Observer New Review 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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@ObserverUK’s culture section - arts, books, politics, tech, ideas. BSME Culture Mag of Year 2018. Runner-up, supplement of year, British Press Awards 2018 & 19

Placebos
Kathryn T. Hall
@TimAdamsWrites Also in Sunday's issue: 🔸 Frances O'Connor on Bronte 🔸 Lucian Freud's plant portraits @GardenMuseumLDN 🔸 On my radar: @beth_orton 🔸 @GuyLodge on the best werewolf films 🔸 Placebos expert Kathryn T Hall @KTHallPhDMPH And our critics on the week's arts highlights
Paperback, 2022
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
The week in theatre: @susannahclapp reviews Hamnet @TheRSC; You Bury Me @OrangeTreeThtr; Pussycat in Memory of Darkness @finborough https://t.co/4voj7M0aX8
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
James Joyce
The week in TV: Barbara Ellen reviews Gutsy; Sunday With Laura Kuenssberg; Stuck; The Capture; Arena: James Joyce’s Ulysses https://t.co/CS0hW58J3q
Paperback, 1990
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kidnapped
Robert Louis Stevenson
Kidnapped @NTSonline reviewed by @ClareMBrennan – tantalising glimpses of Robert Louis Stevenson’s wife https://t.co/8bGSfiDH6F
Paperback, 2018
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Diary of an Invasion
Andrey Kurkov
Andrey Kurkov: dispatches from a country under siege An extract from Diary of an Invasion, the Ukrainian novelist's account of Russia’s attack on his homeland https://t.co/z7amih0FVj @AKurkov @MtLeopardPress
Hardcover, 2023
$25.00$12.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Little Life
Hanya Yanagihara
The week in theatre: A Little Life; Sea Creatures – reviewed by @susannahclapp https://t.co/xQ6BCqnG8n
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Everyone Here Is Lying
Shari Lapena
The best recent crime and thriller writing – review roundup https://t.co/K1cL5HVev2
Paperback, Large Print, 2023
$31.00$15.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
It's Ok to Be Angry about Capitalism
Bernie Sanders
This Sunday's cover: how @BernieSanders became part of the US president's inner circle Interview by @TimAdamsWrites 📸 @StephenVoss Plus an extract from his new book It’s OK to Be Angry About Capitalism @PenguinUKBooks https://t.co/YG9nhLo1CJ
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oxford Bookworms Library: The Card: Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary
Arnold Bennett
The Card @NewVicTheatre reviewed by @ClareMBrennan – a sparkling adaptation of Arnold Bennett’s rags-to-riches comic novel https://t.co/4RPTb4KLxP
Paperback, 2008
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Holberg Suite, Op.40: Study score
Edvard Grieg
@FionaMaddocks Classical music diet 2 January - Holberg Suite, Op 40: Prelude - Edvard Grieg (1884; 2 mins 36 sec) https://t.co/XzRX0ch80E
Paperback, 2015
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book