Something terrifying has come to Earth, something that attacks us while we sleep & turns us into soulless replicants. The clock is ticking as Washington, DC psychiatrist Carol Bennell (Nicole Kidman) & her colleague Ben Driscoll (Daniel Craig) embark on a heart-stopping journey into a nightmarish world where the only way to stay alive is to stay awake. No-one can be trusted. No one is safe in producer Joel Silver ...

Comedy directed by, co-written by & starring Ricky Gervais as Mark, a performer who tells the first lie in a world where people only tell the truth & lying has never before existed. Once he realises what he can achieve by lying, there is no stopping h ...

Comedy directed by, co-written by & starring Ricky Gervais as Mark, a performer who tells the first lie in a world where people only tell the truth & lying has never before existed. Once he realises what he can achieve by lying, there is no stopping h ...

' We are a trading community, a commercial people. Murder is doubtless a very shocking offence, nevertheless as what is done is not to be undone, let us make our money out of it.' Punch Murder in the 19th century was rare. But murder as sensation & entertainment became ubiquitous -- transformed into novels, into broadsides & ballads, into theatre & melodrama & opera -- even into puppet shows & performing dog-acts. In this meticulously researched & compelling book, Judith Flanders -- author of ' The Victorian House' -- retells the gruesome stories of many different types of murder -- both famous & obscure. From the crimes (and myths) of Sweeney Todd & Jack the Ripper, to the tragedies of the murdered Marr family in London's East End, Burke & Hare & their bodysnatching business in Edinburgh, & Greenacre who transported his dismembered fiancee around town by omnibus. With an irresistible cast of swindlers, forgers, & poisoners, the mad, the bad & the dangerous to know, ' The Invention of Murder' is both a gripping tale of crime & punishment, & history at its most readable. ...

When his parents are lost in space, Sam is left, heartbroken, in the care of the horrible Hilda Hardbottom. Then he finds a tiny spaceship in the cabbage patch & meets a little alien called Splodge. How Splodge makes him invisible, & how Sam uses his new talent in his darkest hour, makes a touching & extremely funny story with lovely memorable characters. Read by Andrew Sachs ...

Step into a wildly imaginative world with an invisible girl, a flying boy & where being weird is brilliantly wonderful! A magically fantastical story from American author, Laura Ruby. In a vast & sparkling city where nearly everyone can fly, 12-year-old Gurl is trapped. Orphaned & lonely, she believes she is nothing more than a flightless "leadfoot", until one fateful night when she discovers that she has the power to make herself invisible. But even with this newfound talent, Gurl can't hide from a giant rat man with a taste for cats, a manipulative matron with a penchant for plastic surgery, & a belligerent boy named Bug. Gradually, Gurl learns to control her power & teams up with Bug to figure out who & what she is. Their quest takes them on a wild ride where they confront mind-bending monkeys, an eccentric genius with a head full of grass & a pocket full of kittens & the handsome but lethal Sweetcheeks Grabowski
- the gangster who holds the key to Gurl's past...and the world's future.
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When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there's always a price
- the devil

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Claude Rains makes his (largely unseen) big screen debut in this adaptation of H.G. Wells' classic novel, directed by horrormeister James Whale. When a bandaged stranger arrives in the English village of Ipping, taking rooms at the inn, he soon arouses th ...

Delve into the dangers of science with a man cast out from society by his own terrifying discovery...

This is the story

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Blending comedy & tragedy in its story, delve into The Invisible Man to discover the life of a scientist who discovers a way to make himself invisible.

His inability to reverse the process leads to a radical disconnection from society
- & eventually from his own sanity.

Arriving in a town where no one knows him, disguised in bandages & dark glasses, the invisible man is driven to violent & criminal extremes before his secret is revealed.

Product Information:
• ISBN: 9781838575625
• Author: H G Wells
• Publisher: Arcturus
• Format: Paperback
• Pages: 208
• Dimensions: 326mm x 197mm x 8mm
















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