A happily-married woman with two children rediscovers a school romance during a high school reunion Unable to experience the joys of passion herself she encourages her best friend to find out what her former sweetheart's really like in bed ...

The second novel in the bestselling Wideacre Trilogy a compulsive drama set in the eighteenth century By Philippa Gregory the author of The Other Boleyn Girl & The Virgin's Lover The Wideacre estate is bankrupt the villagers are living in poverty & Wideacre Hall is a smoke-blackened ruin But in the Dower House two children are being raised in protected innocence Equal claimants to the inheritance of Wideacre rivals for the love of the village they are tied by a secret childhood betrothal but forbidden to marry Only one can be the favoured child Only one can inherit the magical understanding between the land & the Lacey family that can make the Sussex village grow green again Only one can be Beatrice Lacey's true heir Sweeping passionate unique ' The Favoured Child' is the second novel in Philippa Gregory's bestselling trilogy which began with ' Wideacre' & concluded with ' Meridon' ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Early 18th century England is at war with the French Nevertheless duck racing & pineapple eating are thriving A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne & her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country while tending to Anne&8217;s ill health & mercurial temper When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives her charm endears her to Sarah Sarah takes Abigail under her wing & Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots Format Blu-ray Language English Region Region B2 (Read more about DVDBlu-ray formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Early 18th century England is at war with the French Nevertheless duck racing & pineapple eating are thriving A frail Queen Anne (Olivia Colman) occupies the throne & her close friend Lady Sarah (Rachel Weisz) governs the country while tending to Anne&8217;s ill health & mercurial temper When a new servant Abigail (Emma Stone) arrives her charm endears her to Sarah Sarah takes Abigail under her wing & Abigail sees a chance at a return to her aristocratic roots Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

This warm & lyrical semi-autobiographical first novel by singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen charts the coming of age of Lawrence Breavman the only son of a Jewish Montreal family Children show scars like medals Lovers use them as secrets to reveal A scar is what happens when the world is made flesh' Lawrence Breavman seeks two things love & beauty Beginning with the innocent games of delicious misadventure with first love Lisa & the absorbing wanders through Montreal with best friend Krantz Breavman's tale is a distant echo of Catcher in the Rye' & Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man'
- injected with 1960s aesthetics & Cohen's unique poetry As Breavman grows into a young man the emerging writer continues his quest for beauty & love finding himself in the arms of Shell & a burgeoning realisation of his own talent for appreciating majesty in the grotesque Semi-autobiographical the angst & beauty of Cohen's voice deftly channel the painful confusion of the journey into adulthood & the friendships wars & lovers that are our guides
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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 Newlyweds Mike & Marisol are given the tour of their potential dream home by a perky real estate Agent They soon find out that their perfect house might just have a past The ugly horrors of this house are revealed through three original tales of terror The Storm is a suspense-driven tale about a dysfunctional family of four who seek shelter from a violent storm in a cellar where secrets never stay buried Over the course of one night resentment anger & opportunity force each member of the family to face their inner demons Only one will live to see sunrise Chic-ken is a classic 1980 s dark humor filled slasher story about serial killer John Doesy s ruthless reign of terror Doesy forces his prisoner turned muse to offer horrifying ultimatums to his cycle of victims before he executes them with soul crushing efficiency Dinner Guest follows an unsuspecting selfish affluent family of five who find themselves in the crosshairs of a mad man when they accept a hermit neighbours invitation for dinner A few borrowed tools between neighbors are no laughing matter for this dinner guest ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Gabriel an introverted young man finds terror & appalling carnage in the hell on earth of the trenches between 1914 & 1918 At the end of his horrifying interior journey through the conflict full of sound fury & blood he will discover his own humanity ...

Meet Alex Hoffmann among the secretive inner circle of the ultra-rich he is something of a legend Based in Geneva he has developed a revolutionary system that has the power to manipulate financial markets Generating billions of dollars it is a system that thrives on panic
- & feeds on fear & then in the early hours of one morning while he lies asleep a sinister intruder breaches the elaborate security of his lakeside home So begins a waking nightmare of paranoia & violence as Hoffmann attempts
- with increasing desperation
- to discover who is trying to destroy him
- before it's too late



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In June 1405 King Henry IV stopped at a small Yorkshire manor house to shelter from a storm In 1399 at the age of thirty-two he was enthusiastically greeted as the saviour of the realm when he ousted from power the insecure & tyrannical King Richard II But therein lay Henry's weakness 496 pages 30 Mortimer Ian ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Three films about the border lands between England & Scotland In & Debateable Lands In Search of the Border Reivers& George Mac Donald Fraser & Eric Robson go in search of the Border Reivers a group of 16th century murderers arsonists kidnappers & all-round scoundrels who populated the Scottish Borders Hadrian&s Wall is the most famous frontier of the Roman empire
- & is also probably one of the most misunderstood archaeological monuments in Britain In the four-part ITV series & Edge of Empire A Journey Along Hadrian&s Wall& Eric Robson travels along 73 miles of the Wall uncovering pointers to over 2500 years of history as he goes 8000 years of turbulent border history are brought to life in the ITV series & The Borders& presented by Alistair Moffat which looks at the battles & bloodshed that have taken place on the much-disputed soil that lies between Northern England & Southern Scotland
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