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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Beautiful pictures of wonderful dyed fabrics used in a variety of designs accompany detailed advice on the materials required preparing the fabric & the dyeing methods Using Shibori techniques
- folding pleating clamping stitching & pole wrapping the author illustrates all the different stages using clear step-by-step photographs & easy-to-follow text A stunning sequence of inspirational projects have been specially chosen to develop skills & build confidence with instructions on how to make a tea cosy a jacket a silk scarf & more Previously published as A Handbook of Indigo Dyeing 9780855329761
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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 ...

Go cruising on the most beautiful bike in the world! It&s the American Dream
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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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Tiffany Aching is going into service' to be a lady no less a maid in a big house At least this is what she tells her parents Really Tiffany is going away to learn magic But making friends with fellow witches is always difficult when an invisible-being-that-cannot-be-killed takes over your body
- stealing money & threatening violence Tiffany must use all her witchy cunning to reclaim what's hers Luckily she has a bit of help What's tiny Scottish & blue all over? A Nac Mac Feegle of course
- the rudest type of fairy & handy to have in a tight spot Oodles of dry wit imagination & shrewdly observed characters' Independent on Sunday

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Something is coming after Tiffany Tiffany Aching is ready to begin her apprenticeship in magic She expects spells & magic
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WE SEE YOU NOW WE ARE YOU No real witch would casually step out of their body leaving it empty Tiffany Aching does & there's something just waiting for a handy body to take over Something ancient & horrible which can't die To deal with it Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch Fantastically inventive' Sunday Times ...