Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Moone Boy is a semi-autobiographical sitcom co-written by & starring Chris O& Dowd (The IT Crowd Bridesmaids) about a boy growing up in Ireland in 1989- 1992 Ever wanted to be the imaginary friend of an idiot boy in the west of Ireland? Well neither did Sean Murphy (Chris O& Dowd) but there you go Meet Martin Moone (David Rawle) a plucky eleven-year-old boy living in a chaotic house in a small town With an ambitious mother trying to forge a career a troubled father who hides in his shed a trio of sisters who are determined to torment him & of course all the pitfalls of the playground life isn&t easy for Martin But at least he&s got the friendship & terrible advice of his imaginary friend to guide him ...

It&s 1991 & Martin Moone (David Rawle) is a little older & a lot wiser Well slightly wiser Okay not much wiser at all ...

Successful film & TV star Chris O' Dowd collaborates with friend & fellow screenwriter Nick Vincent Murphy on Moone Boy The Fish Detective the second book in this hilarious illustrated series inspired by the Sky TV series they co-wrote Martin's parents are strapped for cash it's going to be a budget Christmas this year So Martin plans to buy his own presents
- & attempts unsuccessfully to get a job Padraic puts in a word for him with his Auntie Bridget who runs the local butcher's shop But her shop is struggling as the fish shop across the road undercuts her & Bridget just can't compete No one knows how the owner Francie Feeley does it
- especially since he doesn't seem to employ anyone at his fish factory No one goes in; no one comes out
- it's a mystery Intrigued Martin decides to go undercover & find out the truth like a fish-mole
- or a fish detective Martin infiltrates the factory & discovers that Francie is illegally employing a gang of Brazilian fish-gutters They're a lot of fun & one of them Fabio becomes Martin's good friend But when Martin is exposed as a spy he has to choose which side he's on Will Christmas be ruined for the whole of Boyle?



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Martin Moone is about to finish primary school & feels he hasn't achieved very much He's desperate to get his picture on the school's Winners' Wall & decides that entering the Invention Convention science competition will definitely earn him everlasting respect But Martin
- along with his teammates Trevor Padraic & the ever terrifying Declan Mannion
- is having trouble coming up with a winning idea Martin's imaginary friend Sean comes to the rescue & together they concoct a plan to beat the snooty kids from the posh school in town If they can get their hands on some Notion Potion a mythical brain-boosting beverage then Martin will have all the ideas he needs & so the gang embarks on a dangerous (imaginary) journey in their quest to become ' Boyle's first Junior Genius' The Notion Potion is the hilarious third book in the Moone Boy series based on the Sky TV series from dream team Chris O' Dowd & Nick Vincent Murphy

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Written by & starring Chris O& Dowd whose career has taken him thus far from The IT Crowd to Bridesmaids amongst other stops Moone Boy arrives on disc in the aftermath of heavy praise following its TV transmission It&s set in & around the area where O& Dowd grew up & it&s thus perhaps no coincidence that Moone Bay is also described as &semi-autobiographical& It certainly has the feeling of a project that someone is very vested in & here O& Dowd plays the imaginary friend of a young boy Furthermore he&s the imaginary friend of a young boy whose drawings have a habit of coming alive It&s a very well handled setup too with the show both selling the concept & earning many good laughs There are also welcome appearances from the likes of Steve Coogan Johnny Vegas & Deirdre O& Kane as well ...

One of the greatest writers of the 20th century captures the definitive event of modern science Discover the men the machinery & the sheer thrill of the lunar mission with Norman Mailer's dazzling account of the Apollo 11 adventure illustrated by hundreds of photographs 616 pages Mailer Norman ...

A tale of smuggling set among the cliffs caves & downs of Dorset Everyone in the tiny village of Moonfleet lives by the sea one way or another so it's no surprise when young John Trenchard gets involved in the smuggling trade Forced to flee England with a price on his head John little guesses the adventures & trials he will have before he sees Moonfleet again or the change in his fortunes when he does ...

When fifteen-year-old orphan John Trenchard is banished by his Aunt Jane he goes to live at the local inn with the mysterious Elzevir Block whose son has been killed by Customs Officers Unofficially adopted by Block John comes to learn the reasons for the noises in the graveyard at night of ' Blackbeard' Mohune's lost treasure & Elzevir Block's secret This dashing tale of eighteenth-century Dorset smugglers will be enjoyed by all who love stories of derring-do written in the tradition of Treasure Island ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Written by Ashley Pharoah (Life on Mars Ashes to Ashes) this two-part adaptation of the much-loved John Meade Falkner novel is set in the small Dorset village of Moonfleet In the story young John Trenchard (Aneurin Barnard
- The White Queen) is desperate to join the local band of smugglers led by Elzevir Block (Ray Winstone
- The Departed Hugo) Together they embark on an adventure full of action friendship & humour & hunt for a fabled lost diamond Their journey takes them from 18th Century Dorset to the jewellery quarter of The Hague & on to a gripping final sea voyage Sophie Cookson joins the cast as John&s first love Grace who is also the daughter of Moonfleet&s anti-smuggling magistrate Mohune played by Ben Chaplin (Mad Dogs Dorian Gray) Omid Djalili (Gladiator) appears as a diamond merchant Aldobrand & Martin Trenaman (The Inbetweeners) as the Turnkey Actors Ray Winstone Aneurin Barnard Sophie Cookson Anthony Ofoegbu Phil Daniels Lorcan Cranitch Pippa Haywood Nick Lee Ian Mc Elhinney & Lesley Vickerage Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Screen 169 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx)

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A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A Telegraph Book of the Year A New York Times Notable Book of the Year A Washington Post Book of the Year A Wall Street Journal Book of the Year A Slate Book of the Year Probably Chabon's greatest a piece of sustained writing that will be hard to see outdone in 2017' The Times Entirely sure footed propulsive the work of a master at his very best The brilliance of Moonglow stands as a strident defence of the form itself a bravura demonstration of the endless mutability & versatility of the novel' Observer The world like the Tower of Babel or my grandmother's deck of cards was made out of stories & it was always on the verge of collapse' Moonglow unfolds as a deathbed confession An old man his tongue loosened by powerful painkillers his memory stirred by the imminence of death tells stories to his grandson uncovering bits & pieces of a history long buried Why did he try to strangle a former business partner with a telephone cord? What was he thinking when he & a buddy set explosives on a bridge in Washington DC? What did he feel while he hunted down Wernher von Braun in Germany? & what did he see in the young girl he met in Baltimore after returning home from the war? From the Jewish slums of pre-war Philadelphia to the invasion of Germany from a Florida retirement village to the penal utopia of a New York prison from the heyday of the space programme to the twilight of the American Century' Moonglow collapses an era into a single life & a lifetime into a single week ...