A Quick Drink The Speed Rack Guide to Winning Cocktails for Any Mood
120.00 ₾From the founders of Speed Rack, the acclaimed all-female bartending competition, comes a definitive cocktail guide packed with winning recipes and expert technique. Ivy Mix and Lynnette Marrero share the knowledge that has shaped the best female bartenders in the industry.
Rolling Stone The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
200.00 ₾Rolling Stone’s fully revised definitive ranking of the 500 greatest albums ever made, featuring hundreds of new entries. From classic rock to contemporary hip-hop, this authoritative volume spans every genre with critical commentary and essential context for each landmark recording.
Sofia Coppola Forever Young
200.00 ₾A beautifully illustrated study of Sofia Coppola’s career, tracing her distinctive visual language from The Virgin Suicides onwards. Hannah Strong’s authoritative text celebrates a filmmaker whose dreamy, intimate cinema has shaped an entire generation of artists and directors.
The Wes Anderson Collection: the French Dispatch
200.00 ₾The official companion to Wes Anderson’s The French Dispatch, with original artwork, storyboards, production design details, and in-depth conversations between critic Matt Zoller Seitz and Anderson himself. Essential reading for fans of the director’s uniquely crafted world.
Fun City Cinema New York City and the Movies that Made it
180.00 ₾A sweeping visual history of 100 years of New York City filmmaking, featuring exclusive filmmaker interviews and a foreword by Matt Zoller Seitz. Film critic Jason Bailey reveals how cinema and the city shaped each other across ten iconic decades.
A Table in Paris: The Restaurants, Bistros and Cafes I Love
100.00 ₾A Table in Paris by John Donohue (Abrams) — paintings and profiles of the restaurants, bistros, and cafés Donohue loves in Paris, capturing the specific quality of light in a particular brasserie at a particular hour, the relationship between red banquettes and mirrored walls, the way afternoon light falls across a zinc counter. A beautiful celebration of one of the world’s great food cultures — the ideal companion for any visit to Paris. Published by Abrams.
I Am Me
40.00 ₾I Am Me by Susan Verde (Abrams) — a beautifully illustrated picture book for young children celebrating the truth that each person is unique: the things that make you different are the things that make you yourself, and being exactly who you are is both sufficient and extraordinary. Written with warmth and illustrated with visual richness — the kind of book children want to hear again and again. Published by Abrams.
Hermès
150.00 ₾Hermès by Alice Charbin (Abrams) — an illustrated celebration of the house founded in 1837 as a harness-maker and transformed over a century and a half into the world’s most carefully guarded luxury brand: its history, its craft, its iconic objects, and the visual culture it has created. What craftsmanship means at its highest level — the scarves, bags, and leather goods coveted not for their logo but for their making. Published by Abrams.
Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design
150.00 ₾Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design (Abrams) — fifty signature YSL pieces presented in full-page photography, selected for the qualities that distinguish fashion from clothing. The argument for which pieces from forty years of haute couture deserve to be called works of art — including the first pieces that elevated non-Western visual traditions to haute couture status. The ideal YSL introduction for new readers. Published by Abrams.
Like Father, Like Son: Remarkable Pairs in the Animal Kingdom
70.00 ₾Like Father, Like Son: Remarkable Pairs in the Animal Kingdom by Lesléa Newman (Abrams) — beautiful photographs of animal fathers with their offspring, celebrating the universal bond of paternal care across the natural world: the seahorse father who carries his young, the emperor penguin who stands in Antarctic darkness for months, the gorilla who allows his young to climb over him with complete patience. Published by Abrams.
Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin
250.00 ₾Tom Waits by Matt Mahurin (Abrams) — decades of photographs by Matt Mahurin alongside Tom Waits’s own words: a portrait of one of American music’s most singular figures, whose music draws on blues, jazz, folk, and Tin Pan Alley while remaining completely unlike anything else in the culture. As distinctive a visual language as Waits’s own — gravelly, cinematic, tender, grotesque. Essential for Waits devotees. Published by Abrams.
Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion
250.00 ₾Supreme Models: Iconic Black Women Who Revolutionized Fashion by Marcellas Reynolds (Abrams) — from Donyale Luna through Iman, Naomi Campbell, and Tyra Banks to the contemporary models reshaping the industry: the complete story of how Black women have been central to the history of fashion modelling, presented with historical depth and visual celebration. An essential document of beauty, power, and the politics of representation in fashion. Published by Abrams.
The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads
200.00 ₾The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads by Lauren Wilford (Abrams) — the best work from multiple iterations of the beloved Bad Dads art show, in which independent artists from around the world respond to Anderson’s visual world with creativity that reflects how deeply his aesthetic has penetrated the popular imagination. Essays contextualise both the art and the films — a beautiful celebration of one of cinema’s most distinctive visual artists. Published by Abrams.
Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style
150.00 ₾Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style by Olivier Saillard (Abrams) — a beautiful and authoritative account of YSL’s career focused on the concept of perfection: the standard he held himself to and that his best work achieves. The trouser suit, the safari jacket, the tuxedo — the pieces that liberated the female body while simultaneously creating some of the most beautiful clothes ever made. Essential for serious students of fashion history. Published by Abrams.
Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury
500.00 ₾Louis Vuitton: The Birth of Modern Luxury by Pierre Léonforte (Abrams) — the complete history of Louis Vuitton from its trunk-making origins in 1854 through the development of the luxury goods division to the contemporary fashion house — tracing how a company founded on travel equipment became one of the most recognisable luxury brands in the world. Historical depth and visual richness — the essential Louis Vuitton reference. Published by Abrams.
Religions of the World
90.00 ₾Religions of the World (Lorenz Books) — Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism, Sikhism, Taoism, Confucianism, Shinto, and the indigenous traditions of Africa, Australia, and the Americas — each presented from its origins through its major texts, ritual practices, sacred sites, and contemporary global presence. The most complete one-volume guide to world religion available, with the visual richness and historical depth the subject demands. Published by Lorenz Books.
The Song of Achilles
50.00 ₾The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) — Patroclus and Achilles, from their first meeting through their friendship, their love, and their shared fate in the Trojan War. Miller tells one of the oldest stories in Western literature with the intimacy and psychological depth that Homer’s epic form cannot provide. Winner of the Orange Prize for Fiction — a love story as genuinely moving as any in contemporary fiction. Published by Bloomsbury.
Circe
100.00 ₾Circe by Madeline Miller (Bloomsbury) — the daughter of Helios, possessed of a gift for witchcraft she discovered by accident, given the interior life and psychological completeness that Greek mythology denies her. Miller transforms a witch into a woman and a woman into one of the most fully realised characters in contemporary fiction — ancient and completely contemporary, faithfully mythological and entirely original. Published by Bloomsbury.
J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic
100.00 ₾J.K. Rowling’s Wizarding World: Movie Magic (Bloomsbury) — the official companion to the Wizarding World film series, presenting the visual language of the films in extraordinary detail: production designs, creature effects, costume designs, set decorations, and behind-the-scenes photography revealing how the most complex elements of an imagined world are translated into physical reality. Essential for fans of the films and students of production design. Published by Bloomsbury.
The Dark Mirror
80.00 ₾The Dark Mirror by Samantha Shannon (Bloomsbury) — a new novel from the creator of The Bone Season and The Priory of the Orange Tree, returning to the extraordinary fantasy universe she has been building for a decade. Shannon writes fantasy with the formal intelligence and psychological realism that the best literary fiction demands — her world-building intricate, her characters real, her prose carrying genuine weight. Published by Bloomsbury.
Bread of Angels
65.00 ₾Bread of Angels by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury) — Smith’s most recent prose work: meditations on the figures who have shaped her world, written in her characteristic style combining the directness of a diary with the imagistic precision of poetry. Moving with complete freedom between the personal and the universal, between the specific and the transcendent — one of the most genuinely original literary voices of the past fifty years at her most distilled. Published by Bloomsbury.
Patti Smith: Collected Lyrics
100.00 ₾Patti Smith: Collected Lyrics (Bloomsbury) — the complete lyrics from four decades of songwriting, from ‘Gloria’ and ‘Horses’ through ‘Because the Night’ and ‘Easter’ to the work of her later decades. One of the most sustained and most seriously literary bodies of songwriting in popular music history — moving between prophetic declaration and intimate confession, between political rage and private elegy, with a freedom that almost no other songwriter has achieved. Published by Bloomsbury.
Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection
300.00 ₾Harry Potter Box Set: The Complete Collection by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury) — all seven Harry Potter novels from The Philosopher’s Stone to The Deathly Hallows: the most sustained act of world-building in popular fiction, in which the smallest details of the first book are paid off in the last, and the series that defined the reading lives of an entire generation worldwide. The ideal gift for new readers and the complete set for any fan. Published by Bloomsbury.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
45.00 ₾Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J.K. Rowling (Bloomsbury) — on his eleventh birthday, Harry Potter learns he is a wizard and that the world he has been living in is not the only world there is. The most completely imagined place in children’s literature; the first novel that launched a series read by more people in more languages than almost any work of fiction ever written. The essential children’s classic in the Bloomsbury edition. Published by Bloomsbury.
