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
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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 ...

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 ...

Take a trip through rock'n'roll's haziest craziest period beginning with the Beatles & Bob Dylan 'turning on' in a New York hotel & continuing on through two-decades of wonderful colourful history-changing music From psychedelic Woodstock warriors like Hendrix & the Jefferson Airplane through psycho-stereo adventurers Pink Floyd; from the post-hippy bliss of Neil Young & cosmic cowboy Willie Nelson to the druggy blues of Black Sabbath & the hemp-happy rhythms of Peter Tosh & Bob Marley Out of Our Heads gleefully celebrates music's most creative minds
- & their chemically induced expansion This book is for anyone who has ever listened to Dark Side of the Moon on a pair of headphones & said Wow
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Creativity is critical Out of Our Minds explores creativity its value in business its ubiquity in children its perceived absence ...

WINNER OF THE RNA's ROMANTIC COMEDY OF THE YEAR AWARD 2017! A wonderful setting characters you care about a page-turning plot laugh-out-loud funny I loved it' KATIE FFORDEOut of Practice is based around a large country medical practice which proves to be a hotbed of rivalry resentment & romance
- & that's just the doctors Think James Herriot meets House Meet married mum of two & successful GP Holly Graham as she relocates her family to join the team at The Practice at Beckerford hoping to find the peaceful life she craves despite the chaos that comes with her two year old twins & the troublesome state of her marriage It will certainly be a challenge to keep her private & professional lives separate in such a tight-knit community Her colleagues have their own issues to contend with The gorgeous Dr Dan Carter is struggling with to focus on work & the last thing he needs is any more stress; having his ambitious ex-girlfriend Dr Julia Channing working alongside him isn't really helping Thankfully the rather delectable Dr Taffy Jones is on hand to distract Holly from the escalating situation at home Feisty octogenarian & resident celebrity Elsie Townsend is Holly's favourite patient & saving grace Elsie's inspirational Life Lessons come at the perfect moment as The Practice is suddenly under threat of imminent closure & Holly rediscovers her voice & her priorities just in time ' Delightfully warm' Jo Thomas
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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 Billy Ray Lancing (Seagal) a former covert agent turned survivalist discovers that the foster program in Eastern Europe he is using to help a young girl is actually a human trafficking network & so he heads overseas to find the girl & shut down the operation ...