![]() ![]() No - Slight dent in slipcase spine Goldfinger - Slight mark on back of slipcase Thunderball - Small tear, front of dustjacket Spy Who Loved Me - Small tear at top edge of dustjacket, front Only Live Twice - Small tear, top of dustjacket spine PLEASE NOTE THAT ADDITIONAL POSTAGE COST WILL APPLY. Diamonds are Forever - Small tear, front of dust jacket Dr. Live and Let Die - Slight mark bottom of slipcase Moonraker - Slight crease at top of dust jacket spine, slight crease in hardcover spine top. Slight wear at the back corners of the slipcase. Small mark at edge of dust jacket spine which is also visible on the edge of the slipcase. Specific Mentions: Casino Royale - Slight wear to bottom of dust jacket spine. Slight marking may be present on some cases. ![]() Slight shelf wear to edge of dust jacket on some books, where jacket has rubbed against slipcase. No Goldfinger Four Your Eyes Only Thunderball The Spy Who Loved Me On Her Majesty's Secret Service You Only Live Twice The Man with the Golden Gun Octopussy and The Living Daylights Preowned, but appear lightly or even unread. Set includes Casino Royale Live and Let Die Moonraker Diamonds Are Forever From Russia, with Love Dr. ![]() Ian Fleming - Complete set of James Bond First Edition facsimiles 1980s reprint of the original first edition books. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Though I liked the overall Brotherhood story developments, I didn’t love Butch as a romantic lead. I also have no idea what is happening with V, but I’m certainly excited to find out. Finally, a break for the Brotherhood when it comes to going after the lessers. ![]() The new powers that develop throughout this book are pretty cool. Though I did enjoy that this book had a similar vibe to Zsadist and Bella’s story in that while the couple found happiness, those on the sidelines were sort of left to figure out what they should do with themselves. I wasn’t taken with the romance between Butch and Marissa. So by this time we’re really all rooting for something, anything, good to happen to Butch. He had also fallen hard for an upper class vampire, Marissa and been rejected, equally as hard. He’s had a rough life and though, starting to see the Brotherhood as his family, still feels like an outsider. Butch just sort of started hanging with the Brotherhood and never stopped. Butch has been the oddball human in the group since any other humans in the house are mated to one of the Brotherhood. We finally learn why V had visions of Butch. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Confused at the meaning behind the Non-fiction, Fiction and Poetry texts in the Edexcel IGCSE English Language and Literature Anthology? Is your class moving too rapidly through it or you need a deeper understanding and analysis of each text? Look no further - Barbara, an English Teacher is here to help! She has created a comprehensive 'Edexcel IGCSE English: Language & Literature Anthology' Course to look at all the texts and analyse them in depth - including word-level analysis!ġ) The English Language Edexcel Fiction and Non-Fiction AnthologyĢ) How To Answer English Language A: Paper 1 and Paper 2 Examsģ) How To Answer English Literature: Paper 1 and Paper 2 ExamsĤ) How To Write A Great Coursework For The English Language and Literature Paper 3 Assessments! ![]() ![]() ![]() As a writer, Gruenwald is best known for creating the Official Handbook of the Marvel Universe and his ten-year stint as the writer of Captain America during which he contributed several notable characters such as Crossbones, Diamondback and U.S. In 1982, Gruenwald, Steven Grant, and Bill Mantlo co-wrote Marvel Super Hero Contest of Champions, the first limited seriespublished by Marvel Comics. During this period, he shared an office with writer/editor Denny O'Neil, whom Gruenwald considered a mentor. ![]() Hired initially as an assistant editor in January 1978, Gruenwald was promoted to full editorship by Marvel editor-in-chief Jim Shooter in 1982, putting Gruenwald in charge of The Avengers, Captain America, Iron Man, Thor, Spider Woman, and What If. In 1978 he was hired by Marvel Comics, where he remained for the rest of his career. Articles by Gruenwald include "The Martian Chronicles" (a history of the Martian Manhunter) in issue #13 and several articles on the history of the Justice League in issue #14. Before being hired by Marvel, he wrote text articles for DC Comics official fanzine, The Amazing World of DC Comics. ![]() Gruenwald got his start in comics fandom, publishing his own fanzine, Omniverse, which explored the concept of continuity. