Island Dreaming: Inspired Interiors for a Relaxed Home
250.00 ₾Island Dreaming: Inspired Interiors for a Relaxed Home (Cabana) — the most beautiful island interiors from the Mediterranean, Caribbean, Pacific, and Indian Ocean: the specific visual language of island living presented with Cabana’s characteristic richness and warmth. Light, water, natural beauty, and liberation from mainland complexity — the combination that has drawn people to islands throughout human history, embodied in extraordinary domestic spaces. Published by Cabana.
Cabana Anthology
380.00 ₾Cabana Anthology by Martina Mondadori Sartogo (Cabana) — the best of five years of Cabana magazine: the quarterly that has redefined what a beautiful home can look like, consistently presenting domestic environments of extraordinary personality against the tide of contemporary taste homogenisation. Maximalist, colourful, historically rich — the most complete available overview of the Cabana vision. Published by Cabana.
Copacabana Palace: Where the World Meets
350.00 ₾Copacabana Palace: Where the World Meets (Cabana) — the story of the Copacabana Palace in Rio de Janeiro, welcoming the world’s most glamorous visitors since 1923, told through its architecture, interiors, guests, and the specific quality of Rio de Janeiro life that the Palace both reflects and creates. A portrait of one of the world’s great hotels and of the extraordinary city that surrounds it. Published by Cabana.
Mexican: A Journey Through the Cuisine
200.00 ₾Mexican: A Journey Through the Cuisine (Cabana) — a comprehensive Cabana cookbook presenting the full range of Mexican culinary tradition: pre-Columbian ingredients and techniques, Spanish colonial cooking, and the regional diversity of a country spanning tropical coasts, mountain valleys, and arid highlands. As diverse, as regionally specific, and as historically deep as any culinary tradition in the world — presented with Cabana’s characteristic visual richness. Published by Cabana.
Casa Cabana
380.00 ₾Casa Cabana by Martina Mondadori Sartogo (Cabana) — the most extraordinary maximalist, colour-saturated, print-rich domestic interiors from the archives of Cabana magazine, which has become the most influential interiors publication of the past decade. Houses in Brazil, Italy, France, Morocco, and New York that embody the Cabana aesthetic at its most vivid — a celebration of home as an expression of personality, history, and the accumulated pleasures of a life well lived. Published by Cabana.
Ballerina
200.00 ₾Ballerina (Cabana) — the world of classical ballet celebrated through photography, backstage imagery, and the personal stories of the dancers who have dedicated their lives to one of the most visually spectacular and technically demanding performing arts. From the great European ballet companies to emerging schools of contemporary dance — Cabana’s visual intelligence applied to an art form of extraordinary physical and artistic difficulty. Published by Cabana.
Assistant to the Villain
70.00 ₾Assistant to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer (Hodder & Stoughton) — Evie Porter has spent years cataloguing every reason she plans to kill her spectacularly incompetent villain employer, a list that grows longer every day. When a genuine threat emerges, Evie and her villain find themselves on the same side — discovering that competence and incompetence can, in sufficiently desperate circumstances, produce something unexpected. A fantasy romance of great charm and dark wit. Published by Hodder & Stoughton.
The Wes Anderson Collection
200.00 ₾The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz (Abrams) — the most comprehensive and most intelligent account of Anderson’s work from Bottle Rocket through Moonrise Kingdom: detailed analysis of each film, production photographs and sketches, and the interviews that reveal how Anderson thinks about the cinema he makes. One of the finest filmmaker monographs of recent years — essential for any Anderson devotee. Published by Abrams.
Woman in the Mirror
380.00 ₾Woman in the Mirror by Richard Avedon (Abrams) — Avedon’s complete engagement with the female subject across fifty years: the fashion photographs that defined Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar for decades alongside portrait work that revealed something about female identity, power, and self-presentation that the fashion photographs simultaneously created and concealed. An essential monograph from one of the twentieth century’s greatest photographers. Published by Abrams.
The Dutch Golden Age: Painting in Holland in the 17th Century
80.00 ₾The Dutch Golden Age by Jp A. Calosse (Lorenz Books) — a comprehensive guide to the most significant school of painting outside Italy: Rembrandt and Vermeer, Frans Hals and Jan Steen, in response to the specific conditions of the Dutch Republic, the rise of a bourgeois art market, and the Protestant tradition that displaced religious subject matter in favour of the everyday world. Historical context and visual analysis of the major works throughout. Published by Lorenz Books.
Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Rubens: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Jp A. Calosse (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Rubens works tracing the career of the most prolific and most energetically vital painter of the Baroque: altarpieces, mythological canvases, portraits, and landscapes of such physical energy and visual richness that they remain the definitive statement of Baroque excess and Baroque pleasure. Published by Lorenz Books.
Home-Made Cheese: Artisan Cheesemaking Made Simple
70.00 ₾Home-Made Cheese: Artisan Cheesemaking Made Simple by Paul Peacock (Lorenz Books) — a comprehensive guide to home cheese-making from simple fresh cheeses ready in hours (ricotta, cottage cheese, cream cheese) through the aged hard cheeses requiring weeks of careful management. One of the most rewarding and most accessible of the traditional food crafts, producing freshness and flavour that commercial production cannot match. Published by Lorenz Books.
