Criminal psychologist Dr Alex Delaware is pushed to his limit like never before in Breakdown by New York Times No 1 bestseller Jonathan Kellerman Fans of Michael Connelly & Harlan Coben will love this sabre-sharp storytelling from the master of psychological suspense Dr Alex Delaware first meets beautiful & emotionally fragile actress Zelda Chase when called upon to evaluate her five-year-old son Years later Alex is unexpectedly reunited with Zelda when she is involuntarily committed after a bizarre psychotic episode But tragedy strikes & shortly after her release Zelda is discovered dead in the grounds of a palatial LA estate Having experienced more than enough of the city's dark side to recognise the scent of evil Alex turns to his friend LAPD Lieutenant Milo Sturgis for help in finding the perpetrator Meanwhile Alex is caught up in another quest the search for Zelda's missing son & when other victims vanish from the same upscale neighborhood worry turns to terror As Alex struggles to piece together the brief rise & steep fall of a gorgeous talented actress he & Milo unveil shattered dreams the corruption of a family & a grotesque betrayal of innocence With each devastating revelation & damning clue Alex's brilliant mind is challenged as never before
- & his determination grows to see a killer caged & the truth set free
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For Melissa & her Nan survival is just about possible so long as they can guard the tiny crop of potatoes in their back garden & find enough fuel to cook on
- & as long as they are safely barricaded inside their home by curfew For after dark feral dogs hunt & violent gangs from the old Olympic Stadium roam to loot & plunder 432 pages Mussi Sarah (Teacher)
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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 Jeff Taylor & his wife Amy are headed toward a new life in California when their car&s engine dies on a remote highway Amy accepts a ride from a helpful trucker while Jeff waits with the car But when Jeff shows up at the agreed rendezvous he finds his wife&s not there The locals aren&t talking; the police aren&t much help With no one to turn to Jeff battles his worst fears & begins a desperate danger-ridden search to find Amy--before it&s too late! Actors Kurt Russell MC Gainey Rex Linn JT Walsh Jack Noseworthy & Kathleen Quinlan Director Jonathan Mostow Certificate 15 years & over Year 1997 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English ; French
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Dutch ; English ; French Duration 1 hour & 29 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 or region free DVD player in order to play Action thriller written & directed by Jonnie Malachi Alfie Jennings (Craig Fairbrass) is a professional contract killer & family man haunted & driven to madness by the men he has killed Panic attacks compromise the once elite soldier & founding member of hitman group Homefront causing Albert Chapman (James Cosmo) the unhinged head of the group to question his abilities With violent threats being made to his wife & daughter by his former employers Alfie is pushed to the limit If his family are to survive Homefront & all its members must be extinguished Actors Craig Fairbrass Emmett Scanlan James Cosmo Mem Ferda Tamer Hassan Directors Jonnie Malachi Writers Jonnie Malachi Producers Luke Fairbrass Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Breakfast at Sotheby&s is a wry intimate truly revealing exploration of how art acquires its financial value from Philip Hook ...

Truman Capote&s dazzling New York novel Breakfast at Tiffany&s that inspired the classic 1961 film starring Audrey Hepburn is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range & What I&ve found does the most good is just to get into a taxi & go to Tiffany&s It calms me down right away the quietness & the proud look of it; nothing very bad could happen to you there not with those kind men in their nice suits& Meet Holly Golightly
- a free spirited lop-sided romantic girl about town With her tousled blond hair & upturned nose dark glasses & chic black dresses Holly is a style sensation wherever she goes Her apartment rocks to Martini-soaked parties & she plays hostess to millionaires & gangsters alike Yet Holly never loses sight of her ultimate dream
- to find a real life place like Tiffany&s that makes her feel at home Full of sharp wit & exuberant larger-than-life characters which vividly capture the restless madcap era of 1940s New York Breakfast at Tiffany&s will make you fall in love perhaps for the first time with a book &A master writer makes the heart sing & the narrative fly& The New York Times& The most romantic story ever written& Alex James Guardian& One of the century&s greatest storytellers& Independent on Sunday Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925 By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories some of which were published After leaving school at fifteen he worked for the New Yorker his first
- & last
- regular job Following this Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices Other Rooms (1948) He lived at one time or another in Greece Italy Africa & the West Indies & travelled in Russia & the Orient Capote is the author of many highly acclaimed books including A Tree of Night & Other Stories (1949) The Grass Harp (1951) Breakfast at Tiffany&s (1958) In Cold Blood (1965) which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986) Truman Capote died in 1984



