Signed editions
Selected by the Bookshop
Thanks to our prestigious series of events and our excellent location, we get a lot of famous authors dropping by. The result is a constantly changing selection of highly-collectible signed first editions. Below you’ll find a selection of what we have.
We only have limited quantities of signed copies, and when they’re gone, they’re gone – order now!
Please note: books in this list include books with signed bookplates, tipped-in signed pages, etc. – if you have specific requirements or are looking for signed first editions only, please get in touch on books@lrbshop.co.uk to check before ordering.
You can also pre-order signed copies for any of our upcoming events – see our separate booklist here.
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The things that hold life in place have been lifted off and put away. Uprooted by circumstance from city to deep countryside, a woman lives in temporary limbo, visited by memories of all she’s left behind. The most insistent are those…
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From the bestselling author of Mayflies and Caledonian Road, a heart-enriching celebration of what makes us great: our friends.If we are lucky, in our lives, our friendships will be rich and varied. They will be shared with…
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The Good Story may be every story you write, but the Good Story is also not your story. Dog Days considers why we tell stories the way we do, and how we might tell them otherwise. Combining memoir and essay, cultural criticism and…
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From the author of Weird Fucks, a new selection of stories about sex, death, memory, and anxietyOver the last four decades, Lynne Tillman has established herself as one of America’s most audacious writers, a tireless innovator…
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‘A work of genius’ Philip Hoare‘One of the best things I’ve read in many many years’ Hilton AlsA story of loss and grief, sex and love, and refusing to relinquish dreamsHe said he would understand if it was too…
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A captivating portrait of Yanis Varoufakis’s political awakening, told through the history of his family, from 1924 to the present.‘Written with a historian’s grasp of events, an economist’s rationalization of how…
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World-renowned curator Hans Ulrich Obrist for the first time grants a private view of his life, and his journey towards art and artistsWhen Hans Ulrich was six years old, he was knocked down by a speeding car as he was crossing the street.…
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Now I understand there are no ordinary lives – that every death is the end of a single event in time’s history: an event so improbable as to be miraculous, and irreplaceable in every particular.Sarah Perry's father-in-law,…
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A landmark new collection from T. S. Eliot Prize-winner Sarah Howe, navigating the complex inheritance of family, language and colonialism – and forming a portrait of a mother in search of her past and herself.Unearthed in a…
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A spellbinding story of two young people whose fates intersect and diverge across continents and years—an epic of love and family, India and America, tradition and modernity, by the Booker Prize-winning author of The Inheritance of…
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The unmissable new mystery in the bestselling, record-breaking Thursday Murder Club series by Richard OsmanWho's got time to think about murder when there's a wedding to plan?It’s been a quiet year for the Thursday Murder Club. Joyce…
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A manifesto for the importance of books and a guide to expanding your reading horizons by the much-loved writer, critic, poet and translator who has read it allThis is a book about books, about the subversive power of reading and the…
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THE NEW NOVEL FROM THE AUTHOR OF NO ONE IS TALKING ABOUT THIS - WINNER OF THE DYLAN THOMAS PRIZE AND THE ONLY BOOK SHORTLISTED FOR BOTH THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONThe world might be in disarray, but…
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THE PHENOMENAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF HELGOLAND AND THE ORDER OF TIME'The perfect antidote to the fluff and nonsense around right now. Learn how the world is and how you might just fit in' Simon Mayo'By God, it's beguiling' New…
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Key jetted off to Los Angeles in the fall of 2024 and stayed sane by writing poems and talking to Emily Juniper on the phone. She then did the honourable thing and designed this stuff, lovingly filling the pages of a beautifully-sized green…
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In March 2020, Tim Key started writing poetry and conversations about the first lockdown. At the end of the year he published these comtemplations in “He Used Thought as a Wife”, a book for these pandemic times, beautifully…
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THE LONG-AWAITED SEQUEL TO WILD SWANS, THE MULTI-MILLION COPY INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING SENSATIONJung Chang's Wild Swans was a book that defined a generation, an epic personal history of Jung, her mother and grandmother -…
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A Read With Jenna Book Club Pick September 2025One town. Two families. A secret that changes everything.'Poignant, powerful' Independent'Omniscient, sweeping, almost defiantly sentimental' New York Times'It's not just a great…
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A captivating paper chase, and an unforgettable adventure . . . Two children meet under a tall tree. James has a book. Ginger has a paper plane. They become friends . . . but then they’re parted. Will they ever meet again? But…
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Lady Gaga, Adele, Amy Winehouse, Dua Lipa, Bruno Mars, Miley Cyrus, the Barbie soundtrack—Mark Ronson’s musical fingerprints are everywhere in our pop culture. Now comes his electrifying memoir, which captures the music,…
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An unforgettable story about loss and new love from the bestselling author of Brooklyn and Long Island.'The most striking example of Tóibín's emotional control . . . [An] eloquent expression of the bond between…
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Return to the magic of the Archipelago... The Poisoned King is the dazzling second book in Katherine Rundell's epic and bestselling Impossible Creatures series.The dragons call out, and the ratatoskas tell of murder. Come with us now. There…
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'Haynes is the modern embodiment of the best of Homer' - Radio TimesNo Friend to This House is an extraordinary reimagining of the myth of Medea from the Sunday Times bestselling author of Stone Blind, Natalie…
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'Mick Herron is our best and most topical spy writer' Ian Rankin'Britain's finest living thriller writer' Sunday Express'The man is a genius' The Spectator----Spies lie. They betray. It's what they do.Slow horse River…
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'A wise and heartfelt piece of writing' THE TIMES‘A wonderful portrait of an age, and of a writer’ RORY STEWART, author of Politics on the Edge‘Utterly fascinating’ DAVID KYNASTON, author of A Northern Wind'Shot…
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For the first time, director Rob Reiner and co-creators Christopher Guest, Michael McKean and Harry Shearer provide the full behind-the-scenes story of the making of the groundbreaking mockumentary This Is Spinal Tap and…
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Compelling new stories of love, desire and heartbreak from the consulting room by the Number One bestselling author, 'a combination of Chekhov and Oliver Sacks' (New York Times)'You will be better at love after you read this book’…
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Gabriel Dax returns in this elegant, twisting mystery of espionage and obsession and takes the reader deep into one of history's most infamous assassinations.BRITAIN'S MOST BELOVED STORYTELLER RETURNS WITH A TWISTING ADVENTURE OF OBSESSIVE…
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The new memoir from the internationally bestselling author of Women Talking‘I would have read another thousand chapters’ CATHERINE NEWMAN'An affirmation of Life in all its richness and variety ……
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A searingly honest memoir from Dexys’ iconic frontman, one of the great mavericks and creative geniuses of British music.At home, the prayerful eight-year-old altar boy was planning to attend college to train to be a priest.…
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A dreamlike, unsettling portrait of a riverside village in the heart of rural EnglandFollowing his Forward-prize shortlisted Rotten Days in Late Summer, Ralf Webb's breathtaking second poetry collection summons the West Country of his…
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A short story by Laura Beatty about death – and life. After a stranger calls at Evi’s house, she becomes convinced she has been visited by Death. But what is really happening?Poetic, moving and often funny, Laura’s…
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From the bestselling author of The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton's Hidden Treasure is the phenomenal page-turning story of two children whose lives collide when they find an ancient treasure with the power to return to them the most precious…
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One of John Boorman's least known and rarely screened works — and yet the title that secured him the Best Director Prize at Cannes in 1970 — Leo the Last is a cult film in waiting, a genuinely radical,…