Audition
50.00 ₾Audition by Ryu Murakami (Bloomsbury) — a widower uses a fake film audition to screen potential wives, and the woman who answers — quiet, composed, with a mysterious past — seems perfect. Miike Takashi adapted this into one of the most notorious horror films of the 1990s; the novel is the source of that notoriety, operating in the narrow space between literary fiction and pure dread. Brief, elegant, and unforgettable. Published by Bloomsbury.
Love, Mom
50.00 ₾Love, Mom by Iliana Xander (Michael Joseph) — a novel in the form of letters from a mother to a daughter: advice, memory, nostalgia, and the particular quality of love that expresses itself as worry, as instruction, as the desire to prepare someone for the world’s disappointments while hoping those disappointments never arrive. Warm, funny, and ultimately moving — a portrait of a mother-daughter relationship in the only voice a mother has. Published by Michael Joseph.
Heavenly Bodies
50.00 ₾Heavenly Bodies by Imani Erriu (Michael Joseph) — a novel of desire, power, and the specific pressures of being a young Black woman navigating the fashion and creative industries, praised for sharp observations about race, ambition, and the forms of self-invention that contemporary professional life demands. Written with wit, intelligence, and genuine feeling — announcing a distinctive new voice in contemporary British fiction. Published by Michael Joseph.
The Myth of American Idealism
50.00 ₾The Myth of American Idealism by Noam Chomsky (Penguin) — Chomsky’s most essential arguments about American foreign policy since 1945, co-written with André Vltchek: the military interventions, the support for authoritarian regimes, the rhetoric of freedom versus the reality of strategic interest. Presented with the rigour and implacable logic that have made Chomsky one of the most widely read political thinkers of the twentieth century. Published by Penguin.
Write Me for You
46.00 ₾Write Me for You by Tillie Cole (Michael Joseph) — a romance novel delivering the full force of romantic longing, delayed gratification, and the particular pleasure of a love story that takes both its characters and its readers completely seriously. Written with warmth, wit, and genuine emotional intelligence — the kind of book that reminds you why romance fiction, at its best, is one of the most satisfying reading experiences available. Published by Michael Joseph.
Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone
46.00 ₾Everyone in My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson (Michael Joseph) — a true crime author at a family holiday gathering when someone turns up dead, applying his own logical methodology to the problem and discovering that real-world murder investigation is rather less neat than its literary equivalent. A witty, inventive, genuinely clever mystery that plays knowingly with genre conventions while delivering a genuine puzzle. Published by Michael Joseph.
Europe: A History
100.00 ₾Europe: A History by Norman Davies (Penguin) — the most ambitious single-volume European history ever published, tracing the continent’s story from the Ice Age to the end of the Cold War across its full diversity: Eastern and Central European dimensions, religious and intellectual history, culture and everyday life, and the deep structural patterns that repeat across centuries. Encyclopaedic in scope, written with literary flair, the essential one-volume European history. Published by Penguin.
And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
50.00 ₾And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a grandfather in a hospital, his grandson beside him, a maze on a piece of paper between them that is getting smaller as the grandfather gets older. A meditation on loss, love, and the specific grief of watching a parent’s mind diminish — barely a hundred pages, some almost blank, close to perfect. Brief enough to read in a single sitting; moving enough to stay for years. Published by Michael Joseph.
Anxious People
46.00 ₾Anxious People by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a building is held hostage by a man with a gun, and the eight people inside — with their histories, failures, secrets, and unexpected connections — form the subject of a police investigation that is also a meditation on the walls people build around themselves and call protection. Backman’s most formally inventive novel: a comedy about tragedy built with the precision of a Swiss watch. Published by Michael Joseph.
Us Against You
46.00 ₾Us Against You by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — the sequel to Beartown continues the story of the town divided by violence and its aftermath, now with the additional pressure of a rival hockey team and the escalating conflict between communities that mirrors and amplifies the personal conflicts at the novel’s centre. Backman writes about sport with a precision and a seriousness that few literary novelists bring to it. Published by Michael Joseph.
Beartown
46.00 ₾Beartown by Fredrik Backman (Michael Joseph) — a small hockey town’s entire identity is built around its junior team’s chance at a national championship. When a young woman accuses the star player of rape, the town divides along lines of loyalty, silence, and complicity that reveal exactly what a community’s values actually are when tested against its interests. Backman’s most ambitious novel — a book about how communities decide who matters and who doesn’t. Published by Michael Joseph.
Natural Living by Design
180.00 ₾Natural Living by Design (Cabana) — homes, gardens, and ways of life that prioritise organic materials, seasonal rhythms, and the beauty that only genuinely living things can provide. Cabana’s celebration of a commitment to the materials and sensory pleasures that connect us to the world we are part of — presented with the visual intelligence and warmth that have made Cabana the world’s most influential interiors publication. Published by Cabana.
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