Considers the German scientist who, as a boy, accompanied his tricky father on Cook's second voyage and later took up the cause of Revolution in France. As ever, Wulf is interested in her subject's enthusiasm for knowledge and connections.

A memoir by the amazing bibliophile who cheerfully claims to have handled more old manuscripts than anyone else in human history. Dazzling, like his Posthumous Papers of the Manuscripts Club.

Herself a writer of great distinction, SH was also married to Paul Auster, who died in 2024. This is a memoir of their 43 years together.

A first biography of the cavalry officer, journalist, historian and travel writer, who got the news to London about the ascent of Everest in time for QEII's coronation and blazed a trail for others when she published Conundrum in 1974, an account of her gender reassignment surgery.

Born in Romania, the Nobel laureate (The Land of Green Plums and others) emigrated to Germany in her twenties. An outspoken memoir about literature, fear and the strange boredom of dictatorial bureaucracy.

Catherine Ostler’s new book The Renoir Girls: A Hidden History of Art, War & Betrayal takes off from the author’s discovery that the promise embodied in Renoir’s celebrated portrait of the two delightful, pampered-looking girls was horribly derailed. One of the girls was murdered in Auschwitz, by then an elderly lady. The world is that see more

Focussing on the town itself during the years 1919-1939 rather than the epnymous republic, this book is therefore very different but complementary to Sebestyen's book (see below).

This powerful, well researched group biography (including Erika Mann, Laura Knight and Rebecca West) is a reminder of why international law matters. Excellent.

By exploring the stories of six individuals, the authors trace Iran's history from the 1979 revolution to the Woman Life Freedom protests.

The harrowing story of a teenage boy who jumped to his death from a Thameside balcony after posing as the son of a Russian oligarch and falling in with some very seamy, unsavoury characters interested in his non-existent money. By the author of Say Nothing and Empire of Pain.

... in which we are introduced to the strangers at the gate. What an amazing mind-trip this is!

A tragi-comic balancing act, perfectly executed, in which a consultant juggles work, his girlfriend, her two boys and his recalcitrant, secretive grandmother.

Deeply affecting and uneasy-making, the protagonist moves freely between the C19th and the present, finding a parallel between her own struggles and those of women locked in a Victorian asylum. Another category-defying work by the author of The Ghost in the Throat.

A novelist very like the author himself goes to interview an aging intellectual. A layered, associative short novel that explores the authentic in a digitally slippery world.

A novel about the American writer and an unnamed narrator investigating her life - and her own.

McInerney began his sequence about Russell and Corinne Calloway with Brightness Falls in 1992. This is the fourth installment, which finds them navigating the pandemic in Manhattan.

A brilliant, unconventional novel about Albert Speer, the architect who so beguiled Hitler that he became his Minister for Armaments. In prison after Nuremberg, his apparent decency drew the historian Gitta Sereny to him, albeit uncomfortably.

From the prolific and consistently excellent author of Hamnet, a novel about a father and son who discover unsettling things while working for the Ordnance Survey project in the west of Ireland in 1865.

A woman encounters a man briefly her stepfather - to their mutual delight.

A kind man, of regular and amiable habits, finds himself inexplicably at odds with his life. Strout's understatement is a wonderful tool.

A young art student's return to the island of Harris and his crofting parents is the framework for a masterclass in repressed emotion and the weight of expectation. By the author of Shuggie Bain and Young Mungo.

Jealousy, tenderness, beauty and catastrophe play out in a mountain village in the Apennines. Startling, intense and finely balanced.

A selection of Le Guin's essays, written in old age.

A hefty, illustrated volume which includes essays by Jeanette Winterson, Merlin Sheldrake, Daisy Hildyard and others.

3 vols in a slipcase showing gorgeous treasures from a single collection.

A single volume paperback from the editor of the 4-vol 'Complete Works'.

