Literature
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Search Party
A young black poet blending spoken word and rap; an inner city upbringing with a Cambridge education; a social consciousness with a satirical wit and infectious rhythm – George The Poet is the voice of a new generation. Search Party is a thought-provoking and deeply autobiographical collection. From the overtly political ‘Go Home’ to the…
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Love Cuts
Love Cuts by John Hegley tells the tales of plasters and other aspects of the fabric of life. There are various episodes of emotional injury and subsequent attempts at wound management, including a lengthy documentation of the escapist quest for the holy spectacles. Alongside this, there are further investigations into the author’s relationship with art,…
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The Days Run Away…
The Days Run Away like Wild Horses Over the Hills is a book of poems written by Charles Bukowski for Jane, his first love. These poems explore a more emotional side to Charles Bukowski.
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The First Folio of Shakespeare
This is a second edition of this volume, in as new, unread condition. Bound in excellent bright gilt lettered and illustrated red Morocco leather over pictorial buckram cloth, featuring contemporary illustration of Shakespeare’s Globe and the Thames.
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Nineteen Eighty-four: 75th Anniversary Edition
A deluxe 75th anniversary cloth-bound edition of the most iconic British novel of the twentieth century, with an introduction by Sandra Newman, author of Julia and exclusive archival material. George Orwell’s dystopian vision of a government that will do anything to control the narrative has never been more essential reading. Winston Smith obeys the Party,…
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Catcher in the Rye
‘If you really want to hear about it, the first thing you’ll probably want to know is where I was born and what my lousy childhood was like, and how my parents were occupied and all before they had me, and all that David Copperfield kind of crap, but I don’t feel like going into…
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On the Road
Jack Kerouac’s On the Road swings to the rhythms of 1950s underground America, jazz, sex, generosity, chill dawns and drugs, with Sal Paradise and his hero Dean Moriarty, traveller and mystic, the living epitome of Beat. Now recognized as a modern classic, its American Dream is nearer that of Walt Whitman than Scott Fitzgerald, and…
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Emma
Handsome, clever, and rich, Emma Woodhouse delights in interfering in the romantic lives of others. But when she ignores the warnings of her good friend Mr. Knightley and attempts to arrange a suitable match for her protégée, Harriet Smith, her carefully laid plans soon unravel and have consequences that she never expected.
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Slug
Slug is a book which holds a mirror lovingly up to the world, past and present, through Hollie’s driving, funny, hopeful poetry and prose. Slug is about the human condition: of birth and death and how we manage the possibilities in between.