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The Man Who Loved
Children By Christina
Stead (Hardback,
1995)
£9.49
Christina Stead is one of the great Australian writers of her generation Rebecca West considered her to be 'one of the few people really original since the First World War' Stead's fiction has been compared to that of Balzac Joyce Ibsen & Tolstoy THE MAN WHO LOVED CHILDREN is a magnificent heartrending novel of American family life of the relations between parents & children husbands & wives set in Baltimore in the 1930s Newsweek called it 'one of the best novels of this century ' Elizabeth Hardwick has described it as 'a work of absolute originality ' ...
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The Man Who Made
Husbands Jealous By
Jilly
Cooper (Paperback,
2007)
£8.99
Lysander Hawkley combined breathtaking good looks with the kindest of hearts He couldn't pass a stray dog an ill-treated horse or a neglected wife without rushing to the rescue & with neglected wives the rescue invariably led to ecstatic bonking which didn't please their erring husbands one bit Lysander's mid-life crisis had begun at twenty-two Reeling from the death of his beautiful mother he was out of work drinking too much & desperately in debt The solution came from Ferdie his fat fast-operating friend if Lysander was so good at making husbands jealous why shouldn't he get paid for it? Let loose among the neglected wives of the ritzy county of Rutshire Lysander causes absolute havoc But it is only when he meets Rannaldini Rutshire's King Rat & a temperamental fiendishly promiscuous international conductor that the trouble really starts The only unglamorous woman around Rannaldini is Kitty his plump young wife who runs his life like clockwork Soon Lysander is convinced that Kitty must be rescued from Rannaldini at all costs even if it means enlisting the help of the old blue-eyed havoc maker Rupert Campbell-Black ...
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The Man Who Made
Things Out Of Trees By
Robert
Penn (Paperback,
2016)
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An exuberant tale of craftsmanship for nature lovers & rugged outdoor types everywhere Robert Penn cut down an ash tree to see how many things could be made from it After all ash is the tree we have made the greatest & most varied use of over the course of human history Journeying from Wales across Europe & Ireland to the USA Robert finds that the ancient skills & knowledge of the properties of ash developed over millennia making wheels & arrows furniture & baseball bats are far from dead The book chronicles how the urge to understand & appreciate trees still runs through us all like grain through wood ...
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The Man Who Mistook
His Wife For A Hat
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Oliver Sacks has become the world's best-known neurologist His case studies of broken minds offer brilliant insight into the mysteries of consciousness' Guardian In his most extraordinary book The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients lost in the bizarre apparently inescapable world of neurological disorders These are case studies of people who have lost their memories & with them the greater part of their pasts; who are no longer able to recognize people or common objects; whose limbs have become alien; who are afflicted & yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents In Dr Sacks's splendid & sympathetic telling each tale is a unique & deeply human study of life struggling against incredible adversity ...
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The Man Who Mistook
His Wife For A Hat
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With an introduction by Will Self A classic work of psychology this international bestseller provides a groundbreaking insight into the human mind If a man has lost a leg or an eye he knows he has lost a leg or an eye; but if he has lost a self
- himself
- he cannot know it because he is no longer there to know it In this extraordinary book Dr Oliver Sacks recounts the stories of patients struggling to adapt to often bizarre worlds of neurological disorder Here are people who can no longer recognize everyday objects or those they love; who are stricken with violent tics or shout involuntary obscenities; who have been dismissed as autistic or retarded yet are gifted with uncanny artistic or mathematical talents If inconceivably strange these brilliant tales illuminate what it means to be human A provocative exploration of the mysteries of the human mind The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat is a million-copy bestseller by the twentieth century's greatest neurologist

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The Man Who Planted
Trees
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Jean Giono's beautiful allegorical tale is legendary Written in the 1950's its message was ahead of its time inspiring readers to rediscoverthe harmonies of the countryside & prevent its willful destruction The narrator journeying by foot across the barren plains of the lower Alps has his thirst assuaged by the well water drawn by the shepherd Elzeaerd Bouffier Here begins the subtle parable which Giono weaves of the life-giving shepherd who chooses to live alone & carry out the work of God Over forty years the desolate hills & lifeless villages which sooppressed the traveler are transformed by the dedication of one man All with the help of a few acorns Giono's hope was to set in motion a worldwide reforestation program that would rejuvenate the earth The Man Who Planted Trees is a hymn to creation & a purveyor of confidence in man's ability to change his-indeed the world's-lot Review Citations Ingram Advance 05012005 pg 77 (ISBN 1931498725 Hardcover) ...
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The Man Who Planted
Trees By Jean Giono
(Paperback, 1995)
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Over the years the desolate hills & lifeless villages which so oppressed the traveller are transformed by the dedication of one man This title offers a hymn to creation & a purveyor of confidence in man's ability to change his
- indeed the world's
- lot 56 pages Giono Jean

