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 Gar?ons 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 comprehensive book on the widely admired and influential ceramic sculptor, who died earlier this year at a great age. As well as being a fine artist, Baldwin was a perceptive, gifted teacher, remembered with love by many of his students. Many photos and gorgeous.

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.

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 Piñero, 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 Piñero, 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.

'Me', in case you're wondering, is a cartoonist from California. And yes, this really is a graphic biography of the sisters - and it's sparkling with wit and energy. Delicious.

Alan Breck's glorious entrance into Kidnapped must be the most dramatic appearance of any character in fiction. His creator's all-too-short life was comparably romantic and adventurous. What a darling!

By pegging her narrative to White's diary entries of 1781, when White was 60 and still seven years short of publishing The Natural History of Selborne, the miraculously sensitive Uglow releases herself and us from mere chronology to wander at will through White's life, habits, observations. Monday September 10th: 'Red-breasts feed on elder-berries, enter rooms see more

A lively, slim account of the moral upheavals that rocked the Biedermeier sensibilities of Kant's birthplace (later the Russian enclave of Kaliningrad).

Dimbleby went to Palestine as a reporter in the 1970s with his colleague Don McCullin. Triggered by Golda Meir's statement that Palestinians 'do not exist,' they sought to show that they did, and would continue to. They met lawyers, doctors, students, labourers, politicians, craftsmen, soldiers, diplomats... This is a new edition, fifty years on.

Kabul's Inter-Continental was opened in 1969 and Doucet (the BBC's Chief International Correspondent) has been staying there regularly since 1988. This is a brilliant history of Afghanistan through the lives of those who have worked at the hotel for over 50 years - housekeepers, chefs etc.

With an apt nod to Vasily Grossman in its subtitle, this offbeat memoir doubles as a treatise on the dangers of totalitarianism. From the annexation of Crimea in 2014, when Alyokhina was released from two years in a penal colony for her part in the Pussy Riot collective, to the war with Ukraine, she tells see more

Hitherto buried data and lost documents contribute to this tale of political and economic hubris. The circularity of history is sadly manifest.

Switching from macro to micro, Stewart has assembled his articles published in his Cumbrian constituency's local paper. The tensions in a bucolic rural landscape...

We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 18th again, and again, and again, and again.

A woman moves from the city to the countryside after splitting up from a man she still loves but no longer desires. Alone, she sifts through her memories of their parting: spilled coffee, unwanted flowers and (no surpises here) a very big kiss... From the author of Pond.

A sprawling, magnificent love story in which the protagonists have to navigate their families, nations and pervasive cultural complexities. This is Desai's first novel since The Inheritance of Loss, for which she won the Booker Prize in 2006.

Written in the present continuous, this is a dreamlike novel set in the Venice of Pasolini and Fellini.

Set in 2119 after the UK is mostly submerged by rising seas, McEwan's latest combines a Ballardian dystopia with a deft mystery - a case of a disappearing poem rather than a body in the library.

An illustrated edition of this celebrated novella. By turns quotidian, esoteric and fantastical - as you might expect from the irresistible title.

It is 1899 and a hack English writer is off for a belated honeymoon with his American heiress... The great Banville follows du Maurier, Mann and Highsmith to Venice for the setting of his eerie tale.

Charms against afflictions ancient and modern to give us courage to keep on with the business of living - by a wonderful author.

Following her biographies of Kierkegaard and George Eliot, this is a series of six philosophical meditations on what it means to write about a person's life, whether the singularity of a life (our own included) can be understood through literature or be seen 'under the aspect of eternity'. Carlisle writes with confidence and curiosity about, see more

In this paean to the joys of reading, Douglas-Fairhurst recounts his life with books, sharing techniques to slow down, take note, and gain more from the experience. The Oxford don pairs rigour with wonder.

The poet, translator and editor of Nemo's Almanac is astonishingly well-read; if books do furnish a room, this man's memory palace will be vast and labyrinthine... With a book habit that began in his childhood, he writes of his queasiness when emptying his shelves at Queen's College, Cambridge, and the incompleteness of living with his see more

Very present, tense cultural criticism: a discursive set of essays on what has recently captured the writer's attention - from Tár to Celia Paul, and the shifting political terrain on either side of the Atlantic.

