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Fully restored edition of Anthony Burgess' original text of A Clockwork Orange with a glossary of the teen slang ' Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles & reviews Edited by Andrew Biswell With a Foreword by Martin Amis' It is a horrorshow story ' Fifteen-year-old Alex likes lashings of ultraviolence He & his gang of friends rob kill & rape their way through a nightmarish future until the State puts a stop to his riotous excesses But what will his re-education mean?A dystopian horror a black comedy an exploration of choice A Clockwork Orange is also a work of exuberant invention which created a new language for its characters This critical edition restores the text of the novel as Anthony Burgess originally wrote it &

Includes:: a glossary of the teen slang ' Nadsat' explanatory notes pages from the original typescript interviews articles & reviews shedding light on the enduring fascination of the novel's 'sweet & juicy criminality' Anthony Burgess was born in Manchester in 1917 & educated at Xaverian College & Manchester University He spent six years in the British Army before becoming a schoolmaster & colonial education officer in Malaya & Brunei After the success of his Malayan Trilogy he became a full-time writer in 1959 His books have been published all over the world & they include The Complete Enderby Nothing Like the Sun Napoleon Symphony Tremor of Intent Earthly Powers & A Dead Man in Deptford Anthony Burgess died in London in 1993 Andrew Biswell is the Professor of Modern Literature at Manchester Metropolitan University & the Director of the International Anthony Burgess Foundation His publications include a biography The Real Life of Anthony Burgess which won the Portico Prize in 2006 He is currently editing the letters & short stories of Anthony Burgess

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SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2017 HUGO AWARD & THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD ' Chambers is simply an exceptional talent' Torcom Winner of the 2017 Prix Julia-Verlanger The st&-alone sequel to the award-winning The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet Lovelace was once merely a ship's artificial intelligence When she wakes up in an new body following a total system shut-down & reboot she has to start over in a synthetic body in a world where her kind are illegal She's never felt so alone But she's not alone not really Pepper one of the engineers who risked life & limb to reinstall Lovelace is determined to help her adjust to her new world Because Pepper knows a thing or two about starting over Together Pepper & Lovey will discover that huge as the galaxy may be it's anything but empty PRAISE FOR THE WAYFARERS' Never less than deeply involving' DAILY MAIL' Explores the quieter side of sci-fi while still wowing us with daring leaps of imagination' i BOOKS' So much fun to read' HEAT' Warm engaging properly science-fictional A Closed & Common Orbit is a very likable novel indeed' GUARDIAN ' The most fun that I've had with a novel in a long long time' i O9 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A brilliant author blinded in a horrific car accident takes on a beautiful female assistant to help him complete his latest book But events quickly spiral out of control as the assistant begins to pursue a deadly agenda of her own Academy Award nominee Tom Conti & Kill Bill&s Daryl Hannah are at their thrilling best in this twisted tale of murderous revenge dark secrets & psychological mind games ...

Barely stopping to breathe between productions outrageously prolific director Michael Winterbottom follows his graphically intimate 9 SONGS with the raucously entertaining A COCK & BULL STORY This time around Winterbottom is out to film the unfilmable novel an adaptation of Laurence Sterne's sprawling 18th Century masterpiece of digression THE LIFE & OPINIONS OF TRISTRAM SHANDY GENTLEMAN What begins as a seemingly straightforward attempt to recreate the frenetic novel starring Steve Coogan as the title figure & Rob Brydon as his Uncle Toby quickly derails into a behind-the-scenes document of the film's actual production Working triple time (for he also plays Tristram's father) Coogan is hilarious as the insecure Steve Coogan a shallow actor who is more interested in his cute assistant (Naomie Harris) than the mother of his newborn child (the always delightful Kelly Macdonald) Meanwhile Rob Brydon is trying desperately to convince Steve Coogan that his role is a co-lead not merely a supporting one As the production threatens to spin out of control the filmmakers hire Gillian Anderson (playing herself of course) to fill a much-needed role Coming off like a madcap collision of BARRY LYNDON & 24 HOUR PARTY PEOPLE Winterbottom's film is a hilarious & surprisingly tender ode to fatherhood & moviemaking in general ...

