BIRDS OF PARADISE
by Oliver Langmead
published by Titan Books, 8 April 2021
Many millennia after the fall of Eden, Adam, the first man in creation, still walks the Earth—exhausted by the endless death and destruction, he is a shadow of his former hope and glory. And he is not the only one. The Garden was deconstructed, its pieces scattered across the world and its inhabitants condemned to live out immortal lives, hiding in plain sight from generations of mankind.
But now pieces of the Garden are turning up on the Earth. After centuries of loneliness, Adam, haunted by the golden time at the beginning of Creation, is determined to save the pieces of his long lost home. With the help of Eden’s undying exiles, he must stop Eden becoming the plaything of mankind.
Adam journeys across America and the British Isles with Magpie, Owl, and other animals, gathering the scattered pieces of Paradise. As the country floods once more, Adam must risk it all to rescue his friends and his home—because rebuilding the Garden might be the key to rebuilding his life.
This single internal illustration was designed and created for the book, Birds of Paradise. The image depicts two of the primary characters, Adam and Magpie, with visual symbolic references to the events of the book.
Below this is a painting of magpie commissioned for an early draft of the story, and next to this are two variant colour designs which were used in the promotion of the book’s release.
