Basquiat: Bird on Money
100.00 ₾Basquiat: Bird on Money (Galison) — Jean-Michel Basquiat’s celebrated canvas combining text, symbols, and figures in the way that makes his work simultaneously deeply personal and universally resonant, reproduced in the Galison notecard format. For fans of Basquiat’s extraordinary contribution to American art — a way of living with one of his most iconic works in everyday correspondence and display. Published by Galison.
Andy Warhol Flowers Notecards
100.00 ₾Andy Warhol Flowers Notecards (Galison) — Warhol’s beloved flower paintings, first exhibited in 1964 and based on silk-screened hibiscus photographs in multiple Pop Art colours, reproduced in the Galison notecard format for correspondence, collection, or display. Bringing one of the twentieth century’s most iconic images into everyday use — the ideal gift for fans of Warhol and American Pop Art. Published by Galison.
Andy Warhol: After the Party
120.00 ₾Andy Warhol: After the Party (Galison) — photographs, documents, and artworks from Warhol’s decades of nocturnal social activity at the Factory and beyond: a portrait of the Warhol era through the lens of celebration, excess, and the morning after. Gathers the visual material that reveals how central Warhol’s relationship with parties — giving them, attending them, photographing them — was to his artistic practice. Published by Galison.
Warhol Banana Stress Ball
35.00 ₾Warhol Banana Stress Ball (Galison) — Andy Warhol’s iconic banana — the image he designed for the Velvet Underground’s 1967 debut album, one of the most recognised images in Pop Art — as a tactile stress ball. For fans of Warhol, the Velvet Underground, or simply the most iconic piece of pop art ever attached to a record. A unique novelty gift that brings one of the twentieth century’s most recognisable images into everyday life. Published by Galison.
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.
Now Make This: 24 DIY Projects from the Creative Team at Phaidon
90.00 ₾Now Make This by Phaidon Editors (Phaidon) — twenty-four hands-on projects created by the editorial and design team at Phaidon, drawing on the visual vocabulary of artists, designers, and craftspeople whose work Phaidon has documented over its century of publishing. Bookbinding, ceramics, textiles, printmaking, and graphic design — each chosen to introduce a specific material or technique. A beautifully produced invitation to creative practice. Published by Phaidon.
Japan: The Cookbook
200.00 ₾Japan: The Cookbook by Nancy Singleton Hachisu (Phaidon) — over four hundred recipes presenting the full diversity of Japanese cuisine by an American who has lived in rural Japan for decades: kaiseki tradition, Tokyo street food, Hokkaido ramen, mountain hotpots, coastal seafood. The most comprehensive and most authentic Japanese cookbook available in English. An essential resource and a fascinating cultural document. Published by Phaidon.
Peru: The Cookbook
150.00 ₾Peru: The Cookbook by Gastón Acurio (Phaidon) — over five hundred recipes presenting the full range of Peruvian cuisine by the chef who has spent three decades arguing for its place among the world’s great culinary traditions. Indigenous, Spanish, African, Chinese, and Japanese influences; extraordinary biodiversity of ingredients; every region and every tradition covered. The definitive Peruvian cookbook — indispensable for anyone serious about one of food’s most exciting traditions. Published by Phaidon.
Cooking con Claudia
100.00 ₾Cooking con Claudia by Claudia Romo Edelman (Abrams) — a personal cookbook from a lifetime between cultures: Mexican roots, international career, American home. Recipes drawing on the richness of traditional Mexican cooking alongside the influences of the wider world, with personal stories giving them meaning — a celebration of food as cultural memory and present-tense pleasure. Published by Abrams.
Healthy, Quick and Easy Meals
80.00 ₾Healthy, Quick and Easy Meals (Abrams) — recipes that are genuinely nutritious, realistically quick, and actually delicious, drawing on the flavour principles of global cooking traditions to demonstrate that health and pleasure in food are not opposing goals. For busy people who want to eat well without spending their evenings in the kitchen — practical, flavour-focused, and genuinely useful. Published by Abrams.
U.S. Government and Politics: A Visual Guide
90.00 ₾U.S. Government and Politics: A Visual Guide (Abrams) — the complete structure of American federal government presented with visual clarity: the three branches, the checks and balances, the electoral system, the regulatory agencies, and the relationship between federal and state authority. The most accessible available guide to making one of the world’s most complex political systems comprehensible. Published by Abrams.
Sitting with Dogs
90.00 ₾Sitting with Dogs (Abrams) — photographs, essays, and reflections on the experience of sitting with dogs: the specific quality of presence that a dog brings to a room, what that presence gives us and what it asks of us in return. A beautifully produced celebration of the fifteen-thousand-year bond between human beings and their oldest animal companions. Published by Abrams.
