Category: Nice things

  • His Bloody Project, by Graeme Macrae Burnet

    Paperback, Contraband, £8.99, out now This Booker-longlisted novel is the story of a 17 year old boy facing the death penalty for a triple murder committed in a remote village in the Scottish highlands.  It is 1869, and Roderick Macrae is the son of a crofter who is living in a feudal society.  His Bloody…

  • The Tenant of Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte

    Paperback, Vintage, 7.99 Ashamed of not having read anything by Anne Bronte but only her sisters I recently began reading The Tenant of Wildfell Hall and was astonished (though perhaps should not have been) firstly by how psychologically convincing the characters are, and secondly by the strangely addictive quality the writing possesses; considering its length…

  • Being a Beast, Charles Foster

    Hardback, Profile Books, £14.99, out now If the belated but welcome Spring sunshine has you feeling newly mindful of our wildlife and hankering for all things natural then I couldn’t recommend anything better than Charles Foster’s latest book, Being a Beast ( – short of actually departing for the country and taking up residence in…

  • Tenth of December: George Saunders

    Paperback now available – £8.99 Hoping to read Tenth of December by George Saunders in a handy paperback format on 10 December, 2013? Well, if you call at the Riverside you can indeed enjoy this moment of literary synchronicity; or at the very least get hold of this acclaimed collection before all your well-read friends.…

  • Celebrate 150 years of the Tube

    Since 1863, vast, silent crowds of people have been heading underground every day to read a book (and maybe go to work). So the 150th anniversary of the London Underground – and the 80th anniversary of Harry Beck’s iconic map – is a good opportunity to pick up some top Tube books here at the…

  • London Hidden Interiors

    Special Price: £35 THIS time last year we began excitedly exploring Panoramas of Lost London (still available at the special discount price of £25) and now we’re revelling in London Hidden Interiors. This sumptuous volume will appeal to anyone who loves London and feels a frisson of excitement at the idea of entering a hidden…

  • Winter Journal: Paul Auster

    Signed Copies We’ve still got a few signed copies of the New York author’s latest non-fiction work in hardback (£17.99) – a perfect gift for Auster aficionados. Thirty years after The Invention of Solitude, the 65-year-old has written another memoir, this time examining life through the history of his body – pleasure, pain, eating, sleeping…

  • Pat Barker: Toby’s Room

    We still have signed copies of this acclaimed new novel from Man Booker Prize winner Pat Barker. The author of the Regeneration trilogy returns to themes of trauma, friendship and art’s depiction of First World War suffering in Toby’s Room, a sequel (and prequel) to 2007’s Life Class.

  • Zadie Smith: NW

    Long awaited new novel that pays attention to the class issues in working-class north London,  comes signed by the Author! Only in the Riverside Bookshop.

  • John Banville: Ancient Light

    New hardback from the Man Booker Prize winner comes nicely signed, only at our little shop of horrors.

  • José Pizarro: Spanish Flavours

    £3 Special Discount Something special from our favourite local culinary genius: book of delicious recipes comes with a delicious discount of £3, whilst stock lasts! For details about the restaurant visit: http://www.josepizarro.com/

  • Puffin Classics

    It has been said here before and it will doubtless be said again, but it is nice when books look nice, when a real effort is made with their appearance.  Penguin, who like their reissues, seem to be keen on this idea too (also as we have said here before), and have of late been…

  • The Penguin English Library

    Not that it is acceptable to judge a book by its cover (although in the literal sense it is, because that is kind of the point of book jackets), but it helps.  Especially if the cover is nice.  And Penguin, who are reissuing some of their classics (not for the first time), are taking thorough…

  • One Hundred Writers in One Box

    One Hundred Writers in One Box  and Vintage Postcards from Vanity Fair are the latest in Penguin Books’ ever growing line of nice things in boxes, hot on the heels of Postcards from Ladybird, and last years Postcards from Puffin and Postcards from Penguin.  Needless to say, with an 80 year legacy of smart design and damned good authors, these…

  • His Dark Materials: Philip Pullman

    Hardly a hot new release, and certainly not something that could have been easily missed in the last 15 or so years, but attention must be drawn to an all new Everyman Classic Library edition of everyone’s favourite bestselling atheist-minded fantasy kids epic. Like everything produced by the Everyman Classic Library it’s a handsome, perfectly…

  • London Unfurled: Matteo Pericoli

    Matteo Pericoli spent two years travelling along the Thames from Hammersmith Bridge to the [former] Millennium Dome and committing both sides of the riverbank to paper, and this is the result: two 37 foot long pen and ink drawings (a total of over 22 metres for the metrically minded), one for the north bank and…

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