Summer Books 2008
Welcome to our 2008 Summer Books selection, interesting and surprising titles selected by our booksellers to represent the very best in summer reading on a wide variety of subjects, from fiction to history, biography to food and drink.
Judging from the response to our Christmas selection, I’m confident that you will find a box of delights here, and what better way to begin than with Travel?
Best wishes
Andrew Stilwell
Head of Bookselling
Travel
LRB special offers include:
- The Liquid Continent – save £6 when you buy all three volumes
- Venice is a Fish – save 10%
- Villages of Vision – 10% off
Science
Including Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science – SAVE £2
Natural History
Manipulative Monkeys – Susan Perry
Art & Architecture
Including Sir John Vanbrugh: Storyteller in Stone — Vaughan Hart
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Fiction
10% OFF many titles, including:
- Darkmans – Nicola Barker
- Winner of the 2007 Man Booker prize The Gathering – Anne Enright
- Child of All Nations – Irmgard Keun
Literature
SAVE £2 on Charles Dickens and His Performing Selves and How Fiction Works
Poetry
Including Notes from the Air: Selected Later Poems – John Ashbery: £2 OFF
Music
SAVE £2 on Alex Ross’s The Rest Is Noise
Classical Studies
Including The Greeks and Greek Love – James Davidson: £3 OFF
Politics
SAVE £2 on The Wizard of the Nile – Matthew Green and Armageddon in Retrospect – Kurt Vonnegut
History
Special offers include Going Dutch — Lisa Jardine: 10% OFF
Biography
SAVE 10% on Memories of Eden – Violette Shamash
Food & Drink
Including Propitious Esculent: The Potato in World History — John Reader
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Gardening
On Guerilla Gardening – Richard Reynolds: £2 OFF
Cinema
SAVE £5 on Berlin Alexanderplatz — directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Philosophy
Including Violence – Slavoj Žižek: £2 OFF
Sociology
SAVE 10% on The Craftsman – Richard Sennett
Psychology
Including Mad, Bad and Sad — Lisa Appignanesi
> More choices in Psychology...
£16.99 £14.99 save 12%
How Fiction Works
James Wood, staff writer at the New Yorker, frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and professor of the practice of literary criticism at Harvard might seem to have written a nuts and bolts guide to the novel. And the 123 paragraphs of the book, divided into 10 chapters,... See details