September News
Watch out Orlando and Plumdog, there's a new Chap in Town
Resa Barber
Snooks Alerts The Lifeboat
Large illustrated paperback, £8.99
Click here to order your copy.
Aldeburgh resident and good friend Resa Harrington has written a wonderful doggy tale of about the little terrier on the plinth at the Aldeburgh Boating Pond.
'Did you know there is a little dog called Snooks who sits on a plinth by a children's yacht pond? He watches everything that's going on. Everyone thinks he is a statue but magically he comes alive and goes to the rescue whenever he senses danger'.
With enchanting illustrations by Theronda Hofmann.
The Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival
We all think we have enough cookbooks, but you will have to make room on your shelf for these two. We took a lot of our books to the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival so come in to see if we have signed copies.
Jeremy Lee
Cooking: Simply and Well, for One or Many
Hardback, £30.00
Jeremy Lee of Quo Vadis fame, came to the Aldeburgh Food and Drink Festival (Saturday 23rd and Sunday 24th September) and we have so many copies of his wonderful book.
The book won the Andre Simon Award for Best Food Book, the Fortnums Special Award.
Other cooks with books at the Festival include the brilliant Thomasina Miers and everyone's favourite spice master, Cyrus Todiwala, so look our for signed copies of their books.
Bee Wilson
The Secret of Cooking
Hardback, £28.00
We couldn't resist this one either. Newly published. The sub-title, 'Recipes for an Easier Life in the Kitchen' , sums it up and this is a book you will read from cover to cover. Delicious, simple, unfussy food with lots of clever ideas. She tells you what you do and what you don't need to do -- no need to sweat aubergines any longer as modern varieties are sweeter. Bee has written several excellent books on food and food related topics: First Bite: how We Learn to Eat, Consider the Fork, the history of how we cook and eat, This is Not a Diet Book and The Way We Eat Now. This is really her first proper recipe book.
Recipes pretend to be a factual form of writing but they are actually one of the lovelier kinds of fiction, with a happy ending on every page. Bee Wilson.
‘Reading The Secret of Cooking is like sitting in a warm kitchen with an exceptionally articulate friend' (Nikki Segnit, author of the equally brilliant Flavour Thesaurus). Other fans include Nigella, Diana Henry, Itamar Srulovich and Sarit Packer from Honey & Co.
First Folio: the 400th Anniversary Facsimile
William Shakespeare
Mr William Shakespeare's Comedies, Tragedies and Histories. Published according to the True Original Copies.
Facsimile casebound in real cloth with slipcase, £125.00
First published 1623. This facsimile edition published October 2023.
Click here to pre-order a copy pulbished in October.
If you wanted to buy a first edition of Shakespeare's plays, the First Folio, you would need something in the region of £7 million pounds and a lot of patience. Of the 750 copies originally published, only about 200 exist today, and of these only a small handful of these are still in private ownership. Of the 200 copies extant, the British Library holds five, one of which is complete. This copy, the finest in the British Library, has been reproduced in facsimile for the 400th anniversary of the publication. So, while £125 may seem expensive, it is the closest way most of us will get to owning our own folio.
It is the only contemporary source of eighteen of Shakespeare’s plays. Without it, performances of such popular plays as The Tempest, Twelfth Night and Macbeth would not be possible.
Changes and corrections were made during the long printing process. Small alterations were also made to the (now iconic) portrait of Shakespeare created by Martin Droeshout for the title page. As a result, no two surviving copies of the First Folio are identical and few are complete.
Further details of the publication can be provided on request. We are only getting these to order from the British Library.
Hilary Davidson
Jane Austen's Wardrobe
Beautifully illustrated hardback, £25.00
Dress historian and Austen expert has worked out from references in Jane Austen's 161 surviving letters what she wore and how she wore. Jane was slim -- if you heard Front Row last night you will know they think she was tall and slimmer than Kate Moss -- and she was pretty stylish, keeping abreast of modern fashions. A fascinating and surprising look at the novelist. She wasn't dowdy but it's the opposite of fast fashion. A basic wardrobe of about thirty dresses was re-used and re-purposed and re-accessorised to keep up with the times. It is another way of enjoying the witty and waspish letters and a perceptive insight into the world of a woman of this period.
New Murders on the Shelves
Richard Osman
The Last Devil to Die
Hardback, £22.00
We have in the fourth book in the wildly popular Thursday Murder Club series.
Robert Galbraith
The Running Grave
Hardback, £25.00
We have already sold lots of the seventh book in the Cormoran Strike series by Robert Galbraith, who, as we now all know, is J. K. Rowling. It is a massive 960 pages long and it was published on 26th September.
Write, Fold, Send
Pigeon Post
Little card boxes, £6.99
Six letters in a box, each with a different design front and back
We are always on the lookout for beautiful stationery and this ingenious product caught our eye. Inspired by origami, these are unique little packs of folding letters, where the letter (beautifully illustrated) folds into it’s own envelope using a very neat origami fold and is then sealed with a stamp.
We have all 15 designs in stock -- come and have a look. Other artists are Angie Lewin, Melssa Castrillon, who illustrated Philip Pullman's His Dark Material book covers, Asta Barrington, Chris Andrews, Jake Lever and many more.
Angela Harding
Wonderfully Wild
Box of six folding letters, £6.99
The Pigeon pack illustrated here Wonderfully Wild is designed by Angela Harding and features hares, whippets, song thrushes, puffins and kingfishers.
As the designer, James Morse-Brown, says, 'It’s a kind of nostalgic throw-back to the old fashioned letter - like a book, it's analogue, real - not digital! - and produces a warm glow when you receive one in the post (or send one).'
Buy this one with the button bellow or email us to ask about out other designs