The book that began Ian Rankin's phenomenal career Mary Miller had always been an outcast Burnt in a chemical mix as a young girl sympathy for her quickly faded when the young man who pushed her in died in a mining accident just two days later From then on she was regarded with a mixture of suspicion & fascination by her God-fearing community Now years later she is a single mother caught up in a faltering affair with a local teacher Her son Sandy has fallen in love with a strange homeless girl The search for happiness isn't easy Both mother & son must face a dark secret from their past in the growing knowledge that their small dramas are being played out against a much larger canvas glimpsed only in symbols & flickering images
- of decay & regrowth of fire & water
- of the flood

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The Flora Collection contains 50 stunning colour postcards selected from the vast collection of original botanical artworks ...

Brigg lives in a small grey room in a large grey city When he finds a book in the library labelled Do Not Read' he cannot resist taking it home In it he comes upon pictures of bright vibrant objects called flowers He cannot find flowers anywhere in the city but stumbles instead on a packet of seeds This sets off a chain of events which bring about unexpected results continuing to grow & bloom even after we have turned the last page John Light's enigmatic story is told with utter simplicity but resonates long after we finish reading this book His increasingly optimistic vision is hauntingly captured by Lisa Evans's beautiful & whimsical illustrations ...

Delve into the magical world of Flower Fairies with this intricately illustrated colouring book With 45 stunning illustrations ...

Grow your own cut flowers & you can fill your house with the gorgeous colours & heavenly scents of your favourite blooms knowing that they haven't travelled thousands of miles
- & you can make money while you do it! Combining boundless passion with down-to-earth guidance & practical advice Georgie Newbery draws on her own experiences as an artisan flower farmer & florist as she takes you through how to start a cut-flower patch what to grow cutting conditioning & presenting cut fl owers creating a hedgerow Christmas starting a cut-fl ower business where to sell marketing & social media a flower farmer's year planner Whether you want to grow for your own pleasure or start your own business The Flower Farmer's Year is the perfect guide
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The Flowers of Evil which T S Eliot called the greatest example of modern poetry in any language shocked the literary world of nineteenth century France with its outspoken portrayal of lesbian love its linking sexuality & death its unremitting irony & its unflinching celebration of the seamy side of urban life The volume was seized by the police & Baudelaire & his published were put on trial for offence to public decency Six offending poems were banned in a conviction that was not overturned until 1949 This bold new translation which restores the banned poems to their original places & reveals the full richness & variety of the collection makes available to English speakers a powerful & original version of the world Jonathan Culler's Introduction outlines this vision stressing that Baudelaire is more than just the poet of the modern city Originally to be called ' The Lesbians' The Flowers of Evil contains the most extraordinary body of love poetry The poems also pose the question of the role of evil in our lives of whether there are not external forces working to frustrate human plans & to enlist men & women on appalling or stultifying scenarios not of their own making ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more ...

China 1937 on the brink of collapse Nanking is under siege from the Japanese Imperial Army the streets awash with violence the civilians desperate The protective walls of a western church provide the only haven from the vicious battles outside American John Miller (Academy Award-Winner Christian Bale) caught in the midst of the chaos joins a small group trying escape the violence wrought by the Japanese army Through one act of heroism this group of disparate refugees fight back risking their lives for the sake of others & the nation Inspired by true events THE FLOWERS OF WAR tells the incredible story of an unlikely group standing up against an unimaginable & overwhelming evil ...

A lucky little girl is invited by the flower fairies to join them for their Midsummer festival Gathering around Queen Rose all the flowers & bumblebees & birds tell their enchanting stories while Pea-blossom & the Dew-cups serve refreshments ...

Includes: both of the classic FLY movies In the original THE FLY a scientist experimenting with teleportation accidentally
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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 Titles Comprise The Fly (1958) A brilliant scientist becomes obsessed with perfecting a device that can transmit matter from one location to another Successful in his initial tests he experiments with a human guinea pig
- himself But an ordinary housefly makes the journey with him & when they emerge both creatures have been extraordinarily changed This is the chilling story of a man fighting to retain his humanity & a desperate woman&s attempt to save the man she loves Return of the Fly The boundaries of science are pushed to their every limits in this sequel to the classic ever-popular The Fly Here Philippe the son of the ill-fated scientist naively continues his father&s misguided experiments The victim of his traitorous assistant&s greedy ambitions Philippe finds himself in a terrifying limbo
- he&s grown the head & limbs of a fly! Taking spectacular revenge on his betrayers Philippe must also race against time & find a way to reverse the horrifying mutation Curse of the Fly The conclusion to the terrifying story of the Delambre family in which three descendants of the original teleportation scientist (the son & two grandsons) continue the experiments in an effort to perfect the machine The Fly A remake of the 1958 horror classic about a brilliant scientist who develops a machine that molecularly transports objects in seconds but inadvertently turns him into a fly incredibly agile super strong & driven to insanity by appetites he cannot control The Fly II Martin Brundle son of & The Fly& continues his father&s work on the teleporters for Bartok Industries He is ignorant of his father&s true identity & believes himself to have a growth disease When Martin falls in love with Beth his life changes As he loses his innocence he also learns the full horror Actors Vincent Price Herbert Marshall David Hedison Brett Halsey Brian Donlevy George Baker Carole Gray Jeff Goldblum Geena Davis John Getz Eric Stoltz Daphne Zuniga & Lee Richardson Director Kurt Neumann Edward Bernds Don Sharp Chris Walas & David Cronenberg Certificate 18 years & over Languages English

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