Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In 16th Century Spain a gifted young playwright & soldier Lope de Vega returns to Madrid from the war Filled with ambition eager to live to write & to make his dreams a reality he is forced to work as a humble copyist Lope falls for his bossu 201 Fs ravishing daughter Elena but must keep the relationship secret But Elena has another secret she&s already married When Lope finds out he asks her to end her marriage & make their love public Elena refuses Wounded he is tempted to play along with the one woman who can bring his vision to the stage but his passion burns stronger than his ambition & he publicly exposes the hypocrisy of Elena & her father Furious they accuse him of slander With the Law on his heels Lope must outrun danger & overcome adversity to clear his name Only his rediscovered childhood friend the beautiful Isabel can help him As they travel battle along the road to freedom together Lope discovers his own true love But fate is not yet finished with him ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play As the Outlaw Josey Wales Clint Eastwood is ideal as a wary fast drawing loner akin to the " Man with No Name" from his European Westerns But unlike that other mythic outlaw Josey Wales has a name & a heart That heart open up as the action unfolds After avenging his family&s brutal murder Wales is pursued by a pack of killers He prefers to travel alone but ragtag outcasts are drawn to him
- & Wales can&t bring himself to leave them unprotected One of the top Westerns ever 1976 Documentary & Eastwood in Action&1999 Documentary & Hell Hath No Fury The Making of The Outlaw Josey Wales& (30 mins) Introduction by Clint Eastwood Trailer Cover art may be different to that shown Actors Clint Eastwood Chief Dan George Sondra Locke Bill Mc Kinney John Vernon Sam Bottoms & Paula Trueman Director Clint Eastwood Certificate 18 years & over Year 1976 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages Dolby Digital (10) Mono French ; Italian Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Dutch ; English ; French ; German ; Italian ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Spanish ; English for the hearing impaired ; Italian for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours 10 minutes (approx)

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Having saved the city cats from a fate worse than death Varjak Paw finds himself the elected & popular leader of a new gang
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WINNER OF THE WAINWRIGHT PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME PRIZE 2016 When Amy Liptrot returns to Orkney after more than a decade away she is drawn back to the Outrun on the sheep farm where she grew up Approaching the land that was once home memories of her childhood merge with the recent events that have set her on this journey Amy was shaped by the cycle of the seasons birth & death on the farm & her father's mental illness which were as much a part of her childhood as the wild carefree existence on Orkney But as she grew up she longed to leave this remote life She moved to London & found herself in a hedonistic cycle Unable to control her drinking alcohol gradually took over Now thirty she finds herself washed up back home on Orkney standing unstable at the cliff edge trying to come to terms with what happened to her in London Spending early mornings swimming in the bracingly cold sea the days tracking Orkney's wildlife
- puffins nesting on sea stacks arctic terns swooping close enough to feel their wings
- & nights searching the sky for the Merry Dancers Amy slowly makes the journey towards recovery from addiction The Outrun is a beautiful inspiring book about living on the edge about the pull between island & city & about the ability of the sea the land the wind & the moon to restore life & renew hope

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The Sunday Times runaway bestseller
- an exhilarating nature memoir about recovering from alcoholism in Orkney 304 pages Liptrot
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Albert Camus' laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in colonial Algeria is famous in its time for diagnosing a state of alienation & spiritual exhaustion which summed up the mood of the mid-twentieth century Today more than fifty years after its first appearance we can see that this early success was no passing fashion The Outsider continues to speak to us of ultimate things with the force of a parable & the excitement of a thriller & remains one of the most widely read & influential classics of the century ...

FREDERICK FORSYTH HAS SEEN IT ALL & LIVED TO TELL THE TALE At eighteen Forsyth was the youngest pilot to qualify with the RAF At twenty-five he was stationed in East Berlin as a journalist during the Cold War Before he turned thirty he was in Africa controversially covering the bloodiest civil war in living memory Three years later broke & out of work he wrote his game-changing first novel The Day of the Jackal He never looked back Forsyth has seen some of the most exhilarating moments of the last century from the inside travelling the world once or twice on her majesty's secret service He's been shot at he's been arrested he's even been seduced by an undercover agent But all the while he felt he was an outsider This is his story ...

' My mother died today Or maybe yesterday I don't know' In The Outsider (1942) his classic existentialist novel Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms Meursault his anti-hero will not lie When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others & when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society & the law Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd & revolting against the injustice of society depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world Sandra Smith's translation based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954 sensitively renders the subtleties & dream-like atmosphere of L' Etranger Albert Camus (1913-1960) French novelist essayist & playwright is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942) The Plague (1947) The Just (1949) The Rebel (1951) & The Fall (1956) He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 & his last novel The First Man unfinished at the time of his death appeared in print for the first time in 1994 & was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton Sandra Smith was born & raised in New York City & is a Fellow of Robinson College University of Cambridge where she teaches French Literature & Language She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize ...

The classic study of alienation creativity & the modern mind THE OUTSIDER was an instant literary sensation when it was first published in 1956 thrusting its youthful author into the front rank of contemporary writers & thinkers Wilson rationalized the psychological dislocation so characteristic of Western creative thinking into a coherent theory of alienation & defined those affected by it as a type the outsider Through the works & lives of various artists including Kafka Camus Hemingway Hesse Lawrence Van Gogh Shaw Nietzsche & Dostoevsky Wilson explored the psyche of the outsider his effect on society & society's on him Nothing that has happened in the decades since has made THE OUTSIDER any less relevant; it remains the seminal work on this most persistent of modern-day preoccupations ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play In the vein of Taken Craig Fairbrass stars as Lex a British military contractor who is told that his daughter has died When he arrives in Los Angeles he discovers that the body isn&t his daughters & that an internet fraudster is holding her hostage Lex sets out to save his daughter wreaking havoc through the streets of LA trying to rescue her ...