Stig Abell 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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Co-presenting breakfast @timesradio. Death Under a Little Sky, out now: https://t.co/jHEquPAYWN. The sequel, Death in a Lonely Place, out April 2024.
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George EliotStig AbellThe scores are in, this was pretty close. Some love for George Eliot and Kathleen Winsor (mainly for the sex), but the top three were: 1. Carry on Jeeves. Wodehouse has still got it. 2. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton. 3. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens. https://t.co/Km2j1teblc
Paperback, 2022
$25.95$12.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Henry James: Autobiography
Henry JamesStig Abell@Baddiel I did two dissertations on Henry James and can confirm the last big three novels are very hard work. Golden Bowl is effectively unreadable unless you have to professionally. I think Portrait is in the top three Victorian novels.
Hardcover, 2016
$271.00$246.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln
Doris Kearns GoodwinStig Abell@FryRsquared I absolutely loved Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. My favourite ever biography. But Bill Bryson has been my constant companion since childhood, so could never look beyond him (maybe Neither Here Nor There).
Paperback, 2006
$24.99$12.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Migration: Multiculturalism & its Metaphors
William DalrympleStig AbellComing up on @TimesRadio Breakfast: apparently the government’s migration plans are the “will of the people”, is that true? Plus, more AI worries, prisons falling down, Agatha Christie’s island, Tory Nimbys, William Dalrymple on the Mughals, going after the Wagner group etc https://t.co/b16TCqT5sc
Paperback, 2016
$19.95$9.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Daughter of Time
Josephine TeyStig AbellThis is a lovely detective book, the first of several in a series. The twist is that the detective is the famous Golden Age novelist Josephine Tey (who wrote the glorious The Daughter of Time). Anyway good 30s fun all around. https://t.co/vRCuJNGq2K
Paperback, 1995
$17.00$8.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
American Tabloid: Underworld USA (1)
James EllroyStig AbellHappy 75th birthday to James Ellroy. His two-book run of American Tabloid and Cold Six Thousand is the most startling, brilliant, electrifying piece of sustained genre writing ever. I must have read them 20 times. Never has the phrase “not for the faint-hearted” been more apt. https://t.co/suHVAotJCk
Paperback, 2001
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Neither Here Nor There:: Travels in Europe
Bill BrysonStig Abell@FryRsquared I absolutely loved Team of Rivals by Doris Kearns Goodwin. My favourite ever biography. But Bill Bryson has been my constant companion since childhood, so could never look beyond him (maybe Neither Here Nor There).
Paperback, 2001
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Love: Burne-Jones Cross Stitch Pattern
Kathleen GeorgeStig AbellThe scores are in, this was pretty close. Some love for George Eliot and Kathleen Winsor (mainly for the sex), but the top three were: 1. Carry on Jeeves. Wodehouse has still got it. 2. Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton. 3. Where the Crawdads Sing, Delia Owens. https://t.co/Km2j1teblc
Paperback, Large Print, 2019
$17.14$8.57 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Adam GauntlettStig AbellDulce et Decorum Est: one of the greatest poems ever written, in turns grand and horrifying and philosophical. Look at that tiny detail “blood-shod” for the footsore men marching to their deaths. Anyway, worth reading today, and every year. Wilfred Owen, a marvel of his century. https://t.co/kmLvU3HRmG
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Poems
Wilfred OwenStig AbellDulce et Decorum Est: one of the greatest poems ever written, in turns grand and horrifying and philosophical. Look at that tiny detail “blood-shod” for the footsore men marching to their deaths. Anyway, worth reading today, and every year. Wilfred Owen, a marvel of his century. https://t.co/kmLvU3HRmG
Hardcover, 2010
$32.95$16.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book