'Joyfully absurd and hilarious.' ADAM KAY
'One of the funniest things I've ever read. It is brilliant.' CLAUDIA WINKLEMAN

Here before you is Joe Wilkinson's brilliantly absurd and utterly fictional account of his time on - and briefly off - planet Earth.

Through cartoon stories (illustrated by Henry Paker) Joe recounts the defining moments and bizarre encounters of his imaginary life - from his schoolboy misfortunes to his formative years on the dating scene, to his money-making schemes and globetrotting adventures.

With tall stories including...

-Winning 'most nits' at school
-That time I threw a turd into a tornado
-Becoming the bad boy of fly tipping
-The disastrous double date
-My car airbag addiction
-The time I tunnelled too far out of prison and ended up in the prison next door
-The real reason Bigfoot went into hiding

...this book is a delightfully absurd journey into the mind of a comic maverick.

Hilarious, heart-warming and utterly unique, Joe Wilkinson: My Autobiography is the off-the-wall life story of one of our most beloved and unorthodox comedians.

How can I tell when someone is flirting with me? . How can I be a more confident flirt? . How do I avoid rejection? . Where are all the good men and women hiding? Flirtology is THE dating guide for the 21st century. In an age of swiping left and right, and hiding behind online profiles, this book shows you how to replace connectivity with connection. Flirtology debunks the myths that surround flirting in order to help you find love. It helps you to analyse what you are looking for in a potential partner, shows you how to practise your interaction skills and how to unlock your inner flirt. It will give you the confidence to speak to anyone, anywhere and get results - without every compromising who you are. It's not about games, rules and tricks - it's about presenting your real self so that you will attract the right people for you.

Depressed tutors and disillusioned students. Cheating parents and greedy vice chancellors. Welcome to the shadowy world of academia.

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Meet The Secret Professor: he/she has spoken at university Open Days, sat on committees, guides many through their degrees and spent decades climbing the increasingly greasy career ladder - only to realise that it is all bullshit. In fact, the system is broken at its core.

The Secret Professor tells it all. From outdated course structures and campus politics to what tuition fees are really spent on. From 'The Oxford Mafia', identity politics, culture wars and scandal in the #MeToo era to writing papers no one reads and turning ill-equipped lecturers into therapists and sexual health advisors, he/she lifts the lid on the shadowy world of higher education. Within the pages is a deeper truth - that most of us know someone who has gone to university, is studying at one or hopes to do so in future. Yet none of us know what's really going on.

Unflinching and thoroughly humorous, this first-hand account provides an insider's narrative on how the founding principles of academia are in decline and why we should all consider what this means for the students of today, tomorrow and the world they will shape.

Manchester appears to be suffering from a nasty dose of the vampires, which is just the sort of story the weekly newspaper The Stranger Times likes to get its teeth into. Or perhaps it's the other way round...? This Charming Man is the hugely entertaining second novel in the Stranger Times series.

Vampires do not exist. Everyone knows this. So it's particularly annoying when they start popping up around Manchester . . .

Nobody is pleased about it. Not the Founders, the secret organization for whom vampires were invented as an allegory, nor the Folk, the magical people hidden in plain sight who only want a quiet life. And definitely not the people of Manchester, because there is nothing more irksome than being murdered by an allegory run amok. Somebody needs to sort this out fast before all Hell really breaks loose - step forward the staff of The Stranger Times.

It's not like they don't have enough to be dealing with. Assistant Editor Hannah has come back from getting messily divorced to discover that someone is trying to kidnap a member of their staff and while editor Vincent Banecroft would be delighted to see the back of any of his team, he doesn't like people touching his stuff - it's the principle of the thing.

Throw in a precarious plumbing situation, gambling debts, an entirely new way of swearing, and a certain detective inspector with what could be kindly referred to as 'a lot of baggage' and it all adds up to another hectic week in the life of the newspaper committed to reporting the truth that nobody else will touch.

This Charming Man is the second book in the critically acclaimed The Stranger Times series.

A SPECTATOR BEST BOOK OF 2021

'Richard Dawkins is a thunderously gifted science writer.' Sunday Times

'It may be a collection of shorter parts, but the book is in no sense Dawkins made simple. It amounts to a substantive whole which offers a unitary panoramic view across his entire intellectual life.' Spectator

Including conversations with Neil DeGrasse Tyson, Steven Pinker, Matt Ridley and more, this is an essential guide to the most exciting ideas of our time and their proponents from our most brilliant science communicator.

Books Do Furnish a Life is divided by theme, including celebrating nature, exploring humanity, and interrogating faith. For the first time, it brings together Richard Dawkins' forewords, afterwords and introductions to the work of some of the leading thinkers of our age - Carl Sagan, Lawrence Krauss, Jacob Bronowski, Lewis Wolpert - with a selection of his reviews to provide an electrifying celebration of science writing, both fiction and non-fiction. It is also a sparkling addition to Dawkins' own remarkable canon of work.

Plenty of other scientists write well, but no one writes like Dawkins... here is Dawkins the teacher, the scholar, the polemicist, the joker, the aesthete, the poet, the satirist, the man of compassion as well as indignation, the slayer of superstition and, above all, the scientist. - Areo Magazine

The unmissable new Sunday Times bestseller about life in elite motorsport, from the Formula 1 sensation and author Surviving To Drive, Guenther Steiner.
With a foreword by Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 CEO Toto Wolff.

Fasten your seatbelts as Formula 1's favourite underdog, Guenther Steiner, takes you on a wild, behind-the-scenes ride through his ten years at Team Haas.

From the first seeds of his idea to establish a new F1 team, to the challenges of funding and building that team from the ground up, Guenther shares the real story of the origins of Team Haas, immersing readers in the highs and lows of its first decade on the grid, and opening up about his departure from the team at the end of 2023.

