Alarm clocks barking dogs telephones meetings & the rush hourthe hustle & bustle of life What better way to relax than to sit down at the piano chill out & indulge yourself with music from " Pam Wedgwood's After Hours Jazz"? Relax with the lush harmonies & laid-back melodies of your favourite jazz standards plus some great original works by Pam Wedgwood all specifically arranged for the Grade 3-5 pianist to enjoy ...

Emi Ashiana is 24 unemployed & not really sure what she wants do with her life When a friend invites her to a dance club Emi doesn't expect much But what she finds will change her world! Emi isn't much of a party girl but she decides to give clubbing a tryand ends up hiding in a corner after her friend ditches her to flirt with a guy! Emi figures the night is a bust but then an exciting woman comes to her rescue Kei is a DJ & her effortless self-confidence captivates Emi Is this the start of something special or just a wonderful one-nighter? ...

' Enjoyable original & intriguing' B A Paris bestselling author of Behind Closed Doors An emotional new psychological thriller from the 1 bestselling author of While My Eyes Were Closed You have 18 months left to live On a wet Monday in January Jess Mount checks Facebook & discovers her timeline appears to have skipped forward 18 months to a day when shocked family & friends are posting heartbreaking tributes to her following her death in an accident Jess is left scared & confused is she the target of a cruel online prank or is this a terrifying glimpse of her true fate? Amongst the posts are photos of a gorgeous son she has not yet conceived But when new posts suggest her death was deliberate Jess realises that if she changes the future to save her own life the baby boy she has fallen in love with may never exist ...

Ireland is suffering a crisis of authority Catholic Church scandals political corruption & economic collapse have shaken the Irish people's faith in their institutions The nation's struggle for independence is thrown into doubt But as Declan Kiberd argues in this engaging survey of post-war Irish literature the country's creative writers have been alert to this reality from the start He describes the young Samuel Beckett witnessing the burning of Dublin in 1916 & realising that 'the birth of a nation might also seal its doom' Surveying thirty works by modern Irish writers Kiberd traces the response to the crisis of Irish Statehood in the work of Seamus Heaney Edna O' Brien Joseph O' Connor Tom Murphy Nuala Ni Dhomhnaill Derek Mahon & John Banville among others Placing these writers at the centre of Ireland's on-going exploration of the true meaning of freedom Kiberd shows how Irish artists preserve & extend a humane culture that imagines a renewed more plural & open nation Kiberd's Inventing Ireland originally published in 1995 is a dazzlingly ambitious critical history of modern Irish literature & the standard work on the Irish Literary Revival In After Ireland Kiberd responds to the next generation of Irish writers in this second renaissance of Irish literature ...

A magisterial survey of the ways in which postwar Irish writers have witnessed the frustration of the promise of Irish independence 560 pages Kiberd Declan ...

GUARDIAN EVENING STANDARD & BOOKFORUM BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 Kathy Acker Rich girl street punk scholar stripper victim media-whore & cultural icon The late Kathy Acker's legend & writings are wrapped in mythologies many of them created by her Twenty years after her untimely death aged just 50 Acker's legend has faded but her writing has become clearer A few years ago the writer Chris Kraus author of I Love Dick found that her own experiences were becoming more & more like Kathy's She began writing about Acker 'through the distance but with this incredible frisson of feeling that often I could write "I" instead of "she"' This is 'literary friction' The first fully authorised biography of the avant-garde writer Kathy Acker by the woman who arrived on the scene straight after her who shared some of her boyfriends & friends & her artistic ambitions Using exhaustive archival research & ongoing conversations with mutual colleagues & friends Kraus traces the woman behind the notorious novels & places her at the centre of a kaleidoscopic artistic world' The path of the female artist Is hell Chris Kraus's veracious & intricately structured portrait rouses & stirs as it documents in meticulous & fascinating detail the life work & body of Kathy Acker & what it takes to a become a 'great writer as countercultural hero' Viv Albertine' This is a gossipy anti-mythic artist biography which feels like it's being told in one long rush of a monologue over late-night drinks by someone who was there' Sheila Heti ...

Two women Two villages Different destinies Odeta's life has shrunk to a daily round of drudgery running her father's grocery store in a remote Albanian village One day a stranger from Tirana walks into the shop & promises her a new career in London Odeta's life is about to change but not in the way she expected Journalist Kate lives on a quiet London street & seems to have a perfect life but she worries about her son Ben who struggles to make friends Kate blames the internet & disconnects her family from the online world so they can get to know their neighbours On a visit to her home village in Wales Kate is forced to confront a secret from her past But greater danger lies closer to home Perhaps Kate's neighbours are not the friendly community they seem ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After a horrific car accident Anna (Christina Ricci) wakes up to find the local funeral director Eliot Deacon (Liam Neeson) preparing her body for her funeral Confused terrified & feeling still very much alive Anna doesn&t believe she&s dead despite the funeral director&s reassurances that she is merely in transition to the afterlife Eliot convinces her he has the ability to communicate with the dead & is the only one who can help her Trapped inside the funeral home with nobody to turn to except Eliot Anna is forced to face her deepest fears & accept her own death But Anna&s grief-stricken boyfriend Paul (Justin Long) still can&t shake the nagging suspicion that Eliot isn&t what he appears to be As the funeral nears Paul gets closer to unlocking the disturbing truth but it could be too late; Anna may have already begun to cross over the other side With an unrelenting edge of menace Afterlife is a stylish psychological thriller which provocatively questions the line between life & death Actors Liam Neeson Justin Long Christina Ricci Josh Charles Chandler Canterbury Celia Weston Shuler Hensley Rosemary Murphy Malachy Mc Court Luz Alexandra Ramos Laurel Bryce & Barbara Singer Director Agnieszka Wojtowicz-Vosloo Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen 2401 Languages English
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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 After 15 years of living together Marie & Boris decide to get a divorce Marie had bought the house in which they live with their two daughters but it was Boris who had completely renovated it Since he cannot afford to find another place to live they must continue to share it When all is said & done neither of the two is willing to give up Actors Berenice Bejo Cedric Kahn Directors Joachim Lafosse Format PALLanguage French Subtitles English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Winner of the Prix Un Certain Regard at Cannes & the special Jury prize at the Chicago International Film Festival the critically acclaimed After Lucia is directed by Michel Franco (Daniel & Ana) The story follows the relationship between Roberto & his 17 year old daughter Alejandra Roberto is very depressed after his wife Lucia dies in a car accident & decides to move away with his daughter to a new city They try hard to adjust to their new life & Alejandro does her best to help but struggles as she becomes the victim of bullying at her new school To protect her father she decides not to tell him anything but as the bullying gets worse her situation becomes more & more desperate Actors Tessa Ia Gonzalo Vega Jr Tamara Yazbek & Hernán Mendoza Director Michel Franco Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages Spanish Subtitles English ...