The compelling YA debut from Laura Bates founder of The Everyday Sexism Project bestselling author of Girl Up & leading voice for women's rights 352 pages Bates Laura ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play IT WILL TAKE YOU FURTHER THAN FEAR Of all the many slice-&-dice films that emerged in the early 80s few remain as gruesomely effective as The Burning the notorious video nasty now finally unleashed on Blu-ray! When an ill-advised prank misfires summer camp caretaker Cropsy is committed to hospital with hideous burns Released after five years hospital officials warn him not to blame the young campers who caused his disfigurement But no sooner is Cropsy back on the streets than he s headed back to camp with a rusty pair of shears in hand determined to exact his bloody revenge With standout gore effects courtesy of FX legend Tom Savini The Burning proved too shocking for UK censors upon its original video release Now fully uncut & in High Definition The Burning is ready to reclaim its place as the ultimate summer camp nightmare Actors Brian Matthews Leah Ayres Jason Alexander Directors Tony Maylam Format CDDVDLanguage English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Aspect Ratio 169
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The Burning Bridge is the second thrilling book in John Flanagan's Ranger's Apprentice series
- over eight million sold worldwide
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France 1562 As the Wars of Religion begin to take hold a courageous Catholic woman & a passionate Huguenot believer find themselves united in possession of a priceless relic & set upon a quest to uncover a long-buried secret hidden in the haunting Chateau de Puivert in the foothills of the Pyrenees 608 pages Mosse Kate ...

A masterful debut short story collection from the award-winning critically-acclaimed poet Adam O' Riordan In these eight stories an English writer focuses his gaze on America's West Coast moving from fractured lives in remote sun-scorched towns to the charged hum of Venice Beach A man visits his long-distance lover in Los Angeles; the foreman of a desert building project embarks on a journey into California's underworld; an artist finds peace in exile after the disintegration of an affair; & itinerant Brits discuss love & acting in downtown LA Written with an outsider's keen eye this collection paints an intimate portrait of diverse lives in a work of remarkable beauty & poignancy ...

In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her house in rural Tipperary At first some said that the fairies had taken her into their stronghold in a nearby hill from where she would emerge riding a white horse But then her badly burned body was found in a shallow grave Her husband father aunt & four cousins were arrested & charged while newspapers in nearby Clonmel & then in Dublin Cork London & further afield attempted to make sense of what had happened In this lurid & fascinating episode set in the last decade of the nineteenth century we witness the collision of town & country of storytelling & science of old & new The torture & burning of Bridget Cleary caused a sensation in 1895 which continues to reverberate more than a hundred years later Winner of the Irish Times Prize for Non-Fiction ...

Detective Harry Bosch tackles a cold case unlike any he's ever worked in the new thriller from the Sunday Times bestselling author Michael Connelly 464 pages Connelly Michael ...

' If an Outsider wields the blade the House of Koronos burns'A boy on the run A deadly prophecy A race against time Hylas the Outsider is captured by slavers Set to work in the terrible underground mines of Thalakrea he learns to his horror that he's now closer than ever to his murderous enemies the Crows He has to escape before they find out he's here Pirra the daughter of the High Priestess is also on the run When Fate reunites her with Hylas their survival depends on ancient magic & an orphaned lion cub
- unless the Gods have other plans' Electrifying'
- Independent on Sunday' The reader's attention is caught from the first linespellbinding'
- Telegraph' Set to become another children's classic'
- Books for Keeps Michelle Paver was born in Malawi in 1960 & moved to England when she was three After gaining a degree in biochemistry from Oxford she became a partner in a City law firm but gave that up to write full-time To research her stories about animals & the distant past she has travelled in the Arctic the Mediterranean & Egypt swum with dolphins & killer whales & encountered bears boars & wolves She is the author of the internationally bestselling Chronicles of Ancient Darkness the final book of which won the 2010 Guardian Children's Fiction Prize



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Smithfield settled on the fringes of Roman London was once a place of revelry Jesters & crowds flocked for the medieval St Bartholomew's Day celebrations tournaments were plentiful & it became the location of London's most famous meat market Yet in Tudor England Smithfield had another more sinister use the public execution of heretics Spanning the reigns of British history's most remarkable dynasty The Burning Time is a vivid insight into an era in which what was orthodoxy one year might be dangerous heresy the next The first martyrs were Catholics who cleaved to Rome in defiance of Henry VIII's break with the papacy But with the accession of Henry's daughter Mary
- soon to be nicknamed ' Bloody Mary'
- the charge of heresy was levelled against devout Protestants who chose to burn rather than recant At the centre of Virginia Rounding's vivid account of this extraordinary period are two very different characters The first is Richard Rich Thomas Cromwell's protege who almost uniquely remained in a position of great power influence & wealth under three Tudor monarchs & who helped send many devout men & women to their deaths The second is John Deane Rector of St Bartholomew's who was able somehow to navigate the treacherous waters of changing dogma & help others to survive The Burning Time is their story but it is also the story of the hundreds of men & women who were put to the fire for their faith It is a gripping insight into a time when people were willing to die & to kill in the name of religion

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R is recovering from death He's learning how to read how to speak maybe even how to love He can almost imagine a future with Julie this girl who restarted his heart
- building a new world from the ashes of the old one & then helicopters appear on the horizon A mysterious army is coming to restore order to bring back the good old days of stability & control & the strong eating the weak These grinning strangers are more than they seem The plague has many hosts & some are far more terrifying than the Dead With their home in the grip of madmen R & Julie plunge into the wastelands of America in search of answers But there are some answers R doesn't want to find A past life an old shadow crawling up from the basement In this long-anticipated new chapter of the Warm Bodies series Isaac Marion expands the scope of a powerfully simple story a dead man's search for life in all its bloody rawness Talk to Isaac on Twitter Instagram Facebook Tumblr Snapchat & isaacmarioncom
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