British comedy blended with universal regret this darkly funny graphic novel using surreal yet beautiful visions explores the ways we remain haunted by our ex-lovers Valerie has a rich interior life Serially unlucky in love to feel better she imagines that her previous boyfriends are dead & that their bodies are kept downstairs in the cellar in a strange mummified state Every day she brings them upstairs & speaks with them about what went wrong What follows is a series of peculiar & funny & sometimes disturbing short tales about inept lovers weird obsessions & socially malfunctioning men who repeatedly fail to build a relationship with poor Valerie Apart from Stanley Stanley was special Could he be the one to save her? The Three Rooms in Valerie’s Head is a dark comedy about relationships memory loneliness & obsession & is the first collaboration between ultra-short fiction writer David Gaffney & comic artist Dan Berry About the Author David Gaffney comes from Cleator Moor in West Cumbria & now lives in Manchester He is the author of Sawn-off Tales (2006) Aromabingo (2007) Never Never (2008) The Half-life of Songs (2010) & his latest collection of short stories More Sawn-Off Tales (2013) He has written articles for the Guardian Sunday Times Financial Times & Prospect magazine & was a judge for the 2015 Bridport prize His story " The Staring Man" is featured in the 2016 collection Best British Short Stories his new novel All The Places I&ve Ever Lived is out in February 2017 on Urbane & his graphic novel with Dan Berry The Three Rooms In Valerie&s Head is out in March 2017 on Top Shelf Dan Berry is an illustrator designer cartoonist & lecturer based in the town of Shrewsbury UK He is the Programme Leader for the BAMDES Illustration Graphic Novels & Children’s Publishing degree courses at the School of Creative Arts Wrexham Glyndwr University Since 2012 he has produced the podcast Make It Then Tell Everybody in which he has spoken to over a hundred other artists about what they do & how they do it He also records a comedy podcast with Hannah Berry (no relation) entitled No YOU Hang Up He has produced illustration work for The NME Michael Rosen The National Union of Teachers & more ...

Editedand with an Introduction by Dr Keith Carabine Chairperson of the Joseph Conrad Society of Great Britain As these three specially commissioned stories amply demonstrate Conrad is our greatest writer of the sea His characters are tested by dramatic events 'that show in the light of day the inner worth of a man the edge of his temper & the fibre of his stuff; that reveal the quality of his resistance & the secret stuff of his pretences not only to others but also to himself' In Typhoon Conrad's funniest story Captain Mac Whirr blunders into a hurricane that reveals the sea's treachery violence & terror Falk is desperate to get married but first he must tell of his terrible experiences as sole survivor of a stricken ship that once drifted into the ice-caps of Antarctica The Shadow-Line is a poignant & beautiful story Written during the First World War & based on Conrad's fond evocation of his own first command it expresses his solidarity with all who were obliged to cross in early youth the shadow-line of their war-torn generation

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The triple moon symbol depicting the three phases of the moon (waxing crescent full moon & waning crescent) is often used to represent the Triple Goddess of Wicca & Neopaganism where the Goddess is ascribed the three aspects of Maiden (representing youthful enthusiasm & the promise of new beginnings) Mother (representing ripeness fertility sexuality & power) & Crone (representing wisdom repose death & endings) The five-pointed star known as the pentagram or pentangle often circumscribed by a circle symbolizes the five classical elements in Wicca (earth air fire water & spirit) as well as the five appendages of the human body the five senses & various other magical & symbolic associations The pentagram was used symbolically in ancient Greece (particularly among the followers of Pythagoras) Mesopotamia & Babylonia & was also used as a Christian symbol for the five senses or the five wounds of Christ Cornelius Agrippa & others perpetuated the popularity of the pentagram as a magic symbol keeping the Pythagorean attributions of elements to the five points Six- & seven-pointed stars were also used with different symbolism By the mid-19th Century a further distinction had developed amongst occultists regarding the pentagram's orientation it was considered essentially good when shown with a single point upwards (depicting spirit presiding over the four elements of matter) but Eliphas L&233;vi called it evil when it appeared inverted (point down) The inverted pentagram came to be associated particularly by Christians with Satanism & evil & the modern Satanism movement adopted the inverted pentagram (often with the head of a goat inside it) as the Sigil of Baphomet The word triquetra originally meant simply triangle or any three-cornered shape but it has come to refer exclusively to a three-pointed figure composed of three overlapping vesicae piscis Three Silver Bells
- Triquetra Pentagram & Triple Moon Engraved Made from metal & nickle with a shiny silver finish Weight 005kg each Width 4cm Depth 4cm Height 7cm Delicate magic little bells engraved with Wicca & Pagan symbols
- perfect decoration for those magic witches & wizards Fabulous home decor or if you're brave enough with magic & potions then each bell with it's own unique symbol may carry a special power
- would look excellent next to your cauldrons & skulls