A superb account of mongibello, the 'mountain of mountains', with its slopes covered in prickly pears and pistachios, citrus groves and vineyards, a mosaic amongst the lava fields. By the author of The Land Where Lemons Grow and Lev's Violin.

A love letter to the glens, woods and hills of the north, and a lament for what is being lost to modernity in the dash for clean energy.

The author is a botanical painter of great distinction, with a sharp wit and that rare thing - an original mind. Her memoir of her life as a painter also talks about her childhood and family, including her grandfather Augustus John and her great-aunt Gwen. Illustrated with her exceptional watercolours (twigs, lichens, grasses, wildflowers), this see more

Few books deeply alter the way we view the world but Simard's Finding the Mother Tree certainly did so. In this second book, published in March this year, the Canadian scientist recounts her ongoing research on forest ecology - with profound lessons on environmental degradation and methods of restoration. Once again, her narrative is both see more

The eminent psychologist presents his views on coping with aging and the transience of life, drawing on the Stoics, Existentialists, Jung and C21st neuroscience. Wise indeed - and positive.

A young actress meets a slightly older dramaturg in Kehoe's pub in Dublin city in the dying years of the Celtic Tiger. In the ensuing two decades, their lives intertwine - artistically, romantically, tragically - against the backdrop of a country and culture industry in crisis and redefinition. This is an engrossing novel which uses see more

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Signed by David Hockney and by Stephen Spender on the half-title page. First and only printing. Chinese yellow cloth, in grey cloth slipcase; in fine condition – a superb example. Contains 27 lithographs by David Hockney printed in colour (A-Z and ampersand) with 28 literary contributors. Mrs Littman is see more

From an exhibition at the Palace of Versailles from 5 May to 27 September 2026

The special edition comes in a slipcase with a print enclosed, roughly the same size as the cover, wrapped in tissue paper. The photographs in the book are from the archive of Tatia Franchetti Twombly, granddaughter of Cy. Over 100 duotone plates spaning from 1948 into the 2000s. Published by Reference Point's imprint, Reference Press.

Photographs from the archive of Tatia Franchetti Twombly, granddaughter of Cy. Over 100 duotone plates spaning from 1948 into the 2000s. Published by Reference Point's imprint, Reference Press.

A privately published reissue of a long-out-of-print Second World War memoir. The Earl of Rocksavage was a cavalry officer and recalls here war horses in Palestine, armoured cars in the Western Desert and on to Tunisia, Sicily, Italy and North-West Europe.

A first edition, fourth printing, signed by O'Brien in March 2022. The book is in very good condition with the usual aging one would expect from a book 50+ years old: foxing to the page edges and slight discolouration to the top of the spine; a library stamp on the title verso. The dust jacket see more

A fine copy of this selection of Scarfe's work, published as a special limited edition of 250, with a four-colour lithograph of Margaret Thatcher as a raddled Britannia. The book is signed on the copyright page by Scarfe and numbered '218'. Printed at the Curwen Studios. Red cloth boards with the author's signature gilt-stamped on see more

From the exhibition at Kettle's Yard with works by Winifred Nicholson, Vanessa Bell, Euan Uglow, Lubaina Himid, Chris Ofili, Henri Rousseau et al.

A smart, mustardy clothbound catalogue from the exhibition at John Swarbrooke in October 2025.

3 vols in a slipcase showing gorgeous treasures from a single collection.

A careful new edition of a truly remarkable work, using the original prints with new commentaries. A doctor from Wurzburg, Von Siebold lived on Dejima, the Dutch trading island off Nagasaki, for two decades before Japan opened up to the West.

The author is a botanical painter of great distinction, with a sharp wit and that rare thing - an original mind. Her memoir of her life as a painter also talks about her childhood and family, including her grandfather Augustus John and her great-aunt Gwen. Illustrated with her exceptional watercolours (twigs, lichens, grasses, wildflowers), this see more

This history of the ravishing Central Asian hand-stitched panels is based on a single collection. Many illustrations. (This has been much delayed; first expected in 2022.)

