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Panini Comics Marvel Select SpiderMan Freshman Year
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Panini Comics Marvel Select Amazing SpiderMan Learning To
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select AllNew Captain America Hydra
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Panini Publishing Ltd Deadpool Vol. 2 Valentines Day
Book SynopsisLove is in the air as Deadpool takes his new romance, Valentine Vuong, out on the town! Unfortunately, bullets, blades and explosive devices are also in the air - since both of them have enemies who want them dead! What do trained killers do when trained killers try to kill them? Naturally, they try to kill those trained killers first! But when he''s captured by the mysterious Horned Emperor, can even Deadpool''s new paramour - or his giant symbiote dog - save the Merc with a Mouth? Or is he heading for heartbreak?! Collecting, DEADPOOL (2022) #6-10.
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Panini Comics SpiderPunk Arms Race
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£12.59
Panini Comics Ultimate SpiderMan Vol. 1 Married With Children
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£17.09
Panini Publishing Ltd Kid Venom Origins
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£12.59
Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Super Heroes Secret Wars Battleworld
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Panini Comics Deadpool Wolverine WWIII
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Panini Comics Ultimate Black Panther Vol.1 Peace and War
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Panini Comics Edge of SpiderVerse SpiderSociety
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Panini Publishing Ltd Wolverine Deep Cut
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£11.69
Panini Publishing Ltd The Ultimates Vol. 1 Fix The World
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£16.99
Panini Publishing Ltd Ultimate SpiderMan Vol. 2 The Paper
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£15.29
Panini Publishing Ltd Deadpool TeamUp
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£14.39
Panini Comics Its Jeff JeffVerse
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Panini Publishing Ltd SpiderMan Black Suit Blood
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Panini Comics XMen Vol.1 Homecoming
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£17.09
Panini Publishing Ltd SpiderMan Reign Omnibus
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£21.24
Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Daredevil Mayor Fisk
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£9.49
Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Thunderbolts No Quarter
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Fantastic Four Rising Storm
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Panini Comics Marvel Select Wakanda
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select DaredevilPunisher Seventh Circle
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Panini Publishing Ltd Marvel Select Marvel Zombies Resurrection
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Panini Comics Marvel Select SpiderMan Shadow of The Green Goblin
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Panini Comics Marvel Platinum The Definitive Galactus
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£21.24
Panini Comics Wolverine Vol. 1 In The Bones
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£14.39
Panini Publishing Ltd SpiderMan Noir Omnibus
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£16.99
Panini Publishing Ltd What If... Galactus
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£12.59
Panini Publishing Ltd Its Jeff JeffVerse
Book SynopsisMeet Jeff the Land Shark, the cute, innocent, and downright hilarious breakout star from West Coast Avengers! Now the ingenious, the extraordinary, the unbearably innocent Jeff embarks on his own adventures across the Marvel Universe, with guest spots from some of your favorite heroes! You thought it was safe doing laundry or going for a leisurely swim in the pool... but no activity can protect against Jeff''s cuteness! But, when Jeff''s night of fun is interrupted by the madness of the Venom War, is Marvel''s goodest boy going to be able to keep his cool? Or... will he give in to the symbiote''s temptations and eat someone''s brains?!? Collecting IT''S JEFF (2023) #1, IT''S JEFF: JEFF-VERSE (2023) #1 & VENOM WAR: IT''S JEFF (2024) #1
£12.59
Panini Publishing Ltd The Uncanny XMen Vol.1 Red Wave
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Cornerstone So Shall You Reap
