Christmas Special 2016
A Christmas Special of Book Shambles! Robin and Josie chat about their favourite books of the year and then we caught up with twenty of the guests backstage at Brian and Robin’s Christmas Compendium show about their favourite books of the year including Simon Le Bon, Chris Hadfield, Brian Cox, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Ben Goldacre, Helen Czerski and many more! All Patreon proceeds from this episode will be donated to St Mungo’s Help For Homeless People charity.
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Reading List
Josie recommends:
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
Hope in the Dark by Rebecca Solnit
I Hate the Internet by Jarett Kobek
The Outrun by Amy Liptrot
Swimming Studies by Leanne Shapton
Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin
Jerusalem by Alan Moore
Robin recommends:
Extreme Metaphors by J.G. Ballard
Nothing by Janne Teller
War by Janne Teller
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Missing of the Somme by Geoff Dyer
The Divine Madness of Philip K. Dick by Kyle Arnold
Empire of Illusion: The End of Literacy and the Triumph of Spectacle by Chris Hedges
Black Hole Blues and Other Songs from Outer Space by Janna Levin
Autobiographical Notes by James Baldwin
Season Of The Witch: How the Occult Saved Rock and Roll by Peter Bebergal
The Four-Dimensional Human: Ways of Being in the Digital World by Laurence Scott
Simon Le Bon recommends:
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
More life with your kids… by AA Gill
Lucy Cooke recommends:
Pseudodoxia Epidemica by Thomas Browne
Ben Goldacre recommends:
Gong Dreaming by Daeved Allen
James Acaster recommends:
Animal by Sara Pascoe
Parsnips, Buttered: Bamboozle and boycott modern life, one email at a time by Joe Lycett
Distraction Pieces by Scroobius Pip
Chris Lintott recommends:
Spacesuit: Fashioning Apollo by Nicholas De Monchaux
Helen Czerski recommends:
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived by Adam Rutherford
Sophie Ellis-Bextor recommends:
The Butcher’s Hook bu Janet Ellis
The Last Act of Love by Cathy Rentzenbrink
David McAlmont recommends:
The Black Family in the Age of Mass Incarceration by Ta-Nehisi Coates
My President Was Black by Ta-Nehisi Coates
Adam Rutherford recommends:
The Unbeatable Squirrel Girl by Ryan Sort & Eric Henderson
Chris Hadfield recommends:
Night School by Lee Child
J.Willgoose recommends:
Seven Brief Lessons on Physics by Carlo Rovelli
Greg Foot recommends:
I Contain Multitudes by Ed Yong
The Harry Potter series by JK Rowling
Helen Arney recommends:
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying: A simple, effective way to banish clutter forever by Marie Kondo
Matt Parker recommends:
The Pier Falls by Mark Haddon
Andrew Steele recommends:
Sustainable Energy – Without the Hot Air by David MacKay
Paul Abel recommends:
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Paul Abel
Steve Thompson recommends:
Storm in A Teacup by Helen Czerski
A Tesla Coil tweet by Aleks Krotoski
Steve Pretty recommends:
PostCapitalism: A Guide to Our Future by Paul Mason
Brian Cox recommends:
The Big Picture: On the Origins of Life, Meaning, and the Universe Itself by Sean Carroll
Alice Lowe recommends:
Jitterbug Perfume by Tom Robbins
Cider with Rosie by Laurie Lee
Goodnight Tractor by Michelle Robinson
