Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play David Lean made a comeback after a 12 year absence with this Oscar-winning adaptation of EM Forster&s novel Judy Davis plays Miss Quested a young English woman recently arrived in India who accuses the seemingly humble Dr Aziz (Victor Banerjee) of raping her during a trip to the Marabar caves The subsequent trial lays bare the tensions which exist between the native population & the British colonialists as well as the sexual repression which lurks under the surface of the polite society the British attempt to recreate on foreign soil ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play From the acclaimed director of Lawrence of Arabia Doctor Zhivago & The Bridge on the River Kwai Sir David Lean&s last ever feature film is a magnificent work which earned two Oscars for its rich evocative score & a superb performance by Dame Peggy Ashcroft A Passage to India is "a wonderfully provocative tale full of vivid characters all played to near perfection" (The New York Times) With the director&s "strongest cast in years" (Time Out) including Judy Davis James Fox Sir Alec Guinness & Nigel Havers When liberal-minded English ladies Mrs Moore (Ashcroft) & Adela Quested (Davis) arrive in India they&re shocked by the prejudice that exists there The gentle Dr Aziz (Victor Banerjee) rises above the intolerance & guides the women on a tour of the splendid & mysterious Marabar caves; but when Adela runs terrified from the caves scratched & bleeding news of the incident spreads across the whole of Indiaigniting a powder keg of tension that has been waiting to explode ...

Key Features Study methods Introduction to the text Summaries with critical notes Themes & techniques Textual analysis of key passages Author biography Historical & literary background Modern & historical critical approaches Chronology Glossary of literary terms ...

A Passion for China is a personal celebration of the everyday beauty of tableware Acclaimed ceramicist artist & designer Molly Hatch explores the family stories behind beloved items; the bowls & cups we have inherited or chosen with love & care Molly Hatch also brings the history of porcelain potteries & patterns to life through her stunning h&-drawn illustrations ' As we move through our daily lives eating breakfast sipping an afternoon cup of tea or gathering for a family dinner the patterned ceramic objects we live with are precious witnesses to our stories We eat from them they warm our hands after a cold walk outdoors & we pull them out to celebrate the births marriages & lives of our loved ones' A tribute to the rich heritage of the vintage plates jugs & pots that make our homes our own ...

A Passion For Needlework showcases exquisite & innovative hand stitched pieces presented like never before Twelve brand new masterpieces with each project revealing its own story through galleries of lush photography evocative imagery & meticulous how-to instructions all for your stitching pleasure The projects in the book are provided by the following contributors Lorna Bateman Trish Burr Jo Butcher Alison Cole Julie Kniedl Deborah Love Jenny Mc Whinney Jane Nicholas Susan O' Connor Elisabetta Sforza & Judy Wilford A Passion For Needlework will delight your senses & evoke your passion ...

When Detective Constable Connie Childs is dragged from her bed to the fire-wrecked property on Cross Farm Lane she knows as she steps from the car that this house contains death Three bodies discovered
- a family obliterated
- their deaths all seem to point to one conclusion One mother one murderer But DC Childs determined as ever to discover the truth behind the tragedy realises it is the fourth body
- the one they cannot find
- that holds the key to the mystery at Cross Farm Lane What Connie Childs fails to spot is that her determination to unmask the real murderer might cost her more than her health
- this time she could lose the thing she cares about most her career




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Bestselling saga author Anna Jacobs' novel of life in nineteenth century Lancashire & Australia' Catherine Cookson fans will cheer'
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The Brief Edition of A PEOPLE & A NATION offers a succinct & spirited narrative that tells the stories of all people in the United States The authors' attention to race & racial identity & their inclusion of everyday people & popular culture brings history to life engaging readers & encouraging them to imagine what life was really like in the past ...

The Russian Revolution may well be the most misunderstood event in modern history In this fast-paced introduction Neil Faulkner debunks the myths that continue to shroud it showing how a mass movement of millions organised in democratic assemblies mobilised for militant action & destroyed a regime of landlords profiteers & warmongers Faulkner rejects caricatures of Lenin & the Bolsheviks as authoritarian conspirators 'democratic-centralists' or the progenitors of Stalinist dictatorship; though short-lived the Revolution of October 1917 was an explosion of democracy & creativity Crushed by bloody counter-revolution its socialist vision was ultimately displaced by a monstrous form of bureaucratic state-capitalism Laced with first-hand testimony this history rescues the democratic essence of the revolution from its detractors & deniers offering a perfect primer for the modern reader Published in partnership with the Left Book Club ...

A People's History of Tottenham Hotspur is the story of how fans helped create the identity of a world-famous club & tells a story from a perspective rarely acknowledged Drawing on social history contemporary press reports & first-hand interviews with the fans themselves authors Martin Cloake & Alan Fisher trace the club's development from being the team of the suburbs & the rising south through the glory years & the arrival of mass popular culture & into the modern era of the game It is not a tale of trophies won & lost of players bought & sold Instead it is the story of how one of the game's oldest & most famous teams was formed & established by its fans & how its identity was created by them It evaluates how the fans' relationship with the club has evolved as the game has changed from those bygone days when a club was at the heart of a local community to the modern era where the world's leading football clubs have to compete as multinational 'brands' appealing to fans on a global scale stretching much further & wider than the north London footprint than the club's founders would have ever imagined ...