Sunjeev Sahota's Ours are the Streets is a poignant & powerful story of political radicalization When Imtiaz Raina leaves England for the first time to bury his father on his family's land near Lahore he exchanges his uncertain life in Sheffield for a road that leads to the mountains of Kashmir & Afghanistan Once back in Yorkshire he writes through the night to his young wife Becka & baby daughter Noor & tries to explain in a story full of affection & yearning what has happened to him
- & why he has a devastating new sense of home
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In the Tokyo suburbs four women work the draining graveyard shift at a boxed-lunch factory Burdened with chores & heavy debts & isolated from husbands & children they all secretly dream of a way out of their dead-end lives A young mother among them finally cracks & strangles her philandering gambling husband then confesses her crime to Masako the closest of her colleagues For reasons of her own Masako agrees to assist her friend & seeks the help of the other co-workers to dismember & dispose of the body The body parts are discovered the police start asking questions but the women have far more dangerous enemies -a yakuza connected loan shark who discovers their secret & has a business proposition & a ruthless nightclub owner the police are convinced is guilty of the murder He has lost everything as a result of their crime & he is out for revenge OUT is a psychologically taut & unflinching foray into the darkest recesses of the human soul an unsettling reminder that the desperate desire for freedom can make the most ordinary person do the unimaginable ...

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 ...

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) ...

In 1914 Karen Blixen arrived in Kenya with her husband to run a coffee farm Instantly drawn to the land she spent her happiest years there until the plantation failed Karen Blixen was forced to return to Denmark in 1931 & it was there that she wrote this classic account of her experiences A poignant farewell to her beloved farm Out of Africa describes her strong friendships with the people of her area her affection for the landscape & animals & great love for the adventurer Denys Finch-Hatton Written with astonishing clarity & an unsentimental intelligence Out of Africa portrays a way of life that has disappeared for ever ...

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 ...