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() This was also a time that I was experiencing problems with my mental health that included self-harm and eating disorders. We got in trouble together, too! It was the best season of friendships that I have ever had. We all loved each other and hung out often. ![]() In the 9th grade I fell in hard with a group of friends that were truly great. It wasn’t until high school and beyond that I experienced multiple friendships that I nurtured and they nurtured me back. One person was bestie and everybody else could eat dirt. In school, friendships were mostly a one-at-a-time thing. However, my real-world experience of friendships have opened my eyes to the gray area that is friendship. Good friends are always there when you need them and help you out whenever you need it. I was TRAINED to believe that a good friend is loyal, doesn’t share secrets, and doesn’t talk about you behind your back. What were you trained to believe makes a good friend? ![]() ![]() Unlike many of his previous documentaries, in which he appears onscreen as a character in the unfolding story, Broomfield is present here only as interviewer and in a voiceover. The tumultuous seven-year period that Jones spent as a Rolling Stone, as well as the troubled childhood and adolescence that preceded them, are explored in depth in Broomfield’s latest film, The Stones and Brian Jones. ![]() The coroner’s report concluded that it was “death by misadventure”, and noted that his liver and heart were greatly enlarged by sustained drug and alcohol consumption. Just six years after their encounter on the Cheltenham train, though, on 3 July 1969, Brian Jones was found dead in the swimming pool of his home, Cotchford Farm, in rural Sussex. In the subsequent TV interviews and press conferences that attended the rapid ascendancy of the Rolling Stones, Broomfield’s fleeting impression of the musician was borne out, as he engaged effortlessly with the media, coming across as the most pleasant and articulate band member. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie translated by Matthew Ward. Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.īook Synopsis With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger-Camus's masterpiece-gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. About the Book In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". ![]() ![]() ![]() It also offers the chance to try on costumes and write with quills.Įleven-year-old Clem Melling, who lives near Huddersfield, West Yorkshire, will be visiting the centre in June for her next birthday. The Bath museum features actor guides who play characters from the books, something that goes down well with younger visitors, says Hodges. One of its authors has suggested Austen is the most memed writer after Shakespeare. These have spawned so many videos, images and hashtags online that it prompted a recent study led by a Cambridge academic entitled OMG Jane Austen. ![]() Eden Reid, a fan of #booktok #janeausten on TikTok Photograph: well as screen adaptations and young adult fiction reimaginings of Austen and her novels, interest is being driven by a proliferation of internet memes and TikToks. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() She does this because she aspires to become a spy and a writer one day. There are also multiple journal entries that Harriet writes in the first person and shares with the reader.Īs the story begins, Harriet spends much of her time spying on people in the neighborhood and recording her findings in a notebook. ![]() The narrative is principally told using a limited-third-person viewpoint from the perspective of 11-year-old Harriet Welsch. Its action is contained in a single neighborhood in New York City’s Upper East Side. The novel takes place during the autumn months of an unspecified year contemporary to its publication. The New York Public Library recommends the novel for ages 10+, and the Association of Library Services for Children recommends it for ages 6-11, describing it as “appropriate for a child who is first learning to read independently.” Its Library of Congress subject headings include “friendship fiction,” “mystery and detective stories,” and “New York fiction.” This study guide and its page citations are based on the Kindle edition of the book. Leslie Brody also adapted the novel as a play. ![]() Apple TV+ aired a 10-episode animated adaptation of the novel in 2021-22 produced by The Jim Henson Company. Harriet the Spy was released as a movie in 1996 starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Rosie O’Donnell. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() I may still prefer the Victorian density of Asta's Book, but Inversion is unquestionably terrific. Julian Symons judged A Fatal Inversion the best of the Barbara Vines, and he may well be right. I'd have to say that those five Vine titles are about as good as anything ever produced in the crime and mystery genre that I have read. The fourth Vine, Gallowglass (1991), Symons pronounced an example of a writer " very much off form," and he had nothing at all to say about King Solomon's Carpet (1991), the fifth Vine, which would have appeared, presumably, when he was writing Bloody Murder, though, like A Fatal Inversion, it won the Crime Writers Association's Gold Dagger for best crime novel of the year.Īfterward followed vine's Asta's Book (1993), No Night Is Too Long (1994) and The Brimstone Wedding (1995), the first and last of which I think measure up to her first magnificent three. ![]() In the third edition of his mystery genre study Bloody Murder crime writer and critic Julian Symons had the highest of praise for Barbara Vine (aka the late Ruth Rendell), or at least her first three novels, that stunning succession of A Dark-Adapted Eye (1986), A Fatal Inversion (1987) and The House of Stairs (1988). He didn't want to remember any of this, he wanted to escape out of it to a blank screen. ![]() |