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Edwin Paine and Charles Roland have a lot in common - they’re both English schoolboys who love a good detective story, and they’ve been known to dabble in mystery-solving themselves. They’re also both dead, a condition which has proven to be less of a hindrance than one might think.From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School, the place where they both were murdered....

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The hugely intelligent, fun and compassionate Elliott also happens to be wheelchair-bound in a strict Catholic orphanage. Enter the blind, mute and headstrong Jim, who presents to Elliott the possibility of figurative forms of escape and defiance. But how easy would it be to communicate these yearnings? Litt is a "Granta" Best of Young British Novelists selection and a regular on Radio 3's "The Verb".

Toby Litt's father wanted him to find about their ancestor: William Litt, a champion Cumberland Wrestler. Would Toby like what he found out about himself along the way? As a novelist, as a son, and as a father in turn? Would he have to get in the wrestling ring?... Would he even want to? Using the 19th century as a guide, 'Wrestliana' asks vital questions about modern day masculinity, competition, and success. It is a beautiful portrait of two...

Toby Litt is one of that rare breed of fiction writers who never writes the same book twice: every time out, he takes an unexpected new tack--and his readers happily follow. ​Told in the form of the pithy, even lyrical advice a young soldier leaves behind after a mission gone wrong, Notes for a Young Gentleman is no exception. Its brilliantly creative form, and the epigrammatic genius Litt displays in its creation, nonetheless can't hide the p...

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When Agatha and Paddy decide to leave London and buy a house on the coast, they are full of hope for themselves and their growing family baby Max and a new child on the way. Three months later, when the builders move out and they move in, things look very different.

A collection of short stories that is about our globalizing and atomizing world - with stories set in India, Sweden, Australia, and Iran - that also looks at how we meet and fail to meet and what connects us to one another, as well as waste and communication, and, in turn, communication through waste.

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Features Charles and Edwin who begin to unravel the mysteries of their own demise while trying to protect tech-savvy sleuth Crystal from a similar fate.

From the pages of THE SANDMAN, Neil Gaiman's intrepid dead schoolboys head back to the horror that is St. Hilarions School--the place where they both were murdered. Written by Toby Litt and illustrated by Mark Buckingham (FABLES) DEAD BOY DETECTIVES VOL. 2 features the second mysterious arc from the new hit series from Vertigo. Collects DEAD BOY DETECTIVES #7-12.

Toby Litt is best known for his hip-lit fiction, which, in its sharing of characters and themes across numerous stories and novels, has always taken an unusual, hybrid form. In Mutants, he applies his restless creativity to nonfiction. The book brings together twenty-six essays on a range of diverse topics, including writers and writing, and the technological world that informs and underpins it. Each essay is marked by Litts distinct voice, he...

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