Christmas 2026: Small Presses
Selected by the Bookshop
Books you know they won’t have read.
Recommended by John
’Marvellous combination of travelogue and history of artisan paper making; unexpectedly fascinating and full of colour, excitement and larger-than-life characters.’
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To find the center, begin at the edge…A daughter’s devotion parts her from her father. A dutiful soldier sentences his daughter to a loveless exile and her mother to madness. With her last breath a dying woman exhales the whole…
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On work and words, and how they contort the world.Lena is a part-time bookseller in a bougie design studio in Oxford Circus. In between minimum-wage work under a politically hostile boss and strained communications with her parents, her…
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Originally published in 1987, and out of print for many years, Kicking the Pricks is a key work in Derek Jarman’s oeuvre, documenting the making of one of his most important and politically-charged films, The Last of England.…
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A candid portrayal of first love and self-discovery, from the author of the 'instant queer classic', Isaac. Cornwall, 2018. In the quiet fishing village of Portscatho, sixteen-year-old Daniel and seventeen-year-old Jago form an unexpected…
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Moving through sections of varying experimentalism, from an invented visual form (the Gazan Tunnel) to all-caps queer ecstatic, Fargo Nissim Tbakhi here attempts to carve out a space for the negotiation of an alternative subjecthood.The…
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Banyuls-sur-Mer, French Catalonia: one hot summer in the 1970s, the …
An Attempted Bibliography of the Works of Barbara Livesey Barbara Livesey
Wallis, Stephen George
£8.99
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The Eden Book Society was a publishing house that produced horror novelettes for a private list of subscribers. It was established in 1919 by the Eden family, handed down through the generations issuing short horror novels to a confidential…
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A glittering and erudite new novel of Paris from the author of The Baudelaire Fractal. Lucy Frost is an insomniac cleaning woman in Paris. She writes in a notebook at night, documenting a series of interwoven disappearances from her…
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