Other launches in the last 12 months included a joint venture with Littlewoods, which aimed to reinvent the home shopping catalogue market.
"Scandal" is what British publishers call a "bonkbuster", a literary genre that borrows equally from romance, pornography and shopping catalogue (free extract: "She stood there, shaking, naked except for a pair of Manolo Blahnik stilettos").
Tellingly, the reclusive Michel plucks a Christian tract out of a rubbish bin and, after casually perusing it, turns instead to a shopping catalogue, in which he finds "a more thoughtful, historically informed insight into Europe's current malaise".
Shutl, the home delivery startup that offers speedier options for Internet shoppers, is to trial its service with Argos, the shopping catalogue company that now claims to be Britain's number one online high street retailer.
In case you don't read fashion magazines, American Vogue is basically like a seasonal shopping catalogue for women who find themselves, or aspire to find themselves, in the 1%.
MAGIC systems also have JAL's duty-free shopping catalogue, including flight crew recommendations and a video of specials available on the flight.
The faceted browser (data.modencode.org) is a lightweight web-based application that allows users to search and explore modENCODE data by applying a combination of filters using a shopping catalogue metaphor.
But that refers only to periodicals, such as shopping catalogues, whose content is at least half made up of advertisements.
Girls like the way the chapters each begin with quotes, from sources as diverse as shopping catalogues and Winston Churchill.
At the height of the trend (the mid-1970s), Sears catalogues" – mainstream shopping catalogues in the US – "carried no pink clothing for toddlers, and only a few pink items for babies".
