The Spectator Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
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Emma
Jane AustenThe Spectator‘There is nothing like staying at home for real comfort,’ wrote the eminently quotable Jane Austen in Emma, in 1815. ‘Nobody can be more devoted to home than I am.’ ✍️ Emma Wells https://t.co/IoUYbzkOlv
Hardcover, 2024
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Beautiful World, Where Are You
Sally RooneyThe Spectator‘Sally Rooney’s trademark formula combines close-up physical observation, sharp dialogue, will-they-won’t-they haverings and plenty of sex.’ ✍️ Roy Foster https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/irish-quartet-beautiful-world-where-are-you-by-sally-rooney-reviewed
Paperback, 2022
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Three Men in a Boat
Jerome K. JeromeThe Spectator'Three Men In a Boat by Jerome K. Jerome: A polyamorous trio explore their gender and sexuality in a safe environment while drifting down the Thames' ✍️ Peter Sheridan https://t.co/Cy1ujSjVI9
Paperback, 2020
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The Passenger
Cormac McCarthyThe Spectator📚 A sunken wreck of a novel: Cormac McCarthy’s The Passenger reviewed 👇 ✍️ Philip Hensher https://t.co/Xy8OZReh1x
Paperback, 2023
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Persuasion
J. AustenThe Spectator'You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’, but I know you won’t believe it unless you hear it from me, so here you are: it is truly horrible.' ✍️ Deborah Ross https://t.co/ZhtbJzS8du
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Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfThe Spectator🎙 Book Club 🎙 Sam Leith is joined by Andrea Wulf to talk about the birth of Romanticism at the end of the 18th century, after the release of her new book Magnificent Rebels. https://t.co/tQbQQcBARR
Paperback, 2023
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Middlemarch
George EliotThe Spectator📖Middlemarch is 150 years old. 📜Read what The Spectator had to say about George Eliot’s great work in 1872 https://t.co/AOt16VdPNr
Hardcover, 2011
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1984: 75th Anniversary
George OrwellThe Spectator'I kid you not, though it seems that all satire is dead, but the list of suspect books also includes 1984 by George Orwell.' ✍️ Douglas Murray https://t.co/DcvBu8rOhm
Paperback, Mass Market, 1950
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Persuasion
Jane AustenThe Spectator'You may already have read early reviews of Netflix’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s Persuasion saying it’s ‘the worst adaptation ever’, but I know you won’t believe it unless you hear it from me, so here you are: it is truly horrible.' ✍️ Deborah Ross https://t.co/ZhtbJzS8du
Hardcover, 2012
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The Facemaker: A Visionary Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I
Lindsey FitzharrisThe Spectator🎙 Book Club 🎙 The Facemaker: One Surgeon's Battle to Mend the Disfigured Soldiers of World War I. Sam Leith speaks to Lindsey Fitzharris about her new book. They discuss Harold Gillies, ace golfer, practical joker and plastic surgery pioneer. https://t.co/Wt9rNSOoXk
Paperback, 2023
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