The novelist (of, most recently, the hugely loved Horse) has written a graceful memoir of sudden bereavement, its bureaucratic aftermath and finding solace in solitude.

Wry, chatty memoir by the former editor of Vanity Fair.

A second volume of memoirs — hilarious and brilliantly written — following I Fear for this Boy: Some Chapters of Accidents. One such accident includes a karaoke injury in Japan…

The beloved and greatly missed CG, friend and cousin of us at Sandoe's. Here is a book largely made up of his own autobiographical pieces, some hitherto unpublished, with many photographs of him, his houses and friends. Exquisitely edited by Lucy Moore.

When a recluse in old age, the great Egyptian writer started to walk around Cairo in his dreams. In this fascinating book, those dreams are layered with reflections on Egypt and the world. Beautifully translated by Hisham Matar, with photos by Diana Matar.

Satie's penchant for the three-piece suit gives Penman his structure - a study in triptych - for this short, charming book on the French composer.

The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.

The un-making of the Raj: the 50-year process by which a single entity was torn into a dozen modern nations. SD tackles the immense complexities with gusto and intelligence.

A short story set in the mountains of Albania by this wonderful, thoughtful writer. Published by the tiny and discerning Hazel Press.

From the author of The Lovers and The Eight Mountains: a new novel following two brothers up a remote and secluded mountain in Northern Italy.

A little boy's intense, uneasy grasp of the world around him in an isolated house in Ireland. This is a powerful and moving first novel.

A summer of first love between two boys in rural Ireland - beautifully bittersweet.

By the author of the Booker-shortlisted Do Not Say We Have Nothing: a playful and complex novel that interweaves characters from C17th Amsterdam, 1930s' Germany and C8th Tang China.

Seven children come together after the death of their father but find their attempts to mourn him thwarted by his will. The result is this deliciously funny, heartening, somewhat dark caper that takes us from Athens to an island off the west coast of Scotland.

A new, fearless collection by the author of Vertigo & Ghost.

The oldest extant anthology of Japanese classical poetry, compiled in the C8th. A careful selection, beautifully translated.

An enquiry into the history of unruly noise, by a genius.

A beautifully-produced 'artist's book', with many illustrations, tipped-in drawings and transparent interleaving. Developed from the artist's eponymous film first shown at the 2024 Vencie Biennale.

The title sweeps together the disparate but connected groups of artists (writers, photographers, poets, composers and architects as well as painters) working in Sussex in the first half of the C20th. This remarkable illustrated study looks at Charleston and the Bloomsbury group, David Jones at Ditchling, Lee Miller and Roland Penrose, Edward Burra, John Piper see more

A collection of C19th photographic portraits of Black African, Afro-Caribbean, South Asian and mixed heritage people. This feat of curation brings together plate negatives, stereoscopic images, visiting cards, studio photographs etc from public and private archives, to take a long look at questions of race and representation. The quality of the reproductions is very high.

Hermit-like, Nicholson built himself a shed in a scruffy field from which to observe and listen to the birds thriving in that patch of wilderness.

Vegetarian home-cooking by the co-author of Jerusalem, Falastin. He's also one half of the Ottolenghi chain of delicatessens.

A small Greek town on the coast is revisited by a grieving woman who reconnects with the friends and acquaintances she made there a decade earlier. A quiet but brilliant novel in which themes of identity, guilt and responsibility are deftly interweaved.

Electrifying memoir by a former art dealer about his erstwhile friend Inigo Philbrick who, having cut his teeth at White Cube, went on to make millions but came a cropper. He was extradited from Vanuatu and jailed for swindling on a vast scale.

With his customary ?lan, Boyd tells the story of an accidental spy zipping between Sixties' London, Cadiz and Warsaw.

Jefferson won the National Book Critics Circle Award for her memoir of growing up among Chicago's Black elite - what she refers to as 'Negroland': 'a small region of Negro America where residents were sheltered by a certain amount of privilege and plenty'. Part of the Best of Granta series.

An 1890s Western set in Butte., Montana, populated largely by Irish characters. It begins with a marriage but the bride almost immediately falls in love with another man, a poet who carves her first initial into his chest, robs a landlady, lighting her house on fire, stealing a horse and setting out on the run see more

In the third book of this remarkable sequence, the Greeks sail for home after a decade of war, leaving Troy a wasteland, and taking with them the captive Trojan women.

Gayford's ink flows pleasurably and eloquently on the subject of Venice, its artists and admirers. Illustrated, conversational.

A nail-biter set in 1914, against the backdrop of Venetia Stanley's love affair with the Prime Minister, Asquith, who was more than twice her age.

Six stories from the author of A Gentleman In Moscow.

From the earliest printing to C21st zines: a very engaging account. The author is Prof of Eng Lit at Balliol when not noodling about with like-minded eggheads and a Model 4 letter press.

Walls are famous for their ears – but they can also speak: Pelling gathers these silent shouts into a remarkable history through the scratchings and carvings in prisons, walls, lead roofs, table-tops… A turbulent society in its own words.

The first in a sequence of novels. The premise is temporal confinement to a single day: the narrator finds that time has stopped moving forward and begins to navigate the whorls of possibility that this loop of time allows. Dazzling, intelligent, enthralling.

As compelling as vol 1, this leaves us - outrageously - on a cliff-hanger. (We'll have to wait for November for vol 3...)

