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Please browse our window box for some of our recent pleasures – old and new.

  • Unearthed: Photography’s Roots

    Alexander Moore

    The history of botanical photography, shown through the work of 38 photographers; the earliest is William Henry Fox Talbot, the last is Lorenzo Vitturi. This is the stunning catalogue of a show at Dulwich Picture Gallery – that none of us have been able to visit because of current restrictions – that explores the relationship of photography to still life and botanical art through the Pictorialists to Modernism, from the mid C19th to the work of contemporary photographers.  A  fabulous spectrum of ravishing and intriguing images.

    Paperback £27.00
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  • Beata Heuman: Every Room Should Sing

    Beata Heuman

    Heuman set up her interior design studio in London in 2013, since when her easy-going, liveable, relaxed style has won her plaudits and commissions around the world. Proud of her Swedish roots, Beata’s informality is matched with a joyful use of colour. This is her first book, and it is gorgeous.

     

    We are delighted to be able to offer this at £40 instead of the standard price of £45.

     

     

    Hardback £40.00
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  • Letters to Camondo

    Edmund de Waal

    Eleven years ago EdeW stunned us with ‘The Hare with Amber Eyes’. He will do so again with this short, vibrant, deeply affecting series of letters addressed to Count Moise de Camondo, who left his Parisian mansion to the French nation on his death in 1935. He, like many others, believed in the emancipation and assimilation of the Jews first proclaimed in the French Revolution. Intimate, observant, beautifully constructed, the narrative resembles shards that the author turns this way and that, puts aside, picks up again, reassembles, adds to. He lets us stand on the threshold of the world of the Camondos, the Reinachs, the Ephrussis, the Cahen d’Anvers and other Jewish families of the period; we see Moise and his extended family walk through the pages and out again,  leaving us in a wake of loss and reflection.

     

    NB This will be published on April 22nd but orders may be placed now.

    Hardback £14.99
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  • Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

    Heavy Light: A Journey Through Madness, Mania and Healing

    Horatio Clare

    Those who read Clare’s Something of His Art, about J S Bach, or The Light in the Dark: A Winter Journal (or others) will know that Clare is a writer of exquisite sensibility and nuance. He is also prey to depression, and this memoir of his hospitalisation under Section 2 of the Mental Health Act for an acute breakdown is characteristically articulate and intelligent. It’s also an optimistic book that looks at new ideas of treatment and approach.

    Hardback £16.99
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  • A Ghost in the Throat

    A Ghost in the Throat

    Doireann Ní Ghríofa

    Weaves autofiction with her translation of a famous C18th Irish lament. Exceptional.

    Paperback £12.99
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  • Klara and the Sun

    Kazuo Ishiguro

    Scant information has been vouchsafed about Sir Kazuo’s forthcoming novel, but we’re told it concerns an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities. Put not your trust in humans…

    Hardback £20.00
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  • Impressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-garde

    Impressionism in Russia: Dawn of the Avant-garde

    Ortrud Westheider & Alla Chilova

    With pictures mostly from the Tretyakov in Moscow, from Kazan, and from several private collections, this gorgeous book blossoms with the unfamiliar. It includes work by Larionov, Goncharova, Repin, Serov, Malevich, Polenov, Korovin and many others… It is a visual feast, and the text is excellent.

    Hardback £39.99
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  • The Snow Ball

    Brigid Brophy

    A sparkling, intelligent novel, first published in 1964 and just re-issued by Faber & Faber. It is set over the course of a decadent fancy dress party on a snowy New Year’s Eve, with all the guests in 18th C finery. The unfolding comedy of manners is a tribute to BB’s love of opera, and her heroine’s great obsessions: ‘Mozart, sex and death’.

    Paperback £9.99
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  • Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat – A Biography

    Oliver Soden

    A biography of that most feline and superb of all creatures, Jeoffry, imortalised by Christopher Smart in his glorious mid-C18th paean. Charming, witty, profound, this is a marvellous biography of the poet and his world, as well of his companion, the “compleat cat”: tenacious, grave, wreathing, spraggling… Oliver Soden’s previous book was a much-praised biography of Michael Tippett (2019).

    Clothbound hardback £16.99
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  • Ben Nicholson: Distant Planes 1955-1979

    Edited by Matthew Travers

    Lovely catalogue to the current exhibition at Piano Nobile in Portland Road, London. Sea-green cloth spine and sturdy boards; the cover cunningly reproduces one of Nicholson’s reliefs- in relief. Comprises a mix of his carved abstract reliefs and landscape drawings, 22 in total, beautifully photographed and presented, from the period 1958-onwards when the artist lived in the Ticino, Switzerland. Includes some previously unpublished material on the period.  Accompanied by essays by Lee Beard, Peter Kharoche and Chris Stephens.

