A collection of speeches articles essays & introductions from Sunday Times bestselling author commentator & craftsman Neil Gaiman 544 pages Gaiman Neil ...

A lively diary chronicling the ups & downs of running a grocery shop in a Yorkshire town during the rationing years of the Second World War Kathleen Hey spent the war years helping her sister & brother-in-law run a grocery shop in the Yorkshire town of Dewsbury From July 1941 to July 1946 she kept a diary for the Mass-Observation project recording the thoughts & concerns of the people who used the shop What makes Kathleen's account such a vivid & compelling read is the immediacy of her writing People were pulling together on the surface (' Bert has painted the V-sign on the shop door' she writes) but there are plenty of tensions underneath The shortage of food & the extreme difficulty of obtaining it is a constant thread which dominates conversation in the town more so even than the danger of bombardment & the war itself Sometimes events take a comic turn A lack of onions provokes outrage among her customers & Kathleen writes 'I believe they think we have secret onion orgies at night & use them all up' The Brooke Bond tea rep complains that tea need not be rationed at all if supply ships were not filled with 'useless goods' such as Corn Flakes & there is a long-running saga about the non-arrival of Smedley's peas Among the chorus of voices she brings us Kathleen herself shines through as a strong & engaging woman who refuses to give in to doubts or misery & who maintains her keen sense of humour even under the most trying conditions A vibrant addition to our records of the Second World War the power of her diary lies in its juxtaposition of the everyday & the extraordinary the homely & the universal small town life & the wartime upheavals of a nation ...

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1 Typical Time 22 5 Rebbeccas 3 One Off Pretender 4 Unexpected 5 Temptation Dice 6 Glass Smash 7 Distant Doubloon 8 Jimmy&s Crazy Conspiracy 9 Covers 10 Double Yellow Lines 11 Shock Horror 12 Realisation 13 Give Back The Sun 14 Gem Of A Bird ...

Read all about it! Get your special edition copy of the Viking Express today! Like a Viking warrior's muscles it is bulging with news & features including headline news religious news farming news food & drink fashion highlights arts & entertainment property handy hints & even items for sale In here you will find everything you need to know about what's been going on in Britain with the Vikings around Written & designed in a newspaper style the Viking Express covers the KS2 History Curriculum in a fun & inventive way ...

Thoroughly updated & with a new foreword' The Viking Age is shot through with the spirit of adventure For 300 years from just before AD800 until well into the eleventh century the Vikings affected almost every region accessible to their ships & left traces that are still part of life today' Far from being just 'wild barbaric axe-wielding pirates' the Vikings created complex social institutions oversaw the coming of Christianity to Scandinavia & made a major impact on European history through trade travel & far-flung consolidation This encyclopedic study brings together the latest research on Viking art burial customs class divisions jewellery kingship poetry & family life The result is a rich & compelling picture of an extraordinary civilisation ...

Visit the vicious Vikings & find out how these fearsome warriors lived! Learn about Viking loot & terrorizing raids Discover the Viking gods & the mysteries of their afterlife Read amazing Viking stories find out about deadly blood feuds & learn what would happen to you if you became a Viking slave as you hunt down the secrets of the dead! ...

The Vikings hold a particular place in the history of the West both symbolically & in the significant impact they had on Northern Europe Magnus Magnusson's indispensable study of this great period presents a rounded & fascinating picture of a people who in modern eyes would seem to embody striking contradictions They were undoubtedly pillagers raiders & terrifying warriors but they were also great pioneers artists & traders
- a dynamic people whose skill & daring in their exploration of the world has left an indelible impression a thousand years on
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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 Hollywood legends Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis Ernest Borgnine & Janet Leigh dazzle in this epic chronicle of brutal rivalry & blood-thirsty ambition Bitter hatred divides two brothers Prince Einar (Douglas) is the son & heir of a savage Viking chieftain Prince Eric (Curtis) is his unknowing half-brother the bastard off-spring of Einar&s father & an English queen When the Vikings kidnap a princess (Leigh) her beauty inflames the desires of both men forcing a bloody duel that decides their fate & the future of the English throne Actors Kirk Douglas Tony Curtis Janet Leigh James Donald Ernest Borgnine Alexander Knox & Dandy Nichols Director Richard Fleischer Certificate PGYear 1958 Screen Widescreen 1661 Languages English ; Spanish ; German
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Danish ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; German for the hearing impaired ; Greek ; Hungarian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour & 49 minutes (approx)
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Dear reader There is nothing to be found in Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events' but misery & despair You still have time to choose another international best-selling series to read But if you insist on discovering the unpleasant adventures of the Baudelaire orphans then proceed with caution violet Klaus & Sunny Baudelaire are intelligent children They are charming & resourceful & have pleasant facial features Unfortunately they are exceptionally unlucky In The Vile Village the siblings face such unpleasant matters as migrating crows an angry mob a newspaper headline the arrest of innocent people the Deluxe cell & some very strange hats In the tradition of great storytellers from Dickens to Dahl comes an exquisitely dark comedy that is both literary & irreverent hilarious & deftly crafted Despite their wretched contents A Series of Unfortunate Events' has sold 60 million copies worldwide & been made into a Hollywood film starring Jim Carrey & in the future things are poised to get much worse thanks to the forthcoming Netflix series starring Neil Patrick Harris You have been warned Are you unlucky enough to own all 13 adventures? The Bad Beginning The Reptile Room The Wide Window The Miserable Mill The Austere Academy The Ersatz Elevator The Vile Village The Hostile Hospital The Carnivorous Carnival The Slippery Slope The Grim Grotto The Penultimate Peril The End And what about All the Wrong Questions? In this four-book series a 13-year-old Lemony chronicles his dangerous & puzzling apprenticeship in a mysterious organisation that nobody knows anything about Who Could That Be at This Hour?' When Did you Last See Her?' Shouldn't You Be in School?' Why is This Night Different from All Other Nights?' Lemony Snicket was born before you were & is likely to die before you as well He was born in a small town where the inhabitants were suspicious & prone to riot He grew up near the sea & currently lives beneath it Until recently he was living somewhere else Brett Helquist was born in Ganado Arizona grew up in Orem Utah & now lives in New York City He earned a bachelor's degree in fine arts from Brigham Young University & has been illustrating ever since His art has appeared in many publications including Cricket magazine & The New York Times ...