The only poetry book that Jarman produced was published in 1972, when he was thirty, but he destroyed most of the copies because he thought (unfairly) the poems were 'puerile'. A few copies remain in libraries and private collections around the world. This edition is a facsimile of the British Library's copy: an elegant volume, see more

An accomplished historian mines his childhood experience of the cruelty of the boarding school he was sent to aged eight.

Abdurraqib's meditation on Black music and performance, A Little Devil in America, was inspired. This new book, a literary memoir about basketball and what it takes to be successful, what it means to 'make it', is just as poetic and political. Thrilling, both at the level of the sentence and the collective: in cities, streets, see more

An epistolary narrative following one woman's daily life in the Afro-Colombian community on Choco, as she attempts to bring literacy to the region.

A vivid reimagining of the tangled lattice of Picasso's love life, from the perspective of women determined to make sense of the past.

frank: sonnets won the Pulitzer Prize when it was published in 2022. Astute, deft, magnaminous - and now published by Fitzcarraldo as part of their new poetry list.

The astounding debut from Iranian-American poety Akbar, featuring pathologically polite, prescription-drug-addicted anti-hero Cyrus, whose fixation on martyrdom leads him into a tender relationship with an older, terminally ill artist. Set in 2017 but darting nimbly back and forth in time, with kaleidoscopic effects.

A facsimile of the photographer's diary of 2012 - a turning point in his life and career. It's a delightful sort of scrapbook, with glossy polaroids & photos.

A new, comprehensive book on the widely admired and influential ceramic sculptor, by one of Baldwin's former pupils. Gorgeous.

The first book on Hepworth's stringed sculptures, paintings and drawings. Smartly produced without a dustjacket, just clean-cut boards, for an exhibition at Piano Nobile.

This glorious book contains reproductions of 95 gouaches that belonged to an C18th Swedish vice-admiral. The images are exquisite and romantic; the accompanying text is informative and light of touch. There are sampans for transporting washing, sampans for picnics, sampans for passengers, ducks, bricks, tea, flowers...

Does exactly what it says on the tin: an archive of people touching various objects: airplanes, balustrades, binoculars, bridges... There are almost 2,000 photographs here, pruned from over 15,000 family albums.

An immense volume on the great Japanese photographer. Over 800 pages with 930 photographs. It covers the first twenty years of his career: the earliest existing print to his 1982 photobook, 'Light and Shadow'. Bound in black cloth and sold in a cardboard slipcase.

Cruises in North Africa, in two volumes: 'In the Sahara: by camel, by car, by cruise-ship' and 'Roaring Twenties Tourism Seen by Sandoz', an artist, 41 and well-established by the time he set out on his journey from Algeria to Marrakech, who painted, wrote and photographed what he saw along the way.

Photographs from Lee Miller's trips to Egypt in the 1930s, with accompanying texts by Mounir Neamatalla.

An extraordinary monograph: over 300 works, with contributions from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Hilton Als, Edmund de Waal and others, including Paul herself. To accompany an exhibition at Victoria Miro in March.

Roman marble statues and reliefs in museums around the world: in McCullin's accompanying words, 'their broken beauty doesn't take away from their impact; here is all the power and the glory of the Roman world at its most narcissistic and idealised'.

A gorgeous book on handmade bamboo baskets of intricate and wildly varied design, in an edition limited to 300 copies, published in Kyoto.

A knock-out book on the photographs of Joan Leigh Fermor - many of Greece and previously unpublished, but many taken elsewhere too - Tunisia, Kurdistan, Turkey, the Caribbean.

John Sandoe's is delighted to be publishing, in association with the Cuckoo Press, our own special limited edition of this magnificent novel, consisting of 50 signed and numbered copies, quarter bound in cloth with beautiful, stencil-dyed Japanese katazome paper boards. The signature page is protected by tipped-in Japanese tissue. Each one comes in a slipcase. see more

A beautifully produced book on an unusual subject: a single street in Hull... Alec Gill spent 15 years photographing the working-class neighbourhood as its fishing trade dwindled and housing demolition rates rose. This is an archive of a landscape and community now changed beyond recognition. Printed on gorgeous G.F. Smith paper stock with a swiss see more

A very smart piece of book production: off-white, clothbound boards with a thick cellophane dustjacket superimposing a photograph of one of Calder's mobiles onto the cover. Rich, crisp, high-resolution black-and-white photographs throughout, with accompanying texts.

Sketches of Baldwin, in the form of personal essays, pen-and-ink drawings, charcoals, photographs, etc. From an exhibition at David Zwirner several years ago, which has only now taken shape into this gorgeously produced book. With contributions by Teju Cole, Jamaica Kincaid, Darryl Pinckney et alia.

A magnificent anthology.

A very handsome, large-format limited edition book of the lost photographs of Patrick O'Higgins, best known for Madame, his memoir about Helena Rubinstein. His photographs are a fascinating record of literary and artistic lives in post-WW2 Europe: his sitters include Stephen Spender, Elsa Schiaparelli, Cecil Beaton, John Richardson, Tennessee Williams, Jean Cocteau and Somerset Maugham... see more

Based on the Atholl collection of South African art, this superbly produced volume explores themes of transformation and metamorphosis, resistance and affinity, highlighting the fragility of our relationships with ourselves, with one another, with nature, and with worlds beyond our grasp. This fine illustrated catalogue of the 178 paintings, sculpture and works on paper currently see more

Exquisite. A gorgeous introduction to the maestro of classical architectural photography.

Stunning photographs of 22 great European opera houses. With accompanying texts by Michael Forsyth and Rolf Sachsse.