Madeline Grant 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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Telegraph columnist and Parliamentary sketchwriter

Pride and Prejudice: The Complete Novel, with Nineteen Letters from the Characters' Correspondence, Written and Folded by Hand
Jane Austen
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
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
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
Nostromo: a Tale of the Seaboard. NOVEL by: Joseph Conrad 1857-1924
Joseph Conrad Joseph Conrad
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
Some Tame Gazelle
Barbara Pym
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
Nostromo: A Tale of the Seaboard
Joseph Conrad
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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Quartet in Autumn
Barbara Pym
@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
Sh*t Literary Siblings
The Fence
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