A no-holds-barred revenge thriller set in Virginia. Two anti-hero fathers try and make up for their poor parenthood and prejudices by avenging the murders of their two sons. Hold on to your ... read more
Dedicated to her friend Tirzah Garwood, this is a deliciously charming and funny mix of commonplace book and diary from the 1950s, illustrated with woodcuts not by Tirzah as intended (she ha... read more
This gorgeous book was published to accompany an exhibition of art from the Danish Golden Age. The exhibition opened in 2019 in the Stockholm Nationalmuseum (who co-published the book) and m... read more
This eloquent little book offers a moving and erudite justification for the survival of high quality book shops and why they are essential places of discovery, refuge and fulfilment. Laced w... read more
A survey of this pioneering and serene colourist (1885-1965), who eschewed '-isms' and quietly got on with his work - much of it plein air. Early impressionistic impastos quickly give way to... read more
This year's slim winner of the International Booker Prize is stunningly brilliant. Set during the Great War and narrated by a Senegalese soldier fighting for France on the Western Front, it ... read more
Contemporary short fiction from Afghanistan, all written before the Taliban retook power in August 2021. An extraordinary collection brought into being through the efforts of UNTOLD's Write ... read more
Amongst the plethora of recent books on the threats facing liberal democracy, this one stands out for the author's talent for making complex subjects comprehensible. He sees the danger comin... read more
Amongst the plethora of recent books on the threats facing liberal democracy, this one stands out for the author's talent for making complex subjects comprehensible. He sees the danger comin... read more
Written during lockdown, this is a book by a writer on top of his game. The ostensible subject is endings, last things, work produced in 'late style'... But, this being Geoff Dyer, it's abou... read more
Often hilarious and certainly astonishing, this is the novelist's memoir of growing up in Sheffield in the 1950s. His father, an insecure bully, adopted a toup?e, which functioned as an inst... read more
Often hilarious and certainly astonishing, this is the novelist's memoir of growing up in Sheffield in the 1950s. His father, an insecure bully, adopted a toupée, which functioned as an ins... read more
A learned study of the history of the altarpiece in Renaissance Italy from the 13th to 17th century. Accompanied with beautiful images, DE discusses the development and narrative categories ... read more
He was a resistance fighter in WW2 Budapest, a travel photographer in South America and an abusive patriarch in 70s New York - but Steven Faludi disappeared from his daughter's life decades ... read more
This will be THE book on interiors for the season. Nathalie & Miguel will sign copies for us, so do let us know if you would like one. We're only sorry that Covid-19 prevented a splendid... read more
A first collection by an Afghan poet, born in Kabul in 1990 and now a don at Peterhouse, Cambridge. Highly literate yet drawing on the story-telling traditions of her youth, Fayyaz tells of ... read more
A New York housewife believes that the grotesque protagonist of her husband's novel is based on her. The ensuing paranoic spiral is gripping enough to satisfy any Hitchcock fan...
Cambridge, 1912: a twilight bicycle crash entwines Fred, a young Fellow in the all-male college of St Angelicus, with Daisy, harpooned by a good heart and a poor background. Reason collide... read more
First published in 1908, the brilliance of this superb novel is undiminished. A love story, or rather two, that starts in the Pension Bertolini in Florence. Catering for English tourists, it... read more
The "inner darkness of the commercial age", with its self-confident hypocrisy and inability to "connect", confronts Bloomsbury-esque ideals and characters in this intimate masterpiece from 1... read more
An illustrated book examining our fascination with islands. Interweaving his own travels with psychology, philosophy and literary voyages, the author explores our contradictory needs for con... read more
Beautifully published in India, this shows the development of Olivia's work from watercolours of contemporary life in India to the exquisite geometric works of recent years: focussed, ordere... read more
Elizabeth Zott is a gifted chemist who reluctantly becomes America's favourite television chef. Imagine Julia Child in the form of Grace Kelly, wearing a lab coat and goggles... This feel-go... read more
Elizabeth Zott is a gifted chemist who reluctantly becomes America's favourite television chef. Imagine Julia Child in the form of Grace Kelly, wearing a lab coat and goggles... This feel-go... read more
Garner’s tenth novel is a slim, strange and wonderful creature: mercurial, funny, frightening, enigmatic. It weaves autobiographical threads with folklore, symbol and archaeology – and w... read more
The characters in this affecting and magnificent tale of C19th village life are superbly imagined through exquisite, often very funny dialogue. The characters in this magnificent tale of vil... read more
A large format biography of the Bloomsbury pair, and their houses, commissioned by the National Trust. An entertaining introduction with handsome colour pics.
The product of many years' research, this is an amazing book that reconstructs the eleven 'Strand Palaces' which both gave rise to the distinctly English style that emerged in country houses... read more
Twisting, sensuous lines, strong forms, rich deep colours, delicate drawing - all on a large scale: Graham's work is distinctive and beautiful, infused with influences from Central Asia and ... read more
Wildly delicious, deliciously straightforward - a celebration of good ingredients, sluiced with new olive oil and nipped with a pinch of salt...The beautiful farmhouse of Arniano - Amber's f... read more
Jansen's unusual genius makes one think of Quixote and Leonardo: his huge kinetic sculptures that roam the flat beaches of Holland are extraordinary, wondrous beasts - winged, multi-limbed, ... read more
The first translation by a woman, using Arabic and French sources, with detailed notes and commentary. Beautifully illustrated with Arab and Persian works of art as well as many drawn from p... read more
A sumptuous reprint of d'Hancarville's catalogue of Hamilton's Greek vases, with its fabulous hand-coloured engraved plates splendidly reproduced. First published in Naples in the 1760s, the... read more
Susanna, a stylish self-made woman and arch-observer of her Viennese neighbours, has secrets of her own to hide in the years before WWI. A more grown-up and melancholic novel than Ibbotson's... read more