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If it seems astonishing that Atwood has had time to do anything but write during the course of her long life - for just a list of her books fills two pages at the start of this riveting memo... read more

Book of Lives: A Memoir of Sorts

Margaret Atwood

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Hard to recall that when PM - author of The Snow Leopard, Far Tortuga and other superb books - came to Sandoe's in the '90s, he was regarded almost as a god. An energetic environmental activ... read more

True Nature: The Lives of Peter Matthiessen

Lance Richardson

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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 ... read more

The Book of Revelations: Women and Their Secrets From the 1950s to the Present Day

Juliet Nicolson

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A new collection from the Emeritus Fellow of Magdalen and Auden scholar.

Marston Meadows and Other Poems

John Fuller

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Howe's exquisite Loop of Jade was the first debut to win the TS Eliot Prize. Here she delves back into a layered international family history with characteristic acuity.

Foretokens

Sarah Howe

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We know her as a novelist and philosopher, but until a tranche of material was recovered from a chest in her attic we did not know she was a poet too - and a good one at that.

Poems From an Attic

Iris Murdoch

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Data scientist Hannah Ritchie focuses on getting our facts straight. An ultimately optimistic guide.

Clearing the Air: A Hopeful Guide to Solving Climate Change – in 50 Questions and Answers

Hannah Ritchie

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First edition, first printing in very good condition, with a very good dust jacket. Minor foxing to the page block and to the inside of the dust jacket.

Duncan Grant: A Biography

Frances Spalding

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'Atlantis' is both metaphor and actual in this account of diving among ruins and wrecks. Le Bas also takes the reader down into the mysteries and myths of the deep.

The Drowned Places: Diving in Search of Atlantis

Damian Le Bas

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The New Life: An enthralling novel about forbidden desire set against the backdrop of the Oscar Wilde trial

Tom Crewe

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A superb collection, featuring - in no particular order - a witch, a snail and Martha Gellhorn.

Old Babes In The Wood: Stories

Margaret Atwood

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The campus novel reimagined: two students fall in love at a Chinese Religious Training Centre, one a Buddhist, the other a Daoist.

Heart Sutra

Yan Lianke

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A novel in verse based on the experiences of the author's great aunt, who went to Canada as an orphan in 1908 where she worked as an indentured servant.

The Home Child

Liz Berry

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Any book from SB is always eagerly awaited, this one no less than its marvellous predecessors How to Live: A Life of Montaigne and At The Existentialist Caf?.

Humanly Possible: Seven Hundred Years of Humanist Freethinking, Enquiry and Hope

Sarah Bakewell

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Call Us What We Carry: From the presidential inaugural poet

Amanda Gorman

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Endeavour: The Ship and the Attitude that Changed the World

Peter Moore

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A fascinating and valuable tour of objects and buildings in the UK that recall Britain's engagements with the East over hundreds of years.

Hidden Heritage: Rediscovering Britain’s Lost Love of the Orient

Fatima Manji

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Not so much a sequel to 'The Hare with Amber Eyes', this short, superb and immensely powerful book is nevertheless complementary to his earlier book. Read it, give it, think about it; read i... read more

Letters to Camondo

Edmund de Waal

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The follow-up to Ruth Scurr's dazzling, inspired book about John Aubrey is a glorious portrait of Napoleon through his love of nature and gardens.

Napoleon: A Life in Gardens and Shadows

Ruth Scurr

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A riveting portrait of the man who sold many of the books that drove the Renaissance, who knew where manuscripts were, arranged for copies to be made and trod carefully among rival ruling fa... read more

The Bookseller of Florence: Vespasiano da Bisticci and the Manuscripts that Illuminated the Renaissance

Dr Ross King

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Two cadres in China's Cultural Revolution, drunk on politics and their own affair, are discovered. By the author of 'Three Brothers: Memories of My Family', 'Lenin's Kisses', 'The Day the Su... read more

Hard Like Water

Yan Lianke

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A family and its farm in decline in South Africa; four funerals and a promise broken repeatedly. Finely conceived and brilliantly executed.

The Promise

Damon Galgut

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The poem and poet that stole the show at Biden's inauguration, published here for the first time.

The Hill We Climb

Amanda Gorman

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Those who read Clare's Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. He i... read more

Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

Horatio Clare

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A vibrant blend of social history and memoir: argues that this three-month period of nation-wide, wintry shutdown gave rise to unprecedented cultural renewal. Fingers crossed for 2021 and 2... read more

Frostquake: The frozen winter of 1962 and how Britain emerged a different country

Juliet Nicolson

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The veteran commentator considers the 1960 coup that deposed Menderes, and traces the parallels that divide Erdogan's Turkey.

A Coup in Turkey: A Tale of Democracy, Despotism and Vengeance in a Divided Land

Jeremy Seal

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Three lives converge in Northern Ontarian in the 70s, each with their own ominous blend of trauma and naivety.

A Town Called Solace

Mary Lawson

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A strange and powerful novel of familial love and the boundary between living and dying, blurred by magical realism and vanishings. From the Booker Prize-winning author of 'The Narrow Road t... read more

The Living Sea of Waking Dreams

Richard Flanagan

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The first biography of this much loved author, bonne vivante, European, and John Sandoe customer, mentored by Aldous Huxley. Hastings' earlier biographical subjects include Somerset Maugham,... read more

Sybille Bedford: An Appetite for Life

Selina Hastings

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From Bath in 1865 to Dublin and Borneo: a novel about transgressive relationships and a woman's sense of her own destiny being other than what convention dictates.

Islands of Mercy

Rose Tremain

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Short stories from the author of 'The Girls'.

Daddy

Emma Cline

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Before she was known as 'the maven of dystopia', MA began her career as a poet (and a good one, too). This is her first collection in ten years.

Dearly: Poems

Margaret Atwood

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From medieval mystery plays to the horribly interrupted present.

Break a Leg: A memoir, manifesto and celebration of amateur theatre

Jenny Landreth

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A mix of memoir, essays and recipes for every day. Could be subtitled 'Death to the Guilty Pleasure'.

Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, recipes and stories.

Nigella Lawson

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SK's father was Bernat Klein, a Yugoslav Jew who came to Britain after WW2 and became a successful textile designer - Chanel, Dior & Balenciaga were amongst his clients. He lived in a moder... read more

The See-Through House: My Father in Full Colour

Shelley Klein

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The cover of this book shows the gorgeous Zoffany portrait of these talented and influential siblings, who were born in a Northumberland rectory and became involved in such a wide range of C... read more

The Good Sharps: The Brothers and Sisters Who Remade Their World

Hester Grant

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