Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All ten episodes from the first season of the US legal drama starring Christine Baranski as Diane Lockhart a senior partner at a prestigious law firm After a financial scam destroys the reputation of young lawyer Maia Rindell (Rose Leslie) & wipes out Diane&s savings the pair are forced out of their jobs Now unable to take her planned retirement Diane joins a rival company headed up by Adrian Boseman (Delroy Lindo) & takes Maia along with her The episodes are & Inauguration& & First Week& & The Schtup List& & Henceforth Known As Property& & Stoppable Requiem for an Airdate& & Social Media & It&s Discontents& & Not So Grand Jury& & Reddick Vs Boseman& & Self Condemned& & & Chaos& ...

The UK's bestselling restaurant guide the Good Food Guide is the essential companion for your adventures in the cafes pubs & restaurants that make the nation's dining scene shine From brilliant set lunches to blow-out meals in the country's most spectacular restaurants & from cosy breakfasts to quirky new discoveries this trusted guide brings together the brightest & best eating experiences for 2016 Every taste & occasion is catered for international eateries romantic neighbourhood gems & celebrity big-hitters are all given engaging in-depth coverage Re-written from scratch every year the Good Food Guide combines the findings of its experienced anonymous inspectors with reviews from thousands of loyal readers giving a uniquely detailed & unbiased insight into UK dining today With The Good Food Guide's help you can navigate new towns like a local hunt out the very best food on your doorstep & discover the movers & shakers shaping the nation's eating habits for the future Entertaining reviews with prices maps & contact details Notes on exceptional wine vegetarian menus & keen prices GBP50 worth of money-off vouchers The Good Food Guide's inspectors dine anonymously & pay for every meal Their reports are combined with feedback from thousands of readers to create the guide's authoritative honest reviews ...

One of mainstream cinema's most tirelessly inventive directors Steven Soderbergh delivers another big-budget stylistic experiment with THE GOOD GERMAN This time around Soderbergh's target is 1940s film noir Set in post-war Berlin the atmospheric thriller is based on the acclaimed novel by Joseph Kanon Frequent Soderbergh collaborator George Clooney plays Jake Geismer an American military journalist who has returned to Berlin for the Potsdam Peace Conference Jakes driver Tully (Tobey Maguire) appears innocent upon first glance but is in fact a major player in the corrupt Berlin underworld Hes also dating Jakes former flame Lena Brandt (Cate Blanchett) whose beauty continues to torment Jake When Tullys cadaver washes ashore one day Jake is shocked to discover that nobody wants to go public with the news As much as hed like to forget about Lena he cant Pretty soon hes risking his life to help her flee the country In shooting THE GOOD GERMAN Soderbergh employed many of the actual filmmaking techniques that were used in the 1940s black-&-white cinematography elaborately constructed sets wide master shots & a sweeping score The result is a film that looks & feels like it was made in a much earlier era yet which contains the graphic language & content of an early 21st-century production ...

Scratch the surface of any family hard enough & you'll draw blood No one can believe it when straight A student Romy Field finds herself at the centre of a scandal least of all her mother Ailsa
- who is also the head of her new school Ailsa is quick to hold Romy's new boyfriend & his parents responsible for what has happened But as mother & daughter reveal their very different version of events a much darker truth emerges It soon becomes apparent that Romy isn't the only member of her family harbouring secrets & her disgrace becomes the catalyst for the unravelling of all those around her It takes a split second to make a decision that can alter the course of your life And a lifetime to undo the consequences Bestselling author Fiona Neill is back with The Good Girl
- a dark compelling & controversial novel of one family's darkest secrets Praise for Fiona Neill' The Good Girl raises all kinds of contemporary issues with wit & sensitivity' Times' Neill writes with verve honesty & breathtaking insight Utterly unputdownable' Helen Walsh author of The Lemon Grove' Neill's characters are so cleverly depicted you feel as if you've met at least one of them before' Vogue' Packed with observations of wince-making accuracy' The Times' Sometimes touching sometimes shocking this cautionary coming-of-age tale is a thought-provoking one' Daily Mail' The Good Girl is vivid & insightful & Neill has a trained eye for the pressures & poignancies of modern family life' Guardian' Clever grown-up & totally gripping' Lisa Jewell'A topical tense & addictive read' Good Housekeeping' Neill takes a light scalpel to online disaster in this exceptional dual-narrative' Grazia' Two families become embroiled in each other's lives & long buried secrets are unravelled Contemporary issues are tackled here with both humour & realism making for an engrossing read' My Weekly' Cracking' Prima ' The Slummy Mummy columnist is back
- this time somewhat incongruously with a psychological thriller The Good Girl looks set to be the next Gone Girl with its dark compelling exploration of family secrets It tells the story of the relationship of two teenagers & their families when a chain of events leads to a scandal that affects them all A confronting look at the way that one moment of malice on social media can spiral out of control' Seven Books to Read House Seven


