A beautiful first collection of poems by two-time Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Shirley Hughes In this wonderful collection of poems by best-loved & Kate Greenaway Medal-winner Shirley Hughes Katie & her little brother Olly go out & about romping through the changing seasons They take pleasure in the different elements & weather conditions
- sunshine wind rain mist & even snow From the joys of the seaside to the miseries of the sickbed this exuberant volume captures to perfection the world of childhood
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A serial killer is leaving a rather horrible trail of messy murders across London & William Shakespeare crime scene cleaner is on his tail armed with a mop determination & an inquiring mind After cleaning the room in which his half-brother Kit Marlow had been knifed to death Shakespeare starts up his own crime scene cleaning business Incarnadine picking up know-how from the net & on the job Following a series of clues gleaned from other crime scenes Shakespeare is soon piecing together suspect profiles & likely modus operandi " Out Damned Spot!" has our hero cleaning up after every crime committed in the works of William Shakespeare but given contemporary settings The masterminds behind the actual crimes are based on the writers whose stories Shakespeare "stole" ...

Hugo wants a gerbil but his dad says it's cruel to keep an animal in a cage Hugo doesn't agree & so Dad challenges him to spend a day cooped up in his room The countdown has barely begun when Hugo starts to go stir-crazy Warm witty & wise to the impatience of childhood this is Anne Fine on great form encouraging young readers to develop imagination & empathy High quality cream paper & a special easy to read font ensure a smooth read for all ...

& When you have caught the rhythm of Africa you find that it is the same in all her music& In one of the most passionate memoirs ever written Karen Blixen recalls running a farm in Africa at the start of the twentieth century & the love affair that changed her life A new series of twenty distinctive unforgettable Penguin Classics in a beautiful new design & pocket-sized format with coloured jackets echoing Penguin&s original covers ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based on the memoirs of Danish author Karen Blixen Arriving in Africa in the early l 900s after a marriage of convenience to her Swedish cousin the courageous Blixen endures many hardships & personal tragedies But ultimately she falls in love with her new homeland its people & a devil-may care white hunter Actors Robert Redford Meryl Streep Klaus Maria Brandauer & Michael Kitchen Director Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollack Sydney Pollock Certificate PGYear 1985 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English Additional Languages English SDH ; French ; Italian ; German ; Spanish ; Japanese ; Cantonese Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Greek ; Korean ; Norwegian ; Portuguese ; Swedish ; Traditional Mandarin Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 2 hours & 41 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Sydney Pollack directs this sweeping romantic drama based on the memoirs of Danish writer Isak Dinesen Meryl Streep stars as Karen Blixen the restless wife of European aristocrat & plantation owner Baron Bror Blixen (Brandauer) When Bror departs to hunt big game & chase women the running of their East African coffee plantation falls to Karen She throws herself into this task with the same determination & spirit she brings to her passionate but sporadic affair with free-spirited British hunter Denys Finch Hatton (Robert Redford) While enduring her husband&s infidelities & the eventual destruction of their beloved land she entertains Denys & befriends the workers Hatton shares Karen&s profound love for the African landscape but is unwilling to sacrifice his independence for their relationship Actors Robert Redford Meryl Streep Klaus Maria Brandauer Michael Kitchen Michael Gough Leslie Phillips Shane Rimmer Jon Seda Maryam d& Abo Iman Joseph Thiaka Stephen Kinyanjui Stephen Kinyanjui Rachel Kempson & Graham Crowden Director Sydney Pollack Certificate PGYear 1985 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (41) Surround Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 34 minutes (approx)
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A collection of short stories
- four previously published & three new
- linked by the theme of young people experiencing personal

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The latest spine-chilling thriller from the queen of crime Val Mc Dermid' There are lots of things that ran in families but murder wasn't one of them ' When a teenage joyrider crashes a stolen car & ends up in a coma a routine DNA test could be the key to unlocking the mystery of a twenty-year-old murder inquiry Detective Chief Inspector Karen Pirie is an expert at solving the unsolvable With each cold case closed justice is served So finding the answer should be straightforward but it's as twisted as the DNA helix itself Meanwhile Karen finds herself irresistibly drawn to another case one that she has no business investigating & as she pieces together decades-old evidence Karen discovers the most dangerous kinds of secrets Secrets that someone is willing to kill for Number one bestseller Val Mc Dermid returns with her most atmospheric gripping novel to date' The queen of crime is still at the top of her game' Independent' It grabs the reader by the throat & never lets go' Daily Mail' Incredibly suspenseful' Sunday Mirror The new thriller from number one bestseller Val Mc Dermid Insidious Intent is available now ...

Donating your heart is the most precious gift of all Adam is a teenage boy who lives with his mum & younger sister His dad has left them although lives close by His sister no longer speaks & his mum works two jobs Adam feels the weight of the world upon his shoulders Then his grandfather dies & in doing so he donates a very precious gift
- his heart William is the recipient of Adam's grandfather's heart He has no family & feels rootless & alone In fact he feels no particular reason to live & then he meets Adam's family William has received much but it appears that he has much to offer Adam & his family too A powerful tale of love & strength in adversity
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Spanning millennia Daniel Locke&s ambitious graphic novel explores humanity&s inherent &dreaming mind & its impact on our world Surreal sequences take us from Gutenberg&s printing press to Tim Berners-Lee&s World Wide Web via Picasso Einstein Grandmaster Flash & more Locke shows hour our basic instinct to observe record & connect has formed the basis for all human invention & progress About the Author Daniel Locke is an artist & graphic novelist based in Brighton UK Since 2013 much of his work has been informed & shaped by the discoveries of contemporary science He&s worked with Nobrow Arts Council England The Wellcome Trust & The National Trust He is the co-writer & artist of Out of Nothing David Blandy is an artist who works with the image in the digital world; from Youtube tutorials to music videos television to anime constantly highlighting our relationship with popular culture & investigating what makes us who we are He co-wrote Out of Nothing with Daniel Locke Dr Adam Rutherford is a science writer & broadcaster He is the presenter of BBC Radio 4&s flagship science program Inside Science & has covered MMR & autism the inheritance of intelligence human evolution science & cinema scientific fraud & the evolution of sex He is the science consultant for Out of Nothing ...