The first Horatio Hornblower Tale of the Sea 1793 the eve of the Napoleonic Wars & Midshipman Horatio Hornblower receives his first command As a seventeen-year-old with a touch of sea sickness young Horatio Hornblower hardly cuts a dash in His Majesty's navy Yet from the moment he is ordered to board a French merchant ship in the Bay of Biscay & take command of crew & cargo he proves his seafaring mettle on the waves After a character-forming duel several deadly chases & some dramatic captures & escapes the young Hornblower is soon forged into a formidable man of the sea This is the first of eleven books chronicling the nautical adventures of C S Forester's inimitable hero Horatio Hornblower Featuring an exclusive introduction by Bernard Cornwell creator of Sharpe' Absolutely compelling One of the great masters of narrative' San Francisco Chronicle ...

Mr Mingin minged He monged tae & if it is guid Scots tae say he mingit then he mingit as weel He wis the mingiest mingin minger that ever lived Mingin is the warst kin o smell Mingin is warse than honkin Honkin is warse than bowfin Bowfin is warse than a guff & a guff can be eneuch tae make yer neb runkle It wisnae Mr Mingin's faut that he wis mingin He wis a gaberlunzie efter aw He didnae hae a hame & sae he never had the chaunce tae hae a richt guid wash like ye & me Efter a while the mingin-ness jist got warse & warse ...

Was there ever A cat so clever As magical Mr Mistoffelees! Following Arthur Robins' criticallly acclaimed picture book of Macavity (already sold 10k) he turns his attentions to the magical Mr Mistoffelees with delightfully hilarious results Perfect for ages 3 children (and parents) will love reading aloud about the Original Conjuring Cat To sit alongside other classics such as The Gruffalo The Tiger Who Came to Tea & Spot ...

In Paris's P&232;re-Lachaise cemetery Jim Morrison's graffiti-scrawled tombstone is a place of pilgrimage for local devotees adolescent hedonists & wayward backpackers alike Found dead in his bathtub aged only 27 having achieved worldwide stardom as lead singer of The Doors Morrison was quickly immortalised amongst the rock & roll deity such as Hendrix & Joplin In death however this debauched 'rock poet' remained more stubbornly enigmatic than ever Who was the real Jim Morrison? Nihilist egoist shaman he was a master of self-creation A mosaic mythology of new-age hippy rhetoric French poetry & Nietszchean symbolism obscured a man trapped by the mythology that he had so carefully constructed around himself In this colourful & intimate biography Dylan Jones strips bare the skin-tight leather suit of Jim Morrison's Lizard King persona & offers a frank & honest appraisal of a much beloved & often-romanticised counter-cultural icon Mr Mojo is littered with little-known anecdotes from fellow stars spurned lovers & industry moguls It is a refreshingly honest portrait of a self-indulgent artist with a penchant for pageantry & public self-destruction ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Domestic comedy starring Michel Keaton as Jack Butler a traditional family man who is unfairly dismissed by the car engineering firm where he works To make ends meet his wife Caroline (Teri Garr) takes a job in an advertising firm & Jack finds himself at home with the kids Switching roles from breadwinner to house-husband comes as quite a shock as Jack struggles with the multi-tasking low self esteem & emotional stress associated with full-time parenthood ...

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21ST ANNIVERSARY EDITION WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSHHe was Britain's most wanted man He spent seven years in America's toughest penitentiary You'll like him During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines & owned twenty five companies throughout the world At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuana & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency he was arrested & sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary Indiana He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence Told with humour charm & candour Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story ' The story of a remarkable life lived by the very brilliant & exceptionally wonderful Mr Nice' Irvine Welsh' Frequently hilarious occasionally sad & often surreal'GQ'A man who makes Peter Pan look like a geriatric' Loaded'A folk legend' Daily Mail ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Most wanted Most wasted During the mid 1980s Howard Marks (Rhys Ifans) had forty-three aliases eighty-nine phone lines & owned twenty-five companies throughout the world Whether bars recording studios or offshore banks all were money laundering vehicles serving the core activity dope dealing At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tonnes of marijuana from Pakistan & Thailand to America & Canada & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia Actors Rhys Ifans Chloë Sevigny David Thewlis Elsa Pataky Crispin Glover Andrew Tiernan Omid Djalili & Jack Huston Director Bernard Rose Certificate 18 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 1 minute (approx) ...

The incredible story of an unconventional life During the mid 1980s Howard Marks had forty three aliases eighty nine phone lines & owned twenty five companies throughout the world At the height of his career he was smuggling consignments of up to thirty tons of marijuanna & had contact with organisations as diverse as MI6 the CIA the IRA & the Mafia Following a worldwide operation by the Drug Enforcement Agency he was busted & sentenced to twenty-five years in prison at the Terre Haute Penitentiary Indiana He was released in April 1995 after serving seven years of his sentence Told with humour charm & candour Mr Nice is his own extraordinary story ...