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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Twenty years ago Kathryn Scanlan acquired a diary at a public estate auction. It was kept by Cora E. Lacy, an eighty-six-year-old woman living in a small Illinois town, from 1968 to 1972. Scanlan began to compulsively read and reread the…
From the publisher:
A masterpiece debut novel from one of the UK's most exciting young writers, for fans of David Mitchell, Deepti Kapoor and Zadie Smith* AN INDEPENDENT BEST BOOK OF 2025 * A GUARDIAN BOOK TO LOOK FORWARD TO *As a holy…
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‘There’s a lot of talk recently about LGBT rights coming under attack. Pride and Prejudices shows that LGBT rights have always been under attack: around the world, queer and gender-nonconforming people have always been…
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Birds have long inspired our emotional and imaginative connections to physical environments, but where did it all begin?Hidden in the names of English towns and villages, in copses, fields, lanes and hills, are the ghostly traces of birds…
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A completely unputdownable debut novel that tells the story of one family torn apart by secrets, prejudice and their own best intentions, for readers of Trespasses and Sorrow and BlissA mother following her heartA father with…
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A hopeful, healing novel about new friendships, old loves, and the very human desire to leave a mark on the world - from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, Booker Prize shortlisted author of My Name is Lucy BartonTHE INSTANT SUNDAY TIMES AND…
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WINNER OF THE T. S. ELIOT PRIZE 2024The powerful new collection from legendary American poet Peter Gizzi, reckoning with the transformative power of elegy through poems of lament and love‘I am awestruck, dumbfounded … a…
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Based on the true story of Costanza Piccolomini - a fierce feminist icon who has been written out of history - Costanza brings to life the dizzying rise and fall of a brilliant young woman in 1600's Rome.'In Blackmore's striking…
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The first of two new interconnected novels from bestselling, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ali Smith‘Miraculous . . . tender, hilarious and ultimately uplifting. A ray of hope’ Paul Murray, Irish TimesOnce upon a time,…
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The hilarious and moving debut novel of 2025 – ‘I was mesmerized’ Sheila Heti‘I wanted to pass it on to all my friends’ SHEILA HETI'Remarkable clarity and humour' VOGUE‘Disarmingly…
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Strangers Who Talk is a riveting exploration of human connection, told through unforgettable stories that bridge the gaps between strangers."Strangers Who Talk isn’t like any other book. Is it social reportage, the eye at…
From the publisher:
Translated from Danish by Hunter SimpsonA girl is struck down by polio during the terrifying epidemic of the early 1950s. Paralysed and unable to breathe on her own, she is committed to hospital in Copenhagen and placed in an iron lung.…
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A woman contemplates her hand-me-down toaster and suddenly the whole world erupts into her kitchen, in all its brutality and loveliness: global networks of resource extraction and forced labour, technologies of industrial murder, histories…
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Many famed music producers are known for a particular sound that has its day and then ages out. Rick Rubin is known for something else: creating a space where artists of all different genres and traditions can home in on who they really are…
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A quest for belonging through the forsaken landscapes of BritainWhen Steven Lovatt’s grandmother died, he lost not only a beloved family member but also his last link to the way of life she had represented: rooted in place, socially…
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The Swedish phenomenal NUMBER 1 Bestseller, winner of 5 awards including the Swedish Book of the Year and the Swedish Booksellers prize, with rights sold in 38 territories. A moving debut about an ageing man’s fight to keep…
From the publisher:
'I really loved The Violet Hour . . . On one level it functions as a highbrow whodunnit, and grippingly so, but it's much more than that, building into a meditation on mortality and the unreliable consolations of art, love and materialism'…
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Translated by Eleanor Updegraff‘Very funny, very stylish and very moving’ ADAM THIRLWELL‘An irresistible novel – I loved it’ CLAIRE POWELL‘Deliciously unsettling and thoroughly…
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'Sheku believes that the future of classical music is bright, and in the hands of young musicians like him, it certainly is’ John SuchetMusic is what makes us alive, mindful and connected to each other. Music is what makes us human.…
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*A 2025 HIGHLIGHT FOR: Telegraph, Financial Times, New Statesman, Irish Times, Elle and GQ*'Spellbinding. An incredible exploration of how young people are navigating the complex world we find ourselves in…
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Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLeanThe third Terra Alta Investigation - the final novel in the acclaimed crime series by one of Europe's leading writersA father's worst nightmare - Melchor Marín's teenage daughter has…
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This gorgeously illustrated collection of poems illuminates and reimagines the ingenious, fragile dwellings of the living creatures around us. Poet Laureate Simon Armitage was inspired to write these poems by the Lost Gardens of Heligan in…
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The remarkable new novel from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author of Do Not Say We Have Nothing, which leaps across centuries past and future as if different eras were separated by only a door.Why did people, who lived so briefly in…
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**Selected as a 2025 book to look out for by the Guardian, Sunday Times, Irish Times, independent.co.uk, Cosmopolitan, Elle and Service95**'Raw, original and provoking, Saba Sams is Britain's brightest…
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A collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's best music writingVolcanic Tongue presents the first ever collection of multi-award-winning author David Keenan's music writings. Keenan has been writing about music since…
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A Financial Times 'What to read in 2025' Book'Essential reading' Françoise Vergès, author of A Decolonial Feminism'Profound and compelling ... A book that I couldn't put down' Adam Hanieh, author of Crude CapitalismWhether…
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From celebrated writer Robert Macfarlane comes this brilliant, perspective-shifting new book – which answers a resounding yes to the question of its title.At its heart is a single, transformative idea: that rivers are not…
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'Think One Day written by (and starring) Virginia Woolf . . . lyrical and captivating' -The Observer'Radiant, absorbing, sensual' - Joanna Quinn, author of The Whalebone Theatre'Beautiful' - Sophie Elmhirst,…
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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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Translated by Barbara J. HavelandThe second volume of the landmark European masterpiece about a woman lost in time.'Fantastic.' Karl Ove Knausgård'Miraculous.' The Cut'Unforgettable.' Hernan Díaz'Wonderful.' K Patrick'A…
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A bold and original exploration from a renowned radical thinker, exploring the consequences of our obsession with image and tasteTATE BOOK OF THE MONTH 2023A timely critique of consumer culture which captures this image-obsessed moment in…
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A Wilding-come-Salt Path story about mental health, the healing power of nature and how we need to heal it in return – with a blueprint for restoring Britain’s rainforests.An enormously moving and inspiring story about…
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'This book is a fever dream, a mood, a spell, an entire climate filled with a particular kind of desert winter light - harsh, unsparing, and beautiful . . . Tremendously moving' Leslie Jamison, author of SplintersEloise has known only…
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'Brave, wry, cool, and thrilling.' Andrew O'Hagan'Original, vital, and unputdownable.' Tess Gunty'Breathtaking ... a precise dissection of class, wealth and power.' Elizabeth DayIn the new novel from the author…
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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,…
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