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JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

Independent Bookshop Since 1957

JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

Independent Bookshop Since 1957

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  • Load credit onto someone's account. It doesn't matter if they don't yet have one - we'll set them up and send them our latest catalogue. To specify an amount, click Add to Order and leave... read more
  • Basho's hauntingly beautiful account of his journey through late C17 Japan is an unparalleled work, in which he weaves together his travel experiences and haiku; Enchi and Tanizaki are two ... read more

    Japan

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    £40.00
  • An elliptical wander through the vast steppe of Russian literature: Lermontov's only novel is comprised of three narratives that frame the Byronic and flawed protagonist Pechorin, in whom al... read more

    Russia

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    £40.00
  • A selection of the year’s outstanding novels, delivered monthly for one year, according to the subscriber’s taste. The darkest psychological thrillers, historical door-stoppers, the late... read more

    Fiction

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    £100.00
  • Sauntering through time and space: explorations of streets, borders, winds - under sea, over land, in the air; liminal, littoral, literary, lingering, longing... This bundle includes: ... read more

    Roaming

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    £40.00
  • Ferrara, Rome, Sicily and more: Italian fiction and non-fiction from the mid-late C2oth to the present. Ground-breaking and compulsive, the first novel in Ferrante's Neapolitan Quartet stand... read more

    Italy

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    £40.00
  • One of the great pleasures of reading C19th literature is being able to enter into what Penelope Fitzgerald called 'the imagined past' - imagined by us now and, in some of these novels, by t... read more

    19th Century Fiction

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    £40.00
  • Half a dozen of the greatest novels of the last century, each highly original and, once read, never forgotten. Smiley won a Pulitzer for her transposition of King Lear to the American Mid-We... read more

    20th Century Fiction

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    £40.00
  • The joke is always in the telling - and here are six authors whose comic writing is beyond compare. Psmith is pure joy, and we all need to throw the occasional flower-pot while getting on wi... read more

    Witticisms

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    £40.00
  • Snatching fearful joys: tales of murder, suspense and the deeply eerie... Sarah Moss tells her extraordinary tale of archaeologists investigating Norse remains in Greenland with customary br... read more

    Shivers

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    £40.00
  • A deft and witty excursion to Paris for coffee with Sartre, de Beauvoir et alia by Sarah Bakewell; a winter and spring on the shores of Lake Baikal with only a portable library and ice - and... read more

    France

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    £40.00
  • The best of recent arrivals in fiction and non-fiction, alternating month by month for one year. Please feel free to specify any particular areas of interest and combinations – e.g. politi... read more

    General

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    £110.00
  • Our selection of recent outstanding non-fiction titles,  to match a subscriber’s tastes: history, biography, memoir, essays, travel, natural history, poetry, letters, diaries, science, th... read more

    Non-Fiction

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    £115.00
  • Carefully tailored to age and taste: the best of new children’s books combined with beautiful editions of old favourites. A mix of paperbacks and hardbacks for middling readers to teenager... read more

    Children’s

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    £100.00
  • The latest and loveliest in cookery, and the oldest and best too. From Larousse to Luard, oysters to Ottolenghi, Gray to gorgonzola, an omelette and a glass of wine… Books for cooks, by co... read more

    Cookery

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    £195.00
  • A selection of the greatest literature from around the world, from Atwood to Zola, Alexievich to Zibaldone  – fiction, non-fiction, reportage, memoir, essays, travel, reflections. Ideal f... read more

    Literary Greats

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    £125.00
  • As reviving for the jaded as one of Jeeves's pick-me-ups: Psmith; the dreadful efficient Baxter, secretary-bird to the Earl of Emsworth; Jeeves and Wooster; Uncle Fred and his mischievous be... read more

    Wodehouse

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    £120.00
  • A generous subscription which may include exhibition catalogues, an artist’s biography, books about the art world, or a fine coffee table book; perfect for amateurs of the arts, from Agar,... read more

    Arts

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    £275.00
  • Twelve big illustrated books.

    Gardens & Gardening

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    £325.00
  • We are proud to offer a very broad range of fine illustrated books at Sandoe’s and envisage this subscription as a rather wonderful and unusual gift. Suggested subjects include fine art (b... read more

    Illustrated Books

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    £450.00
  • Six big illustrated books and six hardbacks.

    Gardens & The Natural World

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    £240.00
  • Six big illustrated books and six cookery books.

    Gardens & Kitchens Subscription

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    £250.00
  • A mix of illustrated books, paperbacks and hardbacks. Four of each.

    Basket of Delights

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    £175.00
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