Samira Ahmed 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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Bride of Art.Front Row R4, Newswatch BBC1,Art of Persia BBC4, BritishBroadcastingPressGuild Audio Presenter of the Yr 2020. Spiritual Berliner,ex-Los Angelena

Trilby
George Du Maurier
Paging all male fashion experts: Have I just stumbled across the original would-be bad boy backwards cap moment? 🧢 (George Du Maurier’s Trilby 1894) https://t.co/exeHhq7Pvz
Hardcover, 2020
$79.90$54.90 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
The Old Wives' Tale
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett feature: https://t.co/35iHtbplk6 My five picks are: The Card, The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger, The Pretty Lady and the film Piccadilly Documentary here: https://t.co/TgUj7259JZ
Paperback, 2024
$42.99$21.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rebecca
Du Maurier Daphne
My lovely uncle Shankar, retired colonel, book lover & cricket fan died today at 93. He bought me Daphne’s Du Maurier’s Rebecca at just the right age, We watched cricket on tv with tea and Shrewsbury biscuits from the Parsi bakery in Pune together. He was always my champion… https://t.co/9sLpaQPTFz
Out of stock

Wim Wenders: Polaroids
Wim Wenders
Still thinking about the joy of interviewing Wim Wenders at @BFI last weekend about the restored magic of #WingsOfDesire. Here he is in 2017 being lovely about polaroids&the thrill of touring America as a young German born after the War...(starts 19 m 41s) https://t.co/tlmC5JxGmX https://t.co/71vVDzbN33
Hardcover, 2018
$34.95$17.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All the Men I Never Married
Kim Moore
On tonight's @bbcfrontrow: The Turner Prize winner announcement, Johnny Borrill from @Razorlight and Forward Prize winning poet Kim Moore on her collection: All the Men I Never Married 715pm R4 https://t.co/scnhu9kjwj
Paperback, 2022
$14.99$7.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Trilby
George Du Maurier
Paging all male fashion experts: Have I just stumbled across the original would-be bad boy backwards cap moment? 🧢 (George Du Maurier’s Trilby 1894) https://t.co/exeHhq7Pvz
Paperback, 2024
$26.75$13.38 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Oxford Bookworms Library: The Card: Level 3: 1000-Word Vocabulary
Arnold Bennett
Arnold Bennett feature: https://t.co/35iHtbplk6 My five picks are: The Card, The Old Wives' Tale, Clayhanger, The Pretty Lady and the film Piccadilly Documentary here: https://t.co/TgUj7259JZ
Paperback, 2008
$11.00$5.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rebecca
Daphne du Maurier
My lovely uncle Shankar, retired colonel, book lover & cricket fan died today at 93. He bought me Daphne’s Du Maurier’s Rebecca at just the right age, We watched cricket on tv with tea and Shrewsbury biscuits from the Parsi bakery in Pune together. He was always my champion… https://t.co/9sLpaQPTFz
Out of stock

Acting Class
Nick Drnaso
On @BBCFrontRow 715 R4: Terrific interview with graphic novelist Nick Drnaso about Acting Class, reviews of new Lord of the Rings Amazon prequel series, 3000 Yrs of Longing starring Tilda Swinton& Idris Elba. & a 1991 perestroika poem for Mikhail Gorbachev https://t.co/QgwEHJqcIl
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hamnet
Maggie O'Farrell
Wrote a thing about Hamnet and the trio of extraordinary women behind this exciting new @TheRSC play: Maggie O’Farrell, @Lolitachakra and @EricaWhyman https://t.co/nrL34Umyjo
Paperback, 2021
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book