Paula Sweet’s Picture Book of Paris, a 227 pp., 400-photo volume that’s accurately described in its title, has now been released […]
Paula Sweet’s inspirational guide to Paris now out
April 19, 2023/20.22
Tag: book
Team happenings: a new album and getting into the finals of the Business Book Awards
March 3, 2023/7.33
Jack Yan has some of the team’s behind-the-scenes happenings at Lucire […]
January 9, 2023/9.17
The UK tabloid media are in Prince Harry’s crosshairs in ITV’s Harry: the Interview. Jack Yan gives his reaction to the Prince’s frank interview with Tom Bradby […]
Pattie Boyd: My Life in Pictures to be released October 18
September 5, 2022/12.23
Reel Art Press’s latest celebrity volume is by Pattie Boyd, herself a talented photographer who was right in the centre of ’60s pop culture, and had been married to Beatle George Harrison and guitarist Eric Clapton. She inspired Harrison’s ‘Something’ and Clapton’s ‘Layla’ and ‘Wonderful Tonight’. It has been 15 years since her autobiography, […]
Panos Papadopoulos launches his autobiography in Stockholm
June 1, 2022/14.26
There’s no FOMO like the one you get when a book you’ve worked on for 10 months is launched—and your schedule (and, as it turned out, the ’flu), prevents you from attending the party on the other side of the world. But fortunately one of my best friends, Stefan Engeseth, attended in my place […]
Sweden’s king of swimwear, Panos Papadopoulos, reveals all in his new autobiography
May 16, 2022/5.45
Toward the end of next week, Panos Papadopoulos’s autobiography, Panos: My Life, My Odyssey, comes out in London, with an event in Stockholm following. This is an intimate memoir about Panos’s rise, from childhood poverty in Greece to the ‘king of swimwear’ in Scandinavia. Not only do I have an advance copy, I collaborated […]
Stefan Engeseth gives away his book, One, in the interests of peace
April 15, 2022/12.37
I always thought One: a Consumer Revolution for Business was one of Stefan Engeseth’s best books, if not the best. He recently posted on Linkedin: ‘readers have told me that the book can lead to a better understanding of people and society (which can end wars).’ In the interests of peace, he thought he’d […]
Margot Robbie on books, as part of Chanel’s Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon
April 12, 2022/9.32
The series Les Rendez-vous littéraires rue Cambon was previewed in 2020 when Charlotte Casiraghi was made a Chanel ambassador. The project brings together female writers and actresses to share their perspectives on literature, and the latest instalment features Margot Robbie. ‘I was a voracious reader when I was little,’ recounts Robbie, ‘and I think I […]
New book steers readers through the world of haute and luxury brands
April 7, 2022/1.28
Already named one of the top branding books of 2021 by The Branding Journal, Philippe Mihailovich and Caroline Taylor’s Haute ‘Luxury’ Branding: the High Luxury Pyramid has appeared in a US English edition, fresh for 2022. Lucire publisher Jack Yan authored the foreword. Mihailovich had been a long-time member of Medinge Group, which Yan […]
SMoss’s third Capt Blackpool book, The Jade Lion, out now
March 4, 2022/0.28
As many of you know, our travel editor Stanley Moss has penned a number of fiction titles, among them two novels starring Capt Harry Blackpool, a veteran of His Majesty’s Guards and a secret agent, and storylines that take you on a grand tour of 19th-century society (and a little of the 18th in […]
