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Penguin Random House Children's UK Dr. Seuss Graphic Novel Cat Out of Water
Book SynopsisDiscover Dr. Seuss's whimsical world like never before in this colourful graphic novel companion to The Cat in the Hat! With all-new illustrations and easy-to-read panelled storytelling, this is the perfect next step for young readers moving on to chapter books!It's a normal day with normal chores for Sally and her brother . . . Until everything turns topsy-turvy when the Cat in the Hat arrives! With a whirlwind of fun, and the hilarious but chaotic antics of Thing 1 and Thing 2, the day promises to be anything but boring. Yet Sally's wise pet, the Fish, warns them about letting the Cat stay. The question looms: Can they wrap up their tasks before their parents return, or will the Cat's zany escapades throw them off course?With charming illustrations and easy-to-follow panelled storytelling, this graphic novel series is an excellent bridge for kids moving into independent reading a must-have for young readers and Dr. Seuss fans alike.
£9.49
Little, Brown & Company Yotsuba Vol 3
Book SynopsisYotsuba is a strange little girl with a big personality! Even in the most trivial, unremarkable encounters, Yotsuba''s curiosity and enthusiasm quickly turn the everyday into the extraordinary!
£10.44
Clarkson Potter/Ten Speed I Was Their American Dream A Graphic Memoir
Book Synopsis“A portrait of growing up in America, and a portrait of family, that pulls off the feat of being both intimately specific and deeply universal at the same time. I adored this book.”—Jonny Sun “[A] high-spirited graphical memoir . . . Gharib’s wisdom about the power and limits of racial identity is evident in the way she draws.”—NPRWINNER OF THE ARAB AMERICAN BOOK AWARD • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY NPR • The New York Public Library • Kirkus ReviewsI Was Their American Dream is at once a coming-of-age story and a reminder of the thousands of immigrants who come to America in search for a better life for themselves and their children. The daughter of parents with unfulfilled dreams themselves, Malaka navigated her childhood chasing her parents' ideals, learning to code-switch between her family's Filipino and Egyptian customs, adapt
£12.59
Faber & Faber Sleepwalk
Book SynopsisAn old woman returns alone to the spot where as a young girl she used to meet her lover on his daily lunch break. An unsuspecting couple find themselves drawn to a window to watch the neighbours'' kinky play turn into something more sinister. Twin teenage sisters make an awkward pilgrimage with their ageing-hippie father. A young guy misses his flight and returns to observe a kind of alternate version of his own life, one from which he seems to have vanished. Sleepwalk is a classic Tomine collection, a series of vignettes that scratch beneath the surface of seemingly well-adjusted lives.
£13.49
Faber & Faber Alone
Book SynopsisEvery week a supply boat leaves provisions, yet the fishermen never leave their boat, and never meet him.Years spent on this deserted rock, with imagination his sole companion, has made the lighthouse keeper something more than alone, something else entirely.
£14.39
Random House USA Inc Rescue Party
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£17.85
Penguin Putnam Inc Huda F Wants to Know A Graphic Novel
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£14.39
Oneworld Publications Quinn
Book SynopsisA piercingly original debut about the limits of forgiveness, from an award-winning Scottish poet* A Scotsman ''Best Book of 2023'' * From an award-winning Scottish poet, an unforgettable novel about memory and radical forgiveness How far would you go to overcome the limits of your own forgiveness? Quinn is serving a life sentence for a crime he''s convinced he hasn''t committed. Surely the authorities have got it wrong, and when they find his childhood sweetheart, Andrea, his name will be cleared. His parole date is drawing near when he receives an unexpected letter from Andrea''s mother, who invites Quinn to share her home. It soon becomes clear that what appears to be a genuine act of forgiveness is influenced by more complex motivations. As the duo navigate the thorny terrain of guilt, justice and mutual need that underpins their relationship, the story of Quinn''s past is gradually revealed, setting Trade Review'Quite remarkable... Strang is an exceptionally accomplished writer.' -- The Scotsman'Eerie and moving... Quinn is a haunting fable about redemption, rendered in otherworldly, poetic prose.' -- FT'A fascinating fever dream of a book... What a novelistic debut from Em Strang.' -- AL Kennedy, author of We Are Attempting to Survive Our Time'Arresting… [with] a Max Porter-like