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David Lea

Deputy Manager

David was one of the founding team at the London Review Bookshop in 2003 and has worked in bookselling since 1989.

Ask David about: everything, but particularly natural history, politics and economics, history, philosophy, crime, poetry.

David recommends

Songs of Seven Dials

Matt Houlbrook

£20.00

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An Immense World

Ed Yong

£12.99

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Bandit Country

Toby Harnden

£12.99

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Much Ado About Mothing

James Lowen

£11.99

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Climbers

M. John Harrison

£9.99

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Pilcrow

Adam Mars-Jones

£12.99

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Pale Fire

Vladimir Nabokov

£10.99

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The Summer Isles

Philip Marsden

£9.99

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Rizzio

Denise Mina

£8.99

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The Fly Trap

Fredrik Sjoberg

£12.99

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Bent

Joe Thomas

£10.99

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Old Man Goya

Julia Blackburn

£10.99

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Entangled Life

Merlin Sheldrake

£12.99

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Pereira Maintains

Antonio Tabucchi

£10.99

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Greenery

Tim Dee

£9.99

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Two Weeks In November

Douglas Rogers

£12.99

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Wranglestone

Darren Charlton

£8.99

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Incarnations

Sunil Khilnani

£12.99

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The Swordfish and the Star

Gavin Knight

£10.99

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The Krull House

Georges Simenon

£8.99

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A Gentleman in Moscow

Amor Towles

£9.99

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Ready To Catch Him Should He Fall

Neil Bartlett

£10.99

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The Thurber Carnival

James Thurber

£9.99

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All for Nothing

Walter Kempowski

£8.99

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Black Sea

Neal Ascherson

£12.99

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Andes

Michael Jacobs

£12.99

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The Goshawk

T. H. White

£14.99

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The Planet in a Pebble

Jan Zalasiewicz

£10.99

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Blog posts by David

21 April 2020

A Journey Around My Garden

16 May 2018

Happy Birthday to Us! The London Review Bookshop Turns Fifteen

7 March 2018

Stop Binge-Watching, Start Binge-Reading...

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John Clegg

Senior Bookseller and Poetry section curator

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David Lea

Deputy Manager

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Charlie Gould

Senior Bookseller and Returns co-ordinator

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Natalia de la Ossa

Bookshop Retail Manager

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Anya Williams

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Gayle Lazda

Senior Bookseller and Website Editor

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Claire Williams

Senior Bookseller and Events Manager

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