In " Death in the Afternoon" Hemingway shares the sights the sounds the excitement & above all the knowledge which fuelled his passion for Spain & the bullfight This remarkable book contains some of his finest writing inspired by the intense life as well as the inevitable death of those hot violent afternoons ...

A fascinating look at the history & grandeur of bullfighting Death in the Afternoon is also a deeper contemplation on the nature of cowardice & bravery sport & tragedy & is enlivened throughout by Hemingway&s pungent commentary on life & literature Seen through his eyes bullfighting becomes an art a richly choreographed ballet with performers who range from awkward amateurs to masters of great grace & cunning ...

A woman is killed by a poisoned dart in the enclosed confines of a commercial passenger plane From seat No 9 Hercule Poirot was ideally placed to observe his fellow air passengers Over to his right sat a pretty young woman clearly infatuated with the man opposite; ahead in seat No 13 sat a Countess with a poorly-concealed cocaine habit; across the gangway in seat No 8 a detective writer was being troubled by an aggressive wasp What Poirot did not yet realize was that behind him in seat No 2 sat the slumped lifeless body of a woman ...

EU inspectors are causing havoc in St Denis & local tempers are running high but is it really cause for murder? The first acclaimed & internationally bestselling case for Bruno Chief of Police' Hugely enjoyable & absolutely gripping Martin Walker has got off to a flying start in what promises to be a great series Bruno will be the Maigret of the Dordogne' Antony Beevor Market day in the ancient town of St Denis in south-west France EU hygiene inspectors have been swooping on France's markets while the locals hide contraband cheese in their houses & call the Brussels bureaucrats ' Gestapo' Police Captain Bruno Courreges supports their resistance Although here in what was once Vichy France words like ' Gestapo' & 'resistance' still carry a profound resonance When an old man head of an immigrant North African family is found murdered suspicion falls on the son of the local doctor found in flagrante playing sex games surrounded by Nazi paraphernalia But Bruno isn't convinced & suspects this crime may have its roots in that most tortured period of recent French history
- the Second World War a time of terror & betrayal that set brother against brother Now it's up to him to find the killer
- but will the people of St Denis allow him to go digging through the past in order to do it?

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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play After the relatively commercial Adventures of Robinson Crusoe Luis Buñuel returned to the surrealist & political style of his earlier works with Death in the Garden La mort en ce jardin the middle film in what has been described as his revolutionary triptych a trilogy of films that study in the morality & tactics of armed revolution against a right-wing dictatorship Amid a revolution in a South American mining outpost a band of fugitives a roguish adventurer (Georges Marchal) a local hooker (Simone Signoret) a priest (Michel Piccoli) an aging diamond miner (Charles Vanel) & the miner&s deaf-mute daughter (Michèle Girardon) are forced to flee for their lives into the jungle Starving exhausted & stripped of their old identities they wander desperately lured by one deceptive promise of salvation after another Filmed in stunning Eastmancolor Death in the Garden is both a rousing adventure film & a surrealist tour de force The Masters of Cinema Series is proud to present this little seen classic for the first time ever on Blu-ray in a new Dual Format edition DUAL FORMAT SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES Stunning 1080p presentation (on the Blu-ray) Uncompressed PCM soundtrack (on the Blu-ray) Optional English subtitles A new interview with Tony Rayns An interview with actor Michel Piccoli An interview with film scholar Victor Fuentes Masters of Cinema exclusive trailer PLUS A booklet featuring a new essay by Philip Kemp & archival imagery ...

Yorkshire 1927 Eclipse fever grips the nation & when beloved theatre star Selina Fellini approaches trusted sleuth Kate Shackleton to accompany her to a viewing party at Giggleswick School Chapel Kate suspects an ulterior motive During the eclipse Selina's friend & co-star Billy Moffatt disappears & is later found dead in the chapel grounds Kate can't help but dig deeper & soon learns that two other members of the theatre troupe died in similarly mysterious circumstances in the past year With the help of Jim Sykes & Mrs Sugden Kate sets about investigating the deaths
- & whether there is a murderer in the company When Selina's elusive husband Jarrod injured in the war & subject to violent mood swings comes back on the scene Kate begins to imagine something far deadlier at play & wonders just who will be next to pay the ultimate price for fame
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On a dark November evening Sir Wilfred Saxonby is travelling alone in the 5 o'clock train from Cannon Street in a locked compartment The train slows & stops inside a tunnel; & by the time it emerges again minutes later Sir Wilfred has been shot dead his heart pierced by a single bullet Suicide seems to be the answer even though no motive can be found Inspector Arnold of Scotland Yard thinks again when he learns that a mysterious red light in the tunnel caused the train to slow down Finding himself stumped by the puzzle Arnold consults his friend Desmond Merrion a wealthy amateur expert in criminology Merrion quickly comes up with an 'essential brainwave' & helps to establish how Sir Wilfred met his end but although it seems that the dead man fell victim to a complex conspiracy the investigators are puzzled about the conspirators' motives as well as their identities Can there be a connection with Sir Wilfred's seemingly untroubled family life his highly successful business or his high-handed & unforgiving personality? & what is the significance of the wallet found on the corpse & the bank notes that it contained? ...

Longlisted for the CWA International Dagger 2017 Spring 1967 The trail of tragedy & destruction that followed the previous winter's flood seems to have died down; Florence is beginning to recover But Inspector Bordelli does not feel the same sense of relief
- he has not had a moment's peace since his investigation of a young boy's murder went disastrously wrong Unsettled & embittered Bordelli resigns from the force & leaves the city He could not continue to work as a policeman while the perpetrators of such a terrible crime were still at large Now in the solitude of his new home in the Tuscan hills he spends his days cooking going for long walks & learning to grow his own vegetables But the thought of that case
- of justice not served
- is constantly with him Until fate in which he has never believed unexpectedly offers him the chance of retribution


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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Please note the UV copy is only compatible in participating regions please visit the UV website for full details Danny Trejo stars as an outlaw gunning for revenge in this action Western from director Roel Reine Guerrero Hernandez (Trejo) head of the Blackwater Gang decides to ransack the mining town of Edendale along with his half-brother Red (Anthony Michael Hall) who he&s just sprung from jail But when he&s subsequently mown down by his double-crossing sibling & the rest of his gang Guerrero after making a deal with the devil (Mickey Rourke) returns to the aptly renamed town of Tombstone to exact bloody revenge on his former partners Actors Mickey Rourke Anthony Michael Hall Danny Trejo Dina Meyer Richard Dillane Ronan Summers Edward Akrout & Catalina Grama Director Roel Reine Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Languages English
- DTS-HD Master Audio (51) Additional Languages French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese ; English Audio Description Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Icelandic ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Swedish ; Arabic ; Hindi Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)
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Dirge (Feat Dot Allison) Soul Auctioneer (Feat Bobby Gillespie) Death Threat Flying Aisha (Feat Iggy Pop) Lever Street Aladdin&s story Broken Little Sister (Feat Jim Reid) Neptune City ...