Two new novellas from one of my favourite writers. Trust me, he should be one of your favourite writers too.
The first great south London novel of 2013. Signed copies available now.
Huge congratulations to Kerry Hudson for her shortlisting for the Guardian first book award. Entirely deserved. And we have (a few) signed copies left too.
One of my favourite novels, The End of Vandalism by Tom Drury. "Quite heartbreaking,laugh-out-loud funny, and always, absolutely convincing" - Jayne Anne Phillips.
I would also highly recommend Drury's last book The Driftless Area.
Now in paperback, the latest novel from one of my favourite writers and perhaps his most ambitious yet. An allegory, a fairytale, a bit Lewis Carroll a bit Calvino and entirely magical.
One of the most talked-about and blogged-about books of the summer. And deservedly so.The hardback has now gone out of print. We have two left.
Buy a signed copy of Driving Jarvis Ham the brilliant new novel by Jim Bob. 
This is being boosted in some quarters as the ‘new’ Beach. It’s not. It’s much better than that. Imagine, if you will, a cross between The Long Good Friday and Point Break. A physical novel closer to Tim Winton or Kem Nunn worth the price of admission for the diving scenes alone and a must for anyone who has ever dipped a toe in the water. Signed copies.
Now in paperback, the brilliant new collection of stories by Dan Chaon.
The latest McSweeney's with a poem from Bolano and a piece of Elmore Leonard.
A new collection of short stories from Tessa Hadley. The often unexpected, calmly told. Lovely cover too. Now watch them bork the paperback.
Lovely weed-fueled ramble across Britain in the dark. Fireworks, football, a bit of shagging, It could have been the worst thing I've ever read (not that not fond of all of the above). But it's not, it's good. Buy it for your boyfriend
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Buy a signed copy of Mark's very funny book.
One way or another the end of the world is coming. Beautifully, individually signed by Steven Appleby and Art Lester.
“In his own danceless life he couldn’t imagine anyone laughing on a November dawn but here it was. He tried to dismiss the image of three nude girls in the same bed but it was like trying not to think of a white horse.” Pete Dexter quoting Jim Harrison in his glorious review for the
Geoff Dyer's book of the year (The Guardian 26th Nov) It has a ramshackle loquacity, a down-home hyper-eloquence and an off-the-wallishness that is almost lapidary... And now James Wood reviews it in the
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'Happy is a strong word.' The new, brilliantly written, novel from Dan Chaon.
Back then it was always sandals, bottom half of a flower-print bikini, faded Country Joe and the Fish Tshirt.
Wonderfully playful picture book featuring Tiny, Moonpie and Andre. Signed copies available.
Well aware that no animal has ever been sued for libel, Cheeta, star of Tarzan and Doctor Doolittle, tells it as it really was. Naughty boy.
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Now with added Booker and Costa. This is what I said in February. 
If you haven't already visited the website for this book, go there 
I woke up in a foreign armpit. Buy a signed copy 
The London boozer fully explained. Now smoke free. The funniest fucking book you will read all year. So funny in fact, that Steven Hunt is not allowed to carry a copy on public transport. Buy 
Spook Country. Why is Spook Country the new novel by William Gibson, published in the US by Penguin Putnam priced at $25.99, when Spook Country the new novel by William Gibson published in the UK by Penguin is £18.99? Adam asked a similar question yesterday of the forthcoming new book by Naomi Klein, also published in the UK by Penguin, The Shock Doctrine, subtitled,The Rise of Disaster Capitalism. I'll say. It brings to mind an email I was forwarded the other day, from a prominent American Indie publisher to one of his authors, The UK market is fucked, it said. You have to admire the clarity.
The original Bible. What if the lady who last week asked me where she could sell her set of the 11 volumes of the original bible from when it was first printed, really did have 11 volumes of the bible from the time it was first printed. I would feel pretty foolish then, wouldn't I?
Future History. I am wondering if I might have confused the historians of the future. (Not a bad sentence, if I do say so myself, coming as it does in the middle of a post that began with William Gibson.) Now that this blog is being archived by the British Library, will some bod, in 3010, carefully turning its pages come to this post and think, Shit, we have had it so wrong about The Daily Mail, it turns out that they weren't the neo-fascists of popular imagination, but instead, devoted to the works of Murray Bookchin.
Protection. I was gathering up tumbleweed as it blew through the shop, (there are 4 or 5 large bags of the stuff out the back, collected over the course of the past week) when the Sicilian-cage fighter visited for his afternoon chin-wag. Today he was concerned about the Russian mafia and told me of someone he knew who is having to cough up 2 grand a month to them, otherwise, he said, they will blow up his shop and kill his wife and children. When I got home and turned on my laptop I got a pop-up message from Norton Anti-Virus. It said, your protection will run out in 6 days time, pay up, or else we will blow up your computer, or something.
My children. Nearly the end of the third week of their holiday and I am missing them. To say nothing of their mother (new post). Somebody asked me last night, are you here every single day?
Yes, I told them.
It's a good job you enjoy it then, isn't it, he said.
No kidding, I said.
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