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Which movie is the most heartbreaking, Titanic or The Notebook? Is Dirty Dancing cheesier than Love Story? And which film is the most quotable, The Princess Bride or Casablanca?

Rediscover your favourite romantic movies and pit them against each other with these 32 trump cards.

About the Authors:

Marc Aspinall is a UK-based lifestyle illustrator of charming, sophisticated lifestyle and concept driven work. He tackles subjects as broad as fashion and pop culture, to business and technology – all while taking cues from the aesthetics and sensibilities of 50s and 60s golden-era illustration.

Sam Hausermann is a freelance writer, certified film nerd and fairly adequate human being. He works in the publishing industry and lives in London.

Love Oracles is the latest edition in the Laurence King oracle cards range, a series of charming and engaging card decks designed to guide and inspire.

Horoscope aficionados, astrology enthusiasts, and star-crossed lovers can use the Love Oracles to ask history’s most famous lovers for advice on romantic life and relationships.

Struggling to meet the right partner? Worried your powers of seduction are lacking somewhat? Want to improve your relationships with family and friends? Elizabeth Taylor, Shakespeare, and a host of famous lovers are here to help. Simply select any card from the pack, choose the oracle’s advice on one-night stands, long-term relationships and break-ups, or family and friends and any obstacle becomes surmountable. 

Wondering what qualities are most important to look for in a long-term partner? Get Jane Austen’s guidance. Longing for someone to sweep you off your feet? Ask Casanova for help. And if you’re curious whether you should try something new in the bedroom? Rihanna just might have your answer.

The perfect gift for those looking for a lighthearted break from tarot cards and the fitting activity for Valentine’s Day.

Get advice and inspiration from the likes of:

• Lord Byron
• Lena Dunham
• George Clooney
• Joan Collins
• Jonathan Van Ness
• Serge Gainsbourg
• George Michael
• Yoko Ono
• Sigmund Freud
• Zelda Fitzgerald
• Casanova*

*All of the advice offered by the love oracles has been inspired by their work, actions and personalities. There are no direct quotations, apart from where quotation marks are used.

Discover the other card decks in the Oracles series, including the bestselling Art Oracles, Fashion Oracles and Music Oracles.

About the Author:

Freelance illustrator Anna Higgie lives and works in Bristol, UK. Her clients include British Vogue, Vanity Fair, Converse, the Guardian and the Financial Times.

A sumptuous serving of Madrid’s outposts of good food, design, retail, and more, this definitive travel guide will make you feel like a local no matter where you are from.

Madrid is a changed city. The recent metamorphosis has been fuelled by the economic crisis and led by a new generation of determined Madrileños who have transformed the Spanish capital for the better. Tradition and modernity thrive side by side: marvel at the centuries-old masterpieces inside the Prado one moment and enjoy sumptuous morsels cooked up by a new wave of intrepid chefs the next. 

After sating your appetite, be sure to save enough energy for nocturnal frolics in the endless mix of bars, theatres, and clubs. In fact, the native penchant for a good time is such an irrefutable character trait that Monocle challenges you not to be affected by the contagiously cheerful spirit you’ll encounter. The city has thrown off the shackles of immovable tradition; what was once a buttoned-down bastion of conservatism has become Spain’s unabashed center of the avant-garde. Enjoy a melting pot of talent, taste, and tenacity — all courtesy of fun-loving and welcoming residents.

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Monocle reports from around the globe in print, on radio, and online. As its editors and correspondents dart from city to city, they get to know the best places to rest their heads, stretch their limbs, and kick back with a contact in a hard-to-find cocktail bar. 

That information is now available in Monocle’s Travel Guide Series: a line-up of titles that speaks to you in an informed but informal way about everything from architecture to art, late-night bars to early-morning markets. These are books that go beyond the traditional tourist beats to make sure you get the best out of a city — no matter how short your stay. Designed to be compact and collectable, they are also discerning; Monocle’s team won’t list a hundred places to eat but they will tell you where’s best for everything from some tasty fast food to something truly celebratory. Cities are fun. Let’s explore.

Will you survive the game of Mafia? Two teams compete in this delightfully deadly party game.

Based on the classic role-playing strategy game, it’s kill or be killed as innocent city folk pit their wits against a mob of ruthless international gangsters.

Engage in a tangled web of intrigue, subterfuge, wild accusations, protestations of innocence and bluffing.

