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MERVYN PEAKE
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Complete Nonsense
'Nonsense', wrote Mervyn Peake, 'can take you by the hand and lead you nowhere. It's magic.' Peake (1911-68) is one of the great English nonsense poets, in the tradition of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear. His verses lead the reader into places where cause is cut free of effect and language takes on a giddy life of its own. Malicious bowler hats threaten their owners, a cake is chased across an ocean by a rakish knife, aunts become flatfish or live on sphagnum moss. Fully annotated, with a detailed introduction, Complete Nonsense contains all the poems and illustrations from Peake's Book of Nonsense (1972), with forty unpublished poems discovered in manuscripts and thirty from uncollected sour...
Peake Plays One
One. Celebrating the centenary of Mervyn Peakes birth in 2011 this new collection of his plays will make available again these all but forgotten masterpieces.
I Spy the Wolf
The secret from the Second World War they don’t want you to know... Michael Tagleva is the eldest son and heir to one of the wealthiest banking families in Europe. When visiting Germany he is welcomed as a distinguished guest by the Nazis, but not everything is as it seems and Michael soon finds himself in a labyrinth of deceit and double-cross that spreads from Berlin to Paris and London and intended to destroy his family and lose the British Empire the war. In this thrilling sequel to Davis’ book, The Tsar’s Banker, his research exposes the details of the story that, after nearly eighty years, the British authorities still classify TOP SECRET. p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 11.0px Helvetica; color: #878787}
Folked Up
Magic is connected to everything. Good and Evil existing for eternity waiting for those destined to awake from their slumber. The fury of evil becomes impossible to tame once unleashed. Those that try to cross its pathway of destruction require bravery or stupidity to survive. Matty Groves and his girlfriend Sandy have arrived at the Jack-in-the-Green Inn to perform their traditional folklore music. The Inn is a throw back into another century. At the Inn Matty finds a leather-bound tome that is filled with Folk songs from Olde England. Sandy feels excitement as she brushes her fingers over the tome. Upon looking, Sandy and Matty find a song called Matty Groves. Only there is an extra page. At the end of the concert, the Groveses decide to sing Matty Groves, despite the warnings. That was the beginning of catastrophe. Sandy and Matty are pulled apart from each other and thrown into a whole other world. A realm ruled by magic, where witches existed and evil was controlling. Are they strong enough to fight through this new world and find each other again?
The Gormenghast Trilogy
One of the greatest imaginative feats of the twentieth century: Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Earl Titus Groan is lord and heir. Titus must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder as well as his own longing for a life beyond the castle walls.
Tridea's Children
For Rush, Spark and Feather, what started off as a simple scouting mission to monitor the affected humans, turns into a dangerous journey. Where their unity and endurance will not only be tested, but challenged.
Maps
"The drawings in this book are an edited collection from the past few years. Documenting small time adventures and excursions outwith a mile radius from where I call home. From train rides facing backwards, to crammed bus rides in tiny hill-top towns, to bike rides through the backyards of Europe. Records of the vast, unyielding concrete miles of Shanghai, to the paths between mountains and forests in late night French countryside to the old paint splattered wooden floor in London that I sleep on from time to time. In addition to this there are also some imaginings of possible places - cities built from train tunnels and underground arches to invisible concrete cities. Some of the maps are drawn a couple of months after the occasion and others begin as a scribble in thin card-covered sketchbooks in desolate airports on overnight waits. The drawings are of the micro and the macro, the colourful and the monotone, the fragments and the nearing complete."--[Publisher's description.].
Titus Awakes
A final volume of the classic Gormenghast novels, produced from recently discovered manuscripts written by Peake's wife and based on his outlines, follows Titus's nightmarish departure from Castle Gormenghast.
Ask an Astronaut
The awe-inspiring Sunday Times Bestseller from astronaut Tim Peake Shortlisted for the British Book Award 2018 'Amazing . . . A brilliant book' Chris Evans, BBC Radio 2 Have you ever thought of becoming an astronaut? Ask an Astronaut is Tim Peake's personal guide to life in space, based on his historic Principia mission, and the thousands of questions he has been asked since his return to Earth. How does it feel to orbit the earth ten times faster than a speeding bullet? What's it like to eat, sleep and go to the toilet in space? And where to next - the moon, mars or beyond? From training to launch, historic spacewalk to re-entry, Tim has a fascinating answer to everything you ever wanted to know. He reveals for readers of all ages the extraordinary secrets, cutting-edge science, and everyday wonders of life onboard the International Space Station. 'Everything you ever wanted to know about life in space' Times
