An orphan with no voice but an extraordinary musical gift A man of music who discovers her gift Heartsong is a spellbinding tale about the healing power of music set against the mystery & beauty of Venice" Destined to be a future classic" Manchester Evening News" This is a spectacular book a quiet heart-soaring triumph" Big Issue"A very special present for music-loving readers" The Times Abandoned at the orphanage in Venice as a baby Laura has never spoken Her life is transformed when the composer Vivaldi unlocks her passion for music The seasons turn dark turns to light & miracles happen Carnegie award-winning author Kevin Crossley-Holland makes every word a master stroke This short novel is exquisitely illustrated by acclaimed artist Jane Ray Her work is inspired by Vivaldi's Four Seasons & the real girls & boys who lived & laughed & worked in the Venetian orphanage ...

Heartsone is C J Sansom's fifith spellbinding mystery inthe Shardlake series Summer 1545 England is at war Henry VIII's invasion of France has gone badly wrong & a massive French fleet is preparing to sail across the Channel As the English fleet gathers at Portsmouth the country raises the largest militia army it has ever seen The King has debased the currency to pay for the war & England is in the grip of soaring inflation & economic crisis Meanwhile Matthew Shardlake is given an intriguing legal case by an old servant of Queen Catherine Parr Asked to investigate claims of monstrous wrongs committed against a young ward of the court which have already involved one mysterious death Shardlake & his assistant Barak journey to Portsmouth Once arrived Shardlake & Barak find themselves in a city preparing to become a war zone; & Shardlake takes the opportunity to also investigate the mysterious past of Ellen Fettiplace a young woman incarcerated in the Bedlam The emerging mysteries around the young ward & the events that destroyed Ellen's family nineteen years before involve Shardlake in reunions both with an old friend & an old enemy close to the throne Events will converge on board one of the King's great warships primed for battle in Portsmouth harbour ...

An exploration of love loss & secrets Set in contemporary Ireland the story is intertwined with one set in 1940's In both past & present it seems that everybody has something to hide When Phoebe's married lover dies in a car accident she dare not openly express her grief for fear of their affair being found out Heart broken she leaves her life in England to search out the old boathouse bequeathed to her by her Irish grandmother Enthralled by the stunning scenery of the West Coast of Ireland she soon finds herself swept up by life in the nearby village of Carraigmore When she discovers a collection of her grandmother's old diaries hidden beneath the boat house floorboards she becomes immersed in a story of family scandal repressed sexuality & a passionate affair between her grandmother & a young Irish artist As Phoebe tries to piece together the truth about her grandmother's past she begins to realise that the repercussions of what happened all those years before have shaped not only her own life but the lives of those in the small community around her With many questions unanswered Phoebe sets out to find out more but it seems that no one in Carraigmore is quite telling her the truth ...

Boy meets boy Boys become friends Boys fall in love An LGBTQ graphic novel about life love & everything that happens in between
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Having developed his skill as a master of contemporary crime drama writer-director Michael Mann displayed every aspect of that mastery in Heat an intelligent character-driven thriller from 1995 which also marked the first onscreen pairing of Robert De Niro & Al Pacino The two great actors had played father & son in the separate time periods of The Godfather Part II but this was the first film in which the pair appeared together & although their only scene together is brief it&s the riveting fulcrum of this high-tech cops-&-robbers scenario De Niro plays a master thief with highly skilled partners (Val Kilmer & Tom Sizemore) whose latest heist draws the attention of Pacino playing a seasoned Los Angeles detective whose investigation reveals that cop & criminal lead similar lives Both are so devoted to their professions that their personal lives are a disaster Pacino&s with a wife (Diane Venora) who cheats to avoid the reality of their desolate marriage; De Niro pays the price for a life with no outside connections; & Kilmer&s wife (Ashley Judd) has all but given up hope that her husband will quit his criminal career These are men obsessed & as De Niro & Pacino know they&ll both do whatever&s necessary to bring the other down ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play When Al Pacino & Robert De Niro square off HEAT sizzles Written & directed by Michael Mann HEAT

Includes:: dazzling set pieces & a bank heist that USA Today's Mike Clark calls the greatest action scene of recent times It also offers the most impressive collection of actors in one movie this year (David Ansen Newsweek) Val Kilmer Jon Voight Tom Sizemore & Ashley Judd are among the memorable supporting players in this tale of a brilliant LA cop (Pacino) following the trail from a deadly armed robbery to a crew headed by an equally brilliant master thief (De Niro) HEAT goes way beyond the expectations of the cops-&-criminals genre
- & into the realm of movie masterpiece Actors Al Pacino Robert De Niro Val Kilmer Tom Sizemore Directors Michael Mann Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1


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