Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Vic Reeves & Bob Mortimer&s surreal BBC2 panel show Shooting Stars is back for 2009 This brand new six part series also stars scorer "big baby" George Dawes played by Matt Lucas & team captains Ulrika Jonsson & comedian Jack Dee ...

Ten turning points in history vividly sketched by the great Stefan Zweig Such dramatically concentrated such fateful hours in which a timeless decision hangs on a single date a single hour even just a single minute rarely occur in everyday life & only rarely in the course of history One of the twentieth century's great humanists & a hugely popular fiction writer Stefan Zweig's historical works bring the past to life in brilliant Technicolor This collection contains ten typically breathless & erudite dramatizations of some of the most tense & important episodes in human history From General Grouchy's failure to intervene at Waterloo to the miraculous resurrection of George Frideric Handel this Stefan Zweig's selection of historical turning points newly translated by Anthea Bell is idiosyncratic fascinating & as always hugely readable The perfect stocking-filler for the Europhile in your life' Philosophy Football ' Shooting Stars forms part of an ambitious project by Pushkin Press to bring Zweig's work to the attention of the English-reading public an enterprise that has been entirely successful Zweigmania seems to break out with the publication of each book with readers discovering his work by word-of-mouth & by accident' Guardian' Zweig's impassioned pursuit of personal freedom seems more relevant than ever' Newsweek About the Author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a poet & translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok & Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he & his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press About the Author Stefan Zweig (1881-1942) was born in Vienna into a wealthy Austrian-Jewish family He studied in Berlin & Vienna & was first known as a poet & translator then as a biographer Zweig travelled widely living in Salzburg between the wars & was an international bestseller with a string of hugely popular novellas including Letter from an Unknown Woman Amok & Fear In 1934 with the rise of Nazism he moved to London where he wrote his only novel Beware of Pity He later moved on to Bath taking British citizenship after the outbreak of the Second World War With the fall of France in 1940 Zweig left Britain for New York before settling in Brazil where in 1942 he & his wife were found dead in an apparent double suicide Much of his work is available from Pushkin Press ...

Space opera with a bang as a young castout is caught up in an interstellar war DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXYCast out by his family & exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war Now with rising tensions between the Commonwealth & the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war Simon finds himself forced to choose between old & new loyalties with the fate of an empire at stake! Born in Southend-on-Sea a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary in 1958 Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother’s enthusiasm for Thunderbirds Godzilla movies & weekly gift of comic books he rapidly exhausted the local library’s stock of juvenile SF & resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother’s ticket Since his debut in British SF magazine Interzone Stewart has has written short stories novels screenplays comic scripts reviews criticism & RPG scenarios both under his own name & the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell As Sandy Mitchell he’s best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40000 tie-ins described by David Drake as “ First rate military SF” In the late nineties he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime time technothriller series Bugs ...

Space opera with a bang as a young rogue from a noble family is caught up in an interstellar war DISOWNED IN A HARSH GALAXYCast out by his family & exiled from the Rimward Commonwealth Simon Forrester must make a new life for himself as an apprentice to the powerful Commerce Guild But others aboard the merchant vessel Stacked Deck have a hidden agenda that might lead directly to interstellar war Now when rising tensions between the Commonwealth & the neighboring League of Democracies threatens to erupt into open war Simon finds himself forced to choose between old & new loyalties with the fate of an empire at stake! Meet the Author Born in Southend-on-Sea a fading costal resort at the mouth of the Thames Estuary Alex Stewart has been writing stories since he could first hold a pen Introduced to science fiction at an early age by his grandmother’s enthusiasm for Thunderbirds Godzilla movies & weekly gift of comic books he rapidly exhausted the local library’s stock of juvenile SF & resorted to raiding the adult shelves with his mother’s ticket Since his debut in British SF magazine Interzone Stewart has has written short stories novels screenplays comic scripts reviews criticism & RPG scenarios both under his own name & the pseudonym Sandy Mitchell As Sandy Mitchell he’s best known for the popular Commissar Cain series of Warhammer 40000 tie-ins described by David Drake as “ First rate military SF” In the late Nineties he was also a staff writer on the BBC prime-time technothriller series Bugs ...

