Captain Slaughterboard is the most ferocious and wicked pirate you could ever imagine. He likes nothing better than cutting people up with his cutlass or making them walk the plank. Then one day, on a remote island, he spies a strange Yellow Creature - and from that time on, he's a changed man.

Gormenghast is the vast, crumbling castle to which Titus Groan, is lord and heir. Titus is expected to rule this gothic labyrinth of turrets and dungeons, and his subjects, according to age-old rituals, but things are changing in the castle. He must contend with treachery, manipulation and murder and his longing for a life beyond the castle walls.

Titus, heir to Lord Sepulchrave, has just been born, he stands to inherit the miles of rambling stone and mortar that stand for Gormenghast Castle. There are tears and strange laughter; fierce births and deaths beneath umbrageous ceilings; dreams and violence and disenchantment contained within a labyrinth of stone.

Enter the world of Gormenghast, the crumbling castle to which the seventy-seventh Earl, Titus Groan, is Lord and heir. It is the cobwebbed kingdom of Byzantine government and age-old rituals, a world primed to implode beneath the weight of centuries of intrigue, treachery, manipulation, and murder. This work is a sequel to Titus Groan .

Each drawing in this book represents a different saying or proverb. To play the game, simply go through the book, drawing by drawing, writing down your guesses as to what figure of speech they represent. Some you'll find easy - others fiendishly difficult!

Stevenson's great adventure story, set in the 18th century, was conceived in the Scottish Highlands, where the author and his 12-year-old stepson amused themselves by making a map that showed the location of buried treasure on an island. The illustrations first appeared in 1949.

Mervyn Peake (1911-68) was the author of the much-loved Gormenghast novels. This edition of Peake's poetry is published to mark his anniversary. It features more than 230 poems, where Peake emerges as a compelling poet, with an acute sense of his responsibilities as an artist, passionately engaged with current events.

Titus, now almost twenty, as he escapes from the Castle, and becomes lost in a sandstorm. Helped by the owner of a travelling zoo and his ex-lover Juno, Titus ends up stranded in a bustling city. And now Titus, the deserter, the traitor, longs for his home, and looks for it all the time to prove, if only to himself, that Gormenghast is truly real.

Illustrated on every page with stunning, beautiful, eerie original drawings, 'Letters from a Lost Uncle' is the product of a unique imagination and a distillation of all that is most powerful in the strange genius of Mervyn Peake. PREVIOUSLY ANNOUNCED IN SEPTEMBER 2000 BUYER'S GUIDE.

Equipped with love, Mr Pye lands on the island of Sark; his mission is to convert the inhabitants into a crusading force for the undiluted goodness that he feels within. Mr Pye is, however, prone to excess and this is very nearly his downfall.

A paperback omnibus edition of Carroll's classic novels, with illustrations by Mervyn Peake.

Presents the story of a nightmare voyage to the South Pole told by the sole survivor, the bright-eyed ancient mariner whose wanton killing of an albatross, a bird of good omen, brought misfortune on the ship and all its crew.

In the 1940s, Mervyn Peake was commissioned to produce a set of 70 pen-and-ink drawings to accompany Lewis Carroll's two classics, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass . This two-volume set includes these reproduced drawings.

A stunning new edition of Lewis Carroll's classic verse, brilliantly accompanied by Mervyn Peake's astonishing illustrations. Re-originated to the highest standards from original artwork, this also includes Peake's previously unpublished working sketches.

Drawings and Poems by the author of the Gormenghast trilogy.