Gibbons: 268 books

Il fumetto che ha ispirato il film! Mark Millar, lo sceneggiatore di Kick-Ass, e Dave Gibbons, il disegnatore di Watchmen, si uniscono per un’avventura trasposta sullo schermo da Matthew Vaughn (che ha diretto Kick-Ass e X-Men – L’inizio) con protagonisti Colin Firth e Samuel L. Jackson....

Since the turn of the millennium, there has seen an increase in the inclusion of typography, graphics and illustration in fiction. This book engages with visual and multimodal devices in twenty-first century literature, exploring canonical authors like Mark Z. Danielewski and Jonathan Safran Foer...

Essays discuss the terminology, etymology, and history of key terms, offering a foundation for critical historical studies of games. Even as the field of game studies has flourished, critical historical studies of games have lagged behind other areas of research. Histories have generally been...

A “vivid, unsentimental, powerful” portrait of a Southern marriage by the New York Times–bestselling author of Ellen Foster (Publishers Weekly). She hasn’t been dead four months and I’ve already eaten to the bottom of the deep freeze. I even ate the green peas. Used to I wouldn’t...

This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Christopher Marlowe's plays: Tamburlaine, Parts 1 and 2, The Jew of Malta, Edward II and Dr Faustus. The new introduction by Brian Gibbons explores the plays in the context of early modern theatre, culture and...

**The triumphant return of the New York Times bestselling novel’s orphaned heroine—“**the Southern Holden Caulfield . . . the female Huck Finn” (Bookmarks Magazine). Ellen Foster, fifteen years old, formidable, and back in North Carolina with a loving new foster mother, has written...

A sly and satirical fairytale by the author of Cold Comfort Farm Unavailable for decades, Stella Gibbons's Nightingale Wood is a delightfully modern romance ripe for rediscovery by the many fans of Cold Comfort Farm. Poor, lovely Viola has been left penniless and alone after her late...

Terrorism, heroism and everything in between... THE TRAP is a teen thriller about espionage, a missing brother and the ever-raging war on terror by million-copy-selling author, Alan Gibbons. MI5 agent, Kate, receives a tip-off about an asset, who seems too good to be true. Amir and Nasima...

Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary...

Aidan has it all - a happy home in leafy suburbia with two cars parked on the drive, and all a boy could ask for in terms of designer labels and gadgets. He's top of the class, captain of the swimming team and has the gorgeous Emily hanging on his every word. So a trip up North with Mum to visit his...

Goyen passes on traditional conventions of plot and character. The House of Breath is an address to the people and places the narrator remembers from his childhood in small Texas town, Charity. The novel is a meditation on the nature of identity and origins, memory, and time's annihilation of life. This...

It's been three years since the Dragon Lord, Damion Omensent, merged the Dragon Gem with the Dragon Sword, releasing the scarlet dragons back into the world once more. Now a new evil has arisen as reports of huge shadowy black serpents terrorizing isolated farms and villages begin to circulate throughout...

It's been one year since the constellation of the dragon god, Draco, disappeared from the heavens, causing rumors and speculation of the serpent god's return to the world. When Leia, the only child of the Dragon Lord, Damion Omensent, is abducted from her crib by a strange witch with fiery eyes, it...

“A gift from the heart of Mother to the heart of humanity. Loving ourselves just got easier.” -Madisyn Taylor, Best-selling author, DailyOM: Inspirational Thoughts for a Happy, Healthy, and fulfilling Day "The definitive guide for the spiritual seeker. This wisdom will transform your...