The author of Four Bare Legs in a Bed and In-Flight Entertainment, Helen Simpson, will be introducing us to her new book A Bunch of Fives. It is a selection of ...More details »
An evening of poetry to celebrate Animal Magic. Local poet Liz Brownlee writes playfully about animals in a disappearing world: the well-known skylark, panda and bumblebee, and the little known ...More details »
Julian Baggini and Antonia Macaro are, respectively, a well respected philosopher and an experienced existential therapist whose book, The Shrink and the Sage, dissects modern day dilemmas from the viewpoint of their two professions. ...More details »
With The Girl Who Fell From The Sky, Simon Mawer has written a tense, gripping story of wartime intelligence and love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter of a ...More details »
Chad Harbach's The Art of Fielding has been one of the most acclaimed American novels of recent years. Dealing with friendship, coming of age, and the changes that maturity brings, ...More details »
Just Send Me Word is a testament to human constancy under impossible circumstances. It is the story of the relationship between Lev and Sveta, two young Muscovites separated by the ...More details »
We are delighted to welcome the Artistic Director of the Bath Literary Festival and award winning film maker, scriptwriter, and novelist, James Runcie. The affable and engaging Canon Sidney Chambers is ...More details »
Kim Stanley Robinson's thoughtful and deeply researched novels explore future the future history of humanity. With the Mars trilogy, he chronicled the colonising and settlement of Mars over two centuries. ...More details »
The charming, passionate Brittany-born baker has changed the way we look at bread forever with his award-winning books, Dough and Crust. His renowned cookery school here in Bath attracts foodies ...More details »
We are delighted to welcome back one of the country's leading literary figures to Topping & Company Booksellers to celebrate the publication of Lionel Asbo. Lionel Pepperdine is the ferocious ...More details »
Kim Donovan's St Vipers School for Super Villains will be taking over the world this evening. Come along for the launch of its writer slave’s deliciously despicable book. Electrik Inc is ...More details »
The voice of all passionate young cooks, this twenty-year-old prodigy already has 5 successful cookbooks to his name. Now studying at Edinburgh University, Sam brings us a new book ...More details »
We are delighted to have Simon Armitage in Bath to talk about his two new books this year: The Alliterative Morte Arthure and Walking Home. The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a ...More details »
In Tim Park's The Server, sex is forbidden at the Dasgupta Institute. So what is the sparkling, magnetically attractive Beth Marriot doing here? Why is a young woman whose irrepressible ...More details »
With Rivers of London and Moon over Soho, Ben Aaronovitch has created a superbly entertaining supernatural crime series. Rich with witty one-liners, they centre around the adventures of PC Peter ...More details »
Jo Weinberg's first cookery book, How to Feed Your Friends, was beautifully written, stylish and inspirational. Having recently moved to the West Country, she has written a brilliant new cookbook, ...More details »
Using the 2012 London Olympics as a springboard, Chris Cleave's boldly ambitious Gold is the story of Zoe and Kate, two world-class athletes who have been friends since ...More details »
The Day The Grass Came is a thrilling synthesis of hope, joy and visceral energy triumphing over ‘unsouled’ materialism. Simon Callow wrote: “I am overwhelmed, thrilled, lit up. Virile, vital, virtuosic. Stupendous.” ...More details »
Jenny Chandler always fills the bookshop with the scents, sounds and tastes of a glorious Spanish Food Market. Her beautiful book The Real Taste of Spain focuses on the everyday foods ...More details »
James Fenton is one of our most gifted poets and has given us some of the most memorable lyric verse of the past few decades. From the formal skill that ...More details »
Joanne Harris returns to the wonderful world of Chocolat. Eight years have passed, and some things are as they ever were in Lansquenet: the cobbled streets, the whitewashed church, the ...More details »
Home cook, food writer and presenter, the charming Tom Parker-Bowles has been tireless in pursuit of a good dinner. He has eaten some of the best food in the world, ...More details »
The conventional picture of Allied POWs in the World War II prisoner-of-war camps is of escape attempts (Colditz and The Great Escape) or terrible brutality (the Far Eastern camps and ...More details »
Acclaimed travel writer Jeremy Seal will take us on a magical journey along Turkey's famously winding Meander river. Recounting his time travelling alone by canoe in the footsteps of Alexander ...More details »
