SELFMADE HERO

(H/B) MIKEL
Mikel has a lifelong dream: to become a writer. Seeking to inject some extra cash and inspiration into his life, he uproots his family from their sleepy village to the Basque country, where he takes a job protecting politicians from the armed separatist group ETA. But financial security comes at a price: fear, uncertainty and family breakdown. Drawn in part from his own experience, Mark Bellido's intense and vivid story finds its perfect counterpart in the bold beauty of Judith Vanistendael's artwork. Together, they have created a powerful...
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(H/B) AAMA (VOLUME 1)
Verloc Nim - addict, estranged father, amnesiac - wakes up in the middle of nowhere. Piecing together the events of the recent past, Verloc reveals the misery of his own life, and the beginnings of something new and entirely unexpected. On the last inhabitable planet to be discovered, at a forgotten scientific colony, impossible things are happening. A beautifully realised and intriguing vision of the distant future, 'The Smell of Warm Dust' is the first volume of Frederik Peeters' award-winning series, Aama - a gripping blend of existenti...
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(H/B) BEST OF ENEMIES
The third volume of Jean-Pierre Filiu and David B.'s history of US and Middle East relations begins with Iraq's invasion of Kuwait in 1990 and ends with Obama's decision, in 2013, to put military action against Syria on hold. Spanning the First Gulf War, the rise of al-Qaeda, the military response to the September 11 attacks, and the ongoing conflict in Syria, Best of Enemies: Part Three is propelled by a clash between four US presidents and their Middle Eastern antagonists: Saddam Hussein, Osama bin Laden, and Bashar al-Assad. Covering th...
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(P/B) VINCENT
Vincent dreams of setting up an artists' house in Arles for himself and his friends. However, his attacks of mental illness confuse and disorient him, culminating in the notorious incident with his ear and leaving his dreams shattered. Throughout all of this, Vincent's brother Theo stands by him, offering constant and unconditional support. Van Gogh was passionate about his art. His ideas about success, setbacks and how to create a meaningful life provide an interesting counterpoint to our age of individualism and commercialism. (From the ...
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(P/B) THE CASE OF CHARLES DEXTER WARD
Providence, Rhode Island, 1928. A dangerous inmate disappears from a private hospital for the insane, his method of escape baffling the authorities. Only the patient’s final visitor, family physician Dr. Marinus Bicknell Willett holds the key to unlocking the case of Charles Dexter Ward....
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(P/B) THE COMMUNIST MANIFESTO
"A spectre is haunting Europe - the spectre of Communism". Published in 1848, at a time of political upheaval in Europe, Karl Marx and Frederik Engels' Manifesto for the Communist Party was at once a powerful critique of capitalism and a radical call to arms. It remains the most incisive introduction to the ideas of Communism and the most lucid explanation of its aims. Much of what Marx and Engels' proposed - a state education system, a progressive income tax, the nationalisation of banks - would continue to be at the heart of political d...
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(H/B) IRMINA
In the mid-1930s, Irmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first black students at Oxford, who, like Irmina, is working towards an independent existence. However, their relationship comes to an abrupt end when Irmina, constrained by the political situation in Hitler's Germany, is forced to return home. As war approaches and her contact with Howard is broken, it becomes clear to Irmina that prosperity will only be possible through the betrayal of her ideals. In the award-win...
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(P/B) GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (VOLUME 1)
Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmospheric, quietly terrifying, M.R. James's stories explore the darkness just beyond the flicker of the candle or the creaking door. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 1 comprises graphic adaptations of four of James's most compelling and unsettling stories, plunging readers into a world of pervasive, creeping disquiet - a world populated by vengeful phantoms, disturbing visions and spectral works of...
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(P/B) GHOST STORIES OF AN ANTIQUARY (VOLUME 2)
Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on writers from H.P. Lovecraft to Stephen King, James's tales of understated horror continue to transfix readers 80 years after his death. Ghost Stories of an Antiquary, Vol. 2 comprises graphic adaptations of four spine-chilling stories by M.R. James: Number 13, Count Magnus, Oh, Whistle, and I'll Come to You, My Lad and The Treasure of Abbot Thomas. Filled with intrigue, suspense and intellectual ad...
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(P/B) RICHARD III
"I am determined to prove a villain" This epic history portrays the rise and fall of this seductive rogue in one of the bloodiest chapters of the English monarchy. Set in the medieval times in which its events originally played out, this adaptation combines Shakespeare with bold manga visuals, revealing the full power of the "dark side". (FROM THE PUBLISHER)...
