A brief history, in books:

Everything, Beautiful: A Guide to Finding Hidden Beauty in the World was published in August 2022 in the US (Penguin) and shortly after in the UK (Square Peg). It was reviewed as a “whimsical and winsome reconsideration of the mundane” by Publishers Weekly, and BookPage wrote that the book “upends and expands our notions of beauty”. An excerpt can be read online at Orion Magazine.

In January 2022 ‘Close Again’, a small illustrated commentary on and investigation into life during the COVID-19 pandemic, was published by Andrews McMeel in the US, with translations currently in Italian, German, and Japanese.

Her first book, ‘Lost in Translation: An Illustrated Compendium of Untranslatable Words’ was published in 2014 (Ten Speed Press) and became an international bestseller. It sat on the New York Times bestseller list for 4 consecutive months, was an Amazon Best Book of 2014, and has had multiple printings in multiple countries. It was featured in places such as the New York Times Book Review, the New York Post, and in 2018 Lost in Translation was announced as the No.1 book for the biggest bookseller in Japan, Kinokuniya, which is only the second time a non-fiction title has ever been chosen for the award in the bookseller’s history.

This was followed by ‘The Illustrated Book of Sayings: Curious Expressions from Around the World’ in 2016 (Ten Speed Press). The San Francisco Chronicle called it “A charming little book”.

‘Eating the Sun: Small Musings on a Vast Universe’, was published in 2019 (Penguin) to a starred review from Publishers Weekly. It was the recipient of the 2019 Whirling Prize for prose, featured on The Marginalian Favorite Books of 2019 list, and has been translated into languages including German, Japanese, Spanish, and Italian, with a UK edition published under the title ‘A Small Illustrated Guide to the Universe’.