Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Gripping drama starring Janet Munro as simple country girl Jennie Jones who leaves her family in the Welsh Valleys for the bright lights of 1960&s London Jennie Jones (Janet Munro) is bored with her life in the Welsh valleys running the family shop & looking after her father Whilst babysitting for a wealthy family she becomes jealous of the luxuries that life has denied her On a night out in Cardiff she is seduced by salesman Andy (Terence Alexander) & wakes up in London Despite meeting loving barman Bob Williams (John Stride) her life takes a tragic downward spiral! Actors Janet Munro John Stride Alan Badel Anne Cunningham Directors Peter Graham Scott Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Bitter Lemons of Cyprus is Lawrence Durrell's unique account of his time in Cyprus during the 1950s Enosis movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize it is a document at once personal poetic & subtly political
- a masterly combination of travelogue memoir & treatise ' He writes as an artist as well as a poet; he remembers colour & landscape & the nuances of peasant conversation Eschewing politics it says more about them than all our leading articles In describing a political tragedy it often has great poetic beauty' Kingsley Martin New Statesman' Durrell possesses exceptional qualifications He speaks Greek fluently; he has a wide knowledge of modern Greek history politics & literature; he has lived in continental Greece & has spent many years in other Greek islands His account of this calamity is revelatory moving & restrained It is written in the sensitive & muscular prose of which he is so consummate a master' Harold Nicolson Observer
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British comic actor Tommy Trinder & Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film BITTER SPRINGS The plot is propelled along by Rafferty who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe Though tempers flare everyone eventually buries the hatchet The film is sentimental in the extreme but is pulled off with a minimum of syrup BITTER SPRINGS was directed by future SECRET AGENT & THE AVENGERS stalwart Ralph Smart ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young woman who is engaged to be married begins to have doubts & begins seeing an older man & in the process unleashes a wave of emotional & sexual traumas that envelope everyone around her Intense & erotic Bitter Sweet screened at the Raindance Film Festival & has been greatly praised for its emotional clout It is also memorable for featuring the adult star Yumika Hayashi in one of her last roles prior to her untimely death in 2005 Actors Konatsu Yumika Hayashi Kin Ishikawa Kazuhiro Sanom Takuya Fukushima Directors Mitsuru Meike Language Japanese Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet author of Dirty Pretty Things a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards Michael Faudet's whimsical & often erotic writing has captured the hearts & minds of literally thousands of readers from around the world He paints vivid pictures with intricate words & explores the compelling themes of love loss relationships & sex All beautifully captured in poetry prose"es & little short stories DIRTY PRETTY THINGS sold 40000 copies in one year in the US DIRTY PRETTY THINGS spent 66 weeks & counting on Bookscan Poetry Bestseller List & B&N Poetry Bestseller List in the US Number 1 Bestseller in Love Poems on Amazoncom Michael Faudet is the long-time partner of Lang Leav Michael Faudet has 77000 Instagram followers 43000 Twitter followers & 305000 Facebook fans ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Desert Commando Raid They Wiped Off the Record Books!A Word War II drama starring Richard Burton (Academy Award nominee for Best Actor Equus 1977 & Who&s Afraid of Virginia Wolff? 1966) & Curt Jurgens (The Spy Who Loves Me) as Captain Leith & Major Brand a pair of British Army officers assigned to execute a daring commando raid on the Libyan stronghold of General Rommel Even before the mission begins the tension between the two is evident This is further exacerbated when Brand learns that Leith & his wife (Ruth Roman TV&s Knotts Landing) were once romantically involved Once the operation is underway Leith must save the day when Brand&s cowardice is revealed thus putting the mission & the lives of the men in jeopardy As they struggle through the wastes of the Sahara we learn who will live who will die & what is the price of glory ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play This is a story of a man in free fall On the road to redemption darkness lights his way Connected with the afterlife Uxbal is a tragic hero & father of two who&s sensing the danger of death He struggles with a tainted reality & a fate that works against him in order to forgive for love & forever Actors Javier Bardem Maricel & Aacute;lvarez Hanaa Bouchaib Guillermo Estrella Eduard Fernández Cheikh Ndiaye Diaryatou Daff Cheng Tai Shen Luo Jin George Chibuikwem Chukwuma Lang Sofia Lin Yodian Yang Tuo Lin Xueheng Chen & Xiaoyan Zhang Director Alejandro González Iñárritu Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The story of a man in free fall On the road to redemption darkness lights his way ...

Internationally bestselling author Audrey Niffenegger & her husband graphic artist Eddie Campbell collaborate on this quirky irreverent collection that celebrates & satirises love of all kinds 168 pages Niffenegger Audrey ...

From the world's oldest indoor loo to a theatre where spectators fill their pockets with poo the definitive guide to the stranger side of Scotland shows there's a lot more to the place than tartan haggis & tossing the caber Inside you'll find The world's longest man-made echo A city where aliens are welcome What the Royals really think of it Britain's weirdest wig The worst Scottish accents ever Our tallest hedge & oldest tree Loch monsters nastier than Nessie A road you can roll up Scots in Space Whether it's Ruthven or Ruthven? Britain's loneliest bus stop (and its loveliest) A school for spies The cost of burning witches An aeroplane made from seaweed & why the Queen needs rubber gloves Praise for Bizarre London ' In a market niche that's now as crowded as the 1822 to Reading Bizarre London pummels its bantamweight rivals with knockout clouts of trivia that even this weary correspondent hadn't encountered before' The Londonist ...