The Monocle Handbook – Spain

The Monocle Handbook – Spain is a hardcover Spain travel guide curated by Monocle's editors, and it looks as considered as it reads. The cover sets the tone: a clean off-white field, a serif title in generous type, and two photographs — a plate of grilled prawns with lemon beside a glass of amber beer, and a sunlit modernist facade of stacked concrete arches under a hard blue sky. Food and architecture, side by side, which is more or less the book's argument.

Inside, 224 pages move from the sun-drenched beaches of the Costa Brava to buzzing bars in Barcelona, family-run tapas restaurants in Andalucía and cultural hubs in Madrid, Bilbao and Valencia, with introductions to the artisans, designers and chefs shaping the country's creative scene. For anyone considering a move, there are notes on the best cities and neighbourhoods for investment, plus architectural and interior design inspiration for a future home. A natural piece of coffee table styling in a living room, stacked on a console or slipped into a shelf of design titles.

• Authors: Tyler Brûlé, Andrew Tuck, Joe Pickard
• Pages: 224
• Cover: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9780500978672
• Dimensions: 18 x 2.3 x 24 cm
• Weight: 0.8 kg
• Colour: Multicolor / White
• Brand: Chulo