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The third volume, with Linus just learning to talk, Snoopy exploring his eccentricities, Lucy's unrequited crush on Schroeder reaching its end and Charlie Brown becoming even more Charlie Brown-ish. With a special introduction by Matt Groening.

One can scarcely overstate the importance of Peanuts to the comics, or overstate its influence on all of us who havefollowed." -Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes)"The understated clarity of Peanuts influenced virtually every comic strip that's appeared in recent decades . . . TheComplete Peanuts reveals how one of the masters of the comic strip developed." -Los Angeles Times Book Review"These [early volumes] reaffirm that Schulz's work deserve...

Helen Walsh was born in Warrington, England, in 1976. Her first novel, Brass, was published in 2004 and was the winner of a Betty Trask Prize. She now lives in Liverpool.

A bright, fine-cut gem.' Sunday TimesSigmund Freud lies ill. A man whose work, whose very life, has depended on the power of speech has now been all but silenced by cancer of the jaw. In the waking darkness he receives a strange visitor, who has come to tell a story that Freud will recognize.But this is a different account of what happened when Oedipus met his father at the place where three roads meet. Salley Vickers's retelling of this great...

As PEANUTS concludes its first decade, a new character makes her appearance: Charlie Brown's little sister Sally. This volume covers her earliest days, from her proud brother's announcement of her birth to her first words (and crush on Linus)! Also: the initial 'Great Pumpkin' sequence, Lucy's first appearance as a nickel psychiatrist, Linus's short-lived and one-sided romance with his beloved teacher Miss Othmar, and Snoopy's battle with the ...

Being human isn't easy. We might think that consciousness and free will give us control over our lives. But our minds are dangerous and unpredictable places. We are susceptible to forces we don't understand. We are capable of inflicting immense cruelty on one another, and yet we also have the capacity to be tender. To empathise, to feel. Why?Cover photograph:© Image Source/Getty Images

The world of Peanuts is a microcosm, a little human comedy for the innocent reader and for the sophisticated."-Umberto Eco"All sorts of important writers have marvelled at the glorious simplicity of [Schulz's] draftsmanship and his unerringjokecraft, all underpinned by a quiet melancholy and stoicism . . . Unlike almost everything you read as a child, they are actually better than you remember them." -Spectator"Beautifully designed . . . One o...

With over 20 million hits on YouTube in little over a year, SIMON'S CAT, is a genuine word-of-mouth phenomenon. Fans from all over the world have fallen for this adorable but anarchic feline who will do just about anything to be fed. This autumn, Simon Tofield's beautiful drawings and warm humour come alive on the page in the first of a series of irresistible stocking-filler humour books.

In the years before her death, Marilyn Monroe visited a psychiatrist several times a week. Her last analyst, Dr Ralph Greenson, was the last person to see her alive and first to see her dead. From accounts of these final sessions, Michel Schneider conjures an enthralling novel about one of the most charismatic figures of the twentieth century, and the Hollywood world in which she lived and died.

A new farming saga from the popular Scottish author

A woman struggles to face her tragic past.

´Art is a lie that tells the truth.´ Pablo PicassoPicasso disrupted the world around him, and in doing so he reshaped it. This is the Trickster spirit: playful, mischievous, subversive, amoral. Tricksters are a great bother to have around, but paradoxically they are also indispensable heroes of culture, because our world - with its complexity and ambiguity, its beauty and its dirt - is Trickster´s creation, and the work is not yet finished.Aut...

Boiling up a unique brew of fairytale, fantasy, horror, myth and mischief, Kelly Link creates a world like no other, where ghosts of girlfriends past rub up against Scrabble-loving grandmothers with terrifying magic handbags, wizards sit alongside morbid babysitters, and we encounter a people-eating monster who claims to have a sense of humour.

Gripping, filmic historical fiction. Features a newlywed couple who go to live in the North Carolina mountains. When Serena, the bride, discovers she can't have children, things take a sinister turn. Will appeal to fans of "Cold Mountain" and "Snow Falling On Cedars". 'Bitter and brilliant...' "Guardian

In the tunnels beneath New York a young man is missing. With each passing minute he heads deeper underground, further from the world of light and reason and closer to the moment of his great surrender. Above ground Ali Lateef of the NYPD is assigned the case. The boy's mother Violet is reluctant to help and Emily, LOWBOYs girlfriend and only confidante, appears to have vanished too. Can Lateef find LOWBOY before it's too late?

Last year, Simon's Cat was tipped by many to be the 'dark horse' of the Christmas season. It didn't disappoint. Simon's Cat was published simultaneously in 25 countries, hit the Sunday Times bestseller list, and sold over 125, 000 copies.

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Can you trust a man who has secrets he won't share? -" "It's been seven years since the brutal murder of Emma Cardale's best friend, Laura, and Emma's only just managed to pick up the pieces. She has a job she enjoys, and a wonderful man in Jack Scarlet, whose dancing eyes and quicksilver moods make her heart sing. But one day she returns home with bad news from work to find an unwelcome ghost from the past on her doorstep . . .

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