' This is a very personal book about being alone & lost' In 1975 Kapuscinski's employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence For months he watched as Luanda & then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author's words 'sloppy dogged & cruel' In his account Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe & to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In Another Earth Rhoda Williams (Marling) a bright young woman accepted into MIT&s astrophysics program aspires to explore the cosmos A brilliant composer John Burroughs (Mapother) has just reached the pinnacle of his profession & is about to have a second child On the eve of the discovery of a duplicate Earth tragedy strikes & the lives of these strangers become irrevocably intertwined Actors William Mapother Brit Marling Jordan Baker Flint Beverage Robin Taylor Joseph A Bove Natalie Carter Diane Ciesla Jeff Clyburn Bruce Colbert Matthew-Lee Erlbach Ari Gold Jeffrey Goldenberg Ana Kayne & Meggan Lennon Director Mike Cahill Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

Summer 1998 Mei Misaki age fifteen has gone with her family to their seaside vacation home There she meets the ghost of Teruya Sakaki her classmate from Yomiyama North Middle School Class 3-3 who like Mei witnessed the mysterious events that had transpired at the school There begins an adventure of memory & mystery as they search for the ghost&s body & his memories alike Meet the Author Yukito Ayatsuji is a well-known mystery writer in Japan whose works include Another Freaks & Homunculus In his works he strives to recapture the tone & tropes of classic detective fiction ...

A new memoir from Sunday Times & New York Times bestselling author Cathy Glass Eight-year-old Aimee was on the child protection register at birth Her five older siblings were taken into care many years ago So no one can understand why she was left at home to suffer for so long It seems Aimee was forgotten The social services are looking for a very experienced foster carer to look after Aimee & when she reads the referral Cathy understands why Despite her reservations Cathy agrees to Aimee on
- there is something about her that reminds Cathy of Jodie (the subject of Damaged' & the most disturbed child Cathy has cared for) & reading the report instantly tugs at her heart strings When she arrives Aimee is angry & she has every right to be She has spent the first eight years of her life living with her drug-dependent mother in a flat that the social worker described as not fit for human habitation' Aimee is so grateful as she snuggles into her bed at Cathy's house on the first night that it brings Cathy to tears Aimee's aggressive mother is constantly causing trouble at contact & makes sweeping allegations against Cathy & her family in front of her daughter as well It is a trying time for Cathy & it makes it difficult for Aimee to settle But as Aimee begins to trust Cathy she starts to open up & the more Cathy learns about Aimee's life before she came into care the more horrified she becomes It's clear that Aimee should have been rescued much sooner & as her journey seems to be coming to a happy end Cathy can't help but reflect on all the other forgotten children' that are still suffering
...

Another Man's Shoes is a gripping first-hand account of a Norwegian scientist's escape from German custody during the Second World War after his arrest for spying Written just after the war Sven Somme vividly describes his 200-mile trek across the mountains pursued by German soldiers in a bid to reach Sweden & freedom in 1944 Sixty years later his daughter Ellie set out on foot with her sister to retrace their father's flight from Nazi-occupied Norway meeting some of the people who helped him along the way She recounts the emotional moment when a pair of her father's shoes exchanged for mountain boots were returned to her by one family who sheltered him along the way & pays special tribute to her uncle Iacob who was also arrested & later executed ...

A small town A missing schoolgirl A terrible secret & one girl's fight to survive Sixteen-year-old Claudette Flint is coming home from hospital after an escalating depression left her unable to cope She may seem unchanged on the outside; but everything's different The same could be said about her seaside hometown A local teenager Sarah has disappeared Sarah had a bad reputation round town; but now she's vanished the close-knit community seems to be unspooling As the police investigate & the press digs around for dirt small town scandals start to surface What nobody knows yet is that Claudette & Sarah had a secret friendship & that the last secret Sarah shared may be the key to the truth After weeks of focusing solely on herself Claudette realizes she is not the only part of the world that needs fixing
- & that if she can piece together the fragments of Sarah's story then maybe she can piece herself back together too Another Place is a novel about lost girls recovered life
- & the meaning of home

...

A Sunday Times top ten bestseller An exploration of suburbia from music icon Tracey Thorn; singer-songwriter & bestselling author of Bedsit Disco Queen 224 pages Thorn Tracey ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ealing tragi-comedy set in post-war Dublin Robert Beatty stars as Gulliver Sheils an impoverished young daydreamer who harbours a fantasy of emigrating to Tahiti To this end he hatches the ingenious plan of loitering on a particularly dangerous street corner in the hope that he might be able to save a wealthy person from having a traffic accident the idea being that said person might subsequently offer him a financial reward However just as it looks as though his dreams might come true his feelings for local beauty Jennifer (Moira Lister) get the better of him & his fantasies of a South Seas island are nipped in the bud ...

One of the seminal works from the writer who defined modern comics Alan Moore is re-mastered for the first time in breathtakingly vibrant color! Alan Moore’s performance works making up the play Another Suburban Romance are translated into print & lavishly illustrated as full sequential stories Comprised of three major pieces adapted from Moore’s original presentations by frequent collaborator Antony (Fashion Beast) Johnston this original graphic novel is completely illustrated by Juan Jose Ryp Running from the 1920’s Chicago style killings in Old Gangsters Never Die to the ruminations on modern life in the namesake piece Another Suburban Romance this powerful work is an essential piece of the Alan Moore graphic novel library that no fan will want to miss! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A powerful searing adult drama examining the life of an accomplished philosophy professor teetering on the brink of self-understanding Actors Gena Rowlands Mia Farrow Ian Holm Blythe Danner Gene Hackman Directors Woody Allen Writers Woody Allen Producers Charles H Joffe Helen Robin Jack Rollins Robert Greenhut Thomas A Reilly Format PAL Colour Anamorphic Widescreen Mono Language Spanish English German French Subtitles Dutch French Italian Portuguese Spanish English Dubbed French German Spanish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English German Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Aspect Ratio 169
- 1781 Number of discs 1
...