Our Current Bestsellers
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What happens when politics is everywhere, yet nothing seems to change? From the abandoned dance floors of Thatcher's London to the mass mobilizations of Black Lives Matter, Anton Jager traces how pub lic life has become infused with…
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A profound and poetic memoir, tracing the wounds that racism and colonialism have left on Black people across borders. With astute insight and immersive prose, Bonhomme outlines a personal and political history of life in the United…
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How do we give old words new voices? What must a translator lose - and what might she gain - when she moves between languages, bringing ancient stories to modern life?Emily Wilson has spent a lifetime wrestling with these questions: here,…
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London Review Bookshop Author of the Month, July 2026Often this poet, strolling through the noisy splintered glare of a Manhattan noon, has paused at a sample Olivetti to type up thirty or forty lines of ruminations, or pondering more…
Recommended by Gayle
‘One of the most perfect short novels I’ve ever read. Helen Garner vividly depicts the gentle implosion of the Fox family – from shabby domestic bliss to disaster (and back again) – in 150 pages of brilliantly spare prose.’
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An immersive journey through trees in Japan by celebrated writer Aya Koda - now available in English for the first time'Trees are not just living things, but feeling beings, like us. Better keep a watchful eye over them...'Ezo spruce,…
Recommended by John
‘Raunchy 21st century Virginia Woolf with an unforgettable narrator, finding the numinous in small quotidian rituals. My favourite debut novel for ages and ages.’
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Part of a new series co-published in partnership with the London Review of Books.Over Iran, the sky is falling in. The US-Israeli bombardment has begun: there are bodies beneath the rubble. The Ayatollah is dead.The guards have abandoned…
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The #1 global bestseller with a new foreword for paperbackA Book of the Year for Audible, The Times, Financial Times, The New York Times, Time, Cosmopolitan, The Economist, Spectator and moreShortlisted for the Westminster Book Awards…
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Translated from the French by Jessica MooreEastbound maps the fast-paced story of two fugitives on the Trans-Siberian Railway, where a desperate Russian conscript hopes a chance encounter with an older French woman will offer him…