A quarter of a century after its initial publication & with well over a million copies in print worldwide Brian Froud & Alan Lees Faeries is an unquestioned classic. Now Froud & Lee return to their most enduring & beloved work in this Deluxe Anniversary Edition. This ultimate collectors item

Includes:: eight frameable limited edition prints as well as a signed facsimile of a personal letter from Brian & Alan. The book also

Includes:: 8 original new pieces of art by Froud & Lee as well as the remarkable pencil drawings & watercolours of mythical creatures from faeries & goblins to leprechauns & dwarves that started it all. Accompanied by brief descriptions of each creatures origins & powers the images are enchanting & full of magical detail. More than just a reissue this deluxe revised & updated edition also contains essays from both Froud & Lee on the influence of Faeries & an introduction by a name author in the Faerie community. The remarkable package will be a delight to fans of the previous title & those who are just discovering this stunning book for the first time.



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The hauntingly prophetic classic novel set in a not-too-distant future where books are burned by a special task force of firemen. Guy Montag is a fireman. His job is to burn books which are forbidden being the source of all discord & unhappiness. Even so Montag is unhappy; there is discord in his marriage. Are books hidden in his house? The Mechanical Hound of the Fire Department armed with a lethal hypodermic escorted by helicopters is ready to track down those dissidents who defy society to preserve & read books. The classic novel of a post-literate future ' Fahrenheit 451' stands alongside Orwell's '1984' & Huxley's ' Brave New World' as a prophetic account of Western civilization's enslavement by the media drugs & conformity. Bradbury's powerful & poetic prose combines with uncanny insight into the potential of technology to create a novel which over fifty years from first publication still has the power to dazzle & shock. ...

Sara Linton medical examiner in the small town of Heartsdale is called out to an apparent suicide on the local college campus. The mutilated body provides little in the way of clues
- & the college authorities are keen to avoid a scandal
- but for Sara & police chief Jeffrey Tolliver things don't add up. Two more suspicious suicides follow & a young woman is brutally attacked. For Sara the violence strikes far too close to home. & as Jeffrey pursues the sadistic killer he discovers that ex-police detective Lena Adams now a security guard on campus may be in possession of crucial information. But bruised & angered by her expulsion from the force Lena seems to be barely capable of protecting herself let alone saving the next victim...

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The true story of a young police officers imprisonment for a crime he did not commit It was Michael Buntings life ambition to follow in his fathers footsteps & become a police officer. But six years after his family watch him pass out & begin his lifes dream he is serving a sentence for a crime he didnt commit. This is his story. Beaten almost senseless as he tried to arrest a violent criminal the 23-year-old PC was left with head injuries & blurred vision that took him months to recover from. Back at work he was astounded to learn that his attacker had filed a complaint against him & that the Police Discipline & Complaints Department were following up the allegation. Two years later he was found guilty of common assault against his assailant & received a prison sentence that left him living his devastated life amongst the criminals he had previously sought to keep off the streets. Hard-hitting & at times heart-breaking the book is a graphic account of life behind bars for a policeman in one of Englands hardest prisons. An extract from A Fair Cop: The prisoner arrived once more with the trolley & placed the plate of food on to my hatch. Bunting he shouted pleasantly. I wasnt fooled. Thanks I said as I walked across the cell to collect it. As I put my hand out to reach for the plate he snatched it away. He held it up to the hatch & peered through at me. PC Bunting isnt it? he asked & then took a deep breath to muster as much saliva from the back of his throat as he could. With one swift movement he spat a big glob in to the middle of the food. The white phlegm floated around in brown gravy. Hey lads Im feeding the pig he said. With this two other prisoners came to my cell hatch. They looked at me sniggering. They then spat in my food too. The first prisoner put the plate on the hatch & gestured for me to come closer. Youre in our territory now you f***ing filth & were gonna f***ing carve you up." ...

