I adore a coffee table book. In my younger and more pretentious days I was known to use up half my luggage allowance carting 5 kilos tomes on Picasso and Yves Saint Laurent to read on the beach in Ayia Napa. (I know, I know…) Hell, I was buying coffee table books before I even had a coffee table. That’s how much I love them. Of course autumn is the perfect time to hunker down with one. Whilst Christmas is the ideal time to bestow those you love with one.