The New Statesman Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
The New Statesman on X
Politics, geopolitics, economics, books, culture, ideas, science, history, tech, data... Become a subscriber: https://t.co/QTtdVUzLws

Cinema: The Archaeology of Film and the Memory of a Century
Jean-Luc Godard
Jean-Luc Godard has died at the age of 91. There is no doubt that postwar cinema has lost one of its most irascible, penetrating and radical architects, writes Ryan Gilbey. https://t.co/nbxzHrG7Bg
Hardcover, 2000
$150.00$125.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book(max discount $25)
Putin's Russia: Life in a Failing Democracy
Anna Politkovskaya
"Putin’s Russia: The Definitive Account of Putin’s Rise to Power by Anna Politkovskaya - It is both sobering and instructive to read her account of the horrors of the Second Chechen War" https://t.co/NDnXoTIJC4
Paperback, 2007
$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Lady Chatterley's Lover
D. H. Lawrence
“This film swaps the darkness and brutality of DH Lawrence’s novel for tender scenes of dancing in the rain.” @tomowolade reviews Netflix’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover. https://t.co/O5CndI7uR0
Hardcover, 2010
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Another World Is Possible: How to Reignite Social and Political Imagination
Geoff Mulgan
Reviewed in short: Another World is Possible by Geoff Mulgan is a manifesto for creativity and for thinking big, writes @RMCunliffe. https://t.co/TYZPWlEHLU
Hardcover, 2022
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
All Quiet on the Western Front
Erich Maria Remarque
“Edward Berger’s rendition of Remarque’s classic work of pacifist literature is monumental and visceral, immersing audiences in the mud, rain and blood of the trenches.” @jeremycliffe on All Quiet on the Western Front. https://t.co/L9iHeP2pP7
Paperback, Mass Market, 1987
$9.99$4.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Hidden Company That Trees Keep: Life from Treetops to Root Tips
James B. Nardi
Book of the Day: Mark Cocker reviews James B Nardi's, The Hidden Company That Trees Keep. “Their complex web of interactions defies a facile understanding of how all these lives are intertwined.” https://t.co/Aso79fHOFz
Hardcover, 2023
$29.95$14.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Eliot After the Waste Land
Robert Crawford
Book of the Day: “TS Eliot is hard to love, in this account: though, of course, we are never asked to love him.” @EricaWgnr reviews Eliot: After the Waste Land by Robert Crawford. https://t.co/EPvyyip6ye
Paperback, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
Kathryn Scanlan’s novel Kick the Latch, based on interviews with an American horse trainer, is a precise and unromantic portrait of the racetrack world, writes @ellen_cph. https://t.co/lI9U9nuOsK
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Palace Papers: Inside the House of Windsor--The Truth and the Turmoil
Tina Brown
The Palace Papers by Tina Brown centres not so much on the Queen (“Her Maj”) but on members of the wider royal family. It is gloriously irreverent, racily written and often very funny. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2022/04/a-royal-history-of-scandals?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter#Echobox=1651072243-1
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible: The Surreal Heart of the New Russia
Peter Pomerantsev
This remains one of the best (and most beautifully written) books on Putin and modern Russia in recent years…It ably gives a sense of what has and is being lost.
Paperback, 2015
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book