intensity.' -- Daily Mail'Hypnotically beautiful... It has the rare quality of being precise and gripping while at the same time leaving you radically uncertain as to what has actually happened.' -- Mark Haddon, author of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime 'Reads like a fever dream... Delicate and touching... This devastating story [is] one of redemption too.' -- New Statesman'I read it at a sitting, compelled by this strange and beautiful work... An astonishing feat of imagination.' -- Gwen Adshead, author of The Devil You Know'Em Strang's is a true voice, and Quinn is that rarity, an original work of fiction, which excavates trauma and memory and refuses the frameworks placed on it. This book is its own landscape. Strange and powerful.' -- Paul Kingsnorth, author of The Wake, winner of the Gordon Burn Prize'Such graceful prose with not a wasted breath; such grounded sharing from the magma of experience.' -- Alastair McIntosh, author of Soil and Soul'A beautifully constructed and mesmerizing book that makes you think afresh about the enduring residue of pain both for those who have committed acts of violence and those affected by them. A brave and original attempt to answer our culture of dehumanization with a story that rehumanizes at every level.' -- Marina Cantacuzino, author of The Forgiveness Project‘That Em Strang is a poet comes as no surprise. She packs the text with natural imagery and quirky linguistic choices… The novel is compelling and original.’ -- Literary Review'Short but intense… [Strang] clearly realises that her readers are watching out for the first sign of any dash towards the predictable. Her talent lies in the way that she keeps them inside Quinn’s fraying, frightened mind... Imaginative, compelling and refreshingly cliche-free.' -- Books from Scotland'This novel had us gripped from start to finish!' -- Closer 'A subtle and sophisticated exploration of forgiveness and motive.' -- Books from Scotland'Quinn teems with poetic effects... A piece of writing that subverts the novel’s traditional narrative techniques – plot, dialogue, character development – and replaces them instead with the allusive and symbolic devices of an extended prose poem.' -- TLS
£14.24
First Second You Belong Here
Book SynopsisA young adult graphic novel following Essie through heartbreak, star-crossed romance, teen drama, and the question on every high-school senior's lips: where do I belong?It's the first day of senior year and seventeen-year-old Essie Rosen is already over it. Her best friend went off to college and barely responds to her texts, her brother's on the other side of the country in rehab, every conversation with her mom becomes a fight, and her long-term boyfriend, Bruno, feels weirdly distant. Essie's counting down the days until she can escape her Long Island hometown and join her bff at NYU, where she's SURE she'll get into the acting program she's dreamed about for years.But when Essie gets dumped AND botches her college audition, her entire trajectory changes. Instead of doing community theater, she ends up slumming it in the school play, where she's cast opposite the unexpectedly charming Christopher Sun...the younger brother of the drug dealer who got E
£14.39
Marvel Comics Star Wars Mace Windu The Twilight Run
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£13.49
Penguin Random House Group Star Wars The High Republic Phase II Quest of
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£50.24
Hyperion Iggy Who Breathes Fire
Book SynopsisMeet Iggy, a fiery new hero who knows exactly what she''s about?no matter what others think.This hilarious picture book celebrates self-awareness and is perfect for fans of IMOGENE?S ANTLERS and THE PAPER BAG PRINCESS.Iggy was born to set the world on fire?literally. Her parents aren?t so sure. They bring in the experts?a professor, fire chief, librarian, and doctor?who suggest everything from eating ice cream to sitting in a cold room, but none can help her tame her fire.Hilarious and heartwarming (get it?) in equal measure, IGGY WHO BREATHES FIRE celebrates that kids are the true experts when it comes to their own identity, and it?s up to them to decide when and how to share themselves with the world.
£13.49
Hodder & Stoughton The Manga Bible
Book SynopsisFrom the creation of the earth to the ultimate showdown between the forces of good and evil, this is the greatest story ever told.This manga adaptation of the Holy Bible tells the story of God''s relationship with his people, from the creation of the earth and the early history of the Israelites, to the life of Jesus, his death, and the adventures of the first ever church.This is a faithful manga adaptation of the Bible, injected with energy by Siku''s beautiful and dramatic artwork.
