Baking with Kafka - Comics by Tom Gauld

Baking with Kafka - Comics by Tom GauldTom Gauld has created countless iconic strips for The Guardian over the course of his illustrious career. This collection will have you laughing out loud, as literary themes, authors and genres are skewered again and again. Whether it's The Easily Influenced Novelist's Characters, The Nine Archetypal Heroines, or The Snooty Bookshop, Gauld's signature surreal wit is guaranteed to make you see the absurd side of high culture. And you must try Kafka's

Émile Zola’s great challenge to the President

The local library has become a home from home

From Dickens to Colette

all you have to do is act out a title - without speaking a word - so that your team can guess the answer

Sure to be a hit with book lovers

sourced from the typeface ‘OhNo Fatface’ made by type designer James Edmondson

This breathtaking

it helped to bring the novel to the wider public's attention for the first time

This adorable little shrew silhouette features the text of one of Katherine and Petruchio's many

forms an image of the Nautilus attempting to escape almost certain doom

Ninety postcards to celebrate Penguin's ninetieth annivesary

Illustrated by Harriet Lee Merrion