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£18.99
Twenty literary greats. One victim. Can you solve the puzzle – and the murder? The Literary Detectives Murder Club are gathered in the library at Murderly Manor when disaster strikes: the Literary Critic is found dead in the study, his whisky laced with poison. The Literary Critic has never written a novel, but he has ruined dozens. Every member has the motive and means for murder, and Inspector Jigsaw suspects them all. Can you piece together the puzzle, follow the clues on the fold-out poster, and use your deductive powers to crack the case? You can enjoy this as a standard jigsaw puzzle – or step into the role of detective with the bonus murder mystery. Don your finest deerstalker hat, pick up your magnifying glass and solve the case using the fold-out poster. Record your deductions, then open the envelope to check your answer. The twenty suspects are fictionalized versions of some of the most iconic crime writers of all time, fr
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£25.00
Set sail into a year of sea-themed writing with the sixth title in the beloved ‘Bedside Companion’ series, collating 366 extracts selected from across the spectrum of literature.
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★ STAFF PICK!
Selected by Aude
£18.99
Staff Pick!
Aude Says…
Such a small but powerful and intense novel.
Fictionalised biography? Auto fiction? Essay on Art and artists in 20th Century Paris? This book takes many forms and they are all fascinating. Every sentence matters, you will not want to miss a single word, a single thought.
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Who was Gertrude Stein? Avant-garde American poet and art collector who made her home in Paris, godmother of modernism, queer icon, friend to Picasso and Hemingway, self-declared genius – a writer who has baffled readers and critics for a century. And why does she matter? The narrator of Deborah Levy’s novel has gone to Paris to find out. There she meets Eva with the blinding gaze, an artist in a long-distance marriage, and Fanny, a sexually adventurous financier; together they cook, walk, read and argue late into the nights. As Paris sweeps her along in its ceaseless flow, she thinks – about what we have to lose to become modern, navigating anxiety, living with uncertainty, angry fathers, making a new life in another country, art and language – how all these things looked to Gertrude Stein in the early days of the twentieth century, and how they look to her and her friends in the early twenty-first.
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£25.00
A bold reimagining of the life of a much-loved writer, from the author of RED ROSA and THREADS
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£9.99
A fascinating literary overview of London across the centuries, through the beautiful and varied writing it has inspired.
