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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

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£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 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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The fourth instalment in the epic tale of the Neilsons, a Scottish family in French service in the 1800s. For fans of Kidnapped or Patrick O'Brian.

The House of Widows

James Buchan

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£20.00

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Switching from macro to micro, Stewart has assembled his articles published in his Cumbrian constituency's local paper. The tensions in a bucolic rural landscape...

Middleland: Dispatches From the Borders

Rory Stewart

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£22.00

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Alan Breck's glorious entrance into Kidnapped must be the most dramatic appearance of any character in fiction. His creator's all-too-short life was comparably romantic and adventurous. What... read more

Storyteller: The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson

Leo Damrosch

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£25.00

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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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Before the publisher released the sub-title, we believed that finally, after several years hanging out with different birds in various damp and uncomfortable places, this well-loved nature-w... read more

Night Life: Walking Britain’s wild landscapes after dark ...

John Lewis-Stempel

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£12.99

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A wonderfully discursive wander through Alice's Wonderland, Mr McGregor's neat rows, Elizabeth von Arnim's garden and Sei Shonagon's; with other conjurings by Alexandre Dumas, Katherine Mans... read more

Literary Gardens: The Imaginary Gardens of Writers and Poets ...

Sandra Lawrence

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£19.99

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The relationship between landscape and land use explored with subtlety and enthusiasm by the late architectural historian, Cannon by name and also Canon Historian for Bristol Cathedral. A wi... read more

The Stones of Britain: A History of Britain Through Its Geology ...

Jon Cannon

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£30.00

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One of the core texts of the early Buddhist canon, this is an introduction to mindfulness and meditation with a weather eye to modern psychology and neuroscience. With the original Pali on f... read more

How to Feel: An Ancient Guide to Minding Our Emotions ...

The Buddha

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This powerful C8th century poem, written in the first person, teaches us how to reduce suffering by mastering ourselves and is one of the most important texts of Indo-Tibetan Buddhism. A car... read more

How to Be Caring: An Ancient Guide to a Compassionate Life ...

Shantideva

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Egeler begins his remarkable history of the faerie world in the meadows of Iceland, moving on to Germany, Ireland, Scotland, England, from its Norse and Celtic origins to the lamplit rooms o... read more

Elves and Fairies: A Short History of the Otherworld ...

Matthias Egeler

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This course in looking is richly illustrated, thanks to its author, an art historian specialising in the material culture and ideas of early modern Europe and Japan.

Slow Looking: The Art of Nature

Olivia Meehan

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£40.00

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Cutlers, coopers, watchmakers etc, from the author of The World According to Colour: A Cultural History.

Craftland: A Journey Through Britain’s Lost Arts and Vanishing T ...

James Fox

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£25.00

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A new book of cartoons by the master of bathetic whimsy: dark matter lies on the psychiatrist's couch; an AI system has increased its intelligence from that of a new-born baby to a teenager... read more

Physics for Cats

Tom Gauld

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£16.99

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On the rewards of paying attention, the fruits of observation in nature. By the amiable author of How to Read Water and others.

The Hidden Seasons

Tristan Gooley

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£22.00

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Another book of magnificent, hand-tinted photographs from Ms. Moon: ancient oaks of Britain and Europe, the evergreen oaks of the southern United States and acorns. Breathtaking work.

Oak: From Seed to Ancient Tree

Beth Moon

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£40.00

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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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Another knock-out book from Denham and Montgomery, after the success of the equally good-looking The Irish Bakery.

The Irish Kitchen

Cherie Denham

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£30.00

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50 recipes from the doyenne of the River Café, in cahoots with the American artist.

Squeeze Me: Lemons, Recipes and Art

Ruthie Rogers

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£35.00

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