£11.69
DC Comics Absolute Sandman Volume Two
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£85.50
DC Comics Get Jiro
Book SynopsisA New York Times BestsellerIn a not-too-distant future L.A. where master chefs rule the town like crime lords and people literally kill for a seat at the best restaurants, a bloody culinary war is raging.On one side, the Internationalists, who blend foods from all over the world into exotic delights. On the other, the Vertical Farm, who prepare nothing but organic, vegetarian, macrobiotic dishes. Into this maelstrom steps Jiro, a renegade and ruthless sushi chef, known to decapitate patrons who dare request a California Roll, or who stir wasabi into their soy sauce. Both sides want Jiro to join their factions. Jiro, however has bigger ideas, and in the end, no chef may be left alive!Anthony Bourdain, top chef, acclaimed writer (Kitchen Confidential, Medium Raw) and star of the hit travel show, No Reservations, co-writes with Joel Rose (Kill Kill Faster Faster, The Blackest Bird) this stylized send-up of food culture and society, with detailed and dynamic art by Langdon Foss.Trade Review"'Get Jiro!'" unfolds in a dystopian version of Los Angeles where today's (mostly) polite and academic discussions about food have evolved into grisly gastronomic feuds.... In some ways, "Get Jiro!" represents a coming-full-circle thing for Mr. Bourdain."—The New York Times"What's an ex-yakuza enforcer turned sushi chef to do, ask culinary expert and author Bourdain (Medium Raw) and co-writer Joel Rose (La Pacifica) in this boisterous lampooning of food culture, a pet project for Bourdain, who seems to revel in the unrestrained narrative allowed in a comic book. Their answer will be enjoyable to anyone versed in samurai revenge stories or the films of Sam Peckinpah.... The book's saving grace is the wonderfully clean and detailed art by an all-star team of artists led by illustrator Foss, whose meticulously researched and composed visuals mirror Jiro's precision with a knife and produce equally appetizing results."—Publishers Weekly"Bourdain...promised 'an ultra-violent slaughter-fest over culinary arcane,' and he delivers pretty much exactly that....Bourdain let's his foodie id run wild, extolling the elegant simplicity of a peasant dish like pot-au-feu here and caving in skulls with sauté pans there. Foss' stubby, dough-faced figures walk a fine line between goofy and thuggish, and fall apart with great ickiness when dismembered. Equal parts blunt culinary opinion-mongering and satiric takedown of the very same chef-worship culture Bourdain helped create, this amusing diversion coasts comfortably in the wake of the standard bearer of gore-soaked foodie comics..."—Booklist
£13.49
DC Comics Blackest Night Saga
Book SynopsisThe prophecy of the Blackest Night has come to pass--a mysterious force is raising deceased heroes and villains into an army of undead Black Lanterns! The combined might of the Green Lantern Corps and an armada of living superbeings must now band together in a fight quite literally for their lives. The incredible saga from #1 New York Times bestselling writer Geoff Johns is collected here in its entirety for the first time ever in paperback in this new DC Essential Edition!A war has been brewing between the different colored Lantern Corps--the Green fighting the Yellow, the Red trying to destroy all, the Blue attempting to broker peace between the tribes. However, the real battle is yet to come: the undead Black Lanterns are coming and seemingly nothing can stop them. Putting aside old vendettas, it''s up to Hal Jordan and the Green Lantern Corps to lead DC''s greatest champions as well as their deadliest foes in a battle to save the Universe from an army of the dTrade Review"The talk of the comic book world." --USA Weekend "The dead will rise. And that's good news for comic book readers in Space Sector 2814." --New York Daily News
£19.80
Abrams Leo Rising
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£17.09
Abrams From Above
Book Synopsis An innovative, award-winning graphic novel that uses the visual language of infographics to tell the story of Simon—an average teenager whose brush with a fortune teller sends him on a surreal adventureThe Color of Things is an internationally acclaimed, groundbreaking graphic novel that tells its story from a bird’s-eye view. Characters are depicted as colored circles in a graphic and strikingly designed visual approach reminiscent of Chris Ware's. Readers are forced to actively engage with the story as its relatively simple setup unfolds into a shocking and surreal adventure. Thrilling, funny, fresh, and surprising, The Color of Things is a one-of-a-kind graphic novel that is impossible to put down. Simon is an unpopular and awkward 14-year-old boy. Overweight, eager to please, and well-meaning, no matter how hard he tries, his lot in life is to be bullied by the neighborhood children and neglected by his a
£17.09
Penguin Random House Group Critical Role The Chronicles of Exandria The
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£33.74
Penguin Random House Group Dudley Datson and the Forever Machine
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£15.29
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. The Asiri Volume 1
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£16.19
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Eerie Archives Volume 6
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£19.54
Penguin Random House Group Tear Us Apart
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£16.19
