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Jim Moir loves birds. His popularity as a painter has soared in recent years and the simplicity and sincerity of his bird paintings have given them cult status among his fans. Now, for the first time, one hundred of these beautiful paintings are gathered together in this exquisite book. It is a book to remind us why we love birds: because of the shapes, movement, colours and sounds they bring into our lives.

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As 95 per cent of our brain activity carries on at a subconscious level, we‿re not always aware of why we think what we think and do the things we do. Sometimes these subconscious wirings can make us think or act in ways that are not optimal for our happiness ‿ they can bring out the illogical in us all. How Your Brain Is Wired draws on recent breakthroughs in our understanding of how the brain really works, empowering the reader to take contr...

This honest and beautiful book is a story of resilience and doing life your way."— Fearne Cotton"Kris's story should make you feel grateful for every second you're alive. It's a testament to her positivity, empathy, bravery and her unfailing sense of humour." — Dermot O'Leary"A manifesto for how to be alive. It will leave you calm, hopeful and unafraid." — Dawn O'PorterKris was living a totally normal life as a twenty-three-year-old: travellin...

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Longlisted for William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2021: a celebration of women's sport and a manifesto for its future, featuring a foreword by Dame Tanni Grey-Thompson

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Celebrating twenty years of the spoof local newspaper from the writers behind the Ladybird Books for Grown-Ups and Charlie Brooker's Wipe shows

The rollicking behind-the-scenes story of Sharpe's Rifles, one of British TV's most beloved shows, featuring a foreword by Sharpe author Bernard Cornwell

In Survival Machines, book two of The Origin Trilogy, John and the army of survivors continue the search they started in Darwin's Soldiers. Who brought them to this bizarre world and for what purpose?Discoveries are made and battle fought as the allied army are drawn into a world populated by alien armies who have survived the same tests as them. Factions fight to get to the core: a prized location which offers them the answers they are all se...

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Literary Nonfiction. How does the devout son of evangelical Christians, growing up dedicated to mission work in Africa, become one of America's leading sex columnists and a self-avowed slut committed to kink as his new religion? Across his debut book, MY LOVE IS A BEAST: CONFESSIONS, Alexander Cheves details his path from piousness to faithlessness, and his awakening to the saving power of hedonism. He tells intimate stories of what he sees as...

The legendary music impresario (and producer of bands like The Yardbirds and Wham!) tells his life story in a series of mesmerizingly candid vignettes. Sour Mouth, Sweet Bottom: Lessons from a Dissolute Life is the book Simon Napier-Bell's fans have always hoped he'd write. From 1940s London where he listened to wartime hits like 'Mairzy doats and dozy doats' in the air-raid shelter, to talking about Wham! with Deng Xiaoping, head of Communist...

These are damnable tales, selected and beautifully illustrated by Richard Wells. This richly illustrated anthology gathers together classic short stories from masters of supernatural fiction including M. R. James, Sheridan Le Fanu and Arthur Machen, alongside lesser-known voices in the field including Eleanor Scott and Margery Lawrence, and popular writers less bound to the horror genre, such as Thomas Hardy and E. F. Benson. They stalk the m...

Featuring numerous interviews with creators and developers, Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game history Shareware Heroes: Independent Games at the Dawn of the Internet takes readers on a journey, from the beginnings of the shareware model in the early 1980s, the origins of the concept, even the name itself, and the rise of shareware's major playe...