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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A beautiful, expansive essay about care, dependence, and what it means to breathe in an age of environmental catastropheA few moments after birth we begin to use our lungs for the first time. From then on, we must continue breathing for as…
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'Sheku believes that the future of classical music is bright, and in the hands of young musicians like him, it certainly is’ John SuchetMusic is what makes us alive, mindful and connected to each other. Music is what makes us human.…
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*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in…
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The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.Why did people, who lived so briefly in…
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This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in…
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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER'One delight after another. Told with an open heart, a questing curiosity, and a healthy sense of mischief, Queer as Folklore is essential for every seeker of hidden histories' Patrick Ness, author of the 'Chaos…
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**Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times, independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95**'Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain's brightest…
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The bestselling Irish debut – ‘a triumph’ Sally RooneyTHE INSTANT TOP 10 IRISH BESTSELLERAn Observer Best Debut Novelist of 2025‘One of the most exciting writers working in Ireland today’ SALLY…
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A once-in-a-generation debut from a major new talent, The Names is the story of three names, three versions of a life, and the infinite possibilities that a single decision can spark.‘I’ve just been blown away by the…
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A collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's best music writingVolcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since…
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A Financial Times 'What to read in 2025' Book'Essential reading' Françoise Vergès, author of A Decolonial Feminism'Profound and compelling ... A book that I couldn't put down' Adam Hanieh, author of Crude CapitalismWhether…
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From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not…
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A brother and sister lost and found, in a novel that seizes your heart and enthrals your mind, from the author of the Patrick Melrose series.‘We set off in opposite directions and walked around the world until we met, and I’m…
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A fresh, sexy coming of age story, from the author of Okay Days, for fans of Sally Rooney and Mieko Kawakami.'A fresh, tender, and resonant bildungsroman'R. O. Kwon, author of Exhibit'Playful and witty, What A Time To Be…
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Translated by Ginny Tapley TakemoriAmane is ten years old when she discovers she’s not like everyone else. Her school friends were all conceived the normal way, by artificial insemination, and raised in the normal way, by parents in…
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Composer, pianist and writer Erik Satie was one of the great figures of Belle Époque Paris. Known for his unvarying image of bowler hat, three-piece suit and umbrella, Satie was a surrealist before Surrealism and a conceptual artist…
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We Were There is a captivating account of a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and unexplored – the one that exists beyond London.We Were There is about a Black Britain that for too long has been unknown and…
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A wildly inventive and epic tale of greed, revenge and love set in eighteenth-century Latin America'Unexpectedly hilarious and very beautiful . . . Eden's Shore often felt like a sort of maritime Blood Meridian . . . I'd…
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'Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf . . . lyrical and captivating' -The Observer'Radiant, absorbing, sensual' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre'Beautiful' - Sophie Elmhirst,…
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**A 2025 Highlight in the Guardian, I-Paper, Prima, Irish Times, Irish Independent and Sunday Independent**‘I defy you not to cry while reading this’ Red‘De Waal knows how to tug at…
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The riveting debut novel'Unsettling, puckish, and brilliantly written, this novel is an absolute one-off. I loved it' CLAIRE FULLER'Magical, perplexing and funny in a wholly original way' RACHEL YODER'Bamford conjures, in vivid, amplified…
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The instant bestseller, loved by critics and readers around the world: the biggest debut of 2024, now in a new paperback edition. The sensational Sunday Times and New York Times bestseller, longlisted for the…
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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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A sweeping, fluid, all-encompassing book, combining memoir with history and an examination of language, culture and food, which asks us how we can save that which is almost lost -- from the author of How to be a…
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Translated by Barbara J. HavelandLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.'A total explosion.' Nicole…
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Translated by Barbara J. HavelandThe second volume of the landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgård'Miraculous.' The Cut'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Wonderful.' K Patrick'A…
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Heart-breaking yet uplifting, this unforgettable portrait of an Anglo-Romani childhood on the edge of society, in and out of the perils of state care, marks the arrival of a vital new voice in British poetry‘Like amber, these poems…
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The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational figure, Anthony Julius…
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A bold and original exploration from a renowned radical thinker, exploring the consequences of our obsession with image and tasteTATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in…
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A Wilding-come-Salt Path story about mental health, the healing power of nature and how we need to heal it in return – with a blueprint for restoring Britain’s rainforests.An enormously moving and inspiring story about…
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'This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with a particular kind of desert winter light - harsh, unsparing, and beautiful . . . Tremendously moving' Leslie Jamison, author of SplintersEloise has known only…
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‘A beautifully written memoir by one of the most important and original artists working today . . . utterly gripping, enraging, entertaining – and important. I can't recommend it highly enough’ Jennifer HiggieA sparkling…
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'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' Andrew O'Hagan'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' Tess Gunty'Breathtaking ... a precise dissection of class, wealth and power.' Elizabeth DayIn the new novel from the author…
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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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A joyful new memoir on the pleasures of food, travel and gardening from the Sunday Times bestselling authorFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of…
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