North America Archives

North America

A biography of Roy Cohn, legal advisor for McCarthyism, supreme gossip-monger, confidant of Nancy Reagan and mentor to the present occupant of the White House.

American Scoundrel

Kai Bird

Hardback
£30.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Haberman's Confidence Man is one of the best books so far on the US President; here is an update. So far as we know, she and her co-author are still at large.

Regime Change: Inside the Imperial Presidency of Donald Trump ...

Maggie Haberman

Hardback
£28.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
An academic couple - she's a hotshot and he's twelve years late on his doctoral thesis - move to Vermont. Naturally the husband is easily distracted by a variety of local fauna, principally ... read more

Country People

Daniel Mason

Hardback
£20.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A laconic coming-of-age novel by a writer well known for his thrillers.

Ghalen: A Romance in Black

Walter Mosley

Hardback
£20.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
An autobiographical novel about the author's upbringing in a devout Christian family in the Midwest. Waldrop, who died in 2023, was a poet, artist, translator and teacher for several decades... read more

Light While There is Light: An American History

Keith Waldrop

Paperback
£15.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Draws on four of his relationships and their associated locations - Greenwich Village, Paris, the 'Transatlantic Years' and Saint-Paul-de-Vence. Humdinging.

Baldwin: A Love Story

Nicholas Boggs

Hardback
£30.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The veteran journalist explores the 'rhetorical emergency' that is Trump and the cycles of intolerance, fear, war and tariffs that he seems to have made his own, yet very much predate him.

Made in America: The Dark History That Led to Donald Trump ...

Edward Stourton

Hardback
£20.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Hilarious, energetic debut from the freshest and newest wit of contemporary American fiction, about a suburban family in splendid disarray. Light but pleasingly literary.

Lost Lambs

Madeline Cash

Hardback
£16.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A young painter drifts through a New York summer, searching for love and purpose. By the author of Real Life and The Late Americans.

Minor Black Figures

Brandon Taylor

Hardback
£18.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Not so much a long poem as a gently undulating swell of daily life.

Brooklyn ave. Hymnal

Andy Riley

Paperback
£8.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A selection of Avery's paintings and watercolours, with recent work by a few contemporary artists he has influenced. Accompanies a show at MICAS in Malta.

Milton Avery: Color, Form and Composition

Edith Devaney

Hardback
£50.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Although very different in temperament, these two great Whig figures joined to fight the slave trade, impeach the governor-general of the East India Company and support the rebellious Americ... read more

Friends Until the End: Edmund Burke and Charles Fox in the Age of Revo ...

James Grant

Hardback
£35.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The melting pot seems to be turning into a cauldron worthy of Macbeth's witches...

A Short History of America: From Tea Party to Trump ...

Simon Jenkins

Hardback
£25.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Hitherto buried data and lost documents contribute to this tale of political and economic hubris. The circularity of history is sadly manifest.

1929: The Inside Story of The Greatest Crash in Wall Street History ...

Andrew Ross Sorkin

Hardback
£30.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Scabrous comedy about bookselling - by an English poet and bookseller in Los Angeles.

Service

John Tottenham

Paperback
£14.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Quietist rigour. Contains The Leaf and the Cloud, the collection What Do We Know and essays from Long Life.

Little Alleluias: Collected Poetry and Prose

Mary Oliver

Paperback
£18.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The unveiling of a new Great Game by a geo-strategic policy maker - the players also include China and Russia.

So You Want to Own Greenland?: Lessons from the Vikings to Trump ...

Elizabeth Buchanan

Hardback
£15.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The contentious history of Arctic cartography and the going in search of the ends of the earth.

Mapping the North: Myth, Exploration, Encounter

Charlotta Forss

Hardback
£25.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
On Native American fine art, and the Indigenous painters and sculptors of the C20th.

Native Studio Art Since the 1920s: The Healey Collection ...

Tony Abeyta

Hardback
£50.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A new book on Basquiat, drawing from hundreds of interviews. Well illustrated.

Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Making of an Icon

Doug Woodham

Hardback
£30.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Considers the sturdy craftsman bungalows of Cora Cadwallader Tuttle and William Hazel's eerie Victorian... A reminder that Frank Lloyd Wright was not the only American practitioner of the Ar... read more

Arts and Crafts Architecture across America

Maureen Meister

Hardback
£50.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
40th anniversary edition of this seminal collection: 103 black-and-white portrait photographs, taken over the course of five years when Avedon travelled the American West. Ordinary and also ... read more

In the American West

Richard Avedon

Hardback
£80.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
After serving as a Captain in Gunnery on aircraft defences during WW2, Montagu spent three years touring the US by Greyhound bus. A cousin of Clementine Churchill's, she later married Milton... read more

The Greyhound Diary

Judy Montagu

Hardback
£25.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
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

Paperback
£14.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A valuable alternative to Niall Ferguson's, whose immense vol 1 still waits for vol 2. Translated from the French.

Henry Kissinger: An Intimate Portrait of the Master of Realpolitik ...

Jeremie Gallon

Hardback
£22

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The archetypal frontier town - a promising place for both immigrants and ne'er-do-wells.

Deadwood: Gold, Guns and Greed in the American West ...

Peter Cozzens

Hardback
£25

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
From the 1780s to (almost) the present; with particular reference to the roles of the Amendment and the Supreme Court. Lepore is a professor at Harvard.

We the People: A History of the U.S. Constitution

Jill Lepore

Hardback
£30

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The story of four convulsive years in which a bunch of outsize characters grabbed what they could and transformed the city.

The Gods of New York: The Tumultuous Eighties, from Donald Trump to th ...

Jonathan Mahler

Hardback
£25

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The tragi-comic tribulations of an American family.

Vera, Or Faith

Gary Shteyngart

Hardback
£16.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A diary of de Beauvoir's journey around America in 1947: she's very good company.

America Day by Day

Simone de Beauvoir

Paperback
£13

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Fabulous, cinematic photos of the American west and its cowboys, seen through Nebraskan eyes wearing shades by Ansel Adams.

Frontier

Jim Krantz

Hardback
£65

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Pioneering life in Nebraska in the late C19th, told through the eyes of a young orphan sent to live with his grandparents. This novel, first published in 1918, is utterly transporting and en... read more

My Antonia

Willa Cather

Paperback
£8.99

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
The author of Square Haunting tackles another giant of modernism - the sibyl of Montparnasse, l'ogresse de la rue du Fleurus - with intelligence, wit and access to new material.

Gertrude Stein: An Afterlife

Francesca Wade

Hardback
£20.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
A new history of North and South America charting their relationship across the centuries, and exploring how they have defined themselves through engagement with and in opposition to each ot... read more

America, America: A New History of the New World

Greg Grandin

Hardback
£30.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Devised by FDR in the 1930s, 'national security' was designed to keep Americans safe everywhere. This brilliant study of the militarised, global policy that ensued is very pertinent now.

Total Defense: The New Deal and the Invention of National Security ...

Andrew Preston

Hardback
£24.95

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order
Lewis (of Liar's Poker fame and many others) asked several writers for pieces on different aspects of government, cogs great and small. Contributors include John Lanchester, Geraldine Brooks... read more

Who is government? The Untold Story of Public Service ...

Michael Lewis

Hardback
£25.00

ADD TO ORDER

This product is already in quote request list

View Order