Gift Ideas

Drive Your Car Correctly by L. V. E. Smith is an appealing early motoring guide from a period when driving was still a relatively new skill fo...

Arctic Adventure is the memoir of the Danish explorer, writer and anthropologist Peter Freuchen, one of the twentieth century's best-known Arc...

The Alteration by Kingsley Amis is a sharply imaginative alternative history novel, first published in 1976, set in a world where th...

The Householder by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala is the author's acclaimed early novel, first published in 1960, offering a perceptive and often gently humo...

Pincher Martin by William Golding is one of the author’s most psychologically intense early novels, first published in 1956, two years after the su...

Drunkard is the English translation of L'Assommoir, one of Émile Zola's most important and controversial novels, first published in 1877. A major w...

Sylvia Plath (1932-1963) was one of the most influential poets and literary voices of the twentieth century, known for her intensely personal and p...

Cultural Amnesia by Clive James is an expansive and highly personal work of literary and cultural criticism, first published in 2007. Structured th...

Acts of Light brings together selected poems by Emily Dickinson with luminous colour paintings by Nancy Ekholm Burkert, accompanied by an appreciat...

The Story of Edinburgh Castle by Louis Weirter is an ambitious early twentieth-century study of one of Scotland’s most iconic historic sites, combi...

A delightful copy of the first printing of More About Worzel Gummidge, the third volume in the Worzel Gummidge series, the much loved living scarec...

A delightful copy of the first printing of Worzel Gummidge Again, the sequel to Worzel Gummidge, the much loved living scarecrow, familiar to many ...

A wonderful piece of vintage Glasgow transport ephemera with an especially evocative literary association - an original Glasgow bus blind displayin...

A desirable spoken-word Tolkien recording featuring selections from The Silmarillion and Beren and Luthien, read by Christopher Tolkien, the author...

A charming modern miscellany for lovers of language, Foyle's Further Philavery gathers together another eclectic assortment of unusual, curious, an...

A distinctive three-volume grouping centred on Dennis Wheatley's Murder Off Miami, illustrating the evolution of one of the most inventive crime pu...

A pair of vintage Arrow paperbacks featuring striking mid-century cover art, presenting two works by Bram Stoker, best known for his enduring contr...

The Doll Factory by Elizabeth Macneal is a historical novel set in Victorian London, following the young artist Iris Whittle amid the artistic circ...

The Story of Mahajanaka is a work authored by His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej, presenting his own retelling of one of the Jātaka tales concerni...

The work of David Roberts (1796-1864) remains among the most celebrated visual records of the Near East produced in the nineteenth century. Based o...

The works of W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) remain among the most distinctive contributions to late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction, combining mari...

The works of W. W. Jacobs (1863-1943) form one of the most distinctive bodies of late Victorian and Edwardian short fiction, combining maritime lif...

The work of W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) occupies a distinctive place in late Victorian and early twentieth-century literature, combining humour, chara...

The work of W. W. Jacobs (1863–1943) occupies a distinctive place in late Victorian and early twentieth-century literature, combining humour, chara...