Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Peter Davison & Samantha Bond star in this comedy drama series about a plastic surgeon who relocates his family to the remote island of Hildasay to take a new job as a small community GP How will the modern urbanites cope with their new way of life in the middle of nowhere? Matthew Thomas Davies Claudia Renton & Berwick Kaler also star ...

No judgement of taste is innocent
- we are all snobs Pierre Bourdieu's Distinction brilliantly illuminates the social pretentions
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AN IRISH TIMES & USA TODAY BESTSELLERONE OF AMAZON UK'S 'RISING STAR' BEST DEBUTS OF 2016 WINNER BEST MYSTERY INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARDS 2017 USASHORTLISTED FOR BOOKS ARE MY BAG IBA CRIME NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 SHORTLISTED FOR THE CWA JOHN CREASEY NEW BLOOD DAGGER 2017 Did she leave or was she taken? The day Adam Dunne's girlfriend Sarah fails to return from a Barcelona business trip his perfect life begins to fall apart Days later the arrival of her passport & a note that reads 'I'm sorry
- S' sets off real alarm bells He vows to do whatever it takes to find her Adam is puzzled when he connects Sarah to a cruise ship called the Celebrate
- & to a woman Estelle who disappeared from the same ship in eerily similar circumstances almost exactly a year before To get the answers Adam must confront some difficult truths about his relationship with Sarah He must do things of which he never thought himself capable & he must try to outwit a predator who seems to have found the perfect hunting ground Distress Signals is a highly confident & accomplished debut novel impeccably sustained with not a false note The exploration of the often murky backstage workings of the luxury liner world is fascinating & there is a psychologically acute portrait of a killer that is genuinely moving We will hear a great deal more of this author
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Distressed Wooden 5 Frame Set A beautifully distressed set of clustered wooden frames Stood upright on a wooden tray this set of 5 sized frames is perfect for an cozy home space Size Approx. 48cm x 10cm x 233cm ...

Both of the leads in the French action flick DISTRICT 13 practice parkour a kind of urban gymnastics that looks a little like skateboarding without the skateboard & the pleasure of this short frenetic film is watching the two lithe heroes leap through windows run up walls & jump off buildings Like Jackie Chan Cyril Raffaelli & David Belle both stuntmen-turned-leading-men perform their own acrobatic martial arts sans special effects or invisible wires & the lo-fi fight sequences pack a gritty punch that is often missing in slick Hollywood fare The plot involves a futuristic France where the worst ghettos have been walled off from the rest of society their schools shut down & the police force evacuated The people in power simply want to ignore the plight of the disenfranchised but this becomes difficult to do when the most notorious gang led by the wild-eyed Taha (Bibi Naceri) gets its hands on a nuclear warhead & proceeds to demand a 20-million-Euro ransom with the city of Paris as its hostage Enter Damien (Raffaelli) a one-man police strike force who has 24 hours to disarm the missile To help him navigate the war zone of District 13 he springs a vigilante antihero Leito (Belle) from jail Leito has personal reasons for taking down the crime lord Taha has turned Leito's adolescent sister into his junkie pet As the ultra-athletic duo go up against Taha's gangster army they repeatedly (and conveniently) lose their guns & are forced to improvise thrashing goons with steering wheels cinder blocks & their foreheads Lovers of action flicks could ignore the English subtitles completely & still relish the hyperkinetic beauty of the whip-quick combat ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Three years after bringing order to the District Damien & Leito return on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is now controlled by five different gang bosses before the city&s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem This second instalment offers a heady mix of gang violence & breathtaking chase sequences bigger & better than before Raffaeli & Belle re-team to run flip jump tumble twist punch kick & head-butt their way to saving the slum from destruction Actors David Belle Cyril Raffaelli Philippe Torreton Daniel Duval Elodie Yung Laouni Mouhid Fabrice Fletzinger Pierre-Marie Mosconi Sophie Ducasse & Moussa Maaskri Director Patrick Alessandrin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Languages French Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three years after bringing order to the District Damien & Leito return on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is now controlled by five different gang bosses before the city&s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem This second instalment offers a heady mix of gang violence & breathtaking chase sequences bigger & better than before Raffaeli & Belle re-team to run flip jump tumble twist punch kick & head-butt their way to saving the slum from destruction Actors David Belle Cyril Raffaelli Philippe Torreton Daniel Duval Elodie Yung Laouni Mouhid Fabrice Fletzinger Pierre-Marie Mosconi Sophie Ducasse & Moussa Maaskri Director Patrick Alessandrin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 Screen Widescreen Languages French Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Low-budget US sci-fi thriller After a disastrous chemical weapon explosion an eight mile quarantine zone is put in place in the Nevada Desert called Territory 8 Dr Eli Dolton (Michael A Tushaus) works in a research facility situated in the zone along with the weapon&s creator Dr Tao Xing (Heung Wong) as he tries to find a cure for those affected by the disaster Meanwhile a group of their fellow survivors who want to escape the district turn their hostile attentions to the research facility in search of a way out ...

