Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This acclaimed Silent-Era classic is Chaplin&s first drama (a genre he visted again in Limelight) Directing with keen-eyed finesse & appearing in only a small role Chaplin jabs at French high society while telling a tale of tragic love ...

The unputdownable multi-million copy bestseller charting the rags to riches story of Emma Harte In 1905 a young kitchen maid leaves Fairley Hall Emma Harte is sixteen single & pregnant By 1968 she is one of the richest women in the world ruler of a business empire stretching from Yorkshire to the glittering cities of America & the rugged vastness of Australia But what is the price she has paid? A Woman of Substance is as impossible to put down as it is to forget This multi-million copy bestseller is truly a novel of our times ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This boxed set features the star-studded acclaimed trilogy that tells the tale of Emma Harte & how she overcame her impoverished beginnings to build up the Harte dynasty Based on the best-selling novels by Barbara Taylor Bradford we meet Emma as a servant girl in the magnificent A WOMAN OF SUBSTANCE whose drive & ambition enables her to become one of the richest women in the world The saga continues with HOLD THE DREAM when at the age of 80 Emma decides to pass control of the business empire to her beloved granddaughter Paula We follow Paula&s battles to stay at the top & as she takes on the greatest struggle of her career in TO BE THE BEST This trilogy features a sumptuous cast which

Includes:: Jenny Seagrove Deborah Kerr (in her last ever acting role) Liam Neeson Anthony Hopkins & Stephanie Beacham

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John Cassavetes&s A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an emotionally devastating drama that charts the mental disintegration of a California housewife Mabel Longhetti (Gena Rowlands) has no emotional or creative outlets Instead she pours all her energy into her family spending her days waiting for her husband Nick (Cassavetes regular & COLUMBO star Peter Falk) to arrive home from work & anxiously awaiting her children&s return from school This dependence causes Mabel to suffer a nervous breakdown forcing her to spend time in a mental hospital Meanwhile Nick struggles mightily to keep his family together When Mabel returns six months later dazed & shaken a &welcome home& party threatens to trigger another collapse As the confused overwhelmed & hypersensitive Mabel Rowlands delivers one of the screen&s most excruciatingly honest performances This can directly be attributed to Rowlands&s real-life husband Cassavetes whose insistence on getting to the inner core of his characters& emotional states defined him as an artist Falk portrays Nick with a harsh yet delicate pathos that is also honest & heartbreaking A WOMAN UNDER THE INFLUENCE is an awe-inspiring work of art from a maverick American director ...

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I hum to myself as I stand looking up at the sky filled to overflowing with the joy of liberty A Woman's Walks is part of ' Found on the Shelves' published with The London Library The books in this series have been chosen to give a fascinating insight into the treasures that can be found while browsing in The London Library Now celebrating its 175th anniversary with over 17 miles of shelving & more than a million books The London Library has become an unrivalled archive of the modes manners & thoughts of each generation which has helped to form it ...

GUARDIAN & NEW STATESMAN BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Winner of best memoir at the Parliamentary Book Awards Now with a new epilogue for the paperback& Compelling She has guts to spare An important story Role model? You bet& Tim Shipman Sunday Times& So human & inspiring & my favourite book of the year so far& Rohan Silva Guardian When Harriet Harman started her career men-only job adverts & a &women&s rate& of pay were the norm female MPs were a tiny minority
- a woman couldn&t even sign for a mortgage But she argues we should never just be grateful that things are better now There&s still more to do In A Woman&s Work Harriet Britain&s longest-serving female MP looks at her own life to see how far we&ve come & where we should go next This is an inspiring & refreshingly honest account of the part she has played (and the setbacks along the way) in the movement that transformed politics & women&s lives
- from helping striking female factory workers to standing for election while pregnant from her memories of her own mother to her success in reforming the law on maternity rights childcare domestic violence & getting more women into parliament But it is also a call for women today to get together & continue the fight for equality If we don&t no one else will

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' Delightful Pavey writes with warmth & spirit & brings this space to life' Penelope Lively' Captivating & grounded If this book was not as much a pleasure to write as it is to read I'll eat my hat & gardening glove' Observer After years spent living amid the thrum of London Ruth Pavey yearned to reconnect with the British countryside & she endeavoured to realise her long-held dream of planting a wood Touring to the West Country in the late 1990s Pavey found herself in the Somerset Levels On seeing this expanse of reclaimed land under its wide soft skies she was struck by its beauty & set-out to plant a wood tree by tree She bought four acres & over the years transformed them into a haven where woodland plants & creatures could flourish an emblem of enduring life in a changeable world A Wood of One's Own is the story of how she grew to understand & then shape this derelict land into an enduring legacy a verdant landscape rich with wildlife Interwoven with Pavey's candid descriptions of the practical challenges she faced are forays into the Levels' local history as well as thoughtful portraits of its inhabitants both past & present Accompanied throughout by the author's evocative h&-drawn illustrations A Wood of One's Own is a lyrical beguiling & inspiring story; a potent reminder of nature's delicate balance & its comforting & abiding presence ...