Charting the journey of a little lost owl a heart-warming & reassuring read from one of the most exciting new voices in children&s literature The award-winning debut title from Chris Haughton the acclaimed author-illustrator of Oh No George! & Shh! We Have a Plan this is the heart-warming story of Little Owl
- who must be more careful when he is sleeping Uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest & with a bump he lands on the ground Where is his mummy? With the help of his new friend Squirrel Little Owl sets off in search of her & meets a sequence of other animals Yet while one might have his mummy&s big eyes & another her pointy ears they are simply not her Chris Haughton&s striking colour illustrations follow Little Owl on his quest Which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy?
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 13 episodes of David Nobbs& popular comedy based around the various social functions attended by manufacturer Ted Simcock (David Jason) & dentist Laurence Rodenhurst (Paul Chapman) along with their wives & friends in a small Yorkshire town Over the course of the different &dos& various adulterous liaisons & scandals unfold Episodes included Series 1
- & The White Wedding& & The Dentists& Dinner Dance& & The Angling Club Christmas Party& & The Charity Horse-Racing Evening& & The Crowning Of Miss Frozen Chicken& & The Registry Office Wedding& Series 2- & The Church Wedding& & The Christening& & The Grand Opening Of Sillitoe&s& & The Farewell Party& & The Inauguration Of The Outer Inner Relief Ring Road& & The Funeral& & & The Civil Wedding&
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Stephen Fry & Hugh Laurie were among the most successful acts of the alternative comedy show Saturday Live Friday Night Live & after a Christmas pilot in 1987 the BBC commissioned a series in 1989 “ My father wouldn&t have a television in the house so we used to gather round every night & watch it on the lawn” Fry & Laurie explored a seemingly inexhaustible list of subjects with a delicious turn of phrase & elaborate wordplay The hilarity-included regular acts such as not so super spy Tony Mercheson & his boss Control yuppies John & Peter as well as the concluding cocktail recipe to the accompaniment of Mr Music with plenty of Vox Pops With four brilliant series of great satire comic genius & an hilarious use of language Fry & Laurie are definitely at the top of the comedy tree ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Coining the new term &action noir& in Korea director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family & A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller Lee Byeong-heon stars as Sun-woo a unique character with a curious lifestyle; he&s not only a valued gang member & the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader Mr Kang (Kim Yeong-chul) When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah) might be messing around with another man he enlists Sun-woo&s help to resolve the matter commanding him to follow her around to see what information he can dig up Sun-woo&s orders are explicit if he catches Hee-soo cheating he is to execute her However when Sun-woo spies Hee-soo with her boyfriend he makes a fateful decision one that will have major consequences for all involved Actors Lee Byeong-heon Shin Min-ah Kim Yeong-chul Hwang Jeong-min Kim Roe-ha & Lee Mu-yeong Director Kim Ji-woon Certificate 18 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages Korean
- Dolby Digital (51) ; DTS ; Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 56 minutes (approx)
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A beautiful lost classic of nature writing which sits alongside Tarka the Otter Watership Down War Horse & The Story of a Red Deer This is the story of Wulfgar the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor & of his nemesis Scoble the trapper in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947 As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive its portrayal of damaged humanity it is both a portrait of place & a gripping story of survival Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals & men Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece lyrical unforgiving & unforgettable ...

When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study everyone is shocked & mystified Ernest was well-liked & respected so who would have a motive for killing him? Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who with consummate skill begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be There is in fact no shortage of people who wanted him dead Then a second murder is committed with striking similarities to the first giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARDMussolini was not only ruthless he was subtle & manipulative Black-shirted thugs did his dirty work for him arson murder destruction of homes & offices bribes & intimidation His opponents
- including editors union representatives lawyers & judges
- were beaten into submission But the tide turned in 1924 when his assassins went too far horror spread across Italy & antifascist resistance was born Among those whose disgust hardened into bold & uncompromising resistance was a family from Florence Amelia Carlo & Nello Rosselli Caroline Moorehead draws readers into the lives of this remarkable family
- their loves their loyalties their laughter & their ultimate sacrifice


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Bridging the gap between novelty board books & picture flats this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character & then follow a simple plot What noises do the farm animals make?) & interactive elements throughout the child is drawn in from the outset 12 pages ...

Bridging the gap between novelty board books & picture flats this adorable new series encourages little readers to engage with a central character & then follow a simple plot What noises do the farm animals make?) & interactive elements throughout the child is drawn in from the outset 12 pages ...

Bridget Christie is a st&-up comedian idiot & feminist On the 30th of April 2012 a man farted in the Women's Studies Section of a bookshop & it changed her life forever A Book For Her details Christie's twelve years of anonymous toil in the bowels of st&-up comedy & the sudden epiphany that made her unbelievably one of the most critically acclaimed British st&-up comedians this decade drawing together the threads that link a smelly smell in the women's studies section to the global feminist struggle Find out how nice Peter Stringfellow's fish tastes how yoghurt advertising perpetuates rape myths & how Emily Bronte used a special ladies' pen to write Wuthering Heights If you're interested in comedy & feminism then this is definitely the book for you If you hate both then I'd probably give it a miss " Christie is adept at turning on a sixpence between being comical or serious or both at once & at pricking her own earnestness" Telegraph Christie piles derision & tomfoolery upon everyday sexism while never pretending that jokes alone will solve the problem' Guardian ...