Book SynopsisPRE-ORDER THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN DONNA LEON'S COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI SERIES, A REFINER'S FIRE, NOW. AVAILABLE JULY 2024.'Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul.' Mark Sanderson, The Times'Like all of Leon's novels, it ultimately feels like a glorious invigorating holiday.' Daily Express---On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a garden house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim's interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s.As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signorina Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle-random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships-that appear to have little in common. Until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.Trade ReviewDonna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *Like all of Leon's novels, it ultimately feels like a glorious invigorating holiday * Daily Express *[Leon's] success lies in the kindness and the decency of her main character as well as in the backdrop of Venice, the city that all of her books are set in, and the way she combs through its street and canals for stories of corruption and power and greed and hubris, always allowing Brunetti to sink back into the loving embrace of his family and food * Off Air with Jane & Fi *Much more than a whodunnit -- Christina Hardyment * The Times *Donna Leon's novels appear as regularly as the season and - it really is true - they get better and better. * The Tablet *
£9.49
Cornerstone So Shall You Reap
Book SynopsisPRE-ORDER THE NEXT INSTALMENT IN DONNA LEON'S COMMISSARIO BRUNETTI SERIES, A REFINER'S FIRE, NOW. AVAILABLE JULY 2024.'Donna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul.' Mark Sanderson, The Times'Like all of Leon's novels, it ultimately feels like a glorious invigorating holiday.' Daily Express---On a cold November evening, Guido Brunetti and Paola are up late when a call from his colleague Ispettore Vianello arrives, alerting the Commissario that a hand has been seen in one of Venice's canals. The body is soon found, and Brunetti is assigned to investigate the murder of an undocumented Sri Lankan immigrant. Because no official record of the man's presence in Venice exists, Brunetti is forced to use the city's far richer sources of information: gossip and the memories of people who knew the victim. Curiously, he had been living in a garden house on the grounds of a palazzo owned by a university professor, in which Brunetti discovers books revealing the victim's interest in Buddhism, the revolutionary Tamil Tigers, and the last crop of Italian political terrorists, active in the 1980s.As the investigation expands, Brunetti, Vianello, Commissario Griffoni, and Signorina Elettra each assemble pieces of a puzzle-random information about real estate and land use, books, university friendships-that appear to have little in common. Until Brunetti stumbles over something that transports him back to his own student days, causing him to reflect on lost ideals and the errors of youth, on Italian politics and history, and on the accidents that sometimes lead to revelation.Trade ReviewDonna Leon provides another delectable slice of the thoughtful policeman's life at work and at home... So Shall You Reap is as witty and wise as anything Leon has written. To read her is to restore the soul -- Mark Sanderson * The Times *Like all of Leon's novels, it ultimately feels like a glorious invigorating holiday * Daily Express *[Leon's] success lies in the kindness and the decency of her main character as well as in the backdrop of Venice, the city that all of her books are set in, and the way she combs through its street and canals for stories of corruption and power and greed and hubris, always allowing Brunetti to sink back into the loving embrace of his family and food * Off Air with Jane & Fi *Much more than a whodunnit -- Christina Hardyment * The Times *Donna Leon's novels appear as regularly as the season and - it really is true - they get better and better. * The Tablet *
£7.99
Cornerstone A Week in December
Book Synopsis'A thoughtful page-turner' THE TIMES 'Vast, well-plotted and gripping throughout' SPECTATOR 'Richly entertaining and highly rewarding' EVENING STANDARDSeven Londoners are invited to an opulent dinner party. From a brutal hedge-funder to a lovelorn barrister, a Polish footballer to a pickle magnate, they are defined by the virtual worlds of religious extremism, financial gambling, drugs and internet obsession they inhabit. But it is 2007, the Crash is coming, and all will face a terrible reckoning.A Week in December is a dazzling and darkly comic state-of-the-nation novel.Trade Review"This vast novel, well-plotted and gripping throughout, is the first that Sebastian Faulks has set in our time... the ambition and scope of the book are to be applauded. The conclusion is suitably nail-biting and, pleasingly, love triumphs. Sebastian Faulks has probably got another best-seller on his hands." --Spectator"A portrayal of modern London that is both richly entertaining and highly rewarding. Faulks has come as close as anyone to completing the jigsaw that is this crazy, fascinating city of ours." --Evening Standard
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Transworld Publishers Ltd Love Untold
