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  • Another is known as the Toyshop, from quantities of stalactites twisted into all possible shapes, many of which suggest some well-known plaything.

    Chatterbox, 1905. Various

  • Gosh, it's over a year since I read The Moving Toyshop; here Gervase Fen is embroiled in a mystery of murder and espionage in a West Country cathedral town in about 1940.

    January Books 27) Holy Disorders, by Edmund Crispin nwhyte 2010

  • CB: Some of my favorite interstitial works include: Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, and the film, The Company of Wolves, based off of Carter's revised fairy tales.

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2 2010

  • In my opinion, the most interstitial of her works is Nights at the Circus and Wise Children, but The Magic Toyshop is right on up there.

    EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Delia Sherman and Christopher Barzak on Interfictions 2 2010

  • You can buy some of their most extraordinary collection of reproduction toy theatres (paper cutouts, of the most wonderful variety and complexity) at Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop, another amazing place, whose relationship with the museum is ... well, it seems to be complicated (wiki).

    The Cabinet of Wonders Gift Guide Heather McDougal 2007

  • You can buy some of their most extraordinary collection of reproduction toy theatres (paper cutouts, of the most wonderful variety and complexity) at Benjamin Pollock's Toyshop, another amazing place, whose relationship with the museum is ... well, it seems to be complicated (wiki).

    Archive 2007-12-01 Heather McDougal 2007

  • Hilary Mantel feels this book has "the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story" and someone asked me ages ago if I'd read The Magic Toyshop and I still haven't so now I will.

    Loving Mephistopheles 2007

  • I recently read my first Angela Carter novel, The Magic Toyshop, and loved it.

    Got a Question? I’ve Got an Answer (maybe) 2009

  • Hilary Mantel feels this book has "the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story" and someone asked me ages ago if I'd read The Magic Toyshop and I still haven't so now I will.

    Loving Mephistopheles 2007

  • Hilary Mantel feels this book has "the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story" and someone asked me ages ago if I'd read The Magic Toyshop and I still haven't so now I will.

    57 entries from March 2007 2007

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