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THE PHILOSOPHER QUEENS Where are all the women philosophers? Witty and fascinating, these twenty-one stories​will be ones you’ll want to tell to everyone.

Twenty one ​portraits -​each on a prominent woman in philosophy​ past and present​, ​written by a woman working in philosophy today - ​looks at the impact that women have had on the field throughout history. From Hypatia to Angela Davis, The Philosopher Queens will be a guide to these badass women and how their amazing ideas have changed the world​, not to mention ​ why have we never heard of some of these women before​.

F​or ​newcomers to philosophy, as well as all those professors who know that they could still learn a thing or two​, t​his is also for those all the people who have ever said that there are no great women philosophers. Read this book and then feel free to get back to us.

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Hypatia by Lisa Whiting Lalla by Shalini Sinha Anne Conway by Julia Bocherding Mary Astell by Simone Webb Mary Wollstonecraft by Sandrine Bergès Harriet Taylor Mill by Helen McCabe Christine Ladd-Franklin by Sara Uckelman Mary Anne Evans by Clare Carlisle Edith Stein by Jae Hetterley Hannah Arendt by Rebecca Buxton Simone de Beauvoir by Kate Kirkpatrick Iris Murdoch by Fay Niker Elizabeth Anscombe by Hannah CarnegyArbuthnott Mary Warnock by Gulzaar Barn Iris Marion Young by Desiree Lim Anita L Allen by Ilhan Dahir Azizah Y. al-Hibri by Nima Dahir ... and more.

A beautifully illustrated gift book for those who loved Rebel Girls

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Rebecca Buxton is a PhD student in International Development at the University of Oxford, specialising in philosophy, ethics and forced migration.

Rebecca previously studied Philosophy at King’s College London.

Lisa Whiting is following in the footsteps of her philosophical idol, Mary Warnock, working at the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority as a researcher. She previously studied Philosophy at Durham University, specialising in the intersection between moral philosophy and social psychology.

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THINGS I LEARNED FROM MARIO’S BUTT A compendium and critique of the most beautiful, bulbous and downright dangerous video game butts. Things I Learned From Mario’s Butt is a 40,000 word illustrated coffee table book like no other.

When it comes to video game character designs, one of the most commonly overlooked aspects is the buttocks. Wedged full of original artwork by Zack Flavin (@FlavinFlve), this book aims to explain why Luigi’s butt is so dexterous in Smash Bros., why Ellie in Borderlands 2’s butt is the epitome of body positivity, why Miranda in Mass Effect’s butt being perfect is actually tragic and upsetting, and so much more.

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Featuring interviews with game developers about butts they love and have designed, and guest butt reviews from internet personalities, this will be a funnyserious, serious-funny treat for games lovers and design lovers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Laura Kate Dale is a full time video game critic, who currently works as News Editor for Kotaku UK. She’s previously worked as UK Editor for Destructiod, started the website Let’s Play Video Games, and has done freelance work for IGN, Polygon, Vice, The Guardian, and Rock Paper Shotgun.

Zack Flavin is an artist based out of Los Angeles where his focus is visual development and storyboarding for TV and video games.

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VIRTUAL CITIES: AN ATLAS AND EXPLORATION OF VIDEO GAME CITIES. A beautifully illustrated atlas exploring and mapping the spectacular imaginary cities of video games.

Video games allow us to construct and visit believable imaginary cities and experiment with the urban environment; they provide us with glimpses of ancient urbanism, and let us immerse ourselves in the wildest utopias and darkest dystopias of our possible futures.

This ambitious and richly illustrated atlas will be the first detailed attempt to document the deep and exciting history of game cities via a combination of original maps, ink drawings, and insightful commentary and analysis. Covering over 40 game cities across literary and gaming genres, Virtual Cities spans 40

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years of digital history, including Half-Life 2’s City 17, Yakuza’s Kamurocho, Fallout’s New Vegas, Silent Hill, and cities such as Antescher and Lizard Breath, plus cyberpunk Hong Kong, and voodoo New Orleans among many, many more.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Following a PhD and over 10 years of research in urban planning and city geography, Konstantinos Dimopoulos moved on to combine his knowledge of cities with his love for games and game design into the field of game urbanism. Since then he has worked on the cities, settlements, mechanics, maps, and geographies of several games including MMO Seed, The Sinking City, Cyberganked, and Cyberpunk Cities.

Maria Kallikaki is a visual artist specializing in landscape oil-paintings, engravings, and ink illustrations, having studied Painting and Engraving at the Accademia di Belle Arti in Florence, Italy.

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FULLY CHARGED ALMANAC 2020 A comprehensive, entertaining, heavily illustrated look at electric vehicles and an array of adjacent technologies that will enable humans to lessen our impact on the planet.

Fully Charged was started in 2010, during the very early days of electric vehicles. Now, over 400 episodes later, it has grown from a niche show created by one man and some ropey old cameras, into a beautifully produced, world-leading authority on electric vehicles and renewable energy. With around two million views a month, the show is watched all over the globe.

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2,000,000 YouTube views a month

This almanac gathers together a team of writers to present the latest innovations in the renewable energy and automotive industries.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Fully Charged is a YouTube show produced and hosted by Robert Llewellyn (Red Dwarf, Scrapheap Challenge, Carpool), which focuses on electric vehicles and renewable energy. It is popular across the world and currently has 400k subscribers.

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OF MOUSE AND MAN: THE BEST OF JIM’LL PAINT IT A collection of the very best of MS Paint sensation, Jim’ll Paint It. “Ask me to paint anything you wish and I will try no matter how specific or surreal your demands. You name it. I’ll paint it. On Paint.”

Since making this promise, back in 2013, Jim has painted some 400 requests - covering everything from Thom Yorke the Tank Engine to Mick Jagger disappointing customers at the paint mixing station in B&Q by matching every colour as black - each brought to life with painstaking detail using nothing but an archaic version of Microsoft Paint and an optical mouse.

From the surreal to the completely unhinged - via parody, political satire and pitch-black humour - many of the requests and suggestions he has rendered have

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become beloved icons of British internet humour, such as the viral sensation Vladimir Putin as every member of the village people and the recent image of Theresa May and Donald Trump re-enacting that scene from Dirty Dancing in a shark-infested lake.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Jim is a human male from Bristol, England. He is best known for his popular ongoing social media project Jim’ll Paint It where, using an archaic version of Windows Paint, he takes requests from his followers and turns them into bizarre and often intricately detailed paintings. He has produced artwork for clients as diverse as National Geographic and Transform-A-Snack and featured in The Guardian, The Independent and Vice.

Among his other creations is a series of labels for That Boutiquey Rum Company, an experimental image generator for BBC Three and two animated shorts for video game parody channel Mashed.

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#SONNETS

Kim Kardashian

A Shakespearean take on such topics as Kim Kardashian, Tinder and Pikachu. #Sonnets is a collection of hilarious verses, which use the language of Shakespeare to describe these modern phenomena.

