@JenniferLAllan This analysis is from: Beall, John. “Ernest Hemingway’s Reading of James Joyce’s ‘Ulysses.’” James Joyce Quarterly 51, no. 4 (2014): 661–72. https://t.co/b4ppAcU7xW.
Paperback, 1990
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ballet Shoes
Noel Streatfeild
Most of the books mentioned on the Christmas episode of @BacklistedPod are available from our special bookshop on @bookshop_org_UK Buying from them helps support tBacklsited and indie booksellers, a Noel brainer, surely.... #hereallweek https://t.co/UPLr7Vsa9v
Paperback, 1993
$8.99$4.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett
If you are a @BacklistedPod listener keen to fill your shelves with hardboiled fiction, visit our shop on @bookshop_org_UK - buying there helps support the podcast and indie bookshops, which seems like a good enough reason to us... https://t.co/sQXkbs1lHW
Paperback, 1989
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Philosophy of Modern Song
Bob Dylan
This episode of @BacklistedPod also finds Andy being impressed and amused by the new Bob Dylan book, The Philosophy of Modern Song (@simonschusterUK) while I admire the intensity and beauty of Emergency by Daisy Hildyard (@FitzcarraldoEds) https://t.co/3vmm5Tv35U
Hardcover, 2022
$45.00$22.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Ice Palace
Tarjei Vesaas
If you want an reviving shot of beauty and meaning in your day, try the readings from Tarjei Vesaas's The Ice Palace by @maxjohnporter and Karl Ove Knaussgård (in Norwegian) on the new @BacklistedPod A privilege to record with them. https://t.co/3vmm5Tv35U
Out of stock

Ulysses 100: A Trilogy of Thoughts & Ten Poems
Patrick Patridge
Genuine regret that I wasn’t able to make this celebration of @DavidCollard1’s wonderful book, easily my favourite artefact thrown up by the foaming seas of #Ulysses100 https://t.co/pUpNUy367x
Paperback, 2022
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Poguemahone
Patrick McCabe
There’s something I’ve been dying to share. After the epic success of Poguemahone (a masterpiece and the culmination of a lifetime’s work, as you know) Patrick McCabe has only gone and delivered us lucky fools at @unbounders a BRAND NEW NOVEL!!! 1/6 https://t.co/7ubJOSsams
Paperback, 2022
$21.95$10.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Emergency
Daisy Hildyard
This episode of @BacklistedPod also finds Andy being impressed and amused by the new Bob Dylan book, The Philosophy of Modern Song (@simonschusterUK) while I admire the intensity and beauty of Emergency by Daisy Hildyard (@FitzcarraldoEds) https://t.co/3vmm5Tv35U
Hardcover, 2022
$23.00$11.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
This Sporting Life: Sport and Liberty in England, 1760-1960
Robert Colls
As well as a journey into the dark heart of Hollywood, this @BacklistedPod has me enthusing about ‘This Sporting Life’ by Professor Robert Colls (@OUPHistory) while @i_am_mill_i_am is impressed by Christopher Neve’s ‘Unquiet Landscape’ (@thamesandhudson) https://t.co/vvLwwqFVps
Hardcover, 2020
$25.99$12.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book