This season's best art books

Explore the globe, take a trip to outer space, time-travel through history, and then find your way back to your coffee table with this collection of more than 300 maps. Arranged in thought-provoking pairs, ‘Map’ compares the different ways that cartographers have tried to make sense of the world around us. From an ancient Chinese astrology chart to the moon-map used to land Apollo 11, this celebration of cartography is about much more than getting from A to B. Some more esoteric examples include a representation of London’s cholera epidemic to an early infographic of Mount Vesuvius’s lava flow. You’ll never look at Google Maps in the same way again. Phoebe Trimingham

The latest from London artist Toby Leigh, this cheeky photobook salutes the famous check pattern of a certain luxury brand as seen in myriad knock-offs and emblazoned across a bizarre array of objects – including a cake, a wheelchair, a toilet seat and even an entire apartment block. For mischievous more Lee magic, head to his online shop for Shite Britain Souvenir Teatowels (£8.95) and Crap Christmas Cards (£12 for a pack of six).