THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLERA RICHARD & JUDY BOOK CLUB CHOICESHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH BOOK INDUSTRY AWARDS' BOOK OF THE YEAR' This year's hottest crime novel' Independent Nora hasn't seen Clare for ten years Not since the day Nora walked out of her old life & never looked back Until out of the blue an invitation to Clare's hen party arrives A weekend in a remote cottage
- the perfect opportunity for Nora to reconnect with her best friend to put the past behind her But something goes wrong Very wrong & as secrets & lies unravel out in the dark dark wood the past will finally catch up with Nora ' Genuinely chilling & totally compulsive' Sunday Mirror' Mesmerising' Guardian' You won't be able to put down this creepy page-turner' Closer'A tense terrifying novel' Clare Mackintosh author of I Let You Go
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With an Introduction by David Stuart Davies Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu (1814-1873) was one of the great masters of Victorian of mystery & horror fiction & can be regarded as the father of the modern ghost story In a Glass Darkly (1872) one of his most celebrated volumes purports to be the casebook of Dr Hesselius a pioneer psychologist These five tales represent some of Le Fanu's most accomplished work which rises above the staid conventions of the age Although drawing on Gothic conventions
- the book features both ghosts & vampires
- Le Fanu redefined the parameters of supernatural fiction He had little interest in the crude depiction of other worldly phenomena in order to provide the reader with a pleasurable frisson of fear Le Fanu concern rather lay in the examination of the results of supernatural experience on the psyche of his protagonist in this he paved the way for the work of Henry James & M R James This volume is an indispensable cornerstone of modern horror & remains one of the finest collections of unsettling fiction in the language

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A potentially violent screenwriter is a murder suspect until his lovely neighbor clears him But she begins to have doubts ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play One of the true classics of the noir psychological thriller In a Lonely Place is one of Humphrey Bogart&s finest performances He is almost unbearably intense as Dixon Steele a screenwriter with high standards & a hair trigger temper who finds himself under suspicion when Mildred a hat-check girl he knows is found murdered Immediately he gets an alibi from a neighbour Laurel & equally quickly he recognises that this is a woman who meets his standards the question is as suspicion of his involvement in Mildred&s death continues can he make himself meet hers? This is a wonderful study in trust & suspicion & the limits of love; Bogart&s performance is impressive simply because he is prepared to go well over the limits of our sympathy in the name of emotional truth The scene where he explains imaginatively to a cop & his wife how the murder might have happened is a spine-chilling creepy portrait of amoral artistic brilliance Gloria Grahame is equally fine as the woman who lets herself love him for a while ...

Can a giraffe fit in a phone booth? Does a sofa fit in a shopping cart? It all depends on how you size it up in this game of creative thinking & outrageous scenarios Try to win a set of cards by fitting smaller things into bigger things
- There's some juice in a pickle in a supermarket in a parking lot Play the fourth word card to claim the set unless one of your opponents can trump with a larger word The player with the most sets at the end is the BIG winner! In a Pickle is a great game to get the creative juices flowing See how outrageous you can get with the scenarios you create At the same time challenge yourself (and your opponents) to think outside the norm & picture scenes that might otherwise seem preposterous The more you play the more you will see that there's more inside a word than you might expect! In a Pickle is suitable for 2-6 players aged ten & up with playing time of around 25 minutes As part of the Game wright Port-A-Party range you may also enjoy Think &8216;N Sync &8211; The Great Minds Think Alike Game PDQ &8211; The Pretty Darn Quick Word Game Over Under &8211; The Game of Guesstimates That&8217;s It &8211; Just the Right Party Game Fitz It &8211; If the Word Fits Play It The What&8217;s in a Word Game Can a giraffe fit in a phone booth? Does a sofa fit in a shopping cart? Try to win a set of cards by fitting smaller things into bigger things Part of the Game wright Port-A-Party range Suitable for 2-6 players aged ten & up with a playing time of around 25 minutes
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In a Summer Season is one of Elizabeth Taylor's finest novels in which in a moving & powerful climax she reveals love to be the thing it is beautiful often funny & sometimes tragic' You taste of rain' he said kissing her ' People say I married her for her money' he thought contentedly & for the moment was full of the self-respect that loving her had given him Kate Heron is a wealthy charming widow who marries much to the disapproval of friends & neighbours a man ten years her junior the attractive feckless Dermot Then comes the return of Kate's old friend Charles
- intelligent kind & now widowed with his beautiful young daughter Kate watches happily as their two families are drawn together finding his presence reassuringly familiar but slowly she becomes aware of subtle undercurrents that begin to disturb the calm surface of their friendship Before long even she cannot ignore the gathering storm
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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 Comedy directed by & starring Lake Bell who also won Best Screenplay at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival for her work on the movie Carol (Bell) works as a voice coach & though her clients often include Hollywood stars trying to perfect an accent for their next role she very much lives in the shadow of her father Sam (Fred Melamed) who lends his vocal talents to the trailers of some of the biggest movies around With the help of her friend Louis (Demetri Martin) Carol believes she has a chance to break into the boy&s club of movie trailer voiceovers but can she overcome the challenge presented by the eccentric Gustav (Ken Marino) & of course her father to win the trailer contract for a series of blockbuster movies? Eva Longoria & Cameron Diaz are among those to make cameo appearances ...

Based on a course in the theory of statistics this text concentrates on what can be achieved using the likelihood Fisherian method of taking account of uncertainty when studying a statistical problem It takes the concept ot the likelihood as providing the best methods for unifying the demands of statistical modelling & the theory of inference Every likelihood concept is illustrated by realistic examples which are not compromised by computational problems Examples range from a simile comparison of two accident rates to complex studies that require generalised linear or semiparametric modelling The emphasis is that the likelihood is not simply a device to produce an estimate but an important tool for modelling The book generally takes an informal approach where most important results are established using heuristic arguments & motivated with realistic examples With the currently available computing power examples are not contrived to allow a closed analytical solution & the book can concentrate on the statistical aspects of the data modelling In addition to classical likelihood theory the book covers many modern topics such as generalized linear models & mixed models non parametric smoothing robustness the EM algorithm & empirical likelihood ...

Inspired by Jesus' prayer his disciples asked him Lord teach us to pray' (Luke 111) This book gives many time-honoured answers to that request There is a wealth here of fresh ways to pray such as using nature & dreams as inspiration & getting in touch with one's emotions Key topics such as distractions dryness & doubt as well as joy & finding God in all things are covered The Church's tradition from the Our Father to the Eucharist the saints & pilgrimages is offered as a resource for the individual God meets you where you are & the fact that you are holding this book in your hand means you are already open to that encounter' From the Introduction ...

Johnny is a young Irish actor who decides to try for a new life in America He moves with his wife Sarah & two young daughters to New York City & sets out to find work Things don't quite as well as he hoped & he & Sarah are forced to take badly paid jobs to make ends meet ...