Book Synopsis***The instant Sunday Times bestseller***'Love, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is shot through with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom.' JOJO MOYES'A hug in a book' Prima'Her best book yet' Woman & Home'Compassionate, wise and life-affirming' The ObserverThe funny, moving and uplifting new novel from Ruth Jones, co-creator of Gavin & Stacey and author of the Sunday Times bestsellers Never Greener and Us Three.Grace is about to turn ninety and she doesn't want parties or presents or fuss. She just wants a quiet celebration: her daily swim in the sea and a cup of tea with granddaughter Elin and great-granddaughter Beca. More than anything, she wants to heal the family rift that's been breaking her heart for decades.And to do that she must find her daughter, Alys - the only person who can help to put things right.But thirty years is a long time.And many words have been left unsaid.So is it too late now to heal the pain of the past?This is a story about mothers and daughters: the love inherent in that bond and the heartache that miscommunication can bring. More than anything, it's about the importance of being true to oneself. Meet Grace, Alys, Elin and Beca - a family you'll come to know, and to love.PRAISE FOR RUTH JONES'Heartfelt, joyful, brave, utterly compelling' RACHEL JOYCE'I adored it' JOANNA CANNON'Joyful, life-affirming' ADELE PARKS'Beautifully warm and totally absorbing. I cried and I laughed. I adored it' JANE FALLONWHAT READERS ARE SAYING*'Good grief. This is truly a novel that pulled on every last emotion.'*'Warm-hearted, beautiful and heartbreaking.'*'Ruth's best book yet... entertaining and incredibly moving.'*'A gorgeous, emotional read that I was completely immersed in.'*'I'm absolutely gutted it's over... loved every single page.'** Sunday Times bestseller July 2023 **Trade ReviewLove, mess, secrets; this story of four generations of women is shot through with Ruth Jones's warmth and wisdom. A big warm blanket of a book. I loved it * Jojo Moyes *Rich in warm, engaging characters and a judicious mix of humour and pathos... it's a compassionate, wise and life-affirming book * The Observer *Full of such warmth and kindness, and the writing is utterly beautiful. I adored it * Joanna Cannon *A 'hug in a book', with characters that felt so real it was like I knew them * Prima *Heartfelt, joyful, brave, utterly compelling, it is a giant tribute to the love between women. You leave this book feeling you have made new friends * Rachel Joyce *
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Robo-Hunter: Planet of the Robots
Book SynopsisWHEN THEY GET SLADE THEY STAY SLADE! For forty years Sam Slade has been one of the best robo-tectives in the business, but all of his experience couldn’t prepare him for his latest case. In 2080 overpopulation of the Earth led the Space Commission into seeking out new planets to colonise. Four years later they discovered Verdus, a suitable planet in the Crab Nebula. Now, Colonists who sent there have not been heard from again. The Commission believe that robots have taken control of the planet and want Sam to uncover the truth. It’s a dangerous case, but one Sam can’t refuse – otherwise he’s guaranteed a bullet in the head! This classic 2000 AD strip is presented in full colour as it was when collected by Eagle Comics as a five-issue mini-series.
£19.79
Rebellion Publishing Ltd. Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files 24
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2000 AD Judge Dredd The Complete Case Files 25
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Rebellion Publishing Ltd. The Art of Judge Dredd by Jock
Book SynopsisA comprehensive collection of artwork from Jock's time working on Judge Dredd, Lenny Zero, and Tor Cyan, also featuring his concept art for the 2012 Dredd film. This artbook will show off the process that Jock goes throug hto creat a comic page.
£31.49
HarperCollins Publishers Strong Motion
Book SynopsisThe critically acclaimed second novel from the author of ‘The Corrections’. ‘Strong Motion’ is the brilliant, bold second novel from the bestselling and critically acclaimed author of ‘The Corrections’ and ‘Freedom’. Louis Holland arrives in Boston in a spring of strange happenings – earthquakes strike the city, and the first one kills his grandmother. During a bitter feud over the inheritance Louis falls in love with Renée Seitchek, a passionate and brilliant seismologist, whose discoveries about the origin of the earthquakes complicate everything. Potent and vivid, ‘Strong Motion’ is a complex story of change from the forceful imagination of Jonathan Franzen.Trade Review'By sheer force of his imaginative writing and his unsheathed views of American life, Franzen succeeds in joining together a love story, a family story, and a corporate-cum-environmental story…Distinctly original.' The New York Times 'No doubt about it: Jonathan Franzen is one of the most extraordinary writers around.' Newsweek 'Ingeniously put together…His ear for American vernacular is flawless…His gift for description has a kinetic immediacy.' The Seattle Times 'Bold, layered…an elaborate construct, with the stuff of several books crammed into one…An affirmation of Franzen's fierce imagination and distinctive seriocomic voice.' New York Times Book Review
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Everyman Rebellion
Book SynopsisAt the end of the Great War, Andreas Pum has lost a leg but at least he has a medal and a barrel-organ which he plays on the streets of Vienna. At first the simple-minded veteran is satisfied with his lot, and he even finds an ample widow to marry. But then a public quarrel with a respectable citizen on a tram turns Andreas's life onto a rapid downward trajectory. As he loses first his beggar's permit, then his new wife, and even his freedom, he is finally provoked into rejecting his blind faith in the benevolence of both government and God.