Wherefore do fools thy great renown dismiss

Comedy writer Lucien Young has produced 155 sonnets (i.e. one more than Shakespeare — take that, Will), which chart the confusion and absurdity of modern life, as well as the timeless tribulations of love. Readers are invited to dip in and out, roaming through the text as their fancy rules. No matter what your interests are — sitcom fan, gamer, politics obsessive, horror buff, whatever — you’ll find #Sonnets on a subject close to your heart.

Think they the giddy sums that E! bestows thee

As with his previous literary pastiches, Alice in Brexitland and Trump’s Christmas Carol, the author has strived to make this book not only funny, but also an accomplished parody of the

And jeer that thou art famed for being famed?

They claim thy wealth unyoked to talent is, That of thy fortune thou should’st be ashamed.

Know they not of thy vaunted app, Kimoji, Or thy bestselling book, of selfies made?

Reflecteth not thy powers to persuade?

Why claim they thou art symptom of an age Of frippery, an Instagramming whore?

Art thou not kindred of old Betty Paige, Monroe and Grable and Zsa Zsa Gabor?

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original. In addition, #Sonnets features gorgeous contributions from the illustrator Ollie Mann, making it an ideal gift.

I will not grant to watch thee is obnoxious: ‘Tis so to mock thee, or upbraid thy watchers.

Donald Trump Wig-wearing toad who squats upon my brain, Of all thy crimes, the one I most resent is That I must think on thee each day: a vain And worthless fool, once host of The Apprentice.

Each day thy wattled scowl thwarts comprehension, Each day I glimpse thy brutish, orange glowers,

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Lucien Young is a comedy writer who has worked on various TV programmes, including BBC Three’s Siblings and Murder in Successville, as well as authoring three humour books, Alice in Brexitland, Trump’s Christmas Carol and The Secret Diary of Jeremy Corbyn. He was born in Newcastle in 1988 and read English at the University of Cambridge, where he was a member of the world-famous Footlights Club.

Each day thy boy-king pout, and, not to mention, The ever-present whiff of golden showers.

But Donny, thou hast yielded me one boon From thine ungen’rous heart, and that is this: Whene’er I think myself a fraud, then soon I see thy face and all such thought dismiss.

I grant I lack the virtue of Obama, But next to thee am I the Dalai Lama.

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EFFIN’ BIRDS A compact, comprehensive and very silly field guide, featuring more than 200 of the best, rudest, and most hilarious Effin’ Birds!

Sitting proudly alongside Sibley, Kaufman and Peterson, Effin’ Birds: A Guide to Field Identification contains over 160 pages crammed full of the classic, monochrome plumage of vintage woodcut art which made the Effin’ Birds a household name, and the full Technicolour glory of John James Audubon’s most beautiful work.

Entries include stunningly accurate illustrations and accompanying fowl-mouthed bird calls. Plus, descriptive captions indicating the type of bird and where you can find them in modern, working life. Each entry has no information at all on nesting, behaviour, food, eggs, feathers… err… flying? What else do birds do?

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THIS FIELD GUIDE DOES INCLUDE: ACCURATE AND BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATIONS OF BIRDS INCISIVE COMMENTARY ON MODERN LIFE AND THE WORLD WE, AS HUMANS, MUST NAVIGATE. SWEARING. A LOT OF SWEARING.

140K TWITTER FOLLOWERS WORLDWIDE FOR @EFFINBIRDS ABOUT THE AUTHOR Aaron Reynolds is the Canadian behind @BatLabels and @SwearTrek.

He’s made his name being rude on the internet with serious pictures of birds to convey his day-to-day frustrations, funny encounters, and his most eye-roll-inducing office moments. By day, a software instructor, by night an internet sensation, Aaron owes his entire success to his young son who came up with the Eat Farts Eagle.

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CELEBS AT HOME What do the rich and famous get up to behind closed doors and away from the glare of the public eye?

Between playing songs on Absolute Radio, Andy Bush always wondered about the mundane, boring stuff celebrities must have to do just like you and me.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andy Bush is a broadcaster, illustrator and writer. He writes and draws for the Huffington Post.

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CAIN’S JAWBONE A valentine from the Golden Age of British Crime Writing; the most fiendish literary puzzle ever written, Cain’s Jawbone will come as 100 cards in a custom-made box, with artwork by Tom Gauld.

First published in 1934, this extraordinary puzzle takes the apparent form of a 100-page murder-mystery novelette entitled ‘Cain’s Jawbone’. You are told that, by accident, the pages have been printed in an entirely haphazard order but that it is logically possible for a solver by intelligent reading to sort the pages into the only possible correct order. The re-ordered story then allows the solver, to list the six murderers involved, together with their victims.

The puzzle was extremely difficult and was only solved by two puzzlers whose names were revealed in The Observer - prizes were given but the solution to the problem remained a secret.

To share the complexities, red-herrings and literary adventures hidden in the puzzle, Unbound are

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republishing the book in a custommade box so that readers can physically reorder the pages for themselves and then get down to solving crime.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Edward Powys Mathers (1892 – 1939) introduced the cryptic crossword to Britain in 1924 through the pages of the Observer. Known as Torquemada, he was acknowledged as a brilliant translator and a critic specialising in crime fiction. In 1934 he published a selection of his puzzles under the title The Torquemada Puzzle Book - the final 100 pages of which contained the novel-cum-puzzle Cain’s Jawbone.

Tom Gauld is a Scottish cartoonist and illustrator. Author of the bestselling Baking with Kafka, You’re All Just Jealous of My Jetpack, and Goliath, among others, he draws deadpan cultural cartoons and illustrations for The New Yorker, The New York Times, and the Guardian.

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BIRD BRAIN A comic about mental health … starring some pigeons Anxiety is a wild ride. There’s a slew of complex emotions and experiences that accompany mental illness; nerves, fear, tentative happiness, the neverending quest to convince yourself that you deserve to be content, the arduousness of forming human connections, and so on.

Bird Brain explores what it’s like living with the unfaltering rollercoaster that is mental illness...using pigeons. In particular, anxiety is explored through three themes negativity, relationships, and positivity.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Chuck Mullin is a 23 year old English Literature graduate living and working in London. At 17, she began experiencing feelings of anxiety and depression. Several years of self-reflection have manifested in her creating comics depicting her life living with mental illness. She likes pigeons. You can see her work at @charlubby

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SMALL ROBOTS A collection of one hundred (mostly) useful robot friends Small Robots – aka @smolrobots – began with a simple idea: to draw cute robots and post them on Twitter. It was intended as an antidote of sorts to an embattled political landscape that, especially in the breakneck world of social media, can be physically draining to engage with. Small Robots would be kind, helpful and, when called upon, fiercely defensive of the marginalised and oppressed. All these aims were realised and then some, with the account growing rapidly to become a source of comfort, hope and even inspiration to its followers.

