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After 20 years as a struggling variety turn and then a prolific scriptwriter and television star, comic genius Marty Feldman found screen stardom with his very first Hollywood role in Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein. With his wife, Lauretta, as the power behind the throne, his rise, fall and decline is relayed through bittersweet memories of the past and intoxicated infidelities in the present.

After 12-year-old Toby Carter escapes a brutal workhouse at Christmas, he can't believe his good fortune. Adopted by a band of travelling performers called The Winter Freak Show who put on spellbinding shows each night, he finally believes he's found the family he always wanted. Then, everything falls apart. Children are disappearing throughout the city. Pretty soon, all evidence points to those Toby trusted the most, and he finds himself caught up in a conspiracy far more sinister than he ever imagined.

Dead Babies, a hilarious Agatha Christie parody and Martin Amis’s second novel, was deemed his “most incendiary” (the BBC). Within the quiet walls of the Appleseed Rectory, a gorgeous five-bedroom, three-story home in rural England, anything goes: the drugs are consumed with gusto, the...

A prophecy in motion. Mankind on its knees. Can one boy change their fate? Thirteen-year-old Toby Thornton never expected Father Christmas to break into his parents’ townhouse in the dead of night, bruised, pale, and on the run. After all, it was only hours ago that the old man and his elves helped him save the world from shape-shifters. But a lot can happen overnight. Thanks to a nefarious plan, their enemies have unleased Nicko’s most frightening nemesis onto the world, the Faerie King Oberon.

It’s been a year since 13-year-old Toby Thornton found his long-lost family. But already cracks are appearing in his dream life. Forbidden from seeing his magical friends at The Winter Freak Show, he begins to realize how much he misses adventure. So, when he gets word that the elves are in danger, that’s all the excuse he needs to run away from home.