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BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS 2015
JOHN SANDOE (BOOKS) LTD10 Blacklands Terrace, Chelsea, London SW3 2SR
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A selection of books to be published between now and Christmas
OPENING HOURS:Monday-Saturday: 9.30-6.30
From 1st December till Christmas: 9.30-7.00
We will close at 1pm on Christmas Eve & New Year’s Eve
We are open every Sunday: 11.00–5.00
(Sundays in December 11.00-6.00)
This year’s Cuckoo Press publication is a short story,
adapted from the first chapter of a novel in progress:
MONSIEUR KA
by Vesna Goldsworthy
BIOGRAPHY
LAST IMPERIALIST: A PORTRAIT OF JULIAN AMERYRichard BassettA privately published account of this extraordinary character, by the author of For King And Kaiser, and a Cuckoo Press pamphleteer .................................................... £21
ALIVE, ALIVE, OH! AND OTHER THINGS THAT MATTERDiana AthillFurther memoirs from a favourite literary lioness. Due in December ....................................................................... £12.99
AUGUSTINE: CONVERSIONS AND CONFESSIONSRobin Lane FoxA new interpretation of the man best known for his prayer ‘Give me chastity, but not yet’ .......................................................... £30
THE EMPEROR’S SHADOWAnne WhiteheadA biography of Betsy Balcombe, the teenage daughter of a St Helena merchant who was sent to dally with the new resident. She subsequently married a Regency cad (was there any other kind of Regency male?), then emigrated to Australia with her father in 1823 ................................................................................. £20
AFFIRMING: LETTERS 1975-1997Isaiah Berlin, edited by Henry Hardy & Mark PottleThe fourth and final volume ............................................................ £40
CHARLOTTE BRONTË: A LIFEClaire HarmanHarman has written books on Sylvia Townsend Warner (1989), Fanny Burney (2000), Robert Louis Stevenson (2005) and Jane Austen. This new biog of Charlotte B coincides with the 200th anniversary of her birth ...................................................................................... £25
STALIN’S ENGLISHMAN: THE LIVES OF GUY BURGESSAndrew LownieArgues convincingly that Burgess was more valuable to the Russians than Philby, Maclean and Blunt; and detested his Russian exile ...... £25
EMPIRE AND REVOLUTION: THE POLITICAL LIFE OF EDMUND BURKERichard BourkeA scholarly study of his life and work ........................................ £30.95
RAB BUTLER: THE BEST PRIME MINISTER WE NEVER HAD?Michael Jago ................................................................................... £25
JOHN LE CARRE: THE BIOGRAPHYAdam Sisman ................................................................................. £25
NO MORE CHAMPAGNE: CHURCHILL AND HIS MONEYDavid LoughThe story of Winston Churchill’s precarious finances. It transpires that his knack for getting out of tight corners was highly developed long before 1940 ..................................................................................... £25
WINSTON CHURCHILL REPORTING: ADVENTURES OF A YOUNG WAR CORRESPONDENTSimon Read ............................................................................... £17.99
FOOL FOR THY FEAST: THE LIFE TIMES OF TUBBY CLAYTON, 1885-1972Linda Parker A biography of one of the most charismatic Anglican priests of the C20th. It was he who set up Talbot House, the rest home behind the lines at Ypres, and afterwards he continued his ‘Toc H’ work in London and elsewhere .................................................................... £25
BRIEF CANDLE IN THE DARK: MY LIFE IN SCIENCERichard DawkinsStrutting his hour upon the stage .................................................... £20
THE REAL TRAVIATA: THE SONG OF MARIE DUPLESSISRené WeisAnother biography of La Dame aux Camélias - hot on the heels of Julie Kavanagh’s excellent Girl Who Loved Camelias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis (pbk £13.99) ....................................... £25
‘OFT IN DANGER’: THE LIFE AND CAMPAIGNS OF GENERAL SIR ANTHONY FARRAR-HOCKLEYJonathan RileyA biography of the scholar-soldier, who served in Greece, Palestine, Korea, Cyprus, Jordan, Borneo, Northern Ireland and became Commander-in-Chief of Nato’s Northern Region ....................... £29.95
OUTSIDER: MY LIFE IN INTRIGUEFrederick ForsythThe autobiography by the author of The Day Of The Jackal etc makes his thrillers seem rather tame ......................................... £20
THE MAN WITH THE GOLDEN TYPEWRITER: IAN FLEMING’S JAMES BOND LETTERSEdited by Fergus FlemingFleming really did have a gold-plated typewriter ............................ £25
FRANCIS: POPE OF GOOD PROMISE: FROM ARGENTINA’S BERGOGLIO TO THE WORLD’S FRANCISJimmy BurnsThe author was the FT correspondent in Buenos Aires in the 1980s. His previous books draw on that experience too, and they are all excellent ................................................................ £25
FREDERICK THE GREAT: KING OF PRUSSIATim BlanningBesides Nancy Mitford, there was Giles MacDonogh in 1999, David Fraser in 2000… Now Blanning brings his wide knowledge of C18th Europe to the subject ...................................................................... £30
FROST: THAT WAS THE LIFE THAT WASNeil HegartyThe authorised biography ............................................................... £25
THE RICHEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED: THE LIFE AND TIMES OF JACOB FUGGERGreg SteinmetzFugger (1459-1525) cut his financial teeth in Venice and went on to make his fortune bankrolling the Hapsburgs, obtaining papal consent to money-lending and provoking Luther to write his Ninety-Five Theses ..................................................................... £20
POUR ME: A LIFEA.A. GillA memoir of the year between the end of his marriage and the end of his drinking .......................................................................... £20
AMAZING GRACE: THE MAN WHO WAS W.G.Richard Tomlinson Not so much an account of his cricketing achievements as of his role as a modern celebrity in Victorian society ......................... £25
PEGGY GUGGENHEIM: THE SHOCK OF THE MODERNFrancine ProseA lively portrait of the great patroness and collector, in the Yale ‘Jewish Lives’ series .................................................................... £16.99
THE LOST DETECTIVE: BECOMING DASHIELL HAMMETTNathan WardMakes DH’s life seem like one of his subsequent novels ........... £16.99
HEMINGWAY IN LOVE: HIS OWN STORYA. E. HotchnerBased on conversations in the last weeks of Hemingway’s life, in which it seems he was very frank about women. Apparently Hotchner withheld publication in deference to Hemingway’s widow. Perhaps it has taken the subsqeuent 20 years to remember what the great man said - and be sure there’s no one else left to dispute it? ............. £14.99
THE PRISONER OF KATHMANDU: BRIAN HODGSON IN NEPAL 1820-43Charles AllenPosted to Kathmandu as a junior political officer, Hodgson became a major figure of western Orientalism. As well as being an account of this remarkable person, this is also a history of Asian studies in the West; from an author with a reliable, light touch ............................ £20
TED HUGHES: THE UNAUTHORISED LIFEJonathan BateBate is one of the best contemporary writers on Shakespeare and he wrote a superb biography of John Clare. He is likely to prove a sensitive authority in this first attempt at a full life of our complex former customer .............................................................................. £30
THE INVENTION OF NATURE: THE ADVENTURES OF ALEXANDER VON HUMBOLDT, THE LOST HERO OF SCIENCEAndrea WulfAlthough scarcely known now, von Humboldt was once a figure of immense importance. His travels in South America and Russia were a crucial influence on Darwin, Verne and other luminaries. He also predicted human-induced climate change ...................................... £25
THE ASTRONOMER AND THE WITCH: JOHANNES KEPLER’S FIGHT FOR HIS MOTHERUlinka RublackKepler himself conducted his mother’s defence at her six-year trial. A fascinating insight into the early C17th world, teetering between superstition and science.................................................................. £20
KISSINGER: 1923-1968: THE IDEALISTNiall FergusonDraws not only on Kissinger’s hitherto closed private papers but also on documents from more than a hundred archives. An immense, authoritative book, the first of 2 vols............................................... £35
A VILLAGE CHRISTMAS: AND OTHER NOTES ON THE ENGLISH YEARLaurie LeeA new collection of short pieces drawn from the Lee archives ... £9.99
THE LOST TUDOR PRINCESS: A LIFE OF MARGARET DOUGLAS, COUNTESS OF LENNOXAlison Weir
Lady-in-waiting to five of Henry VIII’s wives, etc ............................. £20
MARTIN LUTHER: VISIONARY REFORMERScott H. Hendrix
A major new work, focussing on his personal relationships and political motivations rather than on his theology alone.................. £25
THE MAISKY DIARIES: RED AMBASSADOR TO THE COURT OF ST. JAMES’S, 1932-1943Gabriel Gorodetsky
These remarkable diaries by the Russian ambassador, published for the first time in English, give insights into Kremlin as well as British policy-making .................................................................................. £25
TAKE SIX GIRLS: THE LIVES OF THE MITFORD SISTERSLaura Thompson
The author has written good books on Agatha Christie, Lord Lucan and Nancy Mitford ........................................................ £25
NEMESIS: ONE MAN AND THE BATTLE FOR RIOMisha Glenny
The story of Brazil’s most wanted criminal ................................ £18.99
PROUST: THE SEARCHBenjamin Taylor
In the Yale ‘Jewish Lives’ series. Taylor shows how different events and emotional upheavals fired Proust’s imagination and how, sometimes completely transformed, they appeared in his work .................. £16.99
DEVOID OF SHYNESS: FROM THE JOURNAL 1926-39Alan Pryce-Jones
This could helpfully, perhaps, be subtitled ‘Diary Of A Bright Young Thing’; or ‘The Youthful Adventures of a TLS Editor’. The manuscript was consigned to a bank vault after WW2 ...................................... £20
RICHARD III: A RULER AND HIS REPUTATIONDavid Horspool
This biography should bring some much-needed balance to the story of the last Yorkist King. .................................................................... £20
THE MAN WHO BUILT THE BEST CAR IN THE WORLDBrian Sewell
The man’s name was Royce, and the car was the Silver Ghost .... £11.99
KING OF KINGS: THE TRIUMPH AND TRAGEDY OF EMPEROR HAILE SELASSIE I OF ETHIOPIAAsfa-Wossen Asserate, foreword by Thomas Pakenham
A biography by his great-nephew .................................................... £20
SPEER: HITLER’S ARCHITECTMartin Kitchen
A new account of Speer’s role in Nazi Germany before and during WW2 that disputes his professed ignorance of Nazi crimes against humanity ......................................................... £20
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH BOOK OF MILITARY OBITUARIES: BOOK 3David Twiston-Davies ..................................................................... £20
JOSEPHINE TEY: A LIFE
Jennifer Morag Henderson
Tey was only one of this fascinating woman’s pseudonyms, and her cover photograph makes her look extraordinarily like Richard III, the subject of her best-known work The Daughter Of Time ........... £19.99
THATCHER’S TRIAL: SIX MONTHS THAT DEFINED A LEADER
Kwasi Kwarteng
The six months in question were early 1981 - hunger strikes, unemployment and a restless Conservative Party ........................... £20
MARGARET THATCHER: THE AUTHORISED BIOGRAPHY, VOLUME 2: EVERYTHING SHE WANTS
Charles Moore
The much-awaited second volume .................................................. £30
THE WITNESS
George Tomaziu, translated by Jane Reid
The memoir of a Romanian artist who spied for the British in WW2 .................................................................... pbk £12.99
ÉAMON DE VALERA: A WILL TO POWER
Ronan Fanning
The first full biography of one of the most remarkable men in the history of modern Ireland ............................................................... £20
