Carefully researched and sensitive to the influences of love and location, this is a fine account of the poet's life.

The author, who died in 2020 and left this book unfinished, knew Durrell well. Happily, the completed chapters cover the busiest portions of his friend's life: childhood in India, youthful misdemeanours in London; Paris, Corfu, Alexandria...

The entanglement of Shelley, Keats, Wordsworth et al in the racial politics of their age: a fascinating and original perspective in which feeling and scholarship are deftly balanced.

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!

Ypi is a Professor of Politics and Philosophy at the LSE. Those who read her superb memoir of growing up in Hoxha's Albania, Free: Coming of Age at the End of History, will be pining to know more about her grandmother - whose mysterious, layered story is told here.

In this second book of his espionage trilogy (a sequel to Gabriel's Moon), beloved Boyd deploys his reluctant spy in Guatemala and West Berlin, where he stumbles on a plot to assassinate JFK.

From one of Austen's biographers, here is an entertaining novel in which Jane and her family are on holiday in Sidmouth in 1801, where her naval brother is on leave and handsome strangers stroll along the boulevards.

The sisters we loved in Hideous Kinky are back - older now and kicking off in the punk London of the 1970s.

Gloriously gothick fantasy about Pier Francesco Orsini, the creator of the Italian 'garden of the monsters' with its vast stone mouths and leaning buildings. An historical novel to beat them all! Long out of print, a happy reissue from the NYRB.

Like the author, the protagonist is an Austrian-Jewish refugee who makes a life for herself in New York. A reissue.

A new collection.

Essays from five decades.

A thoughtful, articulate exploration of the ancient right of asylum and hospitality, of the modern idea of refuge that keeps others out, and of the stories we tell that can bridge these poles.

The author of acclaimed biographies of Holbein and Turner has had the inspired idea of looking at Angelika Kauffman and Elizabeth Vig?e Le Brun together: both big stars in their time, they met in Rome in 1789 after Le Brun fled from the French Revolution. Their overlapping lives illuminate one another and reveal a great see more

Catalogue of an exhibition at the Ashmolean, in which William's daughter - who was crucial to the work that went out under his name - is brought into the light.

Trance states, artefacts, images... And if this isn't enough for you, we still have copies here of Mongolian and Siberian Shamans: Costumes and Paraphernalia at the National Museum of Denmark.

A scrapbook, a net of ideas, a cabinet of fragments both literary and artistic. The book is a small, stocky, gorgeous work of art. "Wholeness is an impossibility"...

Fabulous, cinematic photos of the American west and its cowboys, seen through Nebraskan eyes wearing shades by Ansel Adams.

Ravishingly illustrated with ink wash and brush, this is a tale about a mythological creature that inhabits China's primeval forests and a mischievous wind. Together they encounter a lake, a cave, monkeys and white cranes... Atmospheric loveliness for ages 4-7.

More fantastical adventures in the second of Rundell's Impossible Creatures series. For ages 8-12.

First edition. Fine, but with a slightly faded spine and slight foxing on edges of page block.

First edition. As new.

Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

First edition, in fine condition with a very good dust jacket with minimal shelf wear. The jacket is very slightly foxed here and there on the inside. Contains several b&w photographs of Berners and his cohorts at Faringdon and elsewhere; also colour reproductions of some of his score covers by Larionov and Goncharova, as well see more

First edition. Fine condition; very good dust jacket, with minimal shelf wear.

First edition. As new.

First edition. As new.

First edition. Fine condition, apart from some foxing on top edge of page block. Dust jacket as new.

First edition, in fine condition with a very good jacket. Spine slightly sun-faded.

First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket.

The author's recollections of Denys Lasdun, Mariga Guinness, John Summerson, Henry Lamb and many others in Girouard's circle. First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket. Old John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

First edition. A fine copy, with a fine dust jacket.

First edition. A fine copy in a very good dust jacket - marred only by creases to the lower back of the jacket.

The writer's last book, a collection of snippets and opinions, written to his great-niece. First edition. As new, with a pristine dust jacket, the book appears unread. Herbert, who spent half a century in Tangier, was sometimes nicknamed 'The Queen of Tangier'.

First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new.

First edition. As new, with a fine dust jacket - only two tiny (almost imperceptible) scratches on front cover.

First edition, signed by the author. Fine book with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. Susanna and Nicky Johnston's joint obituary from The Times enclosed.

First edition, first printing in fine condition, in a good dust jacket which has some scuffs and tears: a three inch cut on the back face and two shorter tears on the front.

First edition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, with minimal foxing to top edge of page block. Old, blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

First edition in as new condition with fine dust jacket.

