Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The first film adaptation of James Hilton&s British school saga Goodbye Mr Chips is a genuine Hollywood classic Despite competition from Gone with the Wind The Four Feathers & The Wizard of Oz (all 1939) the film won a Best Actor Oscar for Robert Donat & six further major nominations Donat who had previously starred in Hilton adaptation Knight Without Armour (1937) is superb as a beloved public-school Latin teacher in an episodic tale spanning 1870-1933 From initially incompetent young teacher he meets his wife (well played by Greer Garson) during an extended idyll in Austria only to endure the horror of former pupils becoming victims of the Great War ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A former headmaster of a private boys& school looks over his life remembering pupils & colleagues but above all the courtship & marriage that transformed his life ...

When her beloved small dog died Bel Mooney was astonished at the depth of her ongoing sorrow Sharing her loss online & in a newspaper article brought a deluge of responses spurring Bel to explore these feelings further Why do humans mourn pets? Can animals themselves grieve
- & do they have souls? In Goodbye Pet & See You in Heaven Bel sets off on an emotional journey to learn more about pet bereavement She is astounded by inexplicable &signs& of her dog&s spirit watches Bonnie&s ashes being turned into glass talks to experts & discusses the mysterious enduring energy of love She discovers why Ancient Egyptians mummified animals & what different faiths myths writers & scientists have to say about animals & the afterlife She also looks back over her own life & reflects on lessons learned from companion animals
- & from wildlife too As informative as it is deeply moving Goodbye Pet is an intensely personal uplifting look at the love we share with pets both in life & afterwards Enriched by heartfelt stories & inspirational words it is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever loved an animal

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When her beloved small dog died Bel Mooney was astonished at the depth of her ongoing sorrow Sharing her loss online & in a newspaper article brought a deluge of responses spurring Bel to explore these feelings further Why do humans mourn pets? Can animals themselves grieve
- & do they have souls? In Goodbye Pet & See You in Heaven Bel sets off on an emotional journey to learn more about pet bereavement She is astounded by inexplicable &signs& of her dog&s spirit watches Bonnie&s ashes being turned into glass talks to experts & discusses the mysterious enduring energy of love She discovers why Ancient Egyptians mummified animals & what different faiths myths writers & scientists have to say about animals & the afterlife She also looks back over her own life & reflects on lessons learned from companion animals
- & from wildlife too As informative as it is deeply moving Goodbye Pet is an intensely personal uplifting look at the love we share with pets both in life & afterwards Enriched by heartfelt stories & inspirational words it is a book to be treasured by anyone who has ever loved an animal

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In 1914 Britain faces a new kind of war For Edward & Beatrice Hunter their children servants & neighbours life will never be the same again Perfect for fans of Downton Abbey & Barbara Taylor-Bradford For David the eldest war means a chance to do something noble; but enlisting will break his mother's heart His sister Diana nineteen & beautiful longs for marriage She has her heart set on Charles Wroughton son of Earl Wroughton but Charles will never be allowed to marry a banker's daughter Below stairs Cook & Ada the head housemaid grow more terrified of German invasion with every newspaper atrocity story Ethel under housemaid can't help herself when it comes to men & now soldiers add to the temptation; yet there's more to this flighty girl than meets the eye The once-tranquil village of Northcote reels under an influx of khaki volunteers wounded soldiers & Belgian refugees The war is becoming more dangerous & everyone must find a way to adapt to this rapidly changing world Goodbye Piccadilly is the first book in the War at Home series by Cynthia Harrod-Eagles author of the much-loved Morland Dynasty novels Set against the real events of 1914 Goodbye Piccadilly is extraordinary in scope & imagination & is a compelling introduction to the Hunter family ...

An autobiographical work that describes firsthand the great tectonic shifts in English society following the First World War Robert Graves's Goodbye to All That is a matchless evocation of the Great War's haunting legacy published in Penguin Modern Classics In 1929 Robert Graves went to live abroad permanently vowing 'never to make England my home again' This is his superb account of his life up until that 'bitter leave-taking' from his childhood & desperately unhappy school days at Charterhouse to his time serving as a young officer in the First World War that was to haunt him throughout his life It also contains memorable encounters with fellow writers & poets including Siegfried Sassoon & Thomas Hardy & covers his increasingly unhappy marriage to Nancy Nicholson Goodbye to All That with its vivid harrowing descriptions of the Western Front is a classic war document & also has immense value as one of the most candid self-portraits of an artist ever written Robert Ranke Graves (1895-1985) was a British poet novelist & critic He is best known for the historical novel I Claudius & the critical study of myth & poetry The White Goddess His autobiography Goodbye to All That was published in 1929 quickly establishing itself as a modern classic Graves also translated Apuleius Lucan & Suetonius for the Penguin Classics & compiled the first modern dictionary of Greek Mythology The Greek Myths His translation of The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (with Omar Ali-Shah) is also published in Penguin Classics If you enjoyed Goodbye to All That you might like Ford Madox Ford's Parade's End also available in Penguin Modern Classics' His wonderful autobiography' Jeremy Paxman Daily Mail ...

Set in the 1930s Goodbye to Berlin evokes the glamour & sleaze excess & repression of Berlin society Isherwood shows the lives of people at threat from the rise of the Nazis a wealthy Jewish heiress Natalia Landauer a gay couple Peter & Otto & an English upper-class waif the divinely decadent Sally Bowles ...

Goodbye Perfect is a beautiful & emotional contemporary YA novel with a powerful friendship at its heart by bestselling author Sara Barnard When I was wild you were steady Now you are wild
- what am I? Eden Mc Kinley knows she can't count on much in this world but she can depend on Bonnie her solid steady straight-A best friend So it's a bit of a surprise when Bonnie runs away with a guy Eden knows nothing about five days before the start of their GCSEs & it's the last person she would have expected Sworn to secrecy & bound by loyalty only Eden knows Bonnie's location & that's the way it has to stay There's no way she's betraying her best friend Not even when she's faced with police questioning suspicious parents & her own growing doubts As the days pass & things begin to unravel Eden is forced to question everything she thought she knew about the world her best friend & herself
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' Meet the new king of decluttering'
- The Times' Take your spring cleaning to the next level with Goodbye Things by Fumio Sasaki'
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It&s the most anticipated moment of any heist time to split the loot Of course everybody trusts the boss to divide everything evenly right? But will the boss be even-handed & make sure that every "made critter" gets a piece? Maybe the boss will pay off only some of them & keep the rest of it Good Critters is a game for 4-8 criminal critters who are pulling off heists & fighting over the loot! Whoever is chosen as the boss can distribute the loot from the heist however they desire but it&s the crew that has the final say If the crew doesn&t like the split they might just tell the boss to take a hike & put some other critter in charge! In the end the critter that collects the most valuable stash of loot wins! Players 4-8 Playing time 30-45 mins Ages 12 ...