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Every book Simon Winchester recommended on podcasts
Books recommended by Simon Winchester
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Midnight's Children
Midnight's Children is a celebrated novel by Salman Rushdie that explores the magical realist history of India from its independence and partition onward, touching upon regional themes such as Kashmir.
Discussed“as someone compared it to saying it's a Chinese version as it were of Midnight's Children as Vivid a description of China as Salon Rashi described India the coming to Independence”
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Seeds of Change
Discussed“there's this marvelous book called by a man called hubhouse I think called seeds of change about the six vegetables or six seeds that changed the world”
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Books Simon Winchester wrote
- Krakatoa
- Land
- The Map That Changed the World
- The Perfectionists
- The Professor and the Madman CD
- Atlantic
- Pacific
Appearances
| Episode | Podcast | Date | Books |
|---|---|---|---|
| The History of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone | The Book Review | 2024-07-18 | 1 |
| Inside The New York Times Book Review: ‘Give Us the Ballot’ | The Book Review | 2024-07-18 | 1 |
Other mentions (1: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing Atlantic
“my first trip across the Atlantic that I wrote a book about was from Liverpool to Montreal on a ship the Empress of of Britain”