Martina Devlin 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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Dr Martina Devlin. Writer @lilliputpress latest novel Edith. Weekly columnist @independent_ie. Adjunct lecturer Irish lit @bu_tweets Omagh born, Dublin based

The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan Didion
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Paperback, 2007
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lolly Willowes
Sylvia Townsend Warner
Love-love-love Sylvia Townsend Warner especially Lolly Willowes and The Corner That Held Them. Quite different #books but both #feminist classics https://t.co/JhLxjVyUer
Hardcover, 2024
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Factory Girls
Michelle Gallen
Hilarious story from @michellegallen about how her story of a fictional town in Factory Girls prompted the book club in her local village to invite her to a session so they could "give out" to her because the club felt the book made the home town look bad. @DingleLit https://t.co/O9dOPQ5x92
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Gesta Pilati: Or the Reports, Letters and Acts of Pontius Pilate, Procurator of Judea, with an Account of His Life and Death (1880)
Pontius Pilate
Cost-of-living crisis not being addressed in #Stormont because @duponline won't take its seats+now loyalist paramilitaries are making threats re #protocol. DUP is on thin ice: can't play up tensions then do a Pontius Pilate on any consequences. My column https://t.co/kwScBusdAU
Hardcover, 2010
$41.95$20.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Edith Somerville: A Biography
Gifford Lewis
Cracking audience questions coming my way about #Edith Somerville, her writing and her art, at my talk last night. Thanks to @dlrLexIcon for hosting and @DLR_Libraries #bookclubs for reading it #SomervilleandRoss #TheIrishRM @LilliputPress https://t.co/HANMxBDX0q
Hardcover, 2005
$85.00$60.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Frankenstein
Shelley
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Paperback, 2023
$20.99$10.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Hardcover, 2023
$46.00$23.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Frankenstein
Mary Shelley
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Paperback, 2003
$10.00$5.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Year of Magical Thinking: A Play by Joan Didion Based on Her Memoir
Joan Didion
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Paperback, 2007
$13.95$6.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Twelve Thousand Days: A Memoir of Love and Loss
Éilís Ní Dhuibhne
Books I talk about include Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Éilís Ní Dhuibhne's Twelve Thousand Days, Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking @AndrewMeehanEsq's The Mystery of Love @NewIslandBooks @BlackstaffNI @LilliputPress https://t.co/n9dPJPANgJ
Paperback, 2018
$14.95$7.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book