Bossypants
£9.99Tina Fey is one of of the world’s greatest comic writers and performers. Here she reveals all, and proves what we’ve all suspected – you’re no one until someone calls you bossy.
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Hare With Amber Eyes
£25.00264 wood and ivory carvings of animals, plants and people, none of them larger than a matchbox; apprentice potter Edmund de Waal was entranced by the collection when he first encountered it in the Tokyo apartment of his great uncle Iggie. When he inherited them, he discovered that they unlocked a story larger than he could have imagined.
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Steve Jobs The Exclusive Biography
£25.00‘Steve Jobs’ provides an account of Jobs’ professional and personal life. Drawn from three years of exclusive and unprecedented interviews Isaacson has conducted with Jobs as well as extensive interviews with Jobs’ family members, this book is the definitive portrait of the greatest innovator of his generation.
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One To One
£16.99101 chance meetings, juxtaposing the famous and the infamous, the artistic and the philistine, the pompous and the comical, the snobbish and the vulgar, each 1,001 words long, and with a time span stretching from the 19th century to the 21st.
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Elephant To Hollywood
£20.00With a glittering career spanning more than five decades and starring roles which have earned him two Oscars, a knighthood, and an iconic place in the Hollywood pantheon, Michael Caine looks back over it all.
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Scum Of The Earth
£12.99A recent edition of Arthur Koestler’s gripping tale of arrest, imprisonment, and subsequent escape to London from Nazi-occupied France.
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Liars Poker
£10.99This tale of greed and ambition is set in an obsessed, enclosed world. Michael Lewis progresses through the dealing rooms of Salomon Brothers in New York and London during the mid-1980s when they were probably the most powerful merchant bank.
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The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
£12.95Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, who died in 1954, remains a compelling force in the art world. This facsimile of her diary reveals the passion and strength of the last ten years of her anguished life.
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Hans J?rgen Syberberg and his film of Wagner’s Parsifal
£82.00While much has been published abroad about the German filmmaker and author Hans Jürgen Syberberg, this is the first English monograph about him. Author Solveig Olsen presents a biographical overview of the controversial artist and his body of work, and offers an in-depth analysis of Syberberg’s film of Richard Wagner’s Parsifal and his later works.
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The life and art of Albrecht Dürer
£46.00Erwin Panofsky’s classic text presents the life, times, and work of Albrecht Dürer, revealing not only Dürer the artist but also Dürer in a range of other roles, including mathematician and scientific thinker.
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My Ear At His Heart
£9.99When Hanif Kureishi discovers an abandoned manuscript written by his father, his understanding of his family history is transformed. This story takes in the trauma of partition, as well as his father’s ultimately failed career as a writer.
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Akenfield
£9.99‘The best portrait of rural life in England’ Roger Deakin‘Exquisite’ John Updike‘The finest contemporary writer on the English countryside’ Observer Ronald Blythe’s perceptive and vivid evocation of the rural Suffolk he had known since childhood was acclaimed as an instant classic when it was published in 1969. It reverberates with the voices of the village…