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There is only one bond that I trust between a woman & her sisters We never take our eyes off each other In love & in rivalry we always think of each other When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride the oldest princess Margaret takes her measure With one look each knows the other for a rival an ally a pawn destined
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- to a sisterhood unique in all the world The three sisters will become the queens of England Scotland & France United by family loyalties & affections the three queens find themselves set against each other Katherine commands an army against Margaret & kills her husband James IV of Scotland But Margaret's boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son Mary steals the widowed Margaret's proposed husband but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others As they experience betrayals dangers loss & passion the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond more powerful than any man even a king

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There is only one bond that I trust between a woman & her sisters We never take our eyes off each other In love & in rivalry we always think of each other When Katherine of Aragon is brought to the Tudor court as a young bride the oldest princess Margaret takes her measure With one look each knows the other for a rival an ally a pawn destined
- with Margaret's younger sister Mary
- to a sisterhood unique in all the world The three sisters will become the queens of England Scotland & France United by family loyalties & affections the three queens find themselves set against each other Katherine commands an army against Margaret & kills her husband James IV of Scotland But Margaret's boy becomes heir to the Tudor throne when Katherine loses her son Mary steals the widowed Margaret's proposed husband but when Mary is widowed it is her secret marriage for love that is the envy of the others As they experience betrayals dangers loss & passion the three sisters find that the only constant in their perilous lives is their special bond more powerful than any man even a king

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An absorbing novel of romance & revolution loyalty & family sacrifice & undying love We have three souls or so I'd been told But only in death could I confirm this So begins the haunting & captivating tale set in 1935 China of the ghost of a young woman named Leiyin who watches her own funeral from above & wonders why she is being denied entry to the afterlife Beside her are three souls-stern & scholarly yang; impulsive romantic yin; & wise shining hun-who will guide her toward understanding She must they tell her make amends As Leiyin delves back in time with the three souls to review her life she sees the spoiled & privileged teenager she once was a girl who is concerned with her own desires while China is fractured by civil war & social upheaval At a party she meets Hanchin a captivating left-wing poet & translator & instantly falls in love with him When Leiyin defies her father to pursue Hanchin she learns the harsh truth-that she is powerless over her fate Her punishment for disobedience leads to exile an unwanted marriage a pregnancy & ultimately her death & when she discovers what she must do to be released from limbo into the afterlife Leiyin realizes that the time for making amends is shorter than she thought Suffused with history & literature Three Souls is an epic tale of revenge & betrayal forbidden love & the price we are willing to pay for freedom ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Peter & Bobby Farrelly finally deliver their long-gestating reboot of THE THREE STOOGES with this 20th Century Fox production Working from a script they penned with Mike Cerrone (ME MYSELF & IRENE) the brothers& comedic take on the trio is not a biopic but rather a sampling of new slapstick adventures set in the present day Sean Hayes Will Sasso & Chris Diamantopoulos star as respectively Larry Curly & Moe Age Rating 12 ...

' Can I bear to leave these blue hills?'A generous selection from three of the greatest & most enjoyable of Chinese poets Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Wang Wei (roughly 699-761) Wang Wei's Poems is available in Penguin Classics Li Po (701-762) Tu Fu (712-770) Li Po & Tu Fu is available in Penguin Classics ...

There are three things you should know about Elsie The first thing is that she's my best friend The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better And the third thing might take a little bit more explaining 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly As she waits to be rescued Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; & if the charming new resident is who he claims to be why does he look exactly a man who died sixty years ago? From the author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS & SHEEP this book will teach you many things but here are three of them 1) The fine threads of humanity will connect us all forever 2) There is so very much more to anyone than the worst thing they have ever done 3) Even the smallest life can leave the loudest echo ...

There are three things you should know about Elsie The first thing is that she's my best friend The second is that she always knows what to say to make me feel better And the third thing might take a little bit more explaining 84-year-old Florence has fallen in her flat at Cherry Tree Home for the Elderly As she waits to be rescued Florence wonders if a terrible secret from her past is about to come to light; & if the charming new resident is who he claims to be why does he look exactly like a man who died sixty years ago? From the author of THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS & SHEEP this book will teach you many things but here are three of them 1) The fine threads of humanity will connect us all forever 2) There is so very much more to anyone than the worst thing they have ever done 3) Even the smallest life can leave the loudest echo ...