Set in rural Ireland of the early 60s, this work takes us into the burlesque world of Delaney's Travelling Roadshow & in particular its boxing hall where prizefighter Dean takes on all comers on a nightly basis. That is, until a challenge from a professional fighter upsets the apple-cart. ...

The demand for allowing lay ministers to preside at the Eucharist has become a pressing issue in many churches, not only in Anglicanism. This book offers an Anglican theological approach to the controversial questions surrounding the demand for allowing lay ministers to preside at the Eucharist. ...

Beth Raymer came to Vegas to live the dream. Instead she winds up waiting tables in a low-rent diner & living in a fleapit motel. Then she meets Dink, the King of Last Vegas sports betting. Dink introduces her to the testorsterone fuelled underworld of high stakes gambling a dog-eat-dog realm of grifters, & strippers, & wise-guys. ...

British gangster film based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals...

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British gangster film based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals...

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Helps you discover how to make clever quilts with layer cakes, jelly rolls & charm packs that are a million miles from simple strip quilts or scrap charm quilts. This title features 17 projects, from lap quilts to full-sized, that show you how to get the most from pre-cut fabric bundles. It offers step-by-step instructions & illustrations. ...

Double bill featuring two hard-hitting British thrillers. ' Layer Cake' (2004) is based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are two million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals. In ' Green Street' (2005), Matt Buckner (Elijah Wood) is a Harvard journalism student who has just been expelled from college. Drifting across the Atlantic to London to stay with relatives, Matt meets Pete Dunham (Charlie Hunnam), the leader of a local West Ham 'firm', & finds himself gradually drawn into the violent underworld of football hooliganism. Meanwhile, Pete's oldest friend & second in command of the firm, Bovver (Leo Gregory), starts to resent Matt's new position in the group & secretly plots to take him down.

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Double bill of British gangster films. ' Layer Cake' (2004) is based on the London-set crime novel by J.J. Connelly. 'X' (Daniel Craig) is a successful, smooth-talking cocaine dealer
- respected among London's crime elite
- whose plan is to bankroll enough cash to make an early retirement from 'business' & lead a quiet, crime-free life. He sees the opportunity to make a final score when big crime boss Jimmy Price (Kenneth Cranham) asks him to track down Charlotte Ryder (Nathalie Lunghi), the wayward daughter of his old friend Eddie (Michael Gambon). But complicating matters are 2 million pounds' worth of Grade A drugs, a neo-Nazi sect & endless 'layers' of deals & double-deals... Writer/director Guy Ritchie continues in mockney gangster vein with ' Snatch' (2000), the follow-up to his 1998 hit ' Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels'. In London en route to deliver a stolen diamond to his employer Avi (Dennis Farina), thief Franky Four Fingers (Benicio Del Toro) is ambushed by Russian mobster Boris the Blade (Rade Sherbedgia). At the same time, boxing promoters Turkish & Tommy enter Irish gyspy fighter Mickey (Brad Pitt) in a fight run by local kingpin Brick Top (Alan Ford). Instead of throwing the fight as arranged, Mickey earns Brick Top's enmity by beating his fighter fair & square. Meanwhile, Avi travels to London & hires Bullet Tooth Tony (Vinnie Jones) to track down Franky & the diamond
- which Brick Top has now found out about & decided to appropriate from Boris...


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