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Welcome to the London Review Bookshop

The London Review Bookshop opened in the heart of London’s Bloomsbury in May 2003. Since then it has established itself as one of London’s leading independent bookstores.

The titles featured here have been specially selected by our booksellers to give you a quick and discerning guide to some of the most interesting books currently in print. And, of course, you will also find all the books recently reviewed in the London Review of Books.

If you are new to the shop, you may find the following links useful:
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Summer Books 2008

Out now: interesting and surprising titles selected by our booksellers to represent the very best in summer reading

> Browse the full list

The Bloomsday Dead by Adrian McKinty - can you spot the literary references? Enter the competition

All Power to the Imagination!
1968 and its Legacies

From April to June and across London, this major season explores 1968 culture, politics and thought and their legacy manifestations in cinema, visual art, literature, music and activism.

The London Review Bookshop is hosting two events as part of the season:


The latest limited edition from the London Review Bookshop: Julian Barnes - Nothing to Be Frightened Of

Bestsellers

1. The Library at Night — Alberto Manguel

2. Nothing to Be Frightened Of — Julian Barnes

3. Travels with Herodotus — Ryszard Kapuscinski

4. The Bridge — Geert Mak, translated by Sam Garrett

6. The Reluctant Fundamentalist — Mohsin Hamid

7. On Deep History and the Brain — Daniel Lord Smail

8. Reappraisals — Tony Judt

10. Day — A.L. Kennedy

Bookseller's Choice
City of Words

£14.99 £13.49 save 10%

City of Words

Alberto Manguel

In characteristically oblique and erudite style, Alberto Manguel addresses the rise of violent intolerance in the modern world by considering the stories we have told about ourselves in myth literature and film, from Gilgamesh to Don Quixote to 2001: A Space Oddyssey. Stories... See details

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Darkmans

£8.99 £7.99 save 11%

Darkmans

Nicola Barker

Nicola Barker’s vast, sprawling and marvellously undisciplined novel is set in Ashford, a rather unloveable town in the Thames Gateway. But its narrative stretches back and forth through time – history would seem to be one of its characters, as would John Scogin, court jester to Edward IV. ‘Da... See details

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Forthcoming events

May

Lorrie Moore

Tuesday 27 May at 7.00 p.m.

Henri Lefebvre and the Critique of Everyday Life

Thursday 29 May at 7.00 p.m.

June

Andrew O'Hagan

Thursday 5 June at 7.00 p.m.

Rory Stewart

Monday 9 June at 7.00 p.m.


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