Small Robots offer fictional and often idiosyncratic solutions to everyday anxieties: they bring tea, remember names, complain in restaurants and all sorts of other minor jobs. But they also tackle more serious problems: mental

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health, disability, discrimination and grief. In doing so, they show that many of the problems we face are more universal than we imagined, and that all of them – big or small – are part of a single continuum of human experience.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Thomas Heasman-Hunt is the creator of Small Robots. He lives in Cambridgeshire with his wife, Emma, and their tortoise, Meat-Pie. By day he works for the NHS as a specialist in data quality and moonlights as a science-fiction writer.

ACTORBOT. KNOWS WHO THAT ACTOR IS IN THE THING YOU’RE WATCHING AND WHAT OTHER THINGS YOU RECOGNISE THEM FROM.

POUCHBOT. BIG SNUGGLY MARSUPIALBOT WITH A BELLY POCKET YOU CAN GET INTO TO BE KEPT SAFE.

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I AM NOT A WOLF Assume the role of one of nature’s greatest predators, just barely maintaining a fake identity as a part of the human workforce. Each choice you make in this interactive story is crucial to your survival and, more importantly, your burgeoning graphic design career.

Will you navigate water cooler gossip without arousing suspicion?

Can you go on a date without bringing up how much you love ham? Or is it perhaps time to throw this human world to the wind and return to the woods whence you came? These choices and many, many more await you in: I AM NOT A WOLF. This book, based on the immensely popular Twitter account @ SickOfWolves, puts the reader in complete control of the narrative.

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From the simple challenges of being a wolf in a human’s world (lack of opposable thumbs, an insatiable desire to feast on fresh meat, etc) to the more existential problems that come with human life (romantic dissatisfaction, wondering if you should flee into the woods, etc) I AM NOT A WOLF makes the reader expect the unexpected as they put it all on the line to protect their lupine secret.

ABOUT THE AUTHORS Dan Sheehan is a writer from Chicago now living in Los Angeles. He created the wildly popular “NOT A WOLF” Twitter account which now boasts over 150,000 followers on Twitter and 70,000 followers on Facebook. His writing has been featured in Playboy, McSweeney’s, The Onion, ClickHole, and more. Dan is also one of the creators of the storytelling show and podcast “We Still Like You” which challenges performers to tell a story of true embarrassment and shame so that they can be forgiven by a loving audience en masse.

Sage Coffey has done comic work for Comics for Choice, Dirty Diamonds, and The Dandelion & Wine Collective’s The Sun and the Wayward Wind and worked for clients including Cards Against Humanity, Def Jam Entertainment, The Nib and Adult Swim.

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THE LITTLE GIRL WHO GAVE ZERO FUCKS This is the story of a brave young girl, Elodie-Rose, who one day decides to change the world and keep all her fucks in her basket.

Elodie-Rose was a girl on a mission

All girls bear the burden of fucks every day.

In a town where girls act like obedient

For when someone is mean or throws nasty their way,

kittens,

If strangers start trouble or cause an upset Their palm is outreached and a fuck they will get.

In the morning girls’ baskets are full and stand tall,

Sing soft the same tune and dance neat

But by bedtime there’s no fucking fucks left at all.

the same jigs, Wear the same flowery dresses

Wait a minute. You’re confused.

What are fucks, you ask? It’s quite simple, really. Fucks are her self-esteem; all the happy, sad and wonderful thoughts that sit in her basket. That sit in every girl’s basket! And every girl must give these fucks away every time someone asks.

and pretty blonde wigs.

When the sun sets, girls sleep, have the brightest of dreams

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Of giraffes and quad biking and jelly and cream.

Becoming an astronaut or rich CEO – To unlimited magical places they go.

But Elodie-Rose vowed to change this old world

Such sweet thoughts replenish their baskets of fucks,

Because Elodie-Rose isn’t like

So they rise once again, feeling up on their luck.

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One day Elodie-Rose decides to break rank and find out what happens if those fucks stay where they are...

Hello to you, hello from me!

We’ve just one life, not two or three… have you ever wondered what would be if you took your f*cks and set them free?

Would your head explode? Nose disappear?

Would weeds start growing behind your ears?

I wonder what everybody would say if you showed how brave you are, one day.

If you grew so tall, everybody saw that you are destined for much, much more.

When your heart is heavy and your story sucks, be the little girl who gave zero f*cks.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Amy Kean is a sociologist, writer and marketer. She’s worked for the BBC, Sony Music and Nando’s among others.

Jess Milton is an illustrator who has created short comics for small presses such as One Beat Zines and Comic Book Slumber Party. Her ongoing project is a webcomic called The Flying Ship.

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A SMALL FICTION An illustrated collection of 150 tiny stories, each told in 140 characters or fewer

“It was lovely, we buried her with all her favorite

What happens when a writer wants to tell a hundred stories but doesn’t have the time to write a hundred books?

“In? No, we BURIED her with them.”

books.”

“You fit that many books in the coffin?”

He yelled.

He yelled.

He yelled.

HeHe yelled.

He shouted shouted and and He shouted and cursed. cursed.

He panted He panted cursed. He panted and and begged.and and begged.

Hebegged. shouted

cursed. He panted

He cried He cried in the indark. the Hedark. cried in the dark.

and begged.

But the Butcasket the casket But the casket

They write the seeds of those stories and cast them to the wind...

A Small Fiction presents a collection of illustrated microfiction, all told in 140 characters or fewer. From the humorous to the bleak, the dystopian to the dog-filled, there’s a story for every occasion, and an occasion for every story.

stayed stayed closed. closed.stayed closed.

He cried in the dark.

The The earthearth above above it, Theit, earth above it, unmoved. unmoved.

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We broadcast a message into space.

One word.

“Help,” it said.

Ships showed up the next day. Scores of them.

“We thought you’d never ask.”

At night, the trees whispered.

Told ghost stories, their leaves trembling.

Remembered the fallen. Joked.

Dry laughter rustled the dark.

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“I suppose this is goodbye.”

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

“Maybe, but we’ll always have Rome.”

stairs, stairs,stairs, it did. stairs, it did. stairs, stairs, it did. ititdid. did.it did.

“We never went to Rome.”

James Miller is a writer and he lives in California. He co-created the company Embros Creative with his brother Jefferson, and he has written for anything he could get his hands on. Most recently that has been video games, review sites and blogs. A Small Fiction is his first book.

“I know. Regrets last longer than memories.”

Jefferson Miller is an artist and a graphic designer and he lives in California. He co-created Embros Creative, and he’s the artist for the comic Dear Toadington. Jefferson has also created illustrations, logos, album covers, character art and more.

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FACT HUNT: FASCINATING, FUN, AND DOWNRIGHT BIZARRE FACTS ABOUT VIDEO GAMES A bumper collection of facts about video games from YouTuber extraordinaire, Larry Bundy Jr. This book will debunk myths and urban legends, delve into developers’ biggest successes and failures, explore the odd characters behind the games and unearth the obscure, the cancelled and the abandoned aspects of the video game world.

