Tolka Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
Tolka on X
A journal of formally promiscuous non-fiction, publishing essays, memoir, autofiction and the overflow. Supported by @artscouncil_ie.

Ulysses
James Joyce
"Who owns James Joyce? I do." Lovely ending to Sally Rooney's @parisreview piece on Ulysses. It resonates a lot with @mrkocnnll's essay 'City of the Dead', which concludes the latest TOLKA. (Who owns Dublin?) https://t.co/HumrzQ9xAi
Paperback, 1990
$19.00$9.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Bluff & Vine: Issue Five: A Literary Review
Alex Andrasik
🌙COVER REVEAL🌙 We’re thrilled to have Norah McGuinness’s MORNING MOON as our Issue Five cover! 🌊 Featuring non-fiction from both established and emerging names, pre-order your copy of Issue Five, publishing later this month: https://t.co/RgLCiWy4mM! Design by Sarah McCoy. https://t.co/QwXkVOSHur
Paperback, 2021
$15.99$7.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
You, Bleeding Childhood
Michele Mari
Book post! The latest from our translator-in-residence, @BrianRobMoore! YOU, BLEEDING CHILDHOOD by Michele Mari is out from @andothertweets in July - based on what we've read so far, it's a lot of fun! https://t.co/sPloeNbFsg
Paperback, 2023
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ulysses
Joyce James
"Who owns James Joyce? I do." Lovely ending to Sally Rooney's @parisreview piece on Ulysses. It resonates a lot with @mrkocnnll's essay 'City of the Dead', which concludes the latest TOLKA. (Who owns Dublin?) https://t.co/HumrzQ9xAi
Paperback, 2017
$25.20$12.60 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Dead
James Joyce
"Who owns James Joyce? I do." Lovely ending to Sally Rooney's @parisreview piece on Ulysses. It resonates a lot with @mrkocnnll's essay 'City of the Dead', which concludes the latest TOLKA. (Who owns Dublin?) https://t.co/HumrzQ9xAi
Paperback, 2008
$9.95$4.97 + Free shipping50% off your first book
A Silence Shared
Lalla Romano
Come and see our translator-in-residence @BrianRobMoore talk about Lalla Romano's A SILENCE SHARED at @BooksUpstairs with the inimitable Sara Baume! https://t.co/Pkjb2BbavF
Paperback, 2023
$16.95$8.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Of Mice and Men
John Steinbeck
"John Steinbeck wrote Of Mice and Men and then his dog ate it." I don't think we'll ever publish a better opening line to an issue... To read on: https://t.co/NDFRc4OqdK https://t.co/YcYYl6z8eA
Paperback, 1993
$13.00$6.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Granite and Rainbow: Essays: The Virginia Woolf Library Authorized Edition
Virginia Woolf
'Virginia Woolf on essays: “Never to be yourself and yet always – that is the problem”. The essay is an experiment with (or on) the writing self, as much as it is a form that is curious about curiosity, a mode attentive to ways of attending.' https://t.co/eMaLOsfFRW
Paperback, 1975
$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Kick the Latch
Kathryn Scanlan
'Let’s be done with this awful “ordinary lives” talk, as though there is any such thing.' @WednesdayErskin on @K_Scanlan_ 's incredible KICK THE LATCH https://t.co/dZvXEIe7bC
Paperback, 2022
$17.95$8.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Nothing Special
Nicole Flattery
To celebrate the publication of @nicoleflattery's novel NOTHING SPECIAL, we have published her conversation with @ColinBarrett82 on our website. They detail the magical process of novel writing ("Long, slow, painful. We got there in the end"). https://t.co/1A6jDIhSeY
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