Comics' Books Podcast picks
By Lucy Danser
By Lucy Danser
Comics' Books is a podcast, hosted by me, where I talk to comedians and comic writers about the books that they love. I've linked the books that we discuss in the episodes below. To listen yourself head here: www.comicsbooks.co.uk
Rivers of London: The First Rivers of London novel
Ben Aaronovitch
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
George's Marvellous Medicine
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
£5.99 £5.57Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
The Lies of Locke Lamora: The Gentleman Bastard Sequence, Book One
Scott Lynch
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
A Game of Thrones (Reissue)
George R.R. Martin
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
The Unlikely Pilgrimage Of Harold Fry: The uplifting and redemptive No. 1 Sunday Times bestseller
Rachel Joyce
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
Outlander: (Outlander 1)
Diana Gabaldon
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
The Time Traveler's Wife
Audrey Niffenegger
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 1 with Laura Lexx
Klopp Actually: (Imaginary) Life with Football's Most Sensible Heartthrob
Laura Lexx
£9.99 £9.29Written by Season 1, Episode 1 guest Laura Lexx
Wuthering Heights
Emily Bronte
£11.99Discussed in Season 1: Episode 1 with Laura Lexx and Episode 2 with Eshaan Akbar
THE SECRET GARDEN
Frances Hodgson Burnett
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 2 with Eshaan Akbar
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 2 with Eshaan Akbar
Long Walk to Freedom
Nelson Mandela
£14.99 £13.94Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4
Sue Townsend
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
The Plantagenets: The Kings Who Made England
Dan Jones
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses and the Rise of the Tudors
Dan Jones
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
Them: Adventures with Extremists
Jon Ronson
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
The Vicar of Nibbleswicke
Roald Dahl and Quentin Blake
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
To Kill A Mockingbird: 60th Anniversary Edition
Harper Lee
£7.99 £7.43Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things
Jon McGregor
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
The Siege Of Krishnapur
J.G. Farrell
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
Unfollow: A Journey from Hatred to Hope, leaving the Westboro Baptist Church
Megan Phelps-Roper
£14.99 £13.94Discussed in Season 1, Episode 3 with Jonathan Sayer
Anne of Green Gables
L. M. Montgomery
£7.99 £7.43Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
The Famous Five Collection 1: Books 1-3
Enid Blyton
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
The Code of the Woosters: (Jeeves & Wooster)
P.G. Wodehouse
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
Reasons to be Cheerful: Winner of the 2019 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction
Nina Stibbe
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
A House for Mr Biswas
V. S. Naipaul
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
A Prayer For Owen Meany: a 'genius' modern American classic
John Irving
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
Atomic Habits: the life-changing million-copy #1 bestseller
James Clear
£16.98 £15.79Discussed in Season 1, Episode 4 with Sindhu Vee
Marvel Premium: Civil War
Mark Millar and Steve McNiven
£17.98 £16.72Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa
Natives: Race and Class in the Ruins of Empire - The Sunday Times Bestseller
Akala
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa
The Tale of Peter Rabbit Board Book
Beatrix Potter
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 5 with Sikisa
Calvin And Hobbes Volume 1 `A': The Calvin & Hobbes Series: Thereby Hangs a Tail
Bill Watterson
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks
Open: An Autobiography
Andre Agassi
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks
The Inner Game of Tennis: The Ultimate Guide to the Mental Side of Peak Performance
W Timothy Gallwey
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 6 with Russell Hicks
I Am Bear
Ben Bailey Smith and Sav Akyuz
£6.99 £6.50Written by Season 1, Episode 7 guest Ben Bailey Smith
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Yuval Noah Harari
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
The Etymologicon: A Circular Stroll Through the Hidden Connections of the English Language
Mark Forsyth
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
Are You There, God? It's Me, Margaret
Judy Blume
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
Fox 8
George Saunders and Chelsea Cardinal
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
French Exit: NOW A MAJOR FILM
Patrick deWitt
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
The Mobster's Lament
Ray Celestin
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 7 with Ben Bailey Smith
Through the Leopard's Gaze
Njambi McGrath
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath
Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
Jung Chang
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath
Kaffir Boy: The True Story of a Black Youth's Coming of Age in Apartheid South Africa
Mark Mathabane
£14.99 £13.94Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath
The Pianist of Yarmouk
Aeham Ahmad
£9.99 £9.29Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath
Devil on the Cross
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 8 with Njambi McGrath
The F*ck It Diet
Caroline Dooner
£12.99 £12.08Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew
The Heretics: Adventures with the Enemies of Science
Will Storr
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew
The Day of the Triffids
John Wyndham
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 1, Episode 9 with Jess Fostekew
The Paper Dolls
Julia Donaldson and Rebecca Cobb
£7.99 £7.43Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
The Worst Princess
Anna Kemp and Sara Ogilvie
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
Skeleton Crew: featuring The Mist
Stephen King
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
The Tommyknockers
Stephen King
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
Guards! Guards!: (Discworld Novel 8)
Terry Pratchett
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
Adventures in the Screen Trade
William Goldman
£23.00Discussed in Season 2, Episode 1 with Stuart Goldsmith
Bonjour Tristesse and A Certain Smile
Francoise Sagan
£7.99 £7.43Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop
Hamnet: WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2020 - THE NO. 1 BESTSELLER
Maggie O'Farrell
£20.00 £18.60Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox
Maggie O'Farrell
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 2, Episode 2 with Viv Groskop
The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 3/4: Adrian Mole Book 1
None and Sue Townsend
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
Diary Of A Wimpy Kid (Book 1)
Jeff Kinney
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor
Adam Kay
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
Finding My Voice: Nadiya's honest, unforgettable memoir
Nadiya Hussain
£10.99 £10.22Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The The Magic Faraway Tree: Book 2
Enid Blyton
£6.99 £6.50Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The Hobbit Classic Hardback
J. R. R. Tolkien
£20.00 £18.60Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The Lord of the Rings
J. R. R. Tolkien
£22.00 £20.46Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
Romeo and Juliet
Eric Rasmussen and Jonathan Bate
£7.99Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
Mildred Delois Taylor
£7.99 £7.43Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The Color Purple: The classic, Pulitzer Prize-winning novel
Alice Walker
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
1984 Nineteen-Eighty Four
George Orwell
£5.99 £5.57Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The Reluctant Fundamentalist
MOHSIN HAMID
£8.99 £8.36Discussed in Season 2, Episode 3 with Tez Ilyas
The Secret Diary of a British Muslim Aged 13 3/4
Tez Ilyas
£16.98 £15.79Written by Season 2, Episode 3 guest Tez Ilyas
Men Who Hate Women: From incels to pickup artists, the truth about extreme misogyny and how it affects us all
LAURA BATES
£16.98 £15.79
The Not Terribly Good Book of Heroic Failures: An intrepid selection from the original volumes
Stephen Pile
£8.99 £8.36
Stupid White Men: ...and Other Sorry Excuses for the State of the Nation!
Michael Moore
£10.99 £10.22
Big Little Lies: The No.1 bestseller behind the award-winning TV series
Liane Moriarty
£8.99 £8.36
Why I'm No Longer Talking to White People About Race: The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller
Reni Eddo-Lodge
£9.99 £9.29
The Secret Commonwealth: The Book of Dust Volume Two: From the world of Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials - now a major BBC se
Philip Pullman and Christopher Wormell
£8.99 £8.36
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stane: Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone in Scots
J. K. Rowling
£7.99 £7.43
