It is almost impossible to remember that the characters aren’t four real women. Powerful, evocative and continually surprising in all its insights, Dream Count is a vivid exploration of how lives go on and off course. The first novel in ten years from the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun and others.

A nimble novel in which a postgrad working on Virginia Woolf finds her life and work turning into a sort of Möbius strip. Funny, sharp, engagingly odd.

The Hohenzollerns’ distaste for the Weimar Republic (which ousted them) led to close personal alliances with the Nazis, which in turn encouraged many of their supporters to do likewise.

This is the blistering account of what it was like to work for Mark Zuckerberg, by a former employee. Funnily enough, the self-styled champion of free speech tried to ban it.

A substantial and excellent biography, by the editor of his letters and diaries.

Thoughts on different kinds of love in contemporary society: why are we so fixated on it and why do so many feel it to be out of reach? Drawing on personal experience, cultural touchstones, social theory and more, Faye interrogates the possibilities and the shortcomings of the crazy little thing called love.

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.

The biographer of Clarice Lispector and Susan Sontag has spent years following the tracks of Dutch artists, exploring their work, their milieux and their subjects. This is a highly personal account, blended with memoir.

An entertaining whodunnit set in Florence in 1557, with Vasari leading an investigation that involves Pontormo's (vanished) frescoes. Playful and clever, as you would expect from the author of HHhH and 7th Function of Language.

Rosenberg's family emigrated from Sweden to Israel in 1962. This is his memoir of that time, and his subsequent grappling with the hopes, doubts, mythologies, deceptions and erasures that he encountered.

This uproarious, clever classic (originally published 1958) of a young American woman's sojourn in France, her love affairs on the fringes of Bohemia and the film industry, is largely based on Dundy's own experiences.

A nail-biter set during the Nazi Occupation of Rome in 1944, as activists smuggle refugees and Allied soldiers to safety behind the backs of the Gestapo.

The publisher's blurb informs us that EW is 'at the apex of the gay canon'. What could they mean?

Draws on four of his relationships and their associated locations - Greenwich Village, Paris, the 'Transatlantic Years' and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Humdinging.

In this brave memoir, Bhutto considers the reverberating loss of her father (assassinated in her teens). She has a consoling familiar - a Jack Russell - at her side.

An account of Louis's mother's escape from an abusive partner, having found herself in the same situation that she'd been in with Louis's father some years earlier. By the acclaimed author of The End of Eddy, Who Killed My Father and others.

Picasso, Paul and Nusch Eluard, Man Ray, Roland Penrose, Ady Fidelin, Eileen Agar, Dora Maar and Lee Miller in the late '30s, navigating art and friendship against a grim political backdrop.

After outstanding books on France and Italy during WW2, and biographies of Iris Origo, Martha Gellhorn and others, Moorehead has turned to the Italian novelist, playwright and politician whose Day of the Owl was the first ever novel about the Mafia.

What was it like to live through the war in Berlin? Buruma has a particularly vivid angle on this because his father was a (Dutch) prisoner conscripted into forced labour.

Following The Last Days of the Ottoman Empire, Gingeras has turned his attention to the shadowy history of the relations between gangsters, corporations and political leaders.

The Hotel Lutetia mutated from an institution for artists and writers in the 1930s to the HQ of Nazi military intelligence. In 1945 it became a reception centre for deportees returning from the camps.

By looking at the daily lives of its citizens, Smith shows how progressive the USSR was felt to be by many, and further argues that for us now to understand the USSR, one must understand how it understood itself.

The veteran journalist explores the 'rhetorical emergency' that is Trump and the cycles of intolerance, fear, war and tariffs that he seems to have made his own, yet very much predate him.

As in Moneyland and Butler To The World, Bullough exposes eye-watering networks of criminal grift.

Drawing on forty years reporting from the environmental front-line, Pearce offers us enlightening, hopeful stories from across the planet, and suggests further action. A salve for those in despair.

