Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments gilded dining cars champagne bars & wealthy travellers Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance intrigue & decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes The reality could often be as thrilling early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot) In Night Trains Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents This is no simple matter The night trains have fallen on hard times & the services are disappearing one by one But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers the intriguing characters & exotic atmospheres have survived Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post the sun rising over the Riviera or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail By tracing the history of the sleeper trains he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself The original sleepers helped break down national barriers & unify the continent Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity
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- as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times' with Brexit looming Against this tumultuous backdrop he experiences his own smaller dramas as he fails to find crucial connecting stations ponders the mystery of the compartment dog & becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit

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Artists Night Viper Label Listenable Records Format Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 No Escape 2 Summon the Dead 3 Never Win 4 Exterminator 5 On the Run 6 Ashes 7 Going Down 8 Lady Bad Luck 9 Revenge 10 All That Remains ...

The world is a different place after dark & this magnificent photography book illuminates the mesmerizing realm of all things nocturnal After dark the light is different; there is an unspoken intimacy; new & different activities occur & in the natural world an unseen universe comes alive Page after page of vivid photos explore the many nuances of night vision--from the sea by moonlight to night markets in Laos to the face of a child lit up by a screen in a darkened room The range of images is breathtaking A smoky jazz club Flowers that bloom only at night Phosphorescent fish Lions photographed with infrared cameras The Eiffel Tower all lit up Faces around a campfire A stadium lit by floodlights Earth from space Elegant sexy & a little mysterious this richly illustrated book is a stunning pathway to some of the world&s most captivating sights ...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write She also has an insomniac toddler a precocious death-obsessed seven-year-old & a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay a desolate island in the Hebrides so he can count the puffins Ferociously sleep-deprived torn between mothering & her desire for the pleasures of work & solitude Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house Her narrative is punctuated by letters home written 200 years before by May a young middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious insular islanders The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence the way we try to control children & about women's vexed & passionate relationship with work Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range
- showing her to be both an excellent comic writer & a novelist of great emotional depth
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Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours & discovered homelessness drunkenness & vice on the streets This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety & cruelty GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this dark apocalyptic tale of a perpetual battle between light & dark light being the human race & dark being a race of monsters this film is the first of three in a trilogy Russian director Timbor Bekmambetov adapts & Night Watch& from the series of sci-fi novels by Sergei Lukyanenko ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play UN agents Mike Graham & Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt&s painting " The Night Watch" The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong & involves them in not only art theft & forgery but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder & his Korean cohort Mao Yixin ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All that stands between light & darkness is the Night Watch Embrace the day Fear the night With a centuries old truce beginning to break down the forces of light & darkness come to do battle in modern day Moscow Based on the first of Sergei Lukyanenko&s trilogy of sci-fi horror novels Night Watch is a groundbreaking new phenomenon the highest-grossing Russian film of all time! Actors Konstantin Khabensky Vladimir Menshov Valeri Zolotukhin Mariya Poroshina & Yuri Kutsenko Director Timur Bekmambetov Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages Russian
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English (dubbed) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 51 minutes (approx)
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This set contains sci-fi action thriller NIGHT WATCH & its sequel DAY WATCH both made by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov ...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all But now he's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck Living in the past is hard Dying in the past is incredibly easy But he must survive because he has a job to do He must track down a murderer teach his younger self how to be a good copper & change the outcome of a bloody rebellion There's a problemif he wins he's got no wife no child no future ...