Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or at least that's what his adoptive parents tell him & he never will be But if he isn't a real Avery then who is he? Born out of wedlock to a teenage girl cast out from her rural Irish community & adopted by a well-to-do if eccentric Dublin couple via the intervention of a hunchbacked Redemptorist nun Cyril is adrift in the world anchored only tenuously by his heartfelt friendship with the infinitely more glamourous & dangerous Julian Woodbead At the mercy of fortune & coincidence he will spend a lifetime coming to know himself & where he came from
- & over his three score years & ten will struggle to discover an identity a home a country & much more In this Boyne's most transcendent work to date we are shown the story of Ireland from the 1940s to today through the eyes of one ordinary man The Heart's Invisible Furies is a novel to make you laugh & cry while reminding us all of the redemptive power of the human spirit
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The Richard & Judy Bookclub pick that readers are falling in love with ' It's been a long time since I read anything so compelling & satisfying At times incredibly funny at others heartrending'
- Sarah Winman author of Tin Man Forced to flee the scandal brewing in her hometown Catherine Goggin finds herself pregnant & alone in search of a new life at just sixteen She knows she has no choice but to believe that the nun she entrusts her child to will find him a better life Cyril Avery is not a real Avery or so his parents are constantly reminding him Adopted as a baby he's never quite felt at home with the family that treats him more as a curious pet than a son But it is all he has ever known & so begins one man's desperate search to find his place in the world Unspooling & unseeing Cyril is a misguided heart-breaking heartbroken fool Buffeted by the harsh winds of circumstance towards the one thing that might save him from himself but when opportunity knocks will he have the courage finally take it?
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A day by day Lent book aimed at the individual reader in which a poem appropriate to the themes of the season is read along with a short reflection from the editor & a couple of questions to ponder The purpose is to use a poetic text as the basis for 'slow reflection' during Lent & Eastertide 'I think this is a brilliant Lent book & one I would use It is a marvellous anthology but it offers so much more critical insight into the poems cultural & theological insight into their spiritual resonances & guidance as to how to read them prayerfully' Angela Tilby ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Heartbreak Kid stars Ben Stiller as Eddie an indecisive guy who begins dating the incredibly sexy & seemingly fabulous Lila Upon the urging of his father & best friend Eddie proposes to her after only a week fearing this may be his last chance at love marriage & happiness However while on their honeymoon in sunny Mexico Lila reveals her true beyond-awful nature & Eddie meets Miranda the woman he realizes to be his actual soul mate Eddie must keep his new increasingly horrid wife at bay as he attempts to woo the girl of his dreams Actors Ben Stiller Michelle Monaghan Jerry Stiller Malin Akerman Rob Corddy Carlos Mencia Scott Wilson Leslie Easterbrook & Eva Longoria Director Bobby Farrelly & Peter Farrelly Certificate 15 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles Dutch ; Castilian Spanish ; Norwegian ; Finnish ; Italian ; French ; English ; Hebrew ; Danish ; German ; Swedish 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 Double bill of US comedies In & The Heat& (2013) Sandra Bullock & Melissa Mc Carthy star as two mismatched cops Unaware that her colleagues hate her prim & priggish FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) is seconded to Boston where she&s forced to team up with foul-mouthed take-no-prisoners detective Shannon Mullins (Mc Carthy) When the pair are ordered to take down a local drug baron the two cops& wildly contrasting styles
- & mutual hatred
- soon threaten to complicate their mission & Bride Wars& (2009) stars Anne Hathaway & Kate Hudson as two best friends who become arch rivals overnight when they realise they have scheduled their fairy-tale weddings for the same date Their competitiveness knows no bounds as both women resort to ever more devious tactics to secure the very best of everything
- including the guest list
- for themselves



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Please note this is a region 2 DVD region B Blu-ray & will require a region 2 or region free DVDBlu-ray player in order to play Sandra Bullock & Melissa Mc Carthy star as two mismatched cops in this comedy from & Bridesmaids& director Paul Feig Unaware that her colleagues hate her prim & priggish FBI special agent Sarah Ashburn (Bullock) is seconded to Boston where she&s forced to team up with foul-mouthed take-no-prisoners detective Shannon Mullins (Mc Carthy) When the pair are ordered to take down a local drug baron the two cops& wildly contrasting styles
- & mutual hatred
- soon threaten to derail their mission But as the weeks pass a grudging admiration for each others& methods brings about a thawing in hostilities as the ill-starred crimefighters turn out to be a force to be reckoned with

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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 Uptight & straight-laced FBI Special Agent Sarah Ashburn (Sandra Bullock) is a methodical investigator with a reputation for excellence--and hyper-arrogance Shannon Mullins (Melissa Mc Carthy) one of Boston PD&s "finest" is foul-mouthed & has a very short fuse & uses her gut instinct & street smarts to catch the most elusive criminals Neither has ever had a partner or a friend for that matter When these two wildly incompatible law officers join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord they become the last thing anyone expected buddies From Paul Feig the director of Bridesmaids Actors Sandra Bullock Melissa Mc Carthy Demian Bichir & Marlon Wayans Director Paul Feig Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Languages English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Breaking box office records on its first day of sales the new production of Miss Saigon opened to tremendous acclaim at London&s Prince Edward Theatre in May 2014 Last seen in the West End 15 years ago Miss Saigon has become one of the most successful musicals in history & the greatest success ever to play the Theatre Royal Drury Lane Miss Saigon has been seen by over 40 million people worldwide From the process of casting 40 actors from 18 different countries to the reinvention of the staging including the famous helicopter scene The Heat is Back On takes us on a journey through rehearsals right up to the star-studded opening night Featuring interviews with legendary producer Cameron Mackintosh authors Alain Boublil & Claude-Michel Schönberg & many of the award-winning cast & creative team this documentary is one of the most revealing documentaries ever about how a major musical production comes to life ...

Robin knew Paul wasn't perfect But he said they were so lucky to have found each other & she believed it was true In the heady strangeness of Morocco he is everything she wants him to be
- passionate talented knowledgeable She is convinced that it is here she will finally become pregnant But when Paul suddenly disappears & Robin finds herself the prime suspect in the police inquiry everything changes As her understanding of the truth starts to unravel Robin lurches from the crumbling art deco of Casablanca to the daunting Sahara caught in an increasingly terrifying spiral from which there is no easy escape With his acclaimed ability to write page-turners that also make you think Douglas Kennedy takes the reader on a roller-coaster journey into a heart of darkness that asks the question what would you do if your life depended on it? Kennedy is a complete genius when it comes to understanding the minds of stylish but troubled women' Daily Mirror Kennedy is an absolute master at love stories with heart-stopping twists' The Times Kennedy's skill is to send you racing down the slope of sheer story' Esquire
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Cane Cob & Chimney Jewett are young Georgia sharecroppers held under the thumb of their God-fearing father Pearl When he dies unexpectedly they set out on horseback for Canada robbing & looting their way to wealth & infamy But little goes to plan & soon they're pursued by both the authorities & the stories emanating from their trail of destruction
- making the Jewett Gang out to be the most fearsome trio of murdering bank robbers in the Midwest The truth though is far more complex than the legend & the heaven they've imagined may in fact be worse than the hell they sought to escape
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