The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...

The Informers of the title are a loose grouping of underworld types upon whom Scotland Yard inspector Nigel Patrick depends for crucial information Patrick gets in trouble with his superiors when he refuses to reveal the identity of his informants He gets into even more trouble when while investigating the murder of one of his snitches Patrick is framed on a corruption rap by Margaret Whiting THE INFORMERS was based on DEATH OF A SNOUT a novel by Douglas Warner ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free blu-ray player in order to play The Informers is an adaptation of Bret Easton Elis& novel & stars Winona Ryder Amber Head Billy Bob Thronton Mickey Rouke Kim Basinger Brad Renfo & Rhys Ifans The Informers is set in LA & details over the course of a week in 1983 a collection of loosly related short stories involving movie execs rock stars a vampire & other morally challenged characters Actors Winona Ryder Amber Heard Billy Bob Thornton Mickey Rourke Kim Basinger Brad Renfro Rhys Ifans Jon Foster Lou Taylor Pucci Austin Nichols Aaron Himelstein Cameron Goodman Katy Mixon Theo Rossi Diego Klattenhoff & Simone Kessell Director Gregor Jordan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)
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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 The Informers is an adaptation of Bret Easton Elis& novel & stars Winona Ryder Amber Head Billy Bob Thronton Mickey Rouke Kim Basinger Brad Renfo & Rhys Ifans The Informers is set in LA & details over the course of a week in 1983 a collection of loosly related short stories involving movie execs rock stars a vampire & other morally challenged characters ...

Directed by the late great Ingmar Bergman this loose trilogy brings together three of his finest films thematically-linked by their depiction of man's relationship with God

Includes:: THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY WINTER LIGHT & THE SILENCE

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The Inheritance of Loss is Kiran Desai's extraordinary Man Booker Prize winning novel High in the Himalayas sits a dilapidated mansion home to three people each dreaming of another time The judge broken by a world too messy for justice is haunted by his past His orphan granddaughter has fallen in love with her handsome tutor despite their different backgrounds & ideals The cook's heart is with his son who is working in a New York restaurant mingling with an underclass from all over the globe as he seeks somewhere to call home Around the house swirl the forces of revolution & change Civil unrest is making itself felt stirring up inner conflicts as powerful as those dividing the community pitting the past against the present nationalism against love a small place against the troubles of a big world 'A Magnificent novel of humane breadth & wisdom comic tenderness & political acuteness' Hermione Lee chair of the Man Booker Prize judges' Poised elegant & assured breaks out into extraordinary beauty' The Times' Desai's bold original voice & her ability to deal in a grand narratives with a deft comic touch that affectionately recalls some of the masters of Indian fiction makes hers a novel to reread & remembered' Independent Kiran Desai was born in India in 1971 was educated in India England & the United States & now lives in New York She is the author of Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard which was published to unanimous acclaim in over twenty-two countries & The Inheritance of Loss which won the Man Book Prize for Fiction & the National Book Critics Circle Award was shortlisted for the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction ...

' The Penguin History of Europe series is one of contemporary publishing's great projects' New Statesman The world known as the ' Dark Ages' often seen as a time of barbarism was in fact the crucible in which modern Europe would be created Chris Wickham's acclaimed history shows how this period encompassing peoples such as Goths Franks Vandals Byzantines Arabs Anglo-Saxons & Vikings was central to the development of our history & culture From the collapse of the Roman Empire to the establishment of new European states & from Ireland to Constantinople the Baltic to the Mediterranean this landmark work makes sense of a time of invasion & turbulence but also of continuity creativity & achievement ...

Critically acclaimed award-winning biography of CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & the brilliant group of writers to come out of Oxford during the Second World War CS Lewis JRR Tolkien & their friends were a regular feature of the Oxford scenery in the years during & after the Second World War They drank beer on Tuesdays at the Bird & Baby' & on Thursday nights they met in Lewis' Magdalen College rooms to read aloud from the books they were writing; jokingly they called themselves The Inklings' CS Lewis & JRR Tolkien first introduced The Screwtape Letters & The Lord of the Rings to an audience in this company & Charles Williams poet & writer of supernatural thrillers was another prominent member of the group Humphrey Carpenter who wrote the acclaimed biography of JRR Tolkien draws upon unpublished letters & diaries to which he was given special access in this engrossing story ...

The delightful tale of a young couple who in the late 1970s on impulse became the new landlords of the most remote bleak & lonely pub
- The Tan Hill Inn
- located in the desolate landscape of the Yorkshire Dales Having seen an article in the newspaper about the pub's search for a new manager they arrived just three weeks later as the new landlords of the The Tan Hill Inn It is a wild wind-swept place set alone in a sea of peat bog & heather moorland that stretches unbroken as far as the eye can see With only sheep & grouse for company their closest neighbour was four miles away & the nearest town twelve They had no experience of licensed trade or running a pub no knowledge of farming & a complete inability to understand the dialect of the sheep farmers who were their local customers Eager well-meaning but in over their heads our two heroes embarked on a disaster-strewn career that somehow also turned into a lifelong love affair with the Dales The Inn at the Top is an entertaining ramble around the Inn the breath-taking Dales countryside & a remarkable array of local characters giving an insight into life in a very different different time & place

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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 true story of an English missionary (Ingrid Bergman) who led a hundred children over enemy territory in pre-WWII China Robert Donat plays a Chinese mandarin in his final screen performance & North Wales stands in for the Chinese countryside ...