The 2015 Speil Des Jahrs nominee is back with a brand new edition! The Game On Fire adds even more fun to one of the most addictive games to come out in recent years In The Game On Fire 1-5 players work together to try & discard 98 cards into 4 different piles while never telling each other exactly which cards they’re holding Adding fuel to the fun are the new “ On Fire” cards which MUST be played on when they hit the table If you like the The Game you’ll love the added challenge The Game On Fire brings Ages 8 Players 1
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Nicholas Van Orton (Michael Douglas) is a shrewdly successful businessman who is accustomed to being in control of each facet of his investments & relationships Hans well-ordered life undergoes a profound change when his brother Conrad (Sean Penn) gives him an unexpected birthday gift that soon has devastating consequences Tailored specifically to each participant Think of it as a great vacation except you do not go to it it comes to you There are no rules in the game Format Blu-ray Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

Renowned fisherman John Andrews takes you on a tour of the best locations for fishing in Scotl&--from the River Tay in January to the River Almond in November Packed full of useful information & hints from a seasoned veteran THE GAMEFISHER'S YEAR will tell you where to go to catch the big ones ...

Two years ago Jack Morgan was in Rio consulting on security for the World Cup The tournament went without a hitch Until a man died in one of the executive hospitality suites during the final & the autopsy showed the cause to be a rare & deadly virus The story was kept from the media to avoid causing panic but Jack feared that the death was no freak occurrence Now the eyes of the world are once again turned towards Rio for the Olympic Games & Jack is back in Brazil's beautiful capital It's not long before he uncovers terrifying evidence that someone has set in motion a catastrophic plan The death at the World Cup was just a warning The Olympic Games could be the setting for the worst atrocity the world has ever seen ...

The Olympic Games have become the single greatest festival of a universal & cosmopolitan humanity Seventeen days of sporting competition watched & followed on every continent & in every country on the planet Simply the greatest show on earth Yet when the modern games were inaugurated in Athens in 1896 the founders thought them a "display of manly virtue" an athletic celebration of the kind of amateur gentleman that would rule the world How was such a ritual invented? Why did it prosper & how has it been so utterly transformed? In The Games David Goldblatt
- winner of the 2015 William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award
- takes on a breathtakingly ambitious search for the answers & brilliantly unravels the complex strands of this history Beginning with the olympics as a sporting side show at the great Worlds Fairs of the Belle Epoque & its transformation into a global media spectacular care of Hollywood & the Nazi party The Games shows how sport & the olympics been a battlefield in the global Cold War a defining moment for social & economic change in host cities & countries & a theatre of resistance for women & athletes colour once excluded from the show Illuminated with dazzling vignettes from over a century of olympic completion
- this stunningly researched history captures the excitement of sporting brilliance & the kaleidoscopic experience of the Games It shows us how this sporting spectacle has come to reflect the world we hope to inhabit & the one we actually live in


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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 Playboy Andy Mason on leave from the army romances showgirl Eadie Allen overnight to such effect that she&s starry-eyed when he leaves next morning for active duty in the Pacific Only trouble is he gave her the assumed name of Casey Andy&s eventual return with a medal is celebrated by his rich father with a benefit show featuring Eadie&s show troupe at which she&s sure to learn his true identityand meet Vivian his &family-arrangement& fiancee Actors Alice Faye Carmen Miranda Phil Baker Benny Goodman Benny Goodman Orchestra Eugene Pallette Charlotte Greenwood Edward Everett Horton Tony De Marco James Ellison Sheila Ryan & Dave Willock Director Busby Berkeley Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1943 Screen 1331 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 43 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players
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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 In one of his most popular film roles multi-talented Scottish star Jack Buchanan plays a retired insurance investigator brought back into action by an audacious heist; Googie Withers is his glamorous wife who joins him on an underworld mission to ensnare the gang responsible A sequel to Buchanan&s earlier hit Smash & Grab The Gang&s All Here (aka The Amazing Mr Forrest) is a blend of exciting crime drama & brilliant comedy presented here in a brand new transfer from the original film elements John Forrest is anticipating a quiet retirement spent penning detective fiction when he learns that a priceless collection of jewels belonging to a foreign potentate Prince Homouska has just vanished from the safekeeping of the Stamford Assurance Company Aided by his butler his Cockney assistant & his (initially) unwilling wife Forrest sets out on the trail of the thieves Actors Jack Buchanan Googie Withers Edward Everett Horton Otto Kruger Syd Walker Directors Thornton Freeland Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 ...

