Now here is a good idea for a website. Interview a series of people who really know their subject, and ask them about their 5 favourite books on a subject.

Except couldn’t really find anything arty or crafty on the menus. But I knew that couldn’t be right, because I found it via an Andrew Graham-Dixon tweet. So I did a bit of digging and found some interesting lists.

But be warned, there are some expensive books on there. I had a look at one about Elizabethian embroidery which turned out to cost £250.

• Andrew Graham-Dixon’s favourite art books
• inspiring illustrations
• fashion biographies
• typefaces
• extraordinary art books
• writing about art
• Vermeer and studio method
• British buildings
• Architecture history
• Pop art
• Context of architecture
• Pop modern
• Art and culture in Elizabethan England
• Art crime
• Art history for teenagers
• Leonardo da Vinci