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Spy Publishing, publishers of Mr & Mrs Smith
Aimed at the style-conscious, switched on urbanite, the Mr & Mrs Smith hotel guides are the definitive guidebooks to boutique travel.
Each features more than 30 hand-picked hotels with evocative, specially commissioned photography, entertaining anonymous reviews from glamorous taste-makers such as Roland Mouret, Howard Marks and Stella McCartney, and in-the-know tip-offs - from the best rooms to book to the top tables in the most special local restaurants. Plus insider destination guides covering every practicality from getting around to the arts, culture and ideas for fabulous free activities.
More than 275,000 guidebooks sold.
Stunning original photography.
Informative, inspiring and irreverent writing.
All featured hotels can be booked through the award-winning website www.mrandmrssmith.com (2011 Conde Nast Traveller Award for best website). Check it out and sign up to the most sophisticated online hotel guide and booking service you'll find anywhere. Each book purchaser automatically gets membership.
To view information sheets click on the cover image next to each title.
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Mr & Mrs Smith: Italy
240x200mm, tbc pp, colour throughout Publication: autumn 2011
Aimed at the style-savvy traveller, this latest guide showcases 33 of Italy’s most
romantic retreats.Includes heavenly city hideaways in Rome, Florence
and Venice, magical mountain lodges in the Dolomites and calm country escapes
in Tuscany. Pour yourself a glass of prosecco and settle in for the trademark
Smith mix of wry humour and need-to-know detail: witty reviews, elegant design,
striking photography and insider destination guides.
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Mr & Mrs Smith: France
240x200mm, 312pp, colour throughout Publication: autumn 2010
UK: Mr & Mrs Smith/France: En Voyage
Mr & Mrs Smith France showcases 32 of the sexiest stays in France. The cherry-picked selection includes chic boltholes in Paris, iconic beachside Riviera retreats and countryside hideaways in the Dordogne. Elegant design, original, witty text and Smith-trademark attention to detail - it's all here. For sample entries click on Moulin
Renaudiots and Le Logis de Puygâty
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Mr & Mrs Smith:
South-East Asia
240x200mm, 334pp, colour throughout
Publication November 2010
The seventh book in the series. Aimed as always at trhe discriminating traveller, it showcases a hand-picked selection of South-East Asia’s most gorgeous getaways.
Featuring 34 boutique boltholes this is the ultimate Asian hotel collection.
For front and back covers click 
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Mr & Mrs Smith:
Australia/New Zealand
240x200mm, 344pp, colour throughout
Publication November 2009
Mr & Mrs Smith have 'combed white-sand beaches, climbed snow-capped mountains, camped in sun-drenched deserts and scoured cosmopolitan cities in pursuit of the sexiest boutique and luxury hotels...' From Top End to Queenstown, you couldn't ask for more!
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Mr & Mrs Smith: The Global Shortlist
240x200mm, 360pp, 350 images
Publication autumn 2008
In the summer of 2008, Mr & Mrs Smith launched in the USA with a specially created hotel collection: The Global Shortlist. With a cherry-picked selection of the most stylish and individual hotels, the Smiths give the inside scoop on city slick, coastal cool and countryside chic, around the world.
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Mr & Mrs Smith: UK Hotels (new edition)
240x200mm, 304pp, colour throughout
Publication October 2007
Like a friend giving you an inside scoop on the best hotels, the hottest restaurants and bars... the ultimate guide to boutique hotels. 120,000 copies sold in the UK alone.
‘Mr & Mrs Smith has rewritten the rules for hotel guides.' (Arena)
See the Mr & Mrs Smith website for sample pages.
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Smith 52: The Game Plan
240x200mm, 300pp, colour throughout
Publication Autumn 2007
The top events in Europes social calendar. Eyecatching and informative. Plan your year to make certain you're there, you're well-informed – and staying in the best hotels!
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Mr & Mrs Smith: European Cities
240x200mm, 312pp, colour throughout
Publication 2005
The most stylish hotels in Europe, from Paris to Prague, Edinburgh to Rome.
‘The ultimate in hip hotels…. '(The Guardian)
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Mr & Mrs Smith: European Coast and Country
240x200mm, 300pp, colour throughout
Publication 2006
A definitive selection of sexy and stylish hotels in Europes most appealing locations.
‘The sexiest guidebooks around.' (Harpers Bazaar)
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'“It may be wrong to marry
for money but it is very
foolish to divorce
without it.” Amy Poon
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This Little Piggy Got Divorced
Amy Poon, illust. Eun-Kyung Kang
155x220mm, 72pp, colour illustrated throughout
Publication autumn 2009
A wry, politically incorrect, sometimes shocking but
ultimately sympathetic handbook on divorce. Beautiful illustrations with witty,
pithy and humorous commentary all wrapped up in a luxurious, linen-bound
cover. With the ever-growing list of glorious and glamorous divorcees,
This Little Piggy Got Divorced is poised to become an icon of the zeitgeist.
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'With its super-chic look and beautiful illustrations....the must-have gift for new mums. It's politically incorrect, utterly frivolous and lots of fun.'
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This Little Piggy Went To Prada Amy Allen, illust. Eun-Kyung Kang
155x220mm, 72pp, colour illustrated throughout
Publication 2005
Amy Allen's inspired re-working of twenty-one popular nursery rhymes for mums who can't bear to leave their favourite brands behind. Wonderfully illustrated.
An international bestseller. 170,000 copies sold.
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