Penguin Random House Group The Midnite Show
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£16.19
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Census
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£17.84
Penguin Random House Group Yellow
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£19.54
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Summer Shadows
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£19.99
Penguin Random House Group Holler
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£22.94
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Canto Volume 3 Tales of the Unnamed World Canto
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£22.94
Penguin Random House Group Ruthless Render Volume 2
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£11.69
Penguin Random House Group Neptune
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£18.39
Dark Horse Comics,U.S. Eerie Archives Volume 10
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£19.54
Dark Horse Comics Eerie Archives Volume 11
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£24.79
Dynamite Entertainment Vampirella The Dark World Vol. 1
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£16.19
Andrews McMeel Publishing I Hated You in High School
Book SynopsisTess hasn’t spoken to Olive in ten years and she’s not about to start now…readers will delight in this enemies-to-lovers graphic novel with a queer twist: I Hated You in High School.Struggling 20-something Tessa has a dead-end job as a barista and the dream of a creative career that never quite seems to take off. When the coffee shop where she works goes out of business, she's able to go home for the first time in years. Arriving at her family home, she discovers that her parents have rented out the basement apartment to her high school nemesis, Olive Virtue. Tempers flare between the women during Tess’s stay, but an accident that traps them in the attic forces them to face their past and think about their future. I Hated You in High School is an enemies-to-lovers story inspired by classic romantic movies—with a queer twist. Author and illustrator Kathleen Gros has expanded her short story webcomic into a beautiful tale of love and learning.
£13.49
Quercus Publishing The Night Alphabet: the electrifying debut novel
Book Synopsis'Joelle Taylor has a Midas touch with words' Diana SouhamiA Cosmo best books to look forward to in 2024 pick 'A glorious jewel of a novel' Sophie Ward'Exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written' Salena Godden'A mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today' The Bookseller'Hugely imaginative' Marie Claire (Best New Books, 2024)---------------------------------------------------------------------------------The tattoo was a reclamation, a flag we mounted in the centre of our own landscape.A woman walks into a tattoo parlour. But this is no ordinary woman, and this is Hackney in 2233. Jones' body is covered in tattoos but she wants to add one final inking to her gallery - a thin line of ink mixed with blood that connects her body art together, creating a unique map.As the two artists set to work, Jones tells them the story behind each tattoo. As Jones is no ordinary woman, these are no ordinary stories: each one represents a doorway to a life Jones fell into, a 'remembering'. Some of these lives were in the past, others in the future, some are sideways, but each of them connects Jones to the two tattoo artists in some way, though they are unaware of it.We visit the dystopian cities of the Quiet Men, the coal mines of 19th century Lancashire, join a gang of vigilante sex workers, enter the world of an INCEL murderer, haunt the old Maryville gay bar, and uncover plans to genetically modify female children. Each of the stories brings us closer to Jones' truth, and how her life is intricately interwoven with that of the women tattooing her body.Set across geographies and timespans, The Night Alphabet is a dazzlingly bold and original work, a deep investigation into human nature and violence against women.Trade ReviewThe Night Alphabet is a glorious jewel of a novel, rich with language and story, that glows in your mind's eye long after you have set it down. Taylor manages to combine her vivid poetry with a truly engaging tale of female resilience, an Illustrated Woman for our times. -- Sophie Ward, author of Love and Other Thought ExperimentsJoelle Taylor's debut novel The Night Alphabet is phenomenal. This book is exhilarating, profoundly beautiful and exquisitely written, it is poetic, empowered, courageous. The Night Alphabet is an inspired piece of truly magical and brilliant story telling. -- Salena GoddenA mesmerising debut from one of the most talented literary stylists writing today. * The Bookseller *This hugely imaginative debut by TS Elliott-prizewinning poet Taylor pulls no punches... a fierce, tender - at times highly uncomfortable - study of power, agency and resilience. * Marie Claire (Best New Books, 2024) *Exquisitely written . . . Joelle Taylor reveals herself as an extraordinary storyteller. * The Skinny *
£17.09
Image Comics Snotgirl Volume 4 Make It Make Sense
Book SynopsisOne of comics' best psychological thrill rides. IGNEveryone's favorite queer, messy girl with terrible allergies is back in the fourth volume!The hit Image Comics series returns! Fashion disaster Lottie Person is finally dating the girl of her dreams, but is she ignoring red flags? Romance, mystery and comedy collide in this thrilling continuation of cult hit SNOTGIRL!Collects Snotgirl #16-20.
