Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A classic suspense-filled thriller from some of British cinema’s greatest talents The Fallen Idol tells the story of Philippe (Bobby Henrey) the young son of a diplomat who trying to understand the adult world as seen through the eyes of a child lies to defend those closest to him When his butler friend Baines (Ralph Richardson) is suspected of murdering his wife the vital information that Philippe holds falls on deaf ears… Director Carol Reed & Graham Greene collaborated as they did on The Third Man to create this exquisitely crafted intelligent thriller which once more demonstrates the unique spark that these two mavericks brought to British cinema With magnificent performances from Richardson & the child actor Henrey & evoking comparisons with among others Alfred Hitchcock this classic thriller garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Director & Best Screenplay ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A classic suspense-filled thriller from some of British cinema’s greatest talents The Fallen Idol tells the story of Philippe (Bobby Henrey) the young son of a diplomat who trying to understand the adult world as seen through the eyes of a child lies to defend those closest to him When his butler friend Baines (Ralph Richardson) is suspected of murdering his wife the vital information that Philippe holds falls on deaf ears… Director Carol Reed & Graham Greene collaborated as they did on The Third Man to create this exquisitely crafted intelligent thriller which once more demonstrates the unique spark that these two mavericks brought to British cinema With magnificent performances from Richardson & the child actor Henrey & evoking comparisons with among others Alfred Hitchcock this classic thriller garnered Academy Award nominations for Best Director & Best Screenplay ...

Unexpected Unrequited Forbidden Eternal Everyone has their own love story & in a twist of fate four extraordinary love stories combine over the course of a romantic Valentine's Day in Medieval England Miles & Shelby find love where they least expect it Roland learns a painful lesson about finding & losing love Arianne pays the price for a love so fierce it burns & for the first
- & last
- time Daniel & Luce will spend a night together like none other Lauren Kate's Fallen in Love is filled with love stories the ones everyone has been waiting for True love never says goodbye

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Vanguard Edition
Includes: Fallen Legion revenants game Lucien's Lost ledge (mini art booklet) Songs for a fallen world
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Vanguard Edition
Includes: Fallen Legion revenants game Lucien's Lost ledge (mini art booklet) Songs for a fallen world
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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 Europe 1815 War rages across the continent Fallen Soldiers tells the story of a British soldier trapped behind enemy lines A young noblewoman&s coach is hijacked & her husband is murdered by a desperate British soldier At gunpoint the soldier spins her an outlandish tale of plagues conspiracies & dead men returning from the grave Wounded in battle John Cross has lost the will to fight & has resigned himself to seeing out the remainder of the war in a military hospital But against his will John&s superior officers send him out into no-mans land to investigate rumours of a strange plague that is ravaging the area Captured by the French John s companions are deliberately exposed to the disease Together they escape but one by one his friends succumb to horrific deaths only to come back from the dead & John is forced to fight for his life The discovery of a secret French outpost reveals a terrible plot to resurrect fallen French soldiers but imprisoned once more John meets a strange prisoner who reveals the real truth behind the disease In a race against time John must make the ultimate sacrifice to stop the man behind the conspiracy ...

SOME ANGELS ARE DESTINED TO FALL Instant Intense Weirdly familiar The moment Luce looks at Daniel she knows she has never felt like this before Except she can't shake the feeling that she has & with him
- a boy she doesn't remember ever setting eyes on Will her attempt to find out why enlighten her
- or destroy her? Dangerously exciting & darkly romantic Fallen is a thrilling story about forbidden love

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Will friendship overcome the social boundaries of Edwardian London in this bestselling historical tale perfect for fans of Audrey Niffenegger & Sarah Waters One cold January morning in the wake of Queen Victoria's death two young sets of eyes meet across the graves at Highgate Cemetery One pair belongs to smartly dressed Lavinia Waterhouse whose mother clings to the traditional values she sees slipping away; the other to Maude Colemanwhose mother longs to escape the stifling grip of Victorian society Thrust together by the girls' friendship these two very different families embark on a new century that promises electricity emancipation & other changes that will shake the very foundations of their lives ...

Winner of the 2017 Griffin Prize Winner of the 2016 Costa Poetry Award Shortlisted for the 2016 T S Eliot Award Shortlisted for the 2016 Forward Prize A Daily Telegraph Guardian Herald New Statesman Sunday Times Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Alice Oswald's poems are always vivid & distinct alert & deeply physically engaged in the natural world Mutability
- a sense that all matter is unstable in the face of mortality
- is at the heart of this new collection & each poem is involved in that drama the held tension that is embodied life & life's losing struggle with the gravity of nature Working as before with an ear to the oral tradition these poems attend to the organic shapes & sounds & momentum of the language as it's spoken as well as how it's thought fresh fluid & propulsive but also fragmentary repetitive These are poems that are written to be read aloud Orpheus & Tithonus appear at the beginning & end of this book alive in an English landscape stuck in the clockwork of their own speech & the Hours
- goddesses of the seasons & the natural apportioning of Time
- are the presiding figures The persistent conditions are flux & falling & the lines are in constant motion approaching from daring new angles our experience of being human & coalescing into poems of simple stunning beauty



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Cornwall 1844 On a lonely moorland farm not far from Jamaica Inn farmhand Shilly finds love in the arms of Charlotte Dymond But Charlotte has many secrets possessing powers that cause both good & ill When she's found on the moor with her throat cut Shilly is determined to find out who is responsible & so is the stranger calling himself Mr Williams who asks for Shilly's help Mr Williams has secrets too & Shilly is thrown into the bewildering new world of modern detection ...