Andersson is a contemporary Swedish painter who uses loose washes and strong graphic lines to beautiful and mysterious effect. There's a stillness to her landscapes and interiors that echo Hammershøi, Doig, Carrington and Munch.

A far-ranging meditation on snow, touching on physics, chemistry, meteorology, anthropology, geography, poetry and art. By a distinguished Swedish academic.

Religious beauties from the Eastern Orthodox church from the mid C17th to the early C20th: with scholarly notes.

A brilliant primer for the intersection between function and form in C18th British/Irish style. Scholarly and well illustrated.

A fine study, bringing together architectural, urban and social history.

Over a dozen houses including Farmleigh, Luggala, Kenwood, Biddesden...

Great British tastemakers, beginning with Morris and Bloomsbury and including the Spitalfields Trust; houses and gardens that express Guilding's penchant for patina, artistry and making-do. By the editor of the eponymous magazine.

With extensive interviews and new material from the Anderson archives, this will accompany his upcoming retrospective. His signature style has never been compromised by his vast success.

The new memoir from this magnificent story-teller and musician is perhaps her most personal yet.

Another knock-out book from Denham and Montgomery, after the success of the equally good-looking The Irish Bakery.

50 recipes from the doyenne of the River Café, in cahoots with the American artist.

An immense, learned and witty sweep of literature by the editorial director of New York Review Books and the founder of the NYRB Classics series. Frank is terrific company through the century's changing literary moods; it's a telling sign that you end his book not only wanting to read (/re-read) almost all of the twentyish see more

“I see gardens as works of art made of living entities that change with the seasons and the passing of time”: Marianne Majerus is a leading contemporary photographer of gardens who has worked all over the world and whose work is held in many public and private collections. For this new, elegantly produced publication, the see more

A careful, detailed account of the trial of the surviving perpetrators of the 2015 Paris attacks, which left 130 dead and hundreds wounded.

A murder enquiry kicks off at a think-tank conference in the Cotswolds during a Prime Minister's 7-week tenure... Coe is always entertaining and sharp.

Favourite and lover of James I and beloved friend of his son; husband, father, art collector, tireless statesman... The cost of his pearl-spilling outfit when he went to meet Henrietta Maria would have paid the mercenary army for four months. He was hated so fiercely by the time of his stabbing in a Plymouth inn see more

We have been fervent advocates of the first two in this series at Sandoe's and we have high expectations for the third - in which Tara meets a man who, like her, has been reliving November 18th again, and again, and again, and again.

A woman moves from the city to the countryside after splitting up from a man she still loves but no longer desires. Alone, she sifts through her memories of their parting: spilled coffee, unwanted flowers and (no surpises here) a very big kiss... From the author of Pond.

Scabrous comedy about bookselling - by an English poet and bookseller in Los Angeles.

A new selection of Tillman's bold, anarchic fictions. Frank, unusual and full of delight.

With an introduction by Yiyun Li, this selection brings together Montaigne's profound and inquisitive essays on life, death, and how to live... Also cannibals.

Essays on art and artists (Michelangelo, Durer, Piranesi...) from the great author of Memoirs of Hadrian. Part of Zwirner's chic little Ekphrasis series.

A second delightful book of short recipes from the novelist. Its predecessor, French Cooking for One, already set the bar high for simple, delicious things... From a tiny and very independent press.

A satirical and entertaining tale of a mother and son who bicker their way around Switzerland, fuelled by vodka and a grim determination to squander a fortune made from the arms trade.

Presented as the memoirs of a half-British, half-Burmese actor, beginning with his scholarship to an English private school in the 1960s. A sequence of delicately observed vignettes reveal his career, his first relationships and small, untypical family. This is a beautifully proportioned novel about a life remembered.

The wit of Frank O'Hara meets the poignancy of Marcel Proust in this succinct memoir of the 1970s' New York literary scene.

By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature, social theory, environmental journalism and her own astute observations into a stirring web that tests the realities of the American dream. (Not to see more

Observations of small things from Slater's notebooks over the years. Zen and the art of ... watching a butterfly ... eating a mango ... smelling moss ... or macaroni cheese ... Slater is a delight!