Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region Free DVD Player in order to play Feast yourself on this double helping of Mrs Brown’s Boys with the outrageous Christmas Specials As always Agnes is only trying to make Christmas perfect for her family but things don&t always turn out as planned Buckin& Mammy Christmas is just round the corner & no-one knows what Bono wants for a present He&s already posted his letter off to Santa so how can Mrs Brown find out in time? Meanwhile at her family games night Agnes struggles to control her temper when none of the guests will play by her rules But at least there shouldn&t be any problems with the Christmas tree
- she&s having a very special one delivered Who&s A Pretty Mammy? Agnes is a Mammy on a mission
- trying to make sure grandson Bono isn&t sent to the infamous local primary school (despite what his parents want) & as if her house isn&t normally noisy enough she finds herself lumbered with a brand new houseguest in the form of a homeless parrot At least she&s got her New Year&s Eve party to look forward to
- until her guests start dropping like flies Suddenly it looks like she might be seeing in the New Year without her family around her


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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 The complete second series of the hilarious comedy show MRS BROWNS BOYS Starred by the brilliantly funny Irish comedian Brendan O& Carroll as the out-spoken Irish mammy Agnes Brown This six part series follows the foul-mouthed Agnes Brown who interferes in the lives of her children & friends Also starring Jennifer Gibney Paddy Houlihan Fiona O& Carroll Eilish O& Carroll & Danny O& Carroll ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play After a staggeringly successful second series the multi-award winning comedy phenomenon Mrs Brown&s Boys is back Brendan O& Carroll & his family bring us six uproarious new episodes following the lives of the nation&s favourite Mammy & her boys The third series sees Agnes & her family feeling the effects of the recession Rory & Dino can&t afford a place to live Mark & Betty might be forced to emigrate to Australia & Agnes& kitchen is falling to pieces But never one to let life get her down Agnes handles all these problems in her own inimitable & hilarious way & anyway as she often says
- everything always turns out the way it&s supposed to Actors Brendan O& Carroll Jennifer Gibney & Dermot O& Neill Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English Additional Languages English Audio Description Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 3 hours & 10 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 After the death of her bullying husband the not-so-aged & downtrodden housewife Thelma Caldicot (Pauline Collins) is shipped off to the Twilight Years Rest Home by her money grabbing son & manipulative daughter in law Appalled by the conditions Mrs Caldicot decides to take matters into her own hands… Review One Flew Over the Cuckoo&s Nest for OAP&s --hotdog Magazine A showcase performance by Pauline Collins --Empire ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics Clarissa Dalloway is a woman of high-society
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Elegantly interweaving her characters' complex inner lives in an unbroken stream of consciousness Virginia Woolf's Mrs Dalloway continues to enthral readers with its exploration of the human experience; of time space madness & regret This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Elaine Showalter Past present & future are brought together one momentous June day in 1923 Clarissa Dalloway elegant & vivacious is preparing for a party while reminiscing about her childhood romance with Peter Walsh & dwelling on her daughter Elizabeth's rapidly-approaching adulthood In another part of London war veteran Septimus Smith is shell-shocked & on the brink of madness slowly spiralling towards self-annihilation Their experiences mingling yet never quite meeting Virginia Woolf masterfully portrays a serendipitous unity of inner lives converging as the party reaches its glittering climax Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed Mrs Dalloway you might like James Joyce's Ulysses also available in Penguin Classics' The book's celebrated stream of consciousness is one of the few genuine innovations in the history of the novel' New Yorker ...

On a perfect June morning Clarissa Dalloway
- fashionable worldly wealthy an accomplished hostess
- sets off to buy flowers

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In Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf explores the events of one day impression by impression minute by minute as Clarissa Dalloway's & Septimus Smith's worlds look set to collide
- this classic novel is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range' She had a perpetual sense as she watched the taxi cabs of being out out far out to sea & alone; she always had the feeling that it was very very dangerous to live even one day' On a June morning in 1923 Clarissa Dalloway the glittering wife of a Member of Parliament is preparing for a party she is giving that evening As she walks through London buying flowers observing life her thoughts are of the past & she remembers the time when she was as young as her own daughter Elizabeth her romance with Peter Walsh now recently returned from India; & the friends of her youth Elsewhere in London Septimus Smith is being driven mad by shell shock As the day draws to its end his world & Clarissa's collide in unexpected ways In Mrs Dalloway Virginia Woolf explored the events of one day impression by impression minute by minute & recorded the feel of life itself' One of the most moving revolutionary artworks of the twentieth century' Michael Cunningham' Woolf is Modern She feels close to us' Jeanette Winterson Born in 1882 Virginia Woolf was the daughter of the editor & critic Leslie Stephen & suffered a traumatic adolescence after the deaths of her mother in 1895 & her step-sister Stella in 1897 leaving her subject to breakdowns for the rest of her life With her sister the painter Vanessa Bell she was drawn into the company of writers & artists such as Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry later known as the Bloomsbury Group Among them she met Leonard Woolf whom she married in 1912 & together they founded the Hogarth Press in 1917 Her first novel The Voyage Out appeared in 1915 & her major novels include Mrs Dalloway (1925) the historical fantasy Orlando (1928) written for Vita Sackville-West the extraordinarily poetic vision of The Waves (1931) & Between the Acts (1941) Woolf lived an energetic life reviewing & writing & dividing her time between London & the Sussex Downs In 1941 fearing another attack of mental illness she drowned herself
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In this vivid portrait of one day in a woman's life Clarissa Dalloway is preoccupied with the last-minute details of a party she is to give that evening As she readies her house she is flooded with memories & re-examines the choices she has made over the course of her life ...

Tracing a day in the life of society hostess Clarissa Dalloway Virginia Woolf triumphantly discovers her distinctive style as a novelist First published in 1925 MRS DALLOWAY is her first complete rendering of what Woolf described as the 'luminous envelope' of consciousness a dazzling display of the mind's inside as it plays over the brilliant surface & darker depths of reality ...