The Badger is back! At Toad Hall, lair of multibillionaire. Baron Aristotle Krapaud, a cabal of industrialists and fat cats plot the violent overthrow of the French state by the intervention of horribly beweaponed automaton soldiers. Meanwhile, the brutal murder of a famous Parisian artist, mysteriously stabbed to death in his locked and guarded studio, is subject to the investigations of the tenacious Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard, placing him and his faithful adjunct, Detective Sergeant Roderick Ratzi, in pursuit of the mysterious masked assassin stalking the cut-throat commercial world of the Grandville art scene. Bete Noire signals the welcome return to anthropomorphic steampunk detective fiction of master storyteller and graphic novel pioneer “Bryan Talbot” with the third stand-alone volume of the Eisner and Hugo Award nominated “Grandville” series.As the body count mounts and events spiral exponentially out of control, aided by his brilliant deductive abilities and innate ferocity, LeBrock battles against outrageous odds in this funny, high octane thriller, an adventure shot through with both high art and comic book references, a glorious illegitimate offspring of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Ian Fleming – with animals! Follow the Badger!

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The simple and easy to use money bank that makes the change in your pocket count. This clever little money jar has an intelligent lid every time you pop your loose change in through the slot it tots up your total so at a glance you always know how much you’ve got stashed away. When you remove the lid the LCD screen changes to say ‘Withdraw’ – you just enter the amount you’re taking out and it deducts the amount from the total.

• Gift – Novelty

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The World’s best selling card game. ; ; Relatives visiting? Hosting a party? Stuck in an airport? Then it’s time for Uno the classic card game which is quick to learn easy to play and fun for all the family. The aim of the game is to be the first player to score 500 points by getting rid of all the cards in your hand before your opponents. You score points for all the cards left in your opponents’ hands. ; ; The rules of Uno are simple. Every player picks a card and the person who draws the highest number deals (Action Cards count as zero at this stage). Once the pack has been shuffled each player is dealt 7 cards. The remainder of the deck is placed face down to form a DRAW pile. And the top card of the DRAW pile is turned over to start a DISCARD pile. The person to the left of the dealer starts play and has to match the card on the DISCARD pile either by number or colour. So if the card is a red 7 the player must put down a red card or any 7 card regardless of its colour. Alternatively the player can put down a Wild Card. If the player doesn’t have a card to match the one on the DISCARD pile they must take a card from the DRAW pile. If this can be played the player is free to put it down in the same turn. Otherwise play moves on to the next person. Players may choose not to play a playable card from their hand. If so they must draw a card from the DRAW pile. If playable that card can be put down in the same turn but the player may not use a card from the hand after the draw. Players race to get rid of their cards and the real fun starts when special Action Cards are used to foil opponents and gain an advantage. With the tension mounting Uno becomes the fun family card game that’s easy to pick up but impossible to put down. ; ; For ages 7+ ; ; Box contains: ; 108 cards ; Instructions

Price : £ 5.49

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