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A series of six educational workbooks, in which primary school kids undertake reading and writing tasks while following along with an authentic and official Minecraft adventure story.
I contributed all of the the character and story material.
Link: https://collins.co.uk/collections/minecraft-education
Minecraft Annual 2021
Egmont, 2020
Featuring all the latest news in the world of Minecraft, the official Minecraft annual is a must have for all Minecraft fans. Discover the latest updates and the newest games, and find out insider info directly from the Mojang team about everything that has happened in the world of Minecraft over the past year, including features about the bee update, Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Minecraft-Annual-2021-Mojang-AB/dp/1405296399
Minecraft Annual 2022
Farshore, 2021
The official Minecraft Annual 2021 is packed with activities, build ideas and survival challenges to try out in-game. Featuring all the latest news in the world of Minecraft, the official Minecraft Annual is a must have for all Minecraft fans. Discover the latest updates and the newest games, including features on the Cliffs and Caves update, Minecraft Dungeons and Minecraft Earth.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Minecraft-Annual-2022-Mojang-AB/dp/0755501071/
The Ultimate Guide to Billie Eilish
Studio Press, 2020
Find out everything there is to know about the coolest artist around! Packed with fascinating facts about Billie’s life so far and her meteoric rise to fame, in this book you’ll meet her family, learn what makes her tick, figure out how to decode her songs, discover how to get her style and even learn how to dance like her! And test your super-fan status with fun quizzes. Illustrated throughout with epic photos of Billie in action, this is a must-have for fans of the international, award-winning superstar.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ultimate-Guide-Billie-Eilish-Unofficial/dp/1787418367/
The World of Peaky Blinders
Studio Press, 2020
Journey back into postwar Britain and meet television’s most notorious family of charismatic characters – as well as the real gangsters who inspired the show. Master the skills that Tommy and the gang relied upon to make their way in life, shuffle through the soundtrack to their adventures and test your knowledge on the ins and outs of the Shelby empire. So, don your flat cap and head to the Garrison. Thomas Shelby will see you now.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1787417654/
Game Over
Studio Game Press, 2017
This humorous yet fond look at gaming of old is sure to have gamers shaking their heads in wonder and chuckling at the craziness of what we had to put up with. And yet there is no denying that many of the games we played back in that golden era have helped to shape the world of gaming and brought us to where we are now.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1787410951/
Self-Help for Superheroes
Ice House Books, 2019
Are you a superhero surrounded by us mere mortals? Featuring original artwork and comical pieces of advice, this book offers the superheroes among us ideas to help them live an ordinary life. A perfect gift for the superhero in your life.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/1912867281/
Speccy Nation
Zebra Publishing, 2012
Journey back to the dawn of the British game industry to experience 50 classic and not-so-classic games that helped to define their medium. Forced by the ZX Spectrum’s peculiar hardware to be more inventive, more ingenious, and more interesting than their rivals, these are the games that made Britain one of the titans of the games industry.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speccy-Nation-tribute-golden-British/dp/1479193925/
Speccy Nation Volume 2
Zebra Publishing, 2016
The long-awaited follow up to best-selling retro gaming book Speccy Nation! Join veteran games writer Dan Whitehead on a ten-year journey through the dizzying highs and bewildering lows of 1980s pop culture, the cult TV shows, the forgotten cartoons and the blockbuster movies as captured in the bizarre, brilliant and often just terrible tie-in ZX Spectrum games that defined the first ever digital decade.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speccy-Nation-1982-1992-Digital-Decade/dp/1540656047/
The Official Star Wars Annual 1999
Egmont, 1998
The last classic Star Wars book published before the release of The Phantom Menace, this fantastic Star Wars Official Annual features all the characters and technology from the world’s most famous space adventure and includes features, interviews, articles and quizzes from the popular movie trilogy.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0749837586/
What’s A Nice Actor Like You Doing In A Movie Like This?
Zebra Publishing, 2011
An exhaustive guide to the films that the great and good of Hollywood wish you’d never seen, and hope you’ll never remember. It doesn’t matter if the role in question marked an inauspicious debut or an ignoble ending; no career is safe from this tongue in cheek trawl through the dustbin of movie history.
“Laugh out loud funny” – JoBlo.com
“Informative and hilarious” – Collider.com
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Whats-Nice-Actor-Doing-Movie/dp/1456312812/
Tooth & Claw: A Field Guide to “Nature Run Amok” Horror Movies
Zebra Publishing, 2012
This book is your field guide to the menagerie of real-world beasts that have stalked us over the years, across land, sea and air, across screens both big and small. Call it “nature run amok” or “eco-horror”, but the animal attack genre has created some of the best movies ever made and some of the absolute worst. It echoes our most primal fears of a world we hold at arm’s length and says much about how we view ourselves in the process.
Link: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B00AM29520/