The Countess of Limerick served the Red Cross for 60 years, and was in charge of the London division during the Blitz. She continued as an important figure in the British Red Cross and in the International Red Cross and Red Crescent during the years following the Second World War. Her last role was Chairman see more

First edition. Fine copy in fine dust jacket, with slightly faded spine.

PM was known for his philanthropy, collecting and racehorses, supported by a vast banking fortune. Near fine condition in a near fine dust jacket: slight shelf wear at the rear lower edge of the dust jacket and at the head of the spine.

First edition, in fine condition with a fine dust jacket: almost as new. The scandal arising from the case between Sir Charles Mordaunt and his wife Harriett Moncrieffe, which involved an appearance in court by the Prince of Wales.

The last twenty-four years of Edith Olivier's life, sensitively presented and edited by her great-great niece. She was a close friend of Rex Whistler, Stephen Tennant et al. First edition. In very good condition, some foxing to top of page block and some slight scuffing at bottom of spine; with a near-fine dust jacket. Contains see more

First edition, first printing in good condition, with a very good dust jacket; the page block has a few small indentations and tears.

First edition. As new.

First edition. Fine condition, almost as new.

First edition in fine condition, with a near-fine dust jacket. The jacket has a tiny closed nick at the top of the spine and a rubbed rear corner.

Limited edition: one of 500 copies. Fine condition, almost as new with minimal shelf wear. A handsome biography from Tartarus of this relatively niche writer, now experiencing a modest but welcome revival.

First edition in very good condition with a very good dust jacket; some minor foxing to dust jacket and page block.

First edition of these entertaining diaries by a most determined (then young) woman. Fine condition, almost as new, if not for pages having yellowed a little with age.

First edition, first printing in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket; minor foxing and shelf wear.

First edition. Very good book with a very good dust jacket, with some foxing to page block and to dust jacket's topmost edges.

First edition. Near-fine copy in fine dust jacket. Top and bottom edges of page block somewhat shelfworn.

First edition. As new.

First edition. As new.

First edition. Fine condition, almost as new.

Fine copy in wraps. One of 650 copies published by the wonderful George Ramsden at Stone Trough.

First edition. Fine, with a fine dust jacket. Minimal shelf wear.

Limited edition - number 28 of 40 - signed by the author, quarter bound in calf, with marbled boards, from the wonderful George Ramsden of Stone Trough Books. There were an additional 500 copies bound on cloth. This is a mint copy.

First edition, second printing of Lancaster's scholarly and witty satire on English life, in very good condition with a good dust jacket. Price-clipped and only slightly discoloured, also a little worn along the top and bottom edges, as one would expect from a book of this age. Handsome yellow cloth boards with pink decoration and see more

The Akadine Press was a book club in the US, who published this handsome edition of Nancy Mitford's classic in blue cloth. In very good condition; no dust jacket, as issued.

Limited edition - Number 491 of 625 numbered copies - in very good condition with minor wear on the cover edges and some foxing to the endpapers. With eight wood engravings by John Nash. Translated by Christopher Marlowe, together with the Epigrams of Sir John Davies.

 A first edition, first printing of this slim volume of poetry in near fine condition with a very good dust jacket, signed by author on front endpaper. Price-clipped.

First edition. Numbered copy (44) out of 250. Fine book, almost as new, with a fine dust jacket. Slight scuffing at the head of the jacket spine.

A miscellany of life in the English countryside, with nearly 70 b&w photographs and a gorgeous jacket by Olivier's dear friend, Rex Whistler. First edition, second printing in very good condition considering its age. Blue cloth boards, light foxing on th

Handsome, large format, with generous illustrations. As new, with a pristine dustjacket. A bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

First edition. In near-fine condition, if not for small stain on side of page block; with a very good dust jacket, with some foxing inside and minimal shelf wear.

Fine copy in a fine dustjacket, with bookseller's label fixed to the lower inside cover (John Sandoe's).

Blowing hot and cold: an intense look at the relationship between Joan Didion and Eve Babitz, using previously unpublished letters and other sources to explore their closeness and their later estrangement.

A delightful little buttercup of a book-slash-magazine-slash anthology of fiction, poetry and reviews. This is the first issue. Founded and edited by Tristram Fane Saunders.

A shard of crockery found in the garden of a family home in the Netherlands sets off a series of quiet, intense revelations in this novel about memory, desire, belonging and the idea of home. A perfectly paced debut which has just won the Women's Prize for Fiction.

From the author of The Nightingale, a novel about novelists going on holiday together (never a good idea) to Sicily.

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.

The lease was Beaton's. First edition, with many monochrome photographs. As new. Blue John Sandoe bookseller label inside front cover.

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 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.

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.