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The Golden Menhir

By René Goscinny
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ISBN: 9781408734933

Publisher: Little, Brown Book Group

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 02 July 2026

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Sphere

Illustration: Full colour illustrations

Contributors:

  • Illustrated by Albert Uderzo
  • Illustrated by Albert Uderzo

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 220.0mm

Height: 294.0mm

Weight: 250g

Pages: 48

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About the Author

Albert Uderzo has been illustrating Asterix for 37 years, and has written the most recent titles since Goscinny's death. He enjoys racing sports cars and owns a large number of Ferraris. He was the recipient of the Legion d'Honneur, France's highest honour, for services to the arts. Asterix is a best seller in 70 languages Rene Goscinny was born in Paris in 1926, and spent most of his childhood in Argentina, before eventually moving to Paris in 1951. He died in 1977. Albert Uderzo was born in 1927 in a small village in Marne, France. He met Rene Goscinny in 1951 and on 29 October 1959 their most famous creation, Asterix, made his first appearance on page 20 of Pilote. Asterix the Gaul, their first album, was published in 1961 and there have now been 38 Asterix albums, the 39th to come in October 2021.

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