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Everyman The Complete Fiction: Passing. Quicksand. And the
Book SynopsisThroughout her short but brilliant literary career, Nell Larsen wrote piercing dramas about the black middle class that featured sensitive, spirited heroines struggling to find a place where they belong. Passing is a disturbing story about the unravelling lives of two childhood friends, one of whom turns her back on her past and marries a white racist. Just as disquieting is the portrait in Quicksand of biracial Helga Crane, who is unable to escape her loneliness no matter where and with whom she lives. Race and marriage offer few securities here or in the other stories in this compulsively readable collection, rich in psychological complexities and imbued with a vibrant sense of place - be it 1920s Harlem, Chicago, or Copenhagen.
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Penguin Books Ltd Remembrance Sunday
Book Synopsis'A quiet work of art that explores the complexity of trauma in the wake of the Enniskellen bombing. McKeon’s writing is sensitive, elusive and philosophical, and pursues an elusive truth at the heart of the Troubles.’ PAUL LYNCH 'Exceptional ... The imaginative storytelling and fine prose of Remembrance Sunday puts McKeon in the big leagues' Irish Times'A supreme storyteller' Sunday Times'If you enjoy Colum McCann's work, this novel is for you' Irish Independent'Impressive ... A poignant, delicately composed novel that doesn't stint on the wreckage of violence' Daily Mail 'Beautifully written' Sunday IndependentChinatown, New York. After a chance encounter with an old friend, Simon Hanlon, an Irish architect, experiences a seizure, his first in almost thirty years. Soon, they come to him daily.As he awaits a brain operation, Simon turns his mind back to his childhood on a farm near the Irish border. At fifteen, he was present when an IRA bomb exploded at the Remembrance Sunday parade in Enniskillen. It was in the following weeks that his seizures first began. Now, he is compelled to seek out the bomber from the remnants of his past, and to ask himself the question: why do we harm one another?Remembrance Sunday is a moving and unforgettable novel about love, empathy and the ways in which history imprints itself upon our hearts and minds.***'Deeply felt and delicate, Remembrance Sunday is a timely evocation of the havoc the Troubles wreaked, not just on the street, but on the soul' CLAIRE KILROY'Beautifully wrought, startlingly perceptive, stealthily gripping . . . It moves masterfully between the forensic and the lyrical, the meditative and the dramatic, the personal and the political' KEVIN POWER'McKeon animates a story out of the North's recent history with much skill and empathy. Complicating the commonplace, attempting to make sense of the senseless, the novel is an impressive and moving act of imagination and remembrance' NICK LAIRD'A stunning achievement. I was completely gripped by it and awed at the sublime skill and beauty of its execution. Darragh has created a work of art of immediate relevance and enduring importance' DONAL RYANTrade ReviewMcKeon’s writing is sensitive, elusive and philosophical, and pursues an elusive truth at the heart of the Troubles.’ -- Paul Lynch * Sunday Independent *Deeply felt and delicate, Remembrance Sunday is a timely evocation of the havoc the Troubles wreaked, not just on the street, but on the soul -- Claire KilroyMcKeon animates a story out of the North's recent history with much skill and empathy. Complicating the commonplace, attempting to make sense of the senseless, the novel is an impressive and moving act of imagination and remembrance -- Nick LairdA stunning achievement. I was completely gripped by it and awed at the sublime skill and beauty of its execution. Darragh has created a work of art of immediate relevance and enduring importance -- Donal RyanA beautifully wrought, startlingly perceptive, stealthily gripping novel about the pain of understanding ourselves and the agony of trying to understand history. It moves masterfully between the forensic and the lyrical, the meditative and the dramatic, the personal and the political -- Kevin Power'Darragh McKeon's Remembrance Sunday is a quiet work of art that explores the complexity of trauma in the wake of the Enniskellen bombing. McKeon's writing is sensitive, elusive and philosophical, and pursues an elusive truth at the heart of the Troubles.' -- Paul Lynch * Sunday Independent *Beautifully written -- Malachi O'Doherty * Belfast Telegraph *'Thought-provoking ... strong second novel' -- Bert Wright * Business Post *'A poignant, delicately composed novel that doesn't stint on the wreckage of violence.' * Irish Daily Mail *McKeon ... is a writer to watch. He conveys how people who cause harm can sometimes be victims, in their own way, and that takes skill. If you enjoy Colum Mcann's work, this novel is for you.' -- Martina Devlin * Irish Independent *'... beautifully written, placed in those grey shadows between right and wrong and profound, terrible loss.' -- Anne Cunningham * Sunday Independent *A beautifully crafted story about the legacy of trauma -- Sarah Gilmartin * The Irish Times *A supreme storyteller -- Robert Collins * The Sunday Times Ireland *
