Having spent the better part of my bank holiday weekend stressing about a present for tonight's Urban Santas - something creative, something fun and something not too expensive - I wish that my conundrum, like the Kinder Surprise mum's, could be solved by something as simple as an alu foil-wrapped chocolate egg.

But the adult equivalent of the Kinder egg is, of course, the coffee table book: Not that surprising, not that fun and sufficiently bland to be digestible by everyone. So every fall the publishers bombard us with books to suit every taste, just in time to be wrapped for Christmas.

This year's safe bets include the edgy Cobain Unseen, the stylish Vanity Fair: The Portraits, and Marion Bataille's clever ABC3D pop-up book, as entertaining for adults as for kids. And for those preferring something more local, then Swedish Barcelona transplant, Erika Lust is presenting her spicy take on a stocking filler tomorrow, Porno para mujeres.