Now shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award & the Wellcome Trust Book Prize The Hour Between Dog & Wolf is a resonant exploration of economic behaviour & its consequences Shortlisted for the 2012 Financial Times & Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award & the Wellcome Trust Book Prize this startling & unconventional book from neuroscientist & former Wall Street trader John Coates shows us the bankers in their natural environment revealing how their biochemistry has a lasting & significant impact on our economy We learn how risk stimulates the most primitive part of the banker's brain & how making the deals our bank balances depend on provokes an overwhelming fight-or-flight response Constant swinging between aggression & apprehension impairs their judgment causing economic upheaval in the wider world The transformation between each split-second decision is what Coates calls the hour between dog & wolf & understanding the biology behind bubbles & crashes may be the key to stabilising the markets ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Brand new thrilling six-part series drama about a 1950s newsroom penned by Bafta -winning writer Abi Morgan whose previous credits include Brick Lane White Girl & Sex Traffic The Hour takes us behind the scenes of a broadcast news room in London during the mid 50s with a highly competitive sharp witted & passionate love triangle at its heart We follow the lives of three characters who are tasked to set up a new weekly investigative news show called The Hour Actors Dominic West Romola Garai Ben Whishaw Burn Gorman Oona Chaplin Lisa Greenwood Anton Lesser Jamie Parker Tim Pigott-Smith Julian Rhind-Tutt & Sam Palladio Director Harry Bradbeer Jamie Payne & Coky Giedroyc Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

' Tracy Rees writes from the heart' Kathryn Hughes author of The Letter Perfect for fans of The Keeper of Lost Things & The Villa in Italy 2014 Nora has always taken success for granted until suddenly her life begins to fall apart Troubled by anxiety & nightmares she finds herself drawn to the sweeping beaches of Tenby a place she's only been once before Together with a local girl she rents a beautiful townhouse & slowly begins to settle in to her new life But Tenby hides a secret & Nora will soon discover that this little town by the sea has the power to heal even the most painful memories 1950 Chloe visits Tenby every summer She stays with relatives & spends the long idyllic days on the beach Every year is the same until she meets a glamorous older boy & is instantly smitten But on the night of their first date Chloe comes to a realisation the aftermath of which could haunt her forever The Hourglass is a moving novel about finding love even after it seems too late & the healing power of a magical place by the sea ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From legendary Polish master-director Wojciech Has The Hourglass Sanatorium is a cinematic adaptation of renowned writer Bruno Schulz& Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass This magnificent newly restored edition is one of the first Polish films to be restored in HD by the outstanding Polish cinematographer Witold Sobocinski giving it amazing depth of field & excellent definition Set in the pre-World War II era the film sees Joseph (Jan Nowicki) travelling on a strange dilapidated train to see his dying father (Tadeusz Kondrat) in a sanatorium Upon arrival though he finds a hospital crumbling into ruin where time is slowed down in order to maintain his father&s life signs Actors Jan Nowicki Tadeusz Kondrat Irena Orska Halina Kowalska Gustaw Holoubek Mieczyslaw Voit Bozena Adamek Ludwik Benoit Henryk Boukolowski Seweryn Dalecki Julian Jabczynski Jerzy Przybylski Wiktor Sadecki & Janina Sokolowska Director Wojciech Has Certificate 15 years & over Year 1973 Languages Polish Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 59 minutes (approx) ...

Winner of the 1999 Pulitzer Prize & Pen Faulkner prize Made into an Oscar-winning film The Hours' is a daring & deeply affecting novel inspired by the life & work of Virginia Woolf In 1920s London Virginia Woolf is fighting against her rebellious spirit as she attempts to make a start on her new novel A young wife & mother broiling in a suburb of 1940s Los Angeles yearns to escape & read her precious copy of Mrs Dalloway' And Clarissa Vaughan steps out of her smart Greenwich village apartment in 1990s New York to buy flowers for a party she is hosting for a dying friend Moving effortlessly across the decades & between England & America this exquisite novel intertwines the stories of three unforgettable women ...

Abel's normal exterior begins to dissolve as his behaviour turns increasingly unpredictable & violent Does evil lurk within? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Compelled to escape a troubled past & start anew Amy moves to a small town in Massachusetts She thinks she&s found the perfect refuge within a quiet & peaceful neighbourhood However it&s not long before she realises that not everything is as it seemsespecially at the house across the street Her first day in her new home she seemingly witnesses a hit & run outside the house; a hit & run that is deftly swept under the rug by the police Warned away from prying further by the locals & stalked by a man in a black car Amy teams up with rookie police officer Kyle Thaxter to find out what&s going on The further Amy digs the more she puts herself in danger but she just can t let it go She&s about to realise that what you don&t know can&t hurt you but what you do know might kill you ...

Twenty-five years ago Mickey Robertson & her husband Larry made an impulsive decision to purchase a collection of historic but dilapidated Georgian farm buildings in country NSW Australia Thus began an unplanned intensely emotional journey of restoration & renewal traced in this richly illustrated book through a warmly engaging narrative & inspirational images by photographer Daniel Shipp The natural world & the seasons are an integral part of Mickey's home & life & she explores the links between them as she recounts the story of the creation of her home's interiors & her garden Glenmore House exemplifies her philosophy that colour texture representation sentiment memory & emotion each play a role in creating a home Today the rooms are filled with the stories of her family's lives of things gathered & of inspiration while the colours textures & vistas of her world-class garden play a significant role within each room of the house In addition to the ornamental garden that enfolds her home Mickey has built a working productive organicbiodynamic kitchen garden which is never dormant In this book she also provides 30 seasonally based recipes inspired by the abundance & freshness of her home-grown produce ...

Behind every detective stands a great woman When Sherlock Holmes turns down the case of persecuted Laura Shirley Mrs Hudson
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From the Sunday Times bestselling author comes a haunting magical story set in 17th century London perfect for fans of Jessie Burton & Elif Shafak 1611 Celia Lamprey looks out across the rooftops of Aleppo for the last time After ten years living in the Orient she & her husband Paul Pindar are setting sail for England
- taking with them the legendary diamond the Sultan's Blue despite the curse that surrounds it They arrive to find a country much changed; Bishopsgate once surrounded by fields is now a muddy thoroughfare choked with carriages
- from which carpenters gardeners & footmen descend summoned to restore Pindar's great house to its former splendour But all is not as it seems Celia is frail & the marriage childless Between the couple lies a great unspoken darkness Now as they await the arrival of Celia's friend Annetta from Venice another woman the alluring widow Frances Sydenham becomes increasingly indispensable to the running of the household
- & the happiness of its inhabitants But who is this strange woman & what are her real motives? Vividly evoking Jacobean society The House at Bishopsgate is a sumptuous richly woven story of marital secrets & sexual jealousy from a master of historical fiction


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