Nine-year-old Suleiman is just awakening to the wider world beyond the games on the hot pavement outside his home & beyond the loving embrace of his parents He becomes the man of the house when his father goes away on business but then he sees his father standing in the market square in a pair of dark glasses Suddenly the wider world becomes a frightening place where parents lie & questions go unanswered Suleiman turns to his mother who under the cover of night entrusts him with the secret story of her childhood ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Frannie (Meg Ryan) is a lonely but determined woman living alone in Manhattan who becomes involved in a murder investigation following the gruesome slaying of a young woman in her neighbourhood It soon appears that she may know more about the murderer than she thinks after witnessing what could have been the prelude to the crime Drawn to the homicide detective investigating the case she discovers the dark side of passion when she embarks on a risky & turbulent affair with him But as the death toll rises each victim getting closer to Frannie she begins to wonder if her new lover is hiding a deadly secret ...

A rainy night in London Shots are fired into a car which swerves on to the pavement ploughing into a bus stop It seems that a chilling gang initiation has cost an innocent victim their life But the reality is far more sinister One life is wiped out & three more are changed forever the young man whose finger was on the trigger; an ageing gangster planning a deadly revenge & the pregnant woman who struggles desperately to uncover the truth Two weeks away from giving birth how will she deal with a world where death is an occupational hazard? In a city where violence can be random or meticulously planned where teenage gangs clash with career criminals & where loyalty is paid for in blood anything is possible Secrets are uncovered as fast as bodies & the story's final twist is as breathtakingly surprising as they come ...

She lost her sight but she can still see the truth Jenny Aaron was once part of an elite police unit tracking Germany's most dangerous criminals She was the best Until it all went wrong A disastrous mission saw her abandon a wounded colleague & then lose her sight forever Now five years later she has learnt to navigate a darkened world But she's still haunted by her betrayal Why did she run? Then she receives a call from the unit They need her back A prison psychologist has been brutally murdered & the killer will only speak to one person ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From the BAFTA winning writer of Exile & The Driver Based on In the Dark & Time of Death by bestselling novelist Mark Billingham A strong-willed detective in her mid-thirties Helen Weeks (My Anna Buring Ripper Street) is drawn into the two most testing & personal cases of her career
- just as she begins her journey towards motherhood Helen is never fazed by a challenge but her tough exterior conceals a complex inner conflict When the husband of an estranged school friend is accused of abduction Helen must return to her home town & confront her painful past & when a brutal tragedy drags her into Manchester&s dark criminal underbelly she is forced to question even her closest relationships Even if you love someone can you ever really know them Special Features PENNING IN THE DARKLEADING IN THE DARKBEHIND IN THE DARK
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Boldly combining the highly personal with the brilliantly scholarly IN THE DARK ROOM explores the question of how memory works emotionally & culturally It is narrated through the prism of the author's experience of losing both his parents his mother when he was sixteen his father when he was on the cusp of adulthood & of trying after a breakdown some years later to piece things together Drawing on the lessons of centuries of literature philosophy & visual art Dillon interprets the relics of his parents & of his childhood in a singularly original & arresting piece of writing reissued for the first time since its original publication in 2005 & including a new foreword from prize-winning biographer Frances Wilson ...

When Rose Brown's husband is killed at Dunkirk in 1940 she feels as though she's lost a part of herself Rose can't imagine the future without Ray but she's certain he would have wanted her to start again She decides to volunteer as a postwoman in West London & when she courageously rescues a young boy from a bombed-out house & takes him home she finds a new sense of purpose Traumatised from losing his mother in the ruins seven-year-old Alfie is also rebellious & withdrawn However he touches the hearts of Rose's family & with kindness patience & love they eventually win his trust But then a handsome stranger Johnny Beech turns up on the doorstep looking for his son & everything changes ...

In the Darkness of the Night takes the reader through the sounds that a young child hears whilst curled up in bed waiting to fall asleep From the familiar reassuring noises of the family & the home including muffled voices & humming pipes Next we move out into the garden with the snuffling & screeching of foxes & then suddenly what's that? Zoom! A car speeds by & a distant siren sounds Then the illustrations expand to the city beyond as we see those who work throughout the night such as cleaners or nurses & finally as the sun rises the early morning sounds begin with the birdsong clatter of dustbins & letterboxes as the city wakes up again Emily Rand takes us on a gentle journey through the night looking at all the sounds & activity that happen whilst you're tucked up warm in your bed! ...

A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR WINNER OF THE KIRKUS PRIZE SHORTLISTED FOR THE PULITZER PRIZE 2017 From the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist & best-selling author of Backlash an astonishing confrontation with the enigma of her father & the larger riddle of identity In 2004 feminist writer Susan Faludi set out to investigate someone she scarcely knew her estranged father Steven Faludi had lived many roles suburban dad Alpine mountaineer swashbuckling adventurer in the Amazon Jewish fugitive in Holocaust Budapest Living in Hungary after sex reassignment surgery & identifying as a complete woman now' how was this new parent connected to the silent & ultimately violent father who had built his career on the alteration of images? Faludi's struggle to come to grips with her father's metamorphosis takes her across borders
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WINNER OF THE 2017 COSTA BIOGRAPHY AWARD In the vein of Bad Blood & Why be Happy when you can be Normal? an enthralling at times shocking & deeply personal family memoir of growing up in & breaking away from a fundamentalist Christian cult At university when I made new friends & confidantes I couldn't explain how I'd become a teenage mother or shoplifted books for years or why I was afraid of the dark & had a compulsion to rescue people without explaining about the Brethren or the God they made for us & the Rapture they told us was coming But then I couldn't really begin to talk about the Brethren without explaining about my father' As Rebecca Stott's father lay dying he begged her to help him write the memoir he had been struggling with for years He wanted to tell the story of their family who for generations had all been members of a fundamentalist Christian sect Yet each time he reached a certain point he became tangled in a thicket of painful memories & could not go on The sect were a closed community who believed the world is ruled by Satan non-sect books were banned women were made to wear headscarves & those who disobeyed the rules were punished Rebecca was born into the sect yet as an intelligent inquiring child she was always asking dangerous questions She would discover that her father an influential preacher had been asking them too & that the fault-line between faith & doubt had almost engulfed him In In the Days of Rain Rebecca gathers the broken threads of her father's story & her own & follows him into the thicket to tell of her family's experiences within the sect & the decades-long aftermath of their breaking away ...