A funny & moving love story about friends first loves & self-discovery by the Queen of Teen 2014 When sixteen-year-old Toria Bland arrives at her new school she needs to work out who her friends are all in a crazy whirl of worry exam pressure & anxiety over fitting in Things start looking up when Toria meets the funny & foul-mouthed Polly who's the coolest girl Toria has ever seen Polly & the rest of the 'alternative' kids take Toria under their wing & that's when she meets the irresistible Nico Mancini lead singer of a local band
- & it's instalove at first sight! Toria likes Nico Nico likes Toria but then there's Polly Love & friendship have a funny way of going round in circles
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Raymond Carver who became a master-storyteller of his generation & was hailed in Europe as 'the American Chekhov' wrote of himself "I began as a poet My first publication was a poem So I suppose on my tombstone I'd be very pleased if they put ' Poet & short-story writer
- & occasional essayist' in that order" This complete edition allows readers to experience the range & overwhelming power of Carver's poetry for the first time It brings together in the order of their American publication the poems of Fires (1985) Where Water Comes Together with Other Water (1986) Ultramarine (1988) A New Path to the Waterfall (1989) & No Heroics Please (1991) For readers who know Carver's middle period only through his selected poems In a Marine Light (1988) it

Includes:: the windfall of 51 poems not previously published in Britain All of Us is edited by Professor William L Stull of the University of Hartford & introduced with an essay on Raymond Carver's methods of composition by his widow the poet Tess Gallagher


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Esme eldest child control-freak perfect wife In fact her husband has run off with his dentist & their teenage daughter is live-tweeting the entire mess to her 3000 followers Liv middle child fiance stealer squatter Holed up in her ex-husband&s apartment with her acupuncturist & a bottle of whiskey Ru youngest child writer runaway Hopes to find inspiration for her second novel whilst fleeing her fiance One-by-one the siblings return to the family home where a box of old letters awaits them containing the answer to the mystery they have all lived with until now who was their father & why the hell did he disappear? ...

The Radio 2 Book Club Choice When Tom loses the love of his life time travel seems like the only answer what could possibly go wrong? Elan Mastai's breakthrough novel brings a whole new dimension to a classic love story' Sharp funny writing in a mind-bending time-travelling junket of a novel' Daily Mail So the thing is I come from the world we were supposed to have That means nothing to you obviously because you live here in the crappy world we do have But it never should've turned out like this & it's all my fault
- well me & to a lesser extent my father And yeah I guess a little bit Penelope In both worlds she's the love of my life But only a single version of her can exist I have one impossible chance to fix history's greatest mistake & save this broken world Except it means saving one Penelope & losing the other forever
- & I have absolutely no idea which to choose Praise for All Our Wrong Todays' Witty original funny charming
- a great story!' Joe Haddow BBC Radio 2 Book Club' This lovely new novel is It's a Wonderful Life meets The Jetsons Tom who lives in an alternate 2016 where all the sci-fi fantasies of the 1950s are a reality suddenly finds himself stranded in our 2016 where he rediscovers his family friends & self' BUZZFEED' Imagine a world where 2016 was glorious no Bowie Brexit Bake-Off Bannon That's where All Our Wrong Todays begins Ambitious funny wry & philosophical it's not surprising that author Mastai started off his life as a screenwriter (All Our Wrong Todays has already been picked up by uber-producer Amy Pascal) because this a book that has the grand scope of sweeping cinema peppered throughout' Emerald Street'A thrilling tale of time travel & alternate timelines with a refreshingly optimistic view of humanity's future' Andy Weir author of international bestseller The Martian' All Our Wrong Todays is elaborately constructed & incredibly emotionally intelligent; it's a story with super high stakes that genuinely makes you feel every part of Tom's awful predicament' Sci Fi Now'A novel about time travel has no right to be this engaging A novel this engaging has no right to be this smart & a novel this smart has no right to be this funny Or insightful Or immersive Basically this novel has no right to exist' Jonathan Tropper New York Times bestselling author of This Is Where I Leave You & One Last Thing Before I Go' Elan Mastai has conjured up a witty & freewheeling time-traveling romance that packs an emotional wallop All Our Wrong Todays is a page-turning delight' Maria Semple author of Today Will Be Different & Where'd You Go Bernadette


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SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORWELL PRIZE 2017 1 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER The best political book of the year' Andrew Marr A superb work ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Oscar-winning stage & screen veteran Wendy Hiller brings characteristic subtlety grace & quiet determination to the role of a recently widowed woman who intends to relish her newfound freedom in this acclaimed three-part drama Adapting Vita Sackville-West&s classic story All Passion Spent received four BAFTA nominations & co-stars Harry Andrews Maurice Denham Phyllis Calvert Graham Crowden & Geoffrey Bayldon Lady Slane sits beside the body of her husband in a bedroom of their elegant home The handsome distinguished Henry Holland Prime Minister Viceroy of India & Earl of Slane has died at the age of 94 As her children ponder what is to be done with mother 85-year-old Lady Slane realises that for the first time in her life she is free to live where & how she chooses & after more than half a century as a dutiful & loving wife she revels in her new-found independence & the company of new friends despite the wishes of her family Subtitles English ...

By cutting the desired shapes from paper basting the paper to the back of your fabric & then h&-sewing the pieces together you'll ensure perfectly matched points every time This complete course in English paper piecing takes you far beyond traditional hexagons with step-by-step photos showing you how to connect triangles octagons diamonds jewels triangles tumblers pentagons & curved shapes It even provides dozens of ideas for incorporating the pattern designs into clothing pillows quilts & home decor items! ...

' There is a whistling sound behind us Shells pass overhead & explode in a sheet of flame a hundred meters away' 64 pages Remarque Erich Maria ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Unlike most "message" films which date themselves almost immediately Lewis Milestone&s low-key unpolished & deeply-felt screen adaptation of the Erich Maria Remarque anti-war novel has lost little of its original impact Years after its release it was still being banned in countries mobilising for war The plot follows a group of young German recruits in World War I through their passage from idealism to disillusionment As the central character Paul Baumer (Lew Ayres) declares " We live in the trenches & we fight We try not to be killed
- that&s all" All Quiet On The Western Front is an anthology of now famous scenes Ayres trapped in a shell crater with a man he has killed; the first meeting of the recruits & the veterans; infantrymen being mowed down to machine-gun visual rhythms; a moonlight swim with French farm girls; Ayres& pacifist speech to his astonished schoolmates; & the final shot of the soldier&s hand reaching for the butterfly Actors Louis Wolheim John Wray & Slim Summerville Director Lewis Milestone Certificate 12 years & over Year 1930 Screen 1331 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio Mono Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired; French; Italian; German; Spanish; Japanese Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hour & 13 minutes (approx)

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One by one the boys begin to fall In 1914 a room full of German schoolboys fresh-faced & idealistic are goaded by their schoolmaster to troop off to the 'glorious war' With the fire & patriotism of youth they sign up What follows is the moving story of a young 'unknown soldier' experiencing the horror & disillusionment of life in the trenches ...