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 ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A hero can't always be good Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed?AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian ...

THE NEW YORK TIMES NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER A hero can't always be good Joe Rickman head of clandestine operations in the Middle East has been kidnapped & with him top secret CIA information that could prove disastrous in the wrong hands Mitch Rapp must find Rickman at all costs But something doesn't add up & he soon suspects something even more sinister is afoot With elements inside his own government working against him Rapp will have to make to make a tough call between playing the hero & playing nice Or will he be stopped dead before he can succeed?AMERICAN ASSASSIN book one in the series is soon to be a MAJOR MOTION PICTURE starring Dylan O' Brien (Maze Runner) Taylor Kitsch (True Detective) & Michael Keaton Praise for the Mitch Rapp series ' Sizzles with inside information & CIA secrets' Dan Brown 'A cracking uncompromising yarn that literally takes no prisoners' The Times ' Vince Flynn clearly has one eye on Lee Child's action thriller throne with this twist-laden story instantly gripping' Shortlist ' Action-packed in-your-face adrenalin-pumped super-hero macho escapist fiction that does exactly what it says on the label' Irish Independent ' Mitch Rapp is a great character who always leaves the bad guys either very sorry for themselves or very dead' Guardian ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Pamela Bickley The Godolphin & Latymer School formerly of Royal Holloway University of London The Last Man is Mary Shelley's apocalyptic fantasy of the end of human civilisation Set in the late twenty-first century the novel unfolds a sombre & pessimistic vision of mankind confronting inevitable destruction Interwoven with her futuristic theme Mary Shelley incorporates idealised portraits of Shelley & Byron yet rejects Romanticism & its faith in art & nature Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797-1851) was the only daughter of Mary Wollstonecraft author of Vindication of the Rights of Woman & the radical philosopher William Godwin Her mother died ten days after her birth & the young child was educated through contact with her father's intellectual circle & her own reading She met Percy Bysshe Shelley in 1812; they eloped in July 1814 In the summer of 1816 she began her first & most famous novel Frankenstein Three of her children died in early infancy & in 1822 her husband was drowned Mary returned to England with her surviving son & wrote novels short stories & accounts of her travels; she was the first editor of PBShelley's poetry & verse ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play British Survival Horror At It&s Best A group of friends journey to the woods for a weekend of camping barbecues & laughs However something is waiting for them something sinister that plans on taking no prisoners Soon the trip becomes a matter of survival as evil & carnage descends As the body count rises only one question remains Who will be The Last Man? Actors Alice Henley Albey Brookes Ryan Gaterral Kerry Bennett & Alexandra B Harris Director Alex Murray Certificate 15 years & over Year 2010 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 25 minutes (approx) ...

The author travels across Russia from crowded Moscow train to empty windswept villages following in the footsteps of one extraordinary man the dissident Orthodox priest Father Dmitry In this book he tells the story of a nation famine war the frozen wastes of the Gulag the collapse of communism & now a people seeking oblivion 304 pages Bullough Oliver ...