84 Charing Cross Road
Helene Hanff

84, Charing Cross Road is a 1970 book by Helene Hanff, later made into a stage play, television play, and film, about the twenty-year correspondence between the author and Frank Doel, chief buyer of Marks & Co antiquarian booksellers, located at the eponymous address in London, England.

Designer/s: Lindsay Li

Froth on the Daydream
Boris Vian

Froth on the Daydream (French: L’Écume des jours; literally: “The Foam of Days”) is a 1947 novel by French author Boris Vian. Though told as a linear narrative, the novel employs surrealism and contains multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who ages years in a week. One of the main plot lines concerns a newlywed man whose wife develops a rare and bizarre illness that can only be treated by surrounding her with flowers.

Designer/s: David Bernard

Sole Provider
Thirty Years of Nike Basketball
Robert “Scoop” Jackson

Designed with Nike’s trademark visually gripping graphics, Sole Provider: Thirty Years of NIKE Basketball is a collection of Nike hoop shoes and the subculture that surrounds them. Text by Slam magazine editor-at-large Robert “Scoop” Jackson, Sole Provider gives the inside story of NIKE Basketball – from its inception in 1972 to its incredible success as the basketball brand with over 60% market share.

Designer/s: Niko Perdija

The Great Gatsby
F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby is a 1925 novel written by American author F. Scott Fitzgerald that follows a cast of characters living in the fictional town of West and East Egg on prosperous Long Island in the summer of 1922. The story primarily concerns the young and mysterious millionaire Jay Gatsby and his quixotic passion and obsession for the beautiful former debutante Daisy Buchanan. Considered to be Fitzgerald’s magnum opus, The Great Gatsby explores themes of decadence, idealism, resistance to change, social upheaval, and excess, creating a portrait of the Roaring Twenties that has been described as a cautionary tale regarding the American Dream.

Designer/s: Lindsay Li

Perfume
The Story of a Murderer
Patrick Süskind

In eighteenth-century France there lived a man who was one of the most gifted and abominable personages in an era that knew no lack of gifted and abominable personages. His name was Jean-Baptiste Grenouille, and if his name has been forgotten today, it is certainly not because Grenouille fell short of those more famous blackguards when it came to arrogance, misanthropy, immorality, or, more succinctly, wickedness, but because his gifts and his sole ambition were restricted to a domain that leaves no traces in history: to the fleeting realm of scent…

Designer/s: David Bernard

Shallows
Tim Winton

Shallows is set in a small whaling town in Western Australia, where land-based whaling has been a tradition for over 150 years. When Queenie Cookson decides to join an antiwhaling protest group, she defies her husband, her ancestry, and her community. Winner of the prestigious Miles Franklin Award in Australia, this eloquent and moving novel speaks with immediacy and passion of the conflict between the values of a closeknit, traditional society and the evolving mores of the wider world.

Designer/s: Mitch Storck

Portraits of Murder
47 Short Stories Chosen by the Master of Suspense
by Alfred Hitchcock

The master of suspense presents 47 spine-tingling tales of murder most foul, taken from the annals of Alfred Hitchcock’s Mystery Magazine. Profit, revenge, or assassination: whatever the motive, these stories feature all the twists, turns, and terror mystery lovers long for. Meet the acrostic puzzle maker who foretells the fate of her enemies, the chess player who makes some unusual moves against his opponents, and the lifeguard who wants to save only the “worthy.” See what happens to the mother-daughter team on the prowl for rich husbands, and the gangland mediator who makes sure his decisions are final…very final. So, prepare yourself for a harrowing lesson in the deadliest of crimes…and blood-curdling chills in the grand Hitchcock tradition.

Designer/s: Niko Perdija

The Corporation
An Epic Story of the Cuban American Underworld
by T. J. English

By the mid-1980s, the American underworld was a vicious melting pot of ancient and modern tribes. One of the most powerful of these criminal fraternities was the Cuban mob, an organisation so cold and powerful it was known on both sides of the law as “The Corporation”. Helmed by an ex-cop and commando Jose Miguel Battle, its powerbase a community of exiles in south-Florida chased from the island by Castro’s revolution but planning to overthrow the Marxist dictator and reclaim Cuba.

Drawing on the blistering prose and deep research that drove TJ English’s New York Times bestseller Havana Nocturne and established him as “America’s top chronicler of organised crime”, The Corporation is an epic, multi-generational history of the Cuban-American underworld soon to be made into a film (“a Cuban version of The Godfather”) by Leonardo Dicaprio and Benicio del Toro.

Designer/s: Niko Perdija