Detox: Cleanse and Revitalise Your Body
35.00 ₾Detox: Cleanse and Revitalise Your Body (Lorenz Books) — a concise guide to gentle detoxification: the foods, drinks, and lifestyle practices that support the liver, kidneys, and digestive system in their ongoing work. Practical programmes for short, medium, and longer detox periods, with clear guidance on what a genuine detox involves as distinct from the more extreme approaches that are neither safe nor effective. Published by Lorenz Books.
Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Manet paintings alongside the biographical material tracing the most controversial and most consequential career in nineteenth-century French painting. The man who, with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, forced the question of what modern painting was allowed to depict — and whose answer transformed the history of Western art. Published by Lorenz Books.
Yoga and Pilates: Combined Techniques for Health and Vitality
40.00 ₾Yoga and Pilates: Combined Techniques for Health and Vitality (Lorenz Books) — a systematic guide to combining yoga and Pilates into a single practice of extraordinary completeness: flexible and strong, centred and mobile, both energised and calm. Covers foundational poses and movements through more advanced sequences, with photographic instruction making each technique accessible to practitioners at every level. Published by Lorenz Books.
Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Velázquez paintings, from the early Seville genre scenes through the court portraits of Philip IV to the incomparable Las Meninas. The greatest court painter of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest painters in Western art — whose psychological penetration and mastery of light and shadow have never been surpassed. Published by Lorenz Books.
Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Degas: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Gill Knappett (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Degas works alongside the biographical material tracing his extraordinary career. The most psychologically acute of the Impressionists — the painter who captured the backstage reality of the Paris ballet and the exhaustion of the laundress with a visual intelligence that went beyond Impressionism toward something more like a novelist’s interest in character and situation. Published by Lorenz Books.
Uniforms of World War II
90.00 ₾Uniforms of World War II by Andrew Mollo (Lorenz Books) — the uniforms of every major national force in the Second World War, from the Wehrmacht and the Red Army through the British, American, and Commonwealth forces to the Japanese Imperial Army and the Italian Regia Esercito, with full-colour illustrations and historical context for each national uniform tradition. A comprehensive reference for military history enthusiasts. Published by Lorenz Books.
Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images
80.00 ₾Monet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Monet paintings alongside the biographical material that places them in the context of his long, productive life. Monet painted water, light, and atmosphere with a persistence and precision that no other painter has matched — returning to the same subjects across decades to watch how light changed them through seasons and hours. Published by Lorenz Books.
Vinegar and Oil: A Cook’s Guide to the Most Essential Flavours
75.00 ₾Vinegar and Oil: A Cook’s Guide (Lorenz Books) — the complete world of culinary vinegar and cooking oil: wine, cider, rice, balsamic, and sherry vinegars; olive, walnut, avocado, coconut, and sesame oils — each covered with history, production methods, tasting notes, and recipes demonstrating what it can do in the kitchen. The foundational flavour pair in cooking, treated with the depth and seriousness it deserves. Published by Lorenz Books.
Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success
50.00 ₾Eleven Rings: The Soul of Success by Phil Jackson (Virgin Books) — eleven NBA championships, more than any coach in history, achieved through Zen Buddhist principles and a tribal leadership philosophy that prioritises shared purpose over individual brilliance. A coaching memoir that is also a philosophy of leadership — arguing that the best teams are not the ones with the best players but the ones with the most complete sense of collective identity. Published by Virgin Books.
Factotum
46.00 ₾Factotum by Charles Bukowski (Virgin Books) — Henry Chinaski drifts from city to city and job to job through 1940s America, losing each position with a combination of incompetence, insubordination, and constitutional inability to take orders from people he considers his inferiors. Bukowski’s picaresque of American working-class life — the novel of the itinerant years before Post Office, written with complete authenticity and dark, dry humour. Published by Virgin Books.
Women
50.00 ₾Women by Charles Bukowski (Virgin Books) — Henry Chinaski in his fifties in Hollywood, having sex with a large number of women and writing about it with the combination of braggadocio and genuine self-awareness that makes this one of Bukowski’s finest novels. The book where the gap between the performance of callousness and the reality of need is most clearly visible. Essential Bukowski. Published by Virgin Books.
Tales of Ordinary Madness
50.00 ₾Tales of Ordinary Madness by Charles Bukowski (Virgin Books) — Henry Chinaski wanders through bars and rooming houses, working menial labour, drinking heavily, loving badly, and observing the world with merciless precision. Not comfortable, not meant to be: the essential Bukowski short story collection, establishing him as one of the defining voices of American underground literature. Published by Virgin Books.
The Most Beautiful Woman in Town
50.00 ₾The Most Beautiful Woman in Town by Charles Bukowski (Virgin Books) — short stories from the bars, racetracks, boarding houses, and low-rent Los Angeles neighbourhoods that provided Bukowski with his material across decades of writing. The empathy beneath the cynicism, the precision beneath the rawness: dispatches from the lower depths of American life, written by someone who lived there rather than visiting. The title story is among the best things he wrote. Published by Virgin Books.
