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Viv Groskop Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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Author, comedian, podcaster. HOW TO OWN THE ROOM 📕🎧 HAPPY HIGH STATUS: How To Be Effortlessly Confident out now

14 books
Book Cover for: Tomb of Sand, Geetanjali Shree

Tomb of Sand

Geetanjali Shree
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A wonderful tribute to Geetanjali Shree’s success with Tomb of Sand and to @shreedaisy’s translation. The party that started with @TheBookerPrizes continues as this brilliant novel makes its way around the world 🎉🍹🍸 https://t.co/WbZhlsiuXi

Hardcover, 2023

$29.99$14.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe, Olia Hercules

Mamushka: Recipes from Ukraine and Eastern Europe

Olia Hercules
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Books Of Which I Have Bought Multiple Copies in 2022: No.1: Olia Hercules’ Mamushka (makes you feel like you’re doing something — Olia actually *is* doing something #CookforUkraine) https://t.co/HeaTQ5K2SR https://t.co/9lA4xs7DND

Hardcover, 2015

$35.00$17.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Cursed Bunny: Stories, Bora Chung

Cursed Bunny: Stories

Bora Chung
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Cursed Bunny (brilliant warped smart story collection) continues to spread its magic — congrats to translator @AntonHur https://t.co/9StOm2PBET

Paperback, 2022

$18.99$9.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America, Barbara Ehrenreich

Bright-Sided: How Positive Thinking Is Undermining America

Barbara Ehrenreich
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Sad to see this — loved Ehrenreich’s writing, especially Brightsided: How Positivity Is Undermining America. Brilliant reportage and contemporary philosophy. RIP. Going straight to her backlist https://t.co/zoTmPaEdAC

Paperback, 2010

$19.99$9.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Old Babes in the Wood: Stories, Margaret Atwood

Old Babes in the Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood
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Always a blast to interview the highly unpredictable, playfully wise Margaret Atwood. Congrats on this beautiful short story collection #OldBabesintheWood Thanks to @ToppingsBath for hosting #mushrooms #algae #hemp https://t.co/rL80R4DgB4

Paperback, 2024

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Remember Whose Little Girl You Are, Ellen Nichols

Remember Whose Little Girl You Are

Ellen Nichols
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🎧🎉🎧 New How to Own the Room podcast ep: ELLEN NICHOLS on being a first-time author in her seventies. Her book Remember Whose Little Girl You Are is about growing up in the Deep South in the 1950s. She asks: “What are you waiting for?” 🎧🎉🎧 Listen: https://t.co/zpKoxpUoFw https://t.co/Kz8Kms5cSu

Hardcover, 2022

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: A Slow Fire Burning, Paula Hawkins

A Slow Fire Burning

Paula Hawkins
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🎧🎧🎧 This week’s podcast guest is best-selling novelist PAULA HAWKINS, author of The Girl on the Train and (imminent new release) A Slow Fire Burning. We talk: “overnight” success (no such thing), pressure, patience, self-belief and more 🎧🎧🎧 Listen: https://t.co/OkF7fRzoQc https://t.co/Ziqjsl1bXQ

Paperback, 2022

$18.00$9.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality, Angela Saini

The Patriarchs: The Origins of Inequality

Angela Saini
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International Women’s Day purchase: Angela Saini’s The Patriarchs — a fresh take on what needs to be dismantled inside all of us https://t.co/W5TN68i6Qi

Hardcover, 2023

$26.95$13.48 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: The Memory of Animals, Claire Fuller

The Memory of Animals

Claire Fuller
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How to Own the Room Series 20 Episode 2: best-selling novelist + winner of the Costa Prize CLAIRE FULLER. Her latest book is The Memory of Animals. We talk: changing career and becoming a novelist in your forties, creativity, life, stress and dry mouth https://t.co/OkF7fRzoQc https://t.co/XvZKyd0qM7

Hardcover, 2023

$27.95$13.98 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Book Cover for: Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents, Isabel Wilkerson

Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents

Isabel Wilkerson
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This week’s podcast guest is ISABEL WILKERSON — Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Caste. So inspiring and insightful. Masterclass in self-motivation and grit… and the art of narrative non-fiction Listen: https://t.co/OkF7fRzoQc https://t.co/uEUiEbAXYz

Paperback, 2023

$21.00$10.50 + Free shipping50% off your first book