Growing up in sixties Oslo Barnum lives with an extended eccentric family & his older half-brother Fred who was conceived after the rape of their mother in the dying days of World War II Barnum seems to have stopped growing & Fred implicated in a tragedy that leaves a family member dead becomes mute
- only roused when he hears ' Living Doll' one time too many The two half-brothers embark on their seperate courses Fred becoming a boxer & Barnum a scriptwriter & it is twenty-seven years before a fax from their dying mother offers Barnum the chance to see his brother again This literary marvel tells the story of an ordinary Norwegian family set apart by extraordinary family members with unsentimental charm exuberant comedy & devastating tragedy
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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 Director John Sturges turns the west upside down in this rip-roaring Western comedy about the year Denver was nearly devastated by a drought (of whiskey) & had to have forty wagonloads imported through very harsh (and very thirsty) territory! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Adam Hitchens (Joseph Mawle) a London-based conservationist is sent to Ireland with his wife & infant child to survey an area of a forest His actions disturb a horde of demonic creatures who prey upon the lost Alone & deep within the darkness he must now fight back to protect his family against the relentless attacks by the ancient forces ...

Dan promised he'd look after his siblings but he hadn't bargained on his scientist parents dying on a jungle research trip The children decamp to crumbling Daundelyon Hall Horrible Aunt Grusilla reigns supreme tending her mysterious graveyard garden But why are Aunt Grusilla & her servants each missing a finger? What are the hungry ' Cabbages' in the greenhouse? As Dan struggles to solve the mystery he encounters one final question what's the price of everlasting life? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Fatso (Stephen Rea ) is the proprietor of what may well be the worst chip shop in Dublin a hectic often dangerous takeaway in the heart of the inner city A decent man in a difficult world Fatso struggles to keep his late night business affloat as he battles a chronic gambling addiction With only his useless staff (Simon Delaney Grattan Smith Kerry Condon ) for company Fatso plays good samaritan to an assortment of city deadbeats
- seemingly able to save everybody but himself As his debts spiral out of control a steady stream of loan sharks & debt collectors (John Kavanagh Gerard Mc Sorley Willie Higgins ) arrive in search of payment With the net closing around him it is only a matter of time before Fatso will be forced to risk everything on one final gamble in the biggest game of his life Format PALRegion Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1
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Love Hamilton An American Musical? You'll adore The Hamilton Affair THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERWar will bring them together Peace will tear them apart History will make them immortal Born a bastard & raised an orphan in the stifling heat of the Caribbean Alexander Hamilton must prove his worth on the bloody battlefields of the American Revolution A wealthy child of privilege Elizabeth Schuyler has never wanted for anything yet she longs for a life of so much more When fate brings them together a passionate life-long love affair begins But to Alexander burdened by his tragic origins matters of honour can never be forgotten As he risks everything for the future of his bold new country this extraordinary marriage will be tested like no other
- & become forever immortalised in hearts & minds Praise for THE HAMILTON AFFAIR' The Hamilton novel that immediately leaps to the top of the list' Joseph J Ellis 'A portrait of a love so deep it was able to survive betrayal & a devastatingly public scandal' Booklist' Cobbs' depiction of Hamilton will endear him in the hearts of readers' Publishers Weekly
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For those living outside Scandinavia the Viking Age effectively began in 793 with an attack on the monastery at Lindisfarne a characteristically violent harbinger of what was in store for Britain & much of Europe from the Vikings for the next 300 years until the final destruction of the heathen temple to the Norse gods at Uppsala around 1090 Robert Ferguson is a sure guide across what he calls 'the treacherous marches which divide legend from fact in Viking Age history' His long familiarity with the literary culture of Scandinavia
- the eddas the poetry of the skalds & the sagas
- is combined with the latest archaeological discoveries & the evidence of picture-stones runes ships & objects scattered all over northern Europe to make the most convincing modern portrait of the Viking Age in any language The Hammer & the Cross ranges from Scandinavia itself to Kievan Rus & Byzantium in the east to Iceland Greenland & the north American settlements in the west Beyond its geographical boundaries the book takes us on a journey to a misty region inhabited by Hallfred the Troublesome Poet Harald Bluetooth Ragnar Hairy-Breeches Ivar the Boneless & Eyvind the Plagiarist in which literature history & myth dissolve into one another

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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 British thriller directed by Peter Collinson Brenda (Rita Tushingham) is a lonely young woman who occupies her time writing children&s stories Feeling that her native Liverpool is holding her back she moves to London & tries to join the scene there After finding work at a trendy boutique Brenda spots handsome stranger Peter (Shane Briant) & kidnaps his dog as an excuse to go & meet him The pair get on well & Brenda moves in but it&s not long before she finds herself in danger as a number of Peter&s dark secrets are revealed The cast also

Includes:: James Bolam Katya Wyeth & Annie Ross

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Against the crawling corruption of the darkest pits of the universe stands only one man A hero whose knowledge spans the limitless depths of both the Necronomicon & the Betty Crocker cookbook The salvation of our world rests in the greasy hands of a morally ambiguous fried-food craving zealot for good His enemies & his friends fear him his grocer loves him He is the Hammer Collects all eight issues of Kelley Jones& The Hammer ...

Winner of the 2010 Costa Novel Award & a Sunday Times bestseller THE HAND THAT FIRST HELD MINE by Maggie O' Farrell is a gorgeously written story of love & motherhood from the author of THIS MUST BE THE PLACEWhen the sophisticated Innes Kent turns up on her doorstep Lexie Sinclair realises she cannot wait any longer for her life to begin & leaves for London There at the heart of the 1950s Soho art scene she carves out a new life In the present day Elina & Ted are reeling from the difficult birth of their first child Elina struggles to reconcile the demands of motherhood with her sense of herself as an artist & Ted is disturbed by memories of his own childhood that don't tally with his parents' version of events As Ted begins to search for answers an extraordinary portrait of two women is revealed separated by fifty years but connected in ways that neither could ever have expected ...