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Discover the best Urban Legends and Video Game Myths, Weird Patents and Things Tech Devs Thought Were a Good Idea at the Time, Nintendo And All That Entails, Bizarre Fads in Gaming No One Noticed Happening, Games Based on Cancelled Movies, Western Games Redesigned into Anime, Shortest Ever Development Times, Greatest April Fools Pranks, Games Renamed for Bizarre Reasons and much, much more from every nook, cranny, and dusty corner of gaming.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Larry Bundy Jr has worked as character and concept artist for projects for Aardman Animation and Disney, as well as a number of video game publishers, as well writing and presenting the World’s First Retro Gaming Television Show. His YouTube channel currently boasts over 300,000 subscribers and 45,500,000 video views, where he focuses histories of video games and fun features on technology.

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HARDCORE GAMING 101 PRESENTS: JAPANESE VIDEO GAME OBSCURITIES For many years, the Japanese industry developed separately from American and European output, with their own landmark titles that created trends and inspired later games. Even the older games have a visual and aural style that make them distinct from similar games from around the globe.

This is a compendium of the most are weird, compelling, strange, cool or historically important - in some cases, games that were hugely successful in Japan but barely made a mark in the West.

We’ll discuss the history of any larger series a game might be part of and any subsequent games it may have influenced. We’ve also picked games that represent a large number of genres – platformers,

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shoot-em-ups, role-playing games, adventure games – across nearly four decades of gaming, among arcade, computer and console platforms. We’re covering titles from giants like Nintendo, Sega, Namco and Konami, along with smaller titles from long-forgotten publishers and developers.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Kurt Kalata has been writing about video games, mostly old and weird ones, on the internet for twenty years. In addition to founding retro game website Hardcore Gaming 101 in 2003, he previously started fan sites The Castlevania Dungeon and The Contra HQ. He has also contributed to several other websites, including 1up, Gamasutra, and Siliconera. He has edited and published over ten books through the HG101 website, including the Guide to Classic Graphic Adventures and The 200 Best Video Games of All Time, and has contributed to several other retro themed books, including the Untold History of Japanese Game Developers, Unseen64’s Video Games You’ll Never Play, and The Overstreet Guide to Collecting Video Games.

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TAMING GAMING: GUIDE YOUR CHILD TO VIDEO GAME HEALTH A common-sense, informative guide to what screen-time, gaming and gadgets are doing to children, for parents who’d rather lock it all in a cupboard.

Video games instil amazing qualities in children. They spark curiosity and thankfulness with beautiful interactive landscapes.

They nurture compassion and courage through adrenaline adventures played through other people’s eyes. They plant seeds of resilience and patience with their challenging quests and puzzles. They invite reflection and questioning with evolving stories of the unexpecte​d.

Journalist and parent Andy Robertson pioneered a perspective on the positives of gaming for children.​Taming Gaming​​looks​at the impact of gaming on family life ​by delving into ​the ​latest research and advice from psychologists, industry experts, parents, schools and children’s charities. ​

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It also o ​ ffers simple to follow, tried and tested Family Gaming Recipes​-​a super easy way to discover games that are beneficial rather than stressful for your family​.

D​iscover what really happens when a child plays a video game.

Face fears about screen time and start steering your child’s gaming from violence, expense and addiction towards fulfilling​ and connecting experiences.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Andy Robertson has been helping families get more from video games for over 15 years as a blogger, journalist for the Guardian and Forbes and broadcaster for the BBC. From cathedrals to arts festivals, schools to high streets, The One Show to YouTube, he’s helped thousands of parents guide their children’s gaming to health.

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LIFELINES: NOTES ON LIFE & LOVE, FAITH & DOUBT

20 Trust your instinct

On the first day in a new job, or at a new school, your antennae go into overload.

Particularly when it comes to the people with whom you’ll be sharing this habitat.

Every receptor you have is on alert for signals. Is she snooty or just shy? Is he genuinely friendly, or over-compensating?

Why does she do that thing with her hair?

Does he always sit like that? Do I like her?

Can I trust him?

How do I make a good decision?

Can I forgive him? Will this darkness pass? Do I say something or keep quiet?

Some days arrive with questions so vast we feel like strangers on earth. Other times our joy makes us feel entirely at home in ourselves. So where do we find inspiration for living a good life?

Drawing on lifelines thrown down by poets, thinkers and dreamers, the sceptical and the faithful, Malcolm Doney and Martin Wroe suggest that how we live may be more important than what we believe.

Lifelines is a fun and accessible collection of modern wisdom, printed in full colour with photographs and illustrations, from long-time radio partners

‘It would be interesting,’ says the essayist Malcolm Gladwell in his book Blink, ‘to find out what goes on in that moment when someone looks at you and draws all sorts of conclusions.’1 No one single sense is involved in these perceptions: it’s all of them, at the same time. We get a reading off someone in an instant. Call it gut feeling, instinct, intuition, hunch.

These readings, which we receive from people, places or situations, aren’t logical constructions. They don’t come from reasoning; they tend to arrive as a hit. But that doesn’t mean we can’t trust them. Often our instinctive decryptions are a mash up of lived experience, emotion, body language and more.

Yes, sometimes our own bad past experiences can make us fearful, or defensive, and give us false readings. And other people’s insecurities can mean they jam their own signals. So, it’s not always wise to rush to judgement. Nonetheless, our instincts are pretty reliable. And in the normal round of life, work and relationships, we can’t give one another

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the kind of vetting necessary for joining the security services. The singer Bono puts it like this: ‘I’ve always believed in instinct over intellect. The instinct is what you always knew; intellect is what you figure out.’2 We take a leap of faith and, Gladwell says, ‘There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.’3 We need to be able to put our trust in our instincts and in each other, even if it’s provisional. The broadcaster Melvyn Bragg believes that faith and instinct are kissing cousins: ‘I think faith is the great undiscovered region of our minds. It’s like instinct, which I’ve always thought is compressed intelligence, at such a high speed you can’t see it, as fast as a blink.’4 Like instinct, he says, ‘faith is very often a whole perception which has to be (as it were) deconstructed into what is plausible and what is not’.5 We can lean on our instinct, faith – lay bets on it. We have to, otherwise we can’t make relationships. But we also need to interrogate it. Left unquestioned, instinct can become bigotry, phobia. But when our instincts warm us to people, to ideas, and ways of living, life unfurls. In the words of Ralph Waldo Emerson:

All our progress is an unfolding, like a vegetable bud. You have first an instinct, then an opinion, then a knowledge as the plant has root, bud, and fruit. Trust the instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.6

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discussing matters of religion, spirituality and the larger questions of human life.

‘BEAUTIFUL, WISE AND PLAYFUL’

Brené Brown New York Times bestselling author of Daring Greatly

Less of an instruction manual and more of a sketchbook, these are lines for living rewarding days.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Martin Wroe studied theology before becoming a staff writer for the Independent and the Observer. He won a Sony Gold Radio Award for the Radio 1 series The Big Holy One. He is a volunteer vicar in his local parish and a contributor to Thought for the Day on Radio 4.

