A poignant coming-of-age novel set in a Welsh mining town Richard Llewellyn's How Green Was My Valley is a paean to a more innocent age published in Penguin Modern Classics Growing up in a mining community in rural South Wales Huw Morgan is taught many harsh lessons
- at the kitchen table at Chapel & around the pit-head Looking back on the hardships of his early life where difficult days are faced with courage but the valleys swell with the sound of Welsh voices it becomes clear that there is nowhere so green as the landscape of his own memory An immediate bestseller on publication in 1939 How Green Was My Valley quickly became one of the best-loved novels of the twentieth century Poetic & nostalgic it is an elegy to a lost world Richard Dafydd Vivian Llewellyn Lloyd (1906-1983) better known by his pen name Richard Llewellyn claimed to have been born in St David's Pembrokeshire Wales; after his death he was discovered to have been born of Welsh parents in Hendon Middlesex His famous first novel How Green Was My Valley (1939) was begun in St David's from a draft he had written in India & was later adapted into an Oscar-winning film by director John Ford None But the Lonely Heart his second novel was published in 1943 & subsequently made into a film starring Cary Grant & Ethel Barrymore As well as novels including Green Green My Valley Now (1975) & I Stand on a Quiet Shore (1982) Llewellyn wrote two highly successful plays Poison Pen & Noose If you enjoyed How Green Was My Valley you might like Barry Hines' A Kestrel for a Knave also available in Penguin Modern Classics' Vivid eloquent poetical glowing with an inner flame of emotion' The Times Literary Supplement
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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 Winner of five Academy Awards including Best Picture Best Director & Best Supporting Actor (Donald Crisp) this " Hollywood milestone" (Halliwell&s Film Guide) from producer Darryl E Zanuck & director John Ford is "one of the finest" pictures ever made (Variety) Seen through the eyes of a boy (Roddy Mc Dowall) How Green Was My Valley is the inspiring yet heartbreaking story of young parents (Donald Crisp & Sara Allgood) struggling to keep their family together as they endure severe hardship in a small Welsh mining town Co-starring Maureen O& Hara & Walter Pidgeon this acclaimed classic captures the sentiments & issues of its time while reminding us of the dreams struggles & triumphs that can touch every family Actors Walter Pidgeon Maureen O& Hara Anna Lee Donald Crisp Roddy Mc Dowall John Loder Sara Allgood Barry Fitzgerald Patric Knowles Welsh Singers Morton Lowry Arthur Shields Ann E Todd Frederick Worlock & Richard Fraser Director John Ford Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1941 Screen 431331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Subtitles Czech; Danish; Finnish; Hebrew; Hungarian; Icelandic; Norwegian; Polish; Portuguese; Swedish; English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 54 minutes (approx)
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How Hard Can It Be? is the fourth hilarious volume in Jeremy Clarkson's The World According to Clarkson series How hard can it be To build a power station without upsetting the eco-mentalists? To seek world domination if you've been hit the ugly stick? For the Met Office to get yesterday's weather right? In volume four of The World According to Clarkson Jeremy Clarkson pours scorn on the nonsensical the dumb the idiotic & the plain foolish in his continuing quest to discover where exactly we've all gone wrong Along the way he ponders Whether conquering France might solve the immigration problem What happens when you ignore proper warning labels What would happen if we turned the internet off Often controversial frequently scathing but always funnier than James May Jeremy Clarkson shows us how we could so easily make the world a better place' Brilliant laugh-out-loud' Daily Telegraph' Outrageously funny will have you in stitches' Time Out Number-one bestseller & presenter of the hugely popular Top Gear Jeremy Clarkson writes on cars current affairs & anything else that annoys him in his sharp & funny collections Born To Be Riled Clarkson On Cars Don't Stop Me Now Driven To Distraction Round the Bend Motorworld & I Know You Got Soul are also available as Penguin paperbacks; the Penguin App i Clarkson The Book of Cars can be downloaded on the App Store ...

