Foster Books

11/08/2026

This weekend’s update! The ground under our feet has been restored…to any poor tourists who visited us, thanks for enduring the disruption and the high levels of dust, even from us!

07/08/2026

They came back overnight and dug a bigger hole - definitely looks for treasure… 📚🏴‍☠️🗺️🪎

04/08/2026

We’ve got a hole and we’re looking into it…

07/07/2026

Oh no! It’s too hot outside? Such a shame x

02/07/2026

Some startling photographs from Richard Avedon’s influential book of portraits, Observations (1959). It was his first book, and was a collaborative effort between Avedon and Truman Capote, his friend, who wrote the commentary. Many famous people of the 20th century feature, including Katharine Hepburn, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe, Louis Armstrong and Humphrey Bogart, among many others.

30/06/2026

Loving the 60’s space age feel of this dust jacket!

The Moonraker film (1979) veered so far from the original book that this book was licensed by Glidrose, who own the Fleming copyrights, to be written after the film script.

Capitalising on the resurgence of science fiction, as a result of the hugely popular Star Wars (1977) and NASA test flights for its Space Shuttle, the new film left the English shores of the book to include an outer space setting, scenes in Rio, California and Venice, and a dramatic laser battle. It became the highest-grossing film in the franchise’s history until Goldeneye in 1995.

11/06/2026

Our Bedford Park and Chiswick window for the 60th kicking off this weekend.

The world’s first garden suburb, once a fashionable home to artists such as W.B. Yeats and Camille Pissarro, was saved from demolition by the first Bedford Park Festival in 1967.

The Festival’s first patron, poet and architectural critic, John Betjeman, described Bedford Park as ‘the most significant suburb built in the last century, probably the most significant in the Western world.’

17/05/2026

The Kings Road is shaping up for the Chelsea Flower Show. Fantastic displays.

15/05/2026

12/05/2026

Get your ticket in the shop or in the link in our bio!!