Malcolm Doney trained as a fine artist before pursuing a writing career in journalism, advertising and broadcasting. Author of ten books, he is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 2’s Pause for Thought, and Radio 4’s Something Understood.

What advice on life would an extraterrestrial offer us? An alien working out how to adjust to a strange humanoid reality, arriving from some distant galaxy? After a brief experimental period, what would this visitor from another planet conclude about what constitutes a good life?

That’s the essence of Matt Haig’s novel The Humans,1 in which a visitor from Vonnadoria – where life revolves around maths, logic and rationality – tries to sum up the essence of a rewarding life on planet earth. He distills his newfound wisdom into a list of ninety-four items entitled ‘Advice for A Human’. Here are some of the best:

Don’t worry about your abilities. You have the ability to love. That is enough...

Your life will have 30,000 days in it. Make sure you remember some of them...

If there is a sunset, stop and look at it.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite...

One day humans will live on Mars. But nothing there will be more exciting than a single overcast morning on Earth...

Don’t always try and be cool. The whole universe is cool. It’s the warm bits that matter...

You have the power to stop time. You do it by kissing. Or listening to music...

Don’t ever be afraid of telling someone you love them. There are things wrong with your world, but an excess of love is not one...

Be curious. Question everything. A present fact is just a future fiction...

Politeness is often fear. Kindness is always courage. But caring is what makes you human.

Care more, become more human...

You shouldn’t have been born. Your existence is as close to impossible as can be. To dismiss the impossible is to dismiss yourself...

You can’t find happiness looking for the meaning of life. Meaning is only the third most important thing. It comes after loving and being...

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JUNGLE GEMS: A NATURALIST’S TALE When a young artist and naturalist brings a box of rare Hainan beetles to the Natural History Museum in London, Max Barclay, one of the world’s leading authorities on beetles, becomes baffled by the entire collection, especially by a beetle called Carabus which is not known to exist on the island. With only one the one specimen known to science, they needed to gather more evidence…

And so Max sent the 21-yearold naturalist on a mission of his dreams – to undertake an expedition to the jungles of Hainan, and to see if he can find Carabus or any of the other beetles from the box. In his quest, he encountered some of the most bizarre and wonderful creatures imaginable as he battled the elements, trekking through the great rivers and mountains of the island’s rugged interior, making drawings and trying to solve a mystery.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Yikai Zhang is a self-taught naturalist. The project came into being with support by Max Barclay, head curator of Coleoptera at the Natural History Museum in London.

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WILD COOKING FORAGING IN THE GARDEN AND BEYOND From one of the world’s foremost authorities on wild food and mushrooms, a major new book.

Roger Phillips, author of the landmark book Wild Food, has been foraging for decades; his books on edible plants and fungi having sold over six million copies worldwide.

For his new book Roger explores how native people from all over the world learned to cook and prepare their local plants, and goes on a voyage of culinary discovery.

Wild Cooking will cover h ​ is latest research and food discoveries. It will include an extensive section of new mushroom recipes from around Europe and illustrating foods that hunter-gatherer groups, like Native Americans, forage for and cook.

The text will be accompanied by Roger’s own vivid photography and recipes.

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Roger Phillips’ books about plants have sold 6 million copies in over a dozen languages

ABOUT THE AUTHOR In 1975 Roger Phillips began his life’s major work of photographing and publishing pictures of the world’s garden plants. He set out to develop an encyclopedic collection of books to show the difference between plants as diverse as mosses, roses and annuals.

His first book, Wild Flowers of Britain (1977), was a huge success, selling 400,000 copies in the first year. He has since written numerous additional volumes (often with his co-author Martyn Rix) selling over six million copies worldwide. Roger has written and presented two major six-part TV series on gardening (BBC & Channel 4). Famed for his ebullient personality and garish red glasses, he has become a wellrecognized figure in the world of gardening. His latest book is Wild Food: A Complete Guide for Foragers (Macmillan, 2014).

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A LONG AND MESSY BUSINESS Whether he is making an omelette or a soufflé, a Caesar salad or a sea bream with chermoula, these recipes and essays are a distillation of Rowley Leigh’s forty years as both a professional chef and a home cook. They detail with precision and wit how to cook and enjoy both unusual and familiar ingredients through the seasons.

With Leigh’s succinct wine recommendations and over 120 recipes, this is both a book to get battered through overuse in the kitchen and to pore over in an armchair with a glass of the author’s beloved Riesling close to hand.

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UNLIKE MOST COOKBOOKS, ALL THE FOOD HAS BEEN PREPARED FOR ANDY SEWELL’S MASTERLY PHOTOGRAPHS BY LEIGH HIMSELF. ‘I get fed up with the number of cookbooks that promise quick and easy meals, those that promise a three-course dinner that can be knocked up in thirty minutes. Most cooking, and certainly most enjoyable cooking, takes a little longer. I can knock something up in a hurry if I have to – there are plenty of quick and easy recipes in this book – but that ability was a long time in the acquisition, and I still prefer to take my time, in order to do it better than I did it last time.'

Rowley Leigh

ABOUT THE AUTHOR The most active and influential member of the original trio of the Modern British Cuisine movement – neither Simon Hopkinson not Alistair Little are currently active as chefs – Rowley Leigh is an awardwinning chef and food writer. He has won the Times ‘Restaurant of the Year’ accolade and three Glenfiddich awards for his work in the Guardian, the Sunday Telegraph and the Financial Times.

Andy Sewell is one of the rising stars of British photography. As well as working for a wide variety of different newspapers and magazines, his personal projects have been acquired for the V&A, The Museum of London and the National Media Museum.

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THE PLAGIARIST​IN THE KITCHEN​: A LIFETIME OF CULINARY THEFTS

‘MEADES IS THE BEST AMATEUR CHEF IN THE WORLD.’

‘Anyone who claims to have ‘invented’ a dish is dishonest or delusional.’

MARCO PIERRE WHITE

For 15 years he was the food critic of The Times and he knows the truth about the British gastronomic revolution: he’s tried everything once..

Despite this gastromatyrdom, he still likes to cook.

“Cookbooks feed off cookbooks.

Their authors make botched attempts to disguise the sources of their offering. But those familiar with more than half a dozen such books are acquainted with the sensation that I’ve read that before in - where? The successful plagiarist, as both Michel de Montaigne and T S Eliot noted, covers his tracks.

This book exhibits an absolute candour about the provenance of its content. If I know where a recipe comes from I own up to it. However, I don’t copy. I steal.

Then I make it my own, which is not to say that I improve it...

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The book is, further, a deflected meditation on infections of varying gravity: ‘influence’, ‘inspiration’, ‘homage’, ‘channeling’ and so on. It proposes that cooking is at best a craft and that craft must always be the same whilst art must always be different - an unoriginal dictum by the way; it is, of course, Gore Vidal’s.”