Honey, What Do We Got?
100.00 ₾Honey, What Do We Got? (Abrams) — a cookbook built around the art of improvisation: making something delicious from the ingredients at hand, understanding flavour principles deeply enough to cook without a recipe. Presents the techniques and flavour combinations that make this kind of cooking possible, building genuine kitchen confidence rather than recipe dependency. For cooks who want to understand their craft rather than just follow instructions. Published by Abrams.
The Met Collectors Sticker Book
80.00 ₾The Met Collectors Sticker Book (Abrams) — hundreds of stickers reproducing works from the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s extraordinary collection, alongside activities encouraging children to engage actively with five thousand years of human creativity. Ancient Egyptian objects, Greek vases, Renaissance paintings, Japanese screens, American decorative arts — the Met’s holdings brought into young hands through the most engaging format available. Published by Abrams.
It’s So Easy to Make This
100.00 ₾It’s So Easy to Make This (Abrams) — a celebration of simple, generous, flavour-forward cooking: recipes that require minimal equipment and maximum pleasure, drawing on global culinary traditions and the principle that good cooking is fundamentally about good ingredients treated well. From quick weeknight meals to weekend projects, all connected by the conviction that making food for the people you love is one of the most worthwhile things you can do with your time. Published by Abrams.
The Grand Budapest Hotel
55.00 ₾The Grand Budapest Hotel by Wes Anderson (Faber) — the complete screenplay of Anderson’s most beloved film, in which Monsieur Gustave H., the most punctilious concierge in the fictional Republic of Zubrowka, navigates a murder mystery with wit and moral courage. The essential companion to a film where apparent lightness contains genuine weight — production stills, sketches, and behind-the-scenes material throughout. Published by Faber & Faber.
The French Dispatch
55.00 ₾The French Dispatch by Wes Anderson (Faber) — the complete screenplay of Anderson’s love letter to American magazine journalism, structured as three articles from a beloved publication’s final issue. One of his most densely written screenplays — presented alongside production stills and contextual material illuminating the film’s extraordinary visual and verbal richness. Essential for Anderson devotees and lovers of the great magazine journalism tradition. Published by Faber & Faber.
Asteroid City
55.00 ₾Asteroid City by Wes Anderson (Faber) — the complete screenplay of Anderson’s most formally complex film: a film about a television programme about a play, a structure of nested fictions whose relationship to reality is the subject of the whole. Production material and analysis make this the essential companion for understanding what Anderson was doing and how. For devotees of one of cinema’s most distinctive visual artists. Published by Faber & Faber.
Isle of Dogs
55.00 ₾Isle of Dogs by Wes Anderson (Faber) — the complete screenplay of Anderson’s stop-motion film set in a future Japan, where a boy named Atari searches for his exiled dog. Alongside production stills, sketches, and behind-the-scenes material revealing the meticulous craft behind one of the most visually distinctive animated films of recent years. Essential for Anderson devotees and students of animation and production design. Published by Faber & Faber.
89 Words Followed by a Dream
60.00 ₾89 Words Followed by a Dream by Milan Kundera (Faber) — Kundera’s final work, completed shortly before his death in 2023: short prose pieces gathered around the question of what it means to be at the end of a long life and a long literary career, to look back at the words you have written and find them both yours and not yours. As concentrated and as precisely formed as everything he wrote. The capstone of one of literature’s great bodies of work. Published by Faber & Faber.
Molloy
46.00 ₾Molloy by Samuel Beckett (Faber) — an old man lying in his room, writing; a detective sent to find him. What follows, in Beckett’s first novel of his trilogy, is a journey that is also a decomposition of narrative, identity, and the certainty that language can tell us anything reliable about the world or ourselves. One of the most radical acts of fiction ever committed to paper — essential world literature. Published by Faber & Faber.
John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs
55.00 ₾John and Paul: A Love Story in Songs by Ian Leslie (Faber) — the first book to place the Lennon-McCartney relationship itself at the centre of the Beatles story, arguing that each man wrote things the other made possible that neither could have written alone. Drawing on music theory, psychology, and a lifetime of listening — the most illuminating book about the Beatles in years. Essential for anyone who loves the music. Published by Faber & Faber.
Lord of the Flies
46.00 ₾Lord of the Flies by William Golding (Faber) — British schoolboys stranded on a tropical island build a society that collapses into savagery within weeks — not because they are particularly bad, but because Golding believes savagery is one of human nature’s fundamental possibilities, always present beneath the conventions that ordinarily contain it. One of the essential British novels, in the Faber & Faber edition. Published by Faber & Faber.
