Signed editions
Selected by the Bookshop
Thanks to our prestigious series of events and our excellent location, we get a lot of famous authors dropping by. The result is a constantly changing selection of highly-collectible signed first editions. Below you’ll find a selection of what we have.
We only have limited quantities of signed copies, and when they’re gone, they’re gone – order now!
Please note: books in this list include books with signed bookplates, tipped-in signed pages, etc. – if you have specific requirements or are looking for signed first editions only, please get in touch on books@lrbshop.co.uk to check before ordering.
You can also pre-order signed copies for any of our upcoming events – see our separate booklist here.
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If old age was thought of as an evening, ending in midnight oblivion, they were well into the eleventh hour.Two quarrelsome old men in Chennai, India, experience private tragedy against the backdrop of national calamity. Revisiting the…
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How does the greatest writer of our time tell her own story? Immerse yourself in the creative universe of Margaret Atwood for a riot of life, art and everything in betweenEvery writer is at least two beings: the one who lives, and the one…
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How the high-rise Tower Block came to symbolise the welfare state, and what went wrong - from an award-winning debut historian.Up in the Air tells the story of Britain’s multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the…
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Translated by Martin AitkenUnlike anything you’ve read before, The Wax Child is an extraordinary tale of witchcraft from one of the most visionary writers at work today‘Olga Ravn is a master and an alchemist.…
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The untold story of a remarkable neighbourhood and the battle to define modern London.Throughout the 1920s and 1930s, Seven Dials was one of London's most diverse neighbourhoods, home to migrant and working-class communities, bohemian clubs…
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Translated by Elizabeth DeNomaA beautiful and profound natural history of snow from the bestselling, award-winning Swedish environmentalist Sverker Sörlin, exploring the cultural, scientific, artistic and existential significance of…
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Introduce a new generation to Oscar Wilde’s classic children’s tales with this stunningly illustrated luxury gift edition – a must-have for young readers this Christmas.Oscar Wilde has enchanted readers young and old alike…
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Discover the must-read, warm and witty new travel adventure from Britain's best-loved travel writer and the Sunday Times bestselling author of Great Uncle Harry, North Korea Journal and Into Iraq.In February 2025, Michael…
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A dazzling, soul-stirring journey through the lost and endangered crafts that shaped Britain from multi-award-winning historian and broadcaster James FoxBritain was once a craft land. For generations what we made with our hands shaped our…
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From one of the most enquiring and celebrated biographers – a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.‘Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.’ GUARDIAN‘Few can match Uglow’s skill…
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A revelatory new biography of the enigmatic Dutch artist, published to coincide with the 350th anniversary of his death‘This book is going to revolutionize the way we understand Vermeer' Peter CareyThe paintings of Johannes Vermeer of…
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POETRY BOOK SOCIETY RECOMMENDATIONThe Poet Laureate makes peace with the dead in this highly imaginative and wide-ranging new collection.The conversion of a local natural-beauty spot into a municipal graveyard is the starting point…
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An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and…
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From the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge, a candid insight into the other side of political life, with urgent and inspiring stories of rural Britain today.'A rare and life-affirming story of…
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A timely, moving, and piercingly intelligent essay collection from one of our finest contemporary writersThe first collection of Booker Prize-winning writer Anne Enright's non-fiction writing about culture, literature and her own life'Anne…
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Celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Margaret Atwood’s iconic tale with this stunning hardback special edition that includes a new foreword by the author and an afterword by Philip Pullman - a volume to be gifted and coveted20th…
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The incredible first memoir from the Booker-winning radical icon Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small ThingsArundhati Roy’s first work of memoir, this is a soaring account, both intimate and inspiring, of how the author became…
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An Observer 'Novel to look out for in 2025' and an FT 'Best Summer Read''Moving, smart and life-affirming' OBSERVER'A triumphant twist on the great American road novel.' GUARDIANWhat's left when your kids grow up…
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No city shaped the modern world quite like London - a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and politics, its true life played out in…
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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…
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What makes a house a home? This sweet story, with jaw-dropping illustrations, is the perfect cosy tale for bedtime.Olivia lives in a house with a little red door. Mouse lives in an oak tree behind the house. When a storm blows the oak tree…
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A hybrid of memoir, travel and cultural history that explores how water altered LA and the history of film‘Outrageously good … An unforgettable book’ – OLIVIA LAING‘Reverie and…
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From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with…
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A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his family, from 1924 to the present.‘Written with a historian’s grasp of events, an economist’s rationalization of how…
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World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards art and artistsWhen Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a speeding car as he was crossing the street.…
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Now I understand there are no ordinary lives – that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable as to be miraculous, and irreplaceable in every particular.Sarah Perry's father-in-law,…
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A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.Unearthed in a…
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A manifesto for the importance of books and a guide to expanding your reading horizons by the much-loved writer, critic, poet and translator who has read it allThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the…
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but…
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THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF HELGOLAND AND THE ORDER OF TIME'The perfect antidote to the fluff and nonsense around right now. Learn how the world is and how you might just fit in' Simon Mayo'By God, it's beguiling' New…
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Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green…
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In March 2020, Tim Key started writing poetry and conversations about the first lockdown. At the end of the year he published these comtemplations in “He Used Thought as a Wife”, a book for these pandemic times, beautifully…
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THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONJung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother -…
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A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.'Poignant, powerful' Independent'Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental' New York Times'It's not just a great…
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Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—Mark Ronson’s musical fingerprints are everywhere in our pop culture. Now comes his electrifying memoir, which captures the music,…
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Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There…
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'Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' - Radio TimesNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie…
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'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express'The man is a genius' The Spectator----Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do.Slow horse River…
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'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES‘A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer’ RORY STEWART, author of Politics on the Edge‘Utterly fascinating’ DAVID KYNASTON, author of A Northern Wind'Shot…
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Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times)'You will be better at love after you read this book’…
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A short story by Laura Beatty about death – and life. After a stranger calls at Evi’s house, she becomes convinced she has been visited by Death. But what is really happening?Poetic, moving and often funny, Laura’s…
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From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with the power to return to them the most precious…
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One of John Boorman's least known and rarely screened works — and yet the title that secured him the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1970 — Leo the Last is a cult film in waiting, a genuinely radical,…
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