Summer Reading Special

with Robin Ince and Josie Long

A special mini-episode of Book Shambles this week as Robin and Josie go all broadsheet and breakfast TV and present their recommended summer reading, or nuclear winter if you prefer, list. Expect Rebecca Fox, Oscar Zarate, Kate Grenville, Sabrina Mahfouz, Nikesh Shukla and more. 

 

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Reading List

Josie recommends:

Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke

The Introducing X: A Graphic Guide series

The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia by Bryan Talbot and Mary Talbot

Red Rosa: A Graphic Biography of Rosa Luxemburg by Kate Evans

Brunel: A Graphic Biography by Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr

Darwin: A Graphic Biography by Eugene Byrne and Simon Gurr

The Secret River by Kate Grenville

Bush Studies by Barbara Baynton

The Good Immigrant edited by Nikesh Shukla

The Things I Would Tell You edited by Sabrina Mahfouz

Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race by Reni Eddo-Lodge

How You Might Know Me by Sabrina Mahfouz

Titanic by Bridget Minamore

My Brilliant Friend by Elena Ferrante

Robin recommends:

Mysteries of the Quantum Universe by Thibault Damour

A Small Killing by Alan Moore and Oscar Zarate

Introducing Freud: A Graphic Guide by Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate

Hysteria by Richard Appignanesi and Oscar Zarate

Murmurs of Doubt: Twelve Skeptical Graphic Novellas by Rebecca Fox

Postcards From the Past by Tom Jackson

Steve Aylett: A Critical Anthology edited by Bill Ectric, D. Harlan Wilson and Rachel Kendall

Spirits of Place by John Reppion

Thought X: Fictions and Hypotheticals edited by Ra Page & Dr Rob Appleby

Camp Concentration by Thomas M. Disch

Narcissism For Beginners by Martine McDonagh

Trent recommends:

Talking to My Country by Stan Grant

How to Stay Sane by Phillipa Perry

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