' For Christmas I would like all of Philip Kerr's Berlin Noir novels' Sam Mendes Guardian' Philip Kerr is the contemporary master of the morally complex thriller' New York Observer The third in Philip Kerr's universally loved ' Berlin Noir' trilogy A German Requiem sees detective Bernie Gunther enter the new & terrifying world of post-war Vienna In the bitter winter of 1947 the Russian Zone is closing ever more tightly around Berlin So when an enigmatic Russian colonel asks Bernie Gunther to go to Vienna where his ex-Kripo colleague Emil Becker faces a murder charge Bernie doesn't hesitate for long Despite an unsavoury past Gunther is convinced that the shooting of an American Nazi-hunter is one crime Becker didn't commit But Vienna is not the peaceful haven Bernie expects it to be Communism is the new enemy & with the Nuremberg trials over some strange alliances are being forged against the Red Menace
- alignments that make many wartime atrocities look lily-white by comparison Vividly evoking the atmosphere of postwar Vienna A Germen Requiem brings all Philip Kerr's pace & mordant wit to the tangle of guilt suspicion & double-dealing that laid the foundations for the Cold War
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Tracklist Intro Creep Hitchhike Love Sleep When Dead Sex &38; Drugs&38; Rock &38; Roll Jizzney Not A Miracle King Queen I'll Come Crashing Birthday Song Seventeen Too Much Makeup Get With You & Get High Failing In Love ...

Street Cat Bob & James stars of bestselling A Street Cat Named Bob & The World According to Bob that touched millions around the world spend a cold & challenging December on the streets together in a new adventure From the day James rescued a street cat abandoned in the hallway of his sheltered accommodation they began a friendship which has transformed both their lives & through the bestselling books A STREET CAT NAMED BOB & THE WORLD ACCORDING TO BOB touched millions around the world In this new story of their journey together James looks back at the last Christmas they spent scraping a living on the streets & how Bob helped him through one of his toughest times
- providing strength friendship & inspiration but also teaching him important lessons about the true meaning of Christmas along the way
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When 10 year old Amanda loses her mother she spends most of her time at the neighbouring horse ranch owned by a business tycoon The arrival of Misty a spirited white horse creates a new challenge for the ranchers as the tycoon&s spoiled daughter rejects the horse But Amanda doesn&t lose faith & with an inspiring & loving horse trainer they prove that the Misty is a true champion creating new friendships & family bonds in the process ...

' He inspired a generation He changed the course of history' Barack Obama As Martin Luther King Jr prepared for the Birmingham campaign in early 1963 he drafted the final sermons for Strength to Love a volume of his best-known lectures King had begun working on the sermons during a fortnight in jail in July 1962 & A Gift of Love

Includes:: these classic sermons along with two new lectures Drawing inspiration from both his Christian faith & the non-violent philosophy of Mahatma Gandhi A Gift of Love illustrates King's vision of love & peaceful action as social & political forces for change

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100 easy & delicious meals on a tight budget with Jack Monroe's A Girl Called Jack Jack is a cash-strapped single mum living in Southend When she found herself with a shopping budget of just GBP10 a week to feed herself & her young son she addressed the situation with immense resourcefulness creativity & by embracing her local supermarket's 'basics' range She created recipe after recipe of delicious simple & upbeat meals that were outrageously cheap Learn with Jack Monroe's A Girl Called Jack how to save money on your weekly shop whilst being less wasteful & creating inexpensive tasty food Recipes include Vegetable Masala Curry for 30p a portion Pasta alla Genovese for 19p a portion Fig Rosemary & Lemon Bread for 26p & a Jam Sponge reminiscent of school days for 23p a portion' Sassy political & cooking amazing food on GBP10 a week We need more like her'
- Xanthe Clay The Telegraph Jack Monroe is a 24-year-old single mother & local newspaper reporter Finding herself with a food budget of just GBP10 a week she began to create nutritious recipes to feed herself & her son Giving the recipes out to a local food bank to help others in her situation she then began to publish them online on her blog A Girl Called Jack which now has thousands of followers Jack was awarded the 2013 Fortnum & Mason Judges' Choice Award for the impact that her blog has had She lives in Essex with her son
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It's bad enough having a mum dippy enough to name you Owl but when you've got a dad you've never met a best friend who needs you more than ever & a new boy at school giving you weird looks there's not a lot of room for much else So when Owl starts seeing strange frost patterns on her skin she's tempted to just burrow down under the duvet & forget all about it Could her strange new powers be linked to her mysterious father? And what will happen when she enters the magical world of winter for the first time? A glittering story of frost & friendship with writing full of magic & heart A Girl Called Owl is a stunning debut about family responsibility & the beauty of the natural world ...

When a girl is found dead with a signed copy of Rudian Stefa's latest book in her possession the author finds himself summoned for an interview by the Party Committee Unable to guess what transgression he has committed Rudian goes fearfully to meet his interrogators He has never met the girl in question but he remembers signing the book As the influence of a paranoid regime steals up on him Rudian finds himself swept along on a surreal quest to discover what really happened to the mysterious girl to whom he wrote the dedication
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WINNER OF THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTIONWINNER OF THE DESMOND ELLIOTT PRIZEKERRY GROUP IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR AWARDWINNER OF THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZEEimear Mc Bride's award-winning debut novel tells the story of a young woman's relationship with her brother & the long shadow cast by his childhood brain tumour It is a shocking & intimate insight into the thoughts feelings & chaotic sexuality of a vulnerable & isolated protagonist To read A Girl Is a Half-formed Thing is to plunge inside its narrator's head experiencing her world at first hand This isn't always comfortable
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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 Strange things are afoot in Bad City The Iranian ghost town
- home to prostitutes junkies pimps & other sordid souls – is a place that reeks of death & hopelessness where a lonely vampire is stalking the town’s most unsavoury inhabitants But when boy meets girl an unusual love story begins to blossom…blood red Discover an intoxicating mix of mesmerising attraction & bloodthirsty violence in this exciting & unique new take on the vampire genre with the release of A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT Iranian-American film director Ana Lily Amirpour weaves an innovative & enthralling tale teeming with originality & beauty for her killer feature debut With a film-noir feel & stylish aesthetic A GIRL WALKS HOME ALONE AT NIGHT features powerful performances by Shelia Vand (Argo The Highway is for Gamblers Funhouse) as ‘ The Girl’ Mozhan Marnò (The Blacklist House of Cards) as the prostitute; Atti & Arash Marandi as hipster Arash Deleted Scenes VICE Behind-the-scenes documentary VICE Meets Ana Lily Amirpour & Sheila Vand Trailer
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