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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. Painstakingly re-originated from Peake's original artwork and typescript, this edition celebrates the centenary of Mervyn Peake's birth in 2011 and is re-issued alongside Peake's illustrated edition of Lewis Carroll's \"The Hunting of the Snark\" (Methuen ISBN 978 0413 777140).","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56288695910773,"sku":"9780413777133","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9780413777133_9f32d54f-2a85-497a-8574-6e7fa767a8c3.jpg?v=1786013364"},{"product_id":"9780749394929","title":"Titus Groan","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Gormenghast is, to my mind and to my taste, a perfect creation' Neil Gaiman\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWelcome to the world of Gormenghast, the classic fantasy series from the imagination of Mervyn Peake \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAs the first novel opens, 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. 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