The Fashion Book
300.00 ₾Phaidon’s definitive A-to-Z guide to fashion — designers, models, photographers, editors, and retail empires, each illustrated and introduced with characteristic authority. From Balenciaga to Virgil Abloh, the comprehensive reference for anyone interested in fashion’s extraordinary ecosystem.
Our Prehistoric Planet – Dinosaurs and Other Creatures of the Past
80.00 ₾A beautifully illustrated introduction to prehistoric life — from the first complex organisms through dinosaurs to megafauna. Sue Lowell Gallion writes with clarity and genuine wonder, making palaeontology accessible while maintaining scientific accuracy. Perfect for curious young readers and adults alike.
The American Art Book
300.00 ₾The definitive visual survey of American art from the colonial period to the present — over 400 works from Copley to Basquiat, Georgia O’Keeffe to Kara Walker. Arranged alphabetically with authoritative commentary, an essential Phaidon reference for art lovers and students of visual culture.
Formula Fast Your Ultimate Guide to Formula One Racing!
80.00 ₾The essential illustrated introduction to Formula One — driver profiles, team histories, technology, race strategy, and the aerodynamic principles that make F1 cars the fastest racing machines on earth. Matt Ralphs makes complex technical concepts immediately accessible for fans of all ages.
Making Space Interior Design by Women
250.00 ₾A landmark celebration of women interior designers throughout history — presenting their extraordinary work while making the case for why they have been systematically overlooked. Jane Hall’s richly illustrated book is both a design history and a challenge to the established canon.
Vitra The Anatomy of a Design Company
350.00 ₾Deyan Sudjic’s definitive account of Vitra — the Swiss design company whose collaborations with the Eameses, Zaha Hadid, Frank Gehry, and others have produced some of the most celebrated objects of our time. Essential for designers and design enthusiasts: the anatomy of a true design institution.
A Blink of the Screen Collected Short Fiction
35.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s collected short fiction — spanning his entire career from early science fiction to mature Discworld-era work. Wit, humanity, and surprising depth in every piece: essential for fans who want to experience the full range of an imagination that could never be contained by a single series.
A Stroke of the Pen The Lost Stories
35.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s lost newspaper stories from the early 1980s — discovered in an archive and published for the first time. Already showing the satirical intelligence and philosophical wit that would become Discworld: an extraordinary gift for devoted fans, and a window into one of literature’s great imaginations.
Men at Arms (Discworld Novel 15)
40.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s Discworld mystery — the first firearm arrives in Ankh-Morpork and Commander Vimes must find the killer while the Watch is being diversified. Sharp satire, genuine emotional warmth, and a surprisingly serious meditation on justice and power from the City Watch series at its best.
Night Watch (Discworld Novel 29)
46.00 ₾Widely regarded as the greatest Discworld novel — Sam Vimes travels back to the revolution that shaped his city and his character. Darker, more serious, and more emotionally powerful than most Discworld, Night Watch demonstrates that Pratchett was a novelist of genuine moral depth.
Moving Pictures (Discworld Novel 10)
40.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s Discworld satire of Hollywood — Holy Wood, where Narrative Causality is strong and everyone is compelled to make moving pictures. Sharp on the film industry, affectionate about cinema, and ultimately a meditation on the power of stories over human imagination. Classic Pratchett.
Soul Music (Discworld Novel 16)
46.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s Discworld novel about rock and roll arriving on the Disc — musicians playing riffs they don’t understand, music that wants something, and Death facing a personal crisis. Funny, affectionate, and packed with musical references: essential Discworld for music-loving readers.
Maskerade (Discworld Novel 18)
35.00 ₾Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld parody of The Phantom of the Opera — witches, opera, a theatrical ghost, and Agnes Nitt’s destiny. Warm, funny, and sharp on the difference between having a voice and being heard: Pratchett at the top of his considerable game.
Equal Rites (Discworld Novel 3)
35.00 ₾The third Discworld novel — a girl inherits a wizard’s staff and Granny Weatherwax accompanies her to Unseen University. Pratchett at his most characteristic: sharp observations about gender and tradition wrapped in a funny, inventive fantasy. The introduction of one of the series’ greatest characters.
Representations of the Intellectual
50.00 ₾Edward Said’s Reith Lectures on the obligations of the public intellectual — speaking truth to power, representing the marginalised, and refusing accommodation with authority. Clear, passionate, and drawing on the full history of ideas: essential for anyone interested in ideas, power, and intellectual responsibility.
The Possession
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s intense, precise account of jealousy — the disturbing way her ex-partner’s new relationship reorganised her perception of reality. Unflinching sociological examination of possession, identity, and the structures of love: concentrated and analytically unsparing.
The Question of Palestine
55.00 ₾Edward Said’s foundational account of Palestinian history, culture, and dispossession — a comprehensive argument for Palestinian rights made with historical scholarship, personal testimony, and moral clarity. As urgent and necessary now as when Said first wrote it.
The Use of Photography
50.00 ₾Annie Ernaux and Marc Marie’s intimate collaboration — photographs from an affair accompanied by separate reflections from each person. A meditation on what photographs capture and fail to capture, and on the gap between two people’s experience of the same intimate history.
A Woman’s Story – WINNER of the 2022 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s tribute to her mother — from rural Normandy poverty to lower-middle-class respectability, to Alzheimer’s erasure. Written with love, frustration, and the specific pain of watching a strong woman dissolve: a meditation on class, identity, and the impossibility of truly knowing a parent.