£14.39
Image Comics Adventureman Volume 2
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£13.20
Mad Cave Studios Breaklands Vol. 2
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£15.99
Top Shelf Productions In Perpetuity
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£16.19
Oni Press,US Hey Mary
Book SynopsisMark is a good Catholic boy. He goes to church, he says his prayers, and he spends too much time worrying about hell. When Mark realizes he has a crush on another boy in his school, he struggles to reconcile his feelings with his faith as the weight of centuries of shame and judgmentand his fear of his parents' responsepresses on his shoulders. Mark seeks advice from his priest, as well as a local drag performer, but also receives unexpected input from key figures in Catholic history and lore, including Joan of Arc, Michelangelo, St. Sebastian, and Savonarola. Ultimately, only Mark can answer the question: Is it possible for him to be both Catholic and gay?
£15.29
Vault Comics The Cemeterians The Complete Series
Book SynopsisThe X-Files meets Wake the Bones in THE CEMETERIANS: The Complete Series, an eerie, genre-blending story filled with horror, magic, mystery, fantasy, darkness, and bones that grow where they shouldn’t.Some things won’t stay buried. After human bones begin growing inside inanimate objects all across the globe, a renegade scientist and brilliant theologian delve into the cemeteries where the bones originated, discovering an otherworldly force tired of being buried in darkness. The Cemeterians will chill you to the bone. Written by New York Times bestselling author Daniel Kraus (The Shape of Water, Trollhunters (both with Guillermo del Toro), Rotters, Graveyard Girls, The Living Dead (with George Romero) The Teddies Saga, Whalefall (his latest), and The Autumnal (for Vault Comics)) and illustrated by critically-acclaimed and atmospheric artist Maan House (Witchblade, Krampus, Proj
£15.29
Vault Comics RE Trailer Trash Vol. 1 Webtoon Graphic Novel
£16.08
Vertical Inc. Shimazaki in the Land of Peace 8
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£11.69
Drawn and Quarterly Shigeru Mizukis Hitler
Book SynopsisA master cartoonist and veteran tells the life story of the man who started the Second World WarSeventy years after his death, Adolf Hitler remains a mystery. Historians, military tacticians, and psychologists have tried in vain to unravel his complex motivations for leading Germany into the Holocaust and World War II. With Shigeru Mizuki''s Hitler, the manga-ka (Kitaro, NonNonba, Showa: A History of Japan) delves deep into the history books to create an absorbing and eloquent portrait of Hitler''s life.Beginning with Hitler''s time in Austria as a starving art student and ending with a Germany in ruins, Shigeru Mizuki''s Hitler retraces the path Hitler took in life, coolly examining his charismatic appeal and his calculated political maneuvering. The Munich Beer Putsch, Hitler''s ascent to chancellor, the sudden death of his half-niece Geli, the Battle of Stalingrad, his relationship with Eva Braun, and his eventual demise:
£19.55
Drawn and Quarterly Love That Bunch
Book SynopsisThe early work of the pioneering feminist cartoonist plus her acclaimed new story Dream HouseAline Kominsky-Crumb immediately made her mark in the Bay Area's underground comix scene with unabashedly raw, dirty, unfiltered comics chronicling the thoughts and desires of a woman coming of age in the 1960s. Kominsky-Crumb didn't worry about self-flattery. In fact, her darkest secrets and deepest insecurities were all the more fodder for groundbreaking stories. Her exaggerated comix alter ego, Bunch, is self-destructive and grotesque but crackles with the self-deprecating humor and honesty of a cartoonist confident in the story she wants to tell.Collecting comics from the 1970s through today, Love That Bunch is shockingly prescient while still being an authentic story of its era. Kominsky-Crumb was ahead of her time in juxtaposing the contradictory nature of female sexuality with a proud, complicated feminism. Most important, she does so without apology.
£21.25
Drawn & Quarterly True Colors
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£15.82
University of Regina Press The Word
£26.25