GEORGE & MARTHA WASHINGTON: A REVOLUTIONARY MARRIAGE
Flora Fraser
The story of the awkward young soldier and the charming, rich young widow whom he married. A fine instance of the dictum that behind every great man there is a great woman ...................... £25
CHARLES WILLIAMS: THE THIRD INKLING
Grevel Lindop
Co-Inkling with C S Lewis and Tolkien, Williams was a publisher, literary critic, dramatist, theologian, occultist, poet ......................... £25
ZOLA AND THE VICTORIANS
Eileen Horne, introduction by David Bellos
A century before the famous Lady Chatterley trial came that of Henry Vizetelly, Zola’s English translator and publisher, an old man who was sentenced to hard labour for his struggle against censorship ...................................................................... £14.99
Five more titles in the excellent ‘Penguin Monarchs’ series. We’re particularly excited that the great John Gillingham has contributed the volume on William Rufus:
WILLIAM II: THE RED KING John Gillingham
STEPHEN: THE REIGN OF ANARCHY Carl Watkins
HENRY V: FROM PLAYBOY PRINCE TO WARRIOR KING Anne Curry
WILLIAM IV: A KING AT SEA Roger Knight
QUEEN ELIZABETH II: THE STEADFAST Douglas Hurd .............................£10.99
HISTORY
BOG BODIES UNCOVERED: SOLVING EUROPE’S ANCIENT MYSTERYMiranda Aldhouse-Green, introduction by Val McDermidThe use of forensic analysis to examine the ancient bodies recovered from peat bogs over Northern Europe makes this book a worthy follow-up to Professor Glob’s seminal work............................... £18.95
SPQR: A HISTORY OF ANCIENT ROMEMary BeardYou may be forgiven for thinking you’ve come across this before, but this is much broader in scope than her previous books ................. £25
PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE: UK80-82Andy BeckettMore social history from the author of the excellent When The Lights Went Out: Britain In The Seventies (pbk £12.99) ......................... £20
BLOOD, DREAMS, AND GOLD: THE CHANGING FACE OF BURMARichard CockettA survey from the colonial period to the present, from the former South-East Asian correspondent for the Economist .................... £18.99
THE BOOK OF MAGIC: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE ENLIGHTENMENTEdited by Brian CopenhaverAn anthology that includes Aquinas, Milton, Dee, Ptolemy and Paracelsus ................................................................... £30
THE CONQUERORS: HOW PORTUGAL SEIZED THE INDIAN OCEAN AND FORGED THE FIRST GLOBAL EMPIRERoger CrowleyEpic narrative history of Portugal’s maritime expansion. Astounding intrepidity, cruelty, and growth - all in the name of Christianity, and in a mere 30 years (1483-1515). Without the Portuguese there could have been no Spanish, nor British, empires. This is a startling story, superbly told ................................................................................... £20
SPITALFIELDS: THE HISTORY OF A NATION IN A HANDFUL OF STREETSDan CruickshankBy an architectural historian who has lived there for 40 years ....... £25
BY STEPPE, DESERT, AND OCEAN: THE BIRTH OF EURASIABarry CunliffeAn exploration of ‘connectivity and mobility’ from early prehistory to the fourteenth century, which does for Central Asia what his magnificent Europe Between The Oceans and Britain Begins did for Europe and Britain respectively. Cunliffe is a serious archaeologist who succeeds triumphantly in making complicated data and serious ideas intelligible to non-specialists too ............................................ £30
IN NELSON’S WAKE: THE NAVY AND THE NAPOLEONIC WARSJames DaveyFrom dockyards to Whitehall, this history covers battles, blockades, convoys and raids, 1803-1815 ........................................ £25
A LITTLE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATESJames West DavidsonAnother in the Yale ‘Little History’ series .................................... £14.99
THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTICJonathan Dimbleby ........................................................................ £25
FIGHT FOR A THRONE: THE JACOBITE ‘45 RECONSIDEREDChristopher Duffy
544 pages of brilliant analysis .......................................................... £35
BALFOUR’S WORLD: ARISTOCRACY AND POLITICAL CULTURE AT THE FIN DE SIECLENancy W Ellenberger
A serious work drawing on the letters and diaires of Balfour’s friends - Wyndhams, Tennants, etc ................................................... £30
FIGHTERS IN THE SHADOWS: A NEW HISTORY OF THE FRENCH RESISTANCERobert Gildea
An authoritative account of the myths and the realities from the author of Marianne In Chains ....................................................... £20
SECRET WAR: SPIES, CIPHERS AND GUERILLAS 1939-1945Max Hasting
Covers not only Bletchley but also the Abwehr, and Soviet and Japanese Intelligence. In this remarkable work of synthesis, Hastings shows how what was done with intelligence was more significant than what it was, or how it was got ................................................ £30
THE WAR IN THE WEST VOL 1: GERMANY ASCENDANT 1939-41James Holland
A new history that takes into account the economic, political and social as well as the military aspects of WW2 ................................. £25
DYNASTY: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE HOUSE OF CAESARTom Holland
Excellent, readable history of Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula, Agrippina, Nero. Sequel to his Rubicon (pbk £12.99). Sadly, but understandably, overlooks J R Ewing in his praedium called Southfork .................. £25
HUBRIS: THE TRAGEDY OF WAR IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURYAlistair Horne
Horne takes six battles, including Tsushima, Hitler’s attempt on Moscow and Dien Bien Phu, to illustrate the catastrophic consequences of arrogance ............................................................. £25
THE SILENT DEEP: THE ROYAL NAVY SUBMARINE SERVICE SINCE 1945James Jinks & Peter Hennessy
Written with privileged access to documents and personnel ........ £30
TO HELL AND BACK: EUROPE, 1914-1949Ian Kershaw
This contribution to the ‘Penguin History of Europe’ series is by one of our most eminent historians ....................................................... £30
BEDA: A JOURNEY TO THE SEVEN KINGDOMS AT THE TIME OF BEDEHenrietta Leyser
A useful gazetteer for Bede’s England: Leominster, Lichfield... Whithorn,Whitby ............................................................................ £20
THE OTTOMAN ENDGAME: WAR, REVOLUTION AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST, 1908-1923Sean McMeekin ............................................................................... £30
THE MAPMAKER’S WORLD: THE CULTURAL HISTORY OF THE EUROPEAN WORLD MAPMarjo T. Nurminen ......................................................................... £50
THE INVENTION OF RUSSIA: THE JOURNEY FROM GORBACHEV’S FREEDOM TO PUTIN’S WARArkady OstrovskyFrom the translator into Russian of Tom Stoppard’s The Coast Of Utopia, and a regular contributor to the FT and the Economist..... £20
THE GATES OF EUROPE: A HISTORY OF UKRAINESerhii Plokhy ................................................................................... £20
ELEGY: THE FIRST DAY ON THE SOMMEAndrew RobertsBy the author of last year’s Napoleon: A Life ................................... £20
GHOST PATROL: A HISTORY OF THE LONG RANGE DESERT GROUP, 1940-1945John SadlerAddresses not only their activities in North Africa but also how, after the defeat of the Axis in North Africa, they adapted to serve in the Mediterranean, the Greek Islands, Albania, Yugoslavia and Greece ................................................................................. £19.99
THE GREAT BRITISH DREAM FACTORY: THE STRANGE HISTORY OF OUR NATIONAL IMAGINATIONDominic SandbrookWhy, in the post-Imperial era, does British popular culture punch so much above its weight around the world? ...................................... £25
THE END OF THE COLD WARRobert ServiceA history of the fall of the USSR and its European satellite states by the acclaimed biographer of Stalin, Lenin and Trotsky ............... £25
BLACK EARTH: THE HOLOCAUST AS HISTORY AND WARNINGTimothy SnyderBy the author of the brilliant Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler And Stalin (pbk £10.99). He is superb - and disturbing - on the ways in which slaughter occurred as a result of policies rather than incidental casualties of war ............................................................. £25
CLASSICAL CIVILIZATION: GREEKS AND ROMANS IN TEN CHAPTERSNigel SpiveyFrom Troy to Constantinople, via Athens, Sparta, Syracuse, Utopia, Alexandria, Pergamon, Rome and Ephesus ................................. £16.99
THE GERMAN WAR: A NATION UNDER ARMS, 1939-45Nicholas StargardtThis excellent book tells the story of the war from the German perspective, making use of first-hand testimonies to show not only how it was experienced but also how it was viewed at home ....... £30
COVENTRY: THURSDAY, 14TH NOVEMBER 1940Frederick TaylorBy the author of Dresden, Tuesday 13th February 1945............... £20
KARL DOENITZ AND THE LAST DAYS OF THE THIRD REICHBarry Turner ................................................................................... £20
HOW TO PLAN A CRUSADE: REASON AND RELIGIOUS WAR IN THE MIDDLE AGESChristopher TyermanA jokey title, but this is a serious book on the Crusades by their pre-eminent scholar......................................................................... £25
BEWARE THE RUGGED RUSSIAN BEAR: BRITISH ADVENTURERS EXPOSING THE BOLSHEVIKS
John Ure
The story of how the horrors of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia and the ensuing chaos came to be known in the West, by means of diplomats, spies, travellers, even governesses .................................. £20
THE LONDON COUNTY COUNCIL BOMB DAMAGE MAPS 1939-1945
Edited by Laurence Ward
Each day during the Blitz, Churchill was handed detailed maps showing areas of the previous day’s bombardment shaded in different coloured watercolours to indicate severity - black for total destruction, indigo for damaged beyond repair... These are reproduced here, together with annotations and superb images of the damage. This is a remarkable book, carefully thought through and perfectly executed ...................................................... £48
THE STRUGGLE FOR SEA POWER: A NAVAL HISTORY OF AMERICAN INDEPENDENCE
Sam Willis
How did thirteen isolated colonies, who in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth? ................................... £30
POLITICS & CURRENT AFFAIRS
WINTER IS COMING: WHY VLADIMIR PUTIN AND THE ENEMIES OF THE FREE WORLD MUST BE STOPPED
Garry Kasparov
By the former world chess champion and long-standing critic of Putin.............................................................................. £16.99
THE HEALTH GAP: THE CHALLENGE OF AN UNEQUAL WORLD
Michael Marmot
The social determinants of health, in our own back yards and across the globe, are discussed by Marmot, professor and senior government advisor ......................................................................... £20
THE JOY OF TAX
Richard Murphy
The perfect stocking-filler .......................................................... £16.99
THE ECONOMICS OF INEQUALITY
Thomas Piketty
A slim volume from the author of last year’s bestselling Capital...................................................................... £16.95
FOOLS, FRAUDS AND FIREBRANDS: THINKERS OF THE NEW LEFT
Roger Scruton
NB. As of September 12th, this is now the Old Left. The title rather gives away his thesis .....................................£16.99
CAMERON AT 10: THE INSIDE STORY OF 2010-2015
Peter Snowdon & Anthony Seldon ................................................. £20
BLACK FLAGS: THE RISE OF ISISJoby Warrick ............................................................................... £18.99
Three useful new volumes. We note that the one on the Liberals is the longest, and that the Rt Hon Jeremy Corbyn, MP does not feature in the Labour volume. Whether that is on a point of principle or because the books went to print in August, we’ll leave you to decide.