I Will Write to Avenge My People – WINNER of the 2022 NOBEL PRIZE in LITERATURE The Nobel Lecture
30.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s Nobel Prize lecture — a powerful account of her literary mission, her working-class origins, and her conviction that literature is a form of social justice. A brief but essential statement of artistic purpose from one of our most important writers.
The Young Man
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s crystalline account of a relationship with a man thirty years younger — examining not romance but the experience of seeing yourself through youth’s eyes, and reckoning with age, desire, and the social meanings attached to a woman’s body. Brief, precise, and characteristically direct.
Shame
46.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s account of a childhood witnessing and the shame that shaped her entire sense of self — moving between personal memory and sociological analysis of class, aspiration, and Catholic guilt. Formally sophisticated and emotionally unsparing from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
Simple Passion – Winner of the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature
35.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s account of a consuming obsession — a year during which everything was reorganised around a married man’s visits. Precise, sociological, and formally perfect: an examination of desire as mental state rather than romance, from the 2022 Nobel laureate at her most concentrated.
Happening
40.00 ₾Annie Ernaux’s spare, unflinching account of her illegal abortion in France in 1963 — written with autobiographical directness and extraordinary moral courage. A testimony that refuses sentimentality and demands confrontation with the reality of living without bodily autonomy, from the 2022 Nobel laureate.
The Nakano Thrift Shop
46.00 ₾Hiromi Kawakami’s warm, funny novel set in a Tokyo thrift shop — owner, sister, and assistant navigating work, love, and the peculiar intimacy of sorting through other people’s discarded things. As subtle and precise as her best work, finding emotional complexity in the perfectly observed everyday.
The Ten Loves of Mr Nishino
46.00 ₾Ten women, ten stories, one unknowable man — Hiromi Kawakami’s formally inventive novel traces Mr Nishino’s life through the perspectives of those who loved him. A cumulative portrait built from memory and angle: a meditation on love and the gap between experience and truth.
Strange Weather in Tokyo
46.00 ₾Hiromi Kawakami’s celebrated novel about an unexpected friendship between a woman and her former teacher that gradually becomes something more. Quiet, tender, and deeply affecting — a love story told through sake, food, and walks in parks, with prose of extraordinary sensory attention.
Under the Eye of the Big Bird: Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025
46.00 ₾Hiromi Kawakami’s lyrical linked stories about new beings on Earth after humanity’s end — carrying fragments of human memory and desire without understanding them. Closer to prose poetry than science fiction, and shortlisted for the International Booker Prize: quietly extraordinary.
The Vegetarian A Novel
46.00 ₾Han Kang’s International Booker Prize winner — a woman stops eating meat and the violent, obsessive responses of those around her. Elliptical and deeply unsettling, The Vegetarian uses its premise to explore bodily autonomy, compliance, and what happens to women who simply refuse.
The Beatles Anthology (25th Anniversary Reissue)
200.00 ₾The definitive history of the greatest band in popular music, told in their own words and images — assembled from the personal archives of John, Paul, George, and Ringo. Extraordinary photography and intimate testimony make this 25th anniversary reissue essential for every Beatles fan.
Get Your Sh*t Together
90.00 ₾David Shrigley’s irreverent anti-self-help book — crude drawings and blunt text from the beloved British artist who meets life’s chaos with a shrug and a deadpan one-liner. Perfect for anyone who finds conventional self-help insufferable: a book that helps by not trying to.
Film Camera Zen A Guide to Finding the Perfect Film Camera
100.00 ₾Bellamy Hunt’s definitive guide to film cameras — from classic Japanese rangefinders to medium format systems, with detailed assessments of hundreds of cameras. The Japan Camera Hunter founder’s expertise makes this essential for beginners and experienced collectors navigating the world of analogue photography.
Coffee Cards: 50 Recipes for a Better Brew
90.00 ₾50 beautifully illustrated recipe cards for better coffee — from perfect espresso to inventive iced drinks, coffee cocktails, and baking projects. Vivian Nguyen’s practical, enthusiastic guide covers every brewing method and makes a perfect gift for anyone serious about their morning ritual.
The Wild Horse Effect Awe, Well-Being, and the Transformative Power of Nature
120.00 ₾Chad Hanson explores the science and experience of awe — what happens when we encounter vast and extraordinary nature. Drawing on psychology and neuroscience, a compelling argument that encounters with wild horses and mountain landscapes are not merely pleasant but genuinely transformative.
Snoop Dogg’s Treats to Eat 55 Baking Recipes–Baking with (or Without) Weed
100.00 ₾55 baking recipes from Snoop Dogg — cookies, cakes, brownies, and more in his unmistakable, relaxed voice. Entertaining to read and practical to cook from, a follow-up to From Crook to Cook that proves Snoop’s culinary talents extend to baking and that recipe books can have genuine personality.
Men to Avoid in Art and Life
70.00 ₾Historical paintings paired with captions capturing the patronising things men say to women — a brilliantly funny satirical marriage of Old Masters and contemporary feminist humour. Nicole Tersigni’s comic timing is perfect, and the book is essential for anyone familiar with being explained to.
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You made all the required mock ups for commissioned layout, got all the approvals, built a tested code base or had them built, you decided on a content management system, got a license for it or adapted:
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- Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
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