SelfMadeHero

Follow the entire painting career of Rembrandt, one of the greatest painters and printmakers in European art history and the most important in Dutc...

Rick Rouse is a US Army deserter who, after running away to China, gets a job at Fengxian Amusement Park, a family destination heavily inspired by ...

Patricia Green is a middle-class, middle-aged romance novelist with writers block. William Crowney, aka Cougar, is a teenage runaway who has been s...

Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to rev...

The inspiration for Old, a Blinding Edge Pictures production, directed and produced by two-time Oscar nominee M. Night Shyamalan, from his screenpl...

The highly anticipated new standalone full-color graphic novel from Bryan Lee OMalley, author and artist of the hugely bestselling Scott Pilgrim gr...

Nathaniel Wingate Peaslee is a professor of political economy at Miskatonic University. Following a fainting spell in 1908 he returns to his senses...

One morning in June 1941, a quiet village in Central Lithuania is shaken out of its slumber by the sudden arrival of the Soviet Army. Eight-year-ol...

In Gods name, what does it mean? It means murder... When Miss Mary Morstan calls on 221B Baker Street, the utterly inexplicable story she tells sti...

Texas, 1872. With the Civil War over, exploration has resumed in the territories to the west of the Mississippi, and the geologist Stingley is look...

Who of us could not confess to liking food, sleeping and things that shine at least sometimes? Or dream about becoming rich? This is also true of...

One day, Sophie receives a cryptic letter posing an intriguing question: Who are you? A second message soon follows: Where does the world come fro...

Sophies come a long way since the day she received that cryptic letter with its intriguing question: Who are you?. The mysterious correspondence s...

For the high-flying, heavy-drinking advertising boss Tom Banbury, the art of persuasion relies on an infiltration of the consumers mind. In the cas...

Theres the scarlet thread of murder and our duty is to unravel it! A mans body is found in a bloodstained room - without a scratch on it. A name ha...

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 tra...

It is, perhaps, the perfect video game. Simple yet addictive, Tetris delivers an irresistible, unending puzzle that has players hooked. Play it lon...

In a series of hilarious parodies, Sylvain Coissard and Alexis Lemoine answer the nagging questions of art history: what caused The Scream? Why is ...

Typography confronts us everywhere: in books and newspapers, on road signs, product packaging and political leaflets. It is ubiquitous to the poin...

The Motherless Oven and The Can Openers Daughter may have raised more questions than they answered. But The Book of Forks explains everything. Cas...

Poland,1941. Sixteen-year-old Hertzko Haft is sent to Auschwitz. Separated from his family and his fiancée, he draws a will to survive from the tho...

In the British Comic Award-winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: Who the hell is Vera Pike? In the second part of Rob Davis trilogy, we ...

When the young Charles Dexter Ward becomes fascinated by the history of his wizard ancestor Joseph Curwen, who gained notoriety for haunting gravey...

Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities...

The protagonist, known only as K., arrives in a mountain village buried under deep snows in the middle of winter, with the looming, titular, castle...

On the eve of the release of his latest movie, The Lady From Shanghai, Orson Welles receives a gift: an admirer has sent him a box of cigars. Rich...

Since 2010, Martin Rowson has been documenting the highs and lows mainly the lows of the Tory-Lib Dem coalition week after week in The Guardian, ...

Which kings couldnt speak English, or stammered when they could? Who were Softsword and Sailor Bill? Which king had 10 children with his mistress b...

Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engelss Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a power...

More than 400 years ago, Spanish author Miguel de Cervantes (15471616) sent his irrepressible optimist of a hero out to tilt at windmills. Today D...

The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sís i...

Hans Holbeins 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great...

Three times Randolph Carter dreamed of the marvelous city, and three times was he snatched away while still he paused on the high terrace above it....

A book based on a soundtrack score that has not yet been composed for a feature film that does not yet exist. Pixies frontman Black Francis has ap...

I read it and reread it, and wept and laughed and trembled with a horror which at times assails me yet. The supernatural stories that make up Robe...

A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master of the eerie. Featuring collaborations between established writers and artists as well as de...

Victor Hugos scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britains political system tells a story of abduction, mutilation, loss and ...

Moomintroll (with a little help from his friends and family) shows us how to explore the world beyond our doorstep, inventing games, making toys, e...

You'll find all the secrets to the tasty dishes prepared by the unflappable Moominmamma. There are dishes for every occasion from potatoes au grat...

The Weather Clock said knife o'clock so I chained Dad up in the shed. In Scarper Lees world, parents dont make children children make parents. Sc...