Davdison's feel for dusk first came our way with his wonderfully evocative book The Last of the Light: About Twilight. Here he produces a series of nocturnes about cities at night-fall, wint... read more
A labour of love and scholarship, this is a study of the extraordinary Royal Library of Dom Joao V (1706-1750) of Portugal that was destroyed in 1755 in the Lisbon earthquake. The library co... read more
This eloquent little book offers a moving and erudite justification for the survival of high quality book shops and why they are essential places of discovery, refuge and fulfilment. Laced w... read more
A memoir of life as a small girl in Rabindranath Tagore's famous cultural community in the 1930s, by one of India's foremost literary figures. Translated from the Bengali. (Originally due fo... read more
From the library of Marguerite Littman.
Her seminal collection of essays. First edition, first printing, published in New York. Book in fine condition, cream boards with stamped floral de... read more
The literary fl?neur wanders amongst places and objects, images, film and ideas: a series of short, discursive essays that are the more brilliant for being unassuming.