With an introduction by Ross Raisin A modern classic of Irish fiction shortlisted for the 1992 Booker prize When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs Nugent Francie Brady is a small-town rascal who spends his days turning a blind eye to the troubles at home & getting up to mischief with his best friend Joe
- hiding in the chicken-house shouting abuse at fish in the local stream But after a disagreement with his neighbour Mrs Nugent over her son's missing comic books Francie's reckless streak spirals out of control & gives rise to a monstrous obsession Fearless shocking & blackly funny Patrick Mc Cabe's The Butcher Boy won the 1992 Irish Times Literature Prize & was shortlisted for the 1992 Booker Prize It is a modern classic of Irish fiction a portrait of the insidious violence latent in small town life & of a frenzied young man lashing out at everyone even himself
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Historical drama directed by Lee Daniels & starring Forest Whitaker The film tells the story of Cecil Gaines (Whitaker)&s 34-year career working as head butler at the White House Beginning his tenure under President Eisenhower (Robin Williams) Cecil would see another seven presidents come & go throughout his career & was present at the highest level of the state during some of the most tumultuous periods in the 20th century including the American Civil Rights Movement & the Vietnam War The ensemble cast

Includes:: John Cusack James Marsden Liev Schreiber Alan Rickman & Oprah Winfrey Actors Forest Whitaker Oprah Winfrey John Cusack Jane Fonda Cuba Gooding Jnr Terrence Howard Lenny Kravitz James Marsden David Oyelowo Vanessa Redgrave Alan Rickman Liev Schreiber Robin Williams & Clarence Williams IIIDirector Lee Daniels Certificate 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 12 minutes (approx)

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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 Historical drama directed by Lee Daniels & starring Forest Whitaker The film tells the story of Cecil Gaines (Whitaker)&s 34-year career working as head butler at the White House Beginning his tenure under President Eisenhower (Robin Williams) Cecil would see another seven presidents come & go throughout his career & was present at the highest level of the state during some of the most tumultuous periods in the 20th century including the American Civil Rights Movement & the Vietnam War The ensemble cast

Includes:: John Cusack James Marsden Liev Schreiber Alan Rickman & Oprah Winfrey Actors Forest Whitaker Oprah Winfrey John Cusack Jane Fonda Cuba Gooding Jnr Terrence Howard Lenny Kravitz James Marsden David Oyelowo Vanessa Redgrave Alan Rickman Liev Schreiber Robin Williams & Clarence Williams IIIActors Lee Daniels Actors 12 years & over Year 2013 Languages English Duration 2 hours & 12 minutes (approx)

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A mysterious painting breathes hope & beauty into the darkest corners of Auschwitz---and the loneliest hearts of Manhattan 336 pages Cambron Kristy ...

She's young beautiful & is the daughter of the Butterfly Bee Lady who was once a queen of dragonflyers along with her twin sister Sindeena But by fate malice & a mysterious form of magic she was changed into the first Butterfly To be then pursued by her evil twin sister Sindeena & her minions in a never-ending search for her & her daughter who hold in their hands a power to change life & open up doors to a very different world & more which can bring the most terrifying & beautiful creatures out of the woodwork ...

Tina is a triplet but she's always been the odd one out Her sisters Phil & Maddie are bigger & stronger & better at just about everything Luckily they look after teeny-tiny Tina wherever they go
- but when the girls start in scary super-strict Miss Lovejoy's class they're split up & Tina has to fend for herself for the first time Tina is horrified when she's paired up with angry bully Selma who nobody wants to be friends with But when Miss Lovejoy asks them to help her create a butterfly garden in the school playground Tina discovers she doesn't always need her sisters
- & that there's a lot more to Selma than first meets the eye A beautiful heartwarming story about friendship confidence & becoming your own person from the mega-bestselling author of Tracy Beaker Hetty Feather & Sleepovers

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Caterpillars Dotty & Stripe do everything together They play they eat leaves & do all sorts of caterpiller-y things & then one day after spinning themselves into snuggly cocoons they wake up as beautiful butterflies! But soon they realise that for the first time ever they look different Should Dotty only play with butterflies that look like her? & Stripe only play with butterflies that look like him? A stunningly illustrated story about friendship & and being happy with who you are from the authorillustrator of Waterstones Children's Book Prize shortlisted The Dawn Chorus ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Change One Thing Change Everything A young man struggling to get over disturbing memories from his childhood discovers that he is able to travel back in time & alter events in the past However every change he makes transforms his life & that to those around him often to unexpected & disastrous consequences Actors Ashton Kutcher Melora Walters Amy Smart Elden Henson Eric Stoltz Ethan Suplee William Lee Scott & Callum Kieth Rennie Director Eric Bress & J Mac Kye Gruber Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The psychological sci-fi thriller from 2004 & its 2006 sequel The original film stars Ashton Kutcher as Evan Treborn a young man who from an early age has struggled with his disturbing childhood memories As a boy Evan was encouraged by a psychologist to keep a journal detailing the events of his day-to-day life & now as a young adult he revisits these journals to figure out the truth about events that ended in tragedy for his childhood friends Lenny (Elden Henson) & Tommy (William Lee Scott) & the childhood sweetheart Kayleigh (Amy Smart) with whom he is still in love Evan makes the incredible discovery that he can use the notebooks as a vehicle enabling him to journey back into the past so that his adult mind occupies the body of his childhood self He begins a series of attempts to re-direct history with the aim of saving his friends & loved ones from the traumas that have befallen them But every time Evan changes something in the past however small he finds when he returns to the present that his actions have had unexpected & disastrous consequences The harder he tries to make things go right the less able he seems to create a reality that allows him & Kayleigh to live happily ever after In the action-packed sequel Nick (Eric Lively) & Julie (Erica Durance) are deeply in love but when Julie dies in a tragic car accident Nick isn&t willing to say goodbye to his soulmate without a fight Soon discovering that he has the ability to travel into the past to a point before the time of Julie&s untimely death Nick struggles to find a means of saving his one true love despite the increasingly troubling results that his well-intended heroics seem to have on the future ...

The decisions you make & the way you treat others have more impact than you may ever realize Speaker & New York Times best-selling author Andy Andrewsshares a compelling & powerful story about a decision one man madeover a hundred years ago & the ripple effect it's had on usindividually & nationwide today It's a story that will inspirecourage & wisdom in the decisions we make as well as affect the waywe treat others through our lifetime Andrews speaks over 100 times ayear & The Butterfly Effect is his 1 most requested story Also included with the purchase of the book is a link to view a 9-minute message of Andrews telling The Butterfly Effect story to a live audience ...