The hearing trumpet
£10.99When 92-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet, she overhears her family plotting to commit her to an institution.
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When 92-year-old Marian Leatherby is given the gift of a hearing trumpet, she overhears her family plotting to commit her to an institution.

Asterix and Obelix enlist in the Roman army, to rescue Tragicomix, the forcibly conscripted fiance of the beautiful Panacea.

This is the 9th book in the popular Asterix series, in which Asterix and his gang face the Normans.

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Full of suspense and heartbreak, ‘Case Histories’ is a feat of bravura storytelling that conveys the mysteries of life, its inanities and its hilarities. Jackson is 45 but feels much older. Surrounded by death, intrigue and misfortune, his own life is brought sharply into focus.

In 1978 Greg Roberts turned to heroin, feeding his addiction with a string of robberies. Sentenced to prison, he escaped and fled to Bombay. Based on his life in Bombay, this is a tale of slums and mansions, Mafia and movies, and much more.

A clanking iron giant topples from a cliff and lies smashed on the rocks below. Then his various parts begin to stir and reach out for one another. The Iron Man is ready to walk again, and he is very hungry.

This is the 24th book in the popular Asterix series, in which Asterix and his gang are in Belgium.

This is the 23rd book in the popular Asterix series, in which Obelix goes into business.

Asterix and Obelix meet a Corsican chieftain who has been taken prisoner and accompany their new friend Boneywasawarriorwayayix back to Corsica to help help him foil the evil designs of the corrupt Roman Praetor Perfidius.

‘Asterix and the Class Act’ sees our favourite hero on fine form in this collection of 14 new short stories.

Chief Vitalstatistix makes a rash bet with his brother-in-law, the infuriating show-off Homeopathix, whom he invites to dine on a stew seasoned with Caesar’s laurel wreath. It is up to Asterix and Obelix, of course, to got to Rome and acquire the wreath.

Once again, the Gauls are under attack from the Romans. Can Asterix and Obelix, with the expert aid of Getafix, outwit the weedy but wily Convolvulus and get the village back to normal?

Quaestor Vexatius Sinusitus turns up in Gaul to investigate the creative accountancy of Governor Varius Flavus. When the quaestor is poisoned, he turns to Getafix the druid and the other Gauls for help.

Presented as Emily Sands’ lavish scrapbook journal of a lost expedition to Egypt to discover the body of the mythical Osiris, this book is firmly placed in 1926 and features a wealth of novelties and recreations from the period, as well as interesting facts about ancient Egypt and famous Egyptologists.

Asterix the Gaul, together with his friend Obelix and his faithful pup, Dogmatix, journeys to Spain to cause trouble for the mighty Roman Empire.