Anna Del Conte is the Queen of Italian cookery; her books have been a culinary inspiration throughout Europe, providing guidance and kitchen companionship to lovers of Italian food for all ...More details »
Sean Borodale's Bee Journal is a startlingly original poetry sequence: a poem-journal of beekeeping that chronicles the life of the hive, from the collection of a small nucleus on the ...More details »
Since he was a small boy collecting train numbers in Somerset, Keith Strickland has loved looking at steam-locomotives. During the last forty years, he has travelled to all five continents ...More details »
With Nelson: the Sword of Albion, John Sugden has written the most definitive and intimate biography of Nelson ever published. We think that we are familiar with the man behind ...More details »
Join us for the launch of Iain M Banks’ new Culture novel The Hydrogen Sonata - a tour de force of storytelling from a true master of his art. Banks’ ...More details »
Will Self's Umbrella is his his most extravagant and imaginative novel to date - both radical in its conception and uncompromising in its style. Recently having abandoned his RD Laing-influenced experiment ...More details »
Sharon Olds' Stag's Leap is a stunningly poignant sequence of poems telling the story of a divorce, embracing strands of love, sex, sorrow memory, and new freedom. In this wise and ...More details »
Joe Abercrombie is one of our best fantasy writers - justly celebrated for his narrative pacing, sense of humour, and sheer verve. With A Red Country, Abercrombie returns to the ...More details »
Kylie Fitzpatrick's The Silver Thread is a panoramic novel of rare beauty set between Victorian England, Ireland, and Australia during the great age of sail. When Rhia Mahoney's uncle commits ...More details »
We are delighted to welcome back Martyn Crucefix, who will be reading from his new translation of Rilke's Sonnets to Orpheus, the culmination of fifteen years' work. This new collection is ...More details »
St Libra is paradise for Earth's mega-rich. Until the killing begins. In Newcastle-upon-Tyne, AD 2142, Detective Sidney Hurst attends a brutal murder scene. The victim is one of the wealthy North ...More details »
The dark is rising... Detective Inspector James Quill is about to complete the drugs bust of his career. Then his prize suspect Rob Toshack is murdered in custody. Furious, Quill pursues ...More details »
The Dead Season is the third of Christobel's crime series set in Florence. A heat-wave has the city in its grip and most have fled to the hills, but Sandro Cellini ...More details »
Sidney Chambers is a thirty-two year old bachelor. Charming and handsome, Sidney is an unconventional clergyman who can go where the police cannot. This time he must investigate a suspect ...More details »
From the author of the Booker shortlisted and highly acclaimed The Glass Room comes a new, gripping story of wartime intelligence and love. Marian Sutro is an outsider: the daughter ...More details »
China Miéville's hotly anticipated new novel, Railsea, is another triumphant title from the master of the most intricate science fiction and fantasy novels. Sham, a young doctor's assistant, embarks on ...More details »
What a fantastic opportunity: two of the authors shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2012, Madeline Miller and Georgina Harding, in one room to tell you about writing, reading, prize lists and more. ...More details »
Tim Parks' new novel, The Server, is an absorbing examination of Western egocentrism in the light of the Buddhist belief that the self is an ephemeral dream. Set in the ...More details »
In The Old Ways, greatly celebrated naturalist Robert Macfarlane sets off from his Cambridge home to follow the ancient tracks, holloways, drove-roads and sea paths that form part of a ...More details »
This is the true story of Lev and Sveta, two young lovers separated by the Second World War and then the terrible experience of the Gulag - where the Soviet ...More details »
It really is a huge pleasure to welcome Antony Beevor back to Ely. Our foremost military historian, Antony's previous works include Stalingrad, Berlin, and D-Day. Now he examines the most earth-shattering ...More details »
Kate Summerscale's The Suspicions of Mr Whicher won the 2008 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction. Mrs Robinson's Disgrace is an opening into another vanished world: repressed Victorian womanhood. It's a compelling story of romance and ...More details »
There are few novelists writing today who can summon an audience and transport their readers like Hilary Mantel. Her outstanding contribution to contemporary writing, the stunning historical novel Wolf Hall, ...More details »
With Nelson: the Sword of Albion, John Sugden has written the most definitive and intimate biography of Nelson ever published. We think that we're familiar with the man behind the ...More details »