SELF MADE HERO

Edinburgh-based cartoonist Edward Ross uses comics to illuminate the ideas behind our favourite films. In Filmish, Ross's cartoon alter-ego guides readers through the annals of cinematic history, introducing us to some of the strange and fascinating concepts at work in the movies. Each chapter focuses on a particular theme - the body, architecture, language - and explores an eclectic mix of cinematic triump...

Peter Sis's deeply felt adaptation tells the story of a flock of birds who fly through seven valleys - quest, love, understanding, friendship, unity, amazement and death - to discover which one of them should be crowned king. When they find the legendary Simorgh, the true king, they finally find the answer, in this inspirational story of love, faith and the meaning of it all. Based on the 12th century ...

One Year Wiser is a book of 365 inspiring meditations. On every page are words of wisdom from thinkers both ancient and modern, from Marcus Aurelius to Virginia Woolf. Brought to life by Huffington Post blogger Mike Medaglia's stunning Japanese- and Chinese-influenced artwork, the spiritual teachings that fill this book will inspire readers to make thinking a daily habit. This is a book filled with the wise...

Its Dark in London features the work of Alan Moore, NeilGaiman, David McKean, Ilya, Carol Swain, Dix, Melinda Gebbie,in tandem with the stories of London writers like Iain Sinclair,Graeme Gordon, Christopher Petit and Stella Duffy. Thisfusion produces a portrait of London that captures the city'sfundamental essence as an exquisite mixture of lofty towersand gutter sleaze, of suburban gentility and urban dep...

Patricia Green is a middle-class, middle-aged romance novelist with writer's block. William Crowney, aka "Cougar", is a teenage runaway who has been surviving life on London's streets as a rent boy. Their lives couldn't be more different. But when, under extraordinary circumstances, William is invited into Patricia's suburban home, they realise they have more in common than loneliness and desperation: both ...

Just over 225 years ago, one of the most incredible odysseys in human history took place. 1,500 men and women were crammed aboard 11 ships and transported to the other side of the planet. They were criminals, outcasts, renegades: the scum of England. Having travelled over 24,000km, across three oceans, they arrived at a country that did not yet exist. For some, it was a one-way trip to hell; for others, it ...