This week’s Listener book section is an overview of the best new illustrative and photo books. It’s offline, so you need to buy the magazine to read it, but these are the books that win the beauty parade:

• Maori Art: The Photography of Brian Brake (Reed)

• The Living Reef: The Ecology of New Zealand’s Rocky Reefs (Craig Potton)

• Paste Up: A Century of New Zealand Poster Art by Hamish Thompson (Godwit)

• Ready to Fly: The Story of New Zealand Rock Music by David Eggleton (Craig Potton)

• Album: Style and Image in Sleeve Design (Mitchell Beazley)

• Movie Poster (Mitchell Beazley)

• Playboy: 50 Years, The Photographs (Chronicle)

• The Eye of War (Weidenfeld & Nicholson)

• 100 Suns (Jonathan Cape)