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Pepper, pine, vanilla, dandelion, cotton etc - their uses around the world, now and in the past. Fascination for ages 6-9.

The Stuff that Stuff is Made Of: Things We Make With Plants ...

Jonathan Drori

Hardback
£16.99

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The first in a planned trilogy-in-verse from the acclaimed nature writer and academic, in which a child goes looking for light in a dark time. A handsome book, cloth-bound, with striking woo... read more

The Night Creatures: Firefly

Robert Macfarlane

Hardback
£14.99

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A family of water voles enter the Peking to Paris motor rally, with many adventures along the way. Ages 7-10.

The Mudlarks: Peking to Paris

Jane McMorland Hunter

Hardback
£14.99

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Five interwoven stories of children from across the world are connected by a migrating flock of starlings. Age 8+.

Wild Journey

A. M. Dassu

Paperback
£12.00

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More fantastical adventures in the second of Rundell's Impossible Creatures series. For ages 8-12.

The Poisoned King

Katherine Rundell

Hardback
£14.99

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Positively ghoulish tales of Britain's storied royal abodes, by several authors including Alexia Casale and Joseph Coelho. Ages 8-12.

Historic Royal Palaces: Ghosts in the Walls

Various

Hardback
£14.99

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Two of RB's early children's novels - The Strange House and Midnight Adventure - each inspired by his own post-war London childhood, in one handsome edition with Briggs' b&w illustrations an... read more

The Strange House

Raymond Briggs

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£19.99

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A Japanese classic, recently translated. Each generation of the Moriyamas must take on the care of a group of tiny people who live in their house in Tokyo. Now the task has fallen to Yuri. B... read more

The Secret of the Blue Glass

Tomiko Inui

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£9.99

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This illustrated account of the race to reach the South Pole from the perspectives of both Scott and Amundsen's will thrill any potential explorer. Ages 8-12.

Race to the South Pole: A two-sided story

Alexandra Stewart

Hardback
£14.99

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This is the final book in PP's Book of Dust trilogy, the sequel to His Dark Materials. Ages 12+.

The Rose Field

Philip Pullman

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£25.00

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Larissa Salmina was a wild child of the USSR who rose to be Keeper of Italian Drawings at the Hermitage by her mid twenties; Francis Haskell was a distinguished, deracinated Cambridge art hi... read more

Parallel Lives: A Love Story from a Lost Continent

Iain Pears

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£18.99

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Gray goes to the heart of things - to fire before even her ideal (and simple) batterie de cuisine. Her writing is seductive for its intelligence and beauty, for her wit, wide interests and c... read more

Honey from a Weed: Fasting and Feasting in Tuscany, Catalonia, the Cyc ...

Patience Gray

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£20.00

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A mentor to Le Corbusier, Ozenfant was an artist and critic who ran art schools in Paris and London in the 1920s and '30s. Highly regarded, he knew everyone: Leonora Carrington was a student... read more

Monsieur Ozenfant’s Academy

Charles Darwent

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£25.00

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An actress cast adrift by a failed affair in London goes to ground at her sister's home in Haifa, and agrees to an audacious proposal: to play Gertrude in a production of Hamlet, in Arabic, ... read more

Enter Ghost

Isabella Hammad

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£9.99

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A satirical and entertaining tale of a mother and son who bicker their way around Switzerland, fuelled by vodka and a grim determination to squander a fortune made from the arms trade.

Eurotrash

Christian Kracht

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£12.99

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Presented as the memoirs of a half-British, half-Burmese actor, beginning with his scholarship to an English private school in the 1960s. A sequence of delicately observed vignettes reveal h... read more

Our Evenings

Alan Hollinghurst

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£9.99

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A moving portrait of a large Polish-Jewish family living in Tarnów, in south-eastern Poland, between the wars and into the shadow of WW2. This is the first novel by this prize-winning autho... read more

My Name is Stramer

Mikolaj Lozinski

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£14.99

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A taut and unsettling novella from this inimitable author. Lise, an oddly dressed and increasingly erratic woman, leaves her northern European city for an unnamed destination in the south. W... read more

The Driver’s Seat

Muriel Spark

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£8.99

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Hisham was invited to give this year's lectio magistralis at the Gregor von Rezzori Prize 2024, in the church of Santa Croce in Florence. Sandoe's is proud to publish his essay based on that... read more

To Know and To Know Not

Hisham Matar

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£8.00

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Seven children come together after the death of their father but find their attempts to mourn him thwarted by his will. The result is this deliciously funny, heartening, somewhat dark caper ... read more

Stealing Dad

Sofka Zinovieff

Hardback
£20.00

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When a recluse in old age, the great Egyptian writer started to walk around Cairo in his dreams and found himself here, there, with friends or strangers. In this short, intriguing book, thos... read more

I Found Myself… The Last Dreams

Naguib Mahfouz

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£12.99

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His Do Not Call the Tortoise was an earlier gem. Here again GHJ pauses to wonder at the world around us, at the profligacy of existence. And at the inscrutability of woodlice. Be charmed by ... read more

Your Lowly Hedgehog Knows

Gareth Howell-Jones

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£12.00

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The wit of Frank O'Hara meets the poignancy of Marcel Proust in this succinct memoir of the 1970s' New York literary scene.

I Remember

Joe Brainard

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£8.99

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By bus across the US, following the same route (Detroit to Los Angeles) that she made in her youth. A counterpoint to the 'Great American Road Trip', JP's narrative spins history, literature... read more

Greyhound

Joanna Pocock

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£14.99

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The story of the C9th Pope Joan is brought to life in this frolic through early Medieval Europe. We follow the gifted, motherless Agnes from an unconventional childhood all the way to the to... read more

Rapture

Emily Maguire

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£16.99

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A comprehensive book on the widely admired and influential ceramic sculptor, who died earlier this year at a great age. As well as being a fine artist, Baldwin was a perceptive, gifted teach... read more

Gordon Baldwin

Edward Hutchison

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£55.00

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A middle-aged man takes to the road after his children have left home and his wife has had an affair... This wise and surprising book has shades of Elizabeth Strout's Lucy Barton - the same ... read more

The Rest of Our Lives

Benjamin Markovits

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£9.99

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The beloved and greatly missed CG, friend and cousin of us at Sandoe's. Here is a book largely made up of his own autobiographical pieces, some hitherto unpublished, with many photographs of... read more

Christopher Gibbs: His World

Lucy Moore

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£50.00

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Last autumn's unforgettable exhibition at the Dulwich Picture Gallery was the first major show on the artist and printmaker (and wife of Eric Ravilious) since 1952. The wood engravings, text... read more

Tirzah Garwood: Beyond Ravilious

James Russell

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£25.00

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A short, illustrated rumination on the work of Edvard Munch through nineteen paintings and drawings. It's as if we're looking over the acclaimed novelist's shoulder as she looks intently at ... read more

So in the Spruce Forest

Ali Smith

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£10.95

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