Bundles from John Sandoe Books (Ltd)

Selections of books – wrapped, beribboned and delivered – have always been a special service offered by the bookshop. Customers will call up with a brief and we will clatter around the shelves in pursuit of the ideal books.

In the current circumstances, we have decided to formalise some of these selections, designed to give ample reading material to those kept at home.

Bundle prices include UK postage. Postage to other parts of the world will be added (at cost) to the bundle price when we confirm the details of your order.

Please contact us by email (sales@johnsandoe.com) or on 0207 589 9473 for any further enquiries.

Classic Thrillers

Half a dozen old friends:

The Mask of Dimitrios by Eric Ambler
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
The Hunt for Red October by Tom Clancy
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Strangers on a Train by Patricia Highsmith

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Classic Crime

Old-school crime for those who can’t quite make the leap to contemporary schlock..

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club by Dorothy L Sayers
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
Brat Farrar by Josephine Tey
The Case of the Gilded Fly by Edmund Crispin
The Beast Must Die by Nicholas Blake
The Tiger in the Smoke by Margery Allingham

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Literature in Translation

A mix of our favourite fiction and memoir in translation.

Homeland by Walter Kempowski, translated by Charlotte Collins
Sculptor’s Daughter: A Childhood Memoir by Tove Jansson, translated by Kingsley Hart
The Princesse de Clèves by Madame de Lafayette, translated by Nancy Mitford
The Years by Annie Ernaux, translated by Alison L. Strayer
Berta Isla by Javier Marias, translated by Margaret Jull Costa
Territory of Light by Yūko Tsushima, translated by Geraldine Harcourt

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Nineteenth Century

An assortment of 19th Century novels and non-fiction, in a set of three or six.

Wives and Daughters by Elizabeth Gaskell
Effi Briest by Theodor Fontane, translated by Hugh Rorrison
Hester by Margaret Oliphant
Can You Forgive Her? by Anthony Trollope
Sketches from a Hunter’s Album by Ivan Turgenev, translated by Richard Freeborn
Travels with a Donkey and the Amateur Emigrant by Robert Louis Stevenson

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Twentieth Century Novels

Half a dozen superb novels from across the 20th Century, also available as a set of three.

The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, translated by Archibald Colquhoun
A Month In the Country by J.L. Carr
A Legacy by Sybille Bedford
The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox Ford
A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley
The Transit of Venus by Shirley Hazzard

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Twenty-First Century

Fiction and biography from the first two decades of the 21st Century.

The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell
Scenes From Early Life by Philip Hensher
Gilead by Marilynne Robinson
Limonov by Emmanuel Carrere, translated by John Lambert
Country Girl: A Memoir by Edna O’Brien
Life Class by Pat Barker

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Witticisms

A collection of assorted sillinesses for the lifting of spirits.

Uncle Fred In the Springtime by P.G.Wodehouse
The Pursuit of Love by Nancy Mitford
Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons
Heartburn by Nora Ephron
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty by James Thurber
The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00
Women’s Writing

A ribbon-wrapped package of three or six books for the discerning reader of women’s fiction and memoir. Eva Ibbotson was said, perhaps apocryphally, to have intended her books for ‘intelligent women with the flu’. There are another couple at the lighter end of the scale in this list too, as well as some more thoughtful.

War in Val D’Orcia by Iris Origo
Brother of the More Famous Jack by Barbara Trapido
The Secret Countess by Eva Ibbotson
Beginning of Spring by Penelope Fitzgerald
Great Granny Webster by Caroline Blackwood
Frenchman’s Creek by Daphne Du Maurier

All our bundles are open to edits and replacements. If you have one of these books already, you can replace it with a book from our other bundles (or a different book altogether of the same price).

If ordering a ‘Set of Three’, please specify which three in the order notes. UK Shipping is included.

Select options £35.00 – £60.00