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Immortalised by Audrey Hepburn&s sparkling performance in the 1961 film of the same name Breakfast at Tiffany&s is Truman Capote&s timeless portrait of tragicomic cultural icon Holly Golightly published in Penguin Modern Classics It&s New York in the 1940s where the martinis flow from cocktail hour till breakfast at Tiffany&s & nice girls don&t except of course for Holly Golightly glittering socialite traveller generally upwards sometimes sideways & once in a while
- down Pursued by to Salvatore & Sally& Tomato the Mafia sugar-daddy doing life in Sing Sing & & Rusty& Trawler the blue-chinned cuff-shooting millionaire man about women about town Holly is a fragile eyeful of tawny hair & turned-up nose a heart-breaker a perplexer a traveller a tease She is irrepressibly &top banana in the shock deparment& & one of the shining flowers of American fiction This edition also contains three stories & House of Flowers& &A Diamond Guitar& & &A Christmas Memory& Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker which provided his first
- & last
- regular job He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories novels & novellas travel writing profiles reportage memoirs plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965) Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986) all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics If you enjoyed Breakfast at Tiffany&s you might like Capote&s In Cold Blood also available in Penguin Modern Classics & One of the twentieth century&s most gorgeously romantic fictions& Daily Telegraph& The most perfect writer of my generation I would not have changed two words of Breakfast at Tiffany&s& Norman Mailer



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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 Titles Comprise Breakfast At Tiffany&s (1961) Holly is a deliciously eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire George Peppard plays her nextdoor neighbour a writer who is &sponsored& by wealthy Patricia Neal Guessing who&s the right man for Holly is easy Seeing just how that romance blossoms is one of the enduring delights of this classic set to Henry Mancini&s Oscar-winning score & the Oscar-winning Mancini Johnny Mercer song & Moon River& Funny Face (1957) In the role of bookstore clerk transformed into a modeling sensation Hepburn showcases singing & dancing skills she had honed on the London stage performing " How Long Has This Been Going On?" a " Basal Metabolism" dance in a cool-cat bistro & more Astaire as the fashion photographer who discovers her conjures up his inimitable magic for sequences that include his " Let&s Kiss & Make Up" matador diversion a heavenly dance with Hepburn to " He Loves & She Loves" & again with Hepburn the title-tune enchantment "I Love Your Funny Face" Now & forever so do we Sabrina (1954) Humphrey Bogart William Holden & Audrey Hepburn star in a Cinderella story directed by renowned filmmaker Billy Wilder Bogie & Holden are the mega-rich Larrabee brothers of Long Island Bogie&s all work Holden&s all playboy But when Sabrina daughter of the family&s chauffeur returns from Paris all grown up & glamorous the stage is set for some family fireworks as the brothers fall under the spell of Hepburn&s delightful charms Actors Audrey Hepburn George Peppard Patricia Neal Buddy Ebsen Fred Astaire Michel Auclair Robert Flemyng Kay Thompson Humphrey Bogart & William Holden Director Blake Edwards Stanley Donen & Billy Wilder Certificate PGYear 1961 ; 1957 ; 1954 Screen Widescreen Languages English ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require either a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Blake Edwards&s adaptation of Truman Capote&s classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly The free-spirited gamine darts about New York feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm & elegance hoping that the party will never end After shopping in front of Tiffany&s window she meets aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) & they begin a platonic friendship Sponsored by an older woman (Patricia Neal) whose interest in the young man is more than literary he can identify with her experience better than most taking it upon himself to protect her from the worst aspects of city life But she seems to need little protection from such friends as incarcerated mob boss Sally Tomato (Alan Reed) who pays her to carry messages to Sing Sing With her infectious joi de vivre she helps Paul break through a paralysing case of writer&s block But when the genial Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen) appears in New York in search of Holly the sources of her gossamer lifestyle suddenly become clearer Edwards&s lighter-than-air romantic comedy set in a fantasy New York rides on the irresistible charm of Hepburn at her peak as well as a memorable score by Henry Mancini Although George Axelrod&s screenplay is as different from the original story as George Peppard is from the young Capote the film succeeds on its own terms ...

Please note this is a the region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Blake Edwards&s adaptation of Truman Capote&s classic novella is ideally cast with Audrey Hepburn in the role of Holly Golightly The free-spirited gamine darts about New York feted by wealthy men drawn to her megawatt charm & elegance hoping that the party will never end After shopping in front of Tiffany&s window she meets aspiring writer Paul Varjak (George Peppard) & they begin a platonic friendship Sponsored by an older woman (Patricia Neal) whose interest in the young man is more than literary he can identify with her experience better than most taking it upon himself to protect her from the worst aspects of city life But she seems to need little protection from such friends as incarcerated mob boss Sally Tomato (Alan Reed) who pays her to carry messages to Sing Sing With her infectious joi de vivre she helps Paul break through a paralysing case of writer&s block But when the genial Doc Golightly (Buddy Ebsen) appears in New York in search of Holly the sources of her gossamer lifestyle suddenly become clearer Edwards&s lighter-than-air romantic comedy set in a fantasy New York rides on the irresistible charm of Hepburn at her peak as well as a memorable score by Henry Mancini Although George Axelrod&s screenplay is as different from the original story as George Peppard is from the young Capote the film succeeds on its own terms ...