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Write and illustrate your very own Graphic Novel this month, with helpful tips from Mike Chinn. Create your own fantasy world, with your own story and your own characters. Here are some titles to keep you inspired... |
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Get 20% off the two titles below when you buy them online. The price listed on the website is the discounted price. This offer is valid until 31 March 2008. (Terms) |
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Jack Churchill, archaeologist and dreamer, walks out of the mist and into Celtic Britain more than two thousand years before he was born, with no knowledge of how he got there. All Jack wants is to get home to his own time where the woman he loves waits for him. Finding his way to the timeless mystical Otherworld, the home of the gods, he plans to while away the days, the years, the millennia, until his own era rolls around again ...but nothing is ever that simple. Usually R133, Online price NOW R106.40   |
Ilario is born hermaphrodite, a true genetic chimera. Found abandoned on the steps of a chapel of the Green Christ, in one of the minor Iberian kingdoms, on a freezing snowy night, Ilario is fostered by Federico, an impoverished Iberian noble, who plans to gift Ilario to the king, hoping to gain favour at court. At the age of 15, Ilario joins King Roderigo as the King's Freak, but while learning the ways of the court, Illario has another lesson to study: abandonment and betrayal. Usually R148, Online price NOW R118.40 |
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In this astonishing final part of Steve Augarde's captivating trilogy, past and present are connected and the interwoven threads lead to an astonishing series of revelations. Midge's discovery of the hidden tribes is like a dream to her now, their existence all but forgotten, but then a voice calls out to her in the winter darkness. The Various have returned, and their desperation has made them all the more dangerous. The only way that Midge can help the little people is by tracing the whereabouts of her great-great-aunt Celandine. |
H.P. Lovecraft's tales of the tentacled Elder God Cthulhu and his pantheon of alien deities were initially written for the pulp magazines of the 1920s and '30s. These astonishing tales blend elements of horror, science fiction and cosmic terror that are as powerful today as they were when they were first published. This handsome leather-bound tome collects together all of Lovecraft's tales of terror, including the complete Cthulhu Mythos cycle, just the way they were originally published. |
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This Month's Top Seller Join Richard and Kahlan in the concluding novel of one of the most remarkable journeys ever written. |
Notable Mover Creator of the famous Discworld series, Terry Pratchett never seems to run out of ideas. |
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Ligea Gayed has been lied to once too often. Now she has turned against her former employer, the secretive Brotherhood of the Tyrans Empire, and must evade Favonius and his Jackals while also recruiting others to fight with her. Yet, despite her best efforts, a rebellion is hard to come by. Except within her own family, of course. Ligea's son, Arrant, is prey to feelings of inadequacy, and is angry about his mother's relationship with a man who is not his father.
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Stephen Baxter's historical thriller series crashes into the 20th century with a terrifying vision of mechanised war and political atrocity unleashed on English soil. The Weaver of Time's Tapestry has finally succeeded in twisting the threads of history into a new shape; Britain wakes up to the nightmare of the Wermacht unleashed in Southern England. Is this the culmination of a plan that has taken centuries to play out, a plot from the future to change the past forever?
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Graphic novels are one of the fastest growing areas of publishing and have enormous appeal across all age groups and across the world. This book is a complete guide to producing graphic novels, using a combination of writing and drawing skills. The author covers all stages of the process from conception through to publication. Step-by-step illustrations show how to combine narrative and visuals for maximum impact on the page, and how to create vibrant characters and realistic settings.
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It's a western, it's sci-fi, it's punk, and it's popular. Trigun promises to be entertaining with its huge guns, signature characters, wild shoot-'em-up action, and funny writing. Vash is a nice guy, but everyone wants to kill him. An enigma of a man with a coat full of bullet holes, he's widely feared because of the destruction left in his wake. And he's also highly valued for the price on his head. But he's no easy man to kill. Of course, that doesn't stop people from trying. What's his mission? Where's he from?
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That's all folks! As always, please feel free to send your comments to the usual address.
See you in April ...
The Exclusive Books.Com Team
