From elaborate Victorian cat funerals to a Regency era pony who took a ride in a hot air balloon Mimi Matthews shares some of the quirkiest & most poignant animal tales of the eighteenth & nineteenth centuries Meet Fortune the Pug who bit Napoleon on his wedding night & Looty the Pekingese sleeve dog who was presented to Queen Victoria after the 1860 sacking of the Summer Palace in Peking The four-legged friends of Lord Byron Emily Bront & Prince Albert also make an appearance as do the treasured pets of Alexander Pope Samuel Johnson & Charles Dickens Less famous but no less fascinating are the animals that were the subject of historical lawsuits scandals & public curiosity There s Tuppy the purloined pet donkey; Biddy the regimental chicken; & Barnaby & Burgho the bloodhounds hired to hunt Jack the Ripper Wild animals also get a mention in tales that encompass everything from field mice & foxes to alligators & sharks lurking in the Thames Using research from eighteenth & nineteenth century books letters & newspapers Mimi Matthews brings each animal s unique history to vivid life The details are sometimes humorous sometimes heartbreaking but the stories are never anything less than fascinating reading for animal lovers of all ages ...

From the creator & writer of the Emmy Award-winning series Fargo The Henry brothers could not be more different Scott is stuck in a dead-end job & has taken to hanging out in some of San Francisco's seedier dives David on the other hand is a successful travelling salesman & has not one happy family but two (one on each coast) Tensions run high as their father's death brings them together on a road-trip to New York especially when their alcoholic mother is along for the ride & thinks nothing of revealing a long-held family secret Noah Hawley's savagely funny & ultimately uplifting novel explores what it really means to be a family ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Punch & Judy Man is a British comedy from 1963 directed by Jeremy Summers (Crooks In Cloisters) It was Tony Hancock&s second film in a starring role following The Rebel (1961) Hancock plays Wally Pinner the unhappily married Punch & Judy Man Wally & the other beach entertainers are socially unacceptable to the town&s snobbish elite Wally&s wife Delia (Sylvia Syms) runs a seaside shop below their flat She&s desperate to have Wally invited to entertain at the official reception for Lady Jane Caterham (Barbara Murray) who she sees as her ticket to a rise in the social ladder At the Mayoress& suggestion the Reception Committee invites Wally to entertain During the dinner events degenerate & a food fight begins when one of the drunken guests begins heckling Wally When Lady Jane vents her anger at Wally for ruining the evening Delia floors her with a punch her dreams of social acceptance shattered Actors Tony Hancock Sylvia Syms Ronald Fraser Barbara Murray & John Le Mesurier Director Jeremy Summers Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1963 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Appearing in his second feature film-starring role comedy legend Tony Hancock gives a memorable performance in this bittersweet comedy of small-town snobbery & one-upmanship Co-starring Sylvia Syms & featuring Barbara Murray Ronald Fraser John Le Mesurier & Hugh Lloyd The Punch & Judy Man is presented here as a br&-new High Definition restoration from the original camera negative in its original theatrical aspect ratio Content to scratch out a living in the faded seaside town of Piltdown puppeteer Wally Pinner is unhappily married to Delia a gift-shop owner with social pretensions When Wally is invited to perform at the town&s anniversary gala reception however Delia senses a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to raise the couple&s social standing Langauge English Number of discs 1 ...

Kotobukiya's latest Fine Art Statue is none other than one of the most popular vigilante Punisher! Sculpted in fine detail by Erick Sosa Frank Castle aka Punisher is seen in his iconic skull imprinted shirt with combat trousers Punisher comes with two different swappable head parts as well as various hand parts & weapons for multiple display options ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb Only his ex-partner (Louis Gossett Jr) believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER a shadowy invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brital crime & savage retribution A world where only one this is certain… the guilty will be punished Actors Dolph Lundgren Louis Gossett Jr Jeroen Krabbe Kim Miyori Directors Mark Goldblatt Classification 15 Run Time 85 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The avenging angel of Marvel Comics fame comes brilliantly to life in this searing action-adventure thriller! Dolph Lundgren stars as Frank Castle a veteran cop who loses his entire family to a mafia car bomb Only his ex-partner (Louis Gossett Jr) believes Castle survived the blast to become THE PUNISHER a shadowy invincible fighter against evil who lives for total revenge on his mob enemies Lashing out from a labyrinth of subterranean sewers THE PUNISHER leads a heavily armed raid into a world of brital crime & savage retribution A world where only one this is certain… the guilty will be punished Actors Dolph Lundgren Louis Gossett Jr Jeroen Krabbe Kim Miyori Directors Mark Goldblatt Classification 15 Run Time 85 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Marvel Comics presents a second big-screen version of The Punisher with this action-packed adaptation from screenwriter-turned-director Jonathan Hensleigh Frank Castle (Tom Jane) is a retired FBI agent spurred into action after the merciless slaying of his wife father & son Adopting the superhero guise of The Punisher Castle aims to wreak vengeance for his dead family by tracking down the culprits responsible for their demise All clues point to Howard Saint (John Travolta) a ruthless businessman & nightclub owner whose son was mistakenly killed by Castle in a botched undercover operation back in his FBI days Unique amongst Marvel superheroes The Punisher possesses no special powers just remarkable strength parried with a blind determination to avenge his family As he hunts down Saint Castle surrounds himself with three fellow societal outcasts to get the job done namely Joan (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) Bumpo (John Pinette) & Dave (Ben Foster) Actors Thomas Jane John Travolta Will Patton Laura Harring Rebecca Romijn-Stamos Ben Foster Roy Scheider & Samantha Mathis Director Jonathan Hensleigh Certificate 18 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
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The Punisher is getting ready to go out on a hit & you are there! This all-new Gallery PVC diorama depicts the Punisher in his workshop surrounded by tools knives jumper cables Frank Castle needs for a successful night on the town Based on his appearance in Marvel Comics this PVC diorama measures Approx. 23 cm tall & comes packaged in a full-color window box Designed by Caesar Sculpted by Jonathan Matthews ...

A perfect Mother's Day gift for mums who love great crime fiction Award-winning author Elizabeth George delivers another masterpiece of suspense in her Inspector Lynley series 768 pages George Elizabeth ...