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| "Batman The Man Who Laughs TP" |
| "Written by Ed Brubaker Art by Doug Mahnke Patrick Zircher Aaron Sowd and Steve Bird Cover by Doug Mahnke Witness Batman first encounter with The Joker in this volume collecting the graphic novel BATMAN THE MAN WHO LAUGHS by Ed Brubaker and Doug Mahnke! This collection also includes DETECTIVE COMICS 784-786 a murder mystery tale guest-starring Green Lantern Alan Scott Advance-solicited; on sale January 28 o 144 pg FC"
Price: 8.49 |
| "Sky by Sarah Driver (Paperback, 2017)" |
| "&39;Driver&39;s prose takes flight in Huntress Sky Exhilarating gripping and full of heart&39; Kiran Millwood Hargrave author of The Girl of Ink and Stars The second book in a stunning new fantasy adventure trilogy perfect for readers aged 9 and fans of Philip Pullman Piers Torday Abi Elphinstone Katherine Rundell and Frances Hardinge Seek the scattered Storm-Opals of Sea Sky and Land before an enemy finds them and uses them to wield dark power The trail of the Storm-Opals takes Mouse further than she has ever been before With her little brother Sparrow and friend Crow alongside her she stumbles into the world of Sky where fortresses are hidden amongst the clouds secret libraries (skybraries) nestle atop gigantic icebergs and the sky swirls with warring tribes and their ferocious flying beasts Can they solve Da&39;s message before it&39;s too late for their ship their tribe and the whole of Trianukka?Sky-soaring beast-chattering dream-dancing draggle-riding terrodyl-flying world-saving adventure Praise for Sea the first book in The Huntress Trilogy&39;Moonsprites Terrodyls Beastchatter The Huntress Sea is a heart-thumpingly brilliant adventure Paver meets Pullman A real gem&39; - Abi Elphinstone author of The Dreamsnatcher and The Shadow Keeper&39;A glorious world a wild adventure and a fierce heroine I can&39;t stop thinking about this book!&39; - Robin Stevens author of Murder Most UnladylikeIf you like Northern Lights The Lie Tree The Girl of Ink and Stars and Rooftoppers you&39;ll love The Huntress Trilogy Sarah Driver is a graduate of the Bath Spa MA in Writing for Young People during which she won the United Agents Most Promising Writer prize in 2014 She is also a qualified nurse and midwife Sarah started writing stories as a small child and lists her influences as Spellhorn by Berlie Doherty A Necklace Of Raindrops by Joan Aiken and the Carbonel books by Barbara Sleigh - those gorgeous magical stories that create and nurture readers When she&39;s not writing she can be found walking by the sea visiting exhibitions reading or travelling often in the name of research She has seen humpback whales from an oak boat in the northern seas of Iceland eaten cubes of six-month fermented Greenland shark and journeyed by train beyond the arctic circle to the far north of Swedish Lapland where she rode a slightly obstinate horse through a forest under the northern lights in temperatures of -32 degrees She has learned that even horrifying bouts of sea-sickness make excellent research material Sky is the second book in Sarah&39;s debut series The Huntress trilogy Sarah lives in Sussex close to the sea with Lily a street-wise ginger cat and an excitable mini-lop bunny named Peter"
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| "The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory (Paperback, 2002)" |
| "The acclaimed international bestseller of the Tudor court during the years of Henry VIII's pursuit of Anne Boleyn - and the revolutionary sequence of events that followed This chance for us Howards comes once in a century 1521 Henry VIII rules over a fashionable court alive with pageant and celebration the lack of a son his only threat When young Mary Boleyn arrives at court she becomes his new mistress an unwitting pawn in the ambitions of the powerful Boleyn and Howard families As Henry's interest begins to wane the Boleyns scheme to put forward Mary's sister Anne Yet Anne Boleyn newly returned from the French court won't agree to be Henry's mistress - only his wife Pitting the king's desperation for an heir against the advice of his powerful advisors Wolsey and Cromwell what follows will change the course of a country's history"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Raving Fans! (The One Minute Manager) by Sheldon Bowles, Kenneth Blanchard (Paperback, 1998)" |
| "With a new foreword by Ken Blanchard A straightforward and snappy guide to successful customer service from the author of the bestselling The One Minute Manager Raving Fans in a nutshell is the advice given to a new Area Manager on his first day - in an extraordinary business book that will help everyone in every kind of organisation or business deliver stunning customer service and achieve miraculous bottom-line results Raving Fans is written in the parable style of The One Minute Manager and uses a brilliantly simple and charming story to teach how to define a vision learn what a customer really wants institute effective systems and make Raving Fan Service a constant feature - not just a passing fad Business is in the midst of a service crisis that has left millions of disillusioned customers in its wake Raving Fans includes startling new tips and innovative techniques that can help anyone create a revolution in any workplace - and turn their customers into raving spending fans"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Wombat Goes Walkabout by Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 2000)" |
