Andalusia is a passion
- & fifteen years after his last visit Laurie Lee returned He found a country broken by the Civil War but
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Previously published as Take Two A Royal Disaster is the second book in Meg Cabot's fantastically funny series The Princess Diaries Fourteen-year-old Mia Thermopolis is still struggling to come to terms with the fact that she's a princess
- & heir to the throne of Genovia! But when she announces on national TV that her mum is pregnant by her algebra teacher & plans to marry him a right-royal fuss results! Because now Mia's totally out-of-control Grandmere is all set to plan the year's biggest society wedding with every A-list celeb invited But will the bride & groom even turn up? & how can Mia find out the true identity of her mysterious secret admirer?
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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 This Collector&s Edition DVD brings together an exclusive documentary about the Queen&s Jubilee portrait with two beautiful archive films creating a stunning package fitting of this momentous occasion Filmed in 2012 & The Portrait& documents artist Phil Richards as he creates an official portrait of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for her Diamond Jubilee Directed by Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Hubert Davis The Portrait is joined in this special edition DVD by two classic films about the royal family The first film shows Princess Elizabeth on her inaugural Royal visit to Canada in 1951 Entitled &A Royal Journey& this archive film charts the 33 day excursion the made by the 25 year old Princess & her husband the Duke of Edinburgh The second film is a colour broadcast of the Queen&s Coronation in 1953 a wonderful record of a historic event A Royal Journey
- The Queen&s Diamond Jubilee is created by the National Film Board of Canada in partnership with the Department of Canadian Heritage & Canada Post
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With a host of noisy fairytale characters & a fold-out page on every spread this is a new edition of a read-aloud classic from the creator of Kipper & Wibbly Pig Perfect for bedtime! The sun is down the moon is up & it is past bedtime But outside the castle there&s an awful lot of noise! Will the princess ever get to sleep? Mick Inkpen has won the British Book Award the Children&s Book Award & has been shortlisted for both the Kate Greenway Medal & the Nestle Prize He is consistently in the Top Ten most borrowed children&s authors from public libraries& Beautiful animated illustrations& Daily Echo ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region Free Blu-ray player in order to play Julian Jarrold directs this British comedy drama following the future Queen of England & her sister as they go out on the town to celebrate the end of the Second World War On VE Day 8th May 1945 Princess Elizabeth (Sarah Gadon) & her younger sister Princess Margaret (Bel Powley) beg their parents King George VI (Rupert Everett) & Queen Elizabeth (Emily Watson) to let them leave Buckingham Palace for the night so they can join in the celebrations The King & Queen give their consent & Elizabeth & Margaret head out incognito but their night takes some unexpected turns ...

The first memoir to emerge from the Vietnam conflict Philip Caputo's A Rumor of War is now regarded as one of the great classics of war literature ranked alongside All Quiet On the Western Front & The Naked & the Dead
- 40th Anniversary Edition with an introduction from Kevin Powers In March 1965 Marine Lieutenant Philip J Caputo landed in Danang with the first ground combat unit committed to fight in Vietnam Sixteen months later having served on the line in one of modern history's ugliest wars he returned home
- physically whole emotionally wasted his youthful idealism shattered A decade later having reported first-hand the very final hours of the war Caputo sat down to write simply a story about war about the things men do in war & the things war does to them' A singular & marvellous work
- a soldier's-eye account that tells us as no other book that I can think of has done what it was actually like to be fighting in this hellish jungle' The New York Times Unparalleled in its honesty unapologetic in its candour & singular in its insights into the minds & hearts of men in combat this book is as powerful to read today as the day it was published in 1977 Caputo has more than earned his place beside Sassoon Owen Vonnegut & Heller' Kevin Powers To call this the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it A Rumour of War is a dangerous & even subversive book the first to insist that readers asks themselves the questions How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? A terrifying book it will make the strongest among us weep' Los Angeles Times Book Review Caputo's troubled searching meditations on the love & the hate of war on fear & the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men are amongst the most eloquent I have read in modern literature' New York Review of Books Superb At times it is hard to remember that this is not a novel' New Statesman


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Just after the iron curtain fell on Eastern Europe John Steinbeck & acclaimed war photographer Robert Capa ventured into the Soviet Union to report for the New York Herald Tribune This title deals with the two artists who at the height of their powers answer their needs to document human struggle 240 pages Steinbeck John ...

If you've ever wondered what happened to the young fellow from Malta who bought his grandfather an altar If you're concerned about the camper called Jack who found a huge snake in his pack & if you suspect that an eccentric landowner called Grey spent Christmas a very strange way but aren't sure precisely what that entailed Then a dip into Michael Palin's Sackful of Limericks will provide all the answers
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A brilliantly conceived Viking epic set in eighth-century Sweden Bernard Cornwall meets George RR Martin in this ambitious masterful series 704 pages Brun Theodore (Author) ...

The twelfth novel in Mercedes Lackey's magical Elemental Masters series reimagines Sherlock Holmes in a richly-detailed alternate 20th-century England Christmas is a very special time of year It is special for Psychic Nan Killian & Medium Sarah Lyon-White & their ward Suki who are determined to celebrate it properly It is special for their friends Doctor John Watson & his wife Mary both Elemental Masters who have found great delight in the season seeing it through young Suki's eyes It is also special to othersfor very different reasons For Christmas Eve is also hallowed to dark forces powers older than mankind powers that come awake on this the Longest Night Powers best left alone Powers that could shake the foundations of London & beyond ...