BRITISH CONSERVATIVE LEADERSEdited by Toby James, Charles Clarke, Patrick Diamond & Tim BaleBRITISH LABOUR LEADERSEdited by Charles Clarke & Toby JamesBRITISH LIBERAL LEADERSEdited by Tony Little, Robert Ingham & Duncan Brack ............... £25
FICTION
THE JAPANESE LOVERIsabel AllendeA love story between a Jewish refugee and a Japanese gardener, set in America during the Second World War. Pearl Harbour brings a premature end to their relationship but they stay in contact for much of the rest of their lives .................................................... £16.99
THE HEART GOES LASTMargaret Atwood A sinister novel set in the near future, in which the lawless go free and the lawful are locked up ............................................... £18.99
THE BLUE GUITARJohn BanvilleStory of a frail man with a passion for possession, told in characteristically entrancing prose ............................................ £14.99
SWEET CARESSWilliam BoydA narrative that engages with C20th history through the character of a woman photographer: Berlin in the 1930s, Normandy, Vietnam… Boyd’s knack for compelling narrative remains undiminished ................................................................ £18.99
BLADE OF LIGHTAndrea CamilleriThe 19th Montalbano book, which sees the inspector’s usual ingenuity a little fuzzed by romantic distraction ........................ £16.99
THE EARLY STORIES OF TRUMAN CAPOTETruman Capote ......................................................................... £14.99
MAKE MELee ChildA new Jack Reacher novel ............................................................... £20
NUMBER 11: OR TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESSJonathan CoeComedy and politics - the British zeitgeist wickedly lampooned by the author of The Rotters’ Club .................................................. £16.99
THE CROSSINGMichael ConnellyA new Harry Bosch crime novel ................................................ £19.99
A WILD SWAN AND OTHER TALESMichael CunninghamFairy tales re-imagined for the present day ................................ £14.99
DEMOCRACYAnnie di Donna, Abraham Kawa & Alecos PapadatosA graphic novel about the origin of democracy from the authors of Logicomix and others ......................................................... pbk £18.99
NUMERO ZEROUmberto EcoPost-WW2 Italy provides the background for this intelligent detective story ............................................................................ £16.99
WHERE MY HEART USED TO BEATSebastian FaulksTells the story of an aging doctor looking back at the events of the twentieth century with his enigmatic host on a French island ....... £20
FRONT RUNNERFelix FrancisMore equestrian skulduggery ..................................................... £18.99
PURITYJonathan FranzenAnother big novel, in the same vein as The Corrections and Freedom. This one has an engaging heroine in search of a father who gets drawn by an Assange-like figure into a cult based in Bolivia. It turns on a comparison between a well-researched portrait of the GDR and internet surveillance - and the sensibility is definitely Californian ................................................... £20
CAPTAIN IN CALICOGeorge Macdonald FraserThe first, previously unpublished novel by the creator of Flashman. Concerns the exploits of an entertaining pirate working out of New Providence in the 1720s ........................... £16.99
CAREER OF EVILRobert GalbraithThe third in J K Rowling’s pseudonymous crime series about private detective Cormoran Strike .............................................................. £20
THE PASTTessa HadleyThree sisters and a brother meet up in their grandparents’ old house for three long, hot summer weeks. Hadley is often referred to as ‘a writer’s writer’, which seems to mean that she is widely admired by critics but has yet to hit bestseller lists........ £16.99
DICTATORRobert HarrisThe much-awaited conclusion to his ‘Cicero’ trilogy ...................... £20
THE COLLECTED SHORT STORIESDermot Healy ................................................................................. £20
TRIGGER MORTIS: A JAMES BOND NOVELAnthony HorowitzThe latest in the Bond franchise. Given Horowitz’s two recent and ebulliently creepy Sherlock Holmes books, this should be fun - and it has already received rapturous praise ...................... £18.99
SUBMISSIONMichel HouellebecqThe English translation of the novel that will always be connected with the tragedy of Charlie Hebdo in Paris. The plot envisages a freely elected Islamist government in France, reflecting Houellebecq’s disgust at the venality of the Gallic establishment ..................... £18.99
A SNOW GARDEN & OTHER STORIESRachel JoyceSlim collection of seven stories set at Christmas from the author of The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry ...................................... £9.99
HAND OF GODPhilip KerrHis second Scott Manson thriller, where death comes on the football pitch .............................................................................. £12.99
THE GREAT SWINDLEPierre LemaitreFrom a French author known to some of our customers for three very creepy thrillers (Alex, Irene, Camille) comes a tremendous, intelligent and exciting - and Goncourt Prize-winning - novel of a very different ilk set in the aftermath of WW1 ........................... £18.99
DANCING ON THE OUTSKIRTSShena MackayA new collection of stories......................................................... £16.99
CHILDREN OF THE MASTERAndrew MarrMarr’s second novel is about the fallout of a Labour election victory in 2018. The party’s MPs decide they need to give their leader the heave-ho. Maybe not a novel after all ......................................... £18.99
THE YELLOW DIAMOND: A CRIME OF THE SUPER-RICHAndrew MartinThriller set in modern Mayfair from the author of The Baghdad Railway Club ...................................................... £14.99
END GAMES IN BORDEAUXAllan MassieA thrilling climax to Massie’s ‘Bordeaux’ quartet, featuring the magnificent, tired Superintendent Lannes trying to apply justice under the occupying Nazis ...................................................... pbk £12
THIRTEEN WAYS OF LOOKINGColum McCannA new novella and three stories ................................................. £16.99
Following Bloomsbury’s publication in August of three of Patrick Modiano’s early novels as The Occupation Trilogy (hbk £18.99), the MacLehose Press has published two others by Modiano:
PEDIGREEPart fiction, part memoir ............................................................ £14.99
SO YOU DON’T GET LOST IN THE NEIGHBOURHOODA mysterious novella about a writer winkled out of seclusion by a threatening phone call from a stranger ...................................... £14.99
SLADE HOUSEDavid MitchellAn extended ghost story from the author of The Bone Clocks etc................................................................... £12.99
BEASTS ROYAL: TWELVE TALES OF ADVENTUREPatrick O’BrianO’Brian’s second book, first published in 1934. The stories are set in the South Seas, the Punjab, the African jungle ............................ £12.99
THE LITTLE RED CHAIRSEdna O’BrienHer first novel in a decade: a Balkan war criminal settles in a small coastal community in the west of Ireland with devastating consequences ............................................................................. £18.99
A STRANGENESS IN MY MINDOrhan PamukAnother long novel, observing 50 years of change in Istanbul, and reflecting on the nature of human aspirations and happiness ........ £20
ARCADIAIain PearsAn adventure with three interlocking stories, from the author of An Instance Of The Fingerpost .................................................. £18.99
THE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, VOLUME ONE: FROM DANIEL DEFOE TO P.G. WODEHOUSETHE PENGUIN BOOK OF THE SHORT STORY, VOLUME TWO: FROM JOHN BUCHAN TO ZADIE SMITHBoth vols edited by Philip Hensher ................................................ £25
GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERSMax PorterA powerful short novel in which a dreamlike substantiation of Ted Hughes’s Crow converses with a bereaved husband and his two sons ..................................................................................... £10
EVEN DOGS IN THE WILDIan RankinAnother Rebus thriller ................................................................ £19.99
SCARPIAPiers Paul ReadHistorical novel about one of opera’s greatest villains ............... £16.99
DARK CORNERSRuth RendellHer last book .............................................................................. £18.99
THE MOUNTAIN SHADOWGregory David RobertsThe long-awaited sequel to Shantaram .......................................... £20
TWO YEARS EIGHT MONTHS & TWENTY EIGHT NIGHTSSalman RushdieThousand And One Nights meets Magical Realism in New York. Could happen to anyone ............................................................ £18.99
SLANTING OF THE SUN: STORIESDonal RyanFrom the author of The Spinning Heart .................................... £12.99
LATE FAMEArthur Schnitzler, translated by Alexander StarrittThis satirical and long-lost novella was published for the first time in Germany last year. A group of cynical young avant-gardists play upon the vanity of a middle-aged civil servant ........................ £15
STORIES FROM OTHER PLACESNicholas ShakespeareShort stories with backdrops from Australia to Colombia .......... £16.99
INSPECTOR MAIGRET OMNIBUS: 2Georges SimenonSecond annual omnibus edition ................................................. £18.99
COCKFOSTERSHelen SimpsonIt’s been a while since there was a new book from Simpson, but she has long been regarded as a superb short story writer; an English Alice Munro ............................................................... £15.99
THE GOLDEN AGEJane SmileyThe concluding book of her acclaimed ‘Last Hundred Years’ trilogy ........................................................ £18.99
PUBLIC LIBRARY AND OTHER STORIESAli Smith .................................................................................... £16.99
THE WOMEN OF LAZARUSMarina StepnovaA sweeping novel set in Russia in the C20th, shortlisted for the Russian Booker Prize ........................................................... pbk £11.99
KATHERINE CARLYLERupert ThomsonThe eponymous Katherine Carlyle is created using IVF, then stored as a frozen embryo for eight years. Thomson is a good novelist and this is a moving work about where we come from, what we make of ourselves, and how we are loved ........................................... £14.99
FAITH AND BEAUTYJane ThynneA fourth appearance for Clara Vine, an actress living in Berlin and agent for British intelligence just before WW2 ................................ £20
THE DIVER’S CLOTHES LIE EMPTYVendela VidaThis nifty psychological thriller about identity is set in Casablanca and peopled with shady women ................................................ £14.99
GHOSTEdited by Louise WelshA huge anthology of ghost stories ................................................... £20