'' Great if you're interested in finding a treasure trove of London's tucked away shops From the best place to buy your Bretons to the loveliest bookshops find them all in this brilliant guide'' The Pool London has always been a shopper's paradise tempting to every taste mood & budget Shop London helps you narrow in on the most talked-about tucked-away unique & exciting retail experiences opening doors to 200 of the best independent boutiques fashion stores specialist shops markets vintage meccas & more It also explores the capital's shopping districts & hotspots from the super smart Chiltern Street to the endlessly cute Columbia Road ...

Becky thought being married to Luke Brandon would be one big Tiffany box of happiness But tobe honest it's not quite as dreamy as she'd hoped The trouble started on honeymoon when she told Luke the tiniest little fib about the teeniest little purchase Now she's on a strict budget she doesn't have a job
- & worst of all her beloved Suze has a new best friend Then she receives some incredible news She has a long-lost sister! Becky has never been more excited Finally a real sister! They'll have so much in common! They can go shopping together choose shoes together have manicures together Until she meets her
- & gets the shock of her life It can't be true Surely Becky Bloomwood's long-lost sister can't hate shopping? Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella I almost cried with laughter Daily Mail Hilarious you'll laugh & gasp on every page Jenny Colgan Properly mood-altering funny fast & farcical I loved it Jojo Moyes A superb tale Five stars! Heat

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For Rebecca Bloomwood life is peachy She has a job on morning TV her bank manager is actually being nice to her & when it comes to spending money her new motto is Buy Only What You Need
- & she's really (sort of) sticking to it The icing on the brioche is that she's been offered a chance to work in New York New York! The Museum of Modern Art! The Guggenheim! The Metropolitan Opera House! & Becky does mean to go to them all Honestly It's just that it seems silly not to check out a few other famous places first Like Saks & Bloomingdales & Barneys & one of those fantastic sample sales where you can get a Prada dress for 10 Or was it 100? Is Becky too dazzled to care? Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella I almost cried with laughter Daily Mail Hilarious you'll laugh & gasp on every page Jenny Colgan Properly mood-altering funny fast & farcical I loved it Jojo Moyes A superb tale Five stars! Heat
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For once in Becky Bloomwood's life things are going smoothly She's got the dream job as a personal shopper (spending other people's money
- & getting paid for it) She's got a fabulous Manhattan apartment with her boyfriend Luke They've even opened a joint bank account (although they can't quite agree on whether a Miu Miu skirt counts as a household expense) Then Luke proposes
- & all of a sudden life gets hectic Becky's mum in rural Surrey wants one thing Luke's mother in New York wants the complete opposite Becky knows she has to sit down & decide
- but to be honest it's a lot more fun testing cake trying on dresses & registering wedding presents But time's ticking by plans are being made both sides of the Atlantic & soon she realizes she's in trouble Everybody loves Sophie Kinsella I almost cried with laughter Daily Mail Hilarious you'll laugh & gasp on every page Jenny Colgan Properly mood-altering funny fast & farcical I loved it Jojo Moyes A superb tale Five stars! Heat


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To Las Vegas & beyond! Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises & now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends & family She's determined to get to the bottom of why her dad has mysteriously disappeared help her best friend Suze & even bond with Alicia Bitch Long-legs (maybe) As Becky discovers just how much her friends & family need help she comes up with her biggest boldest most brilliant plan yet! So can she save the day just when they need her most? Becky is setting out to make things right in this laugh-out-loud feel-good conclusion to her American adventure that began with SHOPAHOLIC TO THE STARS ...

To Las Vegas & beyond! Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) is on a major rescue mission! Hollywood was full of surprises & now she's on a road trip to Las Vegas to help her friends & family She's determined to get to the bottom of why her dad has mysteriously disappeared help her best friend Suze & even bond with Alicia Bitch Long-legs (maybe) As Becky discovers just how much her friends & family need help she comes up with her biggest boldest most brilliant plan yet! So can she save the day just when they need her most? Becky is setting out to make things right in this laugh-out-loud feel-good conclusion to her American adventure that began with SHOPAHOLIC TO THE STARS ...