Join Private Detective Isaac Bell as he navigates the seedy back alleys of New York in the ninth book in the action-packed series from Sunday Times bestseller Clive Cussler Crime corruption & murder a vicious organisation is terrorising the city & only one man can stop them The Black Hand Strikes 1906 New York City Italian gangsters calling themselves the Black Hand terrorize citizens in a menacing spree of kidnapping extortion & arson Who dares stop them? Detective Isaac Bell of the Van Dorn Agency is hired to form a special ' Black Hand Squad'
- but with each gangster caught a new one appears on the street Are these new recruits or other criminals imitating the Black Hand? Where are these men coming from? Murder is just the beginning Then the killings start Each victim is a man more powerful than the last Bell is convinced that he's facing a murderous organization hell bent on bringing the city to its knees But that's before he discovers their ultimate target
- the most powerful man in the country the President of the United States ' Cussler is hard to beat' Daily Mail' The Adventure King' Sunday Express' Nobody does it better nobody!' Stephen Coonts' Just about the best storyteller in the business' New York Post

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A Financial Times book of the year 2017 ' This is the first physical manifestation of a much-loved online magazine that is a monument to Fox's obsessions One for the bedside table'
- FINANCIAL TIMES ' This book is the product of a ludicrously obsessive & greedy mind
- it is therefore an utter joy'
- JAY RAYNER ' Your consummate culinary guide'
- THE GUARDIAN 'A vital work from a keen mind full to brimming with wonderful thoughts & ideas'
- JEREMY LEE ' The most original entertaining & downright fascinating book'
- DAVE BROOM ' Exercise caution before you buy this book In fact be careful about even flipping it open You think Instagram is addictive? Ha This book is as essential & educational as it is delightful & weird & I need someone to come rescue me immediately because I cannot seem to put the damn thing down'
- JEFF GORDINIER FOOD & DRINKS EDITOR ESQUIRE MAGAZINE ' Perfect for the culinarily curious'
- DIANA HENRY ' Going beyond the usual food fixations the book is presented in a fresh visually inventive style that will appeal to anyone with even a passing interest in food'
- DARINA ALLEN IRISH EXAMINER gannetnoun 1 a large seabird with mainly white plumage which catches fish by plunging into the water 2 British informal a greedy person The Gannet's Gastronomic Miscellany goes beyond the usual food fixations Presented in a fresh visually inventive style it will appeal to anyone with a passing interest in food
- which in this gastronomy-obsessed age is pretty much all of us In this compendious hotpot of a book you'll find a guide to creating a hit food profile on Instagram a cross-section of a tiffin box an explainer on craft beer the origin story of Chicken Marengo a list of millennia-old products that are still edible today (should you be brave enough to try Irish bog butter or Ancient Egyptian honey) & many more delightful nuggets of information









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A shining delight of a novel' New York Times ' Clever & beautifulit soars' Financial Times A baby girl is abandoned banished from London to the storm-ravaged American city of New Bohemia Her father has been driven mad by jealousy her mother to exile by grief Seventeen years later Perdita doesn't know a lot about who she is or where she's come from
- but she's about to find out Jeanette Winterson's cover version of The Winter's Tale vibrates with echoes of Shakespeare's original & tells a story of hearts broken & hearts healed a story of revenge & forgiveness a story that shows that whatever is lost shall be found Emotionally wrought & profoundly intelligent A supremely clever compelling & emotionally affecting novel that deserves multiple readings to appreciate its many layers' Mail on Sunday ' There are passages here so concisely beautiful they give you goosebumps' Observer' Pulsates with such authenticity & imaginative generosity that I defy you not to engage with it' Independent
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