St John of the Cross testifies to a God who longs to meet us in our deepest need Whilst rejection & imprisonment played their part in the life of this sixteenth-century Spanish friar John's poetry & prose reveal the beauty & power of a wondrous God It gives us courage to believe in the possibility of change in our own lives however unlikely or impossible this may seem Father Iain Matthew uses this classic inspirational Christian writing as his starting point & offers five interpretations which make its richness relevant to the modern reader ...

The four great comedies of Oscar Wilde Lady Windermere's Fan A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband & The Importance of Being Earnest were all written at the height of the controversial Irish author's powers in his last doomed decade the 1890s They remain among the most-loved & most-quoted of all drama in the English language Along with Salome his darkly decadent dramatization of the Bible story these immortal plays continue to pack theatres & have been adapted for every kind of media This Macmillan Collector's Library edition of The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays echoes the book form in which Wilde originally insisted his plays were published &

Includes:: illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley & an afterword by Ned Halley Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure

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Oscar Wilde's entire three-act play faithfully adapted into a glorious graphic novel 136 pages chiefly Illustrations (chiefly col) Wilde Oscar ...

York Notes Advanced offer a fresh & accessible approach to English Literature This market-leading series has been completely updated to meet the needs of today's A-level & undergraduate students Written by established literature experts York Notes Advanced intorduce students to more sophisticated analysis a range of critical perspectives & wider contexts ...

When Hector Coleman & his mates genetically mutate overnight their lives change in impossible ways A comic-book inspired adventure for fans of Stephen King & Charlie Higson Hector Coleman Just your average angst-ridden teenager living a normal rubbish life in a normal rubbish town with let's face it a rubbish name But then all the teens in Hector's small town develop weird mutations & not in a superhero-type way Someone gets transparent skin someone else starts breathing fire & that doesn't end well What the hell is going on? Hector & his friends need to find out before it's too late It's a bit like Stranger Things only stranger Everything has changed Apart from Hector's name & his girl trouble & his embarrassingly low number of Twitter followers All those things unfortunately stay the same For now A warm funny novel about friendship family & being different
- oh plus aliens mutants & some serious scares ' This is one of the weirdest books I have read
- I loved it! If you ever imagined that people who get special gifts always turn out to be super-heroes think again a sort of cross between super-hero story sci-fi detective story love story More like this please' Melvin Burgess

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A powerful story based on one family&s survival of the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami The Impossible stars Naomi Watts & Ewan Mc Gregor & is directed by JA Bayona (The Orphanage) Based on a true story The Impossible is the unforgettable account of a family caught with tens of thousands of strangers in the mayhem of one of the worst natural catastrophes of our time But the true-life terror is tempered by the unexpected displays of compassion courage & simple kindness that Maria (Naomi Watts) & her family encounter during the darkest hours of their lives Both epic & intimate devastating & uplifting The Impossible is a journey to the core of the human heart Actors Naomi Watts Ewan Mc Gregor Tom Holland Directors Juan Antonio Bayona Language English Classification 12 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play It&s 1994 a 13-year-old boy disappears from his home in San Antonio Texas Three & a half years later he is found alive thousands of miles away in Spain Disoriented & quivering with fear he divulges his shocking story of kidnap & torture His family is overjoyed to bring him home But all is not what it seems Sure he has the same tattoos but he looks decidedly different & he now speaks with a strange accent Why doesn&t the family seem to notice these glaring inconsistencies? It&s only when an investigator starts asking questions that this astounding true story takes an even stranger turn Like his canny subject gifted filmmaker Bart Layton pulls off an astonishing coup Buoyed by eye-catching dramatisations & an enthralling structure that crisscrosses time & place The Imposter unfolds as a gripping thriller that leaves us dizzy yet certain that truth is indeed stranger than fiction Actors Adam O& Brian Anna Ruben Cathy Dresbach Alan Teichman Ivan Villanueva Maria Jesus Hoyos Anton Marti Amparo Fontanet Ken Appledorn & LT Kidd Director Bart Layton Certificate 15 years & over Year 2012 Languages English ...

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor & rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement the Friends of Mauthausen By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp he has become a civic hero speaking at hundreds of conferences granting dozens of interviews receiving state honours publishing a successful memoir & even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich The case shocked the world & Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded I am an impostor but not a fraud A decade later Javier Cercas addresses the enigma of the man his truths & lies & through an investigation that unravels Spain's history in the twentieth century delves with passion & unflinching honesty into that deepest part of human nature
- our infinite capacity for self-deception our need for conformity our lies our insatiable thirst for affection & our opposing needs for fiction & reality The Impostor is an extraordinary novel that not only tells Marco's self-deluding story but also challenges the reader to consider how truthful any of us is in the way we present ourselves in daily life Are we not all asks Cercas the novelists of our own lives? Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne
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WINNER OF THE BOLLINGER EVERYMAN WODEHOUSE PRIZE FOR COMIC FICTION 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILEYS WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2016 A BBC RADIO 2 BOOK CLUB PICKWhen lovelorn Annie Mc Dee stumbles across a dirty painting in a junk shop while looking for a present for an unsuitable man she has no idea what she has discovered Soon she finds herself drawn unwillingly into the tumultuous London art world populated by exiled Russian oligarchs avaricious Sheikas desperate auctioneers & unscrupulous dealers all scheming to get their hands on her painting
- a lost eighteenth-century masterpiece called The Improbability of Love' Delving into the painting's past Annie will uncover not just an illustrious list of former owners but some of the darkest secrets of European history
- & in doing so she might just learn to open up to the possibility of falling in love again

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Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly & why should we in fact expect such things to happen? Here in this highly original book
- aimed squarely at anyone with an interest in coincidences probability or gambling
- eminent statistician David Hand answers this question by weaving together various strands of probability into a unified explanation which he calls the improbability principle This is a book that will appeal not only to those who love stories about startling coincidences & extraordinarily rare events but also to those who are interested in how a single bold idea links areas as diverse as gambling the weather airline disasters & creative writing as well as the origin of life & even the universe The Improbability Principle will change your perspective on how the world works
- & tell you what the Bible code & Shakespeare have in common how to win the lottery why Apple's song shuffling was made less random to seem more random Oh & why lightning does in fact strike twice


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