Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The Colditz Story is an outstanding factual prisoner of war film directed by Guy Hamilton starring John Mills (Ice Cold in Alex) as Officer Pat Reid & Eric Portman (The 49th Parallel) as Colonel Richmond It is based on the book written by Pat Reid a British army officer who was imprisoned in Oflag IV-C Colditz Castle in Germany during the Second World War & who was the Escape Officer for British POWs within the castle Colditz Castle in the heart of Saxony was the fortress to which the German High Command sent officers who had attempted to escape from conventional prison camps They regarded it as impregnable yet they threatened the death penalty for anyone attempting to break out British officer Pat Reid leads an escape through one of the castle’s subterranean tunnels Only three of the prisoners survive; the next step is to get out of Germany itself Special Features• New & exclusive 53 min documentary – Colditz Revealed Life Inside the Colditz Castle• Restoration comparison ...

' With flashes of brilliance tenderness & fury Mirza Waheed's The Collaborator does what fiction should It makes you listen' Arundhati Roy author of The God of Small Things By the waters running through the valleys of Kashmir teenage boys come to play cricket talk about girls & just be But a few years later when they are young men & violence grips the region they are gone Only the son of the local headman has stayed He knows his friends have slipped over the border to Pakistan & turned militant to bear arms against the Indian army He would like to join them
- but he cannot Instead put in an impossible position by an Indian army Captain he must cross into the shadowland between the opposing sides a ghost walking among the dead His fate like that of his lost brothers unknown ' Waheed's prose burns with the fever of anger & despair; the scenes in the valley are exceptional conveying a hallucinatory living nightmare that has become an everyday reality for Kashmiris' Metro' Waheed builds an atmosphere of menace & despair his tale possesses a disturbing power that is both lingering & profound' Independent on Sunday' Compelling An important & poetic testimony to an all-too-easily forgotten war' Daily Mail Mirza Waheed was born & brought up in Kashmir His debut novel The Collaborator was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award & the Shakti Bhat Prize & longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize It was also book of the year for the Telegraph New Statesman Financial Times Business Standard & Telegraph India Waheed has written for the BBC the Guardian Granta Al Jazeera English & The New York Times He lives in London
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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 Justin Mc Connell directs this indie sci-fi horror about a family fighting for survival in a post-apocalyptic world Fleeing the city in a bid to protect his family from marauding survivors Scott Weaver (John Fantasia) hopes to lead his wife Emily (Lise Moule) son Aaron (Steve Vieira) & daughter Rebecca (Anna Ross) to what he hopes will be the relative safety of the family&s former home at Dover&s Bend While scavenging en route however Scott & his family are forced to take to the woods to avoid danger from other survivors only to find themselves the prey of something altogether more terrifying ...

' Rousing storytelling & satisfying intrigue an engaging well-crafted sci-fi drama'
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Dorothy Parker more than any of her contemporaries captured the spirit of the Jazz Age in her poetry & prose & The Collected Dorothy Parker

Includes:: an introduction by Brendan Gill in Penguin Modern Classics Dorothy Parker was the most talked-about woman of her day notorious as the hard-drinking bad girl with a talent for stinging repartee & endlessly"able one-liners The decadent 1920s & 1930s in New York were a time of great experiment & daring for women For the rich life seemed a continual party but the excesses took their emotional toll In the bitingly witty poems & stories collected here along with her articles & reviews she brilliantly captures the spirit of the decadent Jazz Age in New York exposing both the dazzle & the darkness But beneath the sharp perceptions & acidic humour much of her work poignantly expresses the deep vulnerability of a troubled self-destructive woman who in the words of philosopher Irwin Edman was 'a Sappho who could combine a heartbreak with a wisecrack' Dorothy Parker (1893-1967) was born in West End New Jersey & grew up in New York In 1916 she sold some of her poetry to the editor of Vogue & was subsequently given an editorial position on the magazine She then became drama critic of Vanity Fair & the central figure of the celebrated Algonquin Round Table whose members included George S Kaufman & Harpo Marx Her collections of poems included Enough Rope (1926) & Not So Deep as a Well (1936) & her collections of stories included Here Lies (1939); in addition she collaborated on & wrote screenplays including the Oscar-winning A Star is Born (1937) & Alfred Hitchcock's Saboteur (1942) If you enjoyed The Collected Dorothy Parker you might like Truman Capote's The Complete Stories also available in Penguin Modern Classics' She managed to express her real feelings in stanzas which snap & glitter like a Chanel handbag' Peter Ackroyd The Times

