Celebrates the art of just chillin' out, man... not from laziness but for the sake of slow, screen-free reflection. Odell reclaims our time and space from the encroaching technologies of dis... read more
Bloom's last work, completed weeks before his death when he felt 'edged by nothingness' and consoled himself with readings from Montaigne, Blake, Dante, Shakespeare et al. Missed from our Xm... read more
Davdison's feel for dusk first came our way with his wonderfully evocative book The Last of the Light: About Twilight. Here he produces a series of nocturnes about cities at night-fall, wint... read more
The last book by the late Italian Titan among writers and publishers is a typically idiosyncratic and compelling exploration of the Bible and its influence on Western civilisation. His broad... read more
A facsimile, with facing transcriptions, of Eliot's early notebook containing poems up to 1917. Includes an early version of 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock'. The notebook has been lurk... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Blackwood’s first book is a mix of stories and reportage; she began her writing career while married to the poet Robert Lowell. First edition, fi... read more
Mr. William Shakespeare's Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies was published in 1623, seven years after Shakespeare's death. This is the story of John Heminges, Henry Cordell and others who comp... read more
A collection of the late Mantel's essays and journalism spanning four decades, including her 2017 Reith Lectures. Sheis eloquent and ironic company always; her range of subjects is vast and ... read more
Whether in music, architecture, economics, art, mathematics, physics or philosophy - Vienna in the early C20th led the world. This astonishing vibrancy was dispersed by Nazism and WW2 to the... read more
Yes, this is a book on how to read the first Book of the Bible - from one of the world's truly luminous novelists, the Calvinist author of Gilead, Home, Lila and Jack.