Marian L Thorpe Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Writer, birder, traveller & observer of landscapes; lover of nature, history, quirky films, good coffee, single malts, spouse & cat. Eric Hoffer finalist x2.

This Great Wilderness
Eva Seyler
#indieadvent Day 17 @the_eva_seyler's This Great Wilderness: 'neither a conventional historical novel nor a conventional love story' Full review here: https://t.co/cXqT07Nq3o https://t.co/q9NtOJC8pb
Paperback, 2022
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Billion-Dollar Dream: Stories
Robert Day
#HistFicMay Day 17 What else would I like to write? I do write urban fantasy short stories, but I'd really like to develop my nature writing - many people don't seem to know what that is, so I'll point you to Robert Macfarlane or Tim Dee or Annie Dillard. https://t.co/Rf8XicN106
Paperback, 2015
$15.95$7.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Brocklehurst Affair: Crimes Against the Crown
Wendy Bayne
#indieadvent day 8 @bayne_wendy's Untitled, the first book in her Crimes Against the Crown series: intrigue, treason, and romance in Regency England - great fun! https://t.co/IRor7mUEaa
Paperback, 2021
$18.55$9.27 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Survival: A Young Adult Dystopian Novel
K. a. Riley
My newest short story 'Survival' on @MuseReview's website. Narrated by Sorley, for fans of my characters/world! #shortstory #notquitehistorical https://t.co/x6insxe5XG https://t.co/6caSUXIo9O
Paperback, 2019
$14.24$7.12 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Cavafy: Poems: Edited and Translated with Notes by Daniel Mendelsohn
C. P. Cavafy
Cavafy's poems provided the epigraphs in my latest book (as well as, via Leonard Cohen, the inspiration for half a chapter). Excellent interview, worth reading for thoughts on literature, Cavafy, and the lenses through which we see writing and the past.🔽 https://t.co/vGPDXkEHp9
Hardcover, 2014
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Meditations: With Selected Correspondence
Marcus Aurelius
‘I pull the stool close, open the book. 'From my grandfather…’ I read.’ The opening line of Marcus Aurelius’s Meditations, paralleled in my world as Catilius’s Contemplations. Dec 13 release: https://t.co/9t3y2iRjgC #classics #inspiration #fiction https://t.co/MpVoPHttXe
Paperback, 2011
$9.94$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wind and Tide: An Introduction to Cruising in Pure Sailing Craft
Jerome W. Fitzgerald
#indieadvent day 23 No Song, But Silence by @JNevair - the final book of the Wind Tide trilogy. Philosophy, politics and action: full review: https://t.co/g78FnQG8Hb https://t.co/vnJgMbIO0N
Paperback, 2001
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magic Mack and The Mischief-Makers
J. C. Paulson
I Read Canadian is a yearly celebration of Canadian books for young people. So here are a few! First on my list of #Canadian children's books for I Read Canadian, @joanne_paulson's Magic Mack and the Mischief Makers. #IReadCanadian https://t.co/AL6Xs3ebYM https://t.co/Sx9LRxlC1f
Paperback, 2022
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan Didion
@EgRadcliff @ornithopteryx @uusaint @MicheleQuirke @e_stavs @jgmacleodauthor @_Knightingale_ @stephenRB4 @joanne_paulson @KrystleMatar @kaeth_s @katkinneywrites Current book is Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking; just finished @thecelticist Fierce Appetites, and soon to begin @bobvanlaerhoven's The Shadow of the Mole.
Paperback, 2007
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Georgics
Virgil
'There was a series of long poems about farming; they were very old. I had read only part of one, about beekeeping.’ A nod to in Empress & Soldier to Virgil’s Georgics: Book IV Dec 13 release: https://t.co/9t3y2iRjgC #classics #inspiration #fiction https://t.co/AQAYpVPgLo
Paperback, 1994
$100.00$75.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)