When a man needs only two hundred pounds to marry his cook & buy a public house one would expect his life to be trouble free but the fifth Earl of Shortlands has to reckon with his haughty daughter Lady Adela & Mervyn Spink his butler who also happens to be his rival in love 288 pages Wodehouse P G ...

Winner of the Akutagawa Prize a sharp photo-realistic novella of memory & thwarted hope Divorced & cut off from his family Taro lives alone in one of the few occupied apartments in his block a block that is to be torn down as soon as the remaining tenants leave Since the death of his father Taro keeps to himself but is soon drawn into an unusual relationship with the woman upstairs Nishi as she passes on the strange tale of the sky-blue house next door First discovered by Nishi in the little-known photo-book ' Spring Garden' the sky-blue house soon becomes a focus for both Nishi & Taro of what is lost of what has been destroyed & of what hope may yet lie in the future for both of them if only they can seize it ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Regarded as the finest work from the first great era of Chinese filmmaking Fei Mu&s quiet piercingly poignant study of adulterous desire & guilt-ridden despair is a remarkable rediscovery often compared to David Lean&s Brief Encounter (1945) After eight years of marriage to Liyan -once rich but now a shadow of his former self following a long ruinous war
- Yuwen does little except deliver his daily medication A surprise visit from Liyan&s friend Zhang re-energises the household but also stirs up dangerously suppressed longings & resentments Director Feu Mu&s deft use of locations dissolves & camera movements makes for a fraught febrile mood of hesitant passion entrapment & ennui Cinematically & psychologically sophisticated Spring in a Small Town has been restored by the China Film Archive & is accompanied here by a number of rare & fascinating films from the BFI National Archive
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Tracklist 1 Static (Intro) 025 2 Animal 258 3 Ready For War 258 4 Lets Drink 332 5 Paranoid 332 6 The Hum 406 7 Lightning (Interlude) 032 8 Us Vs Them 342 9 Echo Chamber 339 10 No More 326 11 Radioactive! 357 12 Have You Ever Looked Up Into the Sky 329 13 Thicker Skin 325 14 Thunder 411 ...

Each glass is unique as it is painted by hand
- like a fine sculpture or timeless painting It is almost too beautiful to use but
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The first delicate flowers herald the end of a harsh winter The sun shines longer day by day & pushes the snow back Lush meadows bloom & curious marmots slowly awaken from hibernation Finally spring is coming into the mountains — the perfect time for a hike Choose your route carefully watch out for the burrows of the marmots & pack enough snacks Your chances to earn an edelweiss hiking pin are rather low if you sit hungry in the snow Spring Meadow is the grand finale of Uwe Rosenberg&s puzzle trilogy following 2016&s Cottage Garden & 2017&s Indian Summer The complexity of this game — the most interactive of the trilogy — is set in between those two games & fans of the trilogy will find familiar elements combined in an innovative way Place your meadow tiles with 0-2 holes skillfully on your mountain board to receive extra tiles when creating or expanding groups of holes Find your way around the burrows of the marmots because they can restrict you during tile placement Scoring takes place depending on the players& selection of meadow tiles from a central game board Whoever has the largest meadow during a scoring receives a hiking pin & the first player to earn their second hiking pin during scoring wins New puzzle challenges are guaranteed with 172 tiles in 49 shapes ...

Tokyo 1912 The closed world of the ancient aristocracy is being breached for the first time by outsiders
- rich provincial families
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Step into the exquisite miniature world of the mice of Brambly Hedge in this beautiful new edition of the classic picture book Wilfred woke early It was his birthday He had lots of lovely presents but the best one was a surprise Mr Apple had organised a secret celebration picnic & all the mice of Brambly Hedge were invited There was so much to carry Poor Wilfred got very tired as he lurched & bumped his way along the grassy track What was it Mrs Apple had said was in his hamper? Knives? Sandwiches? They were certainly heavy! When they finally arrived Wilfred was allowed to open up the hamper & there he found the best treat of all ...

Prayer meditation & appreciation of nature are the sacraments by which two monks live a simple life in Korean director Kim Ki-Duk's SPRING SUMMER FALL WINTER & SPRING A wise old monk (Oh Young-soo) is master to a young student & remains so throughout the changing seasons of the younger monk's life In springtime the young monk is a 5-year-old boy in summer he is a teenager in fall he is a 30-year-old man & in winter he is in mid-life The master & his student live in a tranquil house that floats in the middle of a pond hidden in a vast woodland Paddling their row boat to the edge of the pond they roam the forest collecting herbs for medicine observing animals & learning deep lessons about life When a woman brings her sick daughter to the monks to be healed a lustful relationship results between the daughter & the teenage monk Though sex is the appropriate cure for the girl the affair is a harbinger of evil for the monk whose innocence is replaced by corruption After paying for his sins over the course of many years the monk finds inner peace & is reborn A spiritual soundtrack & superb nature photography make this film a joy to watch & its story is rich with messages about forgiveness & inner peace ...

A thought-provoking collection of contemporary short stories from the winner of the Arthur C Clarke award 2013 Chris Beckett's thought-provoking & wide-ranging collection of contemporary short stories is a joy to read rich in detail & texture From stories about first love to a man who discovers a labyrinth beneath his house to an angel left alone at the end of the universe Beckett displays both incredible range & extraordinary subtlety as a writer Every story is a world unto itself
- each one beautifully realized & brilliantly imagined
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