One of the most beloved children’s classics of all time, Lewis Carroll’s “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” is boldly reinterpreted by Camille Rose Garcia, whose dark yet whimsical style has won her resounding praise and an international cult following. The story of a young girls’ strange adventures in a fantasy world comes to life in this stunning, affordably priced edition that will delight the many millions of confirmed Alice fans everywhere and captivate a new generation. The publication of “Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland” will coincide with the release of Tim Burton’s 2010 film starring Johnny Depp, Alan Rickman, Helena Bonham-Carter, and Anne Hathaway among others – and the Hollywood buzz has predicted it will be one of the year’s biggest hits. The recent success of Collins Design’s publication of “The Curious Case of Benjamin Button” by F. Scott Fitzgerald – published in sync with the release of David Fincher’s Academy Award-winning film – indicates there is an enormous market for creative interpretations of literary classics.This new, imaginatively illustrated edition holds even greater promise, with an enormous fan base, long literary history, and the timing of its publication with the film. Alice is going Goth – and her adventures are more wondrous than ever before.

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George Hall doesn’t understand the modern obsession with talking about everything. ‘The secret of contentment George felt lay in ignoring many things completely.’ Some things in life however cannot be ignored. At fifty-seven George is settling down to a comfortable retirement building a shed in his garden reading historical novels listening to a bit of light jazz. Then Katie his tempestuous daughter announces that she is getting remarried to Ray. Her family is not pleased – as her brother Jamie observes Ray has ‘strangler’s hands’. Katie can’t decide if she loves Ray or loves the wonderful way he has with her son Jacob and her mother Jean is a bit put out by all the planning and arguing the wedding has occasioned which get in the way of her quite fulfilling late-life affair with one of her husband’s former colleagues. And the tidy and pleasant life Jamie has created crumbles when he fails to invite his lover Tony to the dreaded nuptials. Unnoticed in the uproar George discovers a sinister lesion on his hip and quietly begins to lose his mind.The way these damaged people fall apart – and come together – as a family is the true subject of Mark Haddon’s disturbing yet very funny portrait of a dignified man trying to go insane politely.

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For years Nadezhda and Vera two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents have had as little as possible to do with each other – and they have their reasons. But now they find they’d better learn how to get along because since their mother’s death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine seems to think their father is much richer than he is and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadazhda and Vera don’t stop her no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat – Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down old secrets come falling out including the most deeply buried one of them all from the War the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different.In the meantime oblivious to it all their father carries on with the great work of his dotage a grand history of the tractor.

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Indie filmmaker Kyle Freeman is a man at the end of his tether. He faces bankruptcy and obscurity, until he lands a commission to make an unusual documentary. The Temple of the Last Days was a notorious cult, which reached its bloody endgame in the Arizona desert in 1975. Ever since, the group’s rumoured mystical secrets and paranormal experiences have lain concealed behind a history of murder, sexual deviancy and imprisonment. Kyle and his one-man crew film the cult’s original bases in London and France finally visiting the desert crime scene where the cult self-destructed in a night of ritualistic violence. But when Kyle interviews survivors, uncanny events plague his shoots. Frightening out-of-body experiences and nocturnal visitations follow, along with the discovery of ghastly artefacts. Until Kyle realises, too late, that they’ve become entangled in the cult’s hideous legacy. Praise for Adam Nevill ‘This novel grabs from the very first page Superb’ Guardian ‘Lean, compelling, dark, at times frightening’ The Herald ‘Horrifyingly scary Nevill sinuously ramps up the tension’ Sunday Times

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For years Nadezhda and Vera two Ukrainian sisters raised in England by their refugee parents have had as little as possible to do with each other – and they have their reasons. But now they find they’d better learn how to get along because since their mother’s death their aging father has been sliding into his second childhood and an alarming new woman has just entered his life. Valentina a bosomy young synthetic blonde from the Ukraine seems to think their father is much richer than he is and she is keen that he leave this world with as little money to his name as possible. If Nadazhda and Vera don’t stop her no one will. But separating their addled and annoyingly lecherous dad from his new love will prove to be no easy feat – Valentina is a ruthless pro and the two sisters swiftly realize that they are mere amateurs when it comes to ruthlessness. As Hurricane Valentina turns the family house upside down old secrets come falling out including the most deeply buried one of them all from the War the one that explains much about why Nadazhda and Vera are so different.In the meantime oblivious to it all their father carries on with the great work of his dotage a grand history of the tractor.

