Down Among the Dead Men is a Manchester crime novel from bestselling crime writer Kerry Wilkinson'I'm going to do you a favour I'm going to tell you my name & then I'm going to give you thirty seconds to turn & run If any of you are still here after those thirty seconds then we're going to have a problem' Jason Green's life is changed for good after he is saved from a mugging by crime boss Harry Irwell He is then drawn into Manchester's notorious underworld where smash & grab is as normal as making a cup of tea But Jason isn't a casual thug He has a life plan that doesn't involve blowing his money on the usual trappings That is until a woman walks into his life offering the one thing that money can't buy
- salvation
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Through song & dance funny bits & sheer wit this comedy brings Peter Sellers & his troupe from the British radio programme The Goon Show together to spoof World War II espionage In this story a few wayward criminals get together to steal a famous professor's newly invented top secret formula ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Wealthy coat-hanger mogul Dave Whiteman (Richard Dreyfuss) lives in luxury with his wife Barbara (Bette Midler) in Beverly Hills But his cosy existence is turned upside-down when he saves tramp Jerry Baskin (Nick Nolte) from drowning in his swimming pool Baskin moves in & soon his alternative views start to effect everyone around him causing them all to question the validity of their chosen lifestyles ...

George Orwell&s vivid memoir of his time living among the desperately poor & destitute Down & Out in Paris & London is a moving tour of the underworld of society & You have talked so often of going to the dogs
- & well here are the dogs & you have reached them& Written when Orwell was a struggling writer in his twenties it documents his &first contact with poverty& Here he painstakingly documents a world of unrelenting drudgery & squalor
- sleeping in bug-infested hostels & doss houses of last resort working as a dishwasher in Paris&s vile &Hôtel X& surviving on scraps & cigarette butts living alongside tramps a star-gazing pavement artist & a starving Russian ex-army captain Exposing a shocking previously-hidden world to his readers Orwell gave a human face to the statistics of poverty for the first time
- & in doing so found his voice as a writer


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Renowned urban artist Shepard Fairey&s new look for Orwell&s classic account of life on the streets To be poor & destitute in 1920s Paris & London was to experience life at its lowest ebb George Orwell penniless & with nowhere to go found himself experiencing just this as he wandered the streets of both capitals in search of a job By day he tramped the streets often passing time with &screevers& or street artists drunks & other hobos At night he stood in line for a bed in a &spike& or doss house where a cup of sugary tea a hunk of stale bread & a blanket were the only sustenance & comfort on offer Down & Out in Paris & London is George Orwell&s haunting account of the streets & those who have no choice but to live on them ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Irresistible songs & lavish musical numbers give a staccato beat to the romantic adventures of Betty Grable & Don Ameche in this Technicolor extravaganza Everyone goes south of the border in this comic tale of horseracing with lots of romance & nightclubbing tossed in Glenda (Grable) wants to buy a horse from Ricardo (Ameche) But because their families have been feuding for years Ricardo&s father refuses But in true Romeo & Juliet fashion the two fall in love Carmen Miranda makes her North American film debut & the Nicholas Brothers do brilliant things with their feet in this romp that also features Charlotte Greenwood J Carrol Naish Henry Stephenson & Leonid Kinskey Actors Don Ameche Betty Grable Carmen Miranda Charlotte Greenwood J Carrol Naish Henry Stephenson Kay Aldridge Leonid Kinskey Chris-Pin Martin Robert Conway Gregory Gaye Bobby Stone Charles Judels Fayard Nicholas & Harold Nicholas Director Irving Cummings Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1940 Screen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Additional Languages Spanish Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Norwegian ; Spanish ; Swedish Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 25 minutes (approx)
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From the creators of the hugely popular Bumpus Jumpus Dinosaurumpus comes some poolside fun that will keep your child's attention unitl it's time to say goodnight! Join sprightly Frog & his energetic farmyard friends frolicking down by the cool of the pool
- flipping & flopping splishing & splashing in the watery wonderland In the latest edition of a much-loved book animal-fans everywhere will enjoy this watery romp
- with its read-aloud rhyming text & exuberant illustrations & lots of noises for joining in this is a sure-fire winner from the popular duo Tony Mitton & Guy Parker-Rees illustrator of the bestselling Giraffes Can't Dance
- for pure clap-along dance-along fun Celebrating 15 years in print
- come & copy the animals & join in the fun of reading with excellent rhyme & rhythm & bright bold illustrations! A book you will keep coming back to



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Director David Jacobsen DOWN IN THE VALLEY plays like a romantic operatic lament for the disappearing cinematic & real-life icon the American cowboy Many of the elements that would fuse say a classic John Wayne character are present in Edward Norton (PRIMAL FEAR 25TH HOUR) character Harlan Fairfax Caruthers he polite soft-spoken yet stubbornly brave & handy with Colt steel & lead While at home in Death Valley in the mid 1800s these characteristics are positively anachronistic in modern-day San Fernando Valley How else to explain the reaction of a gaggle of giggling teenagers to Harlan as he pumps their gas? One of the teens Tope (Evan Rachel Wood) is immediately attracted to these charms & invites Harlan along to the beach A whirlwind romance follows much to the chagrin of Tope (short for October) father Wade (David Morse) who senses there is more to Harlan than meets the eye Indeed things begin to unravel when Harlan lies about borrowing a horse from a local rancher that leads to a threat at gunpoint To make matters worse Harlan ingratiates himself more by spending time with Tope attention-starved younger brother Lonnie (Rory Culkin) Eventually as more of the dangerous demons beneath Harlan charming veneer reveal themselves action must be taken & justice meted out Old West-style At times tense & alternatively quiet DOWN IN THE VALLEY features some creative camera work from cinematographer Enrique Chediak that fits both moods Also be on the look-out for a scene-long"ation from TAXI DRIVER ...

Tracklist A1 Another Man's War A2 This Is How We Roll A3 Goodnight Mr Jones A4 Creatures A5 Last Man Standing B1 Music Box B2 Boys Don't Cry B3 Walking To Babylon B4 Let It Shine B5 Music Box Reprise (Griff's Lament) B6 White Punks On Dope B7 The Destruction Of Hideous Objects (Part 3) ...

Have you ever wandered along a street & wondered about its history? What was it like in the past? Has anything of interest happened there? There may be some clues in the street name This book explores over one-hundred major (and some not so major!) streets in central Newcastle upon Tyne As well as information about likely origins of street names there are descriptions of events that took place nearby Generously illustrated with photographs from Newcastle City Library's Local Studies Collection some of which have never been published before each section of the book is arranged so that it can be used as a guide for city walks ...