THE GAP OF TIME: THE WINTER’S TALE RETOLDJeanette WintersonThe first in a new series of reconstituted Shakespearean scenarios. This one has Leontes (‘Leo Kaiser’) in a mess after the financial crash ...................................................................... £16.99
POETRY
UNICORN: THE POETRY OF ANGELA CARTERAngela Carter & Rosemary HillA collection of Carter’s poetry published 1963-1971 .................. £9.99
THE COLLECTED POEMS OF CAROL ANN DUFFY Carol Ann Duffy ............................................................................. £25
THE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOLUME ONETHE POEMS OF T.S. ELIOT, VOLUME TWO
Edited by Christopher Ricks ................................................each £40
GRAVEL IN MY SHOEJohn Fuller ............................................................................ pbk £9.99
ALTERNATIVE VALUES: POEMS & PAINTINGSFrieda Hughes.......................................................................... pbk £12
THE BONNIEST COMPANIEKathleen JamieA new collection from one of Scotland’s foremost writers ........ £14.99
WAR MUSIC: AN ACCOUNT OF HOMER’S ILIADChristopher LogueAll the books of the late Logue’s modern re-imagining of the Iliad brought together in one volume. Includes an appendix, edited by Christopher Reid, of the unfinished last section ........................ £16.99
WE BRITISH: THE POETRY OF A PEOPLEAndrew Marr .................................................................................. £25
40 SONNETSDon PatersonHis first new collection since Rain in 2009 ............................... £14.99
COLLECTED POEMSVikram Seth .................................................................................... £30
COLLECTED POEMS AND DRAWINGS OF STEVIE SMITHStevie Smith, edited by William May .............................................. £35
AN ANTHOLOGY OF MINERex Whistler, introduction by Hugh Cecil & Mirabel CecilA facsimile edition of the “little anthology” of favourite poems compiled and illustrated in an exercise book by RW in 1923, when he was 18. In a slipcase with an introductory booklet by the Cecils & with an afterword by Laurence Whistler ............... £40
LITERATURE & IDEAS
HOPE WITHOUT OPTIMISMTerry EagletonPandora opened the box into which Professor Eagleton shines his inimitable light ...................................................................... £18.99
THE POWER OF READING: FROM SOCRATES TO TWITTERFrank Furedi ................................................................................... £20
WEATHERLAND: WRITERS AND ARTISTS UNDER ENGLISH SKIESAlexandra Harris
A fascinating book about the pathetic fallacy on a grand scale, from the author of the superb The Romantic Moderns - see our Recent Favourites below ........................................................................ £24.95
THE COLLECTED ESSAYS OF ARTHUR MILLERArthur Miller, edited by Matthew C Roudane ............................... £30
THAT’S NOT ENGLISH: BRITISHISMS, AMERICANISMS AND WHAT OUR ENGLISH SAYS ABOUT USErin Moore ................................................................................. £14.99
LIVING ON PAPER: LETTERS FROM IRIS MURDOCH 1934-1995Iris Murdoch, edited by Avril Horner & Anne Rowe
From her schoolgirl days to her last years, in one large volume ..... £25
THE GIVENNESS OF THINGSMarilynne Robinson
A new collection of essays from the author of Gilead and Lila .......................................................................... £18.99
SECOND HAND STORIESJosh Spero
A memoir that celebrates lives connected through second-hand books ..................................................................... £14.99
MORE LETTERS OF NOTE: CORRESPONDENCE DESERVING OF A WIDER AUDIENCE: VOLUME 2Shaun Usher
Yes, this is more of the same. But vol 1 was wonderful, and why shouldn’t there be more? (Will this become an Xmas fixture?) ...... £30
THE BRAIN: THE STORY OF YOUDavid Eagleman
As a distinguished neuroscientist and entertaining writer, this author is the ideal cicerone to the brain .................................. £20
UNFORBIDDEN PLEASURESAdam Phillips
How do these, so often overlooked, compare with the prohibited ones and all their surrounding rules? The exuberant fruit of a wide-ranging intelligence ........................................................... £14.99
13.8: THE QUEST TO FIND THE TRUE AGE OF THE UNIVERSE AND THE THEORY OF EVERYTHINGJohn Gribbin .............................................................................. £16.99
THE EVOLUTION OF EVERYTHING: HOW IDEAS EMERGEMatt Ridley
Not so much top-down as bottom-up. Revealing new book by the author of Genome ..................................................................... £20
THE INVENTION OF SCIENCE: A NEW HISTORY OF THE SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTIONDavid Wootton
The story of how a shift in the idea of what ‘discovery’ and ‘progress’ might mean transformed the nature of scientific enquiry and the possibilities of knowledge ............................................................... £30
ART & EXHIBITIONS
NORMAN ACKROYD: A HEBRIDEAN NOTEBOOKNorman AckroydA twin to his delightful A Shetland Notebook (2014) ............... £16.95
SYBIL ANDREWS LINOCUTS: A COMPLETE CATALOGUEHana Leaper ................................................................................... £30
FRANCIS BACON IN YOUR BLOOD: A MEMOIRMichael PeppiattPeppiatt has written about Bacon before, but this is the first narrative of their friendship. He’s rightly been referred to as ‘Bacon’s Boswell’ ..................................................................... £25
THE BAUERS JOSEPH, FRANZ & FERDINAND: AN ILLUSTRATED BIOGRAPHYHans Walter LackAccompanies the exhibition of the celebrated botanical artists at the Natural History Museum ....................................................... £60
BAWDEN, RAVILIOUS AND THE ARTISTS OF GREAT BARDFIELDEdited by Malcolm Yorke & Gill SaundersIllustrated account of the community in Essex where Bawden, Ravilious and other artists lived in the 1930s, and which continues today ............................................................................... £25
PORTRAITS: JOHN BERGER ON ARTISTSJohn BergerAn illustrated walk through many centuries of visual culture from one of the world’s most revered commentators .................... £25
ETERNITY’S SUNRISE: THE IMAGINATIVE WORLD OF WILLIAM BLAKELeo DamroschA generously illustrated account of Blake’s life and vision ......... £18.99
FLOWERS IN CHINESE PAINTINGS: THE PICTURESQUE FOUR SEASONS FROM 10TH TO 20TH CENTURYA magnificent book from the team who gave us the glorious unfolding book on the 15-metre picture that was shown at the V&A in the Chinese Art exhibition in 2013 ............................... £80
PAINTING THE MODERN GARDEN: MONET TO MATISSEMonty Don et alExplores the relationship in the late C19th between artists and gardens. Accompanies RA exhibition in 2016 ................................. £48
DUTCH ART AND URBAN CULTURES, 1200-1700Elisabeth de BievreA fascinating unpicking of the Dutch Golden Age that focusses on the artistic particularities of seven cities ................................... £40
ASIA IN AMSTERDAM: THE CULTURE OF LUXURY IN THE GOLDEN AGEEdited by Jan Van Campen & Karina CorriganCatalogue for the Rijksmuseum exhibition ..................................... £40
MASTERS OF THE EVERYDAY: DUTCH ARTISTS IN THE AGE OF VERMEERQuentin Buvelot & Desmond Shawe-Taylor Catalogue from the Royal Collection ........................................ £29.95
CHRISTOPHER W ECKERSBERGKasper MonradCatalogue of the exhibition at the Danish National Gallery (in English) of one of the most important figures of the Danish Golden Age .......................................................................... £40
FLORENCE: THE PAINTINGS AND FRESCOES, 1250-1743Ross King & Anja GrebeEvery painted work that is on display in the Uffizi Gallery, the Pitti Palace, the Accademia, and the Duomo is included in the book, plus many more ........................................................... £50
GIACOMETTI: PURE PRESENCEPaul MoorhouseAccompanies exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery ........... £29.95
ANDY GOLDSWORTHY: EPHEMERAL WORKS: 2004-2014Andy GoldsworthyTen years of new wonders - vanished, apart from what remains in Goldsworthy’s photographs ............................................................ £50
PARISH CHURCH TREASURES: THE NATION’S GREATEST ART COLLECTIONJohn GoodallA good idea for a book; nicely (and inexpensively) done................ £25
GOYA: THE PORTRAITSXavier BrayFine catalogue to accompany the autumn exhibition at the National Gallery ........................................................................ £35
EILEEN GRAY: THE PRIVATE PAINTERPeter Adam & Andrew LambirthFar better known as a designer and architect, Gray painted all her life too. This book uses previously unpublished work from the Gray archive .............................................................................. £30
TINTIN: HERGE’S MASTERPIECEPierre StercksAn illustrated monograph on the master’s work ............................. £30
THE MUNICH ART HOARD: HITLER’S DEALER AND HIS SECRET LEGACYCatherine HickleyThe story of the 1,280 paintings, drawings & prints discovered by police in a Munich flat in 2012 ................................................... £19.95
JAPANESE ART AND DESIGNGregory IrvinePublished to accompany the reopening of the V&A’s refurbished Toshiba Gallery of Art and Design in November 2015, which houses the UK’s largest permanent display of Japanese art ........................ £25
THE ART OF DAVID JONES: VISION AND MEMORYAriane Bankes & Paul HillsExcellent catalogue to accompany the exhibition at Pallant House ................................................................................... £40
THE WOMEN OF KLIMT, SCHIELE AND KOKOSCHKAEdited by Agnes Husslein-ArcoAccompanies exhibition at the Belvedere in Vienna ....................... £40
Events at John Sandoe’s this autumn
20th October
Edmund de Waal will talk about his new book on his travels in search of the history of porcelain, White Road: A Pilgrimage of Sorts
(Chatto, £20)
10th November
Richard Bassett on his book (published in May) For God and Kaiser: The Imperial Austrian Army,
1619-1918 (Yale, £25)
3rd November
Loyd Grossman on his new book, Benjamin West and the Struggle to be Modern (Merrell, £30)
25th November
Peter Frankopan on his recent book The Silk Roads: A New History of the World
(Bloomsbury, £30)
All events begin at 6.30 pm Wine and some food will be served
Tickets cost £10 each To book, please telephone us, or email
Signed, limited edition of MY BRILLIANT FRIEND
by Elena Ferrante
We are thrilled to announce the publication of our signed, limited edition of the first volume of
Elena Ferrante’s ‘Neapolitan’ quartet, My Brilliant Friend. First published in late 2012, the book immediately became a favourite at Sandoe’s
and has been our best-selling novel ever since. The series has gradually been picked up by the
international press and is now a phenomenon on both sides of the Atlantic. Besides being the first hardback edition, we believe these to be unique in being signed by the (pseudonymous) author
The edition is published by the Cuckoo Press in association with Europa Editions for John Sandoe
(Books) Ltd. The books are hand sewn, rounded and backed, with red endpapers, and Japanese tissue inserts tipped in to protect the signature page.
