ENGLAND IS BORN BBC2's major TV series THE LAST KINGDOM is based on Bernard Cornwell's bestselling novels on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg The Last Kingdom is the first book in the series Season 2 of the epic TV series premiers this March BORN SAXON RAISED VIKING IS UHTRED THE HERO THE LAST KINGDOM NEEDS? In a land torn apart by conflict an orphan boy has come of age Raised by the Vikings deadly enemies of his own Saxon people Uhtred is a fierce & skilled warrior who kneels to no-one Alfred
- Saxon king man of god
- fights to hold the throne of the only land still resisting the pagan northerners Uhtred & Alfred's fates are tangled saoked in blood & blackened b the flames of war Together they will change history

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The first book in Bernard Cornwell&s epic & bestselling series on the making of England & the fate of his great hero Uhtred of Bebbanburg BBC2&s major Autumn 2015 TV show THE LAST KINGDOM is based on the first two books in the series Uhtred is an English boy born into the aristocracy of ninth-century Northumbria Orphaned at ten he is captured & adopted by a Dane & taught the Viking ways Yet Uhtred&s fate is indissolubly bound up with Alfred King of Wessex who rules over the only English kingdom to survive the Danish assault The struggle between the English & the Danes & the strife between christianity & paganism is the background to Uhtred&s growing up He is left uncertain of his loyalties but a slaughter in a winter dawn propels him to the English side & he will become a man just as the Danes launch their fiercest attack yet on Alfred&s kingdom Marriage ties him further still to the West Saxon cause but when his wife & child vanish in the chaos of the Danish invasion Uhtred is driven to face the greatest of the Viking chieftains in a battle beside the sea There in the horror of the shield-wall he discovers his true allegiance The Last Kingdom like most of Bernard Cornwell&s books is firmly based on true history It is the first novel of a series that will tell the tale of Alfred the Great & his descendants & of the enemies they faced Viking warriors like Ivar the Boneless & his feared brother Ubba Against their lives Bernard Cornwell has woven a story of divided loyalties reluctant love & desperate heroism In Uhtred he has created one of his most interesting & heroic characters & in The Last Kingdom one of his most powerful & passionate novels ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Clive Owen & Morgan Freeman star in this medieval action feature directed by Kazuaki Kiriya After being appointed commander of his kingdom&s knights skilled warrior Raiden (Owen) is forced to seek justice for his noble master Bartok (Freeman) who refuses to bow to pressure from the corrupt lords of the realm With Bartok&s house destroyed & his loyal men dispersed it is up to Raiden to avenge his master&s persecution by going after the influential & power-hungry minister Gezza Mott (Aksel Hennie) Actors Morgan Freeman Clive Owen Aksel Hennie Directors Kazuaki Kiriya Language English Number of discs 1 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Clive Owen & Morgan Freeman star in this medieval action feature directed by Kazuaki Kiriya After being appointed commander of his kingdom&s knights skilled warrior Raiden (Owen) is forced to seek justice for his noble master Bartok (Freeman) who refuses to bow to pressure from the corrupt lords of the realm With Bartok&s house destroyed & his loyal men dispersed it is up to Raiden to avenge his master&s persecution by going after the influential & power-hungry minister Gezza Mott (Aksel Hennie) ...

Award-winning biographer Laura Thompson pays homage to the English pub through the remarkable story of her grandmother the first woman in England to be given a publican s license in her own name 304 pages Thompson Laura ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play This epic thrilling & action-packed film is in the great tradition of epic adventures such as 300 Gladiator & King Arthur It tells the story of how the legend of the Sword in the Stone began with stirring heart-stopping battle scenes great enduring friendship & the love of father & son AD 476 The Roman Empire is crumbling & the last Emperor is fleeing for his life His only safety is to be found in his mystic father figure & in the hands of his bodyguard & an enigmatic Byzantine warrior His only sanctuary lies in the far-flung Western outpost of Britannia with the Last Legion
- & a myth The Empire is being held to ransom by the Barbarians On the eve of the coronation of the 12-year-old Romulus Augustus his mentor the shaman Ambrosinus (Ben Kingsley) predicts disaster His worst fears are realised as the Goths sack the once-great city of Rome & capture the last Emperor & his protector They are imprisoned on the historic island of Capri where Romulus is destined to discover the mythical sword of Cæsar that holds the prophecy -& One edge to defend one to defeat; In Britanniawas I forged to fit the hand of he who is destined to rule& One legionnaire survives to escort his Emperor to safety
- the boy&s loyal bodyguard Aurelius (Colin Firth) Aided by a mysterious black-clad Byzantine warrior (Aishwarya Rai) & Ambrosinus& strategic cunning Aurelius frees Romulus only to face betrayal & a fight for their lives With the world against them their only course of action is to reach the one legion loyal to Rome They face a perilous trek across a continent to Britain in search of The Last Legion There a new myth
- destined to span the centuries
- is waiting to rise Actors Colin Firth Ben Kingsley Aishwarya Rai Peter Mullan Kevin Mc Kidd John Hannah Ian Glen Rupert Friend Owen Teale Alexander Siddig James Cosmo & Harry Van Gorkum Director Doug Lefler Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 1771 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 Hour & 50 minutes (approx)




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The fifth action-packed Victorian military adventure featuring hero Jack Lark soldier leader imposter 416 pages Collard Paul Fraser ...

The third of Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series in which Martine & Ben must save the world's rarest leopard 224 pages St John Lauren ...

Spanning forty years two women's stories of love loss & betrayal are intertwined in this award-winning novel by Jojo Moyes internationally bestselling author of Me Before You After You & the new bestseller Still Me 'A fabulous emotional & evocative book
- perfect for anyone who loves Mad Men' Sophie Kinsella When journalist Ellie looks through her newspaper's archives for a story she doesn't think she'll find anything of interest Instead she discovers a letter from 1960 written by a man asking his lover to leave her husband
- & Ellie is caught up in the intrigue of a past love affair Despite or perhaps because of her own romantic entanglements with a married man In 1960 Jennifer wakes up in hospital after a car accident She can't remember anything
- her husband her friends who she used to be & then when she returns home she uncovers a hidden letter & begins to remember the lover she was willing to risk everything for Ellie & Jennifer's stories of passion adultery & loss are wound together in this richly emotive novel
- interspersed with real 'last letters'



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A New Statesman Book of the Year London A city apart Inimitable Or so it once seemed Spiralling from the outer limits of the Overground to the pinnacle of the Shard Iain Sinclair encounters a metropolis stretched beyond recognition The vestiges of secret tunnels the ghosts of saints & King Harold's last stand buried by developments the cycling revolution & Brexit An electrifying final odyssey The Last London is an unforgettable vision of the Big Smoke before it disappears into the air of memory ...