Complete Peanuts, British style

As the UK readers of this blog know, the Complete Peanuts books have been restricted for sale to the US and Canada (and as they may also have noticed, it hasn’t exactly been hard to work around those restrictions).

Now, however, they’ll have access to these books without even those small hurdles or any ethical conflicts. This October brings the first UK editions from Canongate Books. They’re releasing both volume 1 (1950-1952) and volume 2 (1953-1954) that month.

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