From Lonely Planet the world's leading travel guide publisher Better Than Fiction 2 the follow-up to 2012's Better Than Fiction is a second serving of true travel stories told by some of the world's best fiction writers including Dave Eggers Jane Smiley & Karen Joy Fowler Varied in place plot & voice these are stirring & evocative pieces that all share one common characteristic-they manifest a passion for the precious gift of travel from its unexpected but inevitably enriching lessons about other peoples & places to the truths sometimes uncomfortable but always enlarging it reveals about ourselves By turns comic dramatic & moving
- from Francine Prose's confrontation of the mysteries of India to DBC Pierre's search for Hemingway's muse in Italy
- these 30 short tales reveal the joys perils & surprises of travel & that truth can often be stranger (and better) than fiction Whether on a plane en route to your own travel adventure or at home settling in for a vicarious experience of world adventures embark on this literary journey around the world & explore your passion for travel now! Authors Lonely Planet Don George Dave Eggers Jane Smiley Karen Joy Fowler Stefan Merrill Block Francine Prose DBC Pierre Fiona Kidman Alexander Mc Call Smith Keija Parssinen MJ Hyland Catherine Lacey Rebecca Dinerstein Lloyd Jones Porochista Khakpour Jack Livings Marina Lewycka Lydia Millet Suzanne Joinson Sophie Cunningham Christina Nichol Mandy Sayer Steven Amsterdam Marie-Helene Bortino Shirley Streshinsky Steven Hall David Shafer Avi Duckor-Jones Lily King Aliya Whitely & Natalie Baszile About Lonely Planet Started in 1973 Lonely Planet has become the world's leading travel guide publisher with guidebooks to every destination on the planet as well as an award-winning website a suite of mobile & digital travel products & a dedicated traveller community Lonely Planet's mission is to enable curious travellers to experience the world & to truly get to the heart of the places they find themselves in Lonely Planet's award-winning list travel literature anthologies include An Innocent Abroad (Independent Publishers Award Silver for Essays 2015) & A Fork in the Road (Lowell Thomas Award Bronze for Travel Book 2014; James Bear Award Nominated for Travel Fiction 2014) ' Lonely Planet It's on everyone's bookshelves; it's in every traveller's hands It's on mobile phones It's on the Internet It's everywhere & it's telling entire generations of people how to travel the world' -- Fairfax Media ' Lonely Planet guides are quite simply like no other'
- New York Times Lonely Planet guides have won the Trip Advisor Traveler's Choice Award in 2012 2013 2014 & 2015


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A handful of characters in a small British town deal with love disappointment & temptation in this independent drama ...

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Celadon a poor nation on a poor planet engaged in civil war & a haven for every type of villainy in space is ripe for cleanup The military could pacify it handily but it would take a statesman to fix it But some statesmen have ethics which politicians & megacorps find inconvenient President Bishwanath compounded the sin by being astute ambitious & capable Something had to be done because a working nation isn&t much use for pork & graft When the word comes down that he is dead the politicians move on with a new plan re-allocating resources & finding a new more pliable president to put in place There are three problems with this solution Bishwanath is not dead His mercenary bodyguards are more loyal than the politicians & if they&re not on contract there are no rules ...

APlease note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to playnew take on the Hong Kong action classic that launched Chow Yun Fat to international stardom director Song Hae-seong&s remake of A Better Tomorrow features an all-star cast including Seung-heon Song Kang-woo Kim & Jin-mo Ju In the treacherous world of the black-market weapons trade honor & vengeance go hand in hand Adapted from writerdirector John Woo&s original screenplay ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Olivia De Jonge & Levi Miller star in this comedy horror co-written & directed by Chris Peckover The film follows teenager Ashley (De Jonge) as she arrives to babysit 12-year-old Luke (Miller) during the Christmas holidays It&s not long before Luke begins exhibiting some strange behaviour & tries to seduce Ashley Things quickly get out of hand when a masked intruder breaks into the house & begins terrorising the pair forcing Ashley to go to extreme lengths to try & fight them off However it soon becomes apparent that the intruder isn&t who he initially seemed leaving Ashley in a desperate fight to survive the night ...

She&s more modest than Ms Blaise but peels more than Ms Emma She out-vamps Vampirella but she&s sweeter than Honey West She put the mod in model & the bangs in bang-bang Now the world can know the truth her classified adventures back in 1951 Hollywood have been declassified Dynamite David Avallone & Colton Worley are proud to present The Secret Diary of Bettie Page in handy comic book form ...

On 18th April 2017 Theresa May stunned Britain by announcing a snap election With poll leads of more than 20 points over Jeremy Corbyn's divided Labour Party the first Tory landslide since Margaret Thatcher's day seemed certain Seven weeks later Tory dreams had turned to dust Instead of the 100-seat victory she'd been hoping for May had lost her majority leaving Parliament hung & her premiership hanging by a thread Labour MPs meanwhile could scarcely believe their luck Far from delivering the wipe-out that most predicted Corbyn's popular anti-austerity agenda won the party 30 seats cementing his position as leader & denying May the right to govern alone This timely & indispensable book gets to the bottom of why the Tories failed & how Corbyn's Labour overcame impossible odds to emerge closer to power than at any election since the era of Tony Blair Who was to blame for the Tories' mistakes? How could so many politicians & pollsters fail to see what was coming? & what was the secret of Corbyn's apparently unstoppable rise? Through new interviews & candid private accounts from key players political journalists Tim Ross & Tom Mc Tague set out to answer these questions & more piecing together the inside story of this most dramatic & important of elections ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A landmark in French cinema Jean-Jacques Beineix&s erotically charged & visually intoxicating film also heralded the arrival of a new screen icon Beatrice Dalle Laid-back handyman Zorg spends his time doing odd jobs on beach-front chalets making chilli & harbouring dreams of becoming a writer His life is turned upside down with the arrival of the beautiful but volatile Betty They begin a romance fuelled by intense passion but as Betty turns increasingly violent & self-destructive Zorg tries desperately to halt her slide into insanity Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade Beatrice Dalle & Gerard Darmon Director Jean-Jacques Beineix Certificate 18 years & over Year 1986 Screen 1661 Languages French
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 57 minutes (approx)
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The most famous female cartoon star of all is back! All-new adventures of Betty Boop (with her pals Koko the Clown & Bimbo natch!) by award-winning writer Roger Langridge & Gisele Lagace Join Betty as she works at the Oop-A-Doop Club dreams of hitting the big-time looks after her old Grampy fights ghosts & giant bugs dances to hot jazz & much more! ...