    Hardback £45.00
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  • Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

    Morozov: The Story of a Family and a Lost Collection

    Natalya Semenova

    From the author of the biography of Shchukin comes the story of another extraordinary pre-Revolutionary Russian collector of European art. He spent 1.5 million francs on 486 paintings, which stayed in storage for many decades.

    Hardback £25.00
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  • On Seamus Heaney

    On Seamus Heaney

    Roy Foster

    The eminent Irish historian and Yeats biographer works wonders with this assessment of the life, work and times of Seamus Heaney.

    Hardback £14.99
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  • Finding the Heart Sutra

    Finding the Heart Sutra

    Alex Kerr

    A fascinating introduction to one of the most important Buddhis texts, balanced by Kerr’s experiences in Kyoto, Tibet, Mongolia, Korea and India. Kerr has spent most of his adult life living and working in Japan; a writer, art dealer and calligrapher, he is the first foreigner to win a major prize for a work of non-fiction published in Japan.

    Hardback £14.99
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  • de Gournay: Art on the Walls: Everlasting Beauty, Hand-Painted Interiors

    Claud Cecil Gurney

    Richly illustrated book presenting the gorgeous Chinoiserie floral and avian wallpapers in the houses where they have been used. The author founded the company thirty years ago, setting up a studio in China with local artisans and painters.

    Hardback £59.95
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  • Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future

    Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Future

    Merlin Sheldrake

    This is an astonishing book that will change our understanding of the world in dizzying ways. Wohlleben’s ‘wood-wide web’ is but a part of the phantasmagoric abundance of fungal life that Sheldrake junior reveals. Everyone should read this.

    Hardback £20.00
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  • Décors Barbares: The Enchanting Interiors of Nathalie Farman-Farma

    Nathalie Farman-Farma, Miguel Flores Vianna

    This will be THE book in 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 party to celebrate this.

    Hardback £50.00
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  • Tales from the life of Bruce Wannell: Adventurer, Linguist, Orientalist

    Edited by Kevin Rushby

    There are those who swear he was a spy, others who insist he was too scatty or essentially lazy to be one. Whatever the truth, he was an exceptional linguist (Iranian, Afghan Persian, Arabic, Pushtu, Urdu, Swahili and the usual European languages) with connections in surprising places. His early death this year was a great sadness to many, including many writers who have contributed to this compendium of biographical tributes, published by Eland.

    Paperback £15.00
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  • Tales from the Colony Room: Soho's Lost Bohemia

    Tales from the Colony Room: Soho’s Lost Bohemia

    Darren Coffield

    The story of London’s notorious drinking den, the realm of the great and foul-mouthed Muriel Belcher. (It features, of course, in David Mitchell’s ‘Utopia Avenue’ – see Fiction, below)

    Hardback £25.00
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  • Summerwater

    Summerwater

    Sarah Moss

    SM has long seemed just on the edge of breaking into the literary big time. Her last novel (Ghost Wall, pbk £8.99) was a slim masterpiece in 2018, and this builds on the same eerie atmosphere and familial claustrophobia. Twelve narrators are trapped by rain in their holiday cottages on the banks of Loch Lomond. Over the course of one day they observe each other – sometimes with amusement, sometimes cruelty – and as the night falls, things begin to go terribly wrong.

    Hardback £14.99
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  • Ivon Hitchens: The Painter in the Woods

    Andrew Lambirth
    Hardback £16.95
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  • The Lost Library of the King of Portugal (Burlington)

    Angela Delaforce

    A labour of love and scholarship, this is a study of the extraordinary Royal Library of Dom Joao V (1706-1750) of Portugal that was destroyed in 1755 in the Lisbon earthquake. The library contained books, prints, drawings, a cabinet of natural history, scientific instruments, clocks… It was one of the finest royal libraries anywhere in Europe, but hitherto no proper evaluation of its contents and importance to the European Enlightenment has been made.

    This  book describes the creation of the library, the acquisitions (of single volumes as well as of entire libraries across Europe) and the diplomats engaged in negotiating those acquisitions. No general catalogue survives, so the author’s task has not been an easy one, but the result is stupendous.

    Large format, well illustrated.

    Hardback £45.00
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  • New Bats In Old Belfries

    £17.50
    Author Maurice Bowra Published by ISBN 0946976112 EAN 9780946976119 BIC Code Cover Hardback
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