Now a major BBC drama starring Benedict Cumberbatch Only Ian Mc Ewan could write about loss with such telling honesty' Benedict Cumberbatch On a routine trip to the supermarket with his daughter one Saturday morning Stephen Lewis a well-known writer of children's books turns his back momentarily When he looks around again his child is gone In a single moment everything is changed The kidnapping has a devastating effect on Stephen's life & marriage Memories & the present become inseparable
- as Stephen gets lost in daydreams of the past
- & time bends back on itself dragging Stephen's own childhood back into the present

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From the cool TV Series Star Wars The Mandalorian comes this cute plush figure It stands at approx 25 cm tall ...

A brilliant emotionally wrenching new novel from the author of Atonement & Amsterdam Fiona Maye a leading High Court judge renowned for her fierce intelligence & sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case For religious reasons a seventeen-year-old boy is refusing the medical treatment that could save his life Time is running out She visits the boy in hospital
- an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her & powerful new emotions in the boy But it is Fiona who must ultimately decide whether he lives or dies & her judgement will have momentous consequences for them both
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Fiona Maye a leading High Court judge renowned for her fierce intelligence & sensitivity is called on to try an urgent case Time is running out She visits the boy in hospital
- an encounter which stirs long-buried feelings in her & powerful new emotions in the boy 224 pages Mc Ewan Ian
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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 Based on the much-loved novel by Ian Mc Ewan (Atonement) & brought to the big screen by director Richard Eyre (Notes on a Scandal Iris) The Children Act is a compelling & powerful drama telling the story of Fiona Maye (Emma Thompson) an eminent high court judge presiding over ethically complex cases As the demands of her job cause her marriage to Jack (Stanley Tucci) to reach tipping point Fiona is asked to rule on the case of Adam (Fionn Whitehead) a brilliant young boy who is refusing a life-saving blood transfusion on religious grounds With her private life in turmoil Fiona finds herself drawn into the case taking the unorthodox step of halting proceedings in order to visit Adam in hospital As the two form a profound connection & powerful emotions come to light Fiona&8217;s judgement is put to the test with momentous consequences as she must ultimately decide whether Adam lives or dies Actors Fionn Whitehead Emma Thompson Stanley Tucci Nikki Amuka-Bird Ben Chaplin Directors Richard Eyre Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Does the experience of watching a lot of television negatively affect a child's brain development? Dr Buzzell draws on his years of experience as a physician working with children to characterise & identify the effects of television Sobering & instructive it is compelling reading for parents & educators who want to make an informed decision about their children's screen time & best educational practices ...

These enchanting haunting stories from Carnegie winner Lucy M Boston have become modern classics beautifully evoking all the magic & wonder of childhood Now The Children of Green Knowe & River at Green Knowe are available in one edition Children of Green Knowe Tolly's great grandmother isn't a witch but both she & her old house Green Knowe are full of a very special kind of magic There are other children in the house
- children who were happy there centuries before Running around Green Knowe's moat gardens & mysterious rooms Tolly slowly discovers them their toys & animals & their wonderful stories River at Green Knowe' What a lot of islands the river makes' said Ida ' We must go exploring & sail around them all' And so begins a wonderful magical summer Ida Oscar & Ping are staying with Ida's great-aunt at the ancient river-encircled house of Green Knowe They set out to chart the river in the canoe & soon discover that it has some surprising & mysterious secrets
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Three children & their mother live in a cottage shaped like a hat on a little island in a lake One day their mother goes to the mainland to find yarn to make the children new clothes While she's away the children try to help around the house but housework is much harder than they thought They have great fun sweeping the chimney -- but they get very dirty They wash their clothes in the lake & dry them over a fire -- but fires are hard to control Will Hat Cottage be standing by the time their mother returns?A charming story from Elsa Beskow about getting help from unexpected places with lively illustrations in her classic style ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & standalone story the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves & Men dragons & Dwarves eagles & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings & the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West lands where Treebeard once walked but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World In that remote time Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband the Hells of Iron in the North; & the tragedy of Turin & his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the lands & secret cities of the Elves Their brief & passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin the man who had dared to defy & to scorn him to his face Against them he sent his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire Into this story of brutal conquest & flight of forest hiding-places & pursuit of resistance with lessening hope the Dark Lord & the Dragon enter in direly articulate form Sardonic & mocking Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning & guile & the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled The earliest versions of this story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War & the years that followed; but long afterwards when The Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew & greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive & character it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...

Painstakingly restored from Tolkien's manuscripts & presented for the first time as a fully continuous & stand alone story the epic tale of The Children of Hurin will reunite fans of The Hobbit & The Lord of the Rings with Elves & Men dragons & Dwarves eagles & Orcs & the rich landscape & characters unique to Tolkien There are tales of Middle-earth from times long before The Lord of the Rings & the story told in this book is set in the great country that lay beyond the Grey Havens in the West lands where Treebeard once walked but which were drowned in the great cataclysm that ended the First Age of the World In that remote time Morgoth the first Dark Lord dwelt in the vast fortress of Angband the Hells of Iron in the North; & the tragedy of Turin & his sister Nienor unfolded within the shadow of the fear of Angband & the war waged by Morgoth against the lands & secret cities of the Elves Their brief & passionate lives were dominated by the elemental hatred that Morgoth bore them as the children of Hurin the man who had dared to defy & to scorn him to his face Against them he sent his most formidable servant Glaurung a powerful spirit in the form of a huge wingless dragon of fire Into this story of brutal conquest & flight of forest hiding-places & pursuit of resistance with lessening hope the Dark Lord & the Dragon enter in direly articulate form Sardonic & mocking Glaurung manipulated the fates of Turin & Nienor by lies of diabolic cunning & guile & the curse of Morgoth was fulfilled The earliest versions of this story by JRR Tolkien go back to the end of the First World War & the years that followed; but long afterwards when The Lord of the Rings was finished he wrote it anew & greatly enlarged it in complexities of motive & character it became the dominant story in his later work on Middle-earth But he could not bring it to a final & finished form In this book Christopher Tolkien has constructed after long study of the manuscripts a coherent narrative without any editorial invention ...