A collection that travels among places strange & familiar: from the shaping memories of an upbringing in rural County Fermanagh, to a Belfast reinventing itself in a new century & the exhilarating novelty of America. It also engages with the poet's experience of his native Northern Irel&. ...

The Khojas who are rigidly orthodox, presiding over acres of ill-kept sugarcane & hoards of jewellery enthusiastically guarded by old Mrs Khoja, seem to have triumphed more by default than by anything else. Only Baby Khoja, who is parcelled off into an arranged marriage with a blustering bus driver, proves an exception to this rule. ...

Dennis Lee writes & directs this semi-autobiographical drama about a dysfunctional family struggling to find its way beyond a devastating & unforeseen tragedy. Julia Roberts stars as beleaguered family matriarch Lisa Waechter, who has long subordinated her needs & desires to those of her family, particularly her coldly domineering husband Charles (Willem Dafoe). A tragic event triggers a series of flashbacks revealing how the seeds of the family's current malaise were planted years previously. Ryan Reynolds, Emily Watson, Carrie-Anne Moss & Ioan Gruffudd co-star. ...

The ink our ancestors wrote with, the beeswax in altar candles, the honey on our toast, the silk we wear. This book explores the myriad ways insects have enriched our lives. It describes how many of the valuable products insects have given us are made, how they were discovered, & how they have been used through time & across cultures. ...

Explores the myriad ways in which the insects have enriched our lives
- culturally, economically, & aesthetically. This book
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Set in the far future, this story centres around Mal Reynolds, captain of the ship-for-hire Serenity & its crew of galactic misfits. When he takes on two passengers, a young doctor & his mysterious, telepathic sister, he gets much more than he bargained for. This work features photos, scripts, behind the scenes secrets, & more. ...

A Japanese teenager looks after an old lady she used to visit as a child in this tender coming of age drama from director John Williams. After the break up of her parents' marriage, spoiled teenager Naomi (Maho) is sent out of the city to work at her aunt & uncle's country inn. Her aunt asks her to look after her ageing neighbor Mrs. Koide (Yoshie Minami), who Naomi used to play with as a child in the summer holidays. As the time passes, Naomi learns of Mrs Koide's hidden past life, finding parallels that transcend the generations. ...

In Mountfern, life meanders as slowly as the river running through it. The pace has hardly changed since the great house burned down in the Troubles. But when Patrick O' Neill arrives from the States with grand plans to turn the ruins of Fernscourt into Ireland's finest hotel, ripples begin to appear on the calm surface of this backwater. ...

Kate & John Ryan have four children, of whom the eldest are Michael & Dara. Their small town is peaceful & friendly, an unchanging background for a golden childhood. In long, hot summers Michael & Dara & their friends fish & swim or play in the ivy-clad ruins of Fernscourt, when the great house burnt down during the Troubles... ...

Box set containing the complete series of the sci-fi drama from writer Joss Whedon. Set 500 years in the future, after a galactic civil war has united alll the space colonies under the repressive Alliance, former rebel soldier Malcolm Reynolds (Nathan Fillion) captains the Firefly class cargo ship ' Serenity', taking on odd jobs & scoring heists where he can to keep his ship & his crew in the air, all the while trying to avoid the attentions of the authorities. Episodes include: ' Serenity (Part 1)', ' Serenity (Part 2)', ' The Train Job', ' Bushwhacked', ' Shindig', ' Safe', ' Our Mrs Reynolds', ' Jaynestown', ' Out of Gas', ' Ariel', ' War Stories', ' Trash', ' The Message', ' Heart of Gold' & ' Objects in Space'. ...