Justine Jordan 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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How to Build a Boat
Elaine FeeneyJustine JordanElaine Feeney’s How to Build a Boat explores the meaning of community and outsiderdom through one boy’s story, while Paul Lynch’s Prophet Song, scheduled for September, is a chilling study of Ireland becoming a fascist state.
Paperback, 2023
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Our Wives Under the Sea
Julia ArmfieldJustine Jordan'Julia Armfield draws on collective fears: the ocean, always, but also deep space, other people, God, madness, the unconscious, dementia....' Aida Edemariam reviews Our Wives Under the Sea https://t.co/PzPo18RnJ1
Paperback, 2023
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The Dark Is Rising
Susan CooperJustine JordanSusan Cooper The Dark is Rising reading group begins. Have been spooked and stirred by it twice in my life, once as a child, once with my children. Stayed with me all the intervening years #TheDarkIsReading
Paperback, 2023
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The Vorrh
Brian CatlingJustine JordanRIP Brian Catling. Here's Michael Moorcock from the archive, writing about The Vorrh and 'fantasy as the seedbed for a new kind of literary fiction' https://t.co/HhcX2GPdfR
Paperback, 2015
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Shrines of Gaiety
Kate AtkinsonJustine JordanA new Kate Atkinson is always a cause for celebration. Here's a great review by Anthony Quinn of Shrines of Gaiety's "sulphurous drollery" https://t.co/BcQ1tfx9E9
Paperback, 2023
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An Olive Grove in Ends
Moses McKenzieJustine JordanAn incredibly impressive debut from a 23-year-old author - Colin Grant reviews Moses McKenzie's An Olive Grove in Ends, a fable of faith and redemption set in divided and gentrifying Bristol https://t.co/sNnw7DqTRk
Hardcover, Large Print, 2023
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Dark Earth
Rebecca StottJustine Jordan'Should a novel focusing on female experience at a time when women were peripheral break away from the traditional quest plot?' Interesting piece by Alice Jolly on Rebecca Stott's Dark Earth, set in AD500 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/jul/14/dark-earth-by-rebecca-stott-review-anglo-saxon-adventures
Paperback, 2023
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Age of Vice: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Deepti KapoorJustine Jordan'Proving once more that the novel remains the supreme medium of long-form narrative drama for us to binge upon': fighting talk from Jake Arnott https://t.co/H5gcihkTxt
Paperback, 2024
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Joan: A Novel of Joan of Arc
Katherine J. ChenJustine Jordan'How did Joan of Arc, a thin, otherworldly peasant girl, become a leader of professionally violent men?' Delighted to have Hild author Nicola Griffith reviewing Joan by Katherine J Chen https://t.co/favhsqfF9T
Paperback, 2023
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The Book of Goose
Yiyun LiJustine Jordan'Is there some interesting triangulation, in which an immigrant to America might imagine a European country as a third space to think?' Tessa Hadley fascinating on Yiyun Li's The Book of Goose https://t.co/0WMeSkXrQi
Paperback, 2023
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