Includes 24 street character cards, crime-scene notepad and definitive game guide with rules, case files, tactical tips and ideas for advanced play

About the Authors:

Angus Hyland is an award-winning art director and partner at Pentagram Design London. His previous books include Hand to Eye and The Book of the Dog.

Shan Jiang is an illustrator, graphic designer and art director. His works have been exhibited in the US, Europe, Shanghai and Hong Kong.

Immerse yourself in a world of abstract equilibrium with 57 tiles inspired by the modernist master Piet Mondrian. Arrange the tiles to create table-top compositions of perfect balance, large or small.

Beautifully presented and with millions of possible arrangements, Make Your Own Mondrian will delight would-be modernists of all ages.

About the Author:

Henry Carroll studied photography at the Royal College of Art and his work has been exhibited worldwide. Building on his experience teaching aspiring photographers of all ages, Henry founded frui.co.uk, one of the UK’s leading providers of photography holidays and courses.

Princess Marie-Chantal’s perennial, must–have parenting resource for the modern age, now fully revised and updated

The founder of a successful lifestyle and gifting brand, author of an influential parenting blog, and mother of five children, Princess Marie-Chantal of Greece is constantly asked how she manages to do it all. So many of these queries — about proper etiquette for children in our fast–paced, technology-centered world — led her to recognize the need for a modern handbook on children’s manners. First published in 2020, Manners Begin at Breakfast addresses rules of etiquette, including table manners, social media, fashion dos and don’ts, and party conversation. Covering children from infants to teens, it is an essential guide for all parents keen to raise polite, well-rounded children, equipped to thrive in society and develop into confident, successful adults.

This updated edition adds new insights on parenting in a post-pandemic world. By popular demand, each chapter is now peppered with delightful anecdotes and personal stories from Marie-Chantal’s experience putting her own advice into practice. Adorned with charming, specially commissioned illustrations and a fresh updated introduction by leading pediatrician Dr. Perri Klass, Manners Begin at Breakfast is the quintessential guide to propriety for the modern family.

About the Author:

Marie-Chantal, Crown Princess of Greece; mother of 5, author of the brand’s popular Journal 22 blog, founder and creative director of internationally recognized lifestyle and gifting brand – Marie-Chantal. Born in London and raised in Hong Kong, one of three sisters, she studied art and design at the New York Academy of Arts and New York University. She married Pavlos, Crown Prince of Greece, in 1995, and they have five children.

Whichever city you choose – though we recommend all three, of course – you’ll be charmed like a snake on Jemaa El Fna in no time. And to help you sift through the noise, here’s our rundown of the best that Morocco has to offer. Marhaba!

Morocco may be a short hop, skip and a jump across the Med from Europe but it feels like another world. Salesmen flaunting their wares in the souks, robed figures rushing to prayer and ancient palaces decked with dazzling tiles – it’s easy to fall under its spell.

Marrakech, on the cusp of both desert and mountain, offers old-world glamour and an enthralling sense of adventure. Casablanca, lapped by the Atlantic, is a thoroughly modern metropolis with a special affinity for art deco. And at the northernmost tip of the country is the eccentric cliffside city of Tangier, where many a writer and artist have pitched up and sought inspiration over the years.

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The magazine Monocle covers the world with its network of bureaus in New York, Toronto, Zurich, Hong Kong, Istanbul, Tokyo, and Singapore. It also employs more than 30 dedicated correspondents — in cities from Bangkok to Bogotá, São Paolo to Stockholm — as well as a team of on-the-road reporters based out of its headquarters in London. This team’s deep understanding of cities and all they have to offer has now been compiled in The Monocle Travel Guide Series.

The history of aviation is full of striking and unusual designs, from the biplanes and triplanes of World War I, through the giant bombers and streamlined fighters of World War II to the stealthy shapes and unusual configurations of modern military aircraft like the Northrop Grumman B-2 and V-22 Osprey. 

Military Aircraft provides a fascinating guide to every major military aircraft type ever flown, all illustrated with a profile artwork, accompanied by brief details and specifications. Common types such as the Spitfire, Ju 87 Stuka, F-86 Sabre and F-4 Phantom are featured with several artworks showing the range of colour schemes and operators. Arranged chronologically by type to allow easy comparison, each featured aircraft or variant is illustrated with an excellent full-colour artwork, showing in great detail its characteristics and markings, and completed with an informative caption. Many aircraft are illustrated in profile, and others in a head-on view. With more than 1000 outstanding colour artworks, Military Aircraft is an authoritatively researched book that celebrates the many diverse designs of more than a century of military aviation.