| "Wombat loves digging deep holes and thinking deep thoughts but nobody thinks much of that until danger threatens the bush and the small wombat comes up with a great big idea One day Wombat digs the deepest hole he's ever dug and crawls into the cool darkness to think But when he climbs out again he can't see his mother anywhere He is all aloneAs he wanders through the great outback looking for her Wombat meets all kinds of wonderful creatures - Kookaburra Wallaby Possum Emu Boy and Koala None of them think very much of him thoughBut when a fire sweeps through the bush it is Wombat's skills which save the day and afterwards everyone races off to find his mum and bring her back to him AGE 4-8"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Dear Olly by Michael Morpurgo (Paperback, 2001)" |
| "A moving story of a brother a sister and a swallow and how all are in some way victims of the horrors of landmines Olly's brother Matt wants to go and work with children who have been made orphans through war in Africa He wants to be a clown and make them laugh His mother and sister want him to stay in England and go to university Hero a swallow has a journey to make too He must fly to Africa for the winter to join all the other swallows His journey is difficult and fraught with danger Three separate stories are woven into one powerful and moving novel whose central theme not only exposes the horrors of war and of landmines but also the endurance of the human spirit"
Price: 4.99 |
| "Hitler's Daughter" |
| "&39;A prizewinning novel for readers of 8 – 12 told through the voice of a contemporary child as she weaves a story about a secret child of Hitler The bombs were falling the smoke was rising from the concentration camps but all Hitler’s daughter knew was lessons with Fraulein Gelber the hedgehogs she rescued from the cold and infrequent visits from her beloved Duffi her father Was it just a story? Did Hitler’s daughter really exist? If you were Hitler’s daughter would it all be your fault? Could you still love your own father if he had done what Hitler did? Mark a contemporary child starts to question his own beliefs as he listens to the story that Anna weaves A wonderfully sensitive and gripping time-slip novel that will sit well with When Hitler Stole Pink Rabbit; Number the Stars and Big Tom WW2 is a major historical topic studied in in UK primary and secondary schools but this novel also deals with questions children so often ask of the ‘What if?’ variety&39;"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Wellington : The Iron Duke" |
| "Richard Holmes highly acclaimed military historian and broadcaster tells the exhilarating story of Britain's greatest-ever soldier the man who posed the most serious threat to Napoleon The Duke of Wellington's remarkable life and extraordinary campaigns are recreated with Holmes' superb skill in this compelling book Richard Holmes charts Wellington's stellar military career from India to Europe and in the process rediscovers the reasons Queen Victoria called him the greatest man the nineteenth century had produced Combining his astute historical analysis with a semi-biographical examination of Wellington Holmes artfully illustrates the rapid evolution in military and political thinking of the time Wellington is a brilliant figure idealistic in politics cynical in love a wit a beau a man of enormous courage often sickened by war As Richard Holmes charts his progress from a shy indolent boy to commander-in-chief of the allied forces he also exposes the Iron Duke as a philanderer and a man who sometimes despised the men that he led and was not always in control of his soldiers Particularly infamous is the bestial rampage of his men after the capture of Cuidad Rodgrigo and Badajoz THE IRON DUKE is a beautifully produced book complete with stunning illustrations and colour plates Richard Holmes' TV series to accompany THE IRON DUKE will be lavishly constructed in four parts and filmed on location in Britain India Spain Portugal France and Belgium"
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| Perelandra |
| "The second novel in Lewis's science fiction trilogy tells of Dr Ransom's voyage to the planet of Perelandra (Venus) In the second novel in CS Lewis's classic science fiction trilogy Dr Ransom is called to the paradise planet of Perelandra or Venus which turns out to be a beautiful Eden-like world He is horrified to find that his old enemy Dr Weston has also arrived and is putting him in grave peril once more As the mad Weston's body is taken over by the forces of evil Ransom engages in a desperate struggle to save the innocence of Perelandra"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Winning : The Ultimate Business How-to Book" |
