The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Illustrated Edition by Douglas
Adams
Release Date: Mid July
March last year marked the 42nd anniversary of Douglas Adams’ The Hitchhikers’ Guide to the Galaxy.
Unfortunately, the things going on in the world caused all sorts of delays in
design projects, which is why we are only just getting this into the store.
This is a re-issue of the original The
Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, with loads of brand new
illustrations by Chris
Riddell. Inside you will find his unique take on Arthur, Forde,
Trillion, Zaphod and of course the Vogons and some of our old friends like the
Ravenous Bugblatter Beast of Traal and Slartibartfast. This is a beautiful book
and possibly worth getting even if you already have an old copy lying around,
just for Chris Riddell’s amazing art.
Harry
Potter Crochet Wizardry
Release Date: Early Jul
It seems that your Harry
Potter fandom can extend even further into your life with two
new books that have arrived this month. This is the first – Crochet Wizardry –
and it contains 25 crochet patterns including a Hogwarts poncho, an Unbreakable
Vow jumper and apparently a very special Ron cardigan which I suspect won’t be
the coolest thing you have ever worn, but will probably be quite warm. Anyway,
this one looks like good fun for crochet fans who also happen to be serous
Potterheads.
Harry
Potter Knitting Magic
Release Date: Early Jul
This is one of two craft books that have arrived this month for Harry Potter fans.
This one is devoted to devotees of knitting. In here you will find such
wonderful items as Patronum! mittens and Quidditch socks, of course the
Hogwarts house scarves and even an official Weasley jumper that will make you
one of the clan and certainly one of the coolest kids in school. Great fun and
obviously for knitting fans everywhere.
Doctor
Who: The Ruby’s Curse by
Alex Kingston
Release Date: Late Jul
In the Doctor Who episode The
Angels Take Manhattan, Dr River Song turns up to help The
Doctor and also points out that she has written a book. A detective novel
featuring the adventures of Melody Malone. Well, Alex Kingston – the actor who
played River Song – has written a novel about a detective, Melody Malone. So
this is the book written by the actor who played the character who wrote a book
like this in an episode of Doctor Who. Simple really. It is all very peculiar
and very Doctor Who, but quite good fun.
Critical
Role: The Mighty Nein Origins-Jester by Sam Maggs
Release Date: Late Oct
The Critical Role
series of podcasts is possibly one of the biggest Dungeons and Dragons-related
things in the world at the moment, and the characters are extremely popular
with fans. So the Critical
Role crew have decided to give us their origins in a series of
hardcover books. This is the first and gives us all of the background as to how
Jester became the character we all know and love. It is a lovely presented
hardcover, lavishly illustrated and will no doubt answer many questions that
fans have while perhaps asking a few more.
Galaxy
Quest: The Inside Story by Matt
McAllister
Release Date: Late July
The 1999 film Galaxy
Quest was probably intended to be a satire, or a parody, of
Star Trek both on film and television but also in communities and fandom.
Perhaps unwittingly, Galaxy
Quest became a phenomenon of its own and this book celebrates
the film and that phenomenon with art, design, interviews and comments from
various people involved with the project. It may even have a schematic of the
ship which will allow us all to answer Alan Rickman’s ionic question as to
whether or not there is a pub.
The
DC Comics Encyclopedia (2021 Edition)
Release Date: Early Jul
This is the latest edition of the official DC Comics character encyclopaedia.
Across nearly 400 pages in this large format book, you will find more than 1200
different entries – heroes, villains, the famous, the ignominious, the
well-known and perhaps some of the forgotten. The ultimate resource for settling
arguments or for looking up obscure characters, and definitely one for any
serious DC
fans’ bookshelf or collection.
World
of Warcraft: Grimoire of the Shadowlands and Beyond by Sean
Copeland & Steve Danuser
Release Date: Early Jul
This is an unusual product, even for Blizzard.
In addition to being an art, design and lore book to serve as a companion for
the latest expansion to the World
of Warcraft – The Shadowlands – it also deals with the subject
matter of the Shadowlands, that being death and the afterlife. So in addition
to lots of lovely World
of Warcraft lore and the amazing artwork that Blizzard is so famous
for, we will be getting an insight into the death and afterlife customs of
various races and nations throughout Azeroth. I am rather looking forward to
this.
Labyrinth
Tarot Deck by Minerva Siegel
Release Date: Early Jul
I have heard that there a plans afoot to do a remake of Jim Henson’s classic
movie Labyrinth.
I will keep my opinions about that to myself, but this month Labyrinth fans have
the opportunity to get themselves a copy of the Labyrinth tarot deck. Written by Minerva Siegel who
collectors may recognise as also being responsible for the Supernatural tarot
deck we had a few months ago. So while the artwork is quite pretty and very
interesting, it isn’t anything like the Brian
Froud artwork that typified Jim Henson’s Labyrinth movie.
Nevertheless, good fun for collectors of tarot cards or for fans of Labyrinth
who would like a bit more bling to add to their collection.