The future flashed before my eyes in all its pre-ordained banality Embarrassment at first to the exclusion of all other feelings But embarrassment curled at the edges with a weariness I got a joke in So
- we'd better get cooking the meth' I said to the Poet In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer & given two or three years' to live She didn't know how to react All responses felt scripted laden with cliche Being a writer she decided to write about it (grappling with the unoriginality even of this) & also to tell a story she has not yet told that of being taken in aged fifteen by the author Doris Lessing & the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship In September 2014 Jenny Diski began writing in the London Review of Books describing her experience of living with terminal cancer examining her life & history with Doris Lessing the fairy-tale rescue from the bin' as a teenager the difficulties of being absorbed into an unfamiliar family & the influence this had on her Swooping from one memory to the next
- alighting on the hysterical battlefield of her parental home her expulsion from school stacking shelves in Banbury & the drug-taking twenty-something in & out of psychiatric hospitals Diski paints a portrait of two extraordinary writers
- Lessing & herself From one of our most original voices comes a book like no other a cerebral witty dazzlingly candid masterpiece about an uneasy relationship; about memory & writing ingratitude & anger; about living with illness & facing death


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' One of the most inventive original & disturbing writers of her generation' Daily Telegraph In August 2014 Jenny Diski was diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer & given two or three years' to live Being a writer she decided to write about her experience
- & to tell a story she had not yet told that of being taken in aged fifteen by the author Doris Lessing & the subsequent fifty years of their complex relationship Splicing childhood memories with present-day realities Diski paints an unflinching portrait of two extraordinary writers
- Lessing & herself Jenny Diski died a week after the publication of In Gratitude A cerebral witty dazzlingly candid memoir it is her final masterpiece

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New York Times bestselling author Kate Moretti ' s (The Vanishing Year) latest novel follows the daughter of a convicted serial killer who finds herself at the centre of a murder investigation 432 pages Moretti Kate ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In Her Shoes Comedy drama about two sisters with nothing in common but size 8 & a half feet Maggie (Cameron Diaz) & Rose (Toni Collette) Feller are both best friends & polar opposites when it comes to values goals & personal style Maggie is a party girl who barely graduated from high school recycles jobs as quickly as yesterday&s newspapers & believes her biggest asset is her attractiveness to the opposite sex Her recurring state of unemployment leaves her virtually homeless as she bounces between the sofas of her friends & relatives With no confidence in her intellectual ability she prizes makeup over books & has an innate talent for choosing the perfect accessories & clothes for any occasion Rose (Toni Collette) is a Princeton educated attorney at a top law firm in Philadelphia Her beautifully decorated prewar apartment is her haven from the outside world With her nose perpetually to the grindstone she struggles constantly with her weight & never feels comfortable in the clothes she wears Her low self esteem regarding her physical appearance has left her dating life non-existent Rose&s one joy in life is shoes (because they always fit) but unfortunately she has few social opportunities to remove them from her closet After a calamitous falling out the two sisters travel a bumpy road toward true appreciation for one another
- aided along the way by the discovery of Ella (Shirley Mac Laine) the maternal grandmother they thought was dead Through their reconnection with their grandmother Maggie & Rose learn how to make peace with themselves & with each other Devil Wears Parada Comedy based on the novel by Lauren Weisberger Andrea (Anne Hathaway) is a bright young woman from the Midwest who has just graduated from college & wants to work as a magazine writer She has applied for a job at & Runway& America&s most prestigious fashion journal Andy has little interest in the garment trade but it is one of the only magazines in New York with a job opening
- second assistant to editor Miranda Priestly (Meryl Streep) As Andy discovers Miranda is a diva with plenty of power in the magazine business & she isn&t afraid to use that power Though Andy lands the job she soon learns that working for Miranda could test the patience of a saint thanks to her endless demands & refusal to acknowledge the end of a work day Andy struggles to hold on to the job & her sanity knowing that a recommendation from Miranda can open nearly any door at any magazine
- but can she handle the pressure without losing her mind along the way?


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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 Friends Rivals Sisters Flirty flaky party girl Maggie (Diaz) & plain dependable lawyer Rose (Collette) are sisters best friends & bitter rivals who seem to have only two things in common DNA & size 8 feet Only when their love-hate relationship veers towards the hate end of the spectrum do they accidentally discover they also share a long-lost grandmother (Mac Laine) who enriches their lives & helps them make peace with each other
- & themselves! Adapted for the screen by Oscar-winning writer Susannah Grant (Erin Brockovich) from Jennifer Weiner&s bestselling novel
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Danielle Steel proves she is the world's favourite storyteller in In His Father's Footsteps a deeply moving novel about love understanding & family set in post-Second World War New York 336 pages Steel Danielle ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play James Coburn reprises his role as the multi-talented multi-gadgeted spy Derek Flint (from the 1965 film & Our Man Flint) in another James Bond spoof This time round he is up against a gang of women who aim to take over the world by kidnapping astronauts & putting doubles in their place so that they can gain control of all the missile sites around the world ...

The meaning of pastoral care in modern multicultural societies is challenged & re-examined from a pluralistic global perspective in this book Emmanuel Lartey stresses the importance of recognizing different cultural influences on individuals in order to effectively counsel guide & empower them He provides a clear & concise history of pastoral care & considers its relationship to different models of counseling & spirituality This new edition has been updated to reflect postmodern & postcolonial studies & provides illustrations of how an intercultural approach can work in practice Theological teachers & students will welcome its return as an indispensable introduction to the field of pastoral care In Living Color is an essential source of inspiration to leaders from any religious stream who wish to provide pastoral care in a way that reflects their community's cultural diversity This book is also a useful resource for practitioners in a wider range of caring contexts who work in multicultural environments ...

Three women once enemies Their secrets will unite them The First World War is over The war-torn area of Flanders near Ypres is no longer home to troops but groups of tourists Controversial battlefield tourism now brings hundreds of people to the area all desperate to witness first-hand where their loved ones fell At the Hotel de la Paix in the small village of Hoppestadt three women arrive searching for traces of the men they have loved & lost Ruby is just twenty-one a shy Englishwoman looking for the grave of her husband Alice is only a little older but brimming with confidence; she has travelled all the way from America convinced her brother is in fact still alive Then there's Martha & her son Otto who are not all they seem to be The three women in Liz Trenow's In Love & War may have very different backgrounds but they are united in their search for reconciliation to resolve themselves to what the war took from them but also to what life might still promise for the future ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Oldshaw 1929; when you could enjoy a night out at the Theatre Royal a pint in the interval a hot pie on the way home
- & still have change from a shilling You could also have an argument with a brewer&s dray & end up as a client of Jeremiah Unsworth & Co Undertakers & Monumental Masons & be given one of the most disastrous funerals inthe long & noble history of undertaking Thora Hird (Last of the Summer Wine) brings her inimitable humour to the role of Ivy Unsworth in this much-loved comedy series set in a fictional Lancashire mill town As the widow of funeral director Jeremiah (who dies in the first episode) Ivy is left to run Unsworth & Co along with her equally accident-prone nephew Billy (Christopher Beeny
- Upstairs Downstairs) In Loving Memory was a huge success for Yorkshire Television & ran for five series between 1979 & 1986; this complete first series which also features appearances by Richard Wilson Liz Smith & Joan Sims was originally screened in 1979 Actors Thora Hird Christopher Beeny Freddie Jones Colin Farrell Avis Bunnage Richard Wilson Liz Smith & Joan Sims Certificate PGYear 1979
- 1986 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles None listed Duration 15 hours (approx)



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