Rebecca Rideal Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Rebecca Rideal

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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Thoroughly enjoying The Origins of the British Empire in Asia, 1600–1750 by @DavidVeevers1. An incredibly convincing argument about how decentralisation & private interests played a key role in the dominance of the East India Company.

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I'm writing a history of the Stuarts and it is so bizarre to see a 'King Charles' stating this in 2022. https://t.co/BVVQMkti60

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Reading the letters and seeing some analysis is very funny. Earlier generations seem to have bent over backwards to argue the romantic letters to be merely convention. But, to quote Arthur Conan Doyle, "There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact"

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Just think, in exactly three weeks time, you’ll be able to see the one and only Paterson Joseph (AKA @ignatius_sancho ) LIVE at the @britishlibrary with @HistFestUK!! Tickets are going fast, but you can still grab some here: https://t.co/2ZkbaLDTTL (a steal at £11!) https://t.co/kFjOA3xAoZ

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@monisha_rajesh Such a Fun Age by Kiley Reid

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"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!!

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“A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it” https://t.co/g3saiwWXvQ

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@carroll_mik @simonjedge Yes, it’s a fascinating history. As a few others on the actual thread, (not the strange screen-grab) have noted, there’s a fantastic new Robert Harris novel on two of those who escaped to America, Act of Oblivion it’s called.

Rebecca Rideal

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?