Four nuns & a fifth woman are killed in a savage night-time attack in Africa A year later Inspector Kurt Wallander investigates the disappearance of an elderly birdwatcher & discovers a gruesome & meticulously planned murder
- a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles Then another man is reported missing Once again Wallander's life is put on hold as he & his team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of vicious murders Winner of the CWA Gold Dagger for Sidetracked
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From one of the major innovators of New Journalism Norman Mailer's The Fight is the real-life story of a clash between two of the world's greatest boxers both in & out of the ring published in Penguin Modern Classics Norman Mailer's The Fight focuses on the 1975 World Heavyweight Boxing Championship in Kinshasa Zaire Muhammad Ali met George Foreman in the ring Foreman's genius employed silence serenity & cunning He had never been defeated His hands were his instrument & 'he kept them in his pockets the way a hunter lays his rifle back into its velvet case' Together the two men made boxing history in an explosive meeting of two great minds two iron wills & monumental egos Norman Mailer (1923-2007) was born in Long Branch New Jersey & attended Harvard University at the age of sixteen He majored in engineering but it was while he was at university that he became interested in writing After graduating he served during the war in the Philippines with the Twelfth Armoured Cavalry regiment from Texas; those were the years that formed The Naked & the Dead (1948) In 1955 he co-founded The Village Voice & was the editor of Dissent from 1952 until 1963 Among his other works are The Armies of the Night (1968) The Executioner's Song (1980) both of which won Mailer a Pulitzer Prize If you enjoyed The Fight you might like Gay Talese's Frank Sinatra Has a Cold also available in Penguin Modern Classics' If ever a fighter had been able to demonstrate that boxing was a twentieth-century art it must be Ali says Norm & his achievement in this masterly book is of a similar order demonstrating that writing about sport can also be a twentieth-century art' Geoff Dyer New Statesman' Probably no one has written about boxing better than Mailer has' Guardian ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale star in this inspirational & powerful true story of two brothers who against all the odds come together to train for a historic title fight that has the power to unite their fractured family & give their run down town what it&s been waiting for Pride Struggling boxer Micky Ward has long been overshadowed by his older brother & trainer Dicky a local legend who is now battling his own demons The explosive relationship of these brothers threatens to take them both down but at the heart of this story is a bond of blood that may just be their only chance of redemption ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Mark Wahlberg & Christian Bale star in this inspirational & powerful true story of two brothers who against all the odds come together to train for a historic title fight that has the power to unite their fractured family & give their run down town what it&s been waiting for Pride Struggling boxer Micky Ward has long been overshadowed by his older brother & trainer Dicky a local legend who is now battling his own demons The explosive relationship of these brothers threatens to take them both down but at the heart of this story is a bond of blood that may just be their only chance of redemption ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a young man discovers the person he always called grandfather is not the blood relative he believed he embarks on a perilous journey delving into the past to unlock the truth about his real grandfather s legacy Re-living the darkest hours of the Second World War through the memories of fading veterans he uncovers that his real grandfather perished in a last-minute Kamikaze mission which devastated the United States Pacific Fleet in a plume of smoke & fire Now he has no choice but to face a stark battle of his own to overcome the dark shadow cast by a merciless battle Based on the best-selling novel The Fighter Pilot is the 80m box-office sensation filled with stunning action heart-wrenching emotion & the questions which lie at the very heart of war ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play This British international demonstration & instruction seminar highlights the most popular martial arts by internationally acclaimed martial art experts & masters The martial arts covered include Karate Wing Chun Taekwondo Shotokan Karate Laugar Kung Fu Kempo Ryu Ju-Jitsu & Thai Boxing ...

' Did she know & if she knew would she speak?' The story of an unsolved literary mystery that explores what James referred to as troubled artistic consciousness Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Henry James (1843-1916) James's works available in Penguin Classics are The Portrait of a Lady The Europeans What Maisie Knew The Awkward Age The Figure in the Carpet & Other Stories The Turn of The Screw The Aspern Papers & Other Tales The Wings of The Dove Washington Square The Tragic Muse Daisy Miller The Ambassadors The Golden Bowl Selected Tales Roderick Hudson The Princess Casamassima & The American ...

Profiling 100 of the world's most influential directors & 100 key cinematic works this book takes you through the changing experience of cinema from the earliest silent movies to the modern 3D cinematic phenomenon 352 pages ...

Imagine a world where all the news you see is defined by your salary where you live & who your friends are Imagine a world where you never discover new ideas & where you can't have secrets Welcome to 2011 Google & Facebook are already feeding you what they think you want to see Advertisers are following your every click Your computer monitor is becoming a one-way mirror reflecting your interests & reinforcing your prejudices The internet is no longer a free independent space It is commercially controlled & ever more personalised The Filter Bubble reveals how this hidden web is starting to control our lives
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This imaginative series by award-winning creator Grant Morrison brings readers a heady brew of big ideas exotic locales & bizarre action featuring prosthetically outfitted dolphins in scuba gear & a hard-smoking chimpanzee in Kremlin garb This all new deluxe edition collects the entire The Filth series in a beautiful hardcover edition Collects The Filth 1-13 ...