| "The ultimate business how-to book by the icon of American business and one of the world's most revered and respected leaders Jack Welch former CEO of General ElectricJack Welch knows how to win During his 40-year career at General Electric he led the company to year-after-year success around the globe in multiple markets against brutal competition His honest be-the-best style of management became the gold standard in business with his relentless focus on people teamwork and profitsSince Jack retired in 2001 as Chairman and CEO of GE he has travelled the world speaking to more than 250000 people and answering their questions on dozens of wide-ranging topics Inspired by his audiences and their hunger for straightforward guidance Jack has written both a philosophical and pragmatic book which is destined to become the bible of business for generations to come It clearly lays out the answers to the most difficult questions people face both on and off the jobJack's objective is to speak to people at every level of an organization in companies large and small His goal is to help everyone who has a passion for success from assistants to project managers to senior executivesWinning is devoted to the real stuff of work looking both inside the company from leadership to picking winners to making change happen and outside the company at competition strategy and mergers And it focuses on managing your career - from finding the right job to achieving work-life balanceJack's optimistic no excuses get-it-done mind-set is riveting Packed with personal anecdotes and written in his distinctive no-nonsense voice Winning offers deep insights original thinking and solutions to nuts-and-bolts problems that will change the way people think about work"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Morning and Evening Prayer" |
| "The Order of Morning and Evening Prayer throughout the year taken from the Divine OfficeFor anyone who wants to make a daily act of devotion Morning and Evening Prayer offers the perfect combination of a consistent structure of prayer alongside daily options and choices to take you through the church's yearTaken from the Catholic Divine Office these daily prayers and readings offer inspiration for priests and lay people alike to give strength for each dayNow with a new look in the familiar hardwearing and practical format and an updated table of moveable dates"
Price: 20.49 |
| "Jimmy Coates: Sabotage" |
| "Jimmy Coates embarks on his fourth adventure in his ongoing mission to out-think out-manouevre and outwit NJ7 If you think it's over think again Jimmy closed his eyes searching for that power inside him He had to forget that he was terrified - that was only the human part of him the 38 per cent that was a normal frightened boy He willed the assassin to take him over He knew that somewhere within him was enough strength resilience and expert knowledge to survive this crisis The cold and calculating Miss Bennett has had enough of Jimmy Coates NJ7's greatest invention has turned into it's greatest enemy and it's time someone put an end to him But Jimmy's next mission is to foil a secret plan - and who could be better at this than someone who officially doesn't exist!"
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| "A Darker Domain : 2" |
| "Val McDermid creator of TV's Wire in the Blood mixes fact with fiction dealing with one of the most important and symbolic moments in recent history Twenty-five years ago the daughter of the richest man in Scotland and her baby son were kidnapped and held to ransom But Catriona Grant ended up dead and little Adam's fate has remained a mystery ever since When a new clue is discovered in a deserted Tuscan villa - along with grisly evidence of a recent murder - cold case expert DI Karen Pirie is assigned to follow the trail She's already working a case from the same year During the Miners' Strike of 1984 pit worker Mick Prentice vanished He was presumed to have broken ranks and fled south with other 'scabs' but Karen finds that the reported events of that night don't add up Where did he really go? And is there a link to the Grant mystery? The truth is stranger - and far darker - than fiction"
Price: 7.49 |
| "Paddington and the Christmas Surprise by Michael Bond (Paperback, 2008)" |
| "A funny festive picture book about Paddington the beloved classic bear from darkest Peru When the Browns take Paddington to the Christmas grotto at the local department store their journey through the Winter Wonderland is full of unexpected surprises But the best surprise is a present from Santa After all who else would find the perfect present for a bear like Paddington? Join Paddington on his festive adventure as he discovers why Santa Claus makes everyone's Christmas so special"
Price: 6.99 |
| "Concrete Island" |