They say opposites attract & for werewolves Anna & Charles this is certainly true. Charles the pack enforcer is a dominant alpha
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Valerie Plame Wilson is the woman at the centre of the scandal that ultimately led to the downfall prosecution & conviction of the former White House chief of staff Lewis ' Scooter' Libby for revealing her identity as a CIA spy. During the run-up to the Iraq War George Bush & Tony Blair tried to bolster their case for invasion by claiming that Saddam Hussein was trying to procure weapons-grade uranium from Africa. The claim was highly dubious & when Plame's husband Joseph Wilson a former US ambassador was sent to investigate he quickly concluded it was false. Wilson's findings were not passed up the CIA food chain however prompting him to write an article in the New York Times saying Saddam had not tried to buy any uranium. Because this made life awkward for the White House a counter-attack then began with a rebuttal rubbishing Wilson's article & in the process revealing Valerie Plame's identity & status as a covert CIA operative -- a revelation that proved illegal with Lewis Libby being held ultimately responsible. Now for the first time Valerie Plame Wilson breaks her silence to tell her side of this extraordinary story & her life as a spy. Candid & gripping it sheds astonishing light on a world that is supposed to remain hidden. ...

So what can happen when Tove Jansson turns her attention to her own favourite subjects love & work in the form of this novel about two women lifelong partners & friends? Expect something philosophically calm
- & discreetly radical. Its publication is cause for huge celebration. (Ali Smith from her Introduction to Fair Play). What mattered most to Tove Jansson she explained in her eighties was work & love a sentiment she echoes in this tender & original novel. Translated for the first time into English Fair Play" portrays a love between two older women a writer & artist as they work side-by-side in their Helsinki studios travel together & share summers on a remote isl&. In the generosity & respect they show each other & the many small shifts they make to accommodate each others creativity we are shown a relationship both heartening & truly progressive."
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When John Franklin brings his plane down into Occupied France at the height of the Second World war there are two things in his mind
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New York Times "bestselling award-winning creator Bill Willingham presents a new series starring the beautiful deadly ladies from his hit series FABLES. Balancing horror humor & adventure in the FABLES tradition FAIREST explores the secret histories of Sleeping Beauty Rapunzel Cinderella The Snow Queen Thumbelina Snow White Rose Red & others. The first 6-issue tale follows the misadventures of Briar Rose immediately after the events of FABLES 107 (collected in FABLES VOL. 16: SUPER TEAM) in which she was stolen away by the goblin army. Following this first collection Willingham will serve as a consultant on all story arcs & introduce new writers from other mediums to the FABLES mythos. Fan-favorite artist Phil Jimenez (WONDER WOMAN THE INVISIBLES) returns to Vertigo to pencil the opening storyline. Award-winning cover artist Adam Hughes (WONDER WOMAN BATGIRL) provides covers starting with a wraparound cover on issue 1 that spotlights the lovely ladies who will star in the series." ...

The official celebratory book published to coincide with the 75th anniversary of Walt Disneys first full-length animated movie. Walt Disneys Snow White & the Seven Dwarfs was first shown to a theatrical audience in December 1937 & brought overwhelming joyous applause from a cinema full of hardened film-industry professionals. In subsequent months it would open internationally happily acclaimed by audiences & critics everywhere as one of the best films of the year if not the decade. From todays perspective its stature is even greater
- repeatedly cited as one of the finest movies of all time by cineastes & academics & still beloved by children & adults around the globe Snow White can be seen as the flowering of an all-too-brief golden age of animation as well as a fascinating document of its time. Such a level of artistic achievement doesnt happen by accident. Walt Disney & a staff of exceptionally talented artists laboured over the movie for four years endlessly working & reworking their scenes to achieve an ever higher standard. The finished film as we know was magnificent. It also heralded a new future for the Disney studio & indeed for the art of animation itself. This book is the first to reconstruct Snow Whites production process in exacting detail & with the loving attention it deserves. Author J.B. Kaufman has devoted years to researching the movies history interviewing participants & studying the marvellous archival imagery that appears in these pages. The result is a work that can be appreciated equally as a piece of cinema history & as a collectable art book a joy for anyone who loves film animation & the magical world that Walt Disney created.
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