A COOKBOOK – OR PERHAPS AN ANTI-COOKBOOK – CONTAINING 125 RECIPES, THE FRUITS OF A LIFETIME SPENT THINKING AND WRITING ABOUT FOOD. ABOUT THE AUTHOR

‘MEADES HAS BEEN COMPARED, FAVOURABLY, TO RABELAIS AND, FLATTERINGLY, TO SWIFT. THE TRUTH IS THAT HE OUTSTRIPS BOTH IN THE GAUDINESS OF HIS IMAGINATION.’ TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT

THE SCOPE OF HIS IDEAS, THE FORCE OF HIS ARGUMENTS, THE SHEER VITALITY OF HIS SENTENCES:...’

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‘WHATEVER HE IS DOING AND HOWEVER HE IS DOING IT, HE WILL MAKE YOU THINK.’ GUARDIAN

Jonathan Meades is a writer, journalist, essayist and film-maker. His books include three works of fiction and several anthologies of which the most recently published is Museum Without Walls, widely lauded as as a book of the year. He also knows about food.

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THE PRIVATE LIFE OF LORD BYRON Featuring cover artwork and endpapers from the late Howard Hodgkin, this intimate biography of Lord Byron is the first book to explore the poet’s eating disorder and its impact on his writing Lord Byron starved himself compulsively for most of his life.

His behaviour mystified his friends and other witnesses, yet he never imagined he was ill. Instead, he rationalised his behaviour as a fight for spiritual freedom and made it the cornerstone of the heroic ideal which was central to his work, his life and his death.

This fresh biography aims to better understand the man; to explore these neglected or misunderstood aspects of his private life in order to illuminate his writing, his idea of heroism, his relationships with women, and with Coleridge and Shelley. This in turn points us towards a new understanding of his masterpiece, Don Juan.

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Olympic Games or John Bull Introducing his new Ambassador to the Grand Consul, Isaac Cruikshank, 16 June 1803: John Bull, representing Britain, urges a muscular pugilist to be ‘as gentle with him [Napoleon] as you can’, while the diminutive emperor punches the Russian ambassador and threatens, ‘I’ll thrash all the World D— me I’ll, I’ll, I’ll be King of the Universe’. The French were preparing to invade Britain.

Image courtesy of Dreweatts & Bloomsbury Auctions

Charles Williams’s print After the Invasion – The Levée en Masse – or Britons Strike Home of 6 August 1803 anticipated how patriots would react, if Napoleon dared to invade Britain.

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rising to arms from the banks of the Tanais to the Thames’.14 Napoleon’s fight against overwhelming numbers re-staged the ‘fight’ of that ‘oppressed’ outsider, Captain Byron.

Byron was not alone. The emperor’s British admirers included a striking number of individuals whose fathers had been ostracised by British society on the grounds of religion, class or criminality. Writers such as William Hazlitt, William Godwin and Leigh Hunt and Byron’s friend Hobhouse were the sons of Dissenting ministers; the playwright Mrs Inchbald’s father was a Catholic, Samuel Whitbread’s a brewer and Charles James Fox’s a corrupt politician. Foreign tyrants seem peculiarly attractive to those whose fathers have been rejected by their country.15 In the last century, for example, Hitler and Stalin appealed particularly strongly to literally or metaphorically ‘fatherless’ Britons – among them

the politician Lloyd George, the writer Kingsley Martin and the spy Kim Philby. When Cyril Connolly discussed the spy Donald Maclean’s bond with Stalin he referred to this phenomenon as ‘the resonance of the “Father Found”’.16 But Napoleon did not live up to Byron’s expectations. Gradually, the poet detached the idea of Napoleon from historical reality. He also learned to act out the heroic/Napoleonic ideal himself in fiction and in his life. Admiration outlasted all criticism. In his ‘Detached Thoughts’ of 1821, long after Napoleon’s reign ended, in the year of his death, Byron referred to ‘his greatest man – (I mean his favourite – his Buonaparte – his this – that, or tother)’.17 Two years later he explained to another admirer, Lady Blessington, ‘I find fault, and quarrel with Napoleon, as a lover does with the trifling faults of his mistress, from excessive liking.’18 In a similar

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Antony Peattie situates these patterns of behaviour in a vividly rendered contemporary world, culminating in Byron’s last days in Greece, where he tried to starve himself into heroic leadership but fatally damaged his constitution, resulting in his tragic death at the age of just thirty-six.

Fuseli’s drawing, Satan Departing from the Court of Chaos, 1781–2: He [Chaos] ceas’d; and Satan stay’d not to reply, But – Springs upward like a pyramid of fire.34

In 1780 (two years after Hayley tried to inspire Romney) Fuseli showed a heroic Satan Starting from the Touch of Ithuriel’s Lance at the Royal Academy. Representing the naked male body was one of the highest aims of art, according to Sir Joshua Reynolds, first President of the Royal Academy. But here, beauty is invested in evil; reversing conventional eschatology, good angels drift down, while Satan soars upward, which emphasises his heroic energy.33 Photograph © Staatsgalerie Stuttgart

The Pierpont Morgan Library, New York. 1975.43. Gift of Miss Louise Crane in memory of her mother, Mrs. W. Murray Crane.

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novels by Ann Radcliffe (Schedoni in The Mysteries of Udolpho, 1794, and Montoni in The Italian, 1797) and Matthew Lewis (Ambrosio in The Monk, 1794). But Byron seems to have been the first writer to colour his heroes with that trait. Byron’s corsair Conrad, that quintessential Romantic hero/villain, may owe much of his Satanic heroism to Schiller’s Karl Moor.

Byron boasted in March 1807 that Mackenzie and Tytler had written to congratulate him on his early privately printed poems, but he only admitted reading The Robbers in a diary entry for 20 February 1814 – eighteen days after The Corsair was published. It is surely not a coincidence that, three weeks before he began to compose that portrait, Byron asserted his own

Satanism had a great impact on Byron, but its influence was also felt more widely. On 21 April 1788 Henry Mackenzie lectured on Schiller’s play to the Royal Society in Edinburgh. His talk inspired Walter Scott to start learning German and probably prompted Alexander Fraser Tytler, Lord Woodhouselee, to translate the play into English. Published in 1792, his version of The Robbers astonished William Hazlitt (‘It stunned me like a blow, and I have not recovered’34), Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth. But by that time Satanism had become topical.

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history of ‘Soliman the Renegade’ and in the autumn of that year he began to write the first of his oriental tales, The Giaour. Byron ransacks the Gothic armoire for picturesque attributes, such as monkishness from Ann Radcliffe’s Schedoni in The Italian (1796). But the Giaour becomes truly Byronic when ‘he mocks at Misery’.24 Gothic writers sometimes borrowed Satanic traits from Milton for their villains, to achieve a short cut to ‘horrid’ sublimity. Byron rescued that trait and gave it to his heroes. His Giaour looks like an ‘evil angel’ and passes ‘like a demon of the night’.

