The Broons fair enjoy a good laugh So the family have all pitched in to compile their favourite funnies Each joke has a Scottish flavour
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One January morning in 1734 cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him but plants & seeds Over the next forty years Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession & change the gardens of Britain forever Philip Miller author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks & his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti & Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour This is the story of these men
- friends rivals enemies united by a passion for plants Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire & the uncharted world beyond The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners
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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 One of the BBC&s most popular drama series of the 1970s The Brothers followed the lives of the Hammond family When their father dies brothers Edward Brian & David expect to inherit the familys road haulage company between them
- but their father has also left his secretary an equal share Featuring all 13 episodes from series 1 plus a stills gallery
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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 The Brothers
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When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from BRICK writerdirector Rian Johnson Tired of a life on the run a confidence man who has dedicated his life to the art of the grift decides to call it quits Despite his plans to leave his criminal past behind however the reluctant scammer finds that his brother has masterminded one last scheme to claim the wealth of an eccentric millionaire (Rachel Weisz) With the opportunity to make enough money so that he would be able to live comfortably even if his legitimate endeavours fail the heretofore unrepentant con man finds it increasingly difficult to refuse his sibling's potentially profitable endeavour ...

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' & by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation' The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
- Dostoevsky's most widely read novel
- is at once a murder mystery a mordant comedy of family intrigue a pioneering work of psychological realism & an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering

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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery a courtroom drama & an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov & his three sons
- the impulsive & sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; & the healthy young novice Alyosha Through the gripping events of their story Dostoevsky portrays the social & spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age & a tragic turning point in Russian culture
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky's powerful meditation on faith meaning & morality The Brothers Karamazov is translated with an introduction & notes by David Mc Duff in Penguin Classics When brutal landowner Fyodor Karamazov is murdered the lives of his sons are changed irrevocably Mitya the sensualist whose bitter rivalry with his father immediately places him under suspicion for parricide; Ivan the intellectual whose mental tortures drive him to breakdown; the spiritual Alyosha who tries to heal the family's rifts; & the shadowy figure of their bastard half-brother Smerdyakov As the ensuing investigation & trial reveal the true identity of the murderer Dostoyevsky's dark masterpiece evokes a world where the lines between innocence & corruption good & evil blur & everyone's faith in humanity is tested This powerful translation of The Brothers Karamazov features & introduction highlighting Dostoyevsky's recurrent themes of guilt & salvation with a new chronology & further reading Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky (1821-1881) was born in Moscow From 1849-54 he lived in a convict prison & in later years his passion for gambling led him deeply into debt His other works available in Penguin Classics include Crime & Punishment The Idiot & Demons If you enjoyed The Brothers Karamazov you might like Nikolai Gogol's Dead Souls also available in Penguin Classics' There is no writer who better demonstrates the contradictions & fluctuations of the creative mind than Dostoyevsky & nowhere more astonishingly than in The Brothers Karamazov' Joyce Carol Oates' Dostoyevsky was the only psychologist from whom I had anything to learn he belongs to the happiest windfalls of my life' Friedrich Nietzsche' The most magnificent novel ever written' Sigmund Freud ...

There's no one Karl Lion loves more than his older brother Jonathan who is brave strong & handsome
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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 Three brothers from Long Island try to reconcile their lives & loves in this charming romantic comedy (written starring & directed by Edward Burns) which won Best Picture at the Sundance Film Festival After their good-for-nothing father dies & their mother leaves to be with the man she really loves brothers Jack Barry & Patrick are left with only each other as they struggle with their own relationships Married Jack is tempted to have an affair Patrick isn&t sure his fiancee is "the one" & Barry can&t deal with the fact that he is actually falling in love Actors Edward Burns Mike Mc Glone Jack Mulcahy Connie Britton Catharine Bolz Shari Albert & Jennifer Jostyn Director Edward Burns Certificate 15 years & over Year 1995 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx) ...