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 ...

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! ...

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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A newly qualified vet with a heart of gold takes over an old practice & becomes rivals with another vet ...

Thacker's discourse on the intersection of horror & philosophy is utterly original & utterly captivating Thomas Ligotti author of The Conspiracy Against the Human Race The world is increasingly unthinkable a world of planetary disasters emerging pandemics & the looming threat of extinction In this book Eugene Thacker suggests that we look to the genre of horror as offering a way of thinking about the unthinkable world To confront this idea is to confront the limit of our ability to understand the world in which we live
- a central motif of the horror genre In the Dust of This Planet explores these relationships between philosophy & horror In Thacker's hands philosophy is not academic logic-chopping; instead it is the thought of the limit of all thought especially as it dovetails into occultism demonology & mysticism Likewise Thacker takes horror to mean something beyond the focus on gore & scare tactics but as the under-appreciated genre of supernatural horror in fiction film comics & music
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