We’re very pleased to be hosting a small selection of photographic prints by the Italian artist Giacomo Brunelli in the shop at the moment. This is in advance of his show at The Tabernacle, which will run from the 20th to the 26th of May. From 6pm on the night of Saturday 25th May, we [...]
Since the Olympics last summer, we’ve noticed a definite surge in books about athletics, and particularly running. This shelf is actually a fairly small selection of the titles that have been released recently. Two of us have become quite keen runners over the last year, and Alexandra Heminsley’s book Run Like A Girl has definitely [...]
We were absolutely delighted to spend World Book Night with the Friends of Notting Hill Preparatory School Library. The school has been raising funds to completely re-vamp their library, including getting lots of new books. We had great fun choosing the books for them, and we’re looking forward to helping more schools (and hotels, private [...]
February 12, 2013 – 5:57 pm
In the ongoing tradition of photographing our bags whenever they are in exotic locales, here is J’s bag at Masada in Israel, where she’s attending the Jerusalem Book Fair.
January 12, 2013 – 2:43 pm
As grey and horrid as it is outside (and we’re promised snow soon), there are always a few things that cheer up January at L&R. The first thing is of course a fabulous new selection of paperbacks for our table – including some of our favourite new books of the last year: Alys Always, Gone [...]
November 22, 2012 – 5:55 pm
The Soft City (AKA Daniel Speight) spent this morning installing a BookBlock in our window. Dan’s bespoke illustrations of buildings are printed onto reclaimed books to create a really beautiful, and unique piece of art. The BookBlock in our window is Lower Marsh Street, and costs £399. Dan will also produce BookBlocks on commission, so [...]
November 21, 2012 – 5:02 pm
Jane Finigan has been making paperweights out of found objects for us since we first opened. She has just produced a beautiful new set of weights with the alphabet on them, made out of a set of playing cards she found in a junk shop. Jane can also make bespoke paperweights, so it’s always worth [...]
November 20, 2012 – 4:42 pm
We are so delighted that the brilliant illustrator Serge Seidlitz has produced a series of limited edition prints exclusively for the bookshop. Like his amazing Bookshelf print these prints are hand silk-screened and then sympathetically framed. They look so lovely as a set that we’ve found it hard to pick our favourites – the whale? [...]
October 30, 2012 – 3:33 pm
Hallowe’en has been T’s favourite festival for many a year, even more so since Neil Gaiman suggested the idea of All Hallow’s Read, as a book-giving holiday. So she’s been making a big fuss of the most terrifying time of the year this week. We’ve got a shop-full of spooky books, and a gorgeously orange [...]
August 13, 2012 – 3:45 pm
Claire, our shop manager, reads more books in a week than most people manage in a year, so she’s edited her holiday reading to share the essentials: For my holiday, I went no further than home in South London and my favourite armchair by the fire (it was cold and grey the week I was [...]