Ten millennia ago the fairy People were defeated in a great battle with mankind forcing them to move underground Only the eighth family of fairies remained undefeated the demons But now one demon has discovered the secrets of the fairy world & if humans get hold of this information the fairies are in BIG trouble Only one person can prevent this disaster
- teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl Action packed & full of humour
- a must-read for boys & girls aged 10

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Evil pixie Opal Koboi is back & she's more dangerous than ever This time she doesn't just want power over the fairy People
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Teenage criminal mastermind Artemis Fowl has a new mission
- & this time it's personal Artemis's mother is dangerously ill & the
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12-year-old villain Artemis Fowl is the most ingenious criminal mastermind in history His bold & daring plan is to hold a leprechaun to ransom But he's taking on more than he bargained for when he kidnaps Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon (Lower Elements Police Reconnaissance Unit) ...

This adaptation of his genre-busting award-winning novel Artemis Fowl has been a labour of love for lifelong graphic novel fan Eoin Colfer & Andrew Donkin Art by Giovanni Rigano & colour by Paolo Lamanna Twelve-year-old Artemis Fowl is a brilliant criminal mastermind But even Artemis doesn't know what he's taken on when he kidnaps a fairy Captain Holly Short of the LEPrecon Unit These aren't the fairies of bedtime stories These fairies are armed & they're dangerous Artemis thinks he's got them just where he wants them but then they stop playing by the rules ...

Ever had a bad day? Try having one on the moon & Fascinating& TIM PEAKE Sunday Times bestselling author of Ask an Astronaut WINNER OF THE 2017 GOODREADS CHOICE AWARDS FOR SCIENCE FICTIONWELCOME TO ARTEMIS The first city on the moon Population 2000 Mostly tourists Some criminals Jazz Bashara is a criminal She lives in a poor area of Artemis & subsidises her work as a porter with smuggling contraband onto the moon But it’s not enough So when she’s offered the chance to make a lot of money she jumps at it But though planning a crime in 16th gravity may be more fun it’s a lot more dangerous… ...

Seventeen year old Artemisia is a budding artist in 17th Century Italy where women are forbidden to study painting much less paint nude models She persuades her father to let her watch & learn from the great painter Agostino Tassi Tassi however has plans other than teaching art & he attacks Artemisia French dialogue with subtitles ...

Artful presents in book form four lectures given by Ali Smith at Oxford University Refusing to be tied down to either fiction or the essay form Artful is narrated by a character who is haunted
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- by a former lover the writer of a series of lectures about art & literature Full of both the poignancy & humour of fiction & all the sideways insights & jaunty angles you would expect from Ali Smith's criticism it explores form style life love death mortality immortality & what art & writing can mean Part fiction part essay Artful is a revelation of what writing can do & a reaffirmation of Ali Smith's unmatched literary powers' Playful full of insight & humanity constantly surprising another genuine attempt to bust open the boundaries of literary form' Jonathan Coe Metro' Joyful & optimistic Will be entertaining reading for anyone interested in the art of writing also of living well' New Statesman' Glittering inventiveness Not just a ghost story but also a love letter As emotionally freighted as a piece of storytelling as intellectually rigorous as an academic's essay' Independent' An insight into an author who is in love with books invention & words in all their depth & shiny surface' Herald 'A revelation a new kind of book altogether a book that defies categorisation & leaps out of every box anyone could try & put it in; a book that marries fiction to nonfiction literary criticism to essays; a book that is as serious as it is witty as light as it is enlightening Artful makes you glad to be alive' Observer Books of the Year' One of the marvelous things about this book is its reconciliation of the serious
- both in the form of this crumbling smelly guest & in its ardent advocacy of art
- & light Smith whose love of words & skill at wordplay has already been made apparent in her stories & novels performs dodge after dodge after dodge what Smith has done with Artful is to invent a new form apart from form to build a kind of Frankenstein's monster inside the act of art' LA Review of Books ' Smith is a trickster an etymologist a fantasist a pun-freak an ontologist a transgenrenatrix A wordsmith to the very smithy of her soul she is at once deeply playful & deeply serious Artful in which she tugs at God's sleeve ruminates on clowns shoplifts used books dabbles in Greek & palavers with the dead is a stunner' New York Times' These brief acrobatic lectures perform spectacular feats of criticism Each is as playful as it is powerful as buoyant as it is brilliant' NPR' Contemplative electrifying' Publishers Weekly



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Fifty years after a time traveler brings science & technology to the medieval ages corporations have replaced kingdoms & the future teeters on a bleak precipice Agents & assassins hired for their specialties by the rivaling companies stem the flow of information with the flow of blood But the current system can't hold & the balance of power is shifting This print edition of Artful Daggers Fifty Years Later created by writers Adam P Knave (Amelia Cole) & Sean E Williams (Fairest) & artist Andrew Losq

Includes:: a foreword by Michael Avon Oeming (POWERS Mice Templar & The Victories) a preface by Jacques Lamarre (Director of Communication & Special Projects Mark Twain House) & pin-ups by some of the top artists in comics

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