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Bill Bryson describes himself as a reluctant traveller: but even when he stays safely in his own study at home he can’t contain his curiosity about the world around him. A Short History of Nearly Everything is his quest to find out everything that has happened from the Big Bang to the rise of civilization – how we got from there being nothing at all to here being us. Bill Bryson’s challenge is to take subjects that normally bore the pants off most of us like geology chemistry and particle physics and see if there isn’t some way to render them comprehensible to people who have never thought they could be interested in science. It’s not so much about what we know as about how we know what we know. How do we know what is in the centre of the Earth or what a black hole is or where the continents were 600 million years ago? How did anyone ever figure these things out? On his travels through time and space he encounters a splendid collection of astonishingly eccentric competitive obsessive and foolish scientists like the painfully shy Henry Cavendish who worked out many conundrums like how much the Earth weighed but never bothered to tell anybody about many of his findings. In the company of such extraordinary people Bill Bryson takes us with him on the ultimate eye-opening journey and reveals the world in a way most of us have never seen it before.

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Substance D – otherwise known as Death – is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain’s two hemispheres leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor undercover narcotics agent is trying to find a lead to the source of supply but to pass as an addict he must become a user and soon without knowing what is happening to him he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

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Indie filmmaker Kyle Freeman is a man at the end of his tether. He faces bankruptcy and obscurity, until he lands a commission to make an unusual documentary. The Temple of the Last Days was a notorious cult, which reached its bloody endgame in the Arizona desert in 1975. Ever since, the group’s rumoured mystical secrets and paranormal experiences have lain concealed behind a history of murder, sexual deviancy and imprisonment. Kyle and his one-man crew film the cult’s original bases in London and France finally visiting the desert crime scene where the cult self-destructed in a night of ritualistic violence. But when Kyle interviews survivors, uncanny events plague his shoots. Frightening out-of-body experiences and nocturnal visitations follow, along with the discovery of ghastly artefacts. Until Kyle realises, too late, that they’ve become entangled in the cult’s hideous legacy. Praise for Adam Nevill ‘This novel grabs from the very first page Superb’ Guardian ‘Lean, compelling, dark, at times frightening’ The Herald ‘Horrifyingly scary Nevill sinuously ramps up the tension’ Sunday Times

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Substance D – otherwise known as Death – is the most dangerous drug ever to find its way on to the black market. It destroys the links between the brain’s two hemispheres leading first to disorentation and then to complete and irreversible brain damage. Bob Arctor undercover narcotics agent is trying to find a lead to the source of supply but to pass as an addict he must become a user and soon without knowing what is happening to him he is as dependent as any of the addicts he is monitoring.

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The devastating consequences of the slave trade in 18th century are explored through the powerful but impossible attraction of well-born Frances and her slave Mehuru. From the bestselling author of The Other Boleyn Girl. Bristol in 1787 is booming from its stinking docks to its elegant new houses. Josiah Cole a small dockside trader is prepared to gamble everything to join the big players of the city. But he needs ready cash and a well-connected wife. An arranged marriage to Frances Scott is a mutually convenient solution. Trading her social contacts for Josiah’s protection Frances enters the world of the Bristol merchants and finds her life and fortune dependent on the respectable trade of sugar rum and slaves. Once again Philippa Gregory brings her unique combination of a vivid sense of history and inimitable storytelling skills to illuminate a complex period of our past. Powerful haunting intensely disturbing this is a novel of desire and shame of individuals of a society and of a whole continent devastated by the greed of others.

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