Even as a very young child, Simon King was passionate about the natural world. Being savaged by a rabid cheetah, charged at by rhinos and elephants and defecated upon by a long list of birds and other animals may sound like hell to some. But these, along with countless other experiences alongside all things furry, scaly, slimy and feathery have provided him with an enormously rich bank of tales to relive and retell.With his professional life starting aged ten, acting in a television...

Publishing to coincide with Bradt's 40th anniversary, The Irresponsible Traveller is a light but edgy collection of travellers' tales. Travel writers and celebrities alike recount their exciting, and often dangerous, adventures which include being chased by a sea lion, accosted by Brazilian kidnappers and a midnight raid to free turtles on the Amazon. Over 40 years Bradt has built a reputation for publishing books covering the road less travelled, and this collection celebrates exactly the...

Long before he set foot on the islands, Big Cat Diary and Springwatch presenter, Simon King, fell in love with Shetland. This extraordinary northern wilderness is home to otters and a vast seabird colony, but it was a chance encounter with a killer whale that compelled him to spend a year getting to know the place of his boyhood dreams for a BBC series.With his wife and young daughter, Simon experienced Shetland through the changing seasons and discovered the wildlife and the warmt...

Nature Watch is the ultimate guide to watching British wildlife, from renowned naturalist and TV presenter Simon King.More and more people are discovering the joys of being out and about in the British countryside. Yet surprisingly few of us know where and what to look for when spotting wild animals in their natural habitats.In Nature Watch Simon King teaches you how to use your eyes and ears to find and follow creatures, how to identify t...

'Clear, succinct and engaging answers to every question you could ask about the weather.' Gavin Pretor-Pinney, author of The Cloudspotter's GuideWhy doesn't rain fall all at once?Can technology change the track of a hurricane?What's the weather like on other planets?Meteorologists Simon King and Clare Nasir reveal the captivating ways the weather works, from exploring incred...

With the coming flood of connected products, many UX and interaction designers are looking into hardware design, a discipline largely unfamiliar to them. If you’re among those who want to blend digital and physical design concepts successfully, this practical book helps you explore seven long-standing principles of industrial design.Two present and former design directors at IDEO, the international design and innovation firm, use real-world examples to describe industrial designs t...

My book takes place in Bangor, ME after WWII. It is a story about a group of USMC vets of WW II. One such vet has an attack of vertigo while driving. A local policeman, noted for his aggressive tactics, pulls the vet to the curb for his erratic driving. During the ensuing questioning, the vet vomits on the cop's Blues. Enraged, the cop uses his ever present blackjack on the ex-Marine. The ex-Marine dies on the operating table. Awareness of the vet's death, coupled with knowledge of this co...

The Romanian Incident is a locked-door, murder mystery in the style of Agatha Christies best work. The novel features a bizarre murder at an elegant hotel in the Romanian mountains and challenges KGB agent Polina Tolkunova to find the killer among the hotel's mysterious guests before another murder happens. Set during the Cold War in Romania, the novel is the first in a series of murder mysteries by screenwriter Simon King.

A jailed killer. A new string of murders. Copycat or something worse?Jim Lawson spent decades trying to forget the monster he put behind bars. Labelled the man who captured the Devil, a desperate police chief calls on him a second time, to lend his expertise on tracking a new killer. When a fresh string of murders hits a small community, each resembling an evil long thought locked up, terror grips a town still bearing the scars from the original slaughter. As the bo...

A body by a lake. A freshly buried coffin. But which is the murder victim?When an elderly man is found dead on a bench overlooking Eagle Lake in Maine, the authorities eventually identify 74-year-old Nathanial Johns. But what they discover leaves more questions than answers. Having been laid to rest hundreds of miles away, the authorities are stunned to find a fresh corpse in his reburied coffin.Soon more bodies show up, each replaced with a fresh victim to lie in their ste...

When multiple inmates start turning up dead at a Californian Correctional Facility, John Milton steps in and Sam and Tim are assigned to find the culprit. With the team split on either side of the fence, both race against time to discover the true identity of the killer.As Sam dons an officer’s uniform and Tim joins the general population, the pair will have to work quickly to save the lives of more innocent victims. With the body count rising and a system struggling to stop the vi...

A one-woman army. A war on two fronts. This time, it’s personal.With her world thrown into chaos, Sam relinquishes all connections with Pogrom when she starts hunting a ruthless killer who’s made it personal. This is no ordinary hunt, as each seeks retribution for spilled blood. With a cat-and-mouse chase involving two predators seeking vengeance, Sam will have to rely on all her skills and cunning to end up the victor.But with her attention focused elsewhere and the team w...