Both silk and leather versions come in a slipcase
The edition consists of:
Twenty-six copies, numbered A-Z, quarter bound in fine leather with Chiyogami blue
and gold paper boards, two raised and tooled bands and hand-sewn head bands (£365)
One hundred copies, numbered 1-100, quarter bound in Japanese silk with the same Chiyogami paper boards (£195)
MATISSE IN THE BARNES FOUNDATIONYve-Alain Bois3 vols in slipcase. A fine publication on one of the most important Matisse collections in the world. The price will increase to £198 in 2016 ................................................................................. £175
PICASSO SCULPTUREAnne Umland & Ann Temkin ........................................................ £55
HENRI ROUSSEAU: ARCHAIC CANDOURGabriella Belli ................................................................................ £31
THE FACE OF BRITAIN: THE NATION THROUGH ITS PORTRAITSSimon SchamaAccompanies his TV series and an exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery .................................................................. £30
ART IN BRITAIN 1660-1815David H. Solkin A new volume in Yale’s superb revitalized ‘Pelican History of Art’ series ........................................................... £55
WAYNE THIEBAUDKenneth BakerThe most comprehensive book on this American painter yet ...... £100
JAN VERMEER: COMPLETE PAINTINGSKarl Schutz ................................................................................ £99.99
AI WEIWEI Tim Marlow et alAccompanies exhibition at the Royal Academy .............................. £48
BENJAMIN WEST AND THE STRUGGLE TO BE MODERNLoyd GrossmanAt the time of his death in 1820, Benjamin West was the most famous artist in the English-speaking world. Loyd will be talking about his book at Sandoe’s on 3rd Nov (see our Schedule of Autumn Events) ............................................................................... £35
IMPRESSIONISM: REIMAGINING ARTNorbert WolfA useful general book by an authority ............................................ £50
PHOTOGRAPHY
BEATON: PHOTOGRAPHSCecil Beaton .................................................................................... £50
JANE BOWN: A LIFETIME OF LOOKINGJane BownThe definitive monograph, with 200 black and white photographs, both portraits and photojournalism ................................................ £30
WALKER EVANS: DEPTH OF FIELDWalker Evans & John T Hill ............................................................ £55
LIVES OF THE GREAT PHOTOGRAPHERSJuliet HackingSame format as Thames & Hudson’s excellent Great Archaeologists, Great Builders and Great Naturalists (£24.95 each) ..................... £28
INDIAIntroduction by William Dalrymple, photography by Steve McCurry ............................................................................ £39.95
FORMS OF JAPAN: MICHAEL KENNAEdited by Yvonne Meyer-LohrPresents 30 years of b & w pictures by this superb photographer. This is a ravishing book ................................................................... £45
KELLY KLEINKelly KleinPics from a career among the icons of American style ............. pbk £75
THE IMPORTANCE OF ELSEWHERE: PHILIP LARKIN’S PHOTOGRAPHSRichard Bradford, introduction by Mark Haworth-BoothThat’s quite a title for a man whose fame is partly based on his reluctance to leave Hull ................................................................... £25
DON MCCULLIN: THE NEW DEFINITIVE EDITIONPhotography by Don McCullinA retrospective volume to celebrate the great British photographer’s 80th birthday, including 40 previously unpublished photographs ............................................................... £50
UNREASONABLE BEHAVIOUR: AN AUTOBIOGRAPHYDon McCullinUpdated edition – 25 years on from its first appearance ................ £25
LEE MILLER: A WOMAN’S WARAntony Penrose & Hilary Roberts ............................................. £29.95
IRVING PENN: BEYOND BEAUTYMerry ForestaCatalogue of the current retrospective show at the Smithsonian .............................................................................. pbk £30
SEBASTIÃO SALGADO: OTHER AMERICASSebastião SalgadoThis is the first English-language version of Salgado’s early book: photographs from 1977-1984 of Mexico, Central & South America ................................................................................. £30
ROMAN VISHNIAC REDISCOVEREDEdited by Maya BentonWe’re quite surprised to hear that Vishniac has been forgotten, but if you haven’t come across him before then here is a catalogue of the exhibition of the great photographer of Jewish life in Eastern Europe before the Holocaust .............................................. £50
FASHION
GIORGIO ARMANIGiorgio ArmaniA handsome new volume to celebrate the company’s 40th anniversary ............................................................................ £100
CLIVE ARROWSMITH: FASHION, BEAUTY & PORTRAITSClive Arrowsmith, introduction by Martyn Walsh & Michael Roberts ................................................... £50
MANOLO BLAHNIK: FLEETING GESTURES AND OBSESSIONS
Manolo Blahník
We might even be able to arrange for a signed copy ...................... £90
CORSETS & CODPIECES: A SOCIAL HISTORY OF OUTRAGEOUS FASHION
Karen Bowman
Fit for a fumble in the Christmas stocking? Disappointingly slight, perhaps ........................................... pbk £16.99
THE HISTORY OF MODERN FASHION
Nancy Deihl & Daniel James Cole
1850-2010, decade by decade ......................................................... £50
DIOR: NEW LOOKS
Jérôme Gautier ............................................................................... £65
DIOR BY AVEDON
Justine Picardie & Jacqueline De Ribes ....................................... £115
MARIANO FORTUNY: HIS LIFE AND WORK
Guillermo de Osma
The most complete book yet on this important designer ............... £40
KIMONO: THE ART AND EVOLUTION OF JAPANESE FASHION
Anna Jackson.................................................................................. £50
LONDON COUTURE: BRITISH LUXURY 1923-1975
Edited by Amy de la Haye & Edwina Ehrman .............................. £50
THE FIRST BOOK OF FASHION: THE BOOK OF CLOTHES OF MATTHAEUS AND VEIT KONRAD SCHWARZ OF AUGSBURG
Edited by Maria Hayward & Ulinka Rublack
A delicious bit of vanity - a book of hand-painted ‘selfies’ by a well-to-do, fashion-conscious, 16th century German. Thoughtfully includes a pattern, so you can make an outfit at home .................................... £30
PHILIP TREACY
Marion Hume ................................................................................. £75
DIANA VREELAND: THE MODERN WOMAN: THE BAZAAR YEARS, 1936-1962
Alexander Vreeland
Harper’s, that is ................................................................................ £40
ARCHITECTURE & INTERIORS
THE AGE OF EMPIRE: BRITAIN’S IMPERIAL ARCHITECTURE FROM 1880-1930
Clive Aslet
An illustrated survey of the churches, banks, civic buildings, public libraries, housing projects and so forth that were built around the world at the height of Britain’s might ............................................. £35
THE DANISH COUNTRY HOUSE
John Erichsen & Mikkel Venborg Pedersen
Manor houses, chateaux and their magnificent outbuildings, with essays on the Danish nobility and their households ....................... £50
SOVIET BUS STOPS
Christopher Herwig
This is the book that all the Sandoe’s staff are clamouring for this Christmas. The dreary aesthetic of most Soviet buildings does not apply to bus stops: this is a cornucopia of eccentric flights of fancy, slightly the worse for wear. And you can arrange for a sympathetic snack with the CCCP Cookbook (see Food & Drink, below) ......................................................... £19.95
BRITAIN’S LOST CHURCHES: THE FORGOTTEN HOLY SITES OF BRITAIN’S CHRISTIAN PAST
Matthew Hyde
From churches in the Orkneys to casualties of Henry VIII and the Blitz ................................................................... £20
LANDMARK: A HISTORY OF BRITAIN IN 50 BUILDINGS
Anna Keay & Caroline Stanford, introduction by Griff Rhys Jones
A history of British architecture in 50 buildings, ranging from the utilitarian to the whimsical, all rescued by the Landmark Trust ................................................................................ £25
EVERY ROOM TELLS A STORY
Kit Kemp
A second book of interiors .............................................................. £30
ROBERT KIME
Alastair Langlands, photography by Tessa Traeger
Designer, antique dealer, decorator extraordinaire ........................ £40
OSBERT LANCASTER’S CARTOONS, COLUMNS AND CURLICUES
Osbert Lancaster
A boxed set of three long out-of-print works - Pillar To Post, Homes Sweet Homes & Drayneflete Revealed - each brilliant for their erudition and comedy ..................................................................... £40
BUILDINGS OF ENGLAND: ABERDEENSHIRE SOUTH & ABERDEEN
David W Walker, Matthew Woodworth & Joseph Sharples ............. £35
ALBERTO PINTO: SIGNATURE INTERIORS
Anne Bony & Hubert de Givenchy, introduction by Linda Pinto ..................................................................................... £50
LOST COUNTRY HOUSES OF NORFOLK: HISTORY, ARCHAEOLOGY AND MYTH
Ivan Ringwood, Tom Williamson & Sarah Spooner ................. £29.95
LOST COUNTRY HOUSES OF SUFFOLK
W. M. Roberts A handsome new edition ...................................... £29.95
AN ARCHITECT’S SKETCHBOOK: NICHOLAS JOHNSTON: DESIGNS, DRAWINGS AND BUILDINGS
Rosie Johnston, photographs by Christopher Sykes, with an introduction by Christopher Gibbs
A generous slice of Nicky’s work over thirty-five years ................... £30
THE HOUSE OF THURN UND TAXIS
Andre Leon Talley
An illustrated monograph on the spectacular family pad, St Emmeram, in Regensburg ............................................................ £60
DECORATIVE ARTS
IF THESE JEWELS COULD TALK: THE LEGENDS BEHIND CELEBRITY GEMSBeth Bernstein ......................................................................... pbk £50
THE FABRIC OF INDIAEdited by Rosemary CrillAccompanies exhibition at the V&A ............................................... £35
THE WORLD OF CHARLES AND RAY EAMES Edited by Catherine Ince ................................................................ £45
EARLY CARPETS AND TAPESTRIES ON THE EASTERN SILK ROADGloria Granz GonickA fascinating account, and display, of the mysterious 500-year-old Chinese textiles in Japan ................................................................. £40
GRAFF Produced by the House of Graff, showing off some of their most famous baubles ................................................................................ £60
A TOKEN OF ELEGANCE: CIGARETTE HOLDERSMartin Barnes Lorber et alA fabulous visual celebration of obsolete trinkets .......................... £35
AN ANTHOLOGY OF DECORATED PAPERS: A SOURCEBOOK FOR DESIGNERSP. J. M. Marks400 years of decorated papers of all kinds - endpapers, lining papers, etc - collected by the bookbinder Olga Hirsch. This is a gorgeous book ................................................................... £38
