Women in Translation

Book cover of 'Hamnet' by Maggie O'Farrell, awarded the 2020 Women's Prize for Fiction, featuring a large ornate letter 'H' decorated with floral and botanical illustrations on a blue background.
Book cover of 'The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher' by Hilary Mantel, featuring a faceless woman in a patterned dress sitting at a table with a knife and pink food.
Three children jumping into the water at the beach on a sunny day.
Book cover of 'Family Terrorists' by Antonya Nelson, featuring abstract illustrations of a house, a red heart, and a figure sitting on a bench.
Book cover for "Kissing the Witch" by Emma Donoghue, featuring a black and white photo of a woman with witch-like features, and pink and purple accents.
Book cover for "The Truth About Lorin Jones" by Alison Lurie, featuring a woman standing in front of an easel with a painting, inside a room with large windows.
Book cover for 'Paper Trail' by Richard Howard, with a multicolored striped pattern on a green background, subtitle 'Selected Prose, 1965-2003'.
Book cover titled 'Sexual Anarchy: Gender and Culture at the Fin de Siècle' by Elaine Showalter, featuring a segment of a colorful, abstract painting of a woman with long, flowing hair and decorative patterns.
Close-up of a person's eyes and forehead, with book title and author text overlaid on the image.
Book cover titled 'Literary Theory: An Introduction' by Terry Eagleton, featuring a painting of two women in 19th-century attire, one reading a book to the other.
Book cover with a pink background featuring a black cat head illustration and the title "On the Inconvenience of Other People" by Lauren Berlant.
Book cover titled "Women Editing Modernism: Little Magazines & Literary History" by Jayne E. Marek. The background features handwritten text in light pink. The title is in large, white fonts, with the author's name in purple at the bottom.
Cover of Sherley's Cat Book, 17th Edition, featuring a photograph of a fluffy gray and white cat on a dark background.
Cover of the book "The Hot Gates" by William Golding, featuring a painted illustration of an old man's face with glasses, in portrait style.
Book cover of "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Ernest Hemingway, featuring a sketch of a leafless tree and a small person sitting under it.
The book cover for Sylvia Plath's novel "The Bell Jar" features a black background with a grainy, high-contrast image of a hand holding a dropper, and a white flower hanging downward. The title and author's name are in stylized purple and white font, respectively.
Book cover titled 'A Wave of the Sea' by John Ryan, featuring a blue and yellow ocean wave design.
Cover of a book titled 'Studies in Modern European Literature and Thought' by John Atherton, published by Bownes & Bownes London, featuring a red and white patterned design.
Book cover of 'Cossacks and Bandits' by Katia Kapovich, featuring a cartoonish illustration of a soldier or bandit with a moustache and a hat, holding a gun.
Book cover titled 'The Coast Road' by Ailbhe Ní Ghearbhuih, featuring a landscape painting of a cloudy sky and trees.
Book cover for "The Talk of the Town" featuring an illustration of a dress made of layered collage of newspaper clippings and fabric, with a hanger on top.
Book cover titled 'The Fifty Minute Mermaid' featuring an illustration of two women on a coastal landscape with a river or stream.
Book cover for 'Why I No Longer Write Poems' by Diana Anphimiadi, featuring a black-and-white photo of a person's hands holding an object, with the title and author's name in yellow and white text.
Illustration of a branch with multiple mirabelle plums, green leaves, a butterfly, and the book title "The Mirabelles" by Annie Freud.
Book cover featuring black silhouettes of trees with a butterfly, titled 'Jenny Erpenbeck Visitation' in pink and yellow text.
Book cover titled "Visitation" by Jenny Erpenbeck, featuring a dark house surrounded by leafless trees in a blue and black color scheme.

The Land That Is Life

In curating some of the pre-loved stock, it’s tempting to say that we’ll hang on to this or hang on to that. Save this for that holiday, that for this holiday. Equally, what I’ve been trying to execute more of is the anticipatory – what readers might like to see more (or less) of and maybe the broader sense what brings us to an online bookshop, anyway?