It's August in the Barsetshire village of Worsted & Richard Tebben just down from Oxford is contemplating the gloomy prospect of a long summer in the parental home But the numerous & impossibly glamorous Dean family
- exquisite Rachel her capable husband & six of their nine brilliant children
- have come for the holidays & their hostess Mrs Palmer plans to rope everyone into performing in her disastrous annual play Surrounded by the irrepressible Deans Richard & his sister Margaret cannot help but have their minds broadened spirits raised & hearts smitten

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August Heat by Andrea Camilleri is the tenth instalment in the Inspector Montalbano series adapted as a major BBC4 television series This edition featuring a stunning redesigned cover Montalbano quickly slammed the trunk shut & sat down on top of it When the beam from Livia's torch shone on his face he automatically smiled ' What's in the trunk?' Livia asked ' Nothing It's empty' How could he possibly have told her there was a corpse inside? The lazy slow month of August at the height of the Sicilian summer is Inspector Montalbano assures his girlfriend Livia as they prepare for a relaxing holiday in a villa he has found for them far too hot for any murders to be committed But when Livia's friends' young son goes missing a chain of events is sparked which will certainly ruin the Chief Inspector's pleasant interlude A secret apartment & a grisly find in an old trunk are just the beginning as Montalbano navigates his way though the case as well as coping with the sweltering heat the suspicious death of an Arab labourer & the tempting lure of a beautiful girl August Heat is followed by the eleventh book in the series The Wings of the Sphinx ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Academy Award-nominated drama directed by John Wells Members of the Weston family reunite at their family home in Osage County Oklahoma when their troubled poet father Beverly (Sam Shepard) goes missing It isn&t long before they find that he has commited suicide & the rest of the family then come to pay their last regards at the funeral Leaving his outspoken & drug-addicted wife violet (Meryl Streep) behind the rest of the family feel obligated to stay with her while she grieves for her husband But living in such close proximity is a test for any grown family & it isn&t long before cracks in their relationships begin to appear The ensemble cast

Includes:: Julia Roberts Ewan Mc Gregor Juliette Lewis Chris Cooper & Benedict Cumberbatch Both Streep & Roberts received Oscar nominations for their performances in the Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress categories respectively

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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 Academy Award-nominated drama directed by John Wells Members of the Weston family reunite at their family home in Osage County Oklahoma when their troubled poet father Beverly (Sam Shepard) goes missing It isn&t long before they find that he has commited suicide & the rest of the family then come to pay their last regards at the funeral Leaving his outspoken & drug-addicted wife violet (Meryl Streep) behind the rest of the family feel obligated to stay with her while she grieves for her husband But living in such close proximity is a test for any grown family & it isn&t long before cracks in their relationships begin to appear The ensemble cast

Includes:: Julia Roberts Ewan Mc Gregor Juliette Lewis Chris Cooper & Benedict Cumberbatch Both Streep & Roberts received Oscar nominations for their performances in the Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress categories respectively

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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 An incredible journey moving at the speed of sound August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) & a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York&s Washington Square but are soon torn apart leaving in their wake an infant August Rush orphaned by circumstance Now performing on the streets of New York & cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams) August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth ...

This is the first new rendition for a generation of The City of God the first major intellectual achievement of Latin Christianity & one of the classic texts of Western civilisation Robert Dyson has produced a complete accurate authoritative & fluent translation of De civitate dei edited together with full biographical notes a concise introduction bibliography & chronology of Augustine's life The result is one of the most important single contributions to the Cambridge Texts series yet published of interest to students of ecclesiastical history the history of political thought theology philosophy & late antiquity ...

Trackli&115;t Are We Alive When Thing&115; Fall Apart The Forgotten Way Running In Place May You Keep Well Landmine Hold Me Loneline&115;&115; No Need To Explain Thi&115; I&115; Your Life Day&115; Roll By ...

WINNER OF THE OCM BOCAS PRIZE FOR CARIBBEAN LITERATURESHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZE THE GREEN CARNATION PRIZE & the HISTORICAL WRITERS AWARD' Miller's storytelling is superb' SUNDAY TIMESOne April day in Augustown Jamaica Ma Taffy old & blind sits in her usual spot on the veranda No matter how the world tilts around her come hurricane or riot she knows everything that goes on in this small community Which is why when her six-year-old nephew returns home from school with his dreadlocks shorn she realises that trouble won't be far behind & so she tells him the story of Alexander Bedward the flying preacherman She remembers what happened to the Rastaman & his helper Bongo Moody; she thinks of Soft-Paw the leader of the Angola gang & what lies beneath her house For trouble is brewing once more among the ramshackle lanes of Augustown & as Ma Taffy knows each day contains much more than its own hours or minutes or seconds In fact each day contains all of history ...

Caesar Augustus schemed & fought his way to absolute power He became Rome's first emperor & ruled for forty-four years before dying peacefully in his bed The system he created would endure for centuries Yet despite his exceptional success he is a difficult man to pin down & far less well-known than his great-uncle Julius Caesar His story is not always edifying he murdered his opponents exiled his daughter when she failed to conform & freely made & broke alliances as he climbed ever higher However the peace & stability he fostered were real & under his rule the empire prospered Adrian Goldsworthy examines the ancient sources to understand the man & his times ...

Augustus the tiger was sad He had lost his smile So he did a huge tigery stretch & set off to find it In this book the author & illustrator Catherine Rayner celebrates the beauty of the world & the simple happiness it brings us when we open our eyes to it ...