His face breathes a ‘dark spirit’ of death and on his brow is written ‘of Cain the curse and crime’.25 The poem adds that he will be sent back from

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Antony Peattie’s first job after university was correcting the English translations of Byron’s Italian letters. After working as publications editor at the Welsh National Opera, he helped launch Opera Now magazine before going freelance, devising ‘Opera Bites’ for Glyndebourne, supertitles for Scottish Opera and surtitles for the Royal Opera. With Lord Harewood he edited the latest edition of Kobbe’s Complete Book of Opera, and he has lectured on Byron at the National Gallery and Tate Britain. He lives in London.

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Richard Westall painted this portrait of Byron at his most Byronic in 1813, shortly after John Murray invited him to illustrate the first two cantos of Childe Harold. Lady Oxford may have commissioned the portrait, whose theatrical, even posturing quality is heightened by the contrast between the pallor of the face and the dark ‘Renaissance’ velvet costume, with a ruff-like collar, a visible sword hilt and the fur-trimmed pelisse that has slipped off his left shoulder.21 ‘His mouth continually betrays the acrimony of his spirit’, Annabella Milbanke noted in her journal for 25 March 1812, ‘I should judge him sincere and independent – sincere at least in society as far as he can be, whilst dissimulating the violence of his scorn . . . it appeared to me that he tried to control his natural sarcasm and vehemence as best he could, in order not to offend, but at times his lips thickened with disdain, and his eyes rolled impatiently.’22 © National Trust Images

that interrupted the circulation of a petition which argued for the reform of representation in Parliament. He opposed the entire House, with only the Earl of Stanhope on his side. But he confessed in his Journal for 1 December that he was ‘not “i’th’vein”’ for this business, a reference to Shakespeare’s Richard III.23 Seven days later Byron asked John Galt for information about the

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WEST OF WEST: TRAVELS ALONG THE EDGE OF AMERICA A photographic exploration of the edge of America at the end of Route 66 and Santa Monica Pier Santa Monica, where the wooden pier juts out into the Pacific Ocean, marks the end of Route 66. The great American journey West culminates here, with a ferris wheel, and a rock shop, and a branch of the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company.

It is this short stretch of coast that Sarah Lee began shooting in 2015 casually at first, a few photographs taken on holiday, but soon it grew compulsive, with more and more of her bi-annual trip to Los Angeles spent down by the pier in Santa Monica.

Back then, America and the California coast seemed to mean something quite different. But as the months and this project unfolded, America’s identity has been reshaped - by an election,

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by gathering questions of immigration, environment, gender, race, sexual assault, and gun ownership.

Meanwhile the beach has remained much the same: the sun undaunted, tourists strolling the boardwalks, gulls, burger bars, daytrippers, surfers. The levelling, visceral pleasures of our leisure hours — of shoreline, pink skin, swimmers in their underwear.

“Tender, human moments,” as Sarah puts it, “that unite, not divide.”

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sarah Lee is a London-based photographer who works for The Guardian, specialising in portraiture features and the arts. She has also been published by TIME, Billboard, Rolling Stone, Intelligent Life and Vanity Fair among others.

Laura Barton is a writer and broadcaster. A Guardian feature writer and music columnist for a decade, she now writes for a range of newspapers, magazines and radio stations. Her first novel was awarded the Betty Trask Prize.

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TURBANS AND TALES The culmination of four years research, production shooting and editing and two exhibitions - in the UK and in the US - Turbans and Tales will take you on a journey from conception, execution to reactions of photographing the portraits, as well as providing a history of the Sikh turban itself.

Each of the portraits will be accompanied with the words from the subjects, their tales. Stories of their experiences. What their turban means to them. How it makes them feel. How people perceive them. Why their identity is important.

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A NEW YORK EXHIBITION IN 2016 ATTRACTED UP TO 1000 VISITORS A DAY.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Born and raised in London, photography duo Amit Amin and Naroop Jhooti have been working together since 2005. Their large and diverse portfolio of work includes iconic portraits of musicians and celebrities such as Tinie Tempah, Dynamo Magician, Ricky Gervais, Miles Teller, Skepta, Jay Sean, 50 Cent and Riz Ahmed, along with advertising campaigns for the likes of Barclays, Samsung, MTV, Sunsilk and Huawei.

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ANOTHER LIFE In 2005, Nick Danziger was commissioned by the charity World Vision to visit eight countries and see what effect the goals were having on people’s lives. He returned five years later, in 2010 – and again in 2015 – to assemble an stark portrait of forty lives lived on the edge: in India, Cambodia, Zambia, Uganda, Niger, Honduras, Bolivia and Armenia.

Some of the women and children Nick and Rory followed have died through sickness and poverty. One has become the most successful entrepreneur her African border town has ever known. Another – who once dreamed of becoming a banker – is now a gang member in the world’s murder capital.

Yet another has confronted conformists and successfully changed his gender.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Nick Danziger is one of Europe’s finest photojournalists having spent a life documenting what he sees in bestselling books, and in awardwinning documentaries and photography. His work is held in museum collections worldwide and his ‘mirror’ image of Tony Blair and George W. Bush – shot during a groundbreaking 30-day study of a Prime Minister at war – won the World Press Photo Award.

Rory MacLean’s ten non-fiction books include the UK bestsellers Stalin’s Nose and Under the Dragon.

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Behold American child labourers WI LLIA M MORRIS from the early twentieth century, alongside the construction of the Statue of Liberty. Marvel at crisp photographs from the Crimean War in 1855, balanced with neverbefore-seen pictures from the Walt Disney archive. As the layers of colour build up, the effect is disorientingly real and the decades and centuries fall away.

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The Paper Time Machine is a book that will change the way you think about the past. In 124 historical black-andwhite photographs, reconstructed in colour, it collapses the distance between the past and present and tears a hole in our map of time.

Early photographic technology lacked a crucial ingredient – colour. As early as the invention of the medium, skilled artisans applied colour to photographs by hand, attempting to convey the vibrancy and immediacy of life in vivid detail. In most cases this was crude and unconvincing. Until now.

The time-bending images in The Paper Time Machine take the craft of colour reconstruction to a new level.

Each element of every photograph has been researched and colourchecked for historical authenticity.

The book begins with Stanley Kubrick’s shot of cars arriving at the light-flooded foyer of the Chicago Theater and winds backwards through time to a colour restoration of the very first photographic self portrait taken in 1839. Along the way, we are led through a century of war, revolution and unprecedented technological change. The ordinary and the extraordinary, the constructed and the living – boats, planes, bridges and people – are brought to life through colour. It is as though we are standing at the original photographer’s elbow.

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The Paper Time Machine is a landmark photographic book; as close to time travel as we are ever likely to get.

A Retronaut Book | The Past Like You Wouldn’t Believe

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The time-bending images in The Paper Time Machine have been painstakingly restored and rendered in full and accurate colour Each element of every photograph has been researched and colourchecked for historical authenticity.

This is a landmark photographic book – a collection of historical

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‘remixes’ that exist alongside the original photographs but draw out qualities, textures and details that have hitherto remained hidden. Let The Paper Time Machine transport you. It is as close to time travel as we are ever likely to get.

