In 1977 George Lucas brought Star Wars to the big screen
- & made cinema history. Almost thirty years later he completed the saga
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Star Wars was released in 1977 & went on to earn almost $775 million at the worldwide box office. It would change filmmaking ...

George Lucas spent nearly ten years bringing his dream project to life: a ground-breaking space fantasy movie. Its original title: The Star Wars. The rest is history. Yet its production is a story as entertaining & exciting as the movie itself. Now, recounted in the words of those who were there, it is finally being told, for the first time.

Between 1975 & 1978, over fifty interviews were conducted with key members of cast & crew

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Both Byron & Shelley died young. By the time Byron left Harrow, almost half his life was over; & when Shelley left Eton, three-fifths of his life was gone. Ian Gilmour has concentrated on the two poets in their youth, & has told their stories in tandem. Their formative years were packed with incident & had a decisive influence on the later lives of them both. As an historian, Gilmour provides a colourful account of the political, social & economic background to their writings. Byron & Shelley lived in the stormy age of the French Revolution, the Napoleonic Wars & the post-Napoleon reaction. They became close friends, & though they are usually thought to have been very different from each other, Gilmour shows that they had much more in common than is usually recognised. ...

In a hospice in Bury St Edmunds, a man called Daniel is slowly fading away. His friend Maggie sits with him every day; she holds his hand & she listens to the story of his life, to his regrets & to his secrets. & then he tells her about the children he has never met & never will. He talks of them wistfully. His legacy, he calls them.

Lydia, Dean & Robyn don't know each other. Yet. & they are all facing difficult changes. Lydia is still wearing the scars from her traumatic childhood & although she is wealthy & successful, her life is lonely & disjointed. Dean is a young man, burdened with unexpected responsibility, whose life is going nowhere. & Robyn wants to be a doctor, just like her father

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Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, & the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving & nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, & brings a vanished era to vibrant life. ...

Tanizaki's masterpiece is the story of four sisters, & the declining fortunes of a traditional Japanese family. It is a loving & nostalgic recreation of the sumptuous, intricate upper-class life of Osaka immediately before World War Two. With surgical precision, Tanizaki lays bare the sinews of pride, & brings a vanished era to vibrant life. ...