About the Author:

Jim Winchester has many years’ experience writing about aviation. He is the author of several books including Fighter, Classic Airliners: Lockheed Constellation and Flight International’s World Aircraft and Systems Directory.

Ever since man first took to the air, combat aircraft have been at the cutting edge of aviation technology, resulting in some of the greatest and most complex designs ever built. 

Military Aircraft features 52 of the most important military aircraft of the last hundred years. The book includes all the main types, from biplane fighters and carrier aircraft to tactical bombers, transport aircraft, multirole fighters, strategic strike aircraft and stealth bombers.

Featured aircraft include: the Fokker Dr.1 triplane, the legendary fighter flown by German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen, ‘the Red Baron’, during World War I; the Mitsubishi A6M Zero, Japan’s highly-manoeuvrable fighter that dominated air-to-air combat in the early part of the Pacific War; the tank-busting Il-2 Shturmovik, the most produced aircraft in World War II; the Harrier jump jet, a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter that has been service for more than 40 years; the B-2 Spirit bomber, an American precision strike aircraft used in recent conflicts in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan; and the F-22 Raptor, an air superiority fighter with state-of-the-art stealth technology that makes it almost invisible to radars. Each entry includes a brief description of the model’s development and history, a profile view, key features and specifications.

Packed with more than 200 artworks and photographs, Military Aircraft is a colourful guide for the military aviation enthusiast.

About the Author:

Thomas Newdick is an aviation and defence writer and editor who writes for The War Zone. He is the author of a number of books, including the Identification Guide: Modern Military Airpower 1990–Present, Military Aircraft and Technical Guide: Japanese Aircraft of World War II. He is the former editor of Air Forces Monthly and a regular contributor to Combat Aircraft, Aircraft Illustrated and other leading aviation publications.

Military Jet Aircraft provides a detailed look at over fifty of the most important jet-engined aircraft developed between 1945 and the present day.

Aircraft profiled include dedicated interceptors, bombers, and reconnaissance platforms, as well as modern multirole warplanes such as the F-22, F-35 and Sukhoi Su-27. Each aircraft is introduced with large-format artwork in full colour, showing every detail of the aircraft in action wearing authentic markings. Detailed annotations indicate innovative design features and other points of interest. An in-depth description of each aircraft follows, profiling its design and manufacturing development and active deployment history, alongside action photographs and a comprehensive specifications panel giving information on dimensions, power plant, performance, and armament.

Aircraft featured include such famous types as the Avro Vulcan, Boeing B-52 Stratofortress, McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II, Northrop B-2A Spirit, and the Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-21. Accessible and comprehensive, Military Jet Aircraft will appeal to anyone interested in discovering more about modern military aviation.

About the Author:

Robert Jackson is a former pilot and navigational instructor. Now a full-time writer in military, naval and aviation affairs, he has over 90 books to his name, including Spitfire, B-17 Flying Fortress, The Encyclopedia of Military Aircraft and Warplanes of World War II. He lives in Darlington, County Durham, UK.

Military aviation technology has developed enormously since the end of the Cold War, with new stealth aircraft and airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft augmenting the classic multirole fighters, strategic bombers and assault helicopters of the 1980s and 1990s.

Modern Military Aircraft features 50 of the greatest aircraft of the last 30 years, divided into types: fighters, bombers and strike aircraft, transport and reconnaissance and helicopters.

Discover the F-15 Strike Eagle tactical fighter, which with a top speed of Mach 2.5 (1800mph), is one of the fastest jets of the modern era; find out about Russia’s Kamov Ka-50 ‘Black Shark’ attack helicopter, with its characteristic coaxial contra-rotating rotor system and heavy-duty armament of S-8 rockets, autocannon, gun pods and bombs; explore China’s Shaanxi Y-9 and its state-of-the-art missile detection and identification abilities; and wonder at the latest USAF F-35 Lightning II stealth platform, perhaps the most capable multirole air superiority and strike aircraft in service today.

Each entry includes a brief description of the type’s development and history, a detailed artwork, key features and specifications.

Packed with more than 200 artworks and photographs, Modern Military Aircraft is an exciting guide for military historians and aviation enthusiasts.

