Michael Light: Full Moon

By MARGIE THOMSON

While there are some people who will never be convinced, this book nevertheless purports to be a collection drawn from Nasa's 32,000 pictures from the Apollo missions, including of course the Apollo 11 moon-landing.

Eerily beautiful, this would be a great addition to the coffee table.

Today, it seems incontrovertible that such expeditions should have been photographed, yet in 1962 Mercury astronaut John Glenn had to buy a cheap 35mm camera at a Cocoa Beach drugstore because he alone felt that America's first orbital space-flight merited some historic snapshots.

Jonathan Cape

$45