About a Boy is Nick Hornby&s comic & heart-warming million-copy bestseller& How cool was Will Freeman?& Too cool! At thirty-six he&s as hip as a teenager He&s single child-free goes to the right clubs & knows which trainers to wear He&s also found a great way to score with women attend single parents& groups full of available (and grateful) mothers all hoping to meet a Nice Guy Which is how Will meets Marcus the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet Marcus is a bit strange he listens to Joni Mitchell & Mozart looks after his mum & has never owned a pair of trainers But Marcus latches on to Will
- & won&t let go Can Will teach Marcus how to grow up cool? & can Marcus help Will just to grow up? This astonishing novel now a modern classic was adapted for the acclaimed 2002 film About A Boy starring Hugh Grant & Nicholas Hoult Fans of One Day by David Nicholls & Any Human Heart by William Boyd will devour this book as will lovers of fiction everywhere &A stunner of a novel Utterly read-in-one-day forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping& Marie Claire& About the awful hilarious embarrassing places where children & adults meet & Hornby has captured it with delightful precision& Irish Times& It takes a writer with real talent to make this work & Hornby has it
- in buckets& Literary Review

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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 Growing up has nothing to do with age Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) & his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette) The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will&s secret & so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place & watch afternoon telly However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship Feature Commentary with Directors Chris & Paul Weitz& Making Of& Featurette Deleted Scenes with Directors& Commentary Badly Drawn Boy Music Videos Interview with Badly Drawn Boy DVD-Rom features Actors Hugh Grant Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hoult Nat Gastiain Tena Victoria Smurfit Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Laura Kennington & Tanika Swaby Director Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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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 Hugh Grant takes the lead role as aimless commitment-shy thirtysomething Will in this adaptation of Nick Hornby&s bestseller Living on the royalties of a hit song his father wrote 40 years ago Will drifts through life moving from one relationship to the next with little lasting effect But when he hits upon the new idea of dating single-mothers he soon finds himself entangled with the suicidal Fiona (Toni Colette) & her 12-year-old-son Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) As he & Marcus gradually develop a friendship Will begins to reassess the selfish life he has been living ...

Nick Hornby&s second bestselling novel is about sex manliness & fatherhood Will is thirty-six comfortable & child-free & he&s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women
- through single-parent groups Marcus is twelve & a little bitnerdish he&s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit & both can start to act their age
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman He's charmed
- perhaps too charmed suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero but shocked by her appearance A few days later Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse
- & more sinister material
- in his company's trucks No stranger to mutual suspicion & competition between rival Italian police departments Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect but by the time the photograph arrives he himself is dead Was he killed because he got too close? & how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?



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Teachers of English need not only to have a good productive command of the language; they also need to know a good deal about the way the language works This book asks ' What is it that a teacher needs to know about English in order to teach it effectively?' It leads teachers to awareness of the language through a wide range of tasks which involve them in analysing English to discover its underlying system The book consists of 28 units each containing around ten tasks plus a diagnostic introductory unit Units start at phoneme level & progress through words phrases & sentences on to complete texts Task-types include recognition categorisation matching explanation & application tasks Throughout the book the language is illustrated wherever possible from authentic sources so that the teacher can be sure that the English being studied represents current usage ...

The immensely funny & heartwarming number one bestseller tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life
- but will
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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 Kevin Hart Michael Ealy Regina Hall & Joy Bryant star in this hilarious romantic comedy about what men & women really want Bernie (Hart) & Joan (Hall) are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups When he sets up his best friend Danny (Ealy) with her roommate Debbie (Bryant) the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom Actors Michael Ealy Joy Bryant Joe Lo Truglio Christopher Mc Donald Adam Rodriguez Directors Steve Pink Language English Run Time 96 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A man & woman meet & try to have a romantic affair despite their personal problems & the interference of their disapproving friends ...

As a novelist essayist & cultural historian John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence & arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle powerful critique of the canons of our civilization In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man & beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority & potency posed by clay & flesh? & how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these & other questions Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work ...