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.
From the publisher:
A thought-provoking work by a singular voice, this short, sharp essay invites us to critically reconsider power, ideology and the boundaries of free speech.Invisible, invasive and widely taken for granted, censorship is a globalized force…
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A heartstopping story of friendship, thrill-seeking and defying expectations: the explosive second novel from the bestselling author of My Absolute Darling''All this is, is the thing we’ve always known: we have nothing and nobody…
From the publisher:
A #1 FAVORITE NONFICTION READ OF 2025 (ENTERPRISE)“[A] definitive work in the genre of Palestinian memoirs that will not only attract readers of Said or Kanafani, but also fans of Joan Didion, Hisham Matar, Ocean Vuong, or James…
From the publisher:
‘We ache for love, but love eludes us. Out of this crisis comes so much of what it means to be human’Shon Faye grew up quietly obsessed with the feeling that love was not for her. Not just romantic love: the secret fear of her…
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It sounds like Gliff?Well, it's something else altogether.Ghosts don't exist.They don't. End of.Story, however.It is haunting.Everything tells it.It all starts when Petra and her little sister Patch hear a horrifying story from the…
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What does it mean to be a politically committed writer?Through a close reading of the lives and works of some of the greatest intellectuals of recent times, Adam Shatz asks: do writers have an ethical imperative to question injustice? How…
Claire’s Book of the Year 2025
‘My highlight has to be Painting Writing Texting, a chronicle of art and life and the friendship between painter Chantal Joffe and writer Olivia Laing.’
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Translated by Anne Thompson MeloThe country is flooding. Every day the sea claims another kilometre of land. The prime minister holds a daily press conference.Scientists try to find an explanation, without success. Sheep drown in the…
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A new memoir on how to find joy in food, travel and gardeningTHE INSTANT #1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERFrom award-winning writer Nigel Slater, comes a new and exquisitely written collection of notes, memoir, stories and small moments of…
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From the ground-breaking graphics journalist and author of Palestine, a revelatory investigation of the deadly sectarian riots in 2013 Uttar Pradesh, India, and their urgent global significance todayCompared to other episodes of…
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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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I can change the story because I am the story.With her execution looming, a woman is fighting for her life. Every night she tells a story. Every morning, she lives one more day. One Aladdin Two Lamps cracks open the legendary…
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From one of the most enquiring and celebrated biographers – a glimpse into the life and mind of a pioneering naturalist.‘Uglow makes us feel the life beyond the facts.’ GUARDIAN‘Few can match Uglow’s skill…
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An illuminating new essay collection from one of the most distinctive, exciting and acclaimed writers of her generation, Zadie Smith'Zadie Smith is a wonderful essayist. She is a natural. She writes as she thinks, and she thinks crisply and…
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From the Sunday Times no. 1 bestselling author of Politics on the Edge, a candid insight into the other side of political life, with urgent and inspiring stories of rural Britain today.'A rare and life-affirming story of…
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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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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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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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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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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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'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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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,…
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