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Series
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This is the story of a young girl, Helen Potter, who runs away from home to escape an uncaring mother and a sexually abusive father. Eventually she finds her way to the Lake District, drawn there by her love of the work of Beatrix Potter, and in that beautiful landscape she at last finds peace.
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
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.
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
With his trusty adjunct, Detective Sergeant Ratzi, away for Christmas, there's no holiday for Detective Inspector LeBrock of Scotland Yard as he embarks on an investigation into the disappearance of his housekeeper's niece, Bunty Spall. The trail leads to a growing religious cult, where a charismatic unicorn messiah and his con men cronies, already responsible for mass murder in the United States, are about to lead a crusade for the ethnic cleansing...
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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Description
Part personal history, part biography, this book contrasts two coming-of-age narratives: that of Lucia, the daughter of James Joyce, and that of author Mary Talbot, daughter of the eminent Joycean scholar James S. Atherton.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
A utopian dreamer, notorious anarchist, teacher, orator and poet, she was decades ahead of her time. Always a radical, she fought on the barricades defending the short-lived Paris Commune of 1871 against the reactionary regime that massacred thousands of French citizens after the Commune?s defeat. Deported to a penal colony on the other side of the Earth, she took up the cause of the indigenous population against French colonial oppression. Celebrating...
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Set against the background of violence and state repression in a turbulent period of French history, this graphic novel chronicles the incredible and outrageous life of Louise Michel, the revolutionary feminist dubbed the Red Virgin of Montmartre.
Author
Series
The Sandman volume 6
Publisher
Vertigo
Pub. Date
1993
Language
English
Description
Fables and reflections follows the Lord of Dreams through nine remarkable tales as he touched lives from the mists of the past to the nightmares of the present.
Author
Publisher
Jonathan Cape
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
This title is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women. A tale of loyalty, love and courage, set against a vividly realised backdrop of Edwardian Britain, it follows the fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up in the feminist militancy of the era.
Author
Publisher
Vintage Digital
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is a gripping inside story of the campaign for votes for women. A tale of loyalty, love and courage, set against a vividly realised backdrop of Edwardian Britain, it follows the fortunes of a maid-of-all-work swept up in the feminist militancy of the era. Sally Heathcote: Suffragette is another stunning collaboration from Costa Award winners, Mary and Bryan Talbot. Teamed up with acclaimed illustrator Kate Charlesworth,...