The world's most fiendishly difficult literary puzzle, illustrated by acclaimed cartoonist Tom Gauld
You Took the Last Bus Home is the first and long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious and surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston, the mysterious 'Poet Laureate of Twitter'.With endless wit, imaginative wordplay and underlying heartache, he offers profound insights into modern life, exploring themes as diverse as love, death, the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger, the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out, and the improbable nuances of the English language. Constantly experimenting with literary form, Bilston's words have been known to float off the page, take the shape of the subjects they explore, and reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets, Venn diagrams and Scrabble tiles.This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you laugh out loud while making you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century.
A full-colour illustrated history of the store that changed gaming for ever, as told by its founders.Games Workshop, Warhammer, White Dwarf, Citadel Miniatures and Fighting Fantasy are names which trigger powerful memories for millions of people around the world. The cultural impact of Games Workshop and Fighting Fantasy has been remarkable. But how did it all begin? Since starting out in 1975 as a part-time mail-order business in a modest third-floor flat in West London, Games Workshop has grown from its humble beginnings to become a FTSE 250 company listed on the London Stock Exchange. From distributing Dungeons & Dragons, to living in the back of a van, to opening Games Workshop stores, to creating Fighting Fantasy, to launching Warhammer, co-founders Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson tell their remarkable story for the first time. Dice Men is the fascinating, never-before-told story of an iconic company which changed the world of tabletop gaming for ever. It's an insight into the rollercoaster first year of Games Workshop and the birth of the industry.
A frank and revealing memoir about the search for better sex, from `No More Page 3 campaigner Lucy-Anne Holmes
The debut novel from YouTube sensation Hazel Hayes is a break-up story told in reverse, from the depths of grief to the heights of new love
A groundbreaking collection of work from some of the UK's most exciting new writers and artists, who just happen to be on the autism spectrum
A memoir by the late Gerard Basset, OBE, the greatest sommelier of his generation and founder of the Hotel du Vin Group
20 GOTO 10 - a book of numbers for computer nerds & deep technical wizards Whether you're interested in machines from the mainstream such as Sinclair, Acorn, Atari, Famicom, Sega, Nintendo, Sony, and Commodore, or the lesser known cabal of Dragon, Tandy, Oric, Amstrad, DEC, Jupiter, Vectrex, TI, and NewBrain (or even the virtually unheard of COSMAC Elf) 20 GOTO 10 is a book of numbers that describes the many facets of computing history, focusing on the golden age of old computers and retro games and consoles of the 1980s and 90s. It covers the hardware, software, and social history of the era showing how they're linked through numbers, such as 48K, C90, and 35899. Each entry starts with a number, and by choosing a related number you'll create a unique adventure through the book and into a web of forgotten geek lore and incredible facts. With luck, you'll find a way to arrive at the number used to grant infinite lives in Jet Set Willy!
Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles. Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories - fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don't arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests. Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
Shareware Heroes is a comprehensive, meticulously researched exploration of an important and too-long overlooked chapter in video game historyShareware 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 players – the likes of id Software, Apogee, and Epic MegaGames – through to the significance of shareware for the ‘forgotten’ systems – the Mac, Atari ST, Amiga – when commercial game publishers turned away from them.This book also charts the emergence of commercial shareware distributors like Educorp and the BBS/newsgroup sharing culture. And it explores how shareware developers plugged gaps in the video gaming market by creating games in niche and neglected genres like vertically-scrolling shoot-'em-ups (e.g. Raptor and Tyrian) or racing games (e.g. Wacky Wheels and Skunny Kart) or RPGs (God of Thunder and Realmz), until finally, as the video game market again grew and shifted, and major publishers took control, how the shareware system faded into the background and fell from memory.
What, really, does it mean to be a dangerous woman? This powerful anthology presents fifty answers to that question, reaching past media hyperbole to explore serious considerations about the conflicts and power dynamics with which women live today.In Dangerous Women, writers, artists, politicians, journalists, performers and opinion-formers from a variety of backgrounds – including Irenosen Okojie, Jo Clifford, Bidisha, Nada Awar Jarrar, Nicola Sturgeon and many more – reflect on the long-standing idea that women, individually or collectively, constitute a threat.
Based on the hit Twitter account: a compact field guide featuring more than 200 of the rudest and most hilarious sweary birds
Where are all the women philosophers? The answer is right here.
A guide to how birdwatching can improve your wellbeing, featuring an introduction from Chris Packham
Roger Phillips, the godfather of foraging and bestselling author of Wild Food, returns with a look at how edible plants from all over the world have ended up in our back gardens
A comprehensive account of the landmark events which have shaped the transgender community over the last five decades, told in 25 essays by those who were there.
The Sunday Times bestselling memoir through video games by YouTube star DanNerdCubed
An anthology of writing from celebrated authors - Marina Warner, Kamila Shamsie, Noam Chomsky, A. L. Kennedy and more - reflecting on experiences of otherness
From the gothic fantasies of Walpole's Otranto to post-modern takes on the country house by Kazuo Ishiguro and Ian McEwan, Phyllis Richardson guides us on a tour through buildings real and imagined to examine how authors' personal experiences helped to shape the homes that have become icons of English literature.We encounter Jane Austen drinking 'too much wine' in the lavish ballroom of a Hampshire manor, discover how Virginia Woolf's love of Talland House at St Ives is palpable in To the Lighthouse, and find Evelyn Waugh remembering Madresfield Court as he plots Charles Ryder's return to Brideshead.Drawing on historical sources, biographies, letters, diaries and the novels themselves, House of Fiction opens the doors to these celebrated houses, while offering candid glimpses of the writers who brought them to life.