The Complete Short Stories
50.00 ₾The Complete Short Stories by Franz Kafka (Vintage) — every piece of Kafka’s short fiction in a single volume: ‘The Metamorphosis’, ‘In the Penal Colony’, ‘A Hunger Artist’, the animal stories, the parables, the miniatures, the fragments. Each piece demonstrating the same formal mastery: a premise established with deadpan certainty, a logic pursued to its inevitable conclusion, an effect combining comedy and horror in proportions that never resolve. The essential Kafka collection. Published by Vintage.
How to Stop Worrying and Start Living
45.00 ₾How to Stop Worrying and Start Living by Dale Carnegie (Vermilion) — first published in 1948 and never out of print, because the problems it addresses — the paralysis produced by worry, the energy consumed by fear of what might happen rather than engagement with what is actually happening — are not historical but permanent. Carnegie’s practical philosophy draws on psychology, personal stories, and decades of teaching to produce principles and practices that genuinely reduce worry. Published by Vermilion.
Piercing
46.00 ₾Piercing by Ryu Murakami (Bloomsbury) — Kazuki, quiet and seemingly ordinary, is methodically planning a murder with great care. A slim, wickedly precise psychological thriller about the relationship between violence and intimacy, written in the sparse, disturbing style that made In the Miso Soup an international sensation. A masterclass in literary horror that illuminates rather than merely disturbs — not for the faint-hearted. Published by Bloomsbury.
Eat Pray Love
45.00 ₾Eat Pray Love by Elizabeth Gilbert (Bloomsbury) — four months in Italy eating pasta, three months in India meditating, three months in Bali with a medicine man: the memoir of a year of deliberate transformation that became one of the bestselling books of the twenty-first century. More complicated, more self-aware, and more genuinely searching than its reputation suggests — honest about its contradictions and the specific quality of presence it discovered. Published by Bloomsbury.
A Man Without a Country
55.00 ₾A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut (Bloomsbury) — Vonnegut at eighty-two, writing about whatever he wanted: the Iraq War, his uncle Alex who noticed when he was happy, the Sermon on the Mount and why it has never been taken seriously, what it means to be a humanist in a country that has decided humanism is insufficient. Late Vonnegut — wiser, sadder, and still funnier than almost anyone. Essential for fans and for anyone who values moral seriousness with wit. Published by Bloomsbury.
Just Kids
60.00 ₾Just Kids by Patti Smith (Bloomsbury) — the story of Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe in the early 1970s, arriving in New York with nothing but ambition, living in the Chelsea Hotel among its extraordinary cast, developing their artistic visions in the face of complete material precariousness. Winner of the National Book Award — one of the essential memoirs of artistic life in the twentieth century. Published by Bloomsbury.
Simply Delishaas: Bold, Comforting South Asian Recipes
130.00 ₾Simply Delishaas by Dixya Bhattarai (DK) — the full breadth of South Asian culinary heritage — Nepali, Indian, and Pakistani recipes alongside diaspora cooking evolved in the West — presented with the confidence and specificity that come from cooking these dishes at home for a lifetime. Bold, comforting, and flavour-forward: the cookbook that finally gives South Asian cuisine the English-language treatment it deserves. Published by DK.
The Montessori Home
70.00 ₾The Montessori Home by Ashley Yeh (DK) — a practical guide to creating Montessori-inspired home environments for children: spaces designed at their level, with materials that support independent activity and development at every stage. Covers every room, every age, and the specific materials and arrangements that support Montessori learning at home — based on the radical principle that children learn best in environments designed to respect their intelligence. Published by DK.
Yoshitomo Nara
350.00 ₾Yoshitomo Nara (Phaidon) — the most comprehensive monograph of the most beloved contemporary Japanese artist’s work from 2020 to the present: new paintings, sculptures, and drawings from the creator of the wide-eyed children and fierce dogs that have achieved global recognition bridging fine art and popular culture. The definitive Nara reference — essential for fans and a beautiful introduction for those encountering his work for the first time. Published by Phaidon.
Lucian Freud: A Life
550.00 ₾Lucian Freud: A Life by William Feaver (Phaidon) — the definitive biography by the author who knew Freud personally for the last three decades of his life and had unprecedented access to the artist and his archive. Two volumes tracing the complete life: the Berlin childhood, the London exile, the long career, the multiple families, the gambling, and the sixty years of nude paintings that constitute one of the most sustained and most honest engagements with the human body in painting history. Published by Phaidon.
500 Self-Portraits
120.00 ₾500 Self-Portraits by Julian Bell (Phaidon) — the complete history of the most intimate genre in the visual arts, from Dürer’s Messianic self-portrait through Rembrandt’s decades of self-scrutiny, Frida Kahlo’s symbolic autobiography, and the contemporary artists who have pushed the genre into entirely new territory. A complete history of how artists see themselves — and therefore of how they see, full stop. Essential Phaidon. Published by Phaidon.
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