Winter Selection 2012
Welcome to our booksellers' selection of the season's most interesting titles – books for giving, books for keeping, and most of all books for reading. We'd love to see you if you happen to be in Bloomsbury, but if not, then we're more than happy to take orders by telephone, by post, or through the website. However you want to get in touch, we look forward to hearing from you!
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Through the Window: Seventeen Essays (and One Short Story)
The subjects of most of these essays by one of our greatest writers of fiction are, for the most part, other novelists: ‘Novels tell us the most tr... See details
£20.00
The Farmer’s Year: A Calendar of English Husbandry
Clare Leighton’s account of a farming year, illustrated with her stunning wood engravings, was initially published by Collins in 1933, and was the ... See details
£16.95
Two Cheers for Anarchism: Six Easy Pieces on Autonomy, Dignity, and Meaningful Work and Play
James C. Scott builds on the insights of his classic works Seeing Like a State and The Art of Not Being Governed to present a compell... See details
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The Missing Ink: The Lost Art of Handwriting, and Why it Still Matters
Many of us no longer use handwriting for anything more consequential than an occasional shopping list. But in a light-hearted survey of the topic, ... See details
£11.99
This Moose Belongs to Me
Oliver Jeffers’s delightful picture book for young children tells the story of Wilfred and his pet moose Marcel. But is Marcel really Wilfred’s pet... See details
£8.99
Sightlines
Findings, a series of essays by the poet Kathleen Jamie on the natural history of her native Scotland, led Andrew Marr to call her ‘a 21st-c... See details
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Findings
Findings, a series of essays by the poet Kathleen Jamie on the natural history of her native Scotland, led Andrew Marr to call her ‘a 21st-c... See details
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Patience (after Sebald)
In August 1992 W.G. Sebald ‘set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have co... See details
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Rings of Saturn
In August 1992 W.G. Sebald ‘set off to walk the county of Suffolk, in the hope of dispelling the emptiness that takes hold of me whenever I have co... See details
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Constellation of Genius
The year 1922 began with the publication of Ulysses and ended with that of The Waste Land: ‘You are now in the year one,’ Ezra Pound ... See details
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A Cabinet of Rarities: Antiquarian Obsessions and the Spell of Death
Érik Desmazières, a French engraver in the tradition of Piranesi, creates fantastical cityscapes, landscapes and interiors. In this new book, his f... See details
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Artful
Ali Smith’s latest book finds her once again testing the boundaries of genre. Four linked essays – ‘On Time’, ‘On Form’, ‘On Edge’ and ‘On Offer an... See details
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London: A History in Verse
In his new anthology, London: A History in Verse, Mark Ford, poet and Professor of English at UCL, tells the history of London through the p... See details
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The Old Ways: A Journey on Foot
David Craig writes:
Robert Macfarlane is a literary scholar who has spent many hundreds of hours walking in England and the Scottish H...
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