The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole is the second book in Sue Townsend's brilliantly funny Adrian Mole series Sunday July 18th My father announced at breakfast that he is going to have a vasectomy I pushed my sausages away untouched In this second instalment of teenager Adrian Mole's diaries the Mole family is in crisis & the country is beating the drum of war While his parents have reconciled after both embarked on disastrous affairs Adrian is shocked to learn of his mother's pregnancy & even though at the mercy of his rampant hormones & the fickle whims of the divine Pandora a victim of a broken home & his own tortured (though unrecognised) genius Adrian continues valiantly to chronicle the pains & pleasures of a misspent adolescence Bestselling author Sue Townsend has been Britain's favourite comic writer for over three decades' Funny moving & a poke in the eye for adult morality' Sunday Express ' Written with great verve & showing an uncanny understanding of the young Sue Townsend holds the balance between innocence & precocity & the result is both hilarious & salutary' Daily Telegraph ' Life's no fun for an adolescent intellectual For the reader it's a hoot' New Statesman Sue Townsend is one of Britain's favourite comic authors Her hugely successful novels include eight Adrian Mole books The Public Confessions of a Middle-Aged Woman (Aged 5534) Number Ten Ghost Children The Queen & I Queen Camilla & The Woman Who Went to Bed for a Year all of which are highly-acclaimed bestsellers Sue passed away in 2014 & is survived by her husband four children ten grandchildren & millions of avid readers ...

The new heartwarming novel from David M Barnett for fans of THE LIDO ELEANOR OLIPHANT & THE KEEPER OF LOST THINGS 304 pages Barnett David M ...

Now anyone can have a baby With Full Life's safe & affordable healthcare plan why risk a natural birth? Just choose the colour of your pouch & its accessories Without the pouch Eva might not have been born & yet she has sacrificed her career & maybe even her relationship campaigning against Full Life's biotech baby pouches Despite her efforts everyone prefers a world where women are liberated from danger & constraint & all can share the joy of childbearing Perhaps Full Life has helped transform society for the better? But just as Eva decides to accept this she discovers that something strange is happening at Full Life Piotr hasn't seen Eva in years Not since their life together dissolved in tragedy But Piotr's a journalist who has also uncovered something sinister about Full Life What drove him & Eva apart may just bring them back together as they search for the truth behind Full Life's closed doors & face a truth of their own A beautiful story about family loss & what our future might hold The Growing Season is an original & powerful novel by a rising talent ...

Now anyone can have a baby With Full Life's safe & affordable healthcare plan the brave new world is here Without the pouch Eva might not have been born & yet she has sacrificed her career & maybe even her relationship campaigning against Full Life's biotech baby pouches Despite her efforts everyone prefers a world where women are liberated from danger & constraint & all can share the joy of childbearing Perhaps Full Life has helped transform society for the better? But just as Eva decides to accept this she discovers that something strange is happening at Full Life Piotr hasn't seen Eva in years Not since their life together dissolved in tragedy But Piotr's a journalist who has also uncovered something sinister about Full Life What drove him & Eva apart may just bring them back together as they search for the truth behind Full Life's closed doors & face a truth of their own A beautiful story about family loss & what our future might hold The Growing Season is an original & powerful novel by a rising talent ...

What separates them may just bring them together as they search for the truth about Full Life & each face a truth of their own'A compelling what-if about the female body technology & power' Guardian 320 pages Sedgwick Helen ...

A young woman is making a living faking it as a cut-price psychic (with some illegal soft-core sex work on the side) She makes a decent wage mostly by telling people what they want to hear But then she meets Susan Burke Susan moved to the city one year ago with her husband & 15-year-old stepson Miles They live in a Victorian house called Carterhook Manor Susan has become convinced that some malevolent spirit is inhabiting their home The young woman doesn't believe in exorcism or the supernatural However when she enters the house for the first time she begins to feel it too as if the very house is watching her waiting biding its time The Grownup which originally appeared as ' What Do You Do?' in George R R Martin's Rogues anthology proves once again that Gillian Flynn is one of the world's most original & skilled voices in fiction ...

