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Great Women Artists is the most extensive illustrated survey on women artists ever published. Now available in a sleek compact format, this essential volume reflects an era where art made by women is more visible than ever.

A visually spectacular geographical survey of the world’s most iconic car designs — Italian coachbuilding, German engineering, American muscle, Japanese minimalism. Jason Barlow traces the visual DNA of each automotive tradition with knowledge and enthusiasm in this essential Phaidon design volume.

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.

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.

The definitive guide to James Bond’s automobiles — from the iconic Aston Martin DB5 to the present day. Jason Barlow’s authoritative volume combines stunning photography, technical specs, and behind-the-scenes stories in a celebration of 60 years of the most stylish cars in cinema history.

Top Gear’s definitive guide to the most spectacular road cars ever created — from the Ferrari 250 GTO to the Bugatti Veyron and their modern successors. Jason Barlow’s technically authoritative, irreverent, and genuinely passionate writing makes this essential for every serious car enthusiast.

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.

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.

Rolling Stone’s fully revised definitive ranking of the 500 greatest albums ever made, featuring hundreds of new entries. From classic rock to contemporary hip-hop, this authoritative volume spans every genre with critical commentary and essential context for each landmark recording.

A beautifully illustrated study of Sofia Coppola’s career, tracing her distinctive visual language from The Virgin Suicides onwards. Hannah Strong’s authoritative text celebrates a filmmaker whose dreamy, intimate cinema has shaped an entire generation of artists and directors.

Hermès by Alice Charbin (Abrams) — an illustrated celebration of the house founded in 1837 as a harness-maker and transformed over a century and a half into the world’s most carefully guarded luxury brand: its history, its craft, its iconic objects, and the visual culture it has created. What craftsmanship means at its highest level — the scarves, bags, and leather goods coveted not for their logo but for their making. Published by Abrams.

Yves Saint Laurent: Icons of Fashion Design (Abrams) — fifty signature YSL pieces presented in full-page photography, selected for the qualities that distinguish fashion from clothing. The argument for which pieces from forty years of haute couture deserve to be called works of art — including the first pieces that elevated non-Western visual traditions to haute couture status. The ideal YSL introduction for new readers. Published by Abrams.

The Wes Anderson Collection: Bad Dads by Lauren Wilford (Abrams) — the best work from multiple iterations of the beloved Bad Dads art show, in which independent artists from around the world respond to Anderson’s visual world with creativity that reflects how deeply his aesthetic has penetrated the popular imagination. Essays contextualise both the art and the films — a beautiful celebration of one of cinema’s most distinctive visual artists. Published by Abrams.

Yves Saint Laurent: The Perfection of Style by Olivier Saillard (Abrams) — a beautiful and authoritative account of YSL’s career focused on the concept of perfection: the standard he held himself to and that his best work achieves. The trouser suit, the safari jacket, the tuxedo — the pieces that liberated the female body while simultaneously creating some of the most beautiful clothes ever made. Essential for serious students of fashion history. Published by Abrams.

The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz (Abrams) — the most comprehensive and most intelligent account of Anderson’s work from Bottle Rocket through Moonrise Kingdom: detailed analysis of each film, production photographs and sketches, and the interviews that reveal how Anderson thinks about the cinema he makes. One of the finest filmmaker monographs of recent years — essential for any Anderson devotee. Published by Abrams.

Woman in the Mirror by Richard Avedon (Abrams) — Avedon’s complete engagement with the female subject across fifty years: the fashion photographs that defined Vogue and Harper’s Bazaar for decades alongside portrait work that revealed something about female identity, power, and self-presentation that the fashion photographs simultaneously created and concealed. An essential monograph from one of the twentieth century’s greatest photographers. Published by Abrams.

Manet: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Susie Hodge (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Manet paintings alongside the biographical material tracing the most controversial and most consequential career in nineteenth-century French painting. The man who, with Le Déjeuner sur l’herbe and Olympia, forced the question of what modern painting was allowed to depict — and whose answer transformed the history of Western art. Published by Lorenz Books.

Velázquez: His Life and Works in 500 Images by Michael Howard (Lorenz Books) — all five hundred major Velázquez paintings, from the early Seville genre scenes through the court portraits of Philip IV to the incomparable Las Meninas. The greatest court painter of the seventeenth century and one of the greatest painters in Western art — whose psychological penetration and mastery of light and shadow have never been surpassed. Published by Lorenz Books.