Player Piano
46.00 ₾Vonnegut’s prescient 1952 debut dystopia — a near-future America where machines have replaced human labour and the engineers who manage them form a ruling class. His satirical intelligence is already fully formed: dark comedy, humanism, and anger at dehumanising systems that feel more relevant than ever.
Letters to Milena
46.00 ₾Franz Kafka’s extraordinary love letters to Czech journalist Milena Jesenská — among the most naked and revealing correspondence in literary history. Anxious, longing, and obsessively self-analytical, they illuminate the inner life of one of the twentieth century’s most essential writers.
Moby-Dick, Or, The Whale
46.00 ₾Herman Melville’s great American novel — Captain Ahab’s obsessive pursuit of the white whale, surrounded by encyclopaedic digressions on philosophy, theology, and the nature of evil. Strange, ambitious, and redefining of what fiction can be: one of the two or three greatest American novels ever written.
The Divine Comedy
50.00 ₾Dante’s fourteenth-century visionary masterpiece — through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise in a journey that is simultaneously theological meditation, political satire, and love poem. Seven centuries of Western imagination have been shaped by its imagery. This Vintage edition brings it fully to life in English.
Extracts from the Second Sex
30.00 ₾Key passages from Simone de Beauvoir’s foundational 1949 feminist masterpiece — ‘One is not born, but becomes, a woman.’ This Vintage selection makes de Beauvoir’s essential analysis of femininity’s social construction accessible without sacrificing the rigour that makes it indispensable.
Killing Commendatore
50.00 ₾Haruki Murakami’s rich, immersive novel — a portrait painter, a hidden painting, and a world where reality and imagination dissolve. Drawing on Japanese history and Western music, a 700-page work of extraordinary texture and depth from a writer at the full height of his extraordinary powers.
Men Without Women Stories
46.00 ₾Seven stories about men who have been left — by death, disappearance, or emotional disconnection. Haruki Murakami works in the short form with characteristic quiet surrealism and melancholy, producing some of his most emotionally direct and formally accomplished writing.
Queens of the Crusades Eleanor of Aquitaine and Her Successors
60.00 ₾Alison Weir’s sweeping narrative history recovers the powerful women who shaped the Crusades — queens, regents, and noblewomen whose political and military decisions were as consequential as any king’s. A fundamentally different view of medieval history from Britain’s bestselling female historian.
Homesick for Another World
46.00 ₾Ottessa Moshfegh’s debut story collection — self-destructive, deluded, and occasionally monstrous narrators rendered with the cool precision and dark humour that defines her best work. An excellent introduction to one of contemporary fiction’s most discomforting original voices.
The Third Love
46.00 ₾Hiromi Kawakami’s quietly mesmerising novella about memory, longing, and the strange persistence of past love. Prose of understated precision that accumulates into something deeply moving — essential for readers who love her work and a perfect introduction for those discovering her for the first time.
The 101 Greatest Plays From Antiquity to the Present
70.00 ₾Michael Billington’s authoritative guide to 101 plays that have defined theatre from antiquity to the present — selected and introduced by one of the world’s most respected drama critics. Passionate, learned, and indispensable for theatregoers and anyone drawn to humanity’s oldest art form.
The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Tartan A Complete History and Visual Guide to Over 400 Famous Tartans
60.00 ₾The definitive reference documenting over 400 tartans with full-colour illustration, clan histories, and cultural context. From disputed ancient origins to romantic Victorian reinvention, Zaczek and Phillips trace the full history of one of the world’s most recognisable design systems.
Italian Coastal Recipes and Stories from Where the Land Meets the Sea
160.00 ₾Recipes and memories from Italy’s southern coastline — sun-drenched terraces, simple seafood, local wine, and cooking rooted in a profound sense of place. Amber Guinness’s stunning cookbook combines gorgeous photography, achievable recipes, and writing that transports you to the Amalfi Coast.
The New French Look (US Edition)
130.00 ₾A beautifully photographed guide to contemporary French interior design — the relaxed elegance, confident colour, and mix of old and new that has influenced global style for a generation. Lauren Li’s inspiring volume documents the aesthetic that has made French interiors the world’s most imitated.