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The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance Blu-ray
The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance
Blu-ray
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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 Classic Western starring John Wayne & James Stewart Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice En route he is met by a posse led by Valance who beat him within an inch of his life Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom gets him set up in Shinbone & supports his efforts to be elected sheriff Meanwhile he also attempts to teach his clumsy protege the fundamentals of gunslinging so that Valance may at last be brought to book Actors John Wayne James Stewart Vera Miles Lee Marvin Edmond O& Brien Andy Devine Ken Murray John Carradine Jeanette Nolan John Qualen Willis Bouchey Carleton Young Woody Strode Denver Pyle & Strother Martin Director John Ford Certificate PGYear 1962 Languages English ...
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The Man Who Shot
Liberty Valance DVD
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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 Classic Western starring John Wayne & James Stewart Big-city lawyer Ransom (Stewart) heads into the Wild West outpost of Shinbone to bring local outlaw Liberty Valance (Lee Marvin) to justice En route he is met by a posse led by Valance who beat him within an inch of his life Passing cowboy Tom Doniphon (Wayne) rescues Ransom gets him set up in Shinbone & supports his efforts to be elected sheriff Meanwhile he also attempts to teach his clumsy protege the fundamentals of gunslinging so that Valance may at last be brought to book Actors John Wayne James Stewart Vera Miles Lee Marvin Edmond O& Brien Andy Devine Ken Murray John Carradine Jeanette Nolan John Qualen Willis Bouchey Carleton Young Woody Strode Denver Pyle & Strother Martin Director John Ford Certificate PG Year 1962 Languages English ...
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The Man Who Sold The
Moon
£6.99
DD Harriman is a billionaire with a dream the dream of Space for All Mankind The method? Anything that works Maybe in fact Harriman goes too far But he will give us the stars ...
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The Man Who Never Was DVD

Please note this is a region 2 DVD and will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three times Oscar nominated Clifton Webb Robert Flemying and Oscar winner Gloria Grahame star in this highly acclaimed 1956 British war film based on an incredible true story In 1943 two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb Robert Flemying) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War The Allies are about to invade Sicily - but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece A briefcase containing plans for the fake invasion is attached to a body dressed as a British major and given an elaborate false identity The &man who never was& is then left at sea for the Germans to find However Nazi intelligence believes
that the find may be just too good to be true - and a desperate cat-and-mouse game begins in the heart of war torn London Actors Clifton Webb Gloria Grahame Robert Flemyng Josephine Griffin Stephen Boyd Laurence Naismith Geoffrey Keen Moultrie Kelsall Cyril Cusack Andre Morell Michael Hordern Allan Cuthbertson Joan Hickson Terence Longdon & Gibb McLaughlinDirector Ronald NeameCertificate Universal Suitable for AllYear 1956Languages EnglishDuration 1 hour and 39 minutes (approx)
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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 Three times Oscar nominated Clifton Webb Robert Flemying & Oscar winner Gloria Grahame star in this highly acclaimed 1956 British war film based on an incredible true story In 1943 two intelligence officers from the Royal Navy (Clifton Webb Robert Flemying) attempt to pull off the most daring espionage mission of the Second World War The Allies are about to invade Sicily
- but the Germans must be convinced that their real target is Greece A briefcase containing plans for the fake invasion is attached to a body dressed as a British major & given an elaborate false identity The &man who never was& is then left at sea for the Germans to find However Nazi intelligence believes that the find may be just too good to be true
- & a desperate cat-&-mouse game begins in the heart of war torn London Actors Clifton Webb Gloria Grahame Robert Flemyng Josephine Griffin Stephen Boyd Laurence Naismith Geoffrey Keen Moultrie Kelsall Cyril Cusack Andre Morell Michael Hordern Allan Cuthbertson Joan Hickson Terence Longdon & Gibb Mc Laughlin Director Ronald Neame Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1956 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 39 minutes (approx)

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