Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Robin Williams stars as difficult actor & husband Daniel Hillard who separates acrimoniously from his wife (Sally Field) & receives a court order limiting his visits to his children As a result he dresses up as a Scottish nanny & gets gainful employment with his ex-wife looking after his own kids Directed by Chris Columbus (Home Alone) ...

A Puffin Book
- stories that last a lifetime Puffin Modern Classics are relaunched under a new logo A Puffin Book There are 20
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From the author of the beloved Bleaker House Mrs Gaskell & Me is the story of two very modern women & their two love affairs separated by a hundred & fifty years 256 pages Stevens Nell ...

A nostalgic collection on rural schools childhood & English country life from the much-loved author of VILLAGE SCHOOLFrom organising the school summer fete' Because of our inability to recognise our climatic shortcomings from the outset arrangements for outdoor jollities get completely out of hand'to the sometimes rather odd passions of childhood'I collect stones with holes in them' Miss Read captures the essence of rural life & in particular of village schools as only she can This collection also

Includes:: extracts from her letters' Michael Joseph wrote after the Observer thing & is throwing out feelers for a book I shall know if he still feels like it
- me too!
- after we've met' It will also include an Introduction on how ' Miss Read' was first created ' Miss Read was born fully clothed in sensible garments & aged about forty She was born in fact when I was struggling to write my first book & needed a village schoolmistress as the narrator'



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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 Nudity Variety High Society Mrs Laura Henderson (Judi Dench) may be a widow but she is by no means going to spend the rest her days playing bridge The Windmill Theatre becomes her raison d&etre & the notorious showman Vivian Van Dam (Bob Hoskins) becomes her business partner & fiercest opponent The Germans are bombing London but the roar of the Windmill is all that can be heard as Mrs Henderson convinces Lord Cromer (Christopher Guest) to allow her actresses to be the one thing no one could ever imagine nude! Brought to its knees by war the non-stop revue & Mrs Henderson Presents& brings a nation to its feet in applause ...

IIt is a frequent complaint that women have been airbrushed out of history their contributions forgotten their voices silenced In this superbly written book historian Derek Wilson redresses the balance showing how women were crucial to the Reformation Working alongside men
- & sometimes in opposition to them
- women were able to study to speak to write to struggle & even to die for what they believed & to leave behind a record of all these achievements From Catharina Luther through English martyr Anne Askew to Elizabeth I & onwards out into Europe
- this book reveals the rich threads women brought to the tapestry of history


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An old widow is brutally killed in the parlour of her cottage Mrs Mc Ginty's dead!' How did she die?' Down on one knee just like I!' The old children's game now seemed rather tasteless The real Mrs Mc Ginty was killed by a crushing blow to the back of the head & her pitifully small savings were stolen Suspicion falls immediately on her lodger hard up & out of a job Hercule Poirot has other ideas
- unaware that his own life is now in great danger
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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 Keeping the homefires burning the Miniver family learn to cope with fear constant bombing raids & grim overseas news about loved ones But when valiant Mrs Miniver captures a German pilot the stark reality of war arrives on her doorstep Footage of Greer Garson at the Academy Awards ceremony Photo gallery & Mr Blabbermouth& MGM short film & For The Common Defence& MGM short film Interactive menu Scene access Actors Greer Garson Walter Pidgeon Teresa Wright Reginald Owen & Henry Travers Director Wiliam Wyler Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1942 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Duration 2 hours & 9 minutes (approx)
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Root for Morris the spectacle-wearing mole to find his way home in this laugh-out-loud story from Jarvis the creator of Alan's Big Scary Teeth The witty Jarvis makes all the right moves New York Times From Jarvis the creator of Alan's Big Scary Teeth comes another truly unmissable hilarious adventure about a daddy mole who has mislaid his spectacles Morris can't find them anywhere So he decides to go on without them trusting his instincts to lead him the right way home to his waiting family & delicious dinner of worm noodles Mrs Mole I'm homeeee! he sings as he burrows right into some poor unsuspecting rabbit family's hole Oh dear Without his spectacles Morris really can't see a single thing
- how will he ever get home? With perfect comic timing & a whole lot of heart Jarvis will have all readers rooting for Morris to find his family & rejoicing in the idea that
- glasses or no glasses
- you can always make your way back to home sweet home


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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 Mrs Palfrey At The Claremont is the story of an elderly lady (Joan Plowright) who is all but abandoned in a London retirement hotel by her family
- so she strikes up a friendship with a young writer (Rupert Friend) Based on the best-selling book by Elizabeth Taylor Actors Joan Plowright Rupert Friend Zoe Tapper Anna Massey Robert Lang Marcia Warren Georgina Hale Millicent Martin Michael Culkin Anna Carteret Lorcan O& Toole Timothy Bateson Clare Higgins Emma Pike & Carl Proctor Director Dan Ireland Certificate PGYear 2005 Languages English Duration 1 Hour & 43 Minutes (approx)
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