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In the latest retelling of the world's greatest stories in the Myth series, highly regarded novelist Vickers brings to life the Western world's most widely known myth through a shrewdly told exploration of the seminal story in conversations between Freud and Tiresias.

From the internationally bestselling author of "I'm Not Scared" comes a dizzying and compulsively readable novel set in a moribund town in industrial Italy, where a father and son contend with a hostile world and their own inner demons.

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.

Between 1965 and 1972, students and other political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. "There's a Riot Going On" is a rich, fact-filled, exceedingly well-researched social history at the nexus of pop culture, celebrity, and politics.

M. J. Hyland is the award winning and Man Booker shortlisted author of "Carry Me Down, " Her third novel, "This Is How, " is a psychologically probing and deeply moving account of a man at odds with the world. Patrick Oxtoby is a perpetual outsider longing to find his niche. When his fiance breaks off their engagement, Patrick leaves home and moves to a remote seaside village. In spite of his hopes for a new and better life, Patrick struggles ...

A new farming saga from the popular Scottish author

A woman struggles to face her tragic past.

Chronicling 13 years of struggle, aspiration, achievement, misunderstandings, near misses, and compromised or lost dreams of the Fitzgerald family, Walsh delivers an absorbing story of the awkwardness of youth and the necessary acceptance and maturity that comes with age.

According to Slavic myth, Baba Yaga is a witch who lives in a house built on chicken legs and kidnaps small children. In "Baba Yaga Laid an Egg, " internationally acclaimed writer Dubravka Ugresic takes the timeless legend and spins it into a fresh and distinctly modern tale of femininity, aging, identity, and love. With barbed wisdom and razor-sharp wit, Ugresic weaves together the stories of four women in contemporary Eastern Europe: a writ...

´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...

Arriving in Northern Finland after the Second World War, Gunnar Huttunen buys a dilapidated mill on the Suukoski rapids of the Kemijoki River. An Ignatius Reilly of the Finnish 1940s, Gunnar is an eccentric outsider swimming against society's current. Prone to rapid mood swings and a general lack of decorum, he is feared and reviled by village notables for his wayward manner--most noticeably his indulgent nighttime howling, which he gets up to...

The Siege" dramatizes a relentless fictional assault on a Christian fortressin the Albanian mountains by the Ottoman Army in the 15th century.

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.