From the peerless author of The Lottery & We Have Always Lived in the Castle this is a treasure trove of deliciously dark & funny stories essays lectures letters & drawings Let Me Tell You brings together the brilliantly eerie short stories Jackson is best known for with frank & inspiring lectures on writing; comic essays she wrote about her large rowdy family; & revelatory personal letters & drawings Jackson's landscape here is most frequently domestic
- dinner parties children's games & neighbourly gossip
- but one that is continually threatened & subverted in her unsettling inimitable prose This collection is the first opportunity to see Shirley Jackson's radically different modes of writing side by side revealing her to be a magnificent storyteller a sharp sly humorist & a powerful feminist' The stories range from sketches & anecdotes to complete & genuinely unsettling tales somewhat alarming & very creepy The whole of the book offers insights into the vagaries of her mind which was ruminant & generous For those of us whose imaginations & creative ambitions were ignited by ' The Lottery' Jackson remains one of the great practitioners of the literature of the darker impulses'
- Paul Theroux New York Times' Shirley Jackson made a reputation with a short story in 1948 Like a lot of people I read ' The Lottery' when I was young in an anthology of short stories from the New Yorker & never forgot it Let Me Tell You is a rich enjoyable compendium of her unpublished short fiction & occasional writings kicking off with a story of a dozen pages ' Paranoia' which I won't forget either'
- Tom Stoppard TLS Books of the Year



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The base of this goblet is black iron with a steel lace pattern The stem is a large brass screw with a nut fixed halfway along Another nut is fixed to the body made out of black iron plates riveted together & overlaid with mysterious machinery Arcane gears & pipes interlock strangely & in the centre is a grinning staring skull eyes filled with gears & held in place with iron screws With a removable stainless steel insert for ease of cleaning this goblet is an essential addition to any mad scientists drinkware collection ...

Are you brave enough to find out what happens when a spoilt girl is spiteful to a giant hungry worm? Can you bear to watch a (very silly) boy poke an angry sleeping sea-monster? Do you dare to discover why should you never ever steal milk from a Frid? Beware Naughty children always get their just deserts Eva Ibbotson's Let Sleeping Sea-Monsters Lie contains five delightfully funny cautionary tales with a foreword by Julia Donaldson author of The Gruffalo A dog-munching rock Doesn't everyone know that? ...

Designed to help savers reach their travel goals this contemporary money box features a clear glass front with saving tiers that read & Time to start saving& & Halfway there& & & Let the adventure begin& The background of the box features a retro ticket inspired print & the back of the box can easily be removed when it&s time to take out the savings ...

Jason Helopoulos encourages the church to embrace the important part children play in the life of the church & unfolds the enormous blessings to be found in having them present in the worship services of the congregation He points out how the struggles are temporary
- whereas the blessings can be eternal
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From award-winning author Jane Casey comes a powerful crime thriller with a delicious edge of psychological suspense that will keep you on the edge of your seat until the final page If you only read one crime book this year make it this one! A murder without a body Eighteen-year-old Chloe Emery returns to her West London home one day to find the house covered in blood & Kate her mother gone All the signs point to murder A girl too scared to talk Maeve Kerrigan is determined to prove she's up to her new role as detective sergeant She suspects Chloe is hiding something but getting her to open up is impossible A detective with everything to prove No one on the street is above suspicion All Maeve needs is one person to talk but that's not going to happen Because even in a case of murder some secrets are too terrible to share ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play An average guy who comes up with a golden business idea teams up with Wall Street wheeler dealer & an accomplished ladies man only to discover that attracting women & closing business deals have a lot in common What will he do with his new found knowledge? Actors Diora Baird Michael Madsen Natasha Henstridge Stephen Baldwin Adam Rodriguez Lisa Ray James Avery Thomas Ian Nicholas & Jesse Jane Director Amit Gupta Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 50 minutes (approx) ...

It's New York August 1974 a man is walking in the sky Between the newly built Twin Towers the man twirls through the air Far below the lives of complete strangers spin towards each other Corrigan a radical Irish monk working in the Bronx; Claire a delicate Upper East Side housewife reeling from the death of her son; Lara a drug-addled young artist; Gloria solid & proud despite decades of hardship; Tillie a hooker who used to dream of a better life; & Jazzlyn her beautiful daughter raised on promises that reach beyond the skyline of New York In the shadow of one reckless & beautiful act these disparate lives will collide & be transformed for ever ...

An enchanting brutal vampire myth & coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel & award-winning film Oskar is a bullied lonely teenage boy living with his mother on a housing estate at the edge of town when a spate of sinister killings rock the neighbourhood Eli is the young girl who has just moved in next door She doesn't go to school & never leaves the flat by day Sensing in each other a kindred spirit the two become devoted friends What Oskar doesn't know is that Eli has been a teenager for a very long time
- Jack Thorne's adaptation of Let The Right One In premiered in June 2013 at the Dundee Rep Theatre in a production by the National Theatre of Scotland before transferring to London's Royal Court Theatre in November 2013
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play A fragile anxious boy 12-year-old Oskar is regularly bullied by his stronger classmates but never strikes back The lonely boy&s wish for a friend seems to come true when he meets Eli also 12 who moves in next door to him with her father A pale serious young girl she only comes out at night & doesn&t seem affected by the freezing temperatures Coinciding with Eli&s arrival is a series of inexplicable disappearances & murders One man is found tied to a tree another frozen in the lake a woman bitten in the neck Blood seems to be the common denominator--and for an introverted boy like Oskar who is fascinated by gruesome stories it doesn&t take long before he figures out that Eli is a vampire But by now a subtle romance has blossomed between Oskar & Eli & she gives him the strength to fight back against his aggressors Oskar becomes increasingly aware of the tragic inhuman dimension of Eli&s plight but cannot bring himself to forsake her Frozen forever in a twelve-year-old&s body with all the burgeoning feelings & confused emotions of a young adolescent Eli knows that she can only continue to live if she keeps on moving But when Oskar faces his darkest hour Eli returns to defend him the only way she can Actors Kare Hedebrant Lina Leandersson Per Ragnar Henrik Dahl Karin Bergquist Peter Carlberg Ika Nord & Mikael Rahm Director Tomas Alfredson Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen Languages Swedish
- DTS-HD Master Audio 51 Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 54 minutes (approx)
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