Tom Gatti Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Tom Gatti

Really looking forward to discussing intrigue in the House of Medici and life after Hamnet with Maggie O’Farrell at @camlitfest on Sunday: in-person tickets sold out but livestream still available. https://t.co/URPiT9JMID

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“This is no longer the Michelle Obama of Becoming, unsure of how she would be received... The Michelle Obama of The Light We Carry appears comfortable with her status as all-purpose idol, offering guidance from her perch as empath-in-chief” @lola_seaton https://t.co/iHVww21HJj

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The Wolf Hall Picture Book from @4thEstateBooks is a beautiful record of a photographic collaboration between Hilary Mantel and Ben & George Miles. Here's an extract – https://t.co/tGd4AQNerL

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“When Boris Yeltsin chose Putin as his successor, it was not because of his dazzling intellect or charisma or any sense that he was a rising star. Yeltsin saw Putin as a dependable mediocrity” @katiestallard on Putin: His Life & Times by Philip Short https://t.co/97OOP5Odho

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In his new book, Yoga, Emmanuel Carrère is fixated on truth – so why does he play fast and loose with it? By @chris_power https://t.co/wVtw4nutk5

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Multiple mentions in the @NewStatesman books of the year for: Twilight of Democracy by @anneapplebaum The Sunken Land Begins to Rise Again by @mjohnharrison Radical Attention by @JuliaBell English Pastoral by @herdyshepherd1 .... https://t.co/SJrP3KEhJj

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Brilliant by @chris_power on death, stimuli, screens and how Don DeLillo’s White Noise gains and loses meanings in Noah Baumbach film https://t.co/jUutzTMyCv

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The @NewStatesman Christmas issue is here! 👀 @stuartmcgurk’s history of woke 🐦 @HelenJMacdonald on birds & community 📚 @annaleszkie on Dahl’s nastiness ❄️ Julian Barnes, Claire Keegan, Ali Smith, Ai Weiwei & more on winter pictures 💎 A short story by Alan Garner + much more https://t.co/suHScKfwtG

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Saini’s new book The Patriarchs is an ambitious history of the patriarchy, drawing on science and archaeology to “overturn simplistic theories” about male power.

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“Trees are not only in a state of perpetual communion, but also – and here’s the strongest political message in this studiously apolitical book – utterly dependent on a sharing process.” @MarkCocker2 on James B Nardi’s The Hidden Company that Trees Keep https://t.co/ATZexpLhhs