| "A chilling novel that pays twisted homage to Defoe's Robinson Crusoe' Newly reissued with an introduction from Neil GaimanRobert Maitland a 35 year-old architect is driving home from his London offices when a blow-out sends his speeding Jaguar hurtling out of control Smashing through a temporary barrier he finds himself dazed and disorientated on a traffic island below three converging motorways But when he tries to climb the embankment or flag-down a passing car for help it proves impossible - and he finds himself imprisoned on the concrete island Maitland must survive using only what he can find in his crashed carAs in all Ballard's best work Concrete Island' provides an unnerving study of our modern lives and world With his alienating Ballardian' view of normal events this is a unique novel from one of the twentieth century's finest writersThis edition is part of a new commemorative series of Ballard's works featuring introductions from a number of his admirers (including Zadie Smith Adam Philips Adam Thirlwell and Robert Macfarlane) and brand-new cover designs from the artist Stanley Donwood"
Price: 6.49 |
| "Captain Duck" |
| "New cover reissue in million copy best-selling Duck in the Truck seriesAhoy there sailors!' comes a cryIs this a boating trip I spy?'If there are seas to be exploredmake way CAPTAIN DUCK'S ON BOARD!As usual with Duck things get terribly out of hand when he takes the long-suffering Frog and Sheep on a trip out to sea in Goat's boat! But although Duck likes to think of himself as an expert sailor he soon runs into problems and the friends have to spend a long cold night out on the rolling waves"
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| "The Paddington Treasury for the Very Young by Michael Bond (Hardback, 2010)" |
| "Paddington Bear has been delighting adults and children alike with his earnest good intentions and humorous misadventures for over fifty years To celebrate his enduring popularity six best-loved classic picture books are brought together in one lavish volume truly to be treasured Paddington Bear had travelled all the way from Darkest Peru when the Brown family first met him on Paddington station Since then their lives have never been quite the same for ordinary things become quite extraordinary when a bear called Paddington is around This sumptuous treasury brings together six of the most popular stories PaddingtonPaddington at the ZooPaddington at the PalacePaddington in the GardenPaddington and the Marmalade MazePaddington the Artist"
Price: 11.49 |
| "The Prince (Paperback, 2011)" |
| "HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classicsWe have declared before that it is not only expedient but necessary for a prince to take care his foundations be good otherwise his fabric will be sure to fail&39;Considered one of the first works of modern philosophy Machiavelli&39;s The Prince is an intense study on the nature of power and the course it should take when ruling a country and expresses the author&39;s strong and unyielding ideals and beliefs on using force rather than law to achieve your aimsResponsible for the widely-used phrase Machiavellian&39; with all of its negative connotations his extreme treatise remains a classic text to this day"
Price: 2.99 |
| "Sharpe's Tiger : The Siege of Seringapatam, 1799 : 1" |
| "Richard Sharpe avoids the tyrannical Sergeant Obadiah Hakeswill and endeavours to rescue a British officer from under the nose of the Tippoo of Mysore But in fleeing Hakeswill Sharpe enters the exotic and dangerous world of the Tippoo An adventure that will require all of his wits just to stay alive let alone save the British army from catastrophe Soldier hero rogue - Sharpe is the man you always want on your side Born in poverty he joined the army to escape jail and climbed the ranks by sheer brutal courage He knows no other family than the regiment of the 95th Rifles whose green jacket he proudly wears"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Flowers in the Attic" |
| "The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched Virginia Andrews' incredible best-selling career Up in the attic four secrets are hidden Four blonde beautiful innocent little secrets struggling to stay alive Chris Cathy Cory and Carrie have perfect lives - until a tragic accident changes everything Now they must wait hidden from view in their grandparents' attic as their mother tries to figure out what to do next But as days turn into weeks and weeks into months the siblings endure unspeakable horrors and face the terrifying realisation that they might not be let out of the attic after all Virginia Andrews is a publishing phenomenon with over 100 million books in print Still as terrifying now as it was when it first appeared Flowers in the Attic is a gripping story of a family's greed betrayal and heartbreak"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Harry the Poisonous Centipede : A Story to Make You Squirm" |
