Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Chloe & daughter Sophia live in a rundown motel on a lonely highway pit stop As the proprietor of the motel Chloe is in financial trouble & has quietly allowed a prostitution operation to run on the premises under the supervision of Billy a corrupt cop whose affection for Chloe is unrequited One night Topo (BRYAN CRANSTON) a nearly blind career criminal & his driver stop over at the motel while en route to deliver cash to an unknown boss An accident causes Topo to lose his driver & their car is taken to the police impound with the money still inside Robbed of his money & his surrogate set of eyes Topo takes Chloe & Sophia hostage & forces Chloe to be his new driver & guide using Sophia as collateral They set out after Billy who has stolen the money from the impounded car Attempting to save her daughter & capitalize on the situation Chloe strikes a deal with Topo to split the cash hoping to use her share of the money to escape to a better life But soon she gets in over her head & a series of double-crosses leaves a cloud of mayhem in this story about desperation & survival ...

A Hay Festival & The Poole VOTE 100 BOOKS for Women Selection A hilarious & merciless parody of rural melodramas & one of the best-loved comic novels of all time Cold Comfort Farm by Stella Gibbons is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range & We are not like other folk maybe but there have always been Starkadders at Cold Comfort Farm& Sensible sophisticated Flora Poste has been expensively educated to do everything but earn a living When she is orphaned at twenty she decides her only option is to descend on relatives
- the doomed Starkadders at the aptly named Cold Comfort Farm There is Judith in a scarlet shawl heaving with remorse for an unspoken wickedness; raving old Ada Doom who once saw something nasty in the woodshed; lustful Seth & despairing Reuben Judith&s two sons; & there is Amos preaching fire & damnation to one & all As the sukebind flowers Flora takes each of the family in hand & brings order to their chaos Cold Comfort Farm is a sharp & clever parody of the melodramatic & rural novel & Very probably the funniest book ever written& Sunday Times& Screamingly funny & wildly subversive& Marian Keyes Guardian& Delicious Cold Comfort Farm has the sunniness of a P G Wodehouse & the comic aplomb of Evelyn Waugh&s Scoop& Independent& One of the finest parodies written in Englisha wickedly brilliant skit& Robert Macfarlane Guardian Stella Gibbons was born in London in 1902 She went to North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College London She then worked for ten years on various papers including the Evening Standard Her first publication was a book of poems The Mountain Beast (1930) & her first novel Cold Comfort Farm (1932) won the Femina Vie Heureuse Prize Amongst her other novels are Miss Linsey & Pa (1936) Nightingale Wood (1938) Westwood (1946) Conference at Cold Comfort Farm (1949) & Beside the Pearly Water (1954) Stella Gibbons died in 1989
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A witty portrait of rural England in the early twentieth century the Penguin Classics edition of Stella Gibbons&s Cold Comfort Farm is introduced by Lynne Truss author of Eats Shoots & Leaves When sensible sophisticated Flora Poste is orphaned at nineteen she decides her only choice is to descend upon relatives in deepest Sussex At the aptly-named Cold Comfort Farm she meets the doomed Starkadders cousin Judith heaving with remorse for unspoken wickedness; Amos preaching fire & damnation; their sons lustful Seth & despairing Reuben; child of nature Elfine; & crazed old Aunt Ada Doom who has kept to her bedroom for the last twenty years But Flora loves nothing better than to organise other people Armed with common sense & a strong will she resolves to take each of the family in hand A hilarious & ruthless parody of rural melodramas & violet prose Cold Comfort Farm is one of the best-loved comic novels of all time This new Penguin Classics edition

Includes:: an introduction by Lynne Truss discussing Stella Gibbons&s unconventional life & career & her joyously satirical voice Stella Gibbons (1932-89) novelist poet & short-story writer was educated at North London Collegiate School & studied journalism at University College London She then worked for ten years on various papers including the Evening Standard & published several books of poetry & short stories If you enjoyed Cold Comfort Farm you might like George & Weedon Grossmith&s Diary of a Nobody also available in Penguin Classics & Brilliant very probably the funniest book ever written& Julie Burchill Sunday Times& Literary bliss& Guardian

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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 Wanting to escape city life for the countryside New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid) his wife Leah (Stone) & their two children move into a dilatpidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family Turning it into their dream house soon becomes a living nightmare when the previous owner (Dorff) shows up & a series of terrifying incidents lead them on a spine-tingling search for clues to the estate&s dark & lurid past Actors Dennis Quaid Sharon Stone Stephen Dorff Juliette Lewis Kristen Stewart Ryan Wilson & Christopher Plummer Director Mike Figgis Certificate 15 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 54 minutes (approx)
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You can't keep a good wizard down
- even when he wants to stay that way For years Harry Dresden has been Chicago's only professional
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Cold Earth is the seventh book in Ann Cleeves' bestselling Shetland series
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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 This fantastic box set features all the episodes from ITV&s hit series Cold Feet the bitter sweet comedy of the lives of three young couples living in Manchester Relive the ups & downs of relationships friendships births marriages divorce affairs & heartache over the years ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Thirteen years after this BAFTA award-winning series earned a place in television history we return for more heartfelt truthful comedy drama amidst the lives of our favourite couples Older but not necessarily wiser the gang are reunited when Adam (James Nesbitt) returns to Manchester from working abroad to make an announcement but not everyone is as thrilled as he is Pete (John Thomson) & Jenny (Fay Ripley) are struggling with their mortgage victims of the economic downturn David's (Robert Bathurst) marriage to his divorce lawyer Robyn has run its course & Karen (Hermione Norris) who initially appears to be the only one sorted isn't far from her kids flying from the nest & hitting a glass ceiling at work So what's next? Follow the highs & lows of these much loved characters as they like us continue to find their way in life Actors James Nesbitt Robert Bathurst Hermione Norris John Thomson Fay Ripley Format PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 2 ...

Every episode from all five series of the British TV drama following the fortunes of three couples as they try to negotiate love & life In series one each couple experiences some form of difficulty over pregnancy & childbirth while the temptation of adultery is never far away In series two Rachel (Helen Baxendale) & Adam (James Nesbitt) have split up putting their friends in an awkward position Series three sees Karen (Hermione Norris) & David (Robert Bathurst) struggling to cope with their new children Jenny (Fay Ripley) & Pete (John Thomson) coming to terms with Pete&s adultery & Rachel & Adam getting back together In series four Adam loses his job & the couple face financial ruin In the final series a tragedy brings all the friends back together ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Every episode from the first six series of the ITV comedy drama The show follows the lives of 30-something couples Adam (James Nesbitt) & Rachel (Helen Baxendale) Pete (John Thomson) & Jenny (Fay Ripley) & David (Robert Bathurst) & Karen (Hermione Norris) as they navigate love & life in Manchester ...