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Madeline Grant Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Telegraph columnist and Parliamentary sketchwriter

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Book Cover for: Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand, Jane Austen

Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand

Jane Austen
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

I was recommending Barbara Pym to a friend recently and stumbled on this wonderful column by @YsendaMG about Quartet in Autumn (the darkest, bleakest, most elegiac of her novels – the Persuasion to Some Tame Gazelle's Pride and Prejudice) https://t.co/TU2cqYWWr3

Hardcover, 2020

$42.50$21.25 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

Amazed by what goes and what doesn't go with Alzheimer's. My dad would now struggle to choose an outfit or go anywhere by himself but yesterday I found he could speak quite lucidly about his favourite author Joseph Conrad. 30 minutes of Nostromo-chat. Both bizarre and wonderful

Paperback, 2015

$7.49$3.74 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard. NOVEL by: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924, Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard. NOVEL by: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924

Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

Amazed by what goes and what doesn't go with Alzheimer's. My dad would now struggle to choose an outfit or go anywhere by himself but yesterday I found he could speak quite lucidly about his favourite author Joseph Conrad. 30 minutes of Nostromo-chat. Both bizarre and wonderful

Paperback, 2017

$18.73$9.36 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Some Tame Gazelle, Barbara Pym

Some Tame Gazelle

Barbara Pym
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

I was recommending Barbara Pym to a friend recently and stumbled on this wonderful column by @YsendaMG about Quartet in Autumn (the darkest, bleakest, most elegiac of her novels – the Persuasion to Some Tame Gazelle's Pride and Prejudice) https://t.co/TU2cqYWWr3

Paperback, 2013

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard, Joseph Conrad

Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard

Joseph Conrad
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

Amazed by what goes and what doesn't go with Alzheimer's. My dad would now struggle to choose an outfit or go anywhere by himself but yesterday I found he could speak quite lucidly about his favourite author Joseph Conrad. 30 minutes of Nostromo-chat. Both bizarre and wonderful

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Book Cover for: Quartet in Autumn, Barbara Pym

Quartet in Autumn

Barbara Pym
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

@YsendaMG Barbara Pym is very, very funny and known for being so, but she captures loneliness and boredom brilliantly too, especially in Quartet in Autumn. Up there with Anita Brookner

Paperback, 1992

$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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Book Cover for: Sh*t Literary Siblings, The Fence

Sh*t Literary Siblings

The Fence
Madeline GrantMadeline Grant

Thanks Twitter for the incredible suggestions. I’ve gone for Lucky Jim and the incomparable Sh*t Literary Siblings by @The_Fence_Mag https://t.co/MZ9RCm4QPz

Hardcover, 2023

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
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