| "Winner of the Smarties Silver medal and best-selling title Harry the Poisonous Centipede is the delightfully squirmy story of a little centipede's adventures in the scary world of the dreaded Hoo-Mins! It's a Hoo-Min! crackled George Walking on its hairy-biter feet!But now it was Harry who felt brave Come on! Let's peep at it!They crawled the rest of the way up the tunnel towards the light Harry is a poisonous centipede but he's not very brave Still he is the star of this seriously squirmy story Harry likes to eat things that wriggle and crackle and things that are juicy and munchy! But there are some things that a poisonous centipede must never try to eat - dangerous things like flying swoopers belly wrigglers furry biters and the most dangerous of all Hoo-Mins! Harry and George's adventures up to the world of Hoo-Mins sparkle with fun and will be a delightfully squirmy experience for all young readers"
Price: 4.99 |
| "The Secret War : Spies, Codes and Guerrillas 1939-1945" |
| "As gripping as any spy thriller Hastings's achievement is especially impressive for he has produced the best single volume yet written on the subject' Sunday TimesAuthoritative exciting and notably well written' Daily TelegraphA serious work of rigourous and comprehensive history royally entertaining and readable' Mail on SundayIn The Secret War' Max Hastings presents a worldwide cast of characters and extraordinary sagas of intelligence and Resistance to create a new perspective on the greatest conflict in history The book links tales of high courage ashore at sea and in the air to the work of the brilliant boffins' battling the enemy's technology Here are not only the unheralded codebreaking geniuses of Bletchley Park but also their German counterparts who achieved their own triumphs and the fabulous espionage networks created and so often spurned by the Soviet Union With its stories of high policy and human drama the book has been acclaimed as the best history of the secret war ever written SPECIFICATIONS testingNULL"
Price: 8.99 |
| "Pirate Mutiny : 5" |
| "Join Tom on an incredible treasure hunt through time and battle history's mightiest warriors The fifth book in a new time-travelling series - perfect for fans of Beast QuestWhen ten-year-old Tom accidentally smashes a statue in a museum he releases Isis a young Egyptian mummy who has been imprisoned for thousands of years To break an ancient curse the duo must travel back in time to find six hidden amulets - battling Gladiators Knights Greeks Vikings Pirates and Egyptian Warriors!On his fifth journey Tom stows away on a pirate ship! Will he sneak the treasure from the terrifying Captain Blackbeard before he is caught and made to walk the plank?FREE collectable Gaming Cards and fascinating facts with every book!"
Price: 4.99 |
| "KS3 Maths Pupil Book 3.3" |
| "Ensure progress at the right pace with Pupil Book 33 the higher tier for the third year of teaching KS3 With fluency mathematical reasoning and problem solving integrated throughout you can be confident you're covering the main aims of the new curriculum and preparing students for revised GCSEs ahead Bring awe and wonder with a chapter opener that puts the maths in context Access the right level of content with the progress indicators on the page Provide rigorous maths practice with hundreds of high quality questions Focus on literacy skills with key words per topic and a glossary at the back Achieve fluency through 100s of practice questions Develop mathematical reasoning with flagged practice questions and longer activities at the end of exercises Practise multistep and problem solving skills with flagged practice questions and longer activities at the end of exercises Measure progress with Ready to progress?' learning outcomes at end of chapters Make connections across different areas of mathematics with synoptic extended questions at the end of each chapter that use maths from previous chapters Break up lessons and add variety and engagement with longer colourful real-life tasks and contexts which could be investigations challenges activities problem solving using financial skills or mathematical reasoning Access answers in the accompanying Teacher Pack 33 ISBN 978-0-00-753789-1"
Price: 16.99 |
| "Four: A Divergent Collection by Veronica Roth (Paperback, 2014)" |
| "Fans of the Divergent series by No 1 New York Times bestselling author Veronica Roth will be thrilled by Four A Divergent Collection a companion volume that includes four pre-Divergent stories told from Tobias Eaton’s point of view DIVERGENT INSURGENT and ALLEGIANT were major blockbuster movies in 2014 2015 and 2016 Readers first encountered Tobias Eaton as "Four" in Divergent His voice is an integral part of Allegiant Readers will find more of this charismatic character&39;s backstory told from his own perspective in Four A Divergent Collection When read together these long narrative pieces illuminate the defining moments in Tobias Eaton&39;s life The first three pieces in this volume – "The Transfer" "The Initiate" and "The Son" – follow Tobias&39;s transfer from Abnegation to Dauntless his Dauntless initiation and the first clues that a foul plan is brewing in the leadership of two factions The fourth story "The Traitor" runs parallel with the events of Divergent giving readers a glimpse into the decisions of loyalty – and love – that Tobias makes in the weeks after he meets Tris Prior Exclusive scenes included!"
