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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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Set half in gossipy shallow suburbia & half in the mystical eerie woods the film explores the nature of depression & delusion whilst maintaining a chilling edge 15-year old Marie & 6-year old Shaun are neighbours Whilst Shaun goes on hunting trips with his father Filthy a secret den in the hill has become Marie&s refuge from a world she is finding increasingly difficult to cope with One night while Marie is babysitting for Filthy Shaun suddenly dies in her care As Filthy&s grief threatens to overwhelm him Marie becomes aware of another presence It follows her from the hill into the city & it won&t leave her alone It wants something from her Is it the spirit of Sean? Or her unresolved past creeping into her present & distorting her perception of reality? ...

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 ...

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
- historical political religious sexual
- & brings her face to face with the question of the age is identity something you "choose" or is it the very thing you cannot escape?

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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 ...

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 ...

After leaving Marvel Comics at the end of the 1960s Jack Kirby came to DC where he soon created the series of super-hero comics known collectively as " The Fourth World" One of his first projects for DC was the black-&-white magazine In the Days of the Mob which focused on stories of organized crime in the 1930s in the style of the TV series " The Untouchables" & " The Godfather" movies ...