Burton Silver and Heather Busch: Kokigami

Ten Speed Press

$40

If things have been looking down for you, try this book, subtitled "performance enhancing adornments for the adventurous man."

The paper-folding exercises will focus the mind, as will memorising the scripted foreplays, and the subsequent bedroom theatrics should make the hours whizz by.

Not content to rest on their laurels following the stunning revelations in Why Cats Paint and Dancing With Cats, Silver and Busch have uncovered another practice with a rich history, the ancient art of kokigami, which requires only a pair of scissors (and perhaps a willing partner) to experience.

Close the curtains and eschew all cameras.