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(P/B) HAMLET
"For murder, though it have no tongue, will speak" Shakespeare's most enigmatic play is re-set in a war-torn cyberworld. Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, grieving for his father's death, takes us on a journey through madness, treachery and embittered love to a new understanding of what it is to be (and not to be) a human being. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) CANNABIS
In the 16th century, during his violent colonial campaign, Cort?s introduced hemp farming to Mexico. In secret, locals began cultivating the plant for consumption. Cannabis made its way to the United States by means of the immigrant labour force. Once the plant had been shared with black labourers, it didn't take long for American lawmakers to decry cannabis as the vice of "inferior races". Enter an era of propaganda designed to whip up fear among the public. Dishonest and discriminatory campaigns, spearheaded by legislators and the press,...
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(P/B) STRAYS
A young man fleeing a disaster comes to live in the city with his sister, making ends meet by taking a job as a delivery man... only to encounter a flood of old friends and acquaintances on his daily route. At first elated by the company of these waifs and strays, he finds that their desperation for work begins to trouble his conscience - but what happens when you can't help everyone? In his distinctively detailed graphic style, Chris W. Kim presents an elusively disquieting parable of modern isolation, and of the ties that bind - or fail ...
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(P/B) THE DANCING PLAGUE
The Dancing Plague tells a true story, from 1518, when hundreds of inhabitants of Strasbourg were suddenly seized by the strange and unstoppable compulsion to dance, from the imagined perspective of Mary, one of its witnesses. Prone to mystic visions as a child, betrayed in the convent to which she flees, then abused by her loutish husband, Mary endures her life as an oppressed and ultimately scapegoated woman with courage, strength, and inspiring beauty. As difficult to interpret now (as a psychological reaction to social injustice?) as i...
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(P/B) MEDICINE
In the Middle Ages, surgery was left to barbers, owing to their skill with sharp instruments. During the French Revolution, doctors were banned from hospitals. In the mid-19th century, the diverting effects of laughing gas inadvertently led to the discovery of anaesthesia. Three decades later, Louis Pasteur made a crucial breakthrough in his research into vaccination because his assistant decided to go on holiday. In Medicine: A Graphic History, surgeon and professor of medical history Jean-No?l Fabiani stitches together the most signific...
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(P/B) Crime and Punishment
This haunting interpretation, exploring the mental anguish and moral dilemmas of a poor student who murders a miserly pawnbroker, is reimagined in Putin-era St. Petersburg. Hailed a 'resounding success', it brings fresh relevance to this chilling tale. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) BLOSSOMS IN AUTUMN
Ulysses is a 59-year-old widower who, since retiring, has been in the grip of loneliness. The former removals man is without direction or purpose. He can't even find solace in the company of his children: his daughter is dead, his son consumed by work. 62-year-old Mrs Solenza is a former model. Once a magazine cover star, she now runs the family business: a cheese shop owned by her late mother. She, too, is alone. Two lives drift sadly by, inching ever closer to old age. Until, one day, they collide - and an emotional earthquake happens. ...
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(P/B) IT'S DARK IN LONDON
Stories of cult authors such as Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman and David McKean along with London-based writers including Iain Sinclair, Tony Grisoni and Stella Duffy. A portrait of London that captures the city’s fundamental essence as an exquisite mixture of lofty towers and gutter sleaze, of suburban gentility and urban depravity, of private vices and public philanthropy. Concise graphic tales are interspersed with short pieces of poetry and prose in a concentrated take on the darker side of London life. Edited by graphic novelist Oscar Zarate...
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(P/B) THE MAN WHO LAUGHS
Victor Hugo's scathing indictment of the injustice and inequality within Britain's political system tells a story of abduction, mutilation, loss and prejudice. The narrative follows Gwynplaine, the two-year-old heir to a rebel lord, who is abducted upon the orders of a vindictive monarch, who has him mutilated (to produce a permanent, grisly smile), then abandoned. After years of living frugally he is re-introduced to the aristocratic life, and resolves to become the voice of the voiceless, whether he is heard or not. (From the publisher) ...
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(P/B) Sophie’s World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy (Volume 2)
Sophie's World: A Graphic Novel About the History of Philosophy, Vol II: From Descartes to the Present Day is the second adaptation continuing Jostein Gaarder's worldwide philosophy bestseller reimagined by writer Vincent Zabus and artist Nicoby. Sophie's come a long way since the day she received that cryptic letter with its intriguing question: "Who are you?" The mysterious correspondence sweeps our curious young heroine off on a tour of Western philosophy from its ancient foundations through the Renaissance. But it also prompts more per...
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(P/B) DR. JEKYLL AND MR. HYDE
"I realised I was leading a double life..." Robert Louis Stevenson liked to tell the story of how The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1886) came to him one night in a dream, while staying, for the sake of his health, in the provincial English seaside town of Bournemouth. He wrote the first draft in three days - then burned it when his wife suggested some changes. The second version was finished by the end of the week, and has scarcely been out of print since. The 'double life' that the book's hero (the respectable doctor Henry Jek...
