Just in time for this season's hottest handbag, The Recession, it's The Official Filthy Rich Handbook. Written by Radar's Chris Tennant (ex-New York, Talk, Observer, and other publications devoted to rich people), it promises to inform you on "the perils of island-buying" and "why the wealthy swim nude."

The question, of course, is who will buy such a thing? Or even flip through it when it shows up in a gift bag?

Presumably, not the actual filthy rich, who already know how to be themselves, or have handlers to deal with such matters. And not anyone actually poor, who don't have the $11.95 to cough up, or they're already part of New York's inner circle, so they probably had a galley dropped off on their desk; either way, they're otherwise engaged, and thus unconcerned about whatever "The English Aristobrat" or "The Russian Oligarch" (two of Tennant's rich-people categories) are doing.

So who's the audience for this tome?

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