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.

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.

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.

A microscopic book - no larger than of a packet of cigarettes. Collects her essays on mass media, popular culture and art into 200 or so tiny pages. Pieces on Francis Bacon, Annie Ernaux, Kim Kardashian and other luminaries. Good stocking filler, if it's not too ridiculously early to say so.

A dark, funny reimagining of Shakespeare's Henriad. Hal is twenty-two, often drunk, drifting between parties, mass and his difficult family, until a shooting accident throws him into the path of an old friend. Shades of Edward St Aubyn, or a kind of evil gay Martin Amis... you have been warned!

Much anticipated biography of this controversial artist, by the author of outstanding biographies of Munch, Strindberg and Nietzsche,

The first print issue of the immensely popular online food magazine. Contributors include Julia Armfield, Jonathan Meades, Eliza Clark, Rebecca May Johnson, Nigel Slater and many others.

Powerful debut novel set in a coastal Irish town, where women must navigate their emotional lives among hard, manipulative men. Fine characterisation and atmosphere.

A selection of his cheerful and unpretentious art criticism.

A memoir of her multifarious travels, rich with culinary ideas - Russian railway pies, Sultanahmet in the snow, Polish cloudberries... Eden's latest book is imbued with her knowledge and love of these places, visited many times in her work as a journalist.

Argues that the greatest threat to democracy is interlinked networks - primarily, state-controlled companies - rather than individuals.

Set on the C?te d'Azur in the 1930s, this novel by the great publisher has never been published before.

From the 50s to the 70s, Tom Wilson produced a dazzling line-up of folk, rock and jazz artists: Sun Ra, Bob Dylan, Nico, John Coltrane, . This is the first book about him. It features essays, interviews and photographs. The publishers, ?ditions 1989, are a tiny Parisian publishing house who specialise in biograpical writing by see more

The irrepressible Ali Smith takes us to a dystopia in which two children come home to find a line of wet red paint encircling the outside of their house...

Two brothers - a chess prodigy and a Dublin lawyer - struggle to connect in the wake of their father's death.

It is nearly thirty years since Aciman's superb memoir of his Alexandrian childhood, Out of Egypt. Since Call Me By Your Name, he has mutated from an academic scholar of Proust into a bestselling novelist. Now he has returned to a teenage year in Rome in the 1960s, between Egypt and America.

Based on her diaries as a teenager, when she was painted several times by her father.

A new novel from the author of the 'Outline' trilogy and other wonders.

A love hotel on Japan's Inland Sea, H.G. Wells, Rebecca West, 1930s' physics: a mesmerising memoir of his parents by the author of The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

A gardener's control is illusory, thanks to a myriad other organisms that have their own ideas about how things should be run. Here are Mabey's enchanting and erudite observations on the horticultural argument - or conversation - that's been taking place in his own Norfolk garden.

One of the great commentators on C18th French history (The Great Cat Massacre and others) returns to the fray.

A lesbian couple - one of whom is an egotistical, bullying narcissist - decide to have children. The novel turns on what happens when the decent one finally determines to leave, taking at least one of the teenage children with her. Horrible of course, but brilliant and absolutely gripping.

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.

First full collection from a vital poetic voice - lyrical, abstract, urgent. Beautifully produced by The Last Books.

Vol 10 in the exquisite Typographic Landscapes series. Concertina book combining text and printmaking to evoke an experience of place (limited run of 15).

Exquisitely produced slim letterpress volume combining typography and woodcut to depict linden trees (limited run of 20).

Vol 8 in the exquisite Typographic Landscapes series. Concertina book combining text and printmaking to evoke an experience of place (limited run of 15).

A survey of surviving buildings of post-war British architecture, the manifestation of the then ambitious and hopeful welfare state. A magnificent example of passionate, high-quality self-publishing and an ode to the gritty and optimistic Brutalist canon, it covers housing, schools, theatres, bridges, stations, administrative buildings, universities, churches, shopping malls... Superb photography and excellent essays. Features see more

Part of the Frick Diptych series, in which a work from their collection receives a pair of critical responses: an essay from a Frick curator and a contribution from a contemporary artist or writer. This is on one of Goya's later works. Smartly produced, with many high-quality reproductions.

This delicious book derives from an album of watercolours and sketches made by the wife of the British Consul after the First Opium War, when the Treaty Ports were opened. Full of reproductions, with excellent annotations and commentary by Andrew Hillier, it gives a wonderful insight into the world of the Europeans in China – see more

JA has been at the helm of Loewe for a decade. This book - an immense thing of beauty, presented in a custom-made box, fastened with copper clasps in Loewe's signature interlapping design - celebrates those years.

The special, limited edition is contained in a cloth slip case, and comes with two limited edition prints. Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrificial ram is covered in holi handprints, and prayer flags are swept up in the wind. Others capture quotidian moments — a man feeds see more

Some of these masterful photos look directly at devotion: a woman dances, a sacrificial ram is covered in holi handprints, and prayer flags are swept up in the wind. Others capture quotidian moments - a man feeds pigeons, a cockerel crows -- and transcendental possibilities abound. Bound in burnt orange cloth.

7/20 of a limited edition of twenty, in a black cloth slip-case. Beautifully bound with bold cover artwork in sumptuous colours. Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Pi?ero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has so far see more

Much of the Llanos, the tropical plain situated east of the Andes in Venezuela, has been devastated to create grazing areas for cattle. Hato Pi?ero, a nature reserve of 80,00 hectares, has so far resisted this fate. Its rich forested areas and wetlands are untouched, and its remaining wildlife corridors retain their extraordinary eco-diversity. Cowcher see more

A book of black and white photographs of the steep, rugged moorland on a 6,000-acre estate in the Scottish Highlands - Kinloch Hourn - and of the careful management of its herd of red deer. The stalking, gralloching and use of ponies, done by a very small and experienced team, is done in traditional ways. see more

Robin Bynoe began collecting Carel Weight's art in 1982, which precipitated a great friendship that was to span the next fifteen years. Acclaimed for his portraits, and his sometimes sinister, often humorous depictions of modern life, this book gives depth to the way Weight is often bracketed off as an English eccentric narrative painter. Bynoe see more

This monograph looks in detail at six recent projects of the renowned interior designer with extensive colour photography, accompanied by the designer's own intricate drawings, and generous explanations of process.

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'.