Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play On April 10th 1912 RMS Titanic sailed from Southampton on her maiden voyage On her fourth night at sea she struck & iceberg & sank with the loss of 1500 passengers & crew The film faithfully depicts the drama heroism & horror of the night the unsinkable sank Actors Kenneth More Ronald Allen Robert Ayres Honor Blackman Anthony Bushell John Cairney Jill Dixon Jane Downs James Dyrenforth Michael Goodliffe Kenneth Griffith Harriette Johns Frank Lawton Richard Leech & David Mc Call Director Roy Ward Baker Certificate PG Year 1958 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 58 minutes (approx) ...

'I worked one hundred murders' says Detective Mike Hoolihan an American policewoman ' In my time I have come in on the aftermath of maybe a thousand suspicious deaths most of which turned out to be suicides accidentals or plain unattendeds So I've seen them all jumpers stumpers dumpers dunkers bleeders floaters poppers bursters But of all the bodies I have ever seen none has stayed with me in my gut like the body of Jennifer Rockwell I say all this because I am part of the story I am going to tell & I feel the need to give you some idea of where I'm coming from' Night Train is a mystery story which lingers in the reader's mind even after Mike Hoolihan declares the case closed ...

Night Train to Lisbon follows Raimund Gregorius a 57-year-old Classics scholar on a journey that takes him across Europe Abandoning his job & his life & travelling with a dusty old book as his talisman he heads for Lisbon in search of clues to the life of the book's Portuguese author Amadeu de Prado As he gets swept up in his quest he finds that the journey is also one of self-discovery as he reencounters all the decisions he has made
- & not made
- in his life & faces the roads not travelled

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Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments gilded dining cars champagne bars & wealthy travellers Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance intrigue & decadence against a rolling background of dramatic landscapes The reality could often be as thrilling early British travellers on the Orient Express were advised to carry a revolver (as well as a teapot) In Night Trains Andrew Martin attempts to relive the golden age of the great European sleeper trains by using their modern-day equivalents This is no simple matter The night trains have fallen on hard times & the services are disappearing one by one But if the Orient Express experience can only be recreated by taking three separate sleepers the intriguing characters & exotic atmospheres have survived Whether the backdrop is 3am at a Turkish customs post the sun rising over the Riviera or the constant twilight of a Norwegian summer night Martin rediscovers the pleasures of a continent connected by rail By tracing the history of the sleeper trains he reveals much of the recent history of Europe itself The original sleepers helped break down national barriers & unify the continent Martin uncovers modern instances of European unity
- & otherwise
- as he traverses the continent during 'interesting times' with Brexit looming Against this tumultuous backdrop he experiences his own smaller dramas as he fails to find crucial connecting stations ponders the mystery of the compartment dog & becomes embroiled in his very own night train whodunit

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Artists Night Viper Label Listenable Records Format Vinyl 12 Album Tracks 1 No Escape 2 Summon the Dead 3 Never Win 4 Exterminator 5 On the Run 6 Ashes 7 Going Down 8 Lady Bad Luck 9 Revenge 10 All That Remains ...

Historian Anna Bennett has a book to write She also has an insomniac toddler a precocious death-obsessed seven-year-old & a frequently absent ecologist husband who has brought them all to Colsay a desolate island in the Hebrides so he can count the puffins Ferociously sleep-deprived torn between mothering & her desire for the pleasures of work & solitude Anna becomes haunted by the discovery of a baby's skeleton in the garden of their house Her narrative is punctuated by letters home written 200 years before by May a young middle-class midwife desperately trying to introduce modern medicine to the suspicious insular islanders The lives of these two characters intersect unexpectedly in this deeply moving but also at times blackly funny story about maternal ambivalence the way we try to control children & about women's vexed & passionate relationship with work Moss's second novel displays an exciting expansion of her range
- showing her to be both an excellent comic writer & a novelist of great emotional depth
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Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours & discovered homelessness drunkenness & vice on the streets This collection of essays shows Dickens as one of the greatest visionaries of the city in all its variety & cruelty GREAT IDEAS Throughout history some books have changed the world They have transformed the way we see ourselves
- & each other They have inspired debate dissent war & revolution They have enlightened outraged provoked & comforted They have enriched lives
- & destroyed them Now Penguin brings you the works of the great thinkers pioneers radicals & visionaries whose ideas shook civilization & helped make us who we are

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' Don't put your trust in revolutions They always come round again That's why they're called revolutions People die & nothing changes' For a policeman there can be few things worse than a serial killer loose in your city Except perhaps a serial killer who targets coppers & a city on the brink of bloody revolution For Commander Sam Vimes it all feels horribly familiar He's back in his own rough tough past without even the clothes he was standing up in when the lightning struck Living in the past is hard But he must survive because he has a job to do He must track down the murderer & change the outcome of the rebellion The problem is if he wins he's got no wife no child no future A Discworld Tale of One City with a full chorus of street urchins ladies of negotiable affection rebels secret policemen & other children of the revolution Truth! Justice! Freedom! & a Hard-boiled Egg! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In this dark apocalyptic tale of a perpetual battle between light & dark light being the human race & dark being a race of monsters this film is the first of three in a trilogy Russian director Timbor Bekmambetov adapts & Night Watch& from the series of sci-fi novels by Sergei Lukyanenko ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play UN agents Mike Graham & Sabrina Carver are sent by their director Nick Caldwell to investigate the theft of Rembrandt&s painting " The Night Watch" The trail takes them from Amsterdam to Hong Kong & involves them in not only art theft & forgery but the high-tech schemes of Martin Schraeder & his Korean cohort Mao Yixin ...