The London Library is renowned as a centre of creativity and we’re always keen to showcase some of the many works that get produced here. A number of our members have been in touch recently, letting us know about new books they are publishing this Autumn. 

If you are a Member and have a new book coming out soon then we’d love to here from you, please email us on This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

Please note, the Library does not necessarily hold all of these titles in our collection. Please check Catalyst to see whether we hold the book.

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Coming up in Autumn 2020

The Confession, Jessie Burton

Picador, September 2020 

 

Britain and Europe in Troubled Times, Vernon Bogdanor

Yale University Press, September 2020

 

Life & Love of the Forest, Lewis Blackwell

September 2020


Jeoffry: The Poet’s Cat - A Biography, Oliver Soden

The History Press, September 2020

 

Lev Shestov: Philosopher of the Sleepless Night, Matthew Beaumont

September 2020

 

The Museum Curator’s Guide - Understanding, Managing and Presenting Objects, Nicola Pickering

Lund Humphries, September 2020

 

The Golden Calves of Jeraboam, Adrian Leak

September 2020

 

Japan's Far More Female Future, Bill Emmott

Oxford University Press, September 2020

 

Reluctant European: Britain and the European Union from 1945 to Brexit, Stephen Wall

Oxford University Press, September 2020

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The Fragrance of Tears, Victoria Schofield

Head of Zeus, October 2020

 

After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes, Robert Fraser

Palgrave, October 2020

 

My Dearest Martha: The Life and Letters of Eliza Hillier, Andrew Hillier

Hong Kong City University Press, October 2020

 

After Ancient Biography: Modern Types and Classical Archetypes, Robert Fraser

Palgrave Macmillan, October 2020

 

Hotel du Cap Eden Roc, Alexandra Campbell

Flammarion, October 2020

 

My Berlin: The Story of a City, Sir Barney White-Spunner

Simon & Schuster, October 2020

 

Art, Memoir and Jung. Personal and Psychological Encounters, Juliet Miller

October 2020


The Walker: On Finding and Losing Yourself in the Modern City, Matthew Beaumont

November 2020

 

Dangerous Lunatics: Trauma, Criminality, and Forensic Psychotherapy, Professor Brett Kahr

Confer Books, Autumn 2020

 

Beyond the Secret Garden, Anne Thwaite

Duckworth, 2020

(Revised version of Waiting for the Party, the life of Frances Hodgson Burnett, Secker and Warburg, 1974)


Juvenal: Satires Book V, John Godwin

Liverpool University Press, Autumn 2020

 

Industrial Letchworth: The First Garden City 1903-1920Philippa Parker

University of Hertfordshire Press, Autumn 2020

 

A Dirty Broth: Early Twentieth Century Welsh Plays in English

Parthian Press, November 2020

 

Heads and Boxes: A Prop Art Exhibition Collaboration, Essay by Jill Longmate

Published in ‘Brigid Brophy: Avant-Garde Writer, Critic, Activist’, edited by Richard Canning and Gerri Kimber. Edinburgh University Press, 2020

 

At the Edge of the Desert, Basil Lawrence

Penguin, Spring 2021

 

The Novotny Papers: Prostitute/Provocateur, Lilian Pizzichini

Amberley, Spring 2021

Published recently in 2020

 

Those Who Are Loved, Victoria Hislop

Paperback published by Headline Review, August 2020

 

Dominion: The Making of the Western Mind, Tom Holland

Paperback published by Little Brown, August 2020

 

Elitism A Progressive Defence, Eliane Glaser

Biteback Books, August 2020

 

The Financial Times Guide to Business Coaching, Anne Scoular

Financial Times, August 2020

 

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If I Don’t Have You, Sareeta Dominga

Jacaranda, July 2020

 

The Tastemakers: British Dealers and the Anglo-Gallic Interior, 1785-1865, Diana Davis

Getty Research Institute, July 2020

 

Madeleine, Euan Cameron

Quercus, July 2020

(Hardback published by MacLehose Press, June 2019)

 

Bad Love, Maame Blue

Jacaranda, June 2020

 

Liminal, Caroline Maldonado

Smokestack Books, April 2020; sequel to be published 2021

 

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge, April - May 1945, Eric Lee

Greenhill Books, April 2020

 

The Straits of Treachery, Richard Hopton

Allison & Busby, April 2020

 

Night of the Bayonets: The Texel Uprising and Hitler's Revenge April - May 1945, Eric Lee

Greenhill, April 2020

 

Arthur Jeffress: A Life in Art, Gill Hedley

Bloomsbury, April 2020

 

Mediating Empire, Andrew Hillier

Renaissance Books, April 2020

 

Smoke and Mirrors, Gemma Milne

Little Brown, April 2020

 

 Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages, Richard Barber

Boydell & Brewer, March 2020

 

Dionysus after Nietzsche: The Birth of Tragedy in Twentieth-Century Literature and Thought, Adam Lecznar

Cambridge University Press, March 2020

 

Magnificence and Princely Splendour in the Middle Ages, Richard Barber

Boydell & Brewer, March 2020

 

The Girl with the Louding Voice, Abi Daré 

Sceptre, February 2020

 

Strange Antics: A History of Seduction, Clement Knox

William Collins, February 2020

 

Escape Routes, Naomi Ishiguro

Tinder Press, February 2020 (Paperback January 2021)

 

John of Garland’s ‘De Triumphis Ecclesie’, Martin Hall

Brepols, February 2020

 

Along the Amber Route, Chris Schuler

Sandstone Press, February 2020

 

Escape Routes, Naomi Ishiguro

Tinder Press, February 2020

 

Hans-Adam II, Prince of Liechtenstein: A Biography, David Beattie

van Eck Publishers, 2020

 

The Earliest Views of Budapest, Andrew Alchin

2020

 

The Smart Woman’s Guide to Murder, Victoria Dowd

Joffe Books 2020

 

EW Hornung: The Emergence of a Popular Author 1866-98, Peter Rowland

Academic Press, December 2019

 

Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia, Venetia Congdon

Berghahn Books, December 2019

 

EW Hornung: The Emergence of a Popular Author, 1866-1898, Peter Rowland

Academica Press, December 2019

 

Nourishing the Nation: Food as National Identity in Catalonia, Venetia Johannes

Berghahn Books, November 2019

 

Excellent Essex: In Praise of Britain's Most Misunderstood County, Gillian Darley

Old Street Publishing, Hardback 2019; Paperback, Spring 2020