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(P/B) I FEEL MACHINE
Stories by Krent Able, Box Brown, Julian Hanshaw, Erik Svetoft, Shaun Tan & Tillie Walden. Technology advances at break-neck speed. It transforms the way we communicate and consume, how we work and fall in love and navigate the world. Edited by Julian Hanshaw and Krent Able, I Feel Machine explores the strange interplay between humanity and technology. Six visionary short fictions, by turns cautionary and celebratory, offer an electrifying glimpse into our collective future. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) OUTBURST
Tom is the bespectacled class nerd: clumsy, introverted, and relentlessly bullied. When he leaves his lunchbox unguarded, he returns to find it inhabited by ants. When he gazes at the cute girl in class, she responds by sticking out her tongue. And when it is time to partner up on a canoeing trip, he is left to paddle on the river alone... At home, Tom finds solace in recordings of nature and the wild spaces of his imagination. But when he falls prey to a particularly cruel trick, this imaginative wilderness becomes rampant. It wants out. ...
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(P/B) MAGRITTE
Giddied by the prospect of promotion, Charles Singulier makes the whimsical decision to buy a bowler hat. It is a satisfying purchase, but there's a problem: this particular hat once belonged to the Surrealist painter Ren? Magritte, and by donning it Charles has unwittingly entered the artist's unbridled, off-kilter world. The choice is clear: uncover the secrets of Magritte's life and work - or be doomed to wear the hat forever. Charles embarks on an exploration of Magritte's imaginative landscape, examining the ideas and penetrating the ...
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(P/B) SOPHIE'S WORLD: A GRAPHIC NOVEL ABOUT THE HISTORY OF PHILOSOPHY ( VOLUME 1)
One day, Sophie receives a cryptic letter posing an intriguing question: "Who are you?" A second message soon follows: "Where does the world come from?" It is the beginning of an unusual correspondence between our curious young heroine and her mysterious penpal. As the questions begin to pile up, Sophie is propelled headlong into a startling adventure through the history of Western philosophy. Her search for answers will see her explore each of the major schools of thought, as she tries to uncover the true nature of the letters, her secret...
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(P/B) HEART OF DARKNESS
"The dreams of men, the seed of commonwealth, the germs of empires" In this deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrad's classic,we join colonial trader Marlow as he recounts his journey into the heart of Africa. Artist Anyango uses intricate pencil drawings that disintegrate to abstraction as Marlow travels further towards the dying Kurtz and the heart of darkness... Interspersed with excerpts from Conrad's The Congo Diary, Mairowitz and Anyango create a powerful vision of Conrad's finest and most enduring novella. Famously, it was Conrad's ...
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(P/B) THE CAN OPENER'S DAUGHTER
In the British Comic Award-winning The Motherless Oven, Scarper Lee asked: "Who the hell is Vera Pike?" In the second part of Rob Davis' trilogy, we get a chance to find out. This is Vera's story. Grave Acre is a cruel world of opportunity and control. Vera's mother is the Weather Clock, the omnipotent and megalomaniacal Prime Minister of Chance. Her father is a can opener. Charting Vera's unsettling childhood, the book takes us from her home in Parliament to suicide school and from the Bear Park to the black woods that lie beyond. In the ...
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(H/B) THE DANCE OF DEATH
Hans Holbein's 16th-century masterpiece, The Dance of Death, reminds its readers that no one, no matter their rank or position, can escape the great leveller, Death. In a foreboding series of woodcuts, Death, depicted as a skeleton, intrudes on the lives of people from every level of society, from the sailor to the judge, the ploughman to the king. By highlighting our common fate, Holbein exposes the folly of greed and ambition, and in doing so brings a corrupt and callous elite crashing back down to earth. In this darkly satirical update,...
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(P/B) NEVERMORE
The works of Edgar Allan Poe have enthralled and terrified readers for over 150 years. Their macabre blend of doomed romanticism, gothic melodrama and ghoulish destiny earned him a place at the top of the list of fiction's greatest authors. Famous for his poems and short stories, Poe, who was born in Boston in 1809, virtually created the detective story and perfected the psychological thriller. Nevermore showcases Poe's most memorable stories, from the 'The Tell-Tale Heart' to 'The Murders in The Rue Morgue'. Here Poe's fiction is re-imagi...
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(P/B) THE BOOK OF FORKS
he Motherless Oven and The Can Opener's Daughter may have raised more questions than they answered, but The Book of Forks explains everything. Castro Smith finds himself imprisoned within the mysterious Power Station, writing his Book of Forks while navigating baffling daily meetings with Poly, a troubled young woman who may be his teacher, his doctor, his prison guard... or something else entirely. Meanwhile, back home, Vera and Scarper's search for their missing friend takes them through the chaotic warzone of the Bear Park and into new ...
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