DAMASCUS TILES: MAMLUK AND OTTOMAN ARCHITECTURAL CERAMICS FROM SYRIAArthur MillnerBeautifully produced. Spans C13th - C20th ..................................... £60
PERFUME: A CENTURY OF SCENTLizzie OstromThe stories of 100 scents, ten for each decade of the twentieth century....................................................................... £16.99
BEJEWELLED: TREASURES OF THE AL-THANI COLLECTIONSusan StrongeSpectacular collection of Indian jewellery, ancient to modern, and its European progeny by the likes of Cartier, etc ...................... £25
VOGUE THE JEWELLERYCarol Woolton ................................................................................. £75
THE WHITE ROAD: A PILGRIMAGE OF SORTSEdmund de WaalThe author of The Hare With The Amber Eyes has written an idiosyncratic history of porcelain, and his own fascination with it. He will be talking about the book at Sandoe’s on 20th Oct ............ £20
TRAVEL
ENGLISH ALLSORTSPeter Ashley, introduction by Clive AsletAshley is a designer, writer & photographer who leans towards the odd and the neglected to produce an eclectic mix of Englishness ............................................................................. £18.99
THE RAILWAYS: NATION, NETWORK AND PEOPLESimon Bradley
By the general editor of the Pevsner ‘Buildings of England’ series ............................................................ £25
THE ROAD TO LITTLE DRIBBLING: MORE NOTES FROM A SMALL ISLANDBill Bryson
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of his first round-Britain jaunt ................................................................... £20
THE DEAD LADIES PROJECT: EXILES, EXPATS, AND EX-COUNTRIESJessa Crispin
Partly an account of an American living and travelling, and partly an essay on exile...................................................... pbk £11
CONCORDE: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SUPERSONIC AIRLINERJonathan Glancey ........................................................................... £20
PALIOJohn Hunt
A richly illustrated celebration of the extraordinary Siennese horse race ......................................................................... £45
MAP: EXPLORING THE WORLDLaura Imaoka et al
From the dawn of cartography to contemporary digital map-making ................................................................................ £39.95
HIDDEN TREASURES OF LONDONMichael McNay
Includes over 400 little-known treasures, from whole buildings (including Alexander Pope’s grotto) to details to individual objects ............................................................................ £30
THE GILDED CHALET: OFF-PISTE IN LITERARY SWITZERLANDPadraig Rooney
From Byron et al by Lake Geneva to Le Carré, Ian Fleming and others .................................................................... £20
THE HOTEL YEARS: WANDERINGS IN EUROPE BETWEEN THE WARSJoseph Roth
A new selection of non-fiction writing by the author of The Radetzky March ................................................................. £16.99
BLACK APPLES OF GOWERIain Sinclair
London’s great explorer goes back to his childhood coast in South Wales ..................................................................................... £15
DEEP SOUTHPaul Theroux
Travelling on back roads in the southern USA ................................ £20
PACIFIC: THE OCEAN OF THE FUTURESimon Winchester
Everything from Captain Cook to Bikini Atoll - with China at the centre of everything and a rogue state or two to leaven the mix ............................................................................................ £25
THE NATURAL WORLD
PRIVATE GARDENS OF ENGLANDTania Compton ............................................................................... £75
LANDSCAPES OF THE NATIONAL TRUSTBen Cowell, Stephen Daniels & Lucy Veale .................................... £30
LABRADOR: THE STORY OF THE WORLD’S FAVOURITE DOGBen FogleWoof ................................................................................................ £20
THE LOVELIEST VALLEY: A GARDEN IN SUSSEXStewart Grimshaw, photography by Tessa TraegerThose who recall our Cuckoo Press booklet in 2008, A Garden in Sussex, will not be surprised to know that this large format illustrated book on Stewart’s garden is simply the most gorgeous gardening book in the shop ............................................................................. £40
ANOTHER GREEN WORLD: LINN GARDENSPhilip Hoare & Alison Turnbull ................................................ £18.99
THE CABARET OF PLANTS: BOTANY AND THE IMAGINATIONRichard MabeyAn exploration of encounters with plants and people, from the last Ice Age to now, showing how plants have challenged our imaginations .................................................................................... £20
THE GARDENS OF ARNE MAYNARDArne Maynard, introduction by Rosie Atkins ............................... £45
NORWEGIAN WOOD: CHOPPING, STACKING AND DRYING WOOD THE SCANDINAVIAN WAYLars MyttingUnlikely though it may seem… as compelling as any Scandinavian thriller - obsessive, fraught with danger, but (hopefully) without any of the gore. We expect to see a surging market next year in Vintage chainsaws (the JoBu Tiger could double as an outboard motor). The section on axe manufacturers is particularly appealing. One of the Sandoe’s staff has already furnished herself with a new Gränsfors splitting axe, so pay attention .......................................................... £20
THE MAN WHO MADE THINGS OUT OF TREESRobert PennPenn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it, then travelled in Europe and the USA to see what other people have made from ash ....................................................... £16.99
DANIEL OSTKengo Kuma, Paul Geerts & Cees NooteboomA lavish book on the Belgian floral artist and designer whose epic, sculptural work is commissioned for palaces, embassies, fashion shows, etc around the world ...................................................... £59.95
THE COMPANY OF TREES: A YEAR IN A LIFETIME’S QUESTThomas PakenhamIn the form of an illustrated diary, Pakenham takes us from his own arboretum in Ireland to Patagonia in search of monkeypuzzles, Tibet for magnolias and elsewhere ........................................................... £30
THE ILLUSTRATED HERDWICK SHEPHERDJames RebanksBy the author of the best-selling A Shepherd’s Life who also happens to have been tweeting photographs of his flocks and dogs at work for several years ............................................................................... £14.99
OXFORD COLLEGE GARDENSTim Richardson, photography by Andrew Lawson ....................... £40
JAMES SOWERBY: THE ENLIGHTENMENT’S NATURAL HISTORIANPaul HendersonSowerby (1752-1822) was an eminent natural historian of the period and produced numerous beautifully illustated booklets on fauna, flora, fossils and minerals. Published in association with the Natural History Museum ................................................... £35
GREAT GARDENS OF LONDONVictoria Summerly, photography by Marianne Majerus & Hugo Rittson ThomasThirty gardens revealed, including the American Ambassador’s in Regent’s Park, and the garden at No. 10 .......................................... £30
FOOD & DRINK
A NATURAL HISTORY OF WINERob DeSalle & Ian Tattersall .......................................................... £25
THE ONE POT COOKHattie Ellis ...................................................................................... £20
RIVER COTTAGE: LOVE YOUR LEFTOVERS: RECIPES FOR THE RESOURCEFUL COOKHugh Fearnley-WhittingstallEven the alliteration gives us the shivers ........................................ £20
MODERN HISTORY OF ITALIAN WINEWalter Filiputti ................................................................................ £45
10 MINUTE SUPPERS FOR CHILDRENPoppy FraserQuick and delicious .................................................................... £12.99
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO WINEEdited by Julia Harding & Jancis RobinsonThe 4th edition, comprehensively revised ...................................... £40
SIMPLY NIGELLA: FEEL GOOD FOODNigella Lawson ............................................................................... £26
THE CLAIRE MACDONALD GAME COOKBOOKClaire MacDonald .......................................................................... £20
INSIDE CHEFS’ FRIDGES: 40 OF EUROPE’S MOST INTERESTING CHEFS OPEN THEIR HOME REFRIGERATORSAdrian Moore & Carrie Solomon ‘Caverns measureless to man’? See Corpus Cavernario Mayoricense in our Recent Favourites. (Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall hasn’t contributed to this book but that may be because he’s eaten up all his lovely leftovers) .......................................................... £34.99
THE NORDIC COOKBOOKMagnus NilssonNilsson’s own book, Fäviken, was one of our favourites of 2012. In this he’s travelled around Scandinavia gathering less recherché recipes (i.e. rather more modest with the lichen and moss) ................................................................................... £29.95
SPUNTINO: COMFORT FOOD (NEW YORK STYLE)Russell NormanHow to feed a baby Sputnik? From the author of the celebrated Polpo, this is a book about what’s on offer in his New York bar ........................................................... £25
THE BOOK OF SPICE: FROM ANISE TO ZEDOARYJohn O’ConnellGood culinary history ................................................................ £14.99
NOPI: THE COOKBOOKYotam Ottolenghi & Ramael ScullyThe popular chef is off to Asia this time…you might be too if you want to get all the ingredients ......................................................... £28
THE SHERIDANS’ GUIDE TO CHEESESeamus Sheridan & Kevin SheridanCheeses of the world, unite! By the well-known Irish cheesemongering brothers ........................................................ £16.99
A YEAR OF GOOD EATING: THE KITCHEN DIARIES IIINigel SlaterAlways delicious and beautifully produced ..................................... £30
OYSTER: A GASTRONOMIC HISTORYDrew SmithA pearl for all walruses and carpenters amongst our customers ............................................................................ £18.99
CCCP COOKBOOKPavel Syutkin & Olga Syutkin
The true Culinary Revolution starts here! Includes a recipe for ‘Napoleon Cake: The Hat Of A Defeated Emperor’ ............... £18.95
THEATRE & FILM
WOODY ALLEN: A RETROSPECTIVETom ShoneSame format as Thames & Hudson’s recent big books on Spielberg and Scorsese ............................................................................... £29.95
THE LADY IN THE VAN: THE COMPLETE EDITIONAlan Bennett, illustrated by David GentlemanCombining both memoir, screenplay and diary entries ............. £14.99
THE 101 GREATEST PLAYS: FROM ANTIQUITY TO THE PRESENTMichael Billington ..................................................................... £18.99
