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Special collector's film tie-in hardback of the best-selling
classic, featuring the complete story with a sumptuous cover design
inspired by THE HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY and brand new
reproductions of all the drawings and maps by J.R.R. Tolkien. Bilbo
Baggins is a hobbit who enjoys a comfortable, unambitious life,
rarely travelling further than the pantry of his hobbit-hole in Bag
End. But his contentment is disturbed when the wizard, Gandalf, and
a company of thirteen dwarves arrive on his doorstep one day to
whisk him away on an unexpected journey 'there and back again'.
They have a plot to raid the treasure hoard of Smaug the
Magnificent, a large and very dangerous dragon... The prelude to
The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit has sold many millions of copies
since its publication in 1937, establishing itself as one of the
most beloved and influential books of the twentieth century.
A graphic novel by a lifelong motorcycle club member, inspired
by the secrets of one percenters.
Phil Cross has been a Hells Angel for over 40 years. In the
world of outlaw motorcycle clubs, there are many stories that can't
be told, for a variety of reasons, but they have spurred Phil's
imagination to create a fictional story inspired by real
events.
One-percenter antiheroes populate these pagesa tougher and
wilder than any character ever played by Dennis Hopper, Peter
Fonda, or Marlon Brando. The guys in the tales Phil spins might
remind you of Easy Rider and The Wild One, but the hard glint in
their eyes proves that they are based on the real deal.
Illustrator Ronn Sutton provides stunning visuals to bring
Phil's stories to life. These bikers aren't going to ride off into
the sunset any time soon."
Now in its nineteenth year, the Caine Prize for African Writing is
Africa's leading literary prize and is awarded to a short story by
an African writer published in English, whether in Africa or
elsewhere. This collection brings together the five 2018
shortlisted stories: American Dream by Nonyelum Ekwempu (Nigeria);
The Armed Letter Writers by Olofunke Ogundimu (Nigeria); Fanta
Blackcurrant by Makena Onjerika (Kenya); Involution by Stacy Hardy
(South Africa); Wednesday's Story by Wole Talabi (Nigeria). It also
includes 12 stories written at the Caine Prize Writers' Workshop,
which took place in Rwanda in April 2018: No Ordinary Soiree by
Paula Akugizibwe; Tie Kidi by Awuor Onyango; Calling the Clouds
Home by Heran T. Abate; America by Caroline Numuhire; All Things
Bright and Beautiful by Troy Onyango; Departure by Nsah Mala; Where
Rivers Go to Die by Dilman Dila; Ngozi by Bongani Sibanda; The
Weaving of Death by Lucky Grace Isingizwe; Redemption Song by
Arinze Ifeakandu; Spaceman by Bongani Kona; Grief is the Gift that
Breaks the Spirit Open by Eloghosa Osunde. The 2018 judging panel
comprises: Dinaw Mengestu, journalist, author and graduate of
Georgetown University and of Columbia University's M.F.A. programme
in fiction; Alain Mabanckou, prolific Francophone Congolese poet
and novelist and Man Booker International Prize finalist (2015);
reporter, columnist and poet Ahmed Rajab; Henrietta Rose-Innes, a
South African author who won the Caine Prize in 2008; and Lola
Shoneyin, a Nigerian writer who has won the Ken Saro-Wiwa Prose
Prize.
The Great American Novel of love and betrayal in the Jazz Age. ‘I
believe that on the first night I went to Gatsby’s house I was
one of the few guests who had actually been invited. People were
not invited – they went there’. Considered one of the all-time
great American works of fiction, Fitzgerald’s glorious yet
ultimately tragic social satire on the Jazz Age encapsulates the
exuberance, energy and decadence of an era. After the war, the
mysterious Jay Gatsby, a self-made millionaire pursues wealth,
riches and the lady he lost to another man with stoic
determination. He buys a mansion across from her house and throws
lavish parties to try and entice her. When Gatsby finally does
reunite with Daisy Buchanan, tragic events are set in motion. Told
through the eyes of his detached and omnipresent neighbour and
friend, Nick Carraway, Fitzgerald’s succinct and powerful prose
hints at the destruction and tragedy that awaits.
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Carmilla
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Joseph Sheridan Lefanu; Edited by Savannah Stuttgen; Foreword by Mark Leslie Lefebvre
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Meditations is a compendium of ruminations and reflections by the
second-century Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius, a staunch adherent to the
Stoic philosophy. It is a spiritual journal of the author’s
philosophical exercises and a chronicle of the paradox of the
philosopher-king.
An action-packed thriller and source of the hit Netflix drama where
the only way to survive is to play the game! Eighteen-year-old
Ryohei Arisu is sick of his life. School sucks, his love life is a
joke, and his future weighs on him like impending doom. As he
struggles to exist in a world that can't be bothered with him,
Ryohei feels like everything would be better if he were anywhere
else. When a strange fireworks show transports him and his friends
to a parallel world, Ryohei thinks all his wishes have come true.
But this new world isn't an empty paradise, it's a vicious game.
And the only way to survive is to play. The battle against the King
of Hearts continues as Arisu and his team struggle to make up for
their shocking point deficit. But no matter what strategy they try,
the king and his compatriots maintain the upper hand. When each
move is a matter of life or death and no victory comes without
sacrifice, can Arisu and his team bear another loss to secure the
win?
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