The story of farmer Jan Hoogen-Stoogen, his daughter Sarah, their discovery of a very special tulip -- and the devious machinations of insatiable Fattmann von Biggestbanken... Fabulous, idiosyncratic illustrations that have echoes of Ronald Searle, Gerald Scarfe and Quentin Blake. For children and adults aged 6 and over...

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her seminal collection of essays. First edition, first printing, published in New York. Book in fine condition, cream boards with stamped floral design, quarter-bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering, and Chinese yellow endpapers; the binding is straight and strong. The dust jacket is good+ with slight creasing to see more

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her second novel, about an unnerved woman living in the Hollywood hills. First edition, first printing, published in New York in 1970. Book in fine condition with red cloth boards with stamped floral roundel enclosing ‘JD’ and black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Minute bumping to top and bottom see more

A fine two volume set, the fourth printing of this rather jazzy Atlantic-Little Brown edition. Each book is protected in a cellophane dust jacket wrapper; the page blocks are in exquisite condition. A gorgeous set.

A chic clothbound, hardback edition of Exteriors. Ernaux's text is punctuated with a series of black-and-white photographs from the collection at the Maison Européenne de la Photographie. Edited by the brilliant Lou Stoppard.

A neat little primer on the key artists of Jim and Helen Ede's collection.

The latest instalment in this multi-volume zine epic surveying the commons of South London. John began in Woolwich and has been venturing clockwise, slowly. He has a good eye and writes rather brilliantly. This is the 4th vol.

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

The autodidact chronicler of culture has written an exhilarating memoir of his youth, the unstable fortunes of his family, and the diverse artistic tribes of NY before the catastrophe that was AIDS.

A funny, raucous debut novel set in the Ukraine, involving a woman trying to breed snails and 'romance tours' of hopeful bachelors from the west looking for 'untainted' brides as the country lurches into war.

Past, present, exile, belonging, pain and love: a captivating and tender novel.

Much of this is previously uncollected and unpublished.

A troubled and clever young man is about to throw his life away; the deus ex machina that keeps him alive is an unexpected friendship with an old woman. The poet's second novel.

Competing artistic ambitions and secrecy in 1920s' Provence: a slow-burn debut.

The Balkans to the Amazon, Abruzzo to Ibiza, this selection of Lewis's writing is electrifying. Lewis' eye for the humorous and absurd, the tragic and unjust is, as ever, an incomparable delight to discover (or re-discover!). A rare hardback from Eland.

Bored Stiff has been put together in 2026 by Terry Macalister (who first created the fanzine of that name half a century ago) with the help of graphic designer Martin Hand. Terry, who went on to become a distinguished author and award-winning journalist with The Guardian, has brought together 30 pages of exclusive new interviews see more

From the exhibition at Kettle's Yard with works by Winifred Nicholson, Vanessa Bell, Euan Uglow, Lubaina Himid, Chris Ofili, Henri Rousseau et al.

Translated from the Swedish (by the author), this is a huge novel of sibling rivalry and the push-me-pull-you of inhabiting two cultures, spanning thirty years and three continents.

A Syrian writer, Yazbek has gathered testimonies from encounters with witnesses to events in Gaza since October 2023.

Dyer was born in Cheltenham in the late fifties. Mother was a dinner lady, father was a planning engineer. His reflections on growing up in England during the '50s are characteristically thoughtful and surprising.

Looks at the dynamics of corrosive secrets that women have been obliged to keep, how they fit into a broader social context and how exposing them has been a release for many. Her own family is the starting point for her investigation; numerous case studies follow.

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Signed by David Hockney and by Stephen Spender on the half-title page. First and only printing. Chinese yellow cloth, in grey cloth slipcase; in fine condition – a superb example. Contains 27 lithographs by David Hockney printed in colour (A-Z and ampersand) with 28 literary contributors. Mrs Littman is see more

An extremely rare and coveted item: a first edition, second printing of George Orwell's Animal Farm. Despite showing its age in considerable wear and tear - slightly torn spine, dented corners, delicate binding, missing dust jacket - this is still a valuable collector's item. It is also a fascinating historical artefact: its fragile production value see more

A lovely copy - as new, in a very good dust jacket.

