Thursday 11 October at 7.00 p.m.

Simon Garfield is the author of 13 highly acclaimed non-fiction books, on subjects as varied as stamp-collecting, wrestling, the mini motor car, the colour mauve, and typography (in the bestselling Just My Type). Of his new book On the Map (Profile Books) he writes ‘There will be manuscripts, sea charts, atlases, screen grabs and phone apps ... The range will be extensive: poverty and wealth maps, film maps and treasure maps, maps with a penchant for octopuses, maps of Africa, Antarctica and places that never were. Some of the maps will explain the shape of the world, while others will focus on a street or on the path of a plane as it flies to Casablanca.’ Simon Garfield will be at the shop to talk about the strange and wonderful world of cartography past, present and future.

“Garfield has a genius for being sparked to life by esoteric enthusiasm (last year it was fonts) and charming readers with his delight.” – Iain Finlayson, Times

“Simon Garfield's new book is a rollicking sweep through map history, packed with curiosities and written with verve.” – Mark Wilson, Independent