Pre-order a signed copy of Driving Jarvis Ham the brilliant new novel by Jim Bob. Published May 10th. Book a (free) ticket to the launch party at the shop May 10th at 7.30
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 stock, the brilliant new collection of stories by Dan Chaon. Published 7th February.
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 
An episode of The Avengers from 1965. Steed rescuing Emma Peel who is tied to the minature railwaytracks at Stapleford Park near Melton Mowbray in Leicestershire. Some time afterwards the grounds of the Grade 1 country house were given over to a lion reserve, in the center of which was a compound of baboons and rhesus monkeys. My mate Trevor and I spent two summers working in the middle of the lion reserve in a kind of holding pen between the lions and the monkeys opening and closing a set of gates that allowed cars to travel between the two. We shared a hut and a couple of sticks. The lions were mostly, but not always docile. One female lion in particular was adept at shredding car tyres and we were warned not to make eye contact with the monkeys else they would be on your back in no time. Certainly, the circus people who ran the park displayed some impressive scars. It was great fun.
Image taken from the brilliant London in the Sixties by Rainer Metzger, published by Thames and Hudson.
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