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(P/B) TWELFTH NIGHT
"If music be the food of love, play on!" Shakespeare turned a tale of unrequited love, family dispute and fatal shipwreck into a miraculously evergreen Christmas favourite. At the beginning of the story, everyone is alone; at the end, everyone - well, almost everyone - has found their other half... Nana Li reimagines Twelfth Night's Illyra as a world of snowy mountain tops and lush green valleys influenced by 'steampunk': a popular fantasy style that draws on the early 1900s for inspiration. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
"This can be no trick! " This manga recreation of Shakespeare's tricksiest comedy plays out its serial deceptions and counterfeits against the operatic backdrop of a later Italian landscape. But don't believe everything you hear... (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) WHEN DAVID LOST HIS VOICE
The moment his granddaughter Louise is born, David learns that he has cancer. But words were never his forte, and he’d rather keep quiet about his illness, the pain and the end that awaits him - much to the frustration of the women in his life. They wait, powerless, for the silent but inexorable end. (From the publisher)...
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(P/B) A CHINESE LIFE
Already a modern classic, this remarkable book traces a personal journey through modern history, from the creation of the People's Republic of China in 1949 to the present day. Li Kunwu has created a timely and compelling memoir of state and self that is at once epic and intimate, comic and tragic, in scope. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) BLACK PATHS
At the end of the First World War, the defeated Austro-Hungarian Empire loses control of the city port of Fiume. While the victorious Allies divide the spoils of war at Versailles, they are oblivious to the fact that Fiume, long-coveted by the Italians, has been dramatically captured by pirates! A self-styled Pirate King, Gabriele d'Annunzio storms the city with 3000 loyal soldiers and declares Fiume a free Republic with himself as commander. David B. effortlessly draws d'Annunzio along winding roads, constantly challenging expectations wi...
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(P/B) PABLO
An award-winning graphic biography of one of the world's best-loved artists, Pablo follows Picasso's artistic career from his origins in penury to the advent of modern art. Taking in the artist's early life among the bohemians of Montmartre, with all of its scandal and frustration, and his turbulent relationship with his model and lover Fernande, Julie Birmant and Clement Oubrerie show how Picasso's style developed in response to his friendships and rivalries. An entertaining and beautifully drawn account, this authoritative graphic novel ...
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(H/B) THE CONFERENCE OF THE BIRDS
The epic poem by the twelfth-century Persian mystic and poet Attar of Nishapur, is here re-told by the acclaimed author and illustrator Peter Sis in a dazzlingly new graphic form. Part allegorical quest, part spiritual meditation, Sis's sumptuously re-imagined adaptation traces the adventures of a flock of birds, led by the hoopoe, their different species reflecting the range of human character. (From the publisher)...
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(H/B) BEST OF ENEMIES
It was an American who first described the Barbary lands of the Mediterranean basin as "the Middle East" - a region by which America, ever since its own revolutionary foundation, has always measured its power. Acclaimed historian Jean-Pierre Filiu and award-winning artist David B. here tells the story of the blockades, broadsides, and betrayals of this foreign affair - a wary co-dependency that, from the Epic of Gilgamesh to the Eisenhower era, and from gold to oil, has continued to define our modern world. (From the publisher) Author: Jea...
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(H/B) PACHYDERME
Our heroine, Carice, is visiting her husband - she has something important to tell him. He's a diplomat, who's lying in hospital following a car accident. Stuck in a traffic jam on her way to the hospital, she abandons her car and sets off on foot on a journey that turns into a surreal trip. Imagine a David Lynch film co-written by Chuck Palahniuk, Jean-Paul Sartre and Milan Kundera. This edition of Pachyderme has a foreword written by Moebius. (From the publisher) Author: Frederik Peeters Translator: Edward Gauvin...
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(P/B) THE WOLF MAN
Based on Freud's most famous case study of his patient Sergei Pankejeff (later known as the Wolf Man), this tells the history of an obsessional neurosis. It begins with Sergei, who dreams of a walnut tree full of white wolves, interpreted by Freud as a memory of parental intercourse a recto. We follow this Russian aristocrat's life as Freud and other analysts unravel the source of his neurosis. This case study, re-interpreted in this stunning graphic novel, became a cornerstone of psychoanalysis. (From the publisher)...
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