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NEW PODCAST 🎧 Marie-Laure Bernadac & her translator Lauren Elkin on the life and work of Louise Bourgeois.To mark the pu...
25/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Marie-Laure Bernadac & her translator Lauren Elkin on the life and work of Louise Bourgeois.

To mark the publication of KNIFE WOMAN: THE LIFE OF LOUISE BOURGEOIS (Yale) its author, curator and art historian Marie-Laure Bernadac was in conversation about the life and work of Louise Bourgeois with the book’s translator, Lauren Elkin.

‘Bernadac’s remarkable biography has made the telling of Louise Bourgeois’ life into a new art’ (Juliet Mitchell).

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/marie-laure-bernadac-lauren-elkin-knife-woman

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Jeanette Winterson on her latest book, an exploration of storytelling via the legend of Shahrazad. Author ...
25/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Jeanette Winterson on her latest book, an exploration of storytelling via the legend of Shahrazad.

Author of thirteen novels, several collections of short fiction, memoirs, books for children and screenplays, Jeanette Winterson is one of our greatest and most accomplished storytellers. In her latest book ONE ALADDIN, TWO LAMPS (Cape) Winterson turns to the art of storytelling itself, using the legend of Shahrazad in THE THOUSAND AND ONE NIGHTS as a springboard to ask, and suggest answers to, some of the great questions: Who should we trust? Is love the most important thing in the world? Does it matter whether you are honest? And what makes us happy?

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/one-aladdin-two-lamps-jeanette-winterson

Our bestsellers this week! ☀️ 1. SAID THE DEAD by Doireann Ní Ghríofa 2. LACK by Cecilia Knapp3. VOCAL BREAK by Lauren E...
25/05/2026

Our bestsellers this week! ☀️

1. SAID THE DEAD by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
2. LACK by Cecilia Knapp
3. VOCAL BREAK by Lauren Elkin
4. AMBIVALENCE by Brian Dillon
5. THE MARTHA MILLS YOUNG WRITERS’ PRIZE 2025
6. WHAT AM I, A DEER? by Polly Barton
7. THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY by Elizabeth Strout
8. WRITING(S) by Claire-Louise Bennett, Marguerite Duras and Dorothy Spencer
9. GHOST STORIES by Siri Hustvedt
10. TREE by Aya Kōda

Find out more here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/our-current-bestsellers

We are open today from 10am-6.30pm.

22/05/2026

We are open on bank holiday Monday 25th May from 10am to 6.30 pm! 📚

Our Book of the Week is VOCAL BREAK by Lauren Elkin. We have plenty of signed copies at the shop and on our website! 🎤🩷I...
22/05/2026

Our Book of the Week is VOCAL BREAK by Lauren Elkin. We have plenty of signed copies at the shop and on our website! 🎤🩷

In VOCAL BREAK: ON WOMEN, MUSIC AND POWER, Lauren Elkin uses her own experience of training as a young soprano in the 1990s as a springboard for a powerful investigation of the female voice, from Maria Callas to Beyoncé and beyond. Part manifesto, part cultural history and all full-throated celebration, VOCAL BREAK is a joyous call to arms and hymn of praise

Find out more here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/stock/vocal-break-lauren-elkin

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Joe Sacco and Skye Arundhati Thomas talk about THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT. In THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT (Cape...
19/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Joe Sacco and Skye Arundhati Thomas talk about THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT.

In THE ONCE AND FUTURE RIOT (Cape) cartoonist Joe Sacco turns to the communal riots that rocked Uttar Pradesh in 2013. With works such as PALESTINE, ​​SAFE AREA GORADZE, THE FIXER, WAR JU**IE and ​​FOOTNOTES IN GAZA, Sacco single-handedly invented the genre of graphic reportage, and remains its leading exponent. Sacco was in conversation with Skye Arundhati Thomas, author of ​PLEASURE GARDENS (co-written with Izabella Scott), REMEMBER THE DETAILS and editor of ​PALESTINE IS EVERYWHERE.

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/joe-sacco-skye-arundhati-thomas-the-once-and-future-riot

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Holly Smith and Owen Hatherley talk about UP IN THE AIR, a history of high-rise Britain. In UP IN THE AIR ...
14/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Holly Smith and Owen Hatherley talk about UP IN THE AIR, a history of high-rise Britain.

In UP IN THE AIR (Verso), architectural historian Holly Smith tells the story of Britain’s multi-storey council housing from its beginnings to the present day, charting how at different times it became the symbol of the welfare state’s idealistic principles, and of its failures. Building on extensive research, Smith tells the story of high-rise housing from the perspective of those who lived there, from Sheffield to Liverpool to London. Smith was in conversation with historian Owen Hatherley, whose most recent book is THE ALIENATION EFFECT.

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/holly-smith-owen-hatherley-up-in-the-air

Our bestsellers this week 🌟 1. AMBIVALENCE by Brian Dillon2. MY YEAR IN PARIS WITH GERTRUDE STEIN by Deborah Levy3. THE ...
11/05/2026

Our bestsellers this week 🌟

1. AMBIVALENCE by Brian Dillon
2. MY YEAR IN PARIS WITH GERTRUDE STEIN by Deborah Levy
3. THE THINGS WE NEVER SAY by Elizabeth Strout
4. WRITING(S) by Marguerite Duras, Claire-Louise Bennett and Dorothy Spencer
5. THE CHILDREN’S BACH by Helen Garner
6. HELL OF SOLITUDE by Ryūnosuke Akutagawa, translated by Ryan Choi
7. TWILIGHT IN MUSASHINO by Seicho Matsumoto
8. FRENCH COOKING FOR TWO by Michèle Roberts
9. THE WONDERFUL WORLD THAT ALMOST WAS by Andrew Durbin
10. BOYHOOD by David Keenan

Find out more here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/booklists/our-current-bestsellers

NEW PODCAST 🎧: Julia Blackburn talks about REMEDIES, her latest pamphlet from Hazel Press, with Sarah Clegg.In ​REMEDIES...
09/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧: Julia Blackburn talks about REMEDIES, her latest pamphlet from Hazel Press, with Sarah Clegg.

In ​REMEDIES, Julia Blackburn - playwright, poet, novelist, biographer, historian and much else besides - meditates on the images, amulets and incantations that have been used to cure illnesses from ancient times to the present day, offering a set of poetic keys to unlock the mysterious, subtle space between mind and body.

Blackburn was in conversation with the folklorist Sarah Clegg, author of ​THE DEAD OF WINTER and ​WOMAN’S LORE.

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/podcasts/julia-blackburn-sarah-clegg-remedies

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in conversation with So Mayer. Lena Khalaf Tuffaha was born in Seattle but grew up in ...
05/05/2026

NEW PODCAST 🎧 Lena Khalaf Tuffaha in conversation with So Mayer.

Lena Khalaf Tuffaha was born in Seattle but grew up in Saudi Arabia and Jordan, and her poetry reflects on her Palestinian, Jordanian and Syrian heritage and on her experience as a first-generation American immigrant. In SOMETHING ABOUT LIVING (the87press), winner of the National Book Award in 2024, her poems interweave the history of Palestinian suffering and resistance with the challenges of living in a world full of violence and the gentle pleasures we embrace in order to survive that violence. Tuffaha was in conversation with writer, bookseller and film curator So Mayer, whose most recent book is BAD LANGUAGE.

This event was produced with the support of The Palestine Festival of Literature (PalFest)- a cultural initiative committed to the creation of language and ideas for dismantling colonialism in the 21st century.

Listen here: https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/podcasts-video/something-about-living-lena-khalaf-tuffaha-and-so-mayer

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