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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD 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 ...

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 man close to death ponders the many lives he might have led in this fantasy from director & screenwriter Jaco van Dormael 117-year-old Nemo Nobody (Jared Leto) is ill & facing his last days as he looks back on his past & a particular crucial moment -- at the age of nine Nemo&s parents divorced & as his mother (Natasha Little) & father (Rhys Ifans) stood on a train platform he had to choose who he would go with & whether he would live in the United States or Great Britain Either choice would bring with it a wide variety of possibilities regarding the sort of life he would lead & Nemo imagines nearly all of them including two different wives -- sweet but emotionally blank Jeanne (Linh-Dan Pham) & lovely but troubled Elise (Sarah Polley) -- & another woman Anna (Diane Kruger) who he loves but can not marry But as Nemo considers the many different paths his life could have taken his memory begins to fail him & he finds it increasingly difficult to be certain which was his real life & which is a product of his imagination Age Rating 15 ...

A tale of fun & friendship from former Children's Laureate & author of War Horse Michael Morpurgo Harry heard the key turn in the lock He had already made up his mind to run Harry is in trouble at school & doesn't like his stepfather or the new baby Then he befriends Ocky a chimpanzee from the circus Ocky's owner won't mind if Harry borrows her for a bit will he? But then Harry's stepfather & the police find out Harry & the chimp are soon on the run!A gripping & poignant animal adventure from the master storyteller of An Eagle in the Snow Listen to the Moon Shadow & An Elephant in the Garden ------ Former Children's Laureate Michael Morpurgo needs no introduction He is one of the most successful children's authors in the country loved by children teachers & parents alike Michael has written more than forty books for children including the global hit War Horse which was made into a Hollywood film by Steven Spielberg in 2011 Several of his other stories have been adapted for screen & stage including My Friend Walter Why the Whales Came & Kensuke's Kingdom Michael has won the Whitbread Award the Smarties Award the Circle of Gold Award the Children's Book Award & has been short-listed for the Carnegie Medal four times He started the charity Farms for City Children in 1976 with his wife Clare aimed at relieving the "poverty of experience" many young children feel in inner city & urban areas Michael is also a patron of over a dozen other charities Living in Devon listening to Mozart & working with children have provided Michael with the ideas & incentive to write his stories He spends half his life mucking out sheds with the children feeding sheep or milking cows; the other half he spends dreaming up & writing stories for children " For me the greater part of writing is daydreaming dreaming the dream of my story until it hatches out
- the writing down of it I always find hard But I love finishing it then holding the book in my hand & sharing my dream with my readers" Michael received an OBE in December 2006 for his services to literature
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Poor Mr Quiet doesn't look forward to Christmas It's just too noisy for him Noisy crackers noisy carol singers a noisy postman delivering Christmas cards & noisiest of all an annual visit from Mr Noisy himself! 32 pages ...

Mr Pattacake is off to the mountains of Switzerland! The children have asked him along on their skiing trip to cook for them After a disastrous first attempt Mr Pattacake returns back to the kitchen & leaves the skiing to the professionals but not before he's made a chilling discovery
- a strange monster is leaving mysterious footprints overnight! Even more bizarrely Treacle is spending all of his time outside despite the fact that the thought of snow leaves him cold Join Mr Pattacake & his lazy cat Treacle as they head to the slopes & cook up a snowstorm
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Mr Pattacake & his ginger cat Treacle have been invited to join a mission into outer space! Whilst the scientists collect samples from the planet Collywobble Mr Pattacake tries to show the Collywobblians what food from planet Earth is like But as ever with Mr Pattacake disaster strikes & he must find a way to rescue the mission & save Treacle from the evil CATerpillar! Join Mr Pattacake & his lazy cat Treacle as they go into space chase a floating pile of vomit & discover some delightfully disgusting dishes ...

1873 An intrepid family of British settlers are determined to make a deserted Pacific island their own But hope crumbles & what to them is a bountiful paradise quickly turns dark & frightening as the horrific history of the island makes itself known A vulnerable boy goes missing at the same time as party of indentured young men from a neighbouring island arrive to work The dark recent past of the place is brought to the fore as two cultures clash The young men the missing boy's teenage sister & their charismatic domineering father must choose their allegiance Making the wrong choice will have fatal consequences 400 pages SYSON LYDIA ...

From the international bestselling creator of Claude comes a brand new hero Mr Penguin Indiana Jones meets Hercule Poirot in this series from Alex T Smith 288 pages Illustrated in black & orange Smith Alex T ...

From the international bestselling creator of CLAUDE comes a brand new hero
- Mr Penguin adventurer & penguin 208 pages Illustrated
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