Titles Comprise 2012 From Roland Emmerich director of The Day After Tomorrow & Independence Day comes the ultimate action-adventure movie exploding with ground-breaking special effects As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions cities collapse & continents crumble 2012 brings an end to the world & tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors Starring John Cusack Woody Harrelson & Danny Glover Battle Los Angeles Witness the end of civilization unfold as hostile alien invaders attack the planet As people everywhere watch the world&s great cities fall Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected Now it&s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) & his platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they&ve ever encountered in this epic sci-fi action film District 9 From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) & director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller With stunning special effects this grittily realistic film plunges us into a world where aliens have landed only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg Now one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology Hunted & hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet PS3 Thememovie IQ (logo) & BD-Live connect you to real-time information on the cast music trivia & more while watching the movie!BD Exclusive movie IQ (use logo) connects you to access real-time information on the cast music trivia & more while watching the movie!BD Exclusive cinechat Command Control Staff Sergeant Nantz Interactive Mayan Calendar -Enter a date to reveal your horoscope & personality profile! Delve even further into the secrets by watching Mysteries of the Mayan Calendar BD Exclusive Joburg From Above Satellite & Schematics of the World of District 9
- Interactive Map Director&s Commentary Marine Behind The Scenes Aliens Ambush The Marines Deleted Scenes Picture-In-Picture Roland&s Vision-
Includes: Pre-Visualization storyboards & behind-the-scenes footage & interviews with filmmakers cast & crew Commentary with Writer Director Roland Emmerich & Co-Writer Harald Kloser Battling Unknown Forces Technical Sergeant Santos Alien Autopsy Gas Station Explosion Visual FX on the Freeway Do You Believe in Aliens? Alien Command & Control Alternate Ending Behind The Battle Directing the Battle Designing The End Of The World Roland Emmerich The Master of the Modern Epic Aliens in LA Science Behind The Destruction The End Of The World The Actor&s Perspective Preparing for Battle Boot Camp Creating LA in LAThe Freeway Battle The Alien Agenda A Filmmaker&s Log -- Three-Part Documentary Metamorphosis The Transformation of Wikus Innovation Acting & Improvisation Conception & Design Creating the World of District 9 Alien Generation Visual Effects Actors John Cusack Chiwetel Ejiofor Amanda Peet Oliver Platt Thandie Newton George Segal Aaron Eckhart Michelle Rodriguez Ramon Rodriguez Bridget Moynahan Sharlto Copley David James Jason Cope Mandla Gaduka William Allen Young & Vanessa Haywood Director Roland Emmerich Jonathan Liebesman & Neill Blomkamp Certificate 15 years & over Year 2009 ; 2011 Languages English

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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 2012 From Roland Emmerich director of The Day After Tomorrow & Independence Day comes the ultimate action-adventure movie exploding with ground-breaking special effects As the world faces a catastrophe of apocalyptic proportions cities collapse & continents crumble 2012 brings an end to the world & tells of the heroic struggle of the survivors Starring John Cusack Woody Harrelson & Danny Glover Battle Los Angeles Witness the end of civilization unfold as hostile alien invaders attack the planet As people everywhere watch the world&s great cities fall Los Angeles becomes the last stand for mankind in a battle no one expected Now it&s up to a Marine staff sergeant (Aaron Eckhart) & his platoon to draw a line in the sand as they take on an enemy unlike any they&ve ever encountered in this epic sci-fi action film District 9 From producer Peter Jackson (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy) & director Neill Blomkamp comes a startlingly original science fiction thriller With stunning special effects this grittily realistic film plunges us into a world where aliens have landed only to be exiled to a slum on the fringes of Johannesburg Now one lone human discovers the mysterious secret of the extraterrestrial weapon technology Hunted & hounded through the bizarre back alleys of an alien shantytown he will discover what it means to be the ultimate outsider on your own planet ...