IMAGES INCLUDE: 1895: TRAIN WRECK AT MONTPARNASSE, PARIS - 1890’S: GROUP OF 19TH CENTURY TOURISTS VISIT THE TEMPLE OF OLYMPIAN ZEUS, ATHENS - 1937: SOVIET CHILDREN’S PIONEERS DEFENCE DRILL, LENINGRAD - 1906: SAN FRANCISCO IN RUINS FROM LAWRENCE CAPTIVE AIRSHIP 660 M ABOVE SAN FRANCISCO BAY - 1930S: A CONFEDERATE AND A UNION VETERAN PLAY CARDS AT A CIVIL WAR REUNION - 1936: AUGUST LANDMESSER REFUSES TO SALUTE AT A NAZI RALLY, GERMANY

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Wolfgang Wild is the creator of Retronaut. He has written three Retronaut books, the first with National Geographic, and curated two Retronaut shows, including a four-month exhibition in 2016 of New York historic panoramas.

Jordan Lloyd is the director of Dynamichrome, a company that has taken the craft of colour reconstruction to a new level.

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DECADES OF LEAD His illustrations adorn book covers, t-shirts, skateboards, comics and prints. For over 25 years, acclaimed artist and designer, Pete Fowler, has collected his thoughts, sketches, doodles, drafts and ideas in a series of sketchbooks. These have never been seen outside of a small circle of friends.

Decades of Lead will collect the very best of these sketchbooks into one beautiful hardback volume. Together with commentary from Pete, these will form a unique insight into the creative mind of one of Britain’s most exciting artists.

From hairy synth players to mythical galleons, battered sneakers to bizarre monsters‌ welcome to the world of Pete Fowler.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Pete Fowler (@themonsterist) is an artist, designer, DJ and musician who has created album covers for Super Furry Animals and artwork for bands including The Horrors and Tim Burgess. He is one half of the band, Seahawks. He spent several years creating monsters.

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GRAFITY’S WALL When an aspiring street artist by the name of ‘Grafity’ watches the tenements outside his home being razed, he finds an unlikely canvas at the one wall still left standing in the debris.

Over the next weeks, he begins creating a mural on the wall, one that chronicles the lives of his friends: a local low-level fixer named Jay who harbours dreams of being a rapper. A brilliant and awkward boy named Chasma who writes love letters between shifts waiting tables at a local Chinese restaurant. And Saira, an aspiring actress with ambitions so fierce that they threaten to consume her and all those around her.

As the mural progresses, the story gives us glimpses into these incandescent lives, their hopes and dreams both inspired and impeded by the impossible city that they live in.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Ram V is a UK-based, Mumbai-born, writer with a number of successful comics and graphic novels to his name. He is a regarded as an exciting new voice in sequential storytelling, creating literary works that feature nuanced, well-drawn characters and compelling original perspectives.

Anand Radhakrishnan is a fine artist by training who works primarily as an illustrator. Based in Mumbai, his attention to detail and loose energetic inking results in an organic and dynamic style that has been compared to the work of Moebius.

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REEL LOVE This is your first memory of dreams in the dark...

A beautifully observed story about the magic of cinema and the pains of growing up, from the critically acclaimed author of Beast Wagon In a quiet corner of England, a young boy visits the cinema for the first time, igniting his imagination, filling his head with fantasy and changing the course of his life.

In adolescence, working part-time as an usher at his local cinema, he befriends the motley crew of cinephile staff, falls in love, finds his tribe and fantasises about his film-filled future.

The final act sees that same boy as a grown man, back in his hometown after life panned out in a slightly unexpected way. When an opportunity to break into the film world presents itself, he sets out again to make his magnum opus‌

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it was too much.

Beginnings are always difficult.

too much SCOPE.

heh. too much sound.

emerged from me, You emergedYou from me, kicking and screaming, kicking and screaming, into a world of light. into a world of light.

Witch is scary, no?

ABOUT THE AUTHOR Owen Michael Johnson is a two-time British Comic Award-nominated writer and artist from the Lake District. A graduate of Royal Holloway University of London’s creative writing program, he has marketed comics for Titan Comics and 2000 AD and currently resides in Oxford. @owen_johnson

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You did not yet know how to love me.

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LIFE DRAWING A memoir about life as an actress, singer and artist in the big city The lure of the spotlight can be intoxicating, and Jessica Martin was captured by it early on. The daughter of a bandleader, she came of age in the jazz clubs of London’s Soho, before going on to forge a career as a West End regular, Spitting Image impressionist and Dr Who actor.

Now entering a new phase of her performing life, Jessica Martin looks back on the parts and people that contributed to her success in this honest and revealing autobiography, which shows the true grit beneath the greasepaint.

Featuring a cast of diverse characters and guest appearances from some very recognisable personalities, Life Drawing is the story of a woman living a fully creative life.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR After graduating from university, Jessica Martin performed on the fringe comedy circuit and gained a regular slot on Spitting Image, before crossing over into theatre. Her early comics, It Girl and Variety, were critically acclaimed bestsellers, and Elsie Harris Picture Palace was shortlisted for the Myriad First Graphic Novel Competition in 2014. @jessica7martin

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THE CARPET MERCHANT OF KONSTANTINIYYA An Eisner-nominated graphic novel set in 17th century Istanbul, centered around a carpet merchant and his relationship with faith, love and home in the aftermath of his death by a vampire.

The story is told through a visual style inspired by Ottoman illumination and miniature, and heavily incorporates Ottoman era decorative arts plus carpet designs.

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Reimena Yee is a strange and fancy artist, writer and designer originally from the dusty city of Kuala Lumpur. She has drawn for Adventure Time, Image Comics, Girls Make Games, and a cornucopia of smaller businesses. You can find her (and other comics) at reimenayee.com

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THE MONSTER CAFE The debut children’s book by Sean Leahy and Mihály Orodán, The Monster Café is a humorous tale that deals with pre-conceptions, pre-school excitement and pre-tty big monsters In every town, there is one shop that always changes its face.

In Stapleton, it was the very last shop in town.

Bib is an adventurous sort of a boy, so a new café wouldn’t faze him, even if it was run by monsters!

Excited by the idea of having a birthday dinner made by hairy beasts and served by a snake-like waitress, he encourages his whole family to take him to the most talked about place in town. But what, or who will be on the menu?

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ABOUT THE AUTHOR Sean Leahy is the flesh-and-bone edition of wonky tweetsmith, @thepunningman. For the past couple of years he has been writing very short and occasionally hilarious jokes to wild acclaim, featuring in Playboy’s 50 Funniest People on Twitter, and appearing on Buzzfeed, Comedy Central, The Poke, Huffington Post, Funny or Die and TimeOut among others. Sean lives outside the gates of Hampton Court Palace with his wife and two children.

Mihály Orodán was born in Gyula, Hungary, with a pencil in his hand and a thumb up his nose. The only difference now is sometimes he uses a wacom tablet because it’s the future. Mike’s illustrations bring life to everything he touches, and have be seen gracing magazines, computer games, greeting cards and his twin boys’ bedroom wall.

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