From 1969 to 1979 Overend Watts recorded & toured extensively with Mott The Hoople Mott & British Lions before shunning the limelight & turning his hand to record producing gentlemen's hairdressing (briefly!) & dealing in antiques At this point however most of his spare time was spent in the pursuit of large carp & he became a well-known figure on the gravel pits around the London area where he always used luminous pink carp rods so his mates & the carp could locate him easily! After a few years of antique fairs & auctions he concentrated on recycling & painting furniture & restoring antiques before opening a large retro department store in Hereford which proved popular with customers from both Great Britain & abroad with its specialist clothing unusual antiquities instruments & rare music After leaving the retro store in February 2003 Overend then aged 55 & The Man Who Hated Walking attempted the SW Coast Path National Trail
- the greatest challenge of his life
- all 650 miles of it Or in Overend's case more like 680 miles as he frequently got lost over the two months it took him to achieve this incredible feat of endurance The Man Who Hated Walking Overend's first book is a wonderful document of this amazing achievement which is explored & described with more than a smattering of his macabre humour Although undoubtedly a book that all Mott The Hoople fans will want it is also an essential read for the walking fraternity & is a massive inspiration for anyone who has the urge to do some serious walking

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note this is a region 2 DVD & region B Blu-ray It will require a region B Blu-ray player to play the Blu-ray & DVD or a Region 2 DVD player for the DVD While driving one evening Harold Pelham appears possessed & has a car accident While on the operating table there even appears to be two heartbeats on the monitor When he awakes Pelham finds his life has been turned upside-down he learns that he now supports a merger that he once opposed & that he apparently is having an affair People claim they have seen him in places that he has never been Does Pelham have a doppelganger
- or is he going insane? Actors Roger Moore Hildegard Neil Alastair Mackenzie Hugh Mackenzie Kevork Malikyan Thorley Walters & Anton Rodgers Director Basil Dearden Certificate PGYear 1970 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 34 minutes (approx)
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WINNER OF THE 2016 FT & Mc KINSEY BUSINESS BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD this is the biography of one of the titans of financial history over the last fifty years Born in 1926 Alan Greenspan was raised in Manhattan by a single mother & immigrant grandparents during the Great Depression but by quiet force of intellect rose to become a global financial maestro' Appointed by Ronald Reagan to Chairman of the Federal Reserve a post he held for eighteen years he presided over an unprecedented period of stability & low inflation was revered by economists adored by investors & consulted by leaders from Beijing to Frankfurt Both data-hound & eligible society bachelor Greenspan was a man of contradictions His great success was to prove the very idea he an advocate of the Gold standard doubted that the discretionary judgements of a money-printing central bank could stabilise an economy He resigned in 2006 having overseen tumultuous changes in the world's most powerful economy Yet when the great crash happened only two years later many blamed him even though he had warned early on of irrational exuberance in the market place Sebastian Mallaby brilliantly shows the subtlety & complexity of Alan Greenspan's legacy Full of beautifully rendered high-octane political infighting hard hitting dialogue & stories The Man Who Knew is superbly researched enormously gripping & the story of the making of modern finance ...

In 1913 a young unschooled Indian clerk wrote a letter to G H Hardy begging the pre-eminent English mathematician's opinion on several ideas he had about numbers Realising the letter was the work of a genius Hardy arranged for Srinivasa Ramanujan to come to England Thus began one of the most improbable & productive collaborations ever chronicled With a passion for rich & evocative detail Robert Kanigel takes us from the temples & slums of Madras to the courts & chapels of Cambridge University where the devout Hindu Ramanujan 'the Prince of Intuition' tested his brilliant theories alongside the sophisticated & eccentric Hardy 'the Apostle of Proof' In time Ramanujan's creative intensity took its toll he died at the age of thirty-two & left behind a magical & inspired legacy that is still being plumbed for its secrets today ...

While holidaying in Switzerland a family befriend a Frenchman It is not long before the man is fatally wounded but before he dies he whispers a terrible secret into his new friend&s ear which just happens to be witnessed by a group of foreign agents ...

When Monty Roberts was thirteen years old he went off on his own to the deserts of Nevada to watch mustangs in the wild What he learned about their methods of communication changed his life forever The Man Who Listens to Horses reveals his deep love & understanding of horses We learn how through his relationship with various horses he gradually developed the methods which enabled him to communicate with horses in their own language a silent language of gestures similar to sign language the unique art of the horse whisperer According to Monty anyone can learn the language of the horse & anyone can learn his Join-Up (R) methods In this amazing true life book he tells you how This is the bestselling autobiography that spread Monty Roberts' message across the world & changed his life forever Unique & inspirational & with a message that resonates far wider than its application to horses it might change your life too ...

Christina Stead is one of the great Australian writers of her generation Rebecca West considered her to be 'one of the few people really original since the First World War' Stead's fiction has been compared to that of Balzac Joyce Ibsen & Tolstoy THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN is a magnificent heartrending novel of American family life of the relations between parents & children husbands & wives set in Baltimore in the 1930s Newsweek called it 'one of the best novels of this century ' Elizabeth Hardwick has described it as 'a work of absolute originality ' ...

Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts He couldn't pass a stray dog an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue & with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking which didn't please their erring husbands one bit Lysander's mid-life crisis had begun at twenty-two Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother he was out of work drinking too much & desperately in debt The solution came from Ferdie his fat fast-operating friend if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire Lysander causes absolute havoc But it is only when he meets Rannaldini Rutshire's King Rat & a temperamental fiendishly promiscuous international conductor that the trouble really starts The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini is Kitty his plump young wife who runs his life like clockwork Soon Lysander is convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker Rupert Campbell-Black ...

An exuberant tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers & rugged outdoor types everywhere Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it After all ash is the tree we have made the greatest & most varied use of over the course of human history Journeying from Wales across Europe & Ireland to the USA Robert finds that the ancient skills & knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia making wheels & arrows furniture & baseball bats are far from dead The book chronicles how the urge to understand & appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood ...

Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders These are case studies of people who have lost their memories & with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted & yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents In Dr Sacks's splendid & sympathetic telling each tale is a unique & deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity ...