Signed First Editions & Rare Books
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Congratulations to M. John Harrison, winner of the 2026 Booker Prize for ‘The End of Everything’
Congratulations to M. John Harrison on winning the 2026 Booker Prize for The End of Everything. The prize was announced on yesterday evening at Old Billingsgate in London. It’s a historic win twice over: at 81, he’s the oldest author to take the prize, and the first to arrive from science fiction rather than merely …
Congratulations to Anne Carson, Winner of the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature
We are delighted to congratulate Anne Carson on being awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature. Carson’s hybrid, boundary-crossing books, moving freely between poetry, essay and translation while staying in constant conversation with the ancient world, have long been admired by readers and critics alike. With this honour, her work receives the global recognition it …
Photographic reflections: a signed book by Michael Stipe in Rome
There’s an old adage that one should never meet one’s heroes… But I’ve always thrown caution to the wind with that saying and jump at the chance to come face to face with the people I have always admired. So, when R.E.M. frontman Michael Stipe made an appearance in Rome to present his photography monograph …