Meet heroic maid Pattern in The Last Duchess the first Silver Service Mystery from Laura Powell illustrated by Sarah Gibb Pattern is only thirteen but is already rising through the ranks at Mrs Minchin's Academy of Domestic Servitude & seems destined for a life below stairs But fate intervenes when she is packed off to the small & secretive Duchy of Elffinberg to serve as lady's maid to the recently orphaned Grand Duchess Pattern's young new mistress is excitable & paranoid yet despite their differences the two girls forge an unlikely friendship that quickly turns into a battle for survival For picture-perfect Elffinberg hides an extremely dark & deadly secret Armed only with her trusty sewing basket a bottle of smelling salts & J Bulcock's inestimable guide The Duties of a Lady's Maid Pattern will need all her wits & resourcefulness when dealing with above-stairs conspiracies & below-stairs intrigue Darning stockings has never been so dangerous ...

WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as president of the Soviet Union By the next day the USSR was officially no more & the USA had emerged as the world's sole superpower Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents a page-turning account of the preceding five months of drama filled with failed coups d'etat & political intrigue Honing in on this previously disregarded but crucial period & using recently declassified documents & original interviews with key participants he shatters the established myths of 1991 & presents a bold new interpretation of the Soviet Union's final months Plokhy argues that contrary to the triumphalist Western narrative George H W Bush desperately wanted to preserve the Soviet Union & keep Gorbachev in power & that it was Ukraine & not the US that played the key role in the collapse of the Soviet Union The consequences of those five months & the myth-making that has since surrounded them are still being felt in Crimea Russia the US & Europe today With its spellbinding narrative & strikingly fresh perspective The Last Empire is the essential account of one of the most important watershed periods in world history & is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to make sense of international politics today ...

The Last Enemy is the story of Richard Hillary one of Sebastian Faulks& three &fatal englishmen& In this extraordinary account the author details his experiences as a fighter pilot in the Second World War in which he was shot down leading to months in hospital as part of Archibald Mc Indoe&s & Guinea Pig Club& undergoing pioneering plastic surgery to rebuild his face & hands The Last Enemy was first published in 1942 just seven months before Hilary&s untimely death in a second crash & has gone on to be hailed as one of the classic texts of World War Two ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When the reclusive Stephen Ezard (Cumberbatch) returns to London for the funeral of his brother Michael (Beesley) he feels like a stranger in his own country National security fears have transformed Britain into a security state where ID cards are compulsory & armed police patrol the streets He is startled to discover that Michael had a beautiful wife Yasim (Marinca) & seeks comfort in her arms But Yasim is on a mission of her own Terrified of losing her Stephen agrees to support a secretive government project
- but his actions trigger a spiral of deadly events Kidnapped by a violent man seduced by an old lover with friends in high places & followed at every turn Stephen doesn&t know who he can trust When he tries to uncover the truth behind his brother&s death he discovers that his civil liberties have been so seriously eroded that his investigation makes him an enemy of the state The Last Enemy is a compelling thriller set in the future; a future that is a lot closer than you may think Actors Robert Carlyle Benedict Cumberbatch Max Beesley Anamaria Marinca Eva Birthistle Geraldine James David Harewood Christopher Fulford & David Calder Director Iain B Macdonald Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 1781 Languages English
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Can Agatha & Sophie find the perfect ending to their story in this epic third adventure in the School for Good & Evil series Once best friends Agatha & Sophie were pulled apart like strangers each in the arms of a boy Good with Good Evil with Evil is their friendship lost forever after But as they settle into their new lives their story begs to be re-written & this time theirs isn't the only one With the girls apart Evil has taken over & the villains of the past have come back to change their tales & turn the world of Good & Evil upside down With Evers being murdered & Nevers reigning supreme the girls need to restore the balance find the end to their story &-hopefully-become friends again SPECIFICATIONS testing NULL ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Disillusioned charlatan Reverend Cotton Marcus (Patrick Fabian) comes face to face with pure evil after recruiting a documentary film crew to capture the final exorcism of his career For years Reverend Marcus has taken advantage of the faithful & desperate Now it&s time for him to finally come clean Just as Reverend Marcus prepares to shoot the film that will set the record straight he receives an urgent letter from a desperate farmer The devil has taken possession of his beloved daughter Nell (Ashley Bell) & Reverend Marcus is their last hope for salvation Up to this point it&s been all fun & games; now things are about to get serious ...

Plea&115;e note thi&115; i&115; a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Reverend Cotton Marcu&115; i&115; a fourth generation evangelical mini&115;ter a well-known practitioner of exorci&115;m with many faithful believer&115; in hi&115; work
- Only he'&115; not one of them People believe what they need to believe & Cotton ha&115; helped many lo&115;t &115;oul&115; work out their demon&115; but in the twilight of hi&115; career he decide&115; it'&115; time to put away the &115;moke & mirror&115; reveal the truth by allowing a film crew to capture the &115;ecret&115; of hi&115; trade in hi&115; final exorci&115;m Cotton'&115; la&115;t ca&115;e take&115; him into the rural Loui&115;iana to the home of Loui&115; &83;weetzer a &115;imple farmer & a devout fundamentali&115;t convinced he ha&115; a demon on hi&115; hand&115; &83;trange thing&115; have been happening on Loui&115;'&115; farm Hi&115; live&115;tock butchered during the night their bloody carca&115;&115;e&115; left to rot By morning Loui&115;'&115; only daughter A&115;hley apparently a &115;weet innocent provide&115; the only clue to the killing&115; &115;he wake&115; up covered in blood Reverend Marcu&115; prepare&115; for hi&115; final performance the exorci&115;m of A&115;hley &83;weetzer But to hi&115; horror he &115;oon di&115;cover&115; that he will need to conjure much more than a charade to put hi&115; la&115;t demon to re&115;t Actor&115; A&115;hley Bell Patrick Fabian Director&115; Daniel &83;tamm Language Engli&115;h&83;ubtitle&115; Engli&115;h&83;ubtitle&115; For The Hearing Impaired Engli&115;h Number of di&115;c&115; 1
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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 Best friends Rob & Greg decide to earn a little extra cash over the Christmas holidays by participating in a two week pharmaceutical trial Locked in a remote hospital facility they find themselves being subjected to a bizarre series of tests that seem to induce an increasingly violent reaction in a lot of the participants As the doctors start to lose control it becomes clear that the drugs have increasingly dangerous side effects & no one involved in the trial will be safe for long ...

Marcus Fall is a battle-hardened soldier in a long-running inter-planetary war After multiple combat tours Fall is finally able to leave the military & return to his beloved wife & son But his happy homecoming comes to a tragic end when a suicide bomber murders his family Devastated Fall returns to the war with one bloody mission in mind revenge against the enemy every last one of them! ...

An extraordinary biography by the very last witness of a devastating four years in British history' Daily Mail On 17 June 2009 Harry Patch celebrated his 111th birthday At the time he was the last living British Tommy who had fought in the trenches during the First World War Now that direct link with the past has gone From Patch's vivid memories of an Edwardian childhood through the horrors of the battles of Ypres & Passchendaele to working on the home front in the Second World War & fame in later life as a veteran The Last Fighting Tommy is the story of an ordinary man's extraordinary life A hundred years after the end of the Great War this powerful account of a life defined by those four devastating years remains as important & relevant as ever This updated edition

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