This Creative Life Fashion Designers at Home
230.00 ₾Fashion designers photographed in their private homes — revealing the obsessions, collections, and aesthetic worlds behind the collections. Robyn Lea’s intimate portraits offer a rare window into the personal environments and daily rituals that shape some of the world’s most creative design practices.
Ukrainian Modernism Modernist Architecture of Ukraine
120.00 ₾A revelatory visual survey of Ukraine’s largely unknown modernist architectural heritage — remarkable constructivist buildings now under grave threat. Published by FUEL at a moment of urgent cultural preservation, this essential volume documents an extraordinary tradition that deserves global recognition.
Propagandopolis A Century of Propaganda from Around the World
100.00 ₾A visually extraordinary anthology of twentieth-century propaganda from around the world — poster art, publications, and objects from regimes across the political spectrum. Both design history and warning, FUEL’s essential publication reveals how visual communication shapes belief and dehumanises enemies.
Food & Drink Modernist Cuisine Photography
350.00 ₾The extraordinary food photography from Nathan Myhrvold’s landmark Modernist Cuisine series — cross-sections, high-speed imagery, and micro-photography that transform cooking into scientific and aesthetic revelation. Simultaneously informative and stunning, a book that makes the familiar world extraordinary.
Diane Arbus: Sanctum Sanctorum
200.00 ₾Previously unseen and rarely seen work from Diane Arbus — one of photography’s most important and provocative figures. Published by Gagosian with scholarly commentary, this essential volume extends our understanding of a photographer whose influence on contemporary image-making remains immense.
William Eggleston: The Last Dyes
250.00 ₾Major new work from William Eggleston — recently discovered dye-transfer photographs from the man who legitimised colour photography as fine art. Featuring never-widely-seen images alongside iconic works, an essential addition to the literature of one of photography’s most revolutionary figures.
100 First Words for Little Bookworms
40.00 ₾A charming vocabulary book introducing babies and toddlers to their first hundred words through bright illustration and playful design. Organised thematically, Stephanie Campisi’s carefully chosen words build language naturally — a perfect gift and an excellent companion to reading aloud.
101 Kitchen Secrets Cut Down on Dishes, Cost, and Time in the Kitchen
50.00 ₾Jason Goldstein’s practical guide to cooking smarter — 101 techniques and shortcuts for cutting down on dishes, cost, and time in the kitchen. Professional knowledge for home cooks: how to repurpose, simplify, and build flavour efficiently without extra equipment or expense.
Automania
130.00 ₾A visually spectacular exploration of the car as cultural object — symbol, status marker, design icon, and site of collective fantasy. Drawing on MoMA’s collection, Juliet Kinchin traces how car culture has shaped twentieth-century design, advertising, and popular imagination.
Sacred Darkness The Last Days of the Gulag
55.00 ₾Georgian writer Levan Berdzenishvili’s remarkable testimony of Soviet Gulag imprisonment in the 1980s — a portrait gallery of poets, philosophers, and dissidents who maintained their intellectual lives in the camps. Vital historical document and profound meditation on preserving humanity under duress.
Frantumaglia A Writer’s Journey
50.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s closest approach to memoir — letters, interviews, and occasional writing documenting her evolution as a writer. For readers who love the Neapolitan novels, an essential window into the intellectual and emotional world from which they emerged, and into her thinking on anonymity and fiction.
The Beach at Night
50.00 ₾Elena Ferrante’s beautiful, quietly unsettling picture book — a doll left behind on the beach faces abandonment and darkness alone. Illustrated by Mara Cerri with atmospheric depth, this is a book for adults as much as children: a meditation on loss and the interior life of objects.
The Adventures of Cipollino
90.00 ₾Gianni Rodari’s beloved Italian classic — Cipollino the little onion leads the vegetable people against the tyrannical fruit aristocracy in a political fable that is also a genuinely funny, warmly illustrated adventure. A children’s book with real ideas about justice and solidarity.
