Usborne Beginners are colourful information books for children beginning to read on their own Vivid full colour illustrations & photographs are on every page accompanied by short informative text ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The City is crawling! In New York City&s subway tunnel a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions & wreak havoc on the entire city ...

Spiders are the most obvious group of animals
- they share with us our houses & gardens They also have some of the most fascinating
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Spiderweb balloons for a Halloween party Contents 8 balloons & each balloon measures 12 inches 30 cm The balloon is made from latex & the colour is black These latex balloons are perfect for a birthday party theme party & party ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Spiderwick Chronicles Based on the best-selling 5-part children&s book series written by Holly Black & illustrated by Tony Di Terlizzi 9 yr old twin boys their 13 yr old sister & mom move into a dilapitated estate & find themselves sucked into a world of goblins griffins fairies trolls & other magical creatures Charlotte&s Web Charlotte&s Web The Movie-In this retelling of EB White&s perennial best-selling novel a young farm girl teams up with a spider named Charlotte to save a pig named Wilbur from the butcher&s block ...

In the quiet cul-de-sac where Keith & Stephen live the only immediate signs of the Second World War are the blackout at night & a single random bombsite But the two boys start to suspect all is not as it seems when one day Keith announces a disconcerting discovery the Germans have infiltrated his own family & when the secret underground world they have dreamed up emerges from the shadows they find themselves engulfed in mysteries far deeper & more painful than they had bargained for Winner of the Whitbread Novel of the Year Award ...

It's wartime Britain & Stephen's friend Keith makes the momentous announcement that his mother is a German spy Determined to find the truth the two boys begin to spy on the 'spy' The boys discover that Keith's mother does have secrets to hide but they are not the ones they had suspected Ideal for critical analysis of a substantial piece of prose; vocabulary narrative technique rhetorical devices & moral depth Whitbread Costa Book Award winning title ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play What pencil pushers Emmett (Chevy Chase) & Austin (Dan Akroyd) don&t know about spying they make up for in laughs in Spies Like Us The two desk jockeys fake their way into becoming spies with limitless limitations in this funfest that plays like a Bob Hope-Bing Crosby road movie John Landis (Trading Places) directs ...

Salonika 1940 To the bustle of tavernas & the smell of hashish a secret war is taking shape In the backrooms of barbers envelopes change hands & in the Club de Salonique the air is thick with whispers Costa Zannis is the city's dashing chief detective
- a man with contacts high & low in the Balkans & beyond & as unknown ships & British 'travel writers' trickle through the port he is a man very much in demand Having helped defeat Italy in the highlands of Macedonia Zannis returns to a city holding its breath Mussolini's forces have retreated
- for now
- but German sights are fixed firmly on the region & as the situation in Germany worsens Zannis becomes involved in an audacious plot
- smuggling Jews to Istanbul through the back door of Europe The British hear he can penetrate the continent's closed borders & soon Zannis is embroiled in the resistance & in a reckless love affair that could jeopardise everything With a remarkable cast of operatives SPIES OF THE BALKANS is a brilliant espionage novel from Alan Furst



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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 David Tennant & Janet Montgomery star in this espionage drama as lovers swept up in the intrigue romance & chaos of pre-WWII Europe After arriving to take up his post in Warsaw newly appointed French military attache Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier (Tennant) soon finds himself dragged into the duplicitous & shadowy world that thrives in the cafes & back streets of the city As Hitler&s stranglehold on Europe tightens & the continent slides inexorably towards the Second World War Mercier embarks on a passionate but complex love affair with Anna (Montgomery) a Parisian lawyer who works for the League of Nations ...