This metafictional sally is narrated by an aging writer (called Julian) who has acted as matchmaker for a couple twice, in their youth and again in their old age. Love, mortality, loss and the writer's preoccupations unfurl in a conversational adieu - in the course of this work of auto-fiction, 'Julian' says this will be see more

The old order gives way to the new in this Hungarian Gormenghast: an epic tale based on the experiences of the young author's family. Translated from the German.

Hilarious, energetic debut from the freshest and newest wit of contemporary American fiction, about a suburban family in splendid disarray. Light but pleasingly literary.

McGuire is back in the icy north, the familiar terrain of his superb North Water, but this time the quarry is gold. Wrap up well for this C18th expedition into cold, darkness, violence and retribution.

At last - a novel from the author of the Pulitzer-winning collection In Other Rooms, Other Wonders (2009): a portrait of contemporary Pakistan, at once cinematic and intimate.

Historical fiction filtered through a contemporary lens: Perry's lyrical debut layers courtly intrigue, archival sleuthing and blurry parallel lives.

A psychopomp and a cast of past associates crowd the death bed of an oil baron for a final reckoning. Saunder's latest novel is an imaginative, philosophical and funny tour-de-force.

Planes of reality and the supernatural entwine in this ingenious historical fantasy set in the London Blitz, featuring time-travelling fascists, angels and a winning love story. Spufford is much-adored already for Golden Hill, Cahokia Jazz and others.

A young painter drifts through a New York summer, searching for love and purpose. By the author of Real Life and The Late Americans.

New short stories by this endlessly attentive and thoughtful author.

A collection from the great editor and activist, who is the 'Busby' part of the publisher Allison & Busby.

Originally delivered as the 1993 Reith lectures, these essays argue that it is the job of intellectuals to speak truth to power.

Sleek, engaging, rigorous and intriguingly Freudian writing on the ambivalence at the heart of our impulse to 'enjoy' life. From the much-loved author of such masterworks as On Kissing, On Tickling and On Being Bored.

From brain labs to Buddhism, Pollan the boffin has turned his braininess upon itself, to a study of our understandings of consciousness. Wise, lucid and surprisingly therapeutic.

A selection of Avery's paintings and watercolours, with recent work by a few contemporary artists he has influenced. Accompanies a show at MICAS in Malta.

Surprisingly, this is the first biography of this great sculptor.

Owens is an articulate, sensitive guide through the seasons: her previous book, Spirit of Place: Artists, Writers and the British Landscape, was excellent.

The first proper retrospective of GJ will move from Cardiff to Scotland, then to Washington and Yale. This is a lovely, well-illustrated catalogue.

Six volumes, 1200 illustrations, the product of 27 years of research.

Nine photographers to be exact, all of them Japanese. The buildings are stunning and the images too. A large format showstopper.

Those who recall vol. 1, privately published in 2018, will not be surprised to hear that the Belgian design team Demeyer & Co have produced another stupendous album. Printed on thick, rounded boards, each page has one unbelievably high-resolution image of Demeyer's gorgeous work: the exuberance of their interiors and textiles is legendary. An see more

Catalogue of the largest exhibition to date in India of the superb 'Company' paintings - by Indian artists for European patrons, spanning botanical, architectural, horticultural and many other subjects. The exhibition was at DAG, New Delhi and has not been distributed in the UK. It is quite different from the Wallace Collection exhibition in 2019 see more

The tenth anniversary issue of the Apartamento Cookbook series is a celebration of aphrodisiac foods: oysters and mussels, yes, but also 'Butter Me Up Cake', 'Venus Rice', saffron torrijas and a dozen other saucy recipes to get the juices flowing...

‘PEOPLE OF THE WORLD… RELAX!’ For the first time ever, the two issues of C Comics (1964 – 1966) – offshoot of the legendary 1960s New York School magazine, C Poetry – are available in one sumptuous volume. A glorious mix of irreverent kitsch and highfalutin social satire, C Comics is the brainchild of Joe see more

Six volumes, 1200 illustrations, the product of 27 years of research.

