Mme du Châtelet proposed intellectual autonomy over the cult of philosophical disciples enjoyed by Voltaire and Kant. She also believed that women should "share in all the rights of humanity, and above all those of the mind".

RB is the ne plus ultra of Habsburg chroniclers. Readers will recall his bestselling memoir Last Days in Old Europe: Trieste '79, Vienna '85, Prague '89. Here is a biography of exemplary elegance.

The parallel paths of Sir Bulstrode Whitelocke and Edward Hyde (later Lord Clarendon). Friends in youth indeed, they found themselves on opposing sides in the Civil War. Dinshaw has a C17th love of a finely turned phrase and revels in his enormous cast. A remarkable exposition of what taking sides involves.

How do you write music to serve the socialist state? Yet that is what a generation of Russian composers had to do. Some produced superb music; many more suffered terribly in the Gulag.

The uprising of ordinary people in 1524 was the largest before the French Revolution; its end was ghastly. This first revisiting of the subject in a generation is by the Regius Professor of History at Oxford.

Argues that the origins of Ireland's catastrophe lay in the colonisers' experiments with capitalism and imperialism.

Marooned in the US during the pandemic, a Nigerian writer recalls four women she has loved. The first novel in 10 years from the celebrated author of Purple Hibiscus and others.

An early novella, and an excellent introduction into MB's work, in which a 22-year old returns to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother.

Following the success of Tiepolo Blue (2022), Cahill's new novel takes us deeper still into the international contemporary art world and its fragile, clashing egos.

This caustic, witty novel is set among migrants and lost souls in East London as they try to navigate the latest government policies; translated from the Arabic.

Unabridged new translation of one of the great works of C20th Italian fiction, first published in1948, set among three generations of Sicilian women.

A love affair against the backdrop of London in the 1990s.

A novel from the art critic and author of What Artists Wear and Bring No Clothes that looks at gay relationships against the backdrop of the AIDS crisis and its long aftermath.

Wry and deft as ever, she makes us laugh about family breakdown and gives hope for new opportunities.

The third novel from the author of Damascus Station has us zipping between Moscow and Langley, with a bit of Singapore...

These poems, discovered in 2011, make up a fragmentary autobiography. This is a dual language edition.

Following visits to Dakar, Columbia and Palestine, the American novelist and critic explores in a series of essays how we are shaped by the stories we tell ourselves (or one another).

It seems scarcely credible that these essays should have remained unpublished for so long.

The author of the magnificent Leviathan: or The Whale, turns his attention to Blake and his legacies, via Paul Nash, Derek Jarman, and creatures from the natural and metaphysical world.

The first comprehensive catalogue of Freud's oil paintings covers over 500 works, almost all of which are reproduced in colour, with excellent notes. 4 vols in a slipcase.

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.

Shows how the six women most associated with Picasso were far from passive or submissive 'muses' but were highly independent and talented in their own right.

A collection of night exposures - cyanotypes created with moonlight - that record the moon's billion-year gaze: the artist has used pages from texts referencing the moon and night sky written over the last ten centuries. Haunting, beautiful.

A large-format, illustrated guide that includes 'scientific' depictions by Caspar David Friedrich, Constable et alia as well as photographs. Handsome.

Acute, sensitive novel about a writer's psychic collapse. (The US edition has a different title - Dartmouth Park, which is far more Jane Austen than the contents.)

Featuring Ali Smith, Daisy Lafarge, K Patrick, et al.

This posthumous publication is based on the revisionist work Stamp did at the end of his life, arguing that interwar Britain was not just an era of intensifying modernism but saw an emergence of diverse styles.

Freud is the primary focus here, but we also encounter Klimt, Schiele, Herzl, Empress Sisi and many others in this fine account of the new understanding of the mind that arose from Vienna at this period.

An elucidating account of the conditions that led to, and subsequently shaped the Iraq war. This book casts a light on both CIA intrigue in the Middle East and Hussein's own political motivations and paranoia.

From Milton to Benton End: the idea of gardens unpicked, now that this agile cultural commentator has one of her own. Discursive and hugely enjoyable.

A dizzying tale of social collapse, generational impasse and mid-life crisis; a Bonfire of the Vanities set in London. Brilliantly observed, lean, slick, clever and gripping.

This fascinating account of a forgotten moment in history is part family memoir, part the telling of a Texan offshoot of the early Zionist movement, when 10,000 Jews set sail for Galveston before WW1. Formally inventive, the author weaves together fragments of primary source material (letters, diaries, newspaper articles, interviews) to create a seamless, vivid see more

The post-war eclipse of the rural by the urban. Joyce interweaves his own Irish family history into wider story of European peasantry to create a rich and varied cultural account of what it meant to be part of these communities. Fascinating.

The glorious Pan-European Picnic of 19th August 1989.

When everyone walked: the network of footpaths and bridleways that connected rural communities and criss-crossed the land unchanged for centuries until the dominance of the internal combustion engine in the C20th. First published in 1970, reissued by Little Toller

Anyone who read Christopher de Hamel's last book, or Alexandra Lapierre's novel Belle Greene, will know that the letters from Pierpont Morgan's mixed-race librarian/buyer to Berenson will be spirited.

A re-issue of McCarthy's brilliant memoir - so painful and unjust that Anita Brookner held that Jane Eyre had got away lightly in comparison. First published in 1957.

A sharp social satire set during a production of Coward's Blithe Spirit by the Midhurst am-dram society: expect some delicious narcissism.

An early novella, and an excellent introduction into MB's work, in which a 22-year old returns to Dublin from Paris after the death of her mother.

Buzzati, a journalist for much of his life, was celebrated for turning the events of mid-century Italy and beyond into absurdist, even nightmarish stories, gathered together here into a new NYRB edition.

This caustic, witty novel is set among migrants and lost souls in East London as they try to navigate the latest government policies; translated from the Arabic.

Unabridged new translation of one of the great works of C20th Italian fiction, first published in1948, set among three generations of Sicilian women.

Narrated by Mozart in three periods of his life: as a child in London, as an angst-ridden youth in Paris, and as a man in sight of his own death in Leipzig. Charlatans and aristocrats abound as Mozart's star rises; the composer himself is much occupied with the question of the possible murder of J.S. see more

Rosa Luxemburg, Charlotte Salomon and Marilyn Monroe are Rose's first focus in this far-sighted and tightly-reasoned exploration of women's lives. Feminism at its most elegant and intelligent? A re-issue from Fitzcarraldo.

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.

A glorious, large-format facsimile of Mabel Ashburton's album of watercolours of her five-month journey to the Far East. Her skill as a watercolourist is very considerable and her eye fresh; her presentation of her paintings, pasted onto pages of the album which she has also decorated with vignettes and text, is delightful and often entertaining. see more

Fourteen tercets by David Harsent alongside by fifteen copperplate engravings by Veta Gorner. Signed by both.

Reflections by a poet and a painter on the River Dodder, which runs from the Wicklow Mountains down to Dublin. Signed by both.

Edward St Aubyn's superlative, semi-autobiographical novels about the life and times of Patrick Melrose. The first three were published by Heinemann and are particularly well designed, with cover paintings by Ana Corbero; the last two were published by Picador. All are signed, three are roughly dated, and two were signed (around publication) at John Sandoe's. see more