THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES
By Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Presenting the eerie tale of Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles - brought vividly to life in graphic novel form! Simple text is combined with exciting artwork to help less confident readers enjoy this gothic horror classic! End matter including oral discussion questions, ideas for creative writing and author and illustrator profiles help to deepen understanding and enjoyment. Reading age: 8-10 years; Interest age: 8-14 years. British English

BRIDE'S STORY (TRILOGY)
Kaori Mori

For nearly 3,000 years, the Silk Road connected Asia with Africa and the Middle East, providing a conduit for the ancient world's most precious commodities: silk, spices, glassware, medicine, perfume, livestock. By the nineteenth century, when A Bride's Story takes place, the overland trade routes had been eclipsed in importance by maritime ones that linked China directly with India, Somalia, and the Mediterranean. Yet the Silk Road continued to play a vital role in bridging smaller geographical divides, as the main plot in A Bride's Story demonstrates.

Ooku
Fumi Yoshinaga
Reads R to L (Japanese Style), for audiences rated mature.

In Edo period Japan, a strange new disease called the Redface Pox has begun to prey on the country's men. Within eighty years of the first outbreak, the male population has fallen by seventy-five percent. Women have taken on all the roles traditionally granted to men, even that of the shogun. The men, precious providers of life, are carefully protected. And the most beautiful of the men are sent to serve in the shogun's Inner Chamber...
Ienobu's heir is still just a child, and with few official functions to perform, the men of the Inner Chamber find themselves ...

Tintin - The Complete Companion

This complete guide to the world of Tintin, lavishly illustrated with photographs, illustrations, sketches and maps is the perfect gift for any Tintin fan.

GEMMA BOVERY
by Posy Simmons

Gemma is the bored, pretty second wife of Charlie Bovery, the reluctant stepmother of his children and the bete-noire of his ex-wife. A sudden windfall takes them across the Channel to France. Is it a coincidence that Gemma has a name like Flaubert's notorious heroine, that she is bored and adulterous? Is she inevitably doomed?

THE ILLUSTRATED
9/11 COMMISSION REPORT
by Sid Jacobson & Ernie Colon

This illustrated account uses the text from the 9/11 Commission's report to turn the complicated and confusing mass of information contained therein into an accessible, straightforward and clear story for the first time.

TINTIN IN THE CONGO
by Hergé

This English language edition of Tintin in the Congo, in color, completes the series of 24 Tintin adventures, created by Hergé, making it an essential volume for collectors.

TINTIN IN TIBET
by Hergé

Considered to be one of Hergé's masterworks, Tintin in Tibet is a great book for both old and new fans of Tintin. It is compelling, exciting, and spiritually rewarding in the way that the best comics stories can be.

ASTERIX THE GAUL
by Goscinny & Uderzo

When Getafix is kidnapped by the Romans, Asterix penetrates their camp to rescue him with hair-raising results...

ASTERIX AND THE NORMANS
by Goscinny & Uderzo

Gaul was divided into three parts. No, four parts, for one small village of indomitable Gauls still held out against the Roman invaders.   A group of Vikings comes to Gaul trying to learn what fear is.   Their visit coincides with that of a real expert on the subject: Vitalstatistix's trendy nephew fromLutetia, Justforkix...

GARFIELD'S GUIDE TO PIGGING OUT
by Jim Davis

Based on a pigging out theme, this is one of a series of cartoon strip books featuring Garfield and his friends.

GARFIELD OUT FOR THE COUCH
by Jim Davis

A double helping of fun, with two books in one bumper collection. "Out For the Couch" contains "Garfield's Guide to Being a Couch Potato" and "Garfield's Guide to Friends".

HOW TO BE BRITISH - CollectionTwo
Martyn Ford, Peter Legon

The willingness of the Brit to forgo the football, the day trip, or even the long lie-in, for the pleasures of putting on a pair of paint-splattered trousers and       covering the sofa in dust sheets is something very puzzling to foreign observers.
This second book turns the spotlight on yet more of British cultural curiosities : from kings and queens to kilts and custard.