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Author of the Month

Our Author of the Month for September is B. Traven.

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Book of the Week

Doom Painting

Doom Painting

£20.00

Blakemore goes hard or home with an hour-by-hour retelling of the Peasants’ Revolt, 1381. Somehow a behemoth that absolutely flies, it is radically inventive, delectably folklorish and a forest-fire vision of England’s past.
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Girling

Girling

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Driftwork

Driftwork

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Letters to a Young Poet

Letters to a Young Poet

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Lunch Poems
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Lunch Poems

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Ariel

Ariel

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Snooty Tipoffs

Snooty Tipoffs

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Shine, Darling

Shine, Darling

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Wording

Wording

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Duino Elegies

Duino Elegies

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Hares on the Mountain

Hares on the Mountain

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Never Say War

Never Say War

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The Floating World
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The Floating World

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Revolutionary Subjects

Revolutionary Subjects

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The Hard Question of Art

The Hard Question of Art

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Two Women
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Two Women

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Virtue and Rosalind
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Virtue and Rosalind

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Cast in Doubt

Cast in Doubt

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The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen

The Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen

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The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky

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The Book of Beasts

The Book of Beasts

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Selected Poems

Selected Poems

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The Surviving Cells

The Surviving Cells

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My Destination

My Destination

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Black Meme

Black Meme

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The Thieves Beneath the Floorboards

The Thieves Beneath the Floorboards

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The Rouse
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The Rouse

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Switzy

Switzy

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Hares on the Mountain

Hares on the Mountain

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Britain's Slave Traders

Britain's Slave Traders

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Girling

Girling

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Kolkhoz

Kolkhoz

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A Fabulous Debt

A Fabulous Debt

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On the Equality of All Things
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On the Equality of All Things

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Indignity

Indignity

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Perfecting the Shot

Perfecting the Shot

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The Disappearers

The Disappearers

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The Quantum of Happiness

The Quantum of Happiness

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End Times Fascism
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End Times Fascism

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Exit Party

Exit Party

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Rhapsody

Rhapsody

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Driftwork

Driftwork

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Doom Painting

Doom Painting

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Events

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Simon Critchley & Tom McCarthy: Heidegger Thinking
Tuesday 29 September, 7 p.m.

Simon Critchley & Tom McCarthy: Heidegger Thinking

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October Late Night Shopping
Tuesday 6 October, 6 p.m.

October Late Night Shopping

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Malcolm Gaskill & Lamorna Ash: Worlds of Fear and Wonder
Wednesday 7 October, 7 p.m.

Malcolm Gaskill & Lamorna Ash: Worlds of Fear and Wonder

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The Booker Prize 2026 Shortlist

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Black Bag

Black Bag

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The End of Everything

The End of Everything

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John of John

John of John

£20.00
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The Things We Never Say

The Things We Never Say

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The Disappearers

The Disappearers

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May We Feed the King

May We Feed the King

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Books for the Bayeux Tapestry

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Threads

Threads

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Matrix

Matrix

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Nineteen Days in Autumn

Nineteen Days in Autumn

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Hidden Hands

Hidden Hands

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My Battle of Hastings

My Battle of Hastings

£10.99
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Foundation

Foundation

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William the Conqueror

William the Conqueror

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The Song of Roland

The Song of Roland

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The Mabinogion

The Mabinogion

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Cuddy

Cuddy

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The Corner That Held Them

The Corner That Held Them

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Fancy Work

Fancy Work

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Pocket Bayeux Tapestry

Pocket Bayeux Tapestry

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Domesday

Domesday

£25.00
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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.

Featured in the LRB Vol. 48 No. 16

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Still in a Dream

Still in a Dream

£23.00
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A Sicilian Man

A Sicilian Man

£25.00
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The Voice in My Ear

The Voice in My Ear

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The Twitnam Summer

The Twitnam Summer

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Inhabit the Poem

Inhabit the Poem

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Relative Failures: The Lives of Willie Wilde, Mabel Beardsley and Howard Sturgis

Relative Failures: The Lives of Willie Wilde, Mabel Beardsley and Howard Sturgis

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Life of M
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Life of M

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Podcasts & Video

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Sex, Poetry and the Turning World: Sarah Howe, Sandeep Parmar and guests Listen

Sex, Poetry and the Turning World: Sarah Howe, Sandeep Parmar and guests
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Edna Bonhomme and Lola Olufemi: Tending to our Wounds
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