All Amber wants is a bit of love from her estranged mum & she's hoping that a summer together at Mum's Californian kids' camp will help patch up her shattered heart But then she meets Prom King Kyle
- & offers her heart up for breaking all over again Even with BFFs Evie & Lottie's advice Amber's finding love hard Is it worth the fight? 480 pages Bourne Holly
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Presenting some ground-breaking ideas this book prompts a radical reappraisal of how we think about & understand male intimate abuse & violence ...

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 polar station on a desolate island in the Arctic Ocean Sergei a seasoned meteorologist & Pavel a recent college graduate are spending months in complete isolation on the once strategic research base Pavel receives an important radio message & is still trying to find the right moment to tell Sergei when fear lies & suspicions start poisoning the atmosphere Actors Grigory Dobrygin Sergei Puskepalis & Igor Chernevich Director Aleksei Popogrebsky Certificate 12 years & over Year 2010 Languages Russian Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 9 minutes (approx) ...

Sergei a meteorologist & a recent graduate are living in a polar station on a tiny island in the Arctic Ocean studying the area One day an important message comes through for Sergei but the graduate is too scared to pass it on When the deception is discovered times on the desolate island become tense ...

Experience how it feels to be the subject of a blasphemy prosecution! Find out why 'wool' is a funny word! See how jokes work their inner mechanisms revealed before your astonished face! In 2001 after over a decade in the business Stewart Lee quit st&-up disillusioned & drained & went off to direct a loss-making musical Jerry Springer The Opera Nine years later How I Escaped My Certain Fate details his return to live performance & the journey that took him from an early retirement to his position as the most critically acclaimed st&-up in Britain the winner of BAFTAs & British Comedy Awards & the affirmation of being rated the 41st best stand up ever Here is Stewart Lee's own account of his remarkable comeback told through transcripts of the three legendary full-length shows that sealed his reputation Astonishingly frank & detailed in-depth notes reveal the inspiration & inner workings of his act With unprecedented access to a leading comedian's creative process this book tells us just what it was like to write these shows develop the performance & take them on tour How I Escaped My Certain Fate is everything we have come to expect from Stewart Lee fiercely intelligent unsparingly honest & very very funny ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play American teenager Daisy is sent to live with her aunt & cousins for the summer on their remote farm in the English countryside Defiant & unhappy city girl Daisy at first refuses to warm to her new rural surroundings With her aunt engrossed in her role as a peace negotiator Daisy & her cousins are left to live in an almost utopian setting & she begins to soften towards her new family & friends However their perfect summer is blown apart by the sudden outbreak of a war leaving them isolated & forced to fend for themselves When they are violently separated they must embark on a terrifying journey in order to get home Product Details Actors Saoirse Ronan George Mac Kay & Tom Holland Director Kevin Macdonald Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

How I Live Now is an original & poignant book by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now is the powerful & engaging story of Daisy the precocious New Yorker & her English cousin Edmond torn apart as war breaks out in London from the multi award-winning Meg Rosoff How I Live Now has been adapted for the big screen by Kevin Macdonald starring Saoirse Ronan as Daisy & releases in 2013 Fifteen-year-old Daisy thinks she knows all about love Her mother died giving birth to her & now her dad has sent her away for the summer to live in the English countryside with cousins she's never even met There she'll discover what real love is something violent mysterious & wonderful There her world will be turned upside down & a perfect summer will explode into a million bewildering pieces How will Daisy live then?' Fresh honest rude funny I put it down with tears on my face'
- Julie Myerson Guardian ' Assured powerful engaging you will want to read everything that Rosoff is capable of writing'
- Observer ' An unforgettable adventure'
- Sunday Times Bestselling author Meg Rosoff has received great critical acclaim since the publication of her first novel How I Live Now (winner of the Guardian Children's Fiction Prize) Her other novels Just in Case (winner of the 2007 Carnegie Medal) The Bride's Farewell & What I Was which was described by The Times as ' Samuel Beckett on ecstasy' are also available from Puffin Follow Meg on Twitter megrosoff Also by Meg Rosoff How I Live Now; Just In Case; What I Was; The Bride's Farewell; There is No Dog


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