Alta Bookshop

Alta Bookshop Coming soon Alta is an independent bookshop based in Lisbon.

We stock an idiosyncratic range of magazines and titles with a focus on art, architecture and design, critical theory, literature, music, fashion, photography, counterculture, and LGBT literature.

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that...
31/05/2025

Three years before he died, David Bowie made a list of the one hundred books that had transformed his life – a list that formed something akin to an autobiography. From Madame Bovary to A Clockwork Orange, the Iliad to the Beano, these were the publications that had fuelled his creativity and shaped who he was.

In Bowie's Books, John O'Connell explores this list in the form of one hundred short essays, each offering a perspective on the man, performer and creator that is Bowie, his work as an artist and the era that he lived in.

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Kirkus Prize and Waterstones Book of the Yearn 2020, Olivia Laing began to res...
28/05/2025

Shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize, the Kirkus Prize and Waterstones Book of the Year

n 2020, Olivia Laing began to restore a walled garden in Suffolk, an overgrown Eden of unusual plants. The work drew her into an exhilarating investigation of paradise and its long association with gardens. Moving between real and imagined gardens, from Milton’s Paradise Lost to John Clare’s enclosure elegies, from a wartime sanctuary in Italy to a grotesque aristocratic pleasure ground funded by slavery, Laing interrogates the sometimes shocking cost of making paradise on earth.

But the story of the garden doesn’t always enact larger patterns of privilege and exclusion. It’s also a place of rebel outposts and communal dreams…

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author ...
27/05/2025

The first major work of art history to focus on women artists and their engagement with the spirit world, by the author of The Mirror and the Palette.

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life...
27/05/2025

From the bestselling and Booker Prize-winning author of Girl, Woman, Other, Bernardine Evaristo’s memoir of her own life and writing, and her manifesto on unstoppability, creativity, and activism.

ALTA
Rua Marcos Portugal 91B - Príncipe Real

A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.'A ...
24/05/2025

A deeply moving memoir about growing up in the 90s, written in the wake of the senseless killing of a beloved friend.

'A quiet, occasionally hilarious, ultimately devastating book . . . the most moving and memorable piece of autobiography I read this year.' – The Independent, 'The Ten Best Books of the Year'

'A powerful and beautifully written meditation on guilt, memory and male friendship' – The Guardian, 'Best Books of the Year'

Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them...
24/05/2025

Sheila Heti collected half a million words from a decade’s worth of journals, put them in a spreadsheet, and sorted them alphabetically. She spent the next ten years cutting and refining, and was left with 60,000 words of brilliance and mayhem, joy and sorrow. These are her alphabetical diaries.

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildin...
24/05/2025

A bedroom, a kitchen, a bathroom - are these rooms all that make a home? Not at all, argues Emanuele Coccia. The buildings we inhabit are of immense psychological and cultural significance. They play a decisive role in human flourishing and, for hundreds of years, their walls and walkways, windows and doorways have guided our relationships with others and with ourselves. They reflect and reinforce social inequalities; they allow us to celebrate and cherish those we love. They are the places of return that allow us to venture out into the world.

In this intimate, elegantly argued account, Coccia shows how the architecture of home has shaped, and continues to shape, our psyches and our societies, before then masterfully leading us towards a more creative, ecological way of dwelling in the world.

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood captures the experiences of a young Black girl navigating societal expectations, her in...
20/05/2025

Bone Black: Memories of Girlhood captures the experiences of a young Black girl navigating societal expectations, her individuality, and the shaping of her understanding of the world. The memoir is captivating, lyrical, and deeply reflective, drawing readers into Hooks’ emotional and intellectual growth.

SAKIKO NOMURA - 1967-2022 BLUE WATER
14/05/2025

SAKIKO NOMURA - 1967-2022 BLUE WATER

An ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement’s early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City – the prequel...
14/05/2025

An ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement’s early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City – the prequel to Widow Basquiat

A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to e...
13/05/2025

A wide-ranging collection of interviews, anecdotes, essays, and ephemera concerning one of the most enigmatic bands to emerge from the 1960s hippy scene.

"Encyclopaedic in scope, passionate in tone, this book is a minotaur's labyrinth of information about one of the most remarkable groups in 20th century music. Be glad, for everything you need to know is here." (Rob Young, The Wire)

Endereço

Rua Marcos Portugal 91B Lisbon
Lisbon
1200-257

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