Stewart's decade in Westminster. This will undoubtedly be the political memoir of the year: rational, intelligent, candid, passionate, angry, open-eyed, honourable.
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first printing; the book is in near-fine condition, with slight fading to the duck egg cloth at top and bottom and a knock to the lo... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
The author’s fourth novel, published to critical acclaim, about an amnesiac. First edition, first impression. Jonathan Cape, 1981. The book is in... read more
A rare signed first edition, first printing in excellent condition. The book itself is in almost new condition: tight boards and pristine pages; the only blemish is a pair of tiny half cm ma... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
First edition, first impression – an excellent copy in fine condition with a fine dust jacket; not price-clipped. Inscribed in Mrs Littman’s ha... read more
FSS is an excellent and varied writer. In this new book, she looks at her father's life through the papers in a suitcase revealing how he was exiled from Romania during the war, to Turkey th... read more
A thousand-mile walk that took Martineau from Accra to Ouidah: a spell-binding account of a young man's journey into the world around him as well as himself. Remarkable meetings open doors t... read more
Looks closely at nine of his best known poems to see how this lower-middle-class outsider from a dysfunctional family became one of posterity's darlings.
There have been many books on Plath, but this is in fact the first full biography. Sensitive and perceptive, it navigates both the controversies and poetry with skill.
Reading this 'novel' is like going to stay with an old uncle, one with lots of stories to tell but nobody to tell them to. Little Keith - as Hitchens used to call Amis - has been waiting for... read more
An updated edition of Barnes's acclaimed essays on artists - mostly French - that includes 7 new ones. Gericault, Delacroix, Courbet, Manet, Morisot, Fantin-Latour, Cezanne, Degas, Cassatt, ... read more
A funny, self-deprecating memoir of living in Lyon (the lodestar of budding cooks), learning the ropes chez la Mere Brazier and the Institut Bocuse. The title does not refer (as far as we kn... read more