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Cornerstone Bridge of Clay: The redemptive, joyous bestseller
Book SynopsisRandom House presents the audiobook edition of Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak. Loved THE BOOK THIEF? take a look at this!Ten years in the making the epic new novel from the acclaimed, prize-winning, bestselling author of THE BOOK THIEFHere is a story told inside out and back to front:The five Dunbar brothers are living – fighting, dreaming, loving – in the perfect squalor of a house without grownups. Today, the father who walked out on them long ago is about to walk right back in.But why has he returned, and who have the boys become in the meantime?At the helm is Matthew, cynical, poetic; Rory, forever truanting; Henry, the money-spinner; and Tommy, the pet collector who has populated the house with dysfunctional pets, including Achilles the mule and Rosy the border collie. And then there’s Clay, the quiet one, his whole young life haunted by an unspeakable act.From a grandfather, whose passion for the ancient Greeks still colours their lives, to a mother and father fell in love over a mislaid piano, to a present day, where five sons dwell in a house with no rules, BRIDGE OF CLAY is an epic portrait of how a ramshackle family, held together by stories and by love, come to unbury one boy’s tragic secret. Markus Zusak's epic new novel BRIDGE OF CLAY is due out this October 2018Trade Review[Zusak] flings his readers straight into the deep end of his new vast, teeming novel . . . Warm and heartfelt . . . This is a tale of love, art and redemption; rowdy and joyous, with flashes of wit and insight, and ultimately moving. -- Kate Saunders * Times *If The Book Thief was a novel that allowed Death to steal the show... [its] brilliantly illuminated follow-up is affirmatively full of life. -- Alfred Hickling * Guardian *The wait is over. * New York Times *This vast novel is a feast of language and irony. There is sly wit on every page... it is hard not to fall a bit in love with it. -- Michael McGirr * Sydney Morning Herald *Bridge of Clay has been more than a decade in the making, and it shows: The characters are clearly loved, and the artistry of language will leave you gasping at times. * New York Times *
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Alma Books Ltd Oliver Twist
Book SynopsisCharles Dickens's second novel is the tale of a young orphan who faces the gruelling conditions of a Victorian workhouse before finding himself sucked into the criminal underworld of London. Teeming with unforgettable characters such as the villainous Fagin, the virtuous Nancy and the brutal Bill Sikes, Oliver Twist combines dark humour, elements of melodrama and social polemic. At once a ferocious indictment of the author's era and a timeless story of coming of age, this classic has enthralled readers and inspired countless adaptations and imitations since it was first published in 1838.Trade ReviewThe power of [Dickens] is so amazing that the reader at once becomes his captive. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
£6.99
Alma Books Ltd Great Expectations
Book SynopsisOne of Dickens's finest novels, Great Expectations chronicles the fortunes of its young protagonist Pip as he is unexpectedly endowed by a mysterious benefactor with the life of a gentleman, enabling him to escape to London from the prospect of a humble blacksmith's career in rural Kent. In the bustling, unforgiving capital he must learn for himself the pitfalls of love and wealth, and how to sort his friends from his enemies. Through the lives of its unforgettable and iconic characters - such as Magwitch, Miss Havisham and Estella - Great Expectations charts the course of an England undergoing rapid social and economic change, and tells a tale that is among the foremost classics of the English language.Trade ReviewAll his characters are my personal friends - I am constantly comparing them with living persons, and living persons with them. -- Leo Tolstoy Dickens's figures belong to poetry, like figures of Dante or Shakespeare, in that a single phrase, either by them or about them, may be enough to set them wholly before us. -- T.S. Eliot
£6.99
Alma Books Ltd Hard Times: Annotated Edition (Alma Classics
Book SynopsisIn Hard Times, Dickens illustrates the condition of England through the fictional city of Coketown. Among its inhabitants are Thomas Gradgrind, the utilitarian headmaster who attempts to impose his rigid worldview on his family circle, and the uncaring businessman Mr Bounderby. Their materialist philosophies, as opposed to the world of fancy or imagination, are tested throughout the novel, which also explores workers’ conditions, trade unions and the spurious use of statistics. Perhaps the most polemical of his novels – in which hard-biting satire, moving drama and exuberant comedy find a very succinct and powerful expression – Hard Times is the ideal introduction to the world of Dickens.Trade ReviewHe belongs to that brilliant school of English novelists whose finely sketched and eloquent portrayal of the world have revealed more political and social truths than all the professional politicians, journalists and moralists put together. -- Karl Marx
£8.20
