Plantagenet Palliser the Duke of Omnium & former Prime Minister of England is widowed & wracked by grief Struggling to adapt to life without his beloved Lady Glencora he works hard to guide & support his three adult children Palliser soon discovers however that his own plans for them are very different from their desires Sent down from university in disgrace his two sons quickly begin to run up gambling debts His only daughter meanwhile longs passionately to marry the poor son of a county squire against her father's will But while the Duke's dearest wishes for the three are thwarted one by one he ultimately comes to understand that parents can learn from their own children ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Action comedy based on the hit television series that ran from 1979-85 Set in present day the film follows the adventures of &good old boy& cousins Bo (Seann William Scott) & Luke (Johnny Knoxville) Duke who with the help of their eye-catching cousin Daisy (Jessica Simpson) & moonshine-running Uncle Jesse (Willie Nelson) try & save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County&s corrupt commissioner Boss Hogg (Burt Reynolds) Their efforts constantly find the & Duke Boys& eluding authorities in & The General Lee& their famed 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town&s Sheriff Roscoe P Coltrane (MC Gainey) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Cousins Bo & Luke Duke with a little help from their cousin Daisy & Uncle Jesse egg on the authorities of Hazzard County Boss Hogg & Sheriff Coltrane ...

A well-know bibliophile is found hanged days after selling a rare manuscript of Alexander Dumas's classic The Three Musketeers Across Madrid Spain's wealthiest book dealer has finally laid his hands on a 17th-century manual for summoning the devil Lucas Corso solitary & obsessive is the detective hired to authenticate both texts But the further he follows the trail of devil worship the more it leads him back to Dumas He's the unwitting protagonist in someone's evil plot but is he sleuth or hero Sherlock Holmes or d' Artagnan? ...

As a child Luke's mother often tells him the story of the Dumb House an experiment on newborn babies raised in silence designed to test the innateness of language As Luke grows up his interest in language & the delicate balance of life & death leads to amateur dissections of small animals
- tiny hearts revealed still pumping as life trickles away But as an adult following the death of his mother Luke's obsession deepens resulting in a haunting & bizarre experiment on Luke's own children
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John Lister-Kaye has spent a lifetime exploring protecting & celebrating the British landscape & its wildlife His memoir The Dun Cow Rib is the story of a boy's awakening to the wonders of the natural world Lister-Kaye's joyous childhood holidays
- spent scrambling through hedges & ditches after birds & small beasts keeping pigeons in the loft & tracking foxes around the edge of the garden
- were the perfect apprenticeship for his two lifelong passions exploring the wonders of nature & writing about them Threaded through his adventures
- from moving to the Scottish Highlands to work with Gavin Maxwell to founding the famous Aigas Field Centre
- is an elegy to his remarkable mother & a wise & affectionate celebration of Britain's natural landscape



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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 This charming & hugely popular series returns to follow the further adventures of the eccentric Durrell family as they embrace life on a gorgeous Greek island The Durrells is based on Gerald Durrell’s trilogy of Corfu novels & this latest series sees sparky English widow Louisa & her brood continue to put down roots in their dilapidated rented house alongside an ever-increasing menagerie of animals brought home by youngest son Gerry ...

The Durrell family are immortalised in Gerald Durrell's My Family & Other Animals & its ITV adaptation The Durrells But what of the real life Durrells? Why did they go to Corfu in the first place
- & what happened to them after they left? The real story of the Durrells is as surprising & fascinating as anything in Gerry's books & Michael Haag with his first hand knowledge of the family is the ideal narrator drawing on diaries letters & unpublished autobiographical fragments The Durrells of Corfu describes the family's upbringing in India & the crisis that brought them to England & then Greece It recalls the genuine characters they encountered on Corfu
- Theodore the biologist the taxi driver Spiro Halikiopoulos & the prisoner Kosti
- as well as the visit of American writer Henry Miller & Haag has unearthed the story of how the Durrells left Corfu including Margo's & Larry's last-minute escapes before the War An extended epilogue looks at the emergence of Larry as a world famous novelist & Gerry as a naturalist & champion of endangered species as well as the lives of the rest of the family their friends & other animals The book is illustrated with family photos from the Gerald Durrell Archive many of them reproduced here for the first time


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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 A warm funny feel-good series about a family’s adventures on a gorgeous Greek island when they uproot from their English home in the hope of a better life Based on Gerald Durrell’s much-loved Corfu trilogy of novels The Durrells sees impoverished but sparky widow Louisa Durrell make the radical decision to seek out a new destiny for her family when her options in late 1930s England seem to be limited to struggling on or marrying a wealthy but dreary older man Concerned that the lives of her four ‘children’ are heading down the wrong track she relocates her reluctant brood to a dilapidated house in the Greek sun This beautifully-shot series follows the family as they adjust to their new life face a whole new set of challenges & meet new friends rivals lovers – & animals ...