Simon Spanton 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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The Overstory
Richard PowersSimon Spanton@samatlounge The Overstory by Richard Powers. I'm not sure I would read anything else by him which bizarre given how much I adored this one. It wasn't the characters, it wasn't the plot - it was the TREES. So rare for a novel to change the way you see the natural world so fundamentally.
Paperback, 2019
$18.95$9.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The History and Topography of Ireland
Gerald of WalesSimon Spanton@runalongwomble Kindred by Octavia Butler, which is sinking its narrative hooks in. The History and Topography of Ireland by Gerald of Wales. A rich and bonkers account from the 12th century.
Paperback, 1983
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hollows
Daniel ChurchSimon Spanton@LizUK The Hollows by Daniel Church. Starts as Claustrophobic Dales Folk Horror, then ramps up. Strong 30 Days of Night vibe but all happens over 3 terrifying nights. Four women lead the fightback.
Paperback, 2022
$17.99$8.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lanny
Max PorterSimon Spanton@GDRNorminton Have you read Lanny by Max Porter?
Paperback, 2020
$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Remains?: Life, Death, Ritual and the Human Art of Undertaking
Rupert CallenderSimon Spanton@Damian_Barr What Remains by Rupert Callender. Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez.
Hardcover, 2023
$28.00$14.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Hex: Darkland Tales
Jenni FaganSimon Spanton@Jenni_Fagan And to you Jenni. I've just added Hex to my TBR - so looking forward to it.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2022
$10.95$5.47 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Alien: The Official Movie Novelization
Alan Dean FosterSimon Spanton@robpalkwriter I read Alan Dean Foster's (actually very good indeed) novelisation of Alien long before I was old enough to see the film.
Paperback, Mass Market, 2014
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Luckenbooth
Jenni FaganSimon SpantonLuckenbooth by Jenni Fagan - devilish goings on down through the centuries in an Edinburgh tenement building. O Caledonia by Elspeth Barker - Angela Carter meets Jeanette Winterson in the Highlands. Lanark by Alasdair Gray - phantasmagorical Glasgow and Dragonscale. https://t.co/H0SeRfxy45
Hardcover, 2022
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Overhaul: Poems
Kathleen JamieSimon Spanton@GalleyBeggars Kathleen Jamie. Superbly unsentimental, sharply observed, nuanced poems about nature and the Scottish landscape but always coupled with concerns of people and family life.
Paperback, 2015
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Lime Twig
John HawkesSimon Spanton"It was a heavy rain, the sort of rain that falls in prison yards and beats a little firewood smoke back down garret chimneys, that leaks across floors, into forgotten prams, into the slaughterhouse and pots on the stove." The Lime Twig, John Hawkes
Paperback, 1961
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book