Willow Tree is an intimate line of figurative sculptures representing sentiments of love closeness healing courage hopeall the emotions we encounter in life The words 'everlasting & true' express the idea that love can go beyond death The rose stem gradually blends into her body so there's no separation between the object that she's holding & her body I wanted the whole figure to be a symbol of love not just the rose
- Susan Lordi The item is made in resin & h&-painted with lead-free paint Supplied in a branded gift box & a gift tag with sentiment ' Love everlasting & true' Not a toy or children's product Intended for adults only
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Hate skews reality even more than love In the story of a Pakistani woman who has begun a new life in Paris an essay about the writing of Kureishi's acclaimed film Le Week-End & an account of Kafka's relationship with his father readers will find Kureishi also exploring the topics that he continues to make new & make his own growing up & growing old; betrayal & loyalty; imagination & repression; marriage & fatherhood The collection ends with a bravura piece of very personal reportage about the conman who stole Kureishi's life savings
- a man who provoked both admiration & disgust obsession & revulsion love & hate
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Love-unconditional selfless unchanging sincere & totally accepting-is worshipped today as the West's only universal religion To challenge it is one of our few remaining taboos In this pathbreaking & superbly written book philosopher Simon May does just that dissecting our resilient ruling ideas of love & showing how they are the product of a long & powerful cultural heritage Tracing over 2500 years of human thought & history May shows how our ideal of love developed from its Hebraic & Greek origins alongside Christianity until during the last two centuries God is love became love is God-so hubristic so escapist so untruthful to the real nature of love that it has booby-trapped relationships everywhere with deluded expectations Brilliantly May explores the very different philosophers & writers both skeptics & believers who dared to think differently from Aristotle's perfect friendship & Ovid's celebration of sex & the chase to Rousseau's personal authenticity Nietzsche's affirmation Freud's concepts of loss & mourning & boredom in Proust Against our belief that love is an all-powerful solution to finding meaning security & happiness in life May reveals with great clarity what love actually is the intense desire for someone whom we believe can ground & affirm our very existence The feeling that makes the world go round turns out to be a harbinger of home--and in that sense of the sacred ...

How do we love? With romance With work Through heartbreak Throughout a lifetime As a means but not an end Love in all its forms has been an abiding theme of Jeanette Winterson's writing Here are selections from her books about that impossible essential force stories & truths that search for the mythical creature we call Love Selected from the books of Jeanette Winterson VINTAGE MINIS GREAT MINDS BIG IDEAS LITTLE BOOKS A series of short books by the world's greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series Eating by Nigella Lawson Jealousy by Marcel Proust Babies by Anne Enright Desire by Haruki Murakami ...

Tracklist 1 Jump (for My Love)
- Girls Aloud 2 Too Lost In You
- Sugababes (Soundtrack Version) 3 The Trouble With Love Is
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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 From the makers of Notting Hill & Bridget Jones&s Diary comes the ultimate romantic comedy This blockbuster film

Includes:: a fantastic all-star cast & an outstanding soundtrack The hilarious Love Actually explores the ups & downs of relationships in the weeks building up to Christmas Boyfriends & girlfriends husbands & wives fathers & sons & rock stars & managers all combine to make Love Actually not just one story but ten very different ones Because if you look hard enough you will find love actually is all around From the new bachelor Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (Martine Mc Cutcheon) moments after entering 10 Downing Street To a writer (Colin Firth) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake From a comfortably married woman (Emma Thompson) suspecting that her husband (Alan Rickman) is slipping away To a new bride (Keira Knightley) mistaking the distance of her husband&s best friend for something it&s not From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school To a widowed stepfather (Liam Neeson) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows From a lovelorn junior manager (Laura Linney) seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush To an ageing "seen it all remember very little of it" rock star (Bill Nighy) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all These London lives & loves collide mingle & climax on Christmas Eve-again & again & again-with romantic hilarious & bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love&s spell

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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 Love actually is all around From the new bachelor Prime Minister (HUGH GRANT) instantly falling in love with a refreshingly real member of the staff (MARTINE Mc CUTCHEON) moments after entering 10 Downing Street To a writer (COLIN FIRTH) escaping to the south of France to nurse his re-broken heart who finds love in a lake From a comfortably married woman (EMMA THOMPSON) suspecting that her husband (ALAN RICKMAN) is slipping away To a new bride (KEIRA KNIGHTLEY) mistaking the distance of her husband&s best friend for something it&s not From a schoolboy seeking to win the attention of the most unattainable girl in school To a widowed stepfather (LIAM NEESON) trying to connect with a son he suddenly barely knows From a lovelorn junior manager (LAURA LINNEY) seizing a chance with her long-tended unspoken office crush To an ageing "seen it all remember very little of it" rock star (BILL NIGHY) jonesing for an end-of-career comeback in his own uncompromising way Love the equal-opportunity mischief-maker is causing chaos for all These London lives & loves collide mingle & climax on Christmas Eve-again & again & again-with romantic hilarious & bittersweet consequences for anyone lucky (or unlucky) enough to be under love&s spell Actors Hugh Grant Liam Neeson Colin Firth Keira Knightley Laura Linney Emma Thompson Alan Rickman Bill Nighy Rowan Atkinson Martine Mc Cutcheon Billy Bob Thornton Andrew Lincoln Kris Marshall & Martin Freeman Director Richard Curtis Certificate 15 years & over Year 2003 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 2 hours & 9 minutes (approx)
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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 In 1981 in LA Monica moves in next door to Quincy They&re 11 & both want to play in the NBA just like Quincy&s dad Their love-hate relationship lasts into high school with Monica&s edge & Quincy&s top-dog attitude separating them except when Quincy&s parents argue & he climbs through Monica&s window to sleep on the floor As high school ends they come together as a couple but within a year with both of them playing ball at USC Quincy&s relationship with his father takes an ugly turn & it leads to a break up with Monica Some years later their pro careers at a crossroads they meet again It&s time for a final game of one-on-one with high stakes ...

Mark & Abby are home from their honeymoon & ready to settle in for some domestic bliss But settling in doesn't mean things will settle down Mark's best friend Darkblade is now dating his ex-girlfriend Amazonia Abby's landlord is trying to drive her & her bookstore out & Charlotte is about to graduate from college Plus it's time to tell Abby's parents about Mark's super-secret but will that mean telling Abby's brother too? " Ever after" is where things get really interesting! ...

Jane Austen's brilliant hilarious
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- early stories sketches & pieces of nonsense in a beautiful Penguin

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