Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write She also has an insomniac toddler a precocious death-obsessed seven-year-old & a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay a desolate island in the Hebrides so he can count the puffins Ferociously sleep-deprived torn between mothering & her desire for the pleasures of work & solitude Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house Her narrative is punctuated by letters home written 200 years before by May a young middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious insular islanders The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence the way we try to control children & about women's vexed & passionate relationship with work Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range
- showing her to be both an excellent comic writer & a novelist of great emotional depth
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Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours & discovered homelessness drunkenness & vice on the streets This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety & cruelty GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

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' Don't put your trust in revolutions They always come round again That's why they're called revolutions People die & nothing changes' For a policeman there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city Except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers & a city on the brink of bloody revolution For Commander Sam Vimes it all feels horribly familiar He's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck Living in the past is hard But he must survive because he has a job to do He must track down the murderer & change the outcome of the rebellion The problem is if he wins he's got no wife no child no future A Discworld Tale of One City with a full chorus of street urchins ladies of negotiable affection rebels secret policemen & other children of the revolution Truth! Justice! Freedom! & a Hard-boiled Egg! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this dark apocalyptic tale of a perpetual battle between light & dark light being the human race & dark being a race of monsters this film is the first of three in a trilogy Russian director Timbor Bekmambetov adapts & Night Watch& from the series of sci-fi novels by Sergei Lukyanenko ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play UN agents Mike Graham & Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt&s painting " The Night Watch" The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong & involves them in not only art theft & forgery but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder & his Korean cohort Mao Yixin ...

This set contains sci-fi action thriller NIGHT WATCH & its sequel DAY WATCH both made by Russian director Timur Bekmambetov ...

A beautiful new hardback edition of the classic Discworld novel Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch had it all But now he's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck Living in the past is hard Dying in the past is incredibly easy But he must survive because he has a job to do He must track down a murderer teach his younger self how to be a good copper & change the outcome of a bloody rebellion There's a problemif he wins he's got no wife no child no future ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Night We Called It a Day is an Australian comedy based on the true story of Frank Sinatra&s uproarious visit to Sydney in 1974 The local press hounded him to high heaven & in true Sinatra style he retaliated dubbing the Aussie press &fags & hookers& at his opening concert It&s 1974 & Rod (Joel Edgerton) a young music promoter is in for his biggest challenge He&s convinced Frank Sinatra (Dennis Hopper) to come back to Oz Now Rod&s in for the ride of his life as everything that can go wrong does & all Frank has to do is apologize! But there are two things Frank never does "yawn in the presence of the woman he loves & say sorry" ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Allied forces liberated the Nazi concentration camps their terrible discoveries were recorded by army cameramen revealing for the first time the horror of what had happened Using British Soviet & American footage the Ministry of Information&s Sidney Bernstein collaborated with Alfred Hitchcock to make a film that would provide evidence of the Nazi&s unspeakable crimes Yet despite initial support from the British & US governments the film was shelved In this compelling documentary by Andre Singer (executive producer The Act of Killing) the full story of the filming of the camps & the fate of Bernstein&s project which has now been restored & completed by Imperial War Museums can finally be told Special features Original trailer Death Mills (Hanus Burger & Billy Wilder 1946 22 mins) US propaganda film about the Nazi concentration camps Oswiecim (Auschwitz) (1945 22 mins) Russian propaganda film Belsen Death Camp Leaders Meet Justice (1945 2 mins) short newsreel about the Nuremberg trials Night Will Fall-Panel Discussion (2014 13 mins) An Interview with Dr Jeremy Hicks at Auschwitz Concentration Camp (2014 24 mins) An Interview with Professor Rainer Schulze at Bergen-Belsen Concentration Camp (2014 28 mins) An Interview with Professor David Cesarani at Buchewald Concentration Camp (2014 25 mins) An Interview with Caroline Moorehead (2014 13 mins) Stills gallery Illustrated booklet with full credits & essays ...

From the acclaimed master of action & suspense The all time classic An airliner crashes in the polar ice-cap In temperatures 40 degrees below zero six men & four women survive But for the members of a remote scientific research station who rescue them there are some sinister questions to answer
- the first one being who shot the pilot before the crash?
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