In this classic murder mystery from Michael Pearce's award-winning series set in the Egypt of the 1900s the Mamur Zapt investigates the murder of an Italian man in the backstreets of Cairo Cairo 1908 When an Italian man is murdered in the city's back streets there is concern that this could be some kind of ethnic cleansing Were the guns in his warehouse anything to do with it? Gareth Owen
- the Mamur Zapt
- has to find out fast & then there are other difficult questions What are Trudi von Ramsberg & Gertrude Bell really doing in Cairo? As the Mamur Zapt is drawn deeper into the investigation he's not the only one who has problems over where his allegiance lies

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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 A triple set of BBC documentaries presented by Professor Brian Cox & Wonders of the Solar System& (2010) focuses on such phenomena as Saturn&s rings the solar flares of the Sun & the deserts of Mars to demonstrate how the forces that shaped our world are also responsible for creating some of the most breathtaking sights in our solar system In the follow-up series & Wonders of the Universe& (2011) Cox continues his exploration of the universe & its effect on human life Vast complex & almost infinite the universe has been the subject of human fascination & scientific exploration for thousands of years Its properties can seem impossible to grasp but this series uses the evidence found in the natural world around us to explain the fundamental principles that underpin the laws of nature such as light gravity matter & time Finally in & Wonders of Life (2012) Cox tells the story of the origins & history of life from the fundamental laws which govern its creation to the myriad species that populate our planet Tracing how light gravity time matter & energy combined 37 billion years ago to begin a process which ultimately led to the huge diversity of life we now have on Earth Cox visits locations around the world to reveal how life came to adapt & develop in the most unusual & unexpected places ...

Ken Follett's captivating third novel in the Kingsbridge series A Column of Fire returns to the setting & story that began & continued in the multi-million copy bestsellers The Pillars of the Earth & World Without End Christmas 1558 & the world is in turmoil as a new queen takes her throne & one man pledges to protect her life at all costs 912 pages Follett Ken ...

Ken Folletts captivating third novel in the Kingsbridge series &i>A Column of Fire&i> returns to the setting & story that began & continued in the multi-million copy bestsellers &i> The Pillars of the Earth&i> & &i> World Without End&i>&i> &i> Christmas 1558 & the world is in turmoil as a new queen takes her throne & one man pledges to protect her life at all costs Follett Ken ...

The saga that has enthralled the millions of readers of The Pillars of the Earth & World Without End now continues with Ken Follett's magnificent gripping A Column of Fire Christmas 1558 & young Ned Willard returns home to Kingsbridge to find his world has changed The ancient stones of Kingsbridge Cathedral look down on a city torn by religious hatred Europe is in turmoil as high principles clash bloodily with friendship loyalty & love & Ned soon finds himself on the opposite side from the girl he longs to marry Margery Fitzgerald Then Elizabeth Tudor becomes queen & all of Europe turns against England The shrewd determined young monarch sets up the country's first secret service to give her early warning of assassination plots rebellions & invasion plans Elizabeth knows that alluring headstrong Mary Queen of Scots lies in wait in Paris Part of a brutally ambitious French family Mary has been proclaimed the rightful ruler of England with her own supporters scheming to get rid of the new queen Over a turbulent half-century the love between Ned & Margery seems doomed as extremism sparks violence from Edinburgh to Geneva With Elizabeth clinging precariously to her throne & her principles protected by a small dedicated group of resourceful spies & courageous secret agents it becomes clear that the real enemies
- then as now
- are not the rival religions The true battle pitches those who believe in tolerance & compromise against the tyrants who would impose their ideas on everyone else
- no matter the cost


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