Stuart Kells 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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Author, bibliophile, historian. Adjunct Prof @latrobe. Editor #LibraryPlanet. Currently researching @latrobe, #Mildura, history of banking and finance

Index, A History of the: A Bookish Adventure from Medieval Manuscripts to the Digital Age
Dennis Duncan
My review of ‘Index, A history of the’ by Dennis Duncan @djbduncan: ‘How the best bits are often at the back of a book’. @theage @smh @latrobe. https://t.co/XiwE71aaiR
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Big Four: The Curious Past and Perilous Future of the Global Accounting Monopoly
Ian D. Gow
The Big Four are in the news. Ian Gow and I have written the definitive explainer. #TheBigFour @blackincbooks @latrobe #LaTrobeUniversityPress @LaTrobeBusiness @iandgow @UniMelb @statelibrarynsw @HarvardHBS https://t.co/x4dk2x3GX5 https://t.co/QgyRcytyr8
Hardcover, 2018
$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana: Or, a Descriptive Catalogue of the Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century in the Library of George John Ear
Thomas Frognall Dibdin
From Dibdin’s ‘Aedes Althorpianae; or, Account of the mansion, books, and pictures, at Althorp; the residence of George John, earl Spencer, K.G. To which is added a supplement to the Bibliotheca Spenceriana’ (1822) https://t.co/BSErLreheF
Hardcover, 2016
$38.95$19.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book