A finely crafted meditation on the importance of making things and pushing yourself to grow as a person
'No Slade = No Oasis. It's as devastating and as simple as that' Noel GallagherWith six consecutive number one singles and the smash hit 'Merry Xmas Everybody', Slade were unstoppable. Now, the man whose outlandish costumes and unmistakable hairstyle made Slade one of the definitive acts of the Glam Rock era tells his story.But there's more to Dave's life than rock 'n' roll and good times. So Here It Is also covers the band's painful break-up, Dave's subsequent battle with depression, and his recovery from the stroke that threatened to cut short his performing career.If you've ever wondered what it feels like to be a working-class lad from the Midlands suddenly confronted by unimaginable fame, So Here It Is is the definitive account, told with heart and humour and filled with never-before-seen photos.
How does it feel to be constantly regardedas a potential threat, strip-searched at every airport?Or to be told that, as an actress, the partyou're most fitted to play is 'wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to havewords from your native language misused, misappropriated and used aggressivelytowards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom thatstories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go 'home' to Indiawhen your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to bean ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick 'Other'?Bringing together 21 exciting black, Asianand minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today, The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK, why theystay and what it means to be 'other' in a country that doesn't seem to wantyou, doesn't truly accept you-however many generations you've been here-but stillneeds you for its diversity monitoring forms.Inspired by discussion around why societyappears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants-job stealers, benefitscroungers, undeserving refugees-until, by winning Olympic races, or bakinggood cakes, or being conscientious doctors, they cross over and become goodimmigrants, editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that arepoignant, challenging, angry, humorous, heartbreaking, polemic, weary and-most importantly-real.
A Passion for Passion is a love letter to romance fiction, collecting together excerpts, book cover designs and synopses of the most absurdly frivolous and outlandishly whimsical novels.Alice Fraser holds a special place in her heart for the solemn silliness of romance novels. Despite knowing everything is going to be all right in the end, the journey to reach a Happily Ever After can take any number of wildly entertaining and unlikely twists and turns. To celebrate the unparalleled joy this genre can bring to readers and defy its maligned status, Alice has created D'Ancey LaGuarde, the wildly prolific, undisputed master of the art of romance.This book will be a constant source of solace and encouragement for romance fans worldwide, and small enough to slip inside a reticule to smuggle in to your next ball . . .
love lay down beside me and we wept is Helen Murray Taylor’s lyrical memoir of devastating mental illness.Helen Murray Taylor was finding her feet as a young doctor and trying to maintain some semblance of a life in the shadow of a punishing schedule when she witnessed a horrific road traffic accident. The impact of this fatal collision caught Helen off guard and had terrible repercussions. Both her career and her mental health took a battering. After a succession of other distressing events left Helen emotionally shattered and seriously depressed, she was admitted to a psychiatric ward and sectioned under the Mental Health Act. At her lowest, she almost succeeded in taking her own life. love lay down beside me and we wept sprang from these difficult times, from Helen’s months on the ward and the psychological upheaval of being restrained against her will, and from the challenge of being a doctor turned patient, but also from the moments of pure comedy and unexpected comradeship that she encountered there.This is a profoundly moving and masterful account of one woman's physical and psychological breakdown, it's a tribute to the love that supported her through it, and it's an offering to the reader who might find comfort or understanding in this story.
Bardskull is the record of three journeys made by Martin Shaw, the celebrated storyteller and interpreter of myth, in the year before he turned fifty. It is unlike anything he has written before. This is not a book about myth or narrative: rather, it is a sequence of incantations, a series of battles.Each of the three journeys sees Shaw walk alone into a Dartmoor forest and wait. What arrive are stories – fragments of myth that he has carried within him for decades: the deep history of Dartmoor itself; the lives of distant family members; Arthurian legend; and tales from India, Persia, Lapland, the Caucasus and Siberia. But these stories and their tellers don’t arrive as the bearers of solace or easy wisdom. As with all quests, Shaw is entering a domain of traps and tests.Bardskull can be read as a fable, as memoir, as auto-fiction or as an attempt to undomesticate myth. It is a magnificent, unclassifiable work of the imagination.
Since 2016, podcasting legend Jeff Cannata has delighted The Filmcast listeners with show-stopping movie reviews in poetic form. Now, lovers of the silver screen can enjoy reels of these laugh-out-loud limericks in Best Summed Up: a must-have quiz compendium for cinephiles.From applauding filmmaking mastery in box office sell-outs to damning dismissals of action big hitters that have missed the mark, Cannata critiques every genre of contemporary film and unpicks all must-see releases from 2018 to 2024 with his signature wit and wisdom.The challenge is simple: readers must identify the film described by each verse in five, delightfully moreish levels of brain-teasing poems. So grab some popcorn and see if you can achieve award-winning status of your own by completing the ultimate test for movie buffs.I guess my thoughts on ______ are best summed up in the form of a limerick...
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