ALT A cartoon version of Thomas Cromwell, as played by Mark Rylance in the TV series Wolf Hall. Art by me, RedScharlach. The text underneath him says "Here's Cromwell. All will be right now."

ALT A cartoon version of David Mitchell as TV detective John "Ludwig" Taylor. Artwork by RedScharlach

ALT Aristolochia tricaudata, a strange-looking maroon-coloured flower with long straggly tendrils

ALT Image: a floodlight projects the image of a bat onto the sky. Buildings are aflame and clouds of smoke rise ominously. Inside his apartment, Batman reads a novel with a scowl. Caption: The crime wave raged across Gotham City, but it was book club tomorrow and Batman had, once again, left a great deal of the reading until the last minute.

ALT The site on the Champs Elysées in Paris where a new Louis Vuitton store is being built. It’s surrounded by a giant silvery fake LV case, five storeys high. There are even big locks on the lid.

ALT A slim rectangular slice of cake, made up of bands of sesame biscuit, matcha sponge and cognac cream. There’s a small green matcha macaron perched at one end.

ALT Side view of a chair designed in 1970 by Ruth Francken, currently on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It’s made of white polyurethane, and is shaped like a seated nude man with no head. The seat part is hollowed out of his chest and lap.

ALT Front view of a chair designed in 1970 by Ruth Francken, currently on display at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. It’s made of white polyurethane, and is shaped like a seated nude man with no head. The seat part is hollowed out of his chest and lap.

ALT A cake made of pistachio biscuit base topped with piles of pistachio mousse and vanilla cream and pistachio nuts