What do you get when you combine Queen Camilla and “a British love affair”? A story about dogs, obviously! The former Duchess of Cornwall offers a sweet foreword to Top Dogs, a new book honoring the most charming of British canines and their owners. Georgina Montagu sits down with 40 Brits—including composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, designer Jasper Conran, architect John Pawson, philanthropist and businesswoman Carole Bamford, and landowner the Duke of Richmond—to talk about their pups. Plus, see each subject and his or her pooch beautifully photographed at home by Dylan Thomas. Finally, something to give our dog-loving friends that doesn’t come from chewy.com. ($80, us.triglyphbooks.com) —Jack Sullivan

The party gods have informed us that our festive fashion is handled until further notice. The good people at Jacquemus have just introduced a collection called Le Soir, exclusive to Net-a-Porter, which is largely black, red, white, and ready to hit the dance floor. A draped, lace-trimmed maxi dress, off-the-shoulder stretch-velour mini, and even taffeta bracelets are all part of the fun. There are even a few well-priced pieces (especially the earrings and teensy-weensy mini-bags) that make great gifts as well. We’ll be starting with this taffeta dress, but that is surely just the beginning of a long, beautiful relationship. ($1,414; net-a-porter.com) —Ashley Baker

Sometimes it’s O.K. to be boring! It really is! Which is why today we are talking about socks. Specifically basic black ones you can wear under boots. Thin enough to slip right on, but not exactly hosiery. For eons, we looked to Falke for this sort of thing, but theirs were expensive and thin. Not a good thing, truly. Then an influencer friend tipped us off to the legwear section at Uniqlo, and during a very long afternoon with time to kill at London’s Westfield mall (don’t ask), we stocked up. Is it hyperbolic to say this was the most productive thing we did all week? Sold in packs of three, these socks are far superior to the fancy ones we were prone to buying at Barneys in a previous life. Important note: go with the plain version. The Heattech styles aren’t for everyone. At least this writer can’t handle clammy toes.($14.90, uniqlo.com) —Ashley Baker

Deep into the reissue era, one approaches yet another elaborately packaged boxed set with a little skepticism. But, happily, sometimes the goods are delivered. Tim: Let It Bleed Edition, the remixed, remastered four-CD iteration of the Replacements’ excellent 1986 album, is an astonishing sonic improvement over the original. The major-label debut for the gloriously unruly ’Mats (who somehow managed to sound disheveled, as an archival concert included in the box reminds us) was also guitarist Bob Stinson’s swan song and the first record on which Paul Westerberg’s songwriting gift vaulted to a whole new level: Tim captures a great band turning a corner. As the Replacements’ biographer, Bob Mehr, puts it in the liner notes, “Tim remains a charmed collision of intention and accident, a balance of deliberate anthems and tossed-off gems, of raucous release and refined beauty.” Like the song says, I’ll buy. (amazon.com, $89.98) —George Kalogerakis

“Old meets new” is the simplest way to describe the emerging British jewelry brand Lucy Delius. After spending more than 15 years building a career on the other side of the industry (in marketing and public relations), the brand’s namesake founder decided it was time to create something herself. Delius had watched designer fine jewelry soar to out-of-reach prices, while the flourishing entry-level market felt stale, generic, and unimaginative. Inspired by the elegant links in a Victorian pocket-watch chain, she crafted her pieces from solid gold and littered them with ethically sourced precious and semi-precious stones. To create her detailed and sophisticated pavé setting, Delius uses variously shaped diamonds—it’s a technique dating back to the 19th century, when the gems were hand-cut. (from $489, lucydelius.co) —Bridget Arsenault

Mexican cartels that kidnap, torture, and behead civilians are not normally anything you’d want to read about. Azam Ahmed, a New York Times reporter, makes it impossible to look away. In his extraordinary nonfiction book, Fear Is Not a Word, Ahmed tells the story of Miriam, a Mexican mother whose youngest daughter was kidnapped and murdered by the Zeta, a particularly violent, crazed, and power-hungry drug cartel. Miriam channeled her paralyzing grief into a quest for revenge. Astonishingly, she tracked down the killers still at large, all on her own. There is a familiar ring to her implacable, improbable solo hunt—in vigilante movies that star Charles Bronson (Death Wish) and Liam Neeson (Taken). Hollywood, not surprisingly, snapped up Miriam’s story before the book was published. But her battle is one of wits, patience, and determination, and she brings uplifting moments to her own unimaginable tragedy. ($25.20, amazon.com) —Alessandra Stanley