Book of Questions Selections
100.00 ₾Selections from Pablo Neruda’s extraordinary late work — childlike, profound questions that probe existence, time, love, and the world. Simple inquiry as deep philosophical poetry: a perfect introduction to a Nobel laureate whose range extends far beyond his famous love poems.
Advice to Little Girls
50.00 ₾Mark Twain’s subversive Victorian parody — brief, deadpan, and delightfully undermining adult hypocrisy through the form of improving literature for children. A small gem of American humour, illustrated in this Chronicle Books edition with fresh visual life.
New York 2020 Architecture and Urbanism at the Beginning of a New Century
500.00 ₾Robert A. M. Stern’s authoritative chronicle of New York City’s architectural transformation in the first two decades of the twenty-first century. Encyclopaedic in scope and genuinely critical in judgement — essential for architects, urban planners, and everyone who loves New York.
Love How You Live Adventures in Interior Design
280.00 ₾An exuberant guide to creating interiors that genuinely reflect the people who inhabit them — mixing periods, cultures, and objects loved for personal rather than fashionable reasons. Rodman Primack and Rudy Weissenberg offer inspiration and philosophy for living with authenticity and joy.
Transform Architecture of Adaptation
250.00 ₾Architect Deborah Berke’s compelling examination of adaptive reuse — transforming existing structures rather than demolishing them. Through richly documented projects, she argues that working with what exists is both sustainable practice and a profound form of architectural imagination.
Fifth Avenue From Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park
100.00 ₾A richly illustrated architectural and cultural history of New York’s most iconic street, from Washington Square to Marcus Garvey Park. William J. Hennessey traces Fifth Avenue’s evolution across two centuries in a book that is both serious historical study and visual pleasure.
The New Antiquarians At Home with Young Collectors
250.00 ₾A visually stunning portrait of a new generation of young collectors who fill their homes with antiques and art — rejecting minimalism for richly layered living. Michael Diaz-Griffith visits their spaces and explores why collecting matters, in a book that is both inspiration and meditation.
Understanding Caricature An Artist’s Practical Guide to Creating Portraits with Personality
100.00 ₾The definitive practical guide to caricature from professional caricaturist Greg Houston — how to identify and amplify distinctive features, balance exaggeration with likeness, and develop a personal style. Essential for illustrators and anyone who loves the art of the expressive portrait.
The Secret Garden
90.00 ₾Frances Hodgson Burnett’s 1911 masterpiece — Mary Lennox, a locked Yorkshire garden, and one of children’s literature’s most powerful stories about the healing power of nature and attention. A novel that has made children want to dig in soil for more than a century.
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Chances are there wasn't collaboration, communication, and checkpoints, there wasn't a process agreed upon or specified with the granularity required. It's content strategy gone awry right from the start. Forswearing the use of Lorem Ipsum wouldn't have helped, won't help now. It's like saying you're a bad designer, use less bold text, don't use italics in every other paragraph. True enough, but that's not all that it takes to get things back on track.
The villagers are out there with a vengeance to get that Frankenstein
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:
- The toppings you may chose for that TV dinner pizza slice when you forgot to shop for foods, the paint you may slap on your face to impress the new boss is your business.
- But what about your daily bread? Design comps, layouts, wireframes—will your clients accept that you go about things the facile way?
- Authorities in our business will tell in no uncertain terms that Lorem Ipsum is that huge, huge no no to forswear forever.
- Not so fast, I'd say, there are some redeeming factors in favor of greeking text, as its use is merely the symptom of a worse problem to take into consideration.
- Websites in professional use templating systems.
- Commercial publishing platforms and content management systems ensure that you can show different text, different data using the same template.
- When it's about controlling hundreds of articles, product pages for web shops, or user profiles in social networks, all of them potentially with different sizes, formats, rules for differing elements things can break, designs agreed upon can have unintended consequences and look much different than expected.
This is quite a problem to solve, but just doing without greeking text won't fix it. Using test items of real content and data in designs will help, but there's no guarantee that every oddity will be found and corrected. Do you want to be sure? Then a prototype or beta site with real content published from the real CMS is needed—but you’re not going that far until you go through an initial design cycle.
