WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION THE CONTROVERSIAL & DARING NOVEL THAT TOOK THE ARAB WORLD BY STORM 'AMBITIOUS CULTIVATED & BRAVE'
- FINANCIAL TIMES Josephine escapes poverty by coming to Kuwait from the Philippines to work as a maid where she meets Rashid an idealistic only son with literary aspirations Josephine with all the wide-eyed naivety of youth believes she has found true love But when she becomes pregnant & with the rumble of war growing ever louder Rashid bows to family & social pressure & sends her back home with her baby son Jose Brought up struggling with his dual identity Jose clings to the hope of returning to his father's country when he is eighteen He is ill-prepared to plunge headfirst into a world where the fear of tyrants & dictators is nothing compared to the fear of 'what will people say' & with a Filipino face a Kuwaiti passport an Arab surname & a Christian first name will his father's country welcome him? The Bamboo Stalk takes an unflinching look at the lives of foreign workers in Arab countries & confronts the universal problems of identity race & religion
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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 DVD about the history of the self-titled debut album from The Band contributed independent rock experts interviews with George Harrison & Eric Clapton as well as excerpts from & Rag Mama Rag& & The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down& & Up On Cripple Creek & King Harvest (Has Surely Come)& & The Weight& inter alia with a duration of 75 minutes & English text ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Robert of Nottingham the son of Robin Hood goes to the aid of the Queen Mother & the beautiful Lady Catherine who are fleeing the cruel Regent William of Pembroke who has the King imprisoned in the castle Robert Catherine & Friar Tuck enter the guarded castle & free the King but Robert & Catherine are captured ...

The Mistborn trilogy has become a firm favourite with fantasy fans the world over The imagination that Sanderson brought to the series & his skill at marshalling epic storylines & dramatic action his ability to create vivid characters made him a natural choice to complete Robert Jordan's epic wheel of time sequence But with Mistborn Sanderson has shown his bountiful talents in his own fiction Now he returns to the series that made his name with a new story building on the incredible success of THE ALLOY OF LAW The new Mistborn books move the series into a richly imagined 19th century analogue world with elements of the wild west mixed with magic & science It's a wonderful concoction from a master storyteller Sanderson has the knack of giving the epic fantasy reader exactly what they want This ability has thrown him to the forefront of the genre & this novel will take him to the next level ...

An illustrated hardback of 11 stories about immortal warlock Magnus Bane from the internationally bestselling Cassandra Clare Following Cassandra Clare's internationally bestselling Mortal Instruments & Infernal Devices series The Bane Chronicles is the perfect gift for Shadowhunters This gorgeous illustrated hardback brings together 11 stories about immortal warlock Magnus Bane first published as e Books A fan-favourite character from Cassandra Clare's Shadowhunter Chronicles Magnus features in The Mortal Instruments The Infernal Devices Tales from the Shadowhunter Academy & the movie of City of Bones Magnus will never be able to tell all of his tales No one would believe him But these stories shed a little light on his often inscrutable character They are stories he probably wishes had never got out ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Bang Bang Club was the name given to four young photographers; Greg Marinovich (Ryan Phillippe) Kevin Carter (Taylor Kitsch) Ken Oosterbroek & Joao Silva whose photographs captured the final bloody days of white rule in South Africa Two were awarded Pulitzer Prizes for their acclaimed work The film tells the remarkable & sometimes harrowing story of these young men
- & the extraordinary extremes they went to in order to capture their pictures Anna (Malin Akerman) is their photo-editor who looked out for them protected them & made sure their photographs were seen across the world Based on the book by Marinovich & Silva The Bang Bang Club tells the true story of these four young men recounting their relationships with each other & the stresses tensions & moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence pain & suffering
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The Bang-Bang Club was a group of four young war photographers friends & colleagues Ken Oosterbroek Kevin Carter Greg Marinovich & Joao Silva war correspondants during the last years of apartheid who took many of the photographs that encapsulate the final violent years of racist white South Africa Two of them won Pulitzer Prizes for individual photos Ken the oldest & a mentor to the others died accidentally shot while working; Kevin the most troubled of the four committed suicide weeks after winning his Pulitzer for a photograph of a starving baby in the Sudanese famine Written by Greg & Joao The Bang-Bang Club tells their uniquely powerful war stories It tells the story of four remarkable young men the stresses tensions & moral dilemmas of working in situations of extreme violence pain & suffering the relationships between the four & the story of the end of apartheid An immensely powerful riveting & harrowing book & an invakuable contribution to the literary genre of war photography An eye-opening book for readers of Susan Sontag ...

Track List 1 Eternal Flame Bangles 2 Manic Monday The Bangles 3 Walk Like an Egyptian 4 If She Knew What She Wants 5 James 6 More Than Meets The Eye 7 Not Like You The Bangles 8 All About You 9 Hero Takes A Fall 10 Complicated Girl 11 Let It Go The Bangles 12 September Gurls 13 Going Down To Liverpool 14 Some Dreams Come True 15 Waiting For You 16 Watching The Sky 17 I&ll Set You Free The Bangles 18 In Your Room ...

Hero Takes A Fall Going Down To Liverpool Manic Monday If She Knew What She Wants Walk Like An Egyptian Walking Down Your Street Following Hazy Shade Of Winter In Your Room Eternal Flame Be With You I&ll Set You Free Everything I Wanted Where Were You When I Needed You ...