As Guenther recalls his proudest achievements, as well as the many, many disasters he has faced, he takes readers behind the scenes, into the pit lanes and garages, and out on to the circuits of the world's greatest race tracks.

Told in his inimitable style and packed with hugely entertaining stories, outspoken opinions and unvarnished truths, this is Guenther at his very best - insightful, opinionated and completely unfiltered.

Praise for Surviving to Drive:
'A brilliant, brilliant book.' Matt Baker, Sky Sport F1 Podcast
'A gleeful guide to a bonkers sport from a loveable rogue insider.' The Times
'It's gripping to read. It's funny, it's real, it's exciting. It's a brilliant book.' Chris Evans
'Lifts the lid on life as a Formula One team principal. The book gives us honest, unfiltered Steiner.' The Athletic

Surviving to Drive, Number 1 Sunday Times Bestseller, April 2023
Unfiltered, Top 10 Sunday Times Bestseller, October 2024

Are you happy with your life? Fulfilled by your career? Satisfied that you are reaching your potential? Is it time to make a change? In Direct Action, Special Forces veteran and number one bestselling author, Jason Fox, uses the principles of elite military operations to create a revolutionary programme of personal challenges that will help you to reboot, change your thinking, and rebalance your life. Broken down into the four cycles of warfare, each chapter encourages you to embrace new habits and break bad ones, to get out of your comfort zone and form fresh routines, to build healthier relationships, set new goals and broaden your capabilities. Part manifesto for a more adventurous life, part playbook for military grade productivity, Direct Action will push you physically and mentally to become the best version of yourself.

A gripping and explosive account of Vladimir Putin's tyranny, charting his rise from spy to tsar, exposing the events that led to his invasion of Ukraine and his assault on Europe. In Killer in the Kremlin, award-winning journalist John Sweeney takes readers from the heart of Putin's Russia to the killing fields of Chechnya, to the embattled cities of an invaded Ukraine. In a disturbing exposé of Putin's sinister ambition, Sweeney draws on thirty years of his own reporting - from the Moscow apartment bombings to the atrocities committed by the Russian Army in Chechnya, to the annexation of Crimea and a confrontation with Putin over the shooting down of flight MH17 - to understand the true extent of Putin's long war. Drawing on eyewitness accounts and compelling testimony from those who have suffered at Putin's hand, we see the heroism of the Russian opposition, the bravery of the Ukrainian resistance, and the brutality with which the Kremlin responds to such acts of defiance, assassinating or locking away its critics, and stopping at nothing to achieve its imperialist aims.

An illustrated guide to London's best pubs and their extraordinary history, presented by the founder of the world-famous Liquid History Tours

Pull up a stool for a thirst-quenching trundle through London's liquid history in search of the city's greatest pubs. We pop in for a pint in Shakespeare's local, pull up a stool at Jack the Ripper's bar, and push open the bloodstained doors of the Bucket of Blood.

Exploring the watering holes of London's writers and artists, its most notorious criminals and celebrated figures, from architectural marvels to secretive backstreet boozers, we help join the dots for London's ultimate knees-up.

Liquid History is a beautifully illustrated love letter to London's finest hostelries, written by the city's leading pub tour guide and host of the celebrated Liquid History Tours. Profiling over 50 timeless boozers, this book tells the story of London's history and the taverns that have hosted, harbored, and refreshed its leading characters.

Andy Hamilton has tried hundreds, if not thousands, of pints from the avalanche of new flavors now available and has convinced commercial, craft and home brewers across Britain to share some of their top-secret best recipes. So why not swap a pint of the usual for something more unusual? With this guide you'll learn how to taste--and talk--beer like the professionals, drink some of the finest ales made in Britain, and find out the secrets of a perfect porter, an irresistible IPA, a super stout and that marvelous mild. An in-depth tour of beer and brewing, this is the essential companion for anyone who enjoys a decent British pint.

'In this remarkable book, David Rowan tells a story of transformation: how an organisation has found a new way of doing things through innovation driven by ruthless entrepreneurial imagination. What is especially useful is that he does not just stick with small startups, let alone dreamy inventors. He finds innovation in big companies and even within governments.' - Matt Ridley, The Times
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David Rowan travels the globe in search of the most exciting and pioneering startups building the future. He's got to know the founders of WhatsApp, LinkedIn, Google, Spotify, Xiaomi, Didi, Nest, Twitter and countless other ambitious entrepreneurs disrupting businesses in almost every sector. And yet too often the companies they're disrupting don't get it. They think they can innovate through jargon: with talk of change agents and co-creation gurus, ideas portals and webinars, make-a-thons and hackfests, paradigm shifts and pilgrimages to Silicon Valley. It's mostly pointless innovation theatre -- corporate nonsense that has little to do with delivering real change. But during this quest he's also discovered some genuinely exciting and transformative approaches to innovation, often in places you might least expect.

Get ready for:
- The airline that rewards passengers for walking their dog
- The bank that performs surgery
- The country that's an app store
And many more.

Packed full of tips for anyone looking for radical ways to adapt and thrive in the digital age, this carefully curated selection of stories will reveal ideas for creating genuine innovation from some of the world's most inspiring leaders.
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In 1450, all Europe's books were handcopied and amounted to only a few thousand. By 1500, they were printed and numbered in their millions. The invention of Johann Gutenberg had caused a revolution: printing by movable type. Born in 1400 in Mainz, Germany, Gutenberg struggled against a background of plague and religious upheaval to bring his remarkable invention to light. His story is full of paradoxes: his ambition was to reunite all Christendom, but his invention shattered it; he aimed to make a fortune, but was cruelly denied the fruits of his life's work. Yet history remembers him as a visionary; his discovery marks the beginning of the modern world.