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 ...

60s B-Movie romp based very loosely on the tale of Bodicea queen of the native Britons In the year 60 AD Queen Salina (Carita) ruler in the absence of her late father King Priam (Wilfred Lawson) enters into a power-sharing agreement with Justinian (Don Murray) a fair & just Roman ruler This displeases the hardliner factions in both the Druid & Roman camps Worse is yet to come as the fair & tender Salina & the cultured rugged Justinian begin to share each other&s straw cots
- incensing all concerned & leading to the prospect of a marriage that whilst offering lasting peace in the meantime threatens to tear the country apart Plotting conniving & treachery naturally ensue
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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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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 ...

Morgan Perincall's marriage is already disintegrating when her husband volunteers for service in France Dazed by his desertion she sends their children west to safety & leaves London for the dubious sanctuary of her childhood home the Villa Rouge Situated on the East coast it is vulnerable to German attack Caught between the open hostility of her father's housekeeper & the suffocating affection of Charlie who for all his enthusiasm is not fit for service Morgan's days are brightened by the arrival of an RAF squadron
- a chance to relive the romances of her wilder youth But the fall of Dunkirk brings a sobering taste of defeat & the Battle of Britain soon sees the once-carefree pilots fighting for their lives their country With danger drawing ever closer & the secrets of her past beginning to unravel Morgan discovers that sometimes the best intentions can leave the darkest legacies
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A story of survival set in a small fishing villlage near Bombay Lila & Hari aged 13 & 12 struggle to keep the family including two young sisters going when their mother is ill & their father usually the worse for drink When Hari goes to Bombay to find work Lila seems to be responsible for everything Although the book paints a picture of extreme poverty it demonstrates the strength of the family even in the most extreme circumstances & offers a powerful picture of another culture ...

An entertaining book written with Fort's characteristic conversational style A real pleasure to read'
- BBC Countryfile Charming
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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 The Village is an epic drama series for BBC One starring Maxine Peake & John Simm charting the life & turbulent times of one English village across the whole of the 20th century written by Bafta-winning writer Peter Moffat The Village charts the life & turbulent times on one English village throughout the twentieth century with the life & memories of one man Bert Middleton providing the backbone to the story as he lives across the entire hundred years From boyhood to extreme old age Bert witnesses births & deaths love & betrayal & the great political events & social upheaval that shaped & made Britain & his village what it is today Actors John Simm Maxine Peake Nico Mirallegro & Juliet Stevenson Director Antonia Bird & Gillies Mackinnon Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English Duration 6 hours (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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