EASILY DISTRACTEDSteve CooganOne-time readers of the News Of The World will know most of this already ...................................................................................... £20
WORLDS ELSEWHERE: JOURNEYS AROUND SHAKESPEARE’S GLOBEAndrew DicksonTravelling from Robben Island to Bollywood…Four continents and 600 years… An attempt to understand how Shakespeare has become the international phenomenon he is - and why .............................. £20
DIETRICH & RIEFENSTAHL: HOLLYWOOD, BERLIN, AND A CENTURY IN TWO LIVESKarin WielandA dual biography of a pair who started in comparable places and diverged, which brings out some of the age’s contradictions ............................................................................ £22.99
GILLIAMESQUE: A PRE-POSTHUMOUS MEMOIRTerry Gilliam .................................................................................. £30
THE BLUE TOUCH PAPER: A MEMOIRDavid HareA first volume of memoir from the great playwright, up to 1979 ....................................................................................... £20
JOY RIDE: LIVES OF THE THEATRICALSJohn LahrAn anthology of profiles and reviews by the theatre critic of the New Yorker ...................................................................................... £30
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO SHAKESPEAREEdited by Michael Dobson & Stanley Wells, introduction by Simon Russell BealeAn updated edition of this valuable reference work, compiled by a team of distinguished Shakespearians ............................................. £40
1606: WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE AND THE YEAR OF LEARJames ShapiroOr the seven year itch? Ten years ago, Shapiro had a great success with 1599: A Year In The Life Of William Shakespeare .................. £20
SINATRA: THE CHAIRMANJames Kaplan ................................................................................. £30
MAGGIE SMITH: A BIOGRAPHYMichael Coveney ............................................................................. £20
A STAR IS BORN: THE MOMENT AN ACTRESS BECOMES AN ICONGeorge TiffinA handsomely produced volume examining the key moments for 70 actresses, from the author of the excellent All The Best Lines, an anthology of quotes from the movies (pbk £15) ........................ £25
ORSON WELLES: VOLUME 3: ONE-MAN BANDSimon Callow ................................................................................. £25
MUSIC
THE OTHER CLASSICAL MUSICS: FIFTEEN GREAT TRADITIONSEdited by Michael ChurchA splendid, wide-ranging illustrated book exploring non-Western classical music traditions ................................................................. £25
BEETHOVEN’S SYMPHONIES: AN ARTISTIC VISIONLewis Lockwood.............................................................................. £20
AFTERNOON OF A FAUN: HOW DEBUSSY CREATED A NEW MUSIC FOR THE MODERN WORLDHarvey Lee Snyder .......................................................................... £24
O SING UNTO THE LORD: A HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH MUSICAndrew Gant .................................................................................. £20
THE LIVES OF GEORGE FRIDERIC HANDELDavid Hunter.................................................................................. £30
RECKLESSChrissie HyndeAn honest and lively memoir of the 80s music scene and after ...... £20
I’LL NEVER WRITE MY MEMOIRSGrace Jones ..................................................................................... £20
OVER THE TOP AND BACK: THE AUTOBIOGRAPHYTom JonesMy, my, my. Why, why, why? Fie, fie, fie! ............................................ £20
REAL LIFE ROCK: THE COMPLETE TOP TEN COLUMNS, 1986-2014Greil Marcus, introduction by Dave Eggers .................................. £25
NOTES FROM THE VELVET UNDERGROUND: THE LIFE OF LOU REEDHoward Sounes ............................................................................... £20
M TRAINPatti Smith“A meditation on travel, detective shows, literature and coffee” from the author of the hugely popular Just Kids ................................ £18.99
HUMOUR
WOULD YOU TREAD ON A QUADRUPED?: AN ANIMAL ALPHABET OF QUESTIONABLE RHYMESAnthony Barnett, illustrated by Natalie Cohen‘Would you wallop a scallop?’ and other eccentric delights. With delicious illustrations .................................................... pbk £7.50
NOTES FROM THE SOFARaymond Briggs ........................................................................ £14.99
THE WICKED WIT OF QUEEN ELIZABETH IICompiled by Karen DolbyA delightful concoction for after lunch on Christmas Day........... £9.99
WE GO TO THE GALLERY: A DUNG BEETLE LEARNING GUIDEMiriam EliaSharp and extremely funny satire on the contemporary art world, in a style not dissimilar to that of an old Ladybird book: in Elia’s words, ‘Preparing young people for a lifetime of crippling uncertainty’. When first published, this book was named after a more elegant creature, but lawyers caused it to be pulped ........................ pbk £8.99
HIRSCHFELD CENTURY: PORTRAIT OF AN ARTIST AND HIS AGEDavid Leopold ................................................................................ £30
THE LUNATICS HAVE TAKEN OVER THE ASYLUM: POLITICAL LETTERS TO THE DAILY TELEGRAPHIain Hollingshead ...................................................................... £12.99
THE DEVIL’S FINANCIAL DICTIONARY
Jason Zweig
A financial guide that takes its lead from Ambrose Bierce’s original Devil’s Dictionary. Intelligent and bitingly funny ...................... £12.99
Those who employed the lawyers referred to above have had the idea to produce some skits on the idea of the old-fashioned Ladybird books. We’re still wondering whether it’s a coincidence. They are:
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE HANGOVER
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF MINDFULNESS
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE MID-LIFE
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF DATING
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF SHEDS
THE LADYBIRD BOOK OF THE HIPSTER
Jason Hazeley & Joel Morris
Each .............................................................................................. £6.99
CHILDREN’S
THE SNOW QUEEN
Hans Christian Andersen, illustrated by Sanna Annukka
Retold and illustrated by the wonderful Finnish illustrator who gave us The Fir Tree a couple of years ago. Ages 6+ ............ £9.99
THE QUEEN’S HANDBAG
Steve Antony
A jolly romp around Britain, for ages 5 and under...................... £11.99
THE BOY AT THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN
John Boyne
Another novel from the author of The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas, about a servant’s child growing up in the Berghof, the home of Adolf Hitler. Ages 10+ ................................................................. £12.99
IMAGINARY FRED
Eoin Colfer, illustrated by Oliver Jeffers
An invisible friend. This book comes in two sizes, one large and one... less large (but not mini). Ages 3+ Both formats hbk ................... £12.99
THE RIDDLEMASTER
Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Stephanie Jorisch
There is buried treasure on the island across the water, if only you can get there… Ages 4+ ............................................................. £10.95
HEARTSONG
Kevin Crossley-Holland, illustrated by Jane Ray
A short novel set in Venice, about a dumb foundling who discovers her voice through the music of the orphanage music master, Antonio Vivaldi. Ages 8+ ............................................................................. £9.99
THE SECRETS OF THE WILD WOOD
Tonke Dragt
The sequel to the superb The Letter For The King, likewise illustrated by the author and beautifully published. Ages 8-12 .................... £16.99
THE LION AND THE BIRD
Marianne Dubuc
A delightful story about a friendship and loneliness, written and illustrated by the French-Canadian graphic artist/author of the glorious A Lion In Paris. Ages 6 and under ................................ £11.99
PARIS UP, UP AND AWAY
Helene Druvert
The Eiffel Tower is bored… and so off it goes for a wander around the sights of Paris. A story told in rhyme with stylish (and slightly fragile) laser-cut illustrations. Ages 3-6 .................................................... £14.95
MONSTERS
Emerald Fennell
Two friends show suspicious interest in a murder on a Cornish beach in the holidays… Ages 12+ .................................................... pbk £7.99
A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS
Matt Haig, illustrated by Chris Mould
The true story of Father Christmas - snow, kidnapping, elves and an eleven-year boy called Nikolas. Ages 8+ ..................................... £12.99
QUEEN GUINEVERE: OTHER STORIES FROM THE COURT OF KING ARTHUR
Mary Hoffman, illustrated by Christina Balit
Large format illustrated book with delicious tales of some of the women (a change from all those knights…) Ages 7+ ................. £14.99
GO HOME, LITTLE ONE
Cate James
Florence discovers what happens with animals in winter as she goes for a walk in the dark forest with her squirrel friends. A nicely illustrated and narrated tale for 4+ ............................................. £11.99
TWIT AND HOWLET AND THE BALLOON
Barbara Jones
Reprint of the 1970 classic by the celebrated ‘vernacular’ artist. It’s about a pair of owls who leave their oak tree behind and go travelling. Ages 3+ ............................................................................ £12
HOW TO BE: HOW TO GROW UP TO BE HEALTHY, WEALTHY, AND WISE
Munro Leaf
From the author of the classic The Story Of Ferdinand, a selection from his guides to good behaviour ............................................ £14.99
THE BEAR AND THE PIANO
David Litchfield
An entertaining illustrated tale about a bear who learns to play the piano and goes to New York. Ages 4+ ......................................... £11.99
THE RIDE-BY-NIGHTS
Walter de la Mare, illustrated by Carolina Rabei
Like last year’s Snow (and in fact the second in a series of four), another pairing of a de la Mare poem with Rabei’s attractive illustrations. This time it’s witches and Halloween. Ages 3-5 ..............................................................pbk £6.99/hbk £12.99
THE ADVENTURES OF MISS PETITFOURAnne MichaelsA foray into children’s literature from Michaels sees Miss Petitfour flying about with her many cats paw-to-tail in tow. Ages 6+ ............................................................................ £10.99
AN EAGLE IN THE SNOWMichael MorpurgoA moral thriller set in 1940. Ages 9+ .......................................... £12.99
THE REST OF US JUST LIVE HEREPatrick NessWhat if you were just ordinary, and had greatness thrust upon you…? From the author of A Monster Calls and the ‘Chaos’ trilogy. Ages 11+ ..................................................................................... £12.99
THE OXFORD COMPANION TO FAIRY TALESEdited by Jack ZipesA new edition containing 100+ new entries ................................... £35
