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  • Cosmo Topper, a law-abiding, mild-mannered bank manager, decides to buy a secondhand car, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of its previous owners - the reckless, feckless, frivolous couple who met their untimely demise when the car careened into an oak tree. The ghosts, George and Marion Kerby, make it their mission to rescue Topper from the drab "summer of suburban Sundays" that is his life - and they commence a series of madcap adventures (including an adventure in a lingerie department, when Marion decides to try on a pair of purple and pink knickers...)  that leave Topper, and anyone else who crosses their path, in a whirlwind of discomfiture and delight. As enchanting today as it was when first published in 1926, Topper has set the standard in American pop culture for such mischievous apparitions as those seen in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Heaven Can Wait, Beetlejuice and Bewitched.
  • Caught in one feud too many, he’s on the verge of becoming a dead barbarian – leaving nothing behind him but bad songs, dead friends, and a lot of happy enemies. Nobleman Captain Jezal dan Luthar, dashing officer, and paragon of selfishness, has nothing more dangerous in mind than fleecing his friends at cards and dreaming of glory in the fencing circle. But war is brewing, and on the battlefields of the frozen North they fight by altogether bloodier rules. Inquisitor Glokta, cripple turned torturer, would like nothing better than to see Jezal come home in a box. But then Glokta hates everyone: cutting treason out of the Union one confession at a time leaves little room for friendship. His latest trail of corpses may lead him right to the rotten heart of government, if he can stay alive long enough to follow it. Enter the wizard, Bayaz. A bald old man with a terrible temper and a pathetic assistant, he could be the First of the Magi, he could be a spectacular fraud, but whatever he is, he's about to make the lives of Logen, Jezal, and Glokta a whole lot more difficult. Murderous conspiracies rise to the surface, old scores are ready to be settled, and the line between hero and villain is sharp enough to draw blood.
  • Two-volume set. A celebration of an unrivalled era in Australian fantasy writing and illustration. It's an anthology of Australian classics of the golden age from 1900 to the 1940s - Dorothy Wall, Harold Gaze, Norman Lindsay, Pixie O'Harris and May Gibbs, writers who created a magic door for children to enter a realm of fantasy that was uniquely Australian. The adventures of Blinky Bill, Chucklebud and Wunkydoo, Albert the Magic Christmas Pudding and an entire cast of elves, sprites, fairies and goblins who continue to charm and delight readers of all ages. There are diverse illustrators: Ida Rentoul Outhwaite, D.H. Souter, May Gibbs, Norman Lindsay and Harold Gaze, who drew inspiration from an English style of fantasy and combined it with Australian flora and fauna. Holden also presents the lives and works of well known  - and lesser-known - authors. Both volumes lavishly illustrated.
  • Book III of Guenevere. Last in a line of proud queens elected to rule the fertile lands of the West, true owner of the legendary Round Table and guardian of the Great Goddess herself... Broken-hearted at her parting from Lancelot and anguished over the loss of the sacred Hallows of the Goddess, Guenevere reconciles with Arthur. But their fragile peace is threatened by a new presence at Camelot. Mordred, Arthur’s son by Morgan Le Fay, has come to be proclaimed heir to Guenevere and Arthur’s kingdoms. At his knighting, the great Round Table, owned by the Queens of the Summer Country since time immemorial, cracks down the center and a terrible darkness falls over Camelot. In the midst of the chaos appears a new knight, Sir Galahad, who may hold the key to the mystery of the stolen Hallows. His arrival sets into motion the Quest for the Holy Grail and the fall of Camelot, which brings Guenevere to the brink of the most dreaded tragedy of all...and may ultimately fulfill her destiny as the greatest Queen of the Isles.
  • Book III of The Passage. The Twelve have been destroyed and the terrifying hundred-year reign of darkness that descended upon the world has ended. The survivors are stepping outside their walls, determined to build society anew - and daring to dream of a hopeful future. But far from them, in a dead metropolis, he waits: Zero. The First. Father of the Twelve. The anguish that shattered his human life haunts him, and the hatred spawned by his transformation burns bright. His fury will be quenched only when he destroys Amy - humanity’s only hope, the Girl from Nowhere who grew up to rise against him. One last time light and dark will clash, and at last Amy and her friends will know their fate.
  • Book II of Tyrants and Kings. Prince Richius Vantran, the Jackal of Nar, has fled into exile with his wife Dyana and young daughter Shani. With the death of Arkus, Nar's emperor, a new war is waged between the religious fanatics of Bishop Herrith who follow the Light of God and the ruthless followers of Count Biagio and his Black Renaissance.  Biagio has a grand plan to gain total power.  As for Vantran, Biagio's most hated enemy, the count has another devious plan:  to strike at Vantran's one weakness, his daughter. Cover art by Geoff Taylor.
  • Book I of The Warlord Chronicles. Derfel, once a captain in Arthur's war band, recalls the dramatic days of wilful Guinevere, arrogant Lancelot, abstracted Merlin and intolerant Bishop Sansum, vying for mastery amid faction and bitter chaos. He also tells the story of Arthur, royal bastard, unwise lover and inspired warlord, the only man who can hold Uther's throne for its infant heir and unite Britain's squabbling kingdoms against the enemy at the gates. Cover art by Bob Gregory.

  • Late one stormy night, in the pleasant and peaceful land of Ruwenda, three princesses are born.  As each baby is placed in her mother's arms, the Archimage Binah bestows on her a powerful gift: a pendant containing a bud of the long-extinct Black Trillium: the badge of the royal house, a symbol of an ancient magic. While the sisters blossom into beautiful young women, neighboring Labornok use a dark magician to sunder Binah's protection. As invaders pour into Ruwenda, the Archimage orders the princesses to flee-and changes them to search for three magical talismans which when brought together will be their only chance to regain their kingdom and free its people. Each must accomplish her task separately-and to succeed, each must also confront and conquer the limits of her own soul. Cover art by Geoff Taylor.

  • When a passenger check-in desk at Heathrow Airport shot up through the roof engulfed in a ball of orange flame, the usual people tried to claim responsibility: the IRA, the PLO and the Gas Board.  Even British Nuclear Fuels got in on the act by rushing out a statement.  But no rational explanation was found for the explosion, so it was designated an Act of God.  But, Dirk Gently wonders, which God?  And why? What God would be hanging around Terminal Two of Heathrow Airport trying to catch the 15.37 to Oslo? Cover art by Chris Moore.