Rebecca Rideal 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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Rebecca Rideal is a historian and author. Historian. Producer. Author - 1666: PLAGUE, WAR & HELLFIRE. Director of @HistFestUK. Host @KTimePodcast.

The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
If you want a flavour of Rupert Everett’s passion for Oscar Wilde, check out the trailer for his deeply moving 2018 film, The Happy Prince https://t.co/jJwaEJK9YK Online tickets to this unmissable event are just £5 https://t.co/g2ComdV016 https://t.co/hH02yJ3EJx
Paperback, 2015
$5.99$2.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Alchemist
Ben Jonson
It appears there isn't a single extant stage recording / film / TV adaptation of Ben Jonson's The Alchemist (1610). How can this be? It's such a wonderful and funny play.
Paperback, 2017
$8.49$4.24 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde
If you want a flavour of Rupert Everett’s passion for Oscar Wilde, check out the trailer for his deeply moving 2018 film, The Happy Prince https://t.co/jJwaEJK9YK Online tickets to this unmissable event are just £5 https://t.co/g2ComdV016 https://t.co/hH02yJ3EJx
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Such a Fun Age: Reese's Book Club
Kiley Reid
@monisha_rajesh Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid
Paperback, 2021
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Lindsey Fitzharris
"An intensely moving and hugely enjoyable story about a remarkable medical pioneer and the men he remade" Happy Publication Day @DrLindseyFitz!!! The Facemaker is a wonderful book: https://penguin.co.uk/books/311/311133/the-facemaker/9780241389379.html… I can't wait to share our @KTimePodcast episode later this week!!
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
D.H. Lawrence - Kangeroo: "A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it."
D. H. Lawrence
“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it” https://t.co/g3saiwWXvQ
Paperback, 2014
$21.24$10.62 + Free shipping50% off your first book
I, Claudius: From the Autobiography of Tiberius Claudius, Born 10 B.C., Murdered and Deified A.D. 54
Robert Graves
Overwhelming urge to reread Robert Graves’s I, Claudius. Surely one of the best historical novels ever written, right?
Paperback, 1989
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rachel's Holiday
Marian Keyes
@NuclearTeeth I'm a recent convert to Marian Keyes, thanks to audiobooks. Currently listening to Rachel's Holiday, which is funny and wonderful. Read very well by the author.
Paperback, 2007
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Discovery of Witches
Deborah Harkness
Had a deep conversation with the daughter last night about books that have the power to reignite a love of reading fiction (and why). I told her mine was A Discovery of Witches by @DebHarkness. She told me hers was Murder Most Unladylike by @redbreastedbird. What are yours?
Paperback, 2011
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Goddess: The Secret Lives of Marilyn Monroe
Anthony Summers
@waddo100 I liked Anthony Summers’s book about her, Goddess.
Paperback, 2013
$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book