Who could have known birdwatching was such a dangerous sport? In this Pan Heritage Classics edition George Palmer-Jones attempts to unravel the murder of a young innocent birder 224 pages Cleeves Ann ...

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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 On the eve of his widower father&s second wedding fifteen-year-old birding fanatic David Portnoy (Kodi Smit-Mc Phee) thinks that he&s made the discovery of a lifetime the extinct Labrador duck Now he & the two other stalwart members of the local Young Birders Society joined by their headstrong photographer classmate Ellen (Katie Chang) take off on an epic road trip in search of the rare bird & elusive answers to teenage questions large & small With marvelous supporting performances by Ben Kingsley & James Le Gros A Birder&s Guide to Everything is an alternately poignant & funny window into the thoughtful world of birding & the inner peace that can be discovered during a walk in the woods Rob Meyer delivers a sparkling feature film debut with a coming-of-age tale to warm the hearts of anyone who grew up with a nerdy passion ...

Chris Haughton&s heart-warming story of a little lost owl in a gorgeous board book edition! The award-winning debut title from Chris Haughton the acclaimed author-illustrator of Oh No George! & Shh! We Have a Plan this is the heart-warming story of Little Owl
- who must be more careful when he is sleeping Uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest & with a bump he lands on the ground Where is his mummy? With the earnest assistance of his new friend Squirrel Little Owl sets off in search of her & meets a sequence of other animals Yet while one might have his mummy&s big eyes & another her pointy ears they are simply not her Chris Haughton&s striking colour illustrations follow Little Owl on his quest Which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy? In a gorgeous board book edition this is the perfect read-aloud book for little hands to hold
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Charting the journey of a little lost owl a heart-warming & reassuring read from one of the most exciting new voices in children&s literature The award-winning debut title from Chris Haughton the acclaimed author-illustrator of Oh No George! & Shh! We Have a Plan this is the heart-warming story of Little Owl
- who must be more careful when he is sleeping Uh-oh! He has fallen from his nest & with a bump he lands on the ground Where is his mummy? With the help of his new friend Squirrel Little Owl sets off in search of her & meets a sequence of other animals Yet while one might have his mummy&s big eyes & another her pointy ears they are simply not her Chris Haughton&s striking colour illustrations follow Little Owl on his quest Which of his new friends will lead him back to his mummy?
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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 Fry & Hugh Laurie were among the most successful acts of the alternative comedy show Saturday Live Friday Night Live & after a Christmas pilot in 1987 the BBC commissioned a series in 1989 “ My father wouldn&t have a television in the house so we used to gather round every night & watch it on the lawn” Fry & Laurie explored a seemingly inexhaustible list of subjects with a delicious turn of phrase & elaborate wordplay The hilarity-included regular acts such as not so super spy Tony Mercheson & his boss Control yuppies John & Peter as well as the concluding cocktail recipe to the accompaniment of Mr Music with plenty of Vox Pops With four brilliant series of great satire comic genius & an hilarious use of language Fry & Laurie are definitely at the top of the comedy tree ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Coining the new term &action noir& in Korea director Kim Ji-woon follows up his extraordinary features A Quiet Family & A Tale Of Two Sisters with this blackly comic thriller Lee Byeong-heon stars as Sun-woo a unique character with a curious lifestyle; he&s not only a valued gang member & the proprietor of a hotel bar but also the right-hand man to the powerful gang leader Mr Kang (Kim Yeong-chul) When Kang suspects that his beautiful young mistress Hee-soo (Shin Min-ah) might be messing around with another man he enlists Sun-woo&s help to resolve the matter commanding him to follow her around to see what information he can dig up Sun-woo&s orders are explicit if he catches Hee-soo cheating he is to execute her However when Sun-woo spies Hee-soo with her boyfriend he makes a fateful decision one that will have major consequences for all involved Actors Lee Byeong-heon Shin Min-ah Kim Yeong-chul Hwang Jeong-min Kim Roe-ha & Lee Mu-yeong Director Kim Ji-woon Certificate 18 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages Korean
- Dolby Digital (51) ; DTS ; Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 56 minutes (approx)
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A beautiful lost classic of nature writing which sits alongside Tarka the Otter Watership Down War Horse & The Story of a Red Deer This is the story of Wulfgar the dark-furred fox of Dartmoor & of his nemesis Scoble the trapper in the seasons leading up to the pitiless winter of 1947 As breathtaking in its descriptions of the natural world as it is perceptive its portrayal of damaged humanity it is both a portrait of place & a gripping story of survival Uniquely straddling the worlds of animals & men Brian Carter's A Black Fox Running is a masterpiece lyrical unforgiving & unforgettable ...

At midday on 31st August Sedgewick the new history master arrives at Blindefellows former charity school for poor blind boys now a second division private school for anyone who can pay The naive newcomer is quickly taken under the wing of the rumbustious philandering Japes master of physics who soon becomes something of a mentor though not in an academic sense A Blindefellows Chronicle follows the adventures of Sedgewick Japes & a handful of other unmarried faculty at an obscure West Country boarding school including the closeted headmaster Reverend Hareton stalwart Matron Ridgeway & loathsome librarian Fairchild ...

When Ernest Fletcher is found bludgeoned to death in his study everyone is shocked & mystified Ernest was well-liked & respected so who would have a motive for killing him? Enter Superintendent Hannasyde who with consummate skill begins to uncover the complexities of Fletcher's life It seems the real Fletcher was far from the gentleman he pretended to be There is in fact no shortage of people who wanted him dead Then a second murder is committed with striking similarities to the first giving a grotesque twist to a very unusual case ...