Intelligence and Empathy (Book-shaped accessory)

Books have 'become a new fashion status symbol, signalling cultural literacy, taste and depth' (Business of Fashion), but which book is best to be seen with, whether poking alluringly out of your tote bag or artfully arranged on a café table next to your oat-milk cortado? Purchase 'Intelligence and Empathy' from Offal Industries, and get YOUR picture standing on a street corner with a book on the New York Times' Instagram feed.

INTELLIGENCE AND EMPATHY
The new book-shaped accessory from Offal Industries Brand Intelligence division

350 pages of hardcore Fleabag-priest-fanfic suavely bound inside artisanal Japanese boards and the ultimate in tastefully minimal cover-design. Free your mind from the chore of reading while simultaneously looking like the kind of person who collects Fitzcarraldo Editions and studies Hannah Arendt. A reinforced grip-spine, the result of years of gentle testing while moaning, ensures hours of clutching your beloved tome to your sensitive breast while carrying a satchel. Choose from a range of appropriate composite author names: Olivia Baume, Brian Laing, Sara Dillon.

Intelligence and Empathy seductively whispers, where the average text-based work monotonously thuds. Because everyone else judges a book by its cover, but you are not that person.