{"product_id":"suzanne-collins-the-ballad-of-songbirds-and-snakes-deluxe-2025","title":"Suzanne Collins: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes Deluxe [2025]","description":"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      With beautiful artwork by Freya Betts, this paperback\u003cbr\u003e      edition features gorgeous sprayed edges with stencilled artwork.\u003cbr\u003e      This is a breathtaking collectible perfect for the long-time fan\u003cbr\u003e      or new Hunger Games reader.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Everything you would expect from Collins is here:\u003cbr\u003e      fraught teenage love; plenty of violence... the themes of friendship,\u003cbr\u003e      betrayal, authority and oppression will please and thrill\" The\u003cbr\u003e      Guardian\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      \"It works beautifully... please don't make us wait\u003cbr\u003e      another decade\" The Times\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Ambition will fuel him.\u003cbr\u003eCompetition\u003cbr\u003e      will drive him.\u003cbr\u003eBut power\u003cbr\u003e      has its price.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth\u003cbr\u003e      annual Hunger Games.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing\u003cbr\u003e      for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty\u003cbr\u003e      house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the\u003cbr\u003e      slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit,\u003cbr\u003e      and outmaneuvre his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      The odds are against him. He's been given the humiliating assignment\u003cbr\u003e      of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest\u003cbr\u003e      of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined - every\u003cbr\u003e      choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favour or failure, triumph\u003cbr\u003e      or ruin.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the\u003cbr\u003e      arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute...\u003cbr\u003e      and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to\u003cbr\u003e      survive no matter what it takes.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Three books, four films and one WORLDWIDE PHENOMENON,\u003cbr\u003e      The Hunger Games changed the face of global YA.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      All four Hunger Games books have been made into feature\u003cbr\u003e      films, the first three starring Jennifer Lawence, Liam Hemsworth,\u003cbr\u003e      Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks and Donald Sutherland.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      The fourth movie of  The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,\u003cbr\u003e      released November 2023 and has an all-star cast including Tom\u003cbr\u003e      Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e       \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      ABOUT THE COVERS\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      To celebrate the release of Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u003cbr\u003e      feature film, Freya Betts has taken the four iconic logos and\u003cbr\u003e      added a modern twist.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e      Freya is a UK based freelance illustrator who focuses on hyper-realistic\u003cbr\u003e      portraiture, mainly in the medium of digital painting.\u003cbr\u003e      She has worked predominantly in the film industry - her journey\u003cbr\u003e      beginning with an apprenticeship at age 18, art-working film campaigns\u003cbr\u003e      for Universal and Paramount in London. \u003cbr\u003eNow she finds\u003cbr\u003e      herself illustrating film posters for Disney and Marvel, her work\u003cbr\u003e      has appeared everywhere from giant murals in New York to t-shirts\u003cbr\u003e      in H\u0026amp;M. 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