A revelatory & entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy & how to correct them by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times'A near miracle' Ha-Joon Chang author of 23 Things They Don't Tell You About Capitalism In The Growth Delusion author & prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists & their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making & infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work Our policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard measure of growth Gross Domestic Product By this yardstick we have never been wealthier or happier So why doesn't it feel that way? Why are we living in such fractured times with global populism on the rise & wealth inequality as stark as ever? In a book that is simultaneously trenchant thought-provoking & entertaining Pilling argues that we need to measure our successes & failures using different criteria While for economic growth heroin consumption & prostitution are worth more than volunteer work or public services in a rational world we would learn how to value what makes economies better not just what makes them bigger So much of what is important to our wellbeing from clean air to safe streets & from steady jobs to sound minds lies outside the purview of our standard measure of success We prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs In prose that cuts through the complex language so often wielded by a priesthood of economists Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies
- & contributing to a rising mistrust of experts that is shaking the very foundations of our democracy
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A revelatory & entertaining book about the pitfalls of how we measure our economy & how to correct them by an award-winning editor of The Financial Times In The Growth Delusion author & prize-winning journalist David Pilling explores how economists & their cult of growth have hijacked our policy-making & infiltrated our thinking about what makes societies work Our policies are geared relentlessly towards increasing our standard measure of growth Gross Domestic Product By this yardstick we have never been wealthier or happier So why doesn't it feel that way? Why are we living in such fractured times with global populism on the rise & wealth inequality as stark as ever? In a book that is simultaneously trenchant thought-provoking & humorous Pilling argues that we need to measure our successes & failures using different criteria While for economic growth heroin consumption & prostitution are worth more than volunteer work or public services in a rational world we would learn how to value what makes economies better not just what makes them bigger So much of what is important to our wellbeing from clean air to safe streets & from steady jobs to sound minds lies outside the purview of our standard measure of success We prioritise growth maximisation without stopping to think about the costs In prose that cuts through the complex language so often wielded by a priesthood of economists Pilling argues that our steadfast loyalty to growth is informing misguided policies
- & contributing to a rising mistrust of experts that is shaking the very foundations of our democracy
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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 The Grudge American nurse Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar) living & working in Tokyo is drawn to an odd house & exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life & spreading to another victim Produced by Sam Raimi The Grudge sees Sarah Michelle Gellar changing tack from her & Buffy& guise in this superior chiller directed by Takashi Shimizu adapted from his own Japanese horror classic The Grudge 2 In Tokyo young Aubrey Davis (Tamblyn) is exposed to the same mysterious curse that afflicted her sister (Sarah Michelle Gellar in the previous film) The supernatural force which fills a person with rage before spreading to its next victim brings together a group of previously unrelated people who attempt to unlock its secret to save their very lives Actors Sarah Michelle Gellar Jason Behr William Mapother Clea Du Vall Grace Zabriskie Bill Pullman Ted Raimi Ryo Ishibashi Yuya Ozeki Edison Chen Teresa Palmer Amber Tamblyn Arielle Kebbel Jennifer Beals Takako Fuji & Joanna Cassidy Director Takashi Shimizu Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 ; 2006 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
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Sequel to the Japanese horror film The & Ju-on& from the first film the supernatural curse of the two murdered victims still resides in the house where they were killed When a horror film actress who has survived a car accident that killed her unborn child & put her husband in a coma films a documentary at the house the curse returns Kyoko (Noriko Sakai) watches in horror as slowly all the members of the documentary production team are killed off until only she remains It soon becomes clear that the child she thought she lost in the car accident might not be dead after all & might somehow be responsible for the awakening of the curse Actors Noriko Sakai Chiharu Niyama Yui Ichikawa Format Anamorphic PALLanguage Japanese Subtitles English Region Region 2 Aspect Ratio 169
- 1781 Number of discs 1 Classification 15 Studio Contender DVD Release Date 16 July 2007 Run Time 91 minutes
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