GOTH GIRL AND THE WUTHERING FRIGHTChris RiddellThe third book about Ada and her friends from Ghastly-Gorm Hall. Ages 8+ ....................................................................................... £10.99
MAGNUS CHASE AND THE SWORD OF SUMMERRick RiordanThe first in a new adventure series from the author of the Percy Jackson books - this time, however, the Norse gods rule. Ages 9+ ....................................................................................... £14.99
HARRY POTTER AND THE PHILOSOPHER’S STONE: ILLUSTRATED EDITIONJ K Rowling, illustrated by Jim KayA new, larger-format edition with colour illustrations throughout ................................................................... £30
THE WOLF WILDERKatherine Rundell, with illustrations by Gelrev Ongbico From the author of the wonderful Rooftoppers, here is a magnificent, fast-paced, imaginative adventure set in snowy Russia in the latter days of the Tsars, with wolves, children, revolution, courage, a really bad baddie and a tremendous heroine. Sparks come off it. Ages 9-90, and could possibly cheer up even the most jaded teenagers .................................................................. £12.99
SCHOOL SHIP TOBERMORYAlexander McCall Smith, illustrated by Iain McIntoshA dastardly plot is uncovered on a sail-powered training ship. Ages 6+ ......................................................................................... £9.99
THE MELLOPS GO SPELUNKINGTomi UngererLet us go a-Mellopping once again with this excellent family of pigs. Ages 3-6 ........................................................................................ £9.95
RUFUS: THE BAT WHO LOVED COLOURSTomi UngererA reprint of this classic Ungerer tale. Ages 3-6 ............................ £10.95
SOME OF OUR RECENT FAVOURITES
AGENTS OF EMPIRE: KNIGHTS, CORSAIRS, JESUITS AND SPIES IN THE 16TH-CENTURY MEDITERRANEAN WORLDNoel MalcolmThis book focuses on two families - the Brunis and the Brutis - across three generations during the C16th, to show how, despite the conflicts and the rhetoric, the Ottoman and Christian power blocs were in fact very porous. A wide-ranging and illuminating account of Mediterranean culture, the product of astonishing archival sleuthing in a panoply of languages. This is not a quick read, but it is one that will change your ideas about the Renaissance and the development of Mediterranean Europe................................................................. £30
FROM VENICE TO ISTANBULRick SteinPerhaps this could be a culinary accompaniment to Noel Malcolm’s Agents of Empire (see above) for it covers the same geographical territory. There are recipes in the book from countries all down the eastern Mediterranean coast (with a slight bias to Greece and Italy) and they range from very simple Mezze to more adventurous dinner party centrepieces such as Albanian Baked Lamb. Given the subject, and Stein’s Padstow cooking empire, there is a strong seafood focus in the book which looks to be among the best of the CCCC (Celeb Chef Christmas Crop) .......................................................... £25
LIGHT YEARSJames SalterNedra and Viri seem to have a perfect marriage, successful careers and a healthy social life, yet both feel unfulfilled. Set in the suburbs of New York in the 1950s, Light Years illuminates what goes on behind the façade. Salter’s prose is characteristically lyrical. The narrative shares the slightly meandering quality of some of his other work, which has the effect of allowing life to a wide cast of persuasive characters ........................................ pbk £9.99
THREADS: THE DELICATE LIFE OF JOHN CRASKEJulia BlackburnCraske was born in Norfolk in 1881 into a family of fishermen but was unable to work, being subject to ‘stuporous’ states which could last months, even years at a time. Cared for by his remarkable wife, Laura, he lived in poverty. When he could, he painted seascapes from memory; when bedridden he embroidered them, culminating in a 10ft long depiction of the evacuation of Dunkirk. Julia Blackburn has made of his strange story a book of real beauty, teasing out the details of his life and weaving them together with elements of her own. His work survived in the first place thanks to the efforts of Sylvia Townsend Warner & Peter Pears; JB has done her part now in bringing it to a modern audience - and it’s wonderful .................... £25
GORSKYVesna GoldsworthyThis short, entertaining novel came out earlier this year. Our hero is a soulful Russian oligarch building a palace somewhere on the Embankment for the benefit of a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, is married to someone else (an English cad). There is an overt nod to Gatsby here. His story is deftly told by the bookseller responsible for making the library – who works in small, independent bookshop in Chelsea, as it happens. It followed that we should invite Vesna to do our Cuckoo Press pamphlet this year .................pbk £7.99/hbk £12.99
THE SWEETNESS OF LIFEPaulus HochgattererThis chilling, seasonal thriller is set in a town in the Austrian Alps over the Christmas period. A young girl finds her grandfather decapitated lying in the snow, a discovery which stuns her into silence. The investigation is split between the town’s psychiatrist who desperately tries to coax her into speaking and a local battle-hardened and world-weary police officer. The whole town falls under their focus which makes the final twist all the more of a surprise ............................................................................... pbk £7.99
ROMANTIC MODERNS: ENGLISH WRITERS AND THE IMAGINATION FROM VIRGINIA WOOLF TO JOHN PIPERAlexandra HarrisThe great battles for modern art and society were fought in Paris and Spain; but in England in the 1930s & 40s a very different modernist movement was underway which, for all its diversity, upheld a particular sensibility - gentle, lyrical, witty. This very readable cultural history roams delightfully this way and that - Hitchens, Nash, Auden, Betjeman, Brandt, Ravilious, Grant, Bell, Bowen,Vaughan-Williams, and many more. Illustrated ................pbk £16.95/hbk £19.95
AGAINST NATUREJ K HuysmansAlso known in English by its French title A Rebours, this is surely one of the most bizarre novels of the C19th. It tells the story of Jean des Esseintes, who retreats from bourgeois society into an extraordinary idealistic world of his own making. Houellebecq (see Fiction, above) owes a debt to this Decadent novel. It will shock and delight in equal measure ....................................................... pbk £9.99
THE FISH LADDER: A JOURNEY UPSTREAMKatharine NorburyAn accidental journey in which the author follows a river from mouth to source in order to overcome her grief at losing a baby. Both honest and charming, this memoir is a gem about the healing power of nature ..................................................................................... £16.99
THE FISHERMENChigozie ObiomaA very fine first novel about four middle-class brothers and an almost Biblical curse that ravages their family in 1990s Nigeria. The author’s voice is distinctive and clear, his language rich and yet straightforward. In large part told from a child’s point of view, the tautness of the unfolding drama, however domestic, makes one’s breath catch. The novel - especially its depiction of hope outdone by fear - can be read as a parable of recent Nigerian history, and its Booker Prize shortlisting is in this case well deserved .............. £14.99
THE YEAR OF THE RUNAWAYSSunjeev SahotaAlso shortlisted for the Booker, this is a sweeping story of four Indian lives intertwined by chance and tragedy in northern England. Their stories, often grim as they battle with what it means to be an illegal immigrant, are revealed with wisdom and humour ................... £14.99
EVERY OBJECT TELLS A STORYOliver HoareSome of our customers may have been lucky enough to see this astonishing collection of exotica earlier this year in Fitzroy Square - antiquities from Europe to the Far East, the 13th Dalai Lama’s double bass, erotic scrimshaws, Andean bell stones… The catalogue’s appeal is partly in its superb reproductions but also in Oliver’s glorious narratives about the objects themselves, how they came into his possession and what they mean to him. A fine gift for those who are presumed to have everything ............................................. pbk £30
A WHOLE LIFERobert SeethalerA moving and delicate novella which tells the story of the life of Andreas Egger, a goatherd, who lives in a remote Austrian valley. As the 20th century’s political upheaval and technological advances encroach into this community, Egger remains, adapting but bound to his Heimat. The book has been read and loved by many of us here and has undeniable echoes of Angharad Price’s The Life Of Rebecca Jones ....................................................pbk £8.99/hbk £12.99
PERSEUS IN THE WIND: A LIFE OF TRAVELFreya StarkA book of essays by the doyenne of Middle East travel writers and ‘the poet of travel’ on subjects as personal and universal as happiness, beauty, education, acceptance of death and the spell of wanderlust. In luminous writing, it shows the motivations and drive behind the travels, and the woman behind the traveller ......................... pbk £9.99
THE ELEPHANT AND THE POLISH QUESTION: AND OTHER STORIESHelen LynchAn account of the author’s time living in post-communist Poland, written in the form of entertaining, informative and often (if you happen to be a Pole) poignant stories. The title is a reference to a joke in which a group of students is asked to write an essay on the subject of the elephant. The Frenchman writes on the love life of the elephant, the Englishman on how to conquer the elephant and the American on how to make bigger and better elephants. The German produces a 10-volume preliminary outline for an introductory essay on the elephant, the Russian writes a metaphysical essay entitled, ‘’Does the elephant really exist?’’ and the Pole writes on the elephant and the Polish question ....................................................... pbk £10.99
CORPUS CAVERNARIO MAYORICENSES J A EncinasThis is a staggering production and the second book on caves in this catalogue. A bottle of bubblebath to the first person who identifies the other. Besides cheering any melancholy potholers among our customers this Christmas, we hope it will raise the spirits of a few despondent bibliophiles who imagine that the internet has rendered books such as this unfeasible. It records every known cave on the island of Mallorca (and it’s riddled with them, vast and small), providing detailed descriptions, plans & elevations. It is produced by a small independent publisher based in the north-west of the island. Señor Encinas has trounced Coleridge (see Chef’s Fridges above). We wish him a very happy Christmas. Text in Spanish ....................... £125
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