Everyday Wonder arrives from Hoxton Mini Press as a small hardback — roughly 14.5 by 20.5 centimetres — published in 2025, with Sophie Howarth credited as its author. Its premise is narrow and stubborn: that wonder is a state of mind available on any ordinary day, not a reward reserved for spectacles, and that attention is the faculty worth training.

The book is built from more than one kind of material. Photographs, poems and what it calls creative invitations share the page across 160 pages and some sixty colour illustrations, so that looking and making alternate rather than compete. That mix is the point. A reader is asked to notice something, then to go out and try noticing it, which makes Everyday Wonder a book to be carried and returned to rather than leafed through once.

It is an anthology, and should be read as one. The publisher’s page names Howarth as author and does not list individual photographers, so this is an editorially assembled gathering of images rather than the work of a single hand; descriptions of the book as a collection of essays, poems, photographs and practices for recovering astonishment with daily life fit that structure. Collectors who care about how a photobook behaves as an object — sequence, juxtaposition, the odd collision of text and image — will find more here than in a straightforward portfolio.

What earns it a place on a shelf is the editorial intelligence of that arrangement, and the conviction behind it: that a book can function simultaneously as an argument, an anthology and a set of instructions. It is a modest object made with a specific purpose, and it knows exactly what it is asking of its reader.