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Haddon Hall: When David Invented Bowie

Haddon Hall tells the story of David Bowie’s transition from struggling artist to international megastar; narrated, rather unusually, by the house he lived in at the time

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Order, The: Die Mensch Maschine

2000AD doesn’t set stories in medieval fantasy worlds very often but The Order: Die Mensch Maschine has more than enough of a nod to sci-fi to get it through the filter

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Whispers in the Walls

Don’t judge this book by its name and its cover – what looks like it’s going to be a spooky ghost story about a little girl who hears voices or talks backwards, quickly evolves into a wonderful self-contained gothic monster mash-up

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Johnny Red: The Hurricane Volume 1

Garth Ennis revisits the favourite comics of his youth, putting a modern spin on the classic WWII story of a British fighter pilot who flies for the Soviet air force

California Dreamin’

The graphic biography of Cass Elliot, the hauntingly beautiful voice of The Mamas & the Papas, capturing the majestic charm of an intriguing, unconventional musician

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Tetris: The Games People Play

Box Brown’s biography of the computer game Tetris is a fascinating story, beautifully told in graphic novel form.

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Alexandra Forever: Evolution

Transport a several-thousand-years-old Roman goddess into the future and what do you get? Find out in D. W. Richards’ Alexandra Forever.

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Scarlet Traces Volume 1

Scarlet Traces continues the fine literary tradition of spin-offs from H. G. Wells’ The War of the Worlds