Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Andrew Davies& sparkling adaptation of Winifred Holtby&s acclaimed novel Insightful warm & full of memorable characters South Riding tells a fraught love story & paints a panoramic portrait of a between-the-wars Yorkshire community In depression-hit Thirties Britain Sarah Burton returns from London to her Yorkshire hometown to take up the post of headmistress at a struggling girls& school Full of ambition she is determined to create a great school & inspire her girls As Sarah struggles against the crippling poverty of the district she meets those at the heart of the local community her brilliant but poor student Lydia Holly; the county&s first woman Alderman Mrs Beddows whose sensible demeanour belies a girlish heart; the noble but ludicrous Methodist preacher Councillor Huggins; Sarah&s socialist suitor Joe Astell & the proud haunted & almost ruined landowner Robert Carne
- a man Sarah finds herself drawn towards even though he stands for everything she detests Engrossing & entertaining South Riding vividly brings to life a rural community on the brink of change Actors Charlie Clark Shaun Dooley Peter Firth Jennifer Hennessy Douglas Henshall John Henshaw John-Paul Hurley Anna Maxwell Martin Katherine Mc Golpin Janine Mellor David Morrissey Alexandra Pearson Lydia Wilson & Penelope Wilton Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 3 hours (approx)
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' It's a lost world out there' Hal & Roger Hunt sink deep into danger when a specimen-collecting trip takes them into the lost world of the South Seas But the deep-sea trawl has a hidden agenda
- a top secret mission for Professor Stuyvesant & his scientific experiments in Pearl Lagoon
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The literary world was shocked when in 1889 at the height of his career Robert Louis Stevenson announced his intention to settle permanently on the Pacific island of Samoa His readers were equally shocked when he began to use the subject material offered by his new environment not to promote a romance of empire but to produce some of the most ironic & critical treatments of imperialism in nineteenth-century fiction In these stories as in his work generally Stevenson shows himself to be a virtuoso of narrative styles his Pacific fiction

Includes:: the domestic realism of ' The Beach at Falese the folktale plots of ' The Bottle Imp' & ' The Isle of Voices' & the modernist blending of naturalism & symbolism in The Ebb-Tide But beyond their generic diversity the stories are linked by their concern with representing the multiracial society of which their author had become a member In this collection
- the first to bring together all his shorter Pacific fiction in one volume
- Stevenson emerges as a witness both to the cross- cultural encounters of nineteenth-century imperialism & to the creation of the global culture which characterizes the post-colonial world ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more



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The OS Landranger Map series covers Great Britain with 204 detailed maps perfect for day trips & short breaks Each map provides all the information you need to get to know your local area &

Includes:: places of interest tourist information picnic areas & camp sites plus Rights of Way information for England & Wales OS Landranger now

Includes:: a digital version of the paper map accessed through the OS smartphone app OS Maps



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In July 2011 South Sudan was granted independence & became the world's newest country Yet just two-&-a-half years after this momentous decision the country was in the grips of renewed civil war & political strife Hilde F Johnson served as Special Representative of the Secretary-General & Head of the United Nations Mission in the Republic of South Sudan from July 2011 until July 2014 & as such she was witness to the many challenges which the country faced as it struggled to adjust to its new autonomous state In this book she provides an unparalleled insider's account of South Sudan's descent from the ecstatic celebrations of July 2011 to the outbreak of the disastrous conflict in December 2013 & the early bloody phase of the fighting Johnson's frequent personal & private contacts at the highest levels of government accompanied by her deep knowledge of the country & its history make this a unique eyewitness account of the turbulent first three years of the world's newest
- & yet most fragile
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This A-Z Map of South West England & South Wales is a full colour single-sided fold-out road map featuring continuous mapping south of Aberystwyth & Coventry & to the west of Kettering & Chichester Also included is an inset map of the Isles of Scilly 1 pages ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play On a desolate stretch of desert highway weary travellers—two men on the run from their past a band on their way to the next gig a man struggling to get home a brother in search of his long-lost sister & a family on vacation—are forced to confront their worst fears & darkest secrets in these interwoven tales of terror & remorse on the open road ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A sudden inexplicable spate of shootings rips through the market town of Southcliffe The lives of those left behind are torn apart In this haunting four-part drama a journalist reporting on the tragedy finds himself back in the small town he himself grew up in looking for answers from the shattered community whilst trying to reconcile dark events from his own past Actors Sean Harris Mark Badham Scott Plumridge & Coral Amiga Director Sean Durkin Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles English ; English for the hearing imapired Closed Captions Yes Region Region 2
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Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a big ol& stick Coach Euless Boss has buried more bodies under his bleachers than there are championship rings on his fingers & they&re just two of the kind of bastards that have always seemed to flourish in Craw County Alabama When Earl comes home after 40 years he finds some family business that still needs settlin& & Coach Boss is at the center of it all The seminal southern-fried crime series Southern Bastards by Jason Aaron (Scalped Star Wars) & Jason Latour (Spider-Gwen Loose Ends) gets an oversized hardcover collecting the first two arcs " Here Was a Man" & " Gridiron" Collects Southern Bastards 1-8 by Jason Latour Jason Aaron ...

Earl Tubb is an angry old man with a very big stick Euless Boss is a high school football coach with no more room in his office for trophies & no more room underneath the bleachers for burying bodies & they&re just two of the folks you&ll meet in Castor County Alabama home of Boss BBQ the state champion Runnin& Rebs & more bastards than you&ve ever seen! Collects Southern Bastards 1-4 ...