SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLD DAGGER AWARDThe latest bestselling Venice crime novel from celebrated author Donna Leon As a favour to his wealthy father-in-law the Count Falier Commissario Guido Brunetti agrees to investigate the seemingly innocent wish of the Count's best friend the elderly & childless Gonzalo to adopt a younger man as his son 272 pages Leon Donna ...

Here at last is the astonishing sequel to Alan Bennett's classic Writing Home updated for paperback Untold Stories contains significant previously unpublished work including a poignant memoir of his family & of growing up in Leeds together with his much celebrated diary for the years 1996-2004 & numerous other exceptional essays reviews & comic pieces Bennett as always is both amusing & poignant whether he's discussing his modest childhood or his work with figures such as Maggie Smith Thora Hird & John Gielgud Since the success of Beyond the Fringe in the 1960s Alan Bennett has delighted audiences worldwide with his gentle humour & wry observations about life His many works include Forty Years On The Lady in the Van Talking Heads A Question of Attribution & The Madness of King George The History Boys opened to great acclaim at the National in 2004 & is winner of the Evening Standard Award the South Bank Award & the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play Untold Stories is published jointly with Profile Books ...

Untold Adventures Await is the customizable storytelling game powered by Rory&s Story Cubes Players become the heroes of a thrilling tale that unfolds in under 60 minutes Think of Untold as your favorite TV series except rather than just sitting back & watching you&re right in the middle of the action! Every game of Untold is an episode of five distinct scenes each featuring intriguing locales dangerous threats & shocking plot twists that propel the action toward an epic showdown Scene Cards & Story Cubes provide the elements of the adventure while Reaction Cards reveal what happens when the players take action Untold takes collaborative storytelling in a whole new direction allowing players of all ages to unleash their creativity thanks to a unique game engine that&s extremely accessible always unpredictable & rooted in inspiration Players can also craft multiple-episode story arcs that will see their characters & their world grow as new challenges arise Whatever genres of story you enjoy Untold lets one to four players experience endless & unforgettable tales What amazing adventures will you have? They await you in Untold!1–4 Players 45–60 Min Playing Time Age 8 ...

Mulk Raj Anand's extraordinarily powerful story of an Untouchable in India's caste system with a new introduction by Ramachandra Guha author of Gandhi Bakha is a proud & attractive young man yet none the less he is an Untouchable
- an outcast in India's caste system It is a system that is even now only slowly changing & was then as cruel & debilitating as that of apartheid Into this vivid re-creation of one day in the life of Bakha sweeper & toilet-cleaner Anand pours a vitality fire & richness of detail that earn his place as one of the twentieth century's most important Indian writers' One of the most eloquent & imaginative works to deal with this difficult & emotive subject' Martin Seymour-Smith' It recalled to me very vividly the occasions I have walked 'the wrong way' in an Indian city & it is a way down which no novelist has yet taken me' E M Forster
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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 French comedy drama charting an unusual friendship Paul (François Cluzet) a rich aristocrat & habitual thrill-seeker becomes quadriplegic after a paragliding accident Alone in the world & unable to care for himself in even the most basic ways Paul employs young Senegalese emigre Driss (Omar Sy) as his carer Despite their very different backgrounds & outlooks on life the two men quickly form a strong bond teaching each other important life lessons about acceptance respect & the true meaning of friendship in the process ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Federal Cyber Crimes Task Force agent Jennifer Marsh & her co-workers must work fast to stop a sadistic killer who is using eager internet users around the world to help him in his crimes Age Rating 18 ...

When Jessica brings her granny into school for ' Unusual Day' Miss Johnson thinks she's got muddled up with ' Family Day' Her granny may be wearing a tracksuit & trainers but she still looks like a fairly ordinary granny However when ' Unusual Day' is disrupted by a fire next door everybody discovers just how unusual Jessica's granny is ...

pp 1 margin 00px 00px 00px 00px; font 120px Helvetica; -webkit-text-stroke 000000spans 1 font-kerning none In the gossip-fuelled world of Victorian London Persephone Lavelle is the name on everyone's lips As Mary's secret identity is exposed & rumours fly she flees the scandal by escaping to Venice Lost among the twisting alleyways & shadowy canals she encounters a mysterious masked young man He offers her the world but at what price? ...

In the middle of a rainy Swedish summer a little girl is abducted from a crowded train Despite hundreds of potential witnesses no one noticed when the girl was taken Her mother left behind at the previous station alerted the crew immediately But as the train pulled into Stockholm Central Station the girl was nowhere to be seen To Inspector Alex Recht of the Stockholm police this looks like a classic custody row But none of the evidence adds up & young Investigative Analyst Fredrika Bergman is convinced the case is far more complex than her boss is prepared to admit So when the missing child is found dead in the far north of Sweden with the word UNWANTED scribbled on her forehead the rule book is finally thrown out of the window Now on the trail of a ruthless murderer with a terrifying agenda will Alex & Fredrika manage to put aside their differences & work together to find the killer before it's too late? ...

A dazzling passionate polemic against anti-science movements of all kinds Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike Keats accused Newton of destroying the poetry of the rainbow by explaining the origin of its colours In this illuminating & provocative book Richard Dawkins argues that Keats could not have been more mistaken & shows how an understanding of science enhances our wonder of the world He argues that mysteries do not lose their poetry because they are solved the solution is often more beautiful than the puzzle uncovering even deeper mysteries Dawkins takes up the most important & compelling topics in modern science from astronomy & genetics to language & virtual reality combining them in a landmark statement on the human appetite for wonder Cover note Each copy of the new edition of Unweaving the Rainbow features a unique wavelength pattern No two covers are exactly alike ...