Foster Books

13/10/2026

Gorgeous and strange illustrations by Harry Clarke for Edgar Allan Poe’s Tales of Mystery and Imagination.

Harry Clarke was a key figure in the Irish Arts and Crafts Movement, and his illustration work was influenced by the Art Deco, Art Nouveau and French Symbolist Movements.

11/10/2026

08/10/2026

Getting in the spirit of the season 🎃 with our most spine-tingling works of the supernatural, gothic horror and crime - the perfect books to reach for as the nights grow longer and the weather colder.

20/09/2026

We’re open at Bouncing Off the Wall! here at until 5pm. Tours of this designed school throughout the day

15/09/2026

Happy Birthday to the “Queen of Crime”, Dame Agatha Christie! The brilliant brain who devised our much beloved wizards of deduction, Miss Marple and Hercule Poirot.

We always keep a number of her books in our stock, which currently includes a complete set of the Agatha Christie Crime Collection, with 72 of her best novels and short story collections up to 1971/1972.

14/09/2026

The first hints of autumn are creeping in to our window here at Foster’s with this 1936 copy of Cicely Mary Barker’s Book of the Flower Fairies, Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting gothic tales, and some seasonal nature writing🍁🍂

12/09/2026

09/09/2026

Autumn seems to have arrived in all it’s soggy splendour here in Chiswick with some much needed rain ☔️🌧️ This lovely Edward Ardizzone illustrated children’s book encapsulates our thoughts exactly…

25/08/2026

Two scarce works of Irish poetry 🇮🇪

The Wild Harp (1913) - in a deluxe or early issue binding. Illustrated by C. M. Watts. With poems by W. B. Yeats and James Joyce.

Modern Anglo-Irish Verse (1914) - first edition, with poems by W. B. Yeats, James Joyce and A. Conan Doyle.

18/08/2026

The first UK edition of Jorge Luis Borges’ fantastical short stories, translated in collaboration with Borges, who wrote that they ‘tried to make these stories read as though they had been written in English’.

It includes a new preface, commentaries and an autobiographical essay by Borges and Norman Thomas di Giovanni, and was also the most comprehensive edition of his work in English at its time of publication.