‘High priestess of the startling’
Our first Author of the Month for 2026 is the American short story writer, novelist, essayist and translator Lydia Davis.
Book of the Week
Into the Weeds
Lydia Davis
£12.99
“Reporting from the slipstream of her reading life, [Davis] offers less a new way to think than perhaps an old one, pushing back against mechanization and the collapse of context by reframing reading in the most particular and human terms.”—David L. Ulin, The Atlantic
Flash Sale
Subscribe now and get three months for £6, plus a free LRB tote bag
London’s best independent bookshop
BOOKSHOP OPENING HOURS
Mon to Sat 10 am – 6:30 pm
Sun 12 pm – 6 pm
FIND US
14 Bury Place
London
WC1A 2JL
Events
See all upcoming events
St. JOHN at the London Review Bookshop
We are delighted that the café next to the Bookshop has been transformed into the latest outpost of St. JOHN.
Winner of the Booker Prize 2025
Flesh
David Szalay
£18.99
‘I don’t think I’ve read a novel that uses the white space on the page so well. It’s as if the author, David Szalay, is inviting the reader to fill the space, to observe – almost to create – the character with him. The writing is spare and that is its great strength. Every word matters; the spaces between the words matter. The book is about living, and the strangeness of living and, as we read, as we turn the pages, we’re glad we’re alive and reading – experiencing – this extraordinary, singular novel.’ – Roddy Doyle, chair of judges for the Booker Prize 2025