About the Author:

Bing Chandler is a former Lynx Observer and current Air Safety Officer for the Royal Navy. He has written on a range of subjects, from attack helicopters to aircraft carriers, for the Hush Kit aviation blog and contributed to the Hush-Kit book of Warplanes Volumes 1 and 2.

Dealing with the most famous peaks on the planet, divided into the various continents, the book presents, among others, the peaks of the Himalayas and the Karakorum, which form “the roof of the world”. And of course, there is Patagonia, an extreme place, a frontier of the imagination full of natural scenarios that seem to be the beginning and the end of everything.

Looking through Mountains, you will discover a new dimension of the African continent, from the sheer cliffs of the Atlas canyons to the snows of Kilimanjaro and Ruwenzori. The great north of Alaska will offer visions of that kingdom of frost over which Denali, the highest mountain on the North American continent, towers over 6,000 metres. Europe and the Alps, with the magic of the Dolomites ― a UNESCO World Heritage Site since 2009 ― will close the extraordinary journey between the peaks that have always fascinated man. If you don't suffer from vertigo, we will take you really high up.

The reader will be accompanied on this extraordinary adventure by famous fellow travellers who were fascinated by the power of the mountains and whose immortal pages they left behind: quotations from Dante Alighieri, John Muir, Paulo Coelho, Victor Hugo, Lord Byron, Jane Austen, Friedrich Nietzsche, William Shakespeare, Jeanne Moreau, J.R.R Tolkien and Haruki Murakami will be juxtaposed with the most spectacular images of these rock formations that are scattered over the entire surface of the Earth.

Music Oracles is a music lover's favourite from the Laurence King oracle cards range, a series of charming and engaging card decks designed to guide and inspire.

Horoscope aficionados, astrology enthusiasts, and die-hard music fans can use the Music Oracles to ask history’s most famous music icons for advice on attitude, lifestyle or inspiration.

Are you suffering from creative block? Struggling to make a difficult life decision? Find out what David Bowie, Grace Jones, Maria Callas and other great artists would have done. Simply select a card from the pack and channel the oracle’s advice on attitude, lifestyle or inspiration to make any obstacle surmountable.

The perfect gift for those with eclectic taste, who just can’t get enough of their musical idols!

Get advice and inspiration from the likes of:

• Prince

• Madonna

• Bjork

• Miles Davis

• Edith Piaf

• Amy Winehouse

• Kendrick Lamar

• John Lennon

• Beyonce*

*All of the advice offered by the Music Oracles has been inspired by their work, actions and personalities. There are no direct quotations, apart from where quotation marks are used.

Discover the other card decks in the Oracles series, including the best-selling Art Oracles, Fashion Oracles and Love Oracles.
Contains 50 oracle cards plus a booklet featuring the artists’ biographies and details of how to use the cards.

Music Oracles is a follow-up to the best-selling Art Oracles and Fashion Oracles.

About the Author:

Stephen Ellcock is a London-based writer, researcher and former musician and bookseller who is creating the ultimate social-media cabinet of curiosities.

Part artist, part graphic illustrator and part letterer, Timba Smits blends a distinct love of mid-century style with contemporary design aesthetics.

Dinner parties a bit tame? Tired of hearing the same old playlists? Liven up your evenings with these hilarious after-dinner sound and music experiments. There are 21 techniques each illustrated by a handsome card including step-by-step instructions and presented in a beautiful gift tin. From turning a carrot into a recorder and playing your wine glasses to recreating the fizz and crackle of a barbershop quartet on an old-timey gramophone, these experiments are guaranteed to provide a good time.

About the Authors:

Angus Hyland is a partner at Pentagram Design London. Dave Hopkins is an illustrator who specialises in all forms of line work. Tom Parkinson is a multi-instrumentalist and composer working primarily in an interdisciplinary context. 

Studio Ghibli comes to life as pop-up notecards!

Showcasing classic scenes from the studio's revered film My Neighbor Totoro, these cards add a pop of whimsy to any correspondence — a joyful note to send and receive for Totoro and animation fans of every age.

-Box with hinged lid.

-10 pop-up cards (5 designs repeating twice).

About the Author

Studio Ghibli is a Tokyo-based animation film studio founded by directors Isao Takahata and Hayao Miyazaki. The studio has produced several short films and more than 20 feature-length films, including My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, and the Academy-Award winner Spirited Away.