Pandora Sykes Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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We Need New Stories: The Myths That Subvert Freedom
Nesrine Malik
Love love loved @NesrineMalik ‘s book. It’s called We Need New Stories, published in 2019, more relevant than ever today https://t.co/66gHS3UFxM
Hardcover, 2021
$23.95$11.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Tina Brown
A thrilling hour spent interviewing @TinaBrownLM last night for @howtoacademy about her riveting and rigorous new book, The Palace Papers https://twitter.com/howtoacademy/status/1521557460225560576
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Once More We Saw Stars: A Memoir of Life and Love After Unimaginable Loss
Jayson Greene
[2/2] Books about grief: Grief Works, Julia Samuel Once More We Saw Stars, @Jayson_Greene It's Your Loss, @robyndonaldson & Emma Hopkinson Languages of Loss, Sasha Bates Sunset, Jessie Cave The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
Paperback, 2020
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Languages of Loss: A Psychotherapist's Journey Through Grief
Sasha Bates
[2/2] Books about grief: Grief Works, Julia Samuel Once More We Saw Stars, @Jayson_Greene It's Your Loss, @robyndonaldson & Emma Hopkinson Languages of Loss, Sasha Bates Sunset, Jessie Cave The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
Paperback, 2021
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Mother Brain: How Neuroscience Is Rewriting the Story of Parenthood
Chelsea Conaboy
This is just *one* of the myths about ‘baby brain’ & motherhood that science reporter Chelsea Conaboy busts in her new book, Mother Brain. Really excited to have her on Doing It Right in a few weeks and until then, read this piece by her in @nytimes https://t.co/8BOtg2htz8
Paperback, 2023
$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I Am Not Your Baby Mother
Candice Brathwaite
@JohannaTC - Intimacies by Lucy Caldwell - Motherhood by Jacqueline Rose - I Am Not Your Baby Mother by Candice Brathwaite - Cusk, obviously
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Grief Works: Stories of Life, Death, and Surviving
Julia Samuel
[2/2] Books about grief: Grief Works, Julia Samuel Once More We Saw Stars, @Jayson_Greene It's Your Loss, @robyndonaldson & Emma Hopkinson Languages of Loss, Sasha Bates Sunset, Jessie Cave The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
Paperback, 2019
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tales of the City
Armistead Maupin
Book Chat’s inaugural episode is now out! Join me and @thebobpalmer for a meaty chat about Tin Man by Sarah Winman and Tales of the City by Armistead Maupin. If you like what you hear, hit subscribe fellas https://t.co/tFgXSLHWaZ https://t.co/UGhHimkzYW
Paperback, 2007
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Vanishing Half: A GMA Book Club Pick (a Novel)
Brit Bennett
Blown away by Brit Bennett's new novel, The Vanishing Half, published by @dialoguebooks on 2nd June. I adored Brit's debut, The Mothers, and this one is just as winsome. It's about a set of twins who run away aged 16 and enter new lives: one white, one black (and much more, obvs)
Paperback, 2022
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Year of Magical Thinking: National Book Award Winner
Joan Didion
[2/2] Books about grief: Grief Works, Julia Samuel Once More We Saw Stars, @Jayson_Greene It's Your Loss, @robyndonaldson & Emma Hopkinson Languages of Loss, Sasha Bates Sunset, Jessie Cave The Year of Magical Thinking, Joan Didion Grief Is the Thing with Feathers, Max Porter
Paperback, 2007
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book