AN OBSERVER BOOK OF THE YEAR A gripping story of betrayal privilege & hypocrisy set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment Think Brideshead Revisited meets The Talented Mr Ripley with a dash of The Riot Club I couldn't put it down' Louise O' Neill author of Asking For It As the train pressed on I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction plotted according to a new constellation Because although I didn't know it yet I was about to meet Ben & nothing would ever be the same again' Martin Gilmour is an outsider When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent But then he meets the dazzling popular & wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice & gains admission to an exclusive world Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties & Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate as Ben becomes the brother he never had But Martin has a secret He knows something about Ben something he will never tell It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years At Ben's 40th birthday party the great & the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne drugs & glamour Amid the hundreds of guests
- the politicians the celebrities the old-money & newly rich
- Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite belonging His wife Lucy has her reservations too There is disquiet in the air But Ben wouldn't do anything to damage their friendship Would he? The twists & turns that the novel takes are never predictable & the novel becomes as unsettling as it is involving One of those books that a person reads in one day because you absolutely have to know how it turns out' John Boyne author of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

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A gripping story of obsession & betrayal privilege & hypocrisy set in the unassailable heart of the British establishment Witty dark & compelling' Sebastian Faulks As the train pressed on I realised that my life was in the process of taking a different direction plotted according to a new constellation Because although I didn't know it yet I was about to meet Ben & nothing would ever be the same again' Martin Gilmour is an outsider When he wins a scholarship to Burtonbury School he doesn't wear the right clothes or speak with the right kind of accent But then he meets the dazzling popular & wealthy Ben Fitzmaurice & gains admission to an exclusive world Soon Martin is enjoying tennis parties & Easter egg hunts at the Fitzmaurice family's estate as Ben becomes the brother he never had But Martin has a secret He knows something about Ben something he will never tell It is a secret that will bind the two of them together for the best part of 25 years At Ben's 40th birthday party the great & the good of British society are gathering to celebrate in a haze of champagne drugs & glamour Amid the hundreds of guests
- the politicians the celebrities the old-money & newly rich
- Martin once again feels that disturbing pang of not-quite belonging His wife Lucy has her reservations too There is disquiet in the air But Ben wouldn't do anything to damage their friendship Would he?

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Richard Mc Gregor's The Party has been established as the book on China & its political leadership It is indispensable to understanding what may soon become the most powerful country on earth & here is it is newly updated to include material on the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012 Newly updated version including analysis of the once-in-a-decade leadership changes taking place in November 2012 China's Communist Party is the largest most powerful political machine in the world Here Richard Mc Gregor delves deeply into its inner sanctum revealing how this secretive cabal keeps control of every aspect of the country
- its military & media legal system & businesses even its religious organizations How has the Party merged Marx Mao & the market to create a global superpower? & what does this mean for the world?' Extraordinary' Sunday Times' Masterful entertaining & insightful' Economist' Superb an essential riveting guide to how the rising power really works' Jonathan Fenby' If you read only one book about China this year it should be this one & if you do not read this book you probably do not understand China today' Arthur Kroeber China Economic Quarterly'A compelling exploration of the world's largest & most successful political machine' New Statesman'A book that is as informative as it is entertaining China has been transformed The system that takes the credit is brilliantly described by Mc Gregor' Chris Patten Financial Times Having joined the Financial Timesin 2000 in Shanghai & being appointed China bureau chief in 2005 Richard Mc Gregor is now Washington Bureau Chief for the FT Mc Gregor has won numerous awards throughout his nearly two decades of reporting from north Asia including a 2010 Society of Publishers in Asia Editorial Excellence Award for his coverage on the Xinjiang Riots & 2008 SOPA Awards for Editorial Intelligence He has spent twenty years in north Asia starting in Taiwan & then in Tokyo Hong Kong & Beijing where he established offices for The Australian newspaper He has also contributed articles & reports to the BBC the International Herald Tribune & the Far Eastern Economic Review
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Banned in its native Czechoslovakia THE PARTY & THE GUESTS has been long regarded as one of the most politically-charged films of the 60s ...

Track Listings Disc 1 1 The Fifth Dimension
- Aquarius 2 The Byrds
- Hey Mr Tambourine Man 3 Fleetwood Mac
- Albatross 4


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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 Stephen Dorff stars alongside Sarai Givati & Khalid Benchegra in The Passage a Moroccan thriller in which an American man falls in love with a Moroccan woman but they are soon to discover their love is forbidden & if they embark on a relationship it could cost them their lives Actors Stephen Dorff Sarai Givaty Neil Jackson Khalid Benchagra Abdel Ghani Benizza & Neil Fluellen Director Mark Heller Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a group of young backpackers learn of a ghost said to appear in the rear-view mirror of a speeding car they set out to discover if the urban legend is true Speeding down the infamous road miles from anywhere their jubilation turns to terror as one by one each passenger begins to disappear The tourists soon find themselves at the mercy of a malevolent force much more heinous than the local myth ...

The untold story of the crises & compromises that united a continent As financial turmoil in Europe preoccupies political leaders & global markets it becomes more important than ever to understand the forces that underpin the European Union hold it together & drive it forward This timely book provides a gripping account of the realities of power politics among European states & between their leaders Drawing on long experience working behind the scenes Luuk van Middelaar captures the dynamics & tensions shaping the European Union from its origins until today It is a story of unexpected events & twists of fate bold vision & sheer necessity told from the perspective of the keyplayers
- from de Gaulle to Havel Thatcher to Merkel Van Middelaar cuts through the institutional complexity by exploring the unforeseen outcomes of decisive moments & focusing on the quest for public legitimacy As a first-hand witness to the day-to-day actions & decisions of Europe's leaders the author provides a vivid narrative of the crises & compromises that united a continent By revisiting the past he sheds fresh light on the present state of European unification & offers insights into what the future may hold
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IN CASE YOU WERE WONDERING I DIDN'T DO ITI DON'T HAVE AN ALIBI SO YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE MY WORD FOR ITWith her husband's dead body still warm Tanya Dubois has only one option run When the police figure out that she doesn't officially exist they'll start asking questions she can't answer Desperate to keep the past buried she adopts & sheds identities as she flees Along the way she meets a cop with unknown motives & a troubled woman who sees through her disguise-and who may be friend or foe But ultimately she is alone & the past can no longer be ignored ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Antonioni&s suspenseful & haunting portrait of David Locke (Jack Nicholson) a drained journalist whose deliverance is an identity exchange with a dead man He embarks on a treacherous journey through Africa Spain Germany England Spain Possibly one of the greatest road movies of all-time ...