It's the middle of the night on board the Leaping Salmon but Mole can't sleep First he's too hot then he's too cold & then he's afraid of the dark! Can his best friend Mouse make everything just right? Packed with gorgeous illustrations from Caroline Pedler (Badger & the Great Journey & The Perfect Present) I Can't Sleep is the perfect bedtime tale for restless toddlers! ...

"I write this sitting in the kitchen sink" is the memorable first line of this enchanting coming-of-age story told in the form of Cassandra Mortmain&s journal Cassandra wittily describes life growing up in a crumbling castle with her father who suffers from crippling writer&s block her glamorous but ineffectual step-mother & her vain but beloved sister Rose When two visiting Americans arrive all of their lives are turned upside down & Cassandra experiences her first love This is a classic coming-of-age story beloved of generations of teenage & adult readers by Dodie Smith who also wrote The Hundred & One Dalmatians ...

&I write this sitting in the kitchen sink& is the first line of this timeless witty & enchanting novel about growing up Cassandra Mortmain lives with her bohemian & impoverished family in a crumbling castle in the middle of nowhere Her journal records her life with her beautiful bored sister Rose her fadingly glamorous stepmother Topaz her little brother Thomas & her eccentric novelist father who suffers from a financially crippling writer&s block However all their lives are turned upside down when the American heirs to the castle arrive & Cassandra finds herself falling in love for the first time ...

&I write this sitting in the kitchen sink’ This is the diary of Cassandra Mortmain which tells of her extraordinary family & their crumbling castle home Cassandra&s father was once a famous writer but now he mainly reads detective novels while his family slide into genteel poverty Her sister Rose is bored & beautiful & desperate to marry riches Their step-mother Topaz has habit of striding through the countryside wearing only her wellington boots But all their lives will be soon be transformed by the arrival of new neighbours from America & Cassandra finds herself falling in love BACKSTORY Get to know Dodie Smith & be inspired to keep your own diary! ...

At least 5000 years old the I Ching is a book of oracles containing the whole of human experience Used for divination it is a method of exploring the unconscious; through the symbolism of its hexagrams we are guided towards the solution of difficult problems & life situations It can also be read as a book of wisdom revealing the laws of life to which we must all attune ourselves if we are to live in peace & harmony ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This box set features the series as originally broadcast--13 episodes of circa 50mins each I Claudius is a 1976 BBC Television adaptation of Robert Graves& I Claudius & Claudius the God Written by Jack Pulman it proved one of the corporation&s most successful drama serials of all time It starred Derek Jacobi as Claudius with Sin Phillips Brian Blessed John Hurt & Patrick Stewart I Claudius follows the history of Rome narrated by the elderly Claudius from the death of Marcellus nephew & son-in-law of Augustus in the first episode to Claudius& own death in the last The series opens with Augustus the emperor of Rome attempting to find an heir & his wife Livia plotting to elevate her own son Tiberius to this position The plotting & double-crossing continue for many decades through the conspiracy of Sejanus & the rule of the lunatic emperor Caligula culminating in Claudius& seemingly accidental rise to power Special Features 70-minute documentary about the TV show 70-minute documentary about an abandoned 1937 film version 4 & a half minutes of alternative scenes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Ex-Los Angeles cop turned private eye Kline (Josh Hartnett) is hired by a billionaire industrialist to search for his missing son Following a trail that leads him to Asia he soon finds himself in Hong Kong where he is sucked into the world of the city&s most powerful gangster Su Dongpo (Byung-hun Lee from The Good The Bad The Weird & GI Joe The Rise of Cobra) Traumatized by his past as a cop & memories of the serial killer Hasford (Elias Koteas from Crash Let Me In Shutter Island) Kline must use everything that he has at his disposal to stay on track & find the missing son Action packed & explosive I Come With The Rain features a career best performance from lead actor Josh Harnett ...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 & THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERYour body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes It's an entire world a colony full of life In other words you contain multitudes They sculpt our organs protect us from diseases guide our behaviour & bombard us with their genes They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth In I Contain Multitudes Ed Yong opens our eyes & invites us to marvel at ourselves & other animals in a new light less as individuals & more as thriving ecosystems You'll never think about your mind body or preferences in the same way again ' Super-interesting He just keeps imparting one surprising fascinating insight after the next I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best' Bill Gates ...

Dog lovers will laugh out loud at the quirkiness & unbridled enthusiasm of their canine pals in this hilarious collection of poems by lovable if sometimes misguided dogs In these tongue-in-cheek poems the author who successfully interpreted the musings of poetic felines in the bestseller I Could Pee on This & Other Poems by Cats now turns his talent to our canine friends who yearn to share their creativity & explain some of their hidden motives Featuring such titles as 'I Dropped a Ball' 'I Lose My Mind When You Leave the House' & ' Can You Smell That' & accompanied by photos of the canine authors throughout I Could Chew on This perfectly captures the inner workings of the canine psyche ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An upbeat & acerbic romantic comedy with a real edge from writerdirector Amy Heckerling (Clueless) Rosie a smart sexy & successful single mom refuses to accept that life has passed her by just because she has turned 40 Rosie stays young at heart through the love & friendship she shares with her teenage daughter Then talented young actor Adam walks into her life & straight into her heart Finally Rosie seems to have met the right man though he&s many years her junior but is this just one more time she&ll have to say I could never be your woman? Actors Michelle Pfeiffer Paul Rudd Tracey Ullman Fred Willard Henry Winkler Stacey Dash Jon Lovitz & Saoirse Ronan Director Amy Heckerling Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Stereo Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)
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