A profound, unsettling and very funny new book from the cult artist, nominated for the Turner Prize 2013

How are you feeling?
Are you alright?

If you could open your mind like a handbag and show us what was inside, what would we see?
A bit of a mess?

Don't worry.
This is a self-help book.
You'll feel better very soon.

"Excellent . . . There's more to Shrigley than his knowing nods to high art" - * Guardian, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery *

"Shrigley deserves his immense popularity. For almost 20 years he has produced a ceaseless stream of ideas, observations, jokes and strange insights in the form of left-field drawings that have appeared in broadsheet newspapers, books and magazines as well as galleries. Deadpan, escapist and distinctively cack-handed, they make up a little world in themselves" - * Observer *

"Simultaneously unsettling and humorous" - * Designboom, on Brain Activity, at the Hayward Gallery *

"Shrigley mines a mordant, scatological seam, conjuring up the dark tradition of British humour that threw up Tony Hancock and Chris Morris." - * The Times *

"[A] master of modern surrealism." - * Evening Standard *

"A must for fans of the absurd." - * ES magazine *

"Half man, half legend." - * The Skinny *

"An artist touched by comic genius and something like full-blown lunacy." - * The Lady *

"David Shrigley messes with my head." - * Scotland on Sunday *

"One of the most successful contemporary artists of his generation . . . Sketchy, darkly humorous, occasionally violent and always arch, his drawings and animations are stylistically naïve, and his sculptures are intentionally awkward" - * CityLife *