Intermezzo – Sally Rooney
£9.99Dazzlingly accomplished novel set in Dublin in which two brothers find themselves emotionally adrift after the death of their father. Beautifully observed depiction of their inner thought processes and those of the women closest to them.
Is a River Alive? – Robert Macfarlane
£25.00
Island Calling – Francesca Segal (Signed)
£16.99Signed by the author.
On remote Tuga de Oro, vet Charlotte Walker has been taken to the islanders’ hearts and, between days on the farms and nights with a new love interest, she’s content to remain in blissful retreat from her real life, in London. Just for now, obviously. Until real life hits the island with the force of a tropical storm: Charlotte’s mother arrives.
Lucinda Compton-Neville knows an identity crisis when she sees one, and has come to haul her daughter back on course: back to England, back to her career, back home where she belongs. Funny, moving, and hope-filled, Island Calling is the joyous second novel in the Tuga Trilogy – about mothers and daughters; about holding on and letting go.
James – Percival Everett
£9.99Shortlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, the tale of Jim, an enslaved man desperate to evade being sold to a new owner in New Orleans, and young runaway Huck Finn, who travel along the perilous Mississippi in the hope of reaching the free states. Suffused with humour and compassion.
Juice – Tim Winton
£9.99Published 24th July
A man making his way through an apocalyptic landscape with a child passenger is captured by a loner living in an old mine, to whom he recounts their story of survival in a devastated post-climate-collapse world. Spellbinding and troubling.
Karla’s Choice – Nick Harkaway
£9.99In a worthy addition to the genre, John le Carré’s son brings Smiley out of retirement, two years after the fall of the Berlin Wall. It stands as both homage to his father and an excellent thriller in its own right.
Katabasis – R.F. Kuang (Signed)
£22.00Signed by the author.
Katabasis, noun, Ancient Greek. The story of a hero’s descent to the underworld.
Grad student Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become the brightest mind in the field of analytic magick. But the only person who can make her dream come true is dead and – inconveniently – in Hell. And Alice, along with her biggest rival Peter Murdoch, is going after him. But Hell is not as the philosophers claim, its rules are upside-down, and if she’s going to get out of there alive, she and Peter will have to work together.
That’s if they can agree on anything. Will they triumph, or kill each other trying?
La Mesa Mexicana: The Food of Mexico – Rosa Cienfuegos
£39.95
Legenda: The Real Women Behind the Myths That Shaped Europe – Janina Ramirez
£25.00
Lessons for Young Artists – David Gentleman
£20.00We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going. For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain’s best-known and most loved artists.
His watercolours have filled galleries; his iconic wood cuts are emblazoned across posters, book jackets and train stations; his stamps have made their way to the furthest corners of the world. Here, the great, polymathic artist and craftsman shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art. Unlike his contemporaries, Gentleman was never a teacher; his lessons are a sequence of unconventional prompts and reflections that will deepen how you think about art and the world around you.
Sincere, practical and unpretentious, Gentleman’s insights are a breath of fresh air. Here are new ways to focus, notice the world and cultivate your own style; techniques to evolve your work, from playing with time to painting in bad weather; methods for getting the most out of mistakes and negative criticism; and, above all, reminders to return, always, to the simple delights of creativity.
Lessons for Young Artists – David Gentleman (Signed)
£20.00Signed by the author.
We are all artists as children, painting and drawing each day. Most of us stop when we get older – but David Gentleman kept going. For over ninety years he has been drawing, painting, engraving and printing, rising to become one of Britain’s best-known and most loved artists.
His watercolours have filled galleries; his iconic wood cuts are emblazoned across posters, book jackets and train stations; his stamps have made their way to the furthest corners of the world. Here, the great, polymathic artist and craftsman shares what he has learned over the course of a lifetime of making and thinking about art. Unlike his contemporaries, Gentleman was never a teacher; his lessons are a sequence of unconventional prompts and reflections that will deepen how you think about art and the world around you.
Sincere, practical and unpretentious, Gentleman’s insights are a breath of fresh air. Here are new ways to focus, notice the world and cultivate your own style; techniques to evolve your work, from playing with time to painting in bad weather; methods for getting the most out of mistakes and negative criticism; and, above all, reminders to return, always, to the simple delights of creativity.
Lest We Forget: War and Peace in 100 British Monuments – Tessa Dunlop (Signed)
£22.00Signed by the author.
Lives Behind the Silver Screen: Era-Defining Obituaries of Iconic Film Stars – edited by Nigel Farndale
£16.99
Lone Wolf: Walking the Faultlines of Europe – Adam Weymouth
£18.99
Long Island – Colm Tóibín
£9.99After a shocking family revelation, Eilish returns to Ireland, 20 years after leaving to start a new life in America, and immerses herself once again in the small town where she grew up. A magnificent, involving tale of friendship, filial ties, love and regret.