Morocco: Kingdom of Light

Assouline is synonymous with gift books, specialising as it does in lavish photography and beautiful book covers. (Its founder Prosper Assouline is quoted as saying, “Ninety-nine percent of the time, a book is closed in your apartment. So if it’s ugly, it’s a problem”.) Morocco: Kingdom of Light, with its lustrous silky cover featuring a lion in a red sash, is glossy and gorgeous. There’s an opening essay by Casablanca-born French musician, DJ, journalist and actor Ariel Wizman. And the photographs by Oliver Pilcher give us a sense of the richness of al-Maghrib (the Land of Sunset), from the lively streets of Marrakech to the serene Atlas Mountains.