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JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

Independent Bookshop Since 1957

JOHN SANDOE BOOKS

Independent Bookshop Since 1957

  • Two men go walking in the Dolomites, but not together; one falls to his death, the other reports the body. Is it coincidence that they knew each other in earlier years, and that one had betr... read more

    Impossible

    Paperback
    £10.99
  • Her memoir of running a small cinema in rural Hungary, the transformative magic of communal yet private experience in a place stale with resignation and nostalgia.
  • A handful of stories about five women whose recent experiences of difficult or painful events are leavened by life-enhancing - even life-altering - moments.
  • A sequel to The Harry Quebert Affair.
  • A gloriously comic short novel from 1975, in which a journalist saves a hare and walks away from a wearisome life into a series of adventures with the hare as companion. Like our protagonist... read more
  • Smuggled out of the Soviet Union in 1982, this novel first appeared in English in 1987 and soon disappeared, to be resurrected thanks to Susan Sontag's enthusiasm for a 'scruffy-looking' cop... read more
  • An exuberant romp of a thriller: career-driven journalist Rika finds that the best way to secure an interview with a maybe-serial-killer is through her stomach, trying out the rich recipes t... read more

    Butter

    Paperback
    £14.99
  • A couple lost their intimacy somewhere along the road of their marriage. Set over a three-week period, away from home, this is a skillful unpicking of connubial and familial dynamics. Krien'... read more

    The Fire

    Paperback
    £9.99
  • A Japanese man tries to form a relationship with his half-French child, who has grown up on the other side of the world. The other side of the story told in A Single Rose, this nevertheless ... read more
  • A slim, charming and witty riff on Proustian themes - the shallowness of society, the impossibility of love, the enduring power of art... Life-affirming!
  • Not all are hidden by luxuriant, pointy moustaches... The painter's only novel is a baroque and decadent tale set in the 1930s, first published in 1944.

    Hidden Faces

    Paperback
    £12.99
  • Breaking free of conformity, a woman leaves her husband, flat and career for a new, queer life: first part of an autofictional trilogy; the prequel in fact to last year's Love Me Tender.

    Playboy

    Paperback
    £10.99
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