Jonn Elledge 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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We're Just Two Lost Souls Swimming in A Fish Bowl
James AndersonJonn ElledgeWe're just two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl year after year https://t.co/sQGDXd5ILK
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Doctor Who: The Pirate Planet
Douglas AdamsJonn Elledge@garius Oh yeah that would have been amazing, but, y'know, they couldn't even get him to novelise his TV stories because of diverging ideas of how many copies a Doctor Who book by Douglas Adams would sell, so I doubt he'd have done a NA for £2k or whatever it was then
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Foundation
Isaac AsimovJonn ElledgeThis feels relevant here: What Isaac Asimov’s Foundation series teaches us about Brexit: In the long view, history tends to win. https://t.co/ruB0cveFgc https://t.co/H4WiQDDmba
Paperback, Mass Market, 1991
$10.00Member price:$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Shortest History of Germany: From Roman Frontier to the Heart of Europe - A Retelling for Our Times
James HawesJonn Elledge@Kris_Emrick Simon Winder's Germania and Danubia are fun. Or James Hawes' The Shortest History of Germany
Paperback, 2019
$16.95Member price:$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Dance to the Music of Time: First Movement
Anthony PowellJonn ElledgeI've just realised that Queen's It's A Kind of Magic references the name of the final volume of Anthony Powell's 12 novel sequence "A Dance To The Music of Time" and I have no idea what to make of this information
Paperback, 1995
$28.00Member price:$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Slow Horses: Movie in a Book
Zoha KhannJonn Elledgejust finished reading the second Slow Horses book and regret to tell you I can feel myself becoming a "the books are actually better" guy again in real time
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Danubia: A Personal History of Habsburg Europe
Simon WinderJonn Elledge@Kris_Emrick Simon Winder's Germania and Danubia are fun. Or James Hawes' The Shortest History of Germany
Paperback, 2015
$26.00Member price:$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Germania: In Wayward Pursuit of the Germans and Their History
Simon WinderJonn Elledge@Kris_Emrick Simon Winder's Germania and Danubia are fun. Or James Hawes' The Shortest History of Germany
Paperback, 2011
$25.00Member price:$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Out There: A Story of Ultra Recovery
David ClarkJonn Elledge@dannyjpalmer I think I finally got round to watching it in the run up to the 50th? Before 2005, the idea there could be so much Who out there I just wouldn't bother watching a cartoon with David Warner and Clark Peters in it would have seemed insane
Paperback, 2014
$14.99Member price:$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book