Robbie Millen 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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Literary Editor of The Times 📖 Current reading: Julian by Gore Vidal. "High minded" (Private Eye); "refugee from Guardian-lite world" (Jordan Peterson fan)
Old God's Time
Sebastian BarryRobbie MillenGood news. A new Sebastian Barry is coming out next year. Old God’s Time will be published by Faber on 2 March
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A Little Life
Hanya YanagiharaRobbie MillenLooking forward to reading this. I loved A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (though not everyone loved me for recommending it!) https://t.co/v10uler0jv
Paperback, 2016
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Blood Meridian: Or the Evening Redness in the West
Cormac McCarthyRobbie MillenBloody hell, Blood Meridian is violent. I wrote about Cormac McCarthy's great Western https://t.co/qpbS8snS9d
Paperback, 1992
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Shooting Party
Isabel ColegateRobbie MillenOnly just seen that the mighty Isabel Colegate has died. Here's some loving burble I wrote a while back about her slim and witty masterpiece, The Shooting Party. It's such a terrific book .. . https://t.co/6H6kCD0ayb
Paperback, 2010
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A Severed Head
Iris MurdochRobbie Millen@IrisMurdoch @maryloubethune I do love a bit of Iris Murdoch action. A Severed Head is brilliant
Paperback, 1976
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Godmersham Park: A Novel of the Austen Family
Gill HornbyRobbie Millen"Thanks to her close reading of Jane Austen’s real correspondence, Gill Hornby has become an adept hand at faux Austen letters, even down to their odd habit of underlining unexpected words for comic effect": Praise for Godmersham Park in @TheTimesBooks https://t.co/qC2fQlviHk
Hardcover, 2022
$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Normal People
Sally RooneyRobbie Millen"In Sally Rooney’s works, a state of highly-analysed self-awareness in itself has a kind of redemptive quality. Marianne and Frances exist in a state of troubled grace." @johnmaier_ has committed some original thinking about the Rooneyverse https://unherd.com/2022/05/why-normal-people-love-sally-rooney/?=frlh
Paperback, 2020
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The Case Against the Sexual Revolution
Louise PerryRobbie Millen"The argument I make in The Case Against the Sexual Revolution is that western sexual culture in the 21st century promotes the interests of the Hugh Hefners at the expense of the Marilyn Monroes." Powerful essay and book. Both are lively reads https://t.co/mb1lHH1kJL
Paperback, 2022
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyRobbie MillenSally Rooney alert! She has a new novel coming out this autumn --- Beautiful World, Where Are You (Faber, Sept 7). Alas, it isn't narrated by Connell's necklace
Paperback, 2022
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In Youth Is Pleasure: & I Left My Grandfather's House
Denton WelchRobbie MillenThanks to @Mel_ReidTimes, I read this. Dark, gothic, eccentric, funny, moving, beautifully written. Put me in mind of Edward Gorey and Denton Welch's weird gem In Youth is Pleasure. Read it https://t.co/f2NAKcJuFP
Paperback, 2013
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