Welcome to the London Review Bookshop
The London Review Bookshop opened in the heart of London’s Bloomsbury in May 2003. Since then it has established itself as one of London’s leading independent bookstores.The titles featured here have been specially selected by our booksellers to give you a quick and discerning guide to some of the most interesting books currently in print. And, of course, you will also find all the books recently reviewed in the London Review of Books.
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At the Edinburgh International Book Festival
To celebrate the LRB’s sponsorship of the signing tent at the Edinburgh International Book Festival, we’ve put together a selection of titles by festival authors.
Our Pick of Books for the Summer
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Events at the London Review Bookshop
Readings, discussions, talks, debates . .
James Wood discussing How Fiction Works, 25 June 2008 (photo courtesy of www.nickcunard.co.uk)
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China: Empire of Living Symbols
The origins of the Chinese written language were almost entirely mysterious until 1899, when a Chinese philologist discovered ancient characters engraved in the ‘dragon bones’ used by a Beijing apothecary in a treatment for malaria. These were in fact oracle bones used in divination ceremonies an... See details
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The Book of Dead Philosophers
At first glance, Simon Critchley’s catalogue of the deaths of the world’s philosophers, from Thales, who passed away from heat exhaustion while watching athletics some time in the 6th century BC to Dominique Janicaud (Critchley’s teacher), who died in 2002 from a heart attack perhaps provoked by ... See details