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Three short stories, each focusing on the relationship between mother and child. ''''The Piper Man'''' is structured around the legend of The Pied ...

Frida Kahlo, remembered as one of the most inspiring personalities of the 20th century, was a woman of two intertwined parts: she was both a charis...

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

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (18481903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the...

Georgia OKeeffe (18871986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was o...

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

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 wr...

Over the course of Hunter S. Thompson's extraordinary life he was publically branded a bum, a vandal, a thief, a liar, an addict, a freak and a psy...

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

Ziggy Stardust, Aladdin Sane, The Thin White Duke: David Bowie had an extraordinary talent for reinvention. But at the beginning of his career, he ...

John and Naomi were childhood sweethearts whose lives took them in different directions. As adults, they are reunited by accident and love takes ho...

This deeply atmospheric rendering of Conrads classic dees colonial trader, Marlow, recount his journey into the heart of Africa and his discovery o...

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 cleaneror so it seems to those he works with on the citys waterfront. But he has an extraordinary hidd...

Hysteria is a graphic novel account of the first steps, errors and frustrations of Sigmund Freuds career, which would lead to the foundation of a r...

Love makes the world go round. It can also turn your heart as black as coal. In a series of short fictions, Krent Able, Anya Davidson, Julian Hansh...

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. Do...

Its Dark in London features the work of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, David McKean, Ilya, Carol Swain, Dix, Melinda Gebbie, in tandem with the stories o...

Josephine Baker (19061975) was nineteen years old when she found herself in Paris for the first time in 1925. Overnight, the young American dancer ...

In the bohemian and brilliant Montparnasse of the 1920s, Kiki managed to escape poverty to become one of the most charismatic figures of the avant-...

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

The epic legend re-imagined as a stunning graphic novel series adapted by Bafta- winner and No.1 New York Times bestselling author John Matthews an...

Tristram Shandy is one of English literature's most curious, complex and comic novels and is therefore perfectly suited to the distinctive, anarchi...

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

This kooky collection brings together the most perceptive insights of the Moomin's shortest neighbour Little My. She can be so direct that she so...

A graphic anthology of tales from the renowned master of the eerie. Building on the success of the first volume, it showcases the talents of a new...

In Providence, Rhode Island, a dangerous inmate disappears from a hospital for the insane. At Miskatonic University, a professor slumps into a five...

After two years of unemployment, Maggy Garrisson lands a secretarial job. Too bad her new boss is the shady, chaotic Anthony Wight: private detecti...

Intoxicated by the promise of a promotion, Charles Singular for once allows himself a small extravagance: he buys a bowler hat. But theres a proble...

In the Middle Ages, surgery was performed by barbers, owing to their skill with sharp instruments. In the mid-19th century, a grand exhibition of t...