Series: Asterix

Book 1

Asterix Vol. 1 Prestige Edition

A collaborator in ancient Gaul? Chief Cassius Ceramix has gone over to the Roman enemy. There's something very fishy going on, as Legionary Infirmofpurpus discovers when he is sent to spy on the Gauls disguised as a crab apple tree. But is that just a red herring? And what about the two concussed druids brewing colourful potions? One way or another, the fight for control of the village between Vitalstatistix and his rival is bound to be a knockout.

Asterix in Britain

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedicus Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink. It's not quite cricket - how about a nice cup of hot water, though? Or even the first ever tea-party?

Asterix and the Cauldron

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

Financial skulduggery in ancient Gaul! When local Chielf Whosemoralsarelastix wants a cauldron full of money kept out of Roman hands, the cash disappears while Asterix is guarding it. He and Obelix must earn enough to repay it through fairground gladiatorial contests, trendy theatrical performances, even bank robbery - they'll try anything. But whose morals are really eleastic? And how do the pirates, just for once, get an unexpected bonus.

Asterix and Caesar's Gift

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

When Legionary Tremensdelirius gets the title deeds to the little Gaulish village as a bonus, he swaps them with tavern landlord Orthopaedix for a drink. Funnily enough, Asterix and his friends aren't keen to hand over their village to anyone else. After a chieftaincy election campaign and a showdown with the Romans, both events fiercely contested, can all still end well?

Asterix the Gladiator

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

When Cacofonix the bard is taken to Rome as a present for Julius Caesar, Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue him, sailing with master salesman Ekonomikrisis, the Phoenician merchant. How do our Gaulish friends come to end up training as gladiators? The next Games in the Circus Maximus are not quite what Caesar and the Roman public expect...

Asterix and the Banquet

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

Gaul, now France, has always been famous for its food and drink - so when, for a bet with the Romans, Asterix and Obelix travel round collecting local delicacies they start on the journey home with all sorts of goodies. First, however, they must outwit the thieves Villanus and Unscrupulus. And who's that little dog who has been following them all the way?

Asterix in Switzerland

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

Quaestor Vexatius Sinustitis, who is about to expose the Roman governor's creative accountancy, has been poisoned. Can Getafix brew an antidote? Only if Asterix and Obelix find a certain flower for the druid's potion in Helvetia. What with bank safes, cuckoo hourglasses, yodelling and holes in the cheese, they're soon on a real Helvetian roll.

Asterix in Corsica

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

Published 1 May 1995

Vendettas, fierce family pride, resistance fighters dodging the enemy in the maquis - we're in Cosica in 50 BC. Asterix and Obelix help Chief Boneywasawarriorwayayix to foil the evil designs of Praetor Perfidius and oppose Julius Caesar's army. For the only emperor the proud Corsicans will ever accept, so they say, must be a Corsican himself...

Asterix and the Secret Weapon

by Albert Uderzo

Published 22 October 1997

A woman bard in Ancient Gaul? A shocking idea, but that's what the Gauls get when the mothers in Asterix's village hire Bravura to teach their children. Although she, Asterix and Obelix are unlikely allies, between them they fight back against Julius Caesar's secret weapon. What can that weapon be? And how can even Cacofonix help?

by Rene Goscinny

by Rene Goscinny

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by Rene Goscinny

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by Albert Uderzo

by Albert Uderzo

by Rene Goscinny

by Rene Goscinny

by Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo

by Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Rene De Goscinny and Rene Goscinny

by Albert Uderzo