This is a near fine first edition of Tim O'Brien's harrowing account of fighting as a foot soldier in the Vietnam war. The book and its dust jacket are both in magnificent shape with only very minor foxing on the top edge but otherwise clean and unfaded. A well-preserved copy with a stark cover image see more

This is a first edition of Avedon's large-format celebrated book of portraits with comments by Truman Capote. It is no longer accompanied by the slipcase in which it was issued and the board covers are very worn with brown strip at the top of the front cover and a damp stain. The spine is brown see more

This signed first edition is in near fine condition with only minimal wear to the book and one or two small dents at the top of the dust jacket. A beautifully produced volume with elaborate cartographic line drawings on the endpapers and an illustration of the titular snow leopard on the front. Clean, bright and see more

A first edition second printing of the original American edition. As new, in fine DJ; newspaper clippings of literary reviews enclosed.

A first edition, fourth printing, signed by O'Brien in March 2022. The book is in very good condition with the usual aging one would expect from a book 50+ years old: foxing to the page edges and slight discolouration to the top of the spine; a library stamp on the title verso. The dust jacket see more

Frances Partridge (née Marshall) was regarded in her old age as the last surviving member of the Bloomsbury Group. She was a regular visitor to John Sandoe's in the 1990s. In 1933 she married Ralph Partridge, who had been sharing a house (Ham Spray) with Lytton Strachey and his first wife Dora Carrington (who was see more

Abridged & translated from German by Martin Chalmers. 3 vols in fine condition with vg dustjackets. A Jewish Professor of Romance languages in Dresden, Klemperer was married to an Aryan. Extraordinarily, he succeeded in escaping capture by the Nazis and maintained this diary throughout the period. Vol 1: I Shall Bear Witness 1944-41 9780297818427 see more

All first editions, fine in fine dustjackets, with bright spines. The paper paper stock for these was unfortunately poor, so that it is browned - notably in vols 1 and 3. Journals, 1982-86 Volume 1 9780434001637 - Heinemann, 1995 Journals 1987-1989 Volume 2 9780434003785 - Heinemann, 1996 Journals, 1990-92 Volume 3 9780434004300 - Heinemann, see more

In good condition. No dust jacket; punctured top of spine with some yellowing and foxing. Page block and pink cloth boards are firm. If it wasn't for the spine, it would be in near fine condition. As it is, it's a perfectly readable copy of Kessler's fascinating account of Germany in the pre-Hitler years. see more

A fine copy of this selection of Scarfe's work, published as a special limited edition of 250, with a four-colour lithograph of Margaret Thatcher as a raddled Britannia. The book is signed on the copyright page by Scarfe and numbered '218'. Printed at the Curwen Studios. Red cloth boards with the author's signature gilt-stamped on see more

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her seminal collection of essays. First edition, first printing, published in New York. Book in fine condition, cream boards with stamped floral design, quarter-bound in orange cloth with gilt lettering, and Chinese yellow endpapers; the binding is straight and strong. The dust jacket is good+ with slight creasing to see more

From the library of Marguerite Littman. Her second novel, about an unnerved woman living in the Hollywood hills. First edition, first printing, published in New York in 1970. Book in fine condition with red cloth boards with stamped floral roundel enclosing ‘JD’ and black cloth spine with gilt lettering. Minute bumping to top and bottom see more

A fine two volume set, the fourth printing of this rather jazzy Atlantic-Little Brown edition. Each book is protected in a cellophane dust jacket wrapper; the page blocks are in exquisite condition. A gorgeous set.

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

First edition. As new.

First edition. As new.

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

First edition. Fine condition, almost as new.

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

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