The Reluctant Fundamentalist is the award-winning international bestseller by Mohsin Hamid NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING KATE HUDSON & KIEFER SUTHERLANDSHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2007' Excuse me sir but may I be of assistance? Ah I see I have alarmed you Do not be frightened by my beard I am a lover of America ' So speaks the mysterious stranger at a Lahore cafe as dusk settles Invited to join him for tea you learn his name & what led this speaker of immaculate English to seek you out For her is more worldy than you might expect; better travelled & better educated He knows the West better than you do & as he tells you his story of how he embraced the Western dream -- & a Western woman -- & how both betrayed him so the night darkens Then the true reason for your meeting becomes abundantly clear Praise for The Reluctant Fundamentalist ' Beautifully written more exciting than any thriller I've read for a long time' Philip Pullman' Admirably spare & amazingly exciting' Rachel Cooke New Statesman' Sharp relevant impressively intelligent entertains at the same time as it makes you think' Daily Telegraph'A cleverly constructed fable of infatuation & disenchantment Intelligent & highly engaging genuinely provocative' Guardian'A brilliant book' Kiran Desai' Prods the intellect quickens the pace & captures the imagination' Sunday Times Mohsin Hamid is the author of three novels The Reluctant Fundamentalist Moth Smoke & How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia His fiction has been translated into over 30 languages received numerous awards & been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize He has contributed essays & short stories to publications such as the Guardian The New York Times Financial Times Granta & Paris Review Born & mostly raised in Lahore he spent part of his childhood in California studied at Princeton University & Harvard Law School & has since lived between Lahore London & New York ...

Thirteen-year-old wrestling fanatic Henry used to have a normal life Now his therapist wants him to keep a journal so he can express his feelings about what happened Henry has moved with his dad to a new city where nobody knows their name He lives off a diet of pizza whilst hiding from the comically overbearing neighbours & avoiding being an obvious target for bullies at his new school But then he meets Farley & Alberta social misfits who refuse to let him be alone & bit by bit the past begins to come out Heartbreaking surprising & laugh-out-loud funny The Reluctant Journal of Henry K Larsen is about the things that remain after your life has fallen to pieces ...

September 1914 Eighteen-year-old Daisy Gilbert is the star seamstress at Madam Evans' presitgious gown shop in Southampton Although she is courting Jack who works in the docks her ultimate ambition is to open her own dressmaking business Her beloved father is desperately ill with TB & Daisy is determined to find enough money to send him to a nursing home where he will get proper care So when the flamboyant Mrs Cummings a client of hers suggests that Daisy work for her in the evenings as a barmaid at the Solent club a local upmarket brothel she accepts Young innocent & beautiful Daisy proves to be popular with the club's clientele But Madam Evans hears about this other job & fires her Will Daisy be able to care for her father & preserve her own virtue? ...

Santiago Chile The city is covered in ash a deceased mother is lost in transit & three children of ex-militants face a past they can neither remember nor forget Intense intelligent & sensitive to the shape & weight of words this remarkable debut presents a new way to count the cost of a pain that stretches across generations 240 pages Trabucco Zeran Alia ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A group of close-knit friends witness The Rapture & face a series of catastrophic events turning a wedding celebration into a life-or-death struggle Bonus Features Deleted Scene“ Divine Revelations Making The Remaining” Featurette
- Director Casey La Scala as well as the cast & crew discuss the film&s unique take on the end-of-times along with the intense stunt work the scares & the special effects
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From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go Winner of the Booker Prize A contemporary classic The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful & haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House In the summer of 1956 Stevens the ageing butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside & into his past ...

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize & cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers David Lodge chairman of the judges in 1989 said it's a cunningly structured & beautifully paced performance This is a haunting evocation of lost causes & lost love & an elegy for England at a time of acute change Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages & has sold millions of copies worldwide Stevens the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside but also into his own past Reflecting on his years of service he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain & question whether his dignity & properness have come at a greater cost to himself ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Stevens is the perfect English butler Now employed by Mr Lewis the new American owner of Darlington Hall Stevens has spent the best part of his working life serving Lord Darlington the host of many prestigious international conferences in the 1930s It was only when war broke out in 1939 that Lord Darlington&s involvement with the Nazi party was uncovered Now twenty years later Stevens realizes that his unquestioning faith & dedication to duty were misplaced & cost him dearly in his own personal life Over several years he carried on an intense relationship with the Estate&s attractive young housekeeper Miss Kenton But his unwavering sense of duty led Stevens to deny his emotions – & eventually drive away the one woman he loved Now he wants to make amends An extraordinary story of blind emotion & repressed love The Remains Of The Day achieved an astounding 8 Academy Award nominations including Best Picture Best Actor & Best Actress Anthony Hopkins received the BAFTA Award for the Best Performance by an actor in a leading role Actors Anthony Hopkins Emma Thompson Christopher Reeve James Fox Hugh Grant Ben Chaplin Patrick Godfrey Tim Pigott-Smith & Lena Headey Director James Ivory Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1993 Screen Widescreen 2351 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages French German Italian Spanish (Dolby Surround) Subtitles Arabic ; Bulgarian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hindi ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish ; Turkish Duration 2 hour & 9 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 A butler who sacrificed body & soul to service in the years post World War II realizes too late how misguided his loyalty has been ...

' The Remarkable Rhoda Garrett' is a book about arguably the most prominent speaker on Women's Suffrage in the 19th Century She was a cousin to both Millicent Fawcett & Elizabeth Garrett Anderson Along with her cousin Agnes their interior design firm was the first business registered & run by women Rhoda was also to have two pieces dedicated to her by the composer's Dame Ethel Smyth & Sir Hubert Parry More fascinating aspects of Rhoda Garrett's life can be seen in this book by Graeme Taylor ...