Price: 5.99 |
| "Collins Robert French Dictionary Complete and Unabridged edition: 500,000 translations by Collins Dictionaries (Hardback,..." |
| "The world's leading French-English dictionary a joint collaboration between Collins and Le Robert now revised and updated to cover all the latest vocabulary in both languages The perfect dictionary for advanced learners of French With over 310000 words meanings and phrases and 500000 translations This tenth edition of the market-leading Collins Robert French dictionary uses Collins' and Le Robert's unique multi-million word databases of contemporary English and French to ensure that the user has the most complete and accurate picture of real language available today The dictionary is ideal for advanced learners and professionals using French This edition has been revised to include all the latest vocabulary from a wide range of fields including new additions from the fields of the Internet the environment and economics Culture boxes explain the origins of phrases from literature film and popular culture to aid translation and improve your understanding of French popular culture Long and complex entries benefit from a clear structure and layout with key phrases idioms and set grammatical structures highlighted Acclaimed Language in Use supplement contains hundreds of examples of usage in real-life contexts such as essay writing email and telephone conversations to help you use French fluently and naturally Includes detailed colour maps of the English and French-speaking worlds"
Price: 26.49 |
| "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher" |
| "A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the BodiesIncluding a new story The School of EnglishHilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers In these ten bracingly subversive tales all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in Comma'; nurses clash in Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting gameWhether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit Displaying all of Mantel's unmistakable style and wit they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers"
Price: 7.99 |
| "Big Nate Lives It Up : 7" |
| "This is the 7th novel in the bestselling Big Nate series! And with a new kid to convince that his school's the coolest Nate's in for another wild ride Geeky new kid Breckenridge Puffington III has started at PS 38 and Principal Nichols wants Nate to be his buddy and show him around the school But it's hard to make a good impression when the school is one hundred years old and falling apart!Everyone's excited to celebrate the school's centenary and have a big party but with the ceiling literally crumbling can Nate convince Breckenridge that his school is still the coolest?"
Price: 5.49 |
| "Beowulf: A Translation and Commentary, together with Sellic Spell by J. R. R. Tolkien (Paperback, 2016)" |
| "The translation of Beowulf by JRR Tolkien was an early work very distinctive in its mode completed in 1926 he returned to it later to make hasty corrections but seems never to have considered its publication This edition is twofold for there exists an illuminating commentary on the text of the poem by the translator himself in the written form of a series of lectures given at Oxford in the 1930s; and from these lectures a substantial selection has been made to form also a commentary on the translation in this book From his creative attention to detail in these lectures there arises a sense of the immediacy and clarity of his vision It is as if he entered into the imagined past standing beside Beowulf and his men shaking out their mail-shirts as they beached their ship on the coast of Denmark listening to the rising anger of Beowulf at the taunting of Unferth or looking up in amazement at Grendel's terrible hand set under the roof of Heorot But the commentary in this book includes also much from those lectures in which while always anchored in the text he expressed his wider perceptions He looks closely at the dragon that would slay Beowulf snuffling in baffled rage and injured greed when he discovers the theft of the cup'; but he rebuts the notion that this is a mere treasure story' just another dragon tale' He turns to the lines that tell of the burying of the golden things long ago and observes that it is the feeling for the treasure itself this sad history' that raises it to another level The whole thing is sombre tragic sinister curiously real The treasure is not just some lucky wealth that will enable the finder to have a good time or marry the princess It is laden with history leading back into the dark heathen ages beyond the memory of song but not beyond the reach of imagination' Sellic Spell a marvellous tale' is a story written by Tolkien suggesting what might have been the form and style of an Old English folk-tale of Beowulf in which there was no association with the historical legends' of the Northern kingdoms"
Price: 7.99 |
| "The Secret Dead : A Novella" |
| "A short story featuring Giordano Bruno heretic philosopher and spy Perfect for fans of CJ Sansom Even the dead have a story to tell Naples 1566 During a sweltering summer eighteen-year-old Giordano Bruno takes his final vows at San Domenico Maggiore and is admitted to the Dominican Order - despite doubts over his tendency to ask difficult questions Assisting in the infirmary Bruno witnesses an illicit autopsy performed on the body of a young woman Her corpse reveals a dark secret and Bruno suspects that hers may not have been an accidental death His investigation leads him to a powerful figure who wants to keep the truth buried - and Bruno is forced to make a choice between his future in the Order and justice for an innocent victim and her grieving family"
Price: 4.49 |