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They're good girls but no one's perfect Mackenzie Ava Julie Parker & Caitlin are five senior high-school girls who seem to have it all Top grades beautiful looks music scholarships sports captaincies even the boys of their dreams But there's just one small flaw in their apparently perfect facade They're wanted for a murder they didn't commit Sure they talked about killing rich bully Nolan Hotchkiss but they didn't go through with it It's just a coincidence that Nolan died in exactly the way they planned right? Except Nolan wasn't the only one they fantasised about hurting in film class that day & now someone seems to have found their list & is carrying out their very particular revenges in their name Who is really behind these killings? Who can they truly trust? & who will be the next to die? ...

A gloriously illustrated celebration of men who have changed the world with kindness & compassion 128 pages Kemp Rob ...

As winter turns to spring across the red earth acacia trees & slow green rivers of Botswana all is not quite as it should be on Zebra Drive home to Mma Ramotswe & her beloved husband Mr J L B Matekoni At the No 1 Ladies' Detective Agency there are the usual number of cases to be pursued from persistent theft at Teenie Magama's printing works to the rather more serious case of three suspicious deaths at the Mochudi hospital but there is discontent among the ranks It is bad enough that Mr Matekoni's apprentice Charlie is off on another escapade & Mma Makutsi's impending marriage threatens her happy working relationship with Mma Ramotswe & when
- in trying to prove himself a worthy husband
- Mr J L B Matekoni himself decides to try a little detective work disaster looms Tender witty & wise the latest instalment in the lives of Alexander Mc Call's Smith's extended Botswana family instructs us with familiar modesty in the importance of trust love not judging by appearances & what really makes a good husband

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How does it feel to be constantly regarded as a potential threat strip-searched at every airport? Or be told that as an actress the part you're most fitted to play is wife of a terrorist'? How does it feel to have words from your native language misused misappropriated & used aggressively towards you? How does it feel to hear a child of colour say in a classroom that stories can only be about white people? How does it feel to go home' to India when your home is really London? What is it like to feel you always have to be an ambassador for your race? How does it feel to always tick Other'? Bringing together 21 exciting black Asian & minority ethnic voices emerging in Britain today The Good Immigrant explores why immigrants come to the UK why they stay & what it means to be other' in a country that doesn't seem to want you doesn't truly accept you
- however many generations you've been here
- but still needs you for its diversity monitoring forms Inspired by discussion around why society appears to deem people of colour as bad immigrants
- job stealers benefit scroungers undeserving refugees
- until by winning Olympic races or baking good cakes or being conscientious doctors they cross over & become good immigrants editor Nikesh Shukla has compiled a collection of essays that are poignant challenging angry humorous heartbreaking polemic weary &
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- real





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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 They were known simply as “ The Lost Boys” Orphaned during the Sudanese Civil War a group of young refugees are given the opportunity to leave their camp & resettle in America Encountering the modern world for the first time they develop an unlikely friendship with an employment counsellor (Reese Witherspoon) but they struggle to adjust to their new life & their feelings of guilt about those they left behind ...

Whitney Terrell's remarkable novel of the Iraq War The Good Lieutenant literally starts with a bang as an operation led by Lieutenant Emma Fowler goes spectacularly wrong Men are dead
- one a young Iraqi by her hand Others of the casualties were soldiers in her platoon & the signals officer Dixon Pulowski Pulowski is another story entirely
- Fowler & Pulowski have been lovers since they first met at Fort Riley in Kansas From this conflagration The Good Lieutenant unspools backward in time as Fowler & her platoon are guided into disaster by suspect informants & questionable intelligence their very mission the consequence of a previous snafu in which an American soldier had been kidnapped by insurgents We hear the voice of Lieutenant Fowler but also those of jaded career soldiers & Iraqis both innocent & not so innocent Ultimately as all these stories unravel Terrell reveals what can happen when good intentions destroy experience distorts & survival becomes everything

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