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A casual introduction a challenge to a simple game of chess a lovers' reunion a meaningless infidelity from such small seeds Zweig brings forth five startlingly tense tales-meditations on the fragility of love the limits of obsession the combustibility of secrets & betrayal To read anything by Zweig is to risk addiction; in this collection the power of his writing-which with its unabashed intensity & narrative drive made him one of the bestselling & most acclaimed authors in the world-is clear & irresistible Each of these stories is a bolt of experience unforgettable & unique ...

No poet is more emblematically American than Robert Frost Hailed as the most eminent the most distinguished Anglo-American poet' by TS Eliot he is the only writer in history to have been awarded four Pulitzer Prizes In iconic poems like Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' simple images summon the rural landscape of New England & Frost unfailingly moves the reader with his profound grasp of the human condition This is the most comprehensive & authoritative volume of Frost's verse available comprising all eleven volumes of his poems meticulously edited by Edward Connery Lathem ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Sally Minogue Elizabeth Barrett Browning was such an acclaimed poet in her own lifetime that she was suggested as a candidate for the Poet Laureateship when Wordsworth died in 1850 Yet today we have only a limited knowledge of her considerable life's work as a poet in part because of a lack of representative but accessible editions of her work Readers will find here not only her well-known sonnet sequence of love poems Sonnets From the Portuguese but also lesser known sonnets some in praise of the cross-dressing bohemian writer George Sand others to contemporary poets & artists Her religious & spiritual poetry echoes that of the Metaphysical poets A different voice emerges in her social & political protest poems such as The Cry of the Children' & The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point' Her experimental ballads allowed her to develop a distinctive way of writing about women within an apparently conventional form In the outstanding work of her maturity Aurora Leigh the woman's voice takes centre stage This novel-poem' is full of verve & interest with a female poet-hero who casts a caustic eye on life & on her fellow men
- & women We all think we know the story of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- the mysterious illness which enclosed her in her room her over-loving but imperious father & her romantic secret marriage to the poet Robert Browning & their life together in Italy But this comprehensive selection of her poetry tells the real story of her sustained creative life as a poet which began with her childhood poetic ambitions & ended only with her death All the major aspects of her poetry are represented in this accessible edition which is well-annotated & contextualised with a wide-ranging introduction which covers Barrett Browning's poetic & intellectual life as well as her personal one Recent critical re-readings including major feminist reassessments of her poetry are covered in the introduction with helpful suggestions for further reading

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George Mackay Brown is recognised as one of Scotland's greatest twentieth-century lyric poets His work is integral to the flowering of Scottish literature over the last fifty years Admired by many fellow poets including Seamus Heaney & Douglas Dunn his poems are deeply individual & unmistakable in their setting 'the small green world' of the Orkney Islands where he lived for most of his life with its elemental forces of sea & sky & Norse & Icelandic ancestry is brought vividly & memorably to life Here his rich resonant poetry is collected in one volume making available again many poems that are otherwise out of print ...

With an Introduction Bibliography & Glossary by Michael Irwin Professor of English Literature University of Kent at Canterbury Thomas Hardy started composing poetry in the heyday of Tennyson & Browning He was still writing with unimpaired power sixty years later when Eliot & Yeats were the leading names in the field His extraordinary stamina & a consistent individuality of style & vision made him a survivor immune to literary fashion At the start of the twenty-first century his reputation stands higher than it ever did even in his own lifetime He is now recognised not only as a great poet but as one who is widely loved He speaks with directness humanity & humour to scholarly or ordinary readers alike ...