'I was looking for a quiet place to die Someone recommended Brooklyn & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel The Brooklyn Follies Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000 it tells the story of Nathan & Tom an uncle & nephew double-act One in remission from lung cancer divorced & estranged from his only daughter the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career & indeed from life in general Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood they discover a community teeming with life & passion When Lucy a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption Infused with character mystery & humour these lives intertwine & become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America
- a crucible of broken dreams & of human folly ' Auster at the top of his game This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise' New Statesman
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The Broons fair enjoy a good laugh So the family have all pitched in to compile their favourite funnies Each joke has a Scottish flavour
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One January morning in 1734 cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him but plants & seeds Over the next forty years Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession & change the gardens of Britain forever Philip Miller author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks & his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti & Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour This is the story of these men
- friends rivals enemies united by a passion for plants Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire & the uncharted world beyond The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners
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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 One of the BBC&s most popular drama series of the 1970s The Brothers followed the lives of the Hammond family When their father dies brothers Edward Brian & David expect to inherit the familys road haulage company between them
- but their father has also left his secretary an equal share Featuring all 13 episodes from series 1 plus a stills gallery
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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 The Brothers
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Matt Damon (The Bourne Supremacy Ocean&s 12) & Heath Ledger (The Patriot A Knight&s Tale) team with acclaimed director Terry Gilliam for this fantastic tale based on the legendary storytellers Famous collectors of folklore Will & Jake Grimm (Damon & Ledger) are also travelling con men who promise to rid towns of imaginary monsters & nonexistent demons in exchange for quick money But they&ll soon see things beyond even their wild imaginations when the twosome face a real enchanted forest ...

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' & by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation' The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
- Dostoevsky's most widely read novel
- is at once a murder mystery a mordant comedy of family intrigue a pioneering work of psychological realism & an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering

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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery a courtroom drama & an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov & his three sons
- the impulsive & sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; & the healthy young novice Alyosha Through the gripping events of their story Dostoevsky portrays the social & spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age & a tragic turning point in Russian culture
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning & morality The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff in Penguin Classics When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably Mitya the sensualist whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha who tries to heal the family's rifts; & the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption good & evil blur & everyone's faith in humanity is tested This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features & introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt & salvation with a new chronology & further reading Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment The Idiot & Demons If you enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov you might like Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls also available in Penguin Classics' There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions & fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky & nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov' Joyce Carol Oates' Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life' Friedrich Nietzsche' The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud ...

There's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother Jonathan who is brave strong & handsome
- everything Karl believes he
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