Malorie Blackman brings together the best teen writers of today in a stunningly romantic collection about love against the odds Featuring short stories & extracts
- both br&-new & old favourites
- about modern star-crossed lovers from stars such as Gayle Forman Markus Zusak Patrick Ness & Andrew Smith & with a new story from Malorie Blackman herself Love Hurts looks at every kind of relationship from first kiss to final heartbreak

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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 Ben Bingham has slipped into a fossilized middle-age unlike his vibrant wife Amanda When she finally leaves him Ben is at a loss He drowns himself in gin & refuses to get out of his pajamas until his popular 17 year-old son Justin takes over He updates Ben&s "look" & pushes him out into the social scene Before Ben knows what is happening he is the most popular single man in town pursued by his nurse his trainer & karaoke-singing twins Things change when Justin falls in love for the first time & now finds his father&s lifestyle incredibly superficial Ben is forced to refocus recapture his humanity his heart & most importantly his wife who is now with another man ...

Love in a Cold Climate is the sequel to Nancy Mitford's bestselling novel The Pursuit of Love' How lovely
- green velvet & silver
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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 An eight-part adaptation of two classic novels by Nancy Mitford & starring Judi Dench Michael Williams & Michael Aldridge Love in a Cold Climate presents the English upper class of the Twenties & Thirties as seen by one of its most gifted chroniclers The series traces the unconventional lives & loves of the family of Lord Alconleigh dominated by the eccentric irascible Uncle Matthew
- an affectionate & only lightly embellished caricature of the Mitford siblings father Lord Redesdale With several scenes drawn from Nancy Mitford s childhood memories (not least her father s alarming penchant for hunting his children with a bloodhound) the story also encompasses the economic & political crises of the Thirties & the upheavals of the Second World War which would ultimately bring to an end the privileged world inhabited by the family Love in a Cold Climate was adapted by novelist & dramatist Simon Raven & directed by Donald Mc Whinnie (Rumpole of the Bailey)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Based on Love in a Cold Climate & The Pursuit of Love two classic novels by aristocratic writer Nancy Mitford this is a sumptuous & darkly comic costume drama about three upper-class young women & their quest for romance just before World War II Celia Imrie Alan Bates Sheila Gish Anthony Andrews & Frances Barber hurrah hunt & bitch behind the pot plants but this is more than tweeds cocktails & country houses It&s also a sharp & witty look at the dying days of a particular breed of landed gentry Based partly on Mitford&s own life it captures the highs & lows of the aristocratic smart set before World War II snuffed out their world forever Directed by the Oscar winner for the King&s Speech
- Tom Hooper Actors Elisabeth Dermot Walsh John Light John Hopkins Zoe Waites Christian Coulson Rosamund Pike John Wood Daniel Evans Samuel Labarthe Anthony Andrews Megan Dodds Tom Ward Sheila Gish Rupert Frazer Alan Bates & Celia Imrie Director Tom Hooper Certificate PG Year 2001 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 34 minutes (approx)

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As a lover of animals & nature Beatrix Hathaway has always been more comfortable outdoors than in the ballroom Even though she participated in the London season in the past the free-spirited beauty has never been swept away or seriously courted & is resigned to never finding love Christopher Phelan is a handsome daring soldier who plans to marry Beatrix's friend the vivacious Prudence Mercer when he returns from fighting abroad But life on the battlefield has darkened his soul
- & it's becoming clear that he won't return the same as when he left When Beatrix learns of Pru's disappointment she decides to help by concocting Pru's letters to Christopher for her Soon the correspondence between Beatrix & Christopher develops into something fulfilling & deep & when Christopher comes home he's determined to claim the woman he loves What began as Beatrix's innocent deception has resulted in the agony of unfulfilled love
- & a passion that can't be denied

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The author treats in a simple & accessible style with reader-friendly & teaching-friendly features not only of love of God & love of the neighbour but also of family love; friendship; the stages of falling in love; sexual love; extra-marital love; beauty; taste & much more all based entirely on the Holy Qur'an At least one verse from every chapter
- & over one fifth of the total text of the Holy Qur'an is cited Love in the Holy Qur'an is written & structured both to be read in its totality or as individual 'st&-alone' chapters to be sampled at will This work is thus essential reading not only for Muslims & those interested in Islam & the Holy Qur'an but for all those interested in the secrets & mysteries of love as such
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Nobel prize winner & author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera ' It was inevitable the scent of bitter almonds always reminded him of the fate of unrequited love' Fifty-one years nine months & four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances & married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead During that half-century Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women but has loved none but Fermina Having sworn his eternal love to her he lives for the day when he can court her again When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?' The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton' An exquisite writer wise compassionate & extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph' An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men & women' The Times ...

Nobel prize winner & author of One Hundred Years of Solitude Gabriel Garcia Marquez tells a tale of an unrequited love that outlasts all rivals in his masterpiece Love in the Time of Cholera published as a Penguin Essential for the first time Fifty-one years nine months & four days have passed since Fermina Daza rebuffed hopeless romantic Florentino Ariza's impassioned advances & married Dr Juvenal Urbino instead During that half-century Flornetino has fallen into the arms of many delighted women but has loved none but Fermina Having sworn his eternal love to her he lives for the day when he can court her again When Fermina's husband is killed trying to retrieve his pet parrot from a mango tree Florentino seizes his chance to declare his enduring love But can young love find new life in the twilight of their lives?' The most important writer of fiction in any language' Bill Clinton' An exquisite writer wise compassionate & extremely funny' Sunday Telegraph' An amazing celebration of the many kinds of love between men & women' The Times ...

There are novels like journeys which you never want to end this is one of them LOVE IN THE TIME OF CHOLERA is one of the most uplifting romances of our times ' Publication is timed to tie in with the launch of Marquez' new novel NEWS OF A KIDNAPPING by Jonathan Cape on 3 July ...