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Christmas 2022: Stocking Fillers

Selected by the Bookshop


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'One of the world's most prominent postcolonial writers ... He has consistently and with great compassion penetrated the effects of colonialism and its effects on the lives of uprooted and migrating individuals' Anders Olsson, chairman of…

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This Christmas, bask in these ‘diminutive masterpieces’ (Guardian) by the English genius behind Lolly Willowes.‘One of our finest writers.’ Neil Gaiman‘One of the most shamefully under-read great…

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When was smoking banned on trains?…

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Part of our series of books exploring the National Collection of British Art, author Philip Hoare takes us on an exploration of the sea and the way it has provided a deep source of inspiration for artists featured in the Tate collection,…

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Published here for the very first time, Through the Billboard Promised Land Without Ever Stopping is Derek Jarman’s only piece of narrative fiction. Written in 1971, it is a surreal, fabular, lyrical work – a literary…

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Look Again is a new series of short books from Tate Publishing, opening up the conversation about British art over the last 500 years, and exploring what art has to tell us about our lives today. Written by leading voices from the worlds of…

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Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost…

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The latest limited edition recipe pamphlet from the London Review Cake Shop brings us into autumn. The days start to shorten, there’s a nip in the air, but the light is still warm – and the ingredients that ripen at this time of…

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From the internationally bestselling and prize-winning author of The Song of Achilles and Circe, an enchanting short story that boldly reimagines the myth of Galatea and Pygmalion.…

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Writing about 1922 from the ​London Review of Books'Perhaps for us now, peering out from our careening rock-hunk, 1922 serves as our elusive King Tut, our green-light vanishing point, the orgiastic past that year by year…

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*A Slough House Christmas short story from the Sunday Times number one bestseller of BAD ACTORS.*Here in Slough House, the intelligence service's home for inept spies, it's beginning to feel a lot like Christmas.Roddy Ho is used to being…

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In this enchantingly illustrated Christmas poem, Carol Ann Duffy invites readers to open the windows on Advent Street. In each one is a gift. You may find yourself back-straight watching a ballerina, poised to begin, or catch your lips…

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