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Ian Harrison: 'Earth - A Visitor’s Guide'
Apparently, visitors to earth like squiggly, hard-to-read fonts, articles on dogs in costumes, and misshapen neon graphics. These aliens are hardcore observers of life who want it blasted into their brains without any pesky context, fact-checking, organisation, or relevance.
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Iain Smyth: 'Alive'
The human body is a fascinating thing, and to illustrate its ingenuity, 'Alive' incorporates senses one wouldn’t usually associate with a paper-based book: hearing (via an action-triggered “beating heart” along the same principle of music-playing greeting cards) and touch.
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Russell Ash: 'The Top 10 Of Everything 2008'
One wonders how Sei Shonogan, 10th century master of list-making, would feel upon perusing this modern collection. 'The Pillow Book' it is not. Split into ten categories, encompassing such themes as Life on Earth, Music, and Transport & Tourism, 'The Top 10 Of Everything 2008' excels in the quantitative.
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Charlotte & Peter Fiell: 'Contemporary Graphic Design'
Representing more than 100 graphic designers, Contemporary Graphic Design is Taschen's lush encyclopaedia of the current movers and shakers in the world of graphic communications, with several pages worth of their adverts, album art, posters and corporate identity artwork alongside biographical info and short texts from the designers themselves.
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Mario Testino: 'Let Me In!'
Photographer Mario Testino's portfolio is like a who's who of Hollywood and the catwalk - from Princess Diana to Kate Moss, he's pointed his lens at just about everybody who's anybody in the world of celebrity.
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Clive Barker: 'Mister B Gone'
After a brief hiatus in which Clive Barker dabbled in various other media forms such as graphic novels, television, film and even video games, he has finally returned to his most celebrated playground of literature.
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Joseph Cummins: 'History’s Great Untold Stories'
From the macabre to the unfortunate to the highly unlikely, Cummins explores fascinating “footnotes” to history with detail and tact. Why did one pope put his predecessor’s rotting corpse on the stand, and why is the Vatican now silent on the proceedings?
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Harry Bingham: 'This Little Britain'
An interesting and ambitious foray into the world of non-fiction by the already well established author Harry Bingham, 'This Little Britain' seeks to document and argue the reasons why Great Britain is worthy of its name.
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Kit Whitfield: 'Bareback'
Imagine a world where the majority of the population have the ability to turn into a werewolf once a month and that you are considered less of a human for not having this power. This is the world Lola Gaffey lives in.
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Paulo Coelho: 'The Witch Of Portobello'
International best-selling author Paulo Coelho offers up another novel infused with love, passion and spirituality. ‘The Witch Of Portobello’ tells the story of Athena, a mysterious new age Romanian woman living in London through the eyes of the people who knew her best and the people who knew her hardly at all. At the start of the story, we discover Athena is dead.
