As to the arsenic scare a greater folly it is hardly possible to imagine the doctors were bitten as people were bitten by the witch fever (William Morris on toxic wallpapers 1885) Bitten by Witch Fever presents facsimile samples of 275 of the most sumptuous wallpaper designs ever created by designers & printers of the age including Christopher Dresser & Morris & Co For the first time in their history every one of the samples shown has been laboratory tested & found to contain arsenic Interleaved with the wallpaper sections evocative commentary guides you through the incredible story of the manufacture uses & effects of arsenic & presents the heated public debate surrounding the use of deadly pigments in the sublime wallpapers of a newly industrialized world ...

Entering high school is tough enough as it is but things get even more complicated when you&ve been bitten by a werewolf! International best Selling YA author Cornelia Funke (The Inkheart Trilogy) teams up with comic book artist & character designer extraordinaire Francisco Herrera (Spiderman&s Venom The Prodigies Megamind) & former Disney Animator & film Director Raul Garcia (Aladdin The Lion King Pocahontas) to create a wild & furry world where Hollywood werewolves are real & hiding in plain view! This lavishly illustrated sketch book documents the creative process of transforming Cornelia Funke&s best-selling " Little Werewolf" books into a brand new exciting graphic novel series Hundreds of sketches & color studies show the process of fleshing out the characters of the book as we discover the story of Matt Lisa & the incredible odds they have to face to battle an old curse ...

A darkly compelling brilliantly moving novel perfect for fans of Zoe Heller Liane Moriarty Harriet Lane & Louise Doughty 352 pages Jakobi Francesca ...

In the wake of a tragic & untimely death a suburban family starts the slow slide into disintegration their deep malaise manifesting itself in a profoundly personal crisis for each grieving member of the once-happy family ...

Pascal's life is like any other boy's as he worries about his English classes & his football skills
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Bitter Lemons of Cyprus is Lawrence Durrell's unique account of his time in Cyprus during the 1950s Enosis movement for freedom of the island from British colonial rule Winner of the Duff Cooper Memorial Prize it is a document at once personal poetic & subtly political
- a masterly combination of travelogue memoir & treatise ' He writes as an artist as well as a poet; he remembers colour & landscape & the nuances of peasant conversation Eschewing politics it says more about them than all our leading articles In describing a political tragedy it often has great poetic beauty' Kingsley Martin New Statesman' Durrell possesses exceptional qualifications He speaks Greek fluently; he has a wide knowledge of modern Greek history politics & literature; he has lived in continental Greece & has spent many years in other Greek islands His account of this calamity is revelatory moving & restrained It is written in the sensitive & muscular prose of which he is so consummate a master' Harold Nicolson Observer
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British comic actor Tommy Trinder & Australia's biggest film star Chips Rafferty teamed up for the 1950 film BITTER SPRINGS The plot is propelled along by Rafferty who intrudes on the sacred hunting grounds of an aborigine tribe Though tempers flare everyone eventually buries the hatchet The film is sentimental in the extreme but is pulled off with a minimum of syrup BITTER SPRINGS was directed by future SECRET AGENT & THE AVENGERS stalwart Ralph Smart ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A young woman who is engaged to be married begins to have doubts & begins seeing an older man & in the process unleashes a wave of emotional & sexual traumas that envelope everyone around her Intense & erotic Bitter Sweet screened at the Raindance Film Festival & has been greatly praised for its emotional clout It is also memorable for featuring the adult star Yumika Hayashi in one of her last roles prior to her untimely death in 2005 Actors Konatsu Yumika Hayashi Kin Ishikawa Kazuhiro Sanom Takuya Fukushima Directors Mitsuru Meike Language Japanese Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

Bitter Sweet Love is the much-anticipated second collection of internationally best-selling poet Michael Faudet author of Dirty Pretty Things a finalist in the 2015 Goodreads Readers Choice Awards Michael Faudet's whimsical & often erotic writing has captured the hearts & minds of literally thousands of readers from around the world He paints vivid pictures with intricate words & explores the compelling themes of love loss relationships & sex All beautifully captured in poetry prose"es & little short stories DIRTY PRETTY THINGS sold 40000 copies in one year in the US DIRTY PRETTY THINGS spent 66 weeks & counting on Bookscan Poetry Bestseller List & B&N Poetry Bestseller List in the US Number 1 Bestseller in Love Poems on Amazoncom Michael Faudet is the long-time partner of Lang Leav Michael Faudet has 77000 Instagram followers 43000 Twitter followers & 305000 Facebook fans ...

From a base of human femurs ringed by bleached vertebrae a skeletal hand rises forming the stem of the goblet The body is grasped firmly in its clasp & is ringed with skulls at the top & bottom The middle of the body is black & ringed with iron bands top & bottom with a silver gothic design in the centre facing forwards Cast in high-quality resin before being painstakingly h&-painted this goblet comes with a removable stainless steel insert for ease of cleaning ...