Fur & fiction combine in this retelling of Charles Dickens's most famous novel adorably adapted with an all-star cast of guinea pigs In the misery of a workhouse a poor fluffy little orphan called Oliver Twist is fed on nothing but thin air & even thinner gruel By squeaking a fateful question
- Please sir I want some more'
- he unwittingly sparks a series of events that lead him to the smoke & grime of the big city where he encounters a host of four-legged friends & foes such as the crafty Fagin mischievous Artful Dodger faithful Nancy & treacherous Bill Sikes who sweep young Oliver off of his paws & into the underworld of Victorian London

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It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife & Mrs Bennet has five unmarried daughters in want of husbands Life is fairly uneventful until a promising young man Mr Bingley takes the nearby estate of Netherfield Park & with him comes a handsome friend whom the ladies see brooding in the corner at the next ball The dashing Mr Darcy gains the admiration of every lady in the room until that is he refuses to dance with Elizabeth Bennet As time passes & their acquaintance grows however Mr Darcy begins to find Elizabeth's face rendered uncommonly intelligent by the beautiful expression of her dark eyes Here is a brand new abridgement of the classic Jane Austen novel
- this time with a cute humble & handsome cast of guinea pigs in the starring roles It's even more dreamy to fall in love with a furry Mr Darcy ' This may be the definitive version of Pride & Prejudice If they could get War & Peace down to this length it would be a service to mankind' Salman Rushdie' If you're anything like me you had no idea how much the world needed a furry rodent reenactment of Lizzie & Darcy's love story until one existed' Melissa Albert
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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 This is the story of Paul who is engaged to be married to Karen Paul&s friends throw him a bachelor party which involves loads of alcohol & girls & the next morning Paul awakes with a huge hangover & a strange woman in his bed Paul manages to hide his infidelity from Karen until he discovers that the woman is Karen&s cousin ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Reality TV spoof in which five recovering drug addicts & alcoholics spend the Christmas holidays living in a house together Can they stay clean & sober for Christmas? Or will the network&s relentless quest for ratings bring them down? ...

A Handbook of Dates provides in clear user-friendly form tables which allow the calculation of the dates (and days) on which historical events fell or will fall from AD 500 to 2100 This updated edition

Includes:: revised introductions & extra tables making this an essential reference tool for working historians 268 pages 107 Tables unspecified

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Discover the secrets of Saxon sorcery & learn how to craft rune charms brew potions cast effective spells & use magical techniques to find love & prosperity Exploring the practices & customs of the Anglo-Saxons hidden in English folk traditions this book shares techniques for making wands & staffs consecrating & using a ritual knife healing with herbs (wortcunning) soothsaying & creating your own set of runes The meaning & magical properties of the thirty-three Old English Futhorc runes are classified by theme helping you in your quest to know yourself & influence your world for the better ...

Taking its title from TS Eliot's modernist poem The Waste Land Evelyn Waugh's A Handful of Dust is a chronicle of Britain's decadence & social disintegration between the First & Second World Wars This Penguin Modern Classics edition is edited with an introduction & notes by Robert Murray Davis After seven years of marriage the beautiful Lady Brenda Last is bored with life at Hetton Abbey the Gothic mansion that is the pride & joy of her husband Tony She drifts into an affair with the shallow socialite John Beaver & forsakes Tony for the Belgravia set Brilliantly combining tragedy comedy & savage irony A Handful of Dust captures the irresponsible mood of the 'crazy & sterile generation' between the wars This breakdown of the Last marriage is a painful comic re-working of Waugh's own divorce & a symbol of the disintegration of society If you enjouyed A Handful of Dust you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics' One of the twentieth century's most chilling & bitter novels; & one of its best' Nicholas Lezard Guardian' One of the most distinguished novels of the century' Frank Kermode' This is a masterpiece of stylish satire & is funny too a marvellous book' John Banville Irish Times ...

Is it possible to die a happy death? This is the central question of Camus's astonishing early novel published posthumously & greeted as a major literary event It tells the story of a young Algerian Mersault who defies society's rules by committing a murder & escaping punishment then experimenting with different ways of life & finally dying a happy man In many ways A Happy Death is a fascinating first sketch for The Outsider but it can also be seen as a candid self-portrait drawing on Camus's memories of his youth travels & early relationships It is infused with lyrical descriptions of the sun-drenched Algiers of his childhood
- the place where eventually Mersault is able to find peace & die 'without anger without hatred without regret'
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Go cruising on the most beautiful bike in the world! It&s the American Dream
- heading out of town on a gleaming Harley-Davidson
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A HARLOT'S PROGRESS reinvents William Hogarth's famous painting of 1732 which tells the story of a whore a Jewish merchant a magistrate & a quack doctor bound together by sexual & financial greed Dabydeen's novel endows Hogarth's characters with alternative potential lives redeeming them for their cliched status as predators or victims The protagonist
- in Hogarth a black slave boy in Dabydeen London's oldest black inhabitant
- is forced to tell his story to the Abolitionists in return for their charity He refuses however to supply parade of grievances & to give a simplistic account of beatings sexual abuses etc He will not embark upon yet another fictional journey into the dark nature of slavery for the voyeuristic delight of the English reader Instead the old man ties the reader up in knots as deftly as a harlot her client he spins a tale of myths half-truths & fantasies; recreating Africa & eighteenth-century London in startlingly poetic ways What matters to him is the odyssey into poetry the rich texture of his narrative not its truthfulness In this his fourth novel David Dabydeen opens up history to myriad imaginary interpretations repopulating a vanished world with a strange defiantly vivid & compassionate humanity

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