Intermezzo
46.00 ₾Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (Faber) — Margaret and Ivan are siblings reconciling after their father’s death, navigating an unexpected closeness that neither has words for. Rooney’s fourth novel is her most formally ambitious and emotionally confrontational — approaching a taboo subject with the same clear-eyed intelligence she brings to everything, refusing both sensationalism and comfortable elision. Her most mature and most challenging novel. Published by Faber & Faber.
Beautiful World, Where Are You
46.00 ₾Beautiful World, Where Are You by Sally Rooney (Faber) — Alice and Eileen, best friends in their early thirties in Dublin, navigating professional lives, romantic complications, and the persistent sense that the world they expected has not arrived. Rooney’s most spacious novel — uncertain in ways that its predecessors were not, attempting to find beauty and goodness in a world that feels neither. For readers who have followed her development with care. Published by Faber & Faber.
Klara and the Sun
46.00 ₾Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — Klara is an Artificial Friend who observes the world with absolute clarity and absolute limitation simultaneously, chosen by a teenager whose health is declining and who needs her in ways she must learn to understand. Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize lecture novel — narrated by a consciousness both less and more than human — a novel of quiet devastation from one of the greatest living writers. Published by Faber & Faber.
Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead
26.00 ₾Let the Old Dead Make Room for the Young Dead by Milan Kundera (Faber) — a young man visits his dying elderly father and finds himself unable to say what needs to be said before time runs out. Among the most painful and most perfectly formed things Kundera ever wrote: a meditation on time, parenthood, and the words that remain unsaid between people who love each other. Part of the Faber Stories series. Published by Faber & Faber.
Nights of Plague
50.00 ₾Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk (Faber) — the Ottoman island of Mingheria, 1901: a deadly plague spreading through a population whose Muslim and Greek communities are held in delicate balance, and a governor and his princess wife at the centre of a crisis that is simultaneously medical, political, and historical. Pamuk’s pandemic novel — begun before COVID-19, completed during it — at his most historically ambitious. Published by Faber & Faber.
Come Rain or Come Shine
28.00 ₾Come Rain or Come Shine by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — in the space of a single evening, a journey, a meal, a game of cards, everything is decided or not decided between a man and a woman who have known each other for fifteen years. Ishiguro’s short story as compressed and precisely balanced as a Japanese object — few pages that repay repeated reading. Part of the Faber Stories series. Published by Faber & Faber.
Normal People
46.00 ₾Normal People by Sally Rooney (Faber) — Connell and Marianne in school, then in Trinity College Dublin, then in the world: a love story of complete precision and complete emotional honesty, in which two intelligent people repeatedly fail and find each other. The novel that established Rooney as the defining literary voice of her generation in English — intimate, funny, and quietly devastating. Published by Faber & Faber.
Hitchcock/Truffaut
100.00 ₾Hitchcock/Truffaut by François Truffaut (Faber) — fifty hours of conversation between Truffaut and Hitchcock about every film Hitchcock had made, every technique he had developed, every idea about the relationship between director and audience. The most important text in the history of film theory — the work in which cinema was most fully articulated by its most articulate practitioner. Essential reading for every filmmaker and cinephile. Published by Faber & Faber.
Conversations with Friends
46.00 ₾Conversations with Friends by Sally Rooney (Faber) — Frances, twenty-one, a spoken-word poet in Dublin, falls in love with Nick, a married man ten years older, and the affair dismantles the emotional self-sufficiency she was absolutely sure she possessed. Rooney’s debut established her as the defining voice of a generation — a writer who takes seriously the specific emotional and political reality of being young and intelligent and precarious in contemporary Europe. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Festival of Insignificance
46.00 ₾The Festival of Insignificance by Milan Kundera (Faber) — four old friends meet in a Paris park, and in their conversation Kundera finds the vehicle for a final meditation on the questions that have occupied him for six decades: the nature of art, the comedy of existence, the possibility that what we think matters does not, and that this might be not a tragedy but a liberation. Barely a hundred and twenty pages — the perfect capstone to one of the great bodies of work in twentieth-century literature. Published by Faber & Faber.
The Buried Giant
46.00 ₾The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber) — in a post-Arthurian Britain veiled in mist and forgetting, an elderly couple journey to find their son, gradually discovering the nature and purpose of a collective amnesia that has settled over the entire country. What do we owe to a painful past we might prefer to forget? Ishiguro’s most mythological novel — profound, strange, and unforgettable from a Nobel laureate at the height of his powers. Published by Faber & Faber.
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