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In 1909, while on a fundraising lecture tour in America, Sigmund Freud met Horace Frink, an early disciple of his theories of psychoanalysis, whose...

In December 1913, the New York World newspaper published the first crossword in history. It appeared in their Sunday supplement, "Fun." A century l...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. An influence on wri...

Curl up by the fire and enter the sinister, supernatural world of Montague Rhodes James, the master of the English ghost story. Chillingly atmosphe...

Product Description Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addi...

Saudi Arabia offers few prospects for the bright young Mohammed El-Gharani. With roots in Chad, Mohammed is treated like a second-class citizen. Hi...

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, Halloween Jack: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he made ...

The future - a divided world. A great quake divides our planet. Separate colonies have formed and the state of Denmark has grown seemingly prospero...

Product Description This deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrad’s classic dees colonial trader, Marlow, recount his journey into the heart of Afri...

Hellraisers tells the story of four of the greatest boozers of all time: Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Peter O'Toole and Oliver Reed. Robert Sell...

Herman is a reclusive, straight-laced street cleaner-or so it seems to those he works with on the city's waterfront. But he has an extraordinary hi...

About the Author Julian Hanshaw won the Jonathan Cape/Observer/Comica Graphic short story prize in 2008 with 'Sand Dunes & Sonic Booms', b...

In the mid-1930s, lrmina, an ambitious young German, moves to London. At a cocktail party, she meets Howard Green, one of the first Black students ...

"There was never a place for [Isadora Duncan] in the ranks of the terrible, slow army of the cautious. She ran ahead, where there were no paths." -...

Josephine Baker (1906-1975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer...

The story of Lear, the old chieftain, who divides his kingdom among his three daughters is the most terrifying tragedy ever written. Shakespeare’s ...

Three unemployed wasters find themselves embroiled in an unusual dispute with their new neighbours: Carole and her weeping mother. When the shabby ...

About the Author Reinhard Kleist lives and works as a freelance comics artist and illustrator in Berlin. His graphic novel Johnny Cash: I See A Da...

The epic legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table is re-imagined here as a visually stunning graphic novel adapted by John Matthews...

Product Description Somewhere in the British Isles, at the end of a neglected road, there is a village called Lip Hook. For its inhabitants, the ...

Product Description A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master of the eerie. Building on the success of the first volume, it showcases ...

Product Description Samurai warriors have reclaimed a future post-nuclear world of mutants in the original manga version of Shakespeare's tale of ...

Review STARRED REVIEW "Moody, modern noir stories are a dime a dozen, but Trondheim's knack for characterization and the wonderfully detailed ...

Paris in the 1950s: the reign of Sartre and existentialism. Daniel Brodin-bibliophile, book thief, self-proclaimed poet-enters the heated atmospher...