A gorgeously produced book - thick, textured paper, gatefolds, an exposed swiss binding - of black-and-white landscape photographs of stony, arid deserts. Sand dunes, rocky wastes, gritty expanses, haunted by strange wind-eroded outcrops... Wingfield captures this gnarled territory, immaculate and sometimes barely distinguishable, in crisp monochrome and raking light. Privately published, this edition is see more

This book on the Kenyan-born British studio potter originally accompanied a show at The Hepworth Wakefield in 2019. It shows 44 of Odundo's beautiful, highly finished pieces alongside other vessels, ancient and contemporary, from Africa and ancient Greece, and by Hepworth, Moore, Gaudier-Brzeska, Lucie Rie et al. Her influences are multiple and include traditional ceremonial see more

A delightful, titchy facsimile of one of three little books by the artist. Two are more-or-less (but not absolutely) for children, while The Book of Blokes consists of a series of very quick sketches - artistic sleights of hand - of your man in the street. All three are charming and funny.

A delightful, titchy facsimile of one of three little books by the artist. Two are more-or-less (but not absolutely) for children, while The Book of Blokes consists of a series of very quick sketches - artistic sleights of hand - of your man in the street. All three are charming and funny.

A delightful, titchy facsimile of one of three little books by the artist. Two are more-or-less (but not absolutely) for children, while The Book of Blokes consists of a series of very quick sketches - artistic sleights of hand - of your man in the street. All three are charming and funny.

Two volumes of self-portraits by a rollcall of great artists: the list is astonishing, as are the works themselves. Beautifully and thoughtfully produced, like all volumes on the Ömer Koç collections. Vol 1: A-J: includes works by Milton Avery, Louise Bourgeois, Jean Cocteau, John Craxton, Otto Dix, Raoul Dufy, David Hockney... Vol 2: K-Z: includes see more

A truly magnificent and scholarly publication on the paintings of the Ottoman Empire collected over the last three decades by Ömer Koç. Two large hardback volumes in a slipcase, beautifully produced and richly illustrated: Vol 1: British, Maltese and Levantine Artists in the Ömer Koç Collection by Bryony Llewellyn Vol 2: European Artists in the see more

This beautifully produced folio catalogue of a small part of Ömer Koç's library  focusses on fictional prose and poetry, written mainly by Europeans, in which Constantinople/Istanbul is the locus. With a scholarly text and richly illustrated, the catalogue ranges from  Bertrand de la Borderie's C16th poem describing his journey from Marseille to Constantinoble (sic) to see more

A second edition of this gloriously absurd book. The first edition, now out of print, recreated the original 1922 Shakespeare and Co. edition in appearance (the particular blue of the cover was painstakingly recreated) and volume; it was a large, bulky thing. Much of that bulk was made up of empty pages, except for two see more

Japanese floordrobes from the 1990s: a disconcerting look inside the lives of Tokyo's most obsessed fashion collectors. In each, a 'disciple' is photographed at home, possessions spread around them: includes a Buddhist monk with a Comme des Garçons habit.

Crane's illustrations will be familiar to many from childhood: sweet, pre-Raphaelite scenes, hand-drawn lettering with an Arts & Crafts flair for design. These two volumes catalogue almost 450 of the titles for which he produced artwork (over half of which have only been recently unearthed by the author).

A very handsome book which illustrates in gorgeous detail the couturier's passion for design outside the workshop. Part architectural history, part Who's Who of the 1930s' Côte d'Azur.

A magnificent hommage to Franco Maria Ricci, the Italian publisher who in 1981 created the world's most beautiful art magazine, which Fellini called 'the black pearl'. This gorgeous book, bound in black cloth, reproduces a selection of articles and photographs from the magazine. Outstanding.

A very joyful addition to shelves already groaning with Goreyomania, especially when true fantods are so hard to come by: a mighty book illustrated with hundreds of works and archival material, celebrating this wild and wonderful imagination on its 100th birthday. Huzzah!

A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It's as if we're looking over the acclaimed novelist's shoulder as she looks intently at a sequence of images, guided by her dead mother's voice showing and questioning, Virgil to her Dante. Ideas wreath like smoke. Beautifully published by the see more

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.