BOOKSHELF

Learn how to make enchanting pająki folk decorations in Making Mobiles, by Karolina Merska (£20, Pavilion). Inspired by the folk art of her home country Poland, Karolina offers step-by-step guides for creating these paper chandeliers – perfect for bringing a festival feel and colour to parties and interiors.

Interior designer Kit Kemp reveals new ways of looking at interiors and encourages the confidence to be bold in her latest book, Design Secrets (£25, Hardie Grant). Packed full of inspiration, advice, dos and don’ts, and creative projects to add a fresh and exciting feel to your living space, it even has its own colouring-in book to explore new colour ideas.

Discover the work and life of one of Britain’s best-known artists in John Hassall: The Life and Art of the Poster King, by Lucinda Gosling (£30, Unicorn). Famed for his commercial illustrations for travel companies, political causes, theatre and wellknown brands, John Hassall made his name in an age when advertising hoardings were known as the, ‘poor man’s art gallery’.