In a field outside Bromsgrove two elderly brothers live in adjoining railway carriages No one visits & they never speak to each other Until the day Zohra Dasgupta a young postwoman delivers an extraordinary letter
- from a woman claiming to be the sister they thought had been murdered fifty years earlier So begins an intriguing tale is this woman an impostor? If she's not what did happen all those years ago? & why are the brothers such recluses? Then there's Zohra Once a bright outgoing teenager the only friend she will see from her schooldays is laidback Crispin who has roped her in to the restoration of an old railway line on his father's land For which as it happens they need some carriages With wry humour & a cast of characters as delightful as they are damaged Clare Morrall tells an engrossing story of past misdeeds & present reckoning which shows that for all the wrong turnings we might take sometimes it is possible to retrace our steps
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The intriguing story of two eccentric brothers & a troubled young postwoman
- three outsiders whose pasts resurface in a captivating
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Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play In mid-18th century America woodsman Hawkeye (Daniel Day-Lewis) lives amongst British colonists in New York state but shares the cultural values of his adopted Mohican father Chingachgook (Russell Means) At the height of the French-Indian war Hawkeye is asked to lead two British sisters Cora & Alice (Madeleine Stowe & Jodhi May) through dangerous territory to their father&s fort With the French-allied Hurons on their trail one of whom has a personal vendetta against the daughters Hawkeye & his companion Uncas still find time for romance with their charges much to the chagrin of the accompanying Major Duncan Heyward (Steven Waddington) who has set his cap at Cora ...

Angered by the values of his materialistic society Hawk-eye lives apart from the other white men sharing the solitude & sublimity of the wilderness with his Mohican Indian friend Chingachgook As the savageries of war test these exiled men they agree to guide two sisters in search of their father through hostile Indian country
- even if it means risking everything An enduring American classic The Last of the Mohicans is a fast-paced portrait of fierce individualism & courage set against massacres raids battles & a doomed love affair It is also the unforgettable story of the friendship between two men
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Introduction & Notes by David Blair University of Kent at Canterbury It is 1757 Across north-eastern America the armies of Britain & France struggle for ascendancy Their conflict however overlays older struggles between nations of native Americans for possession of the same lands & between the native peoples & white colonisers Through these layers of conflict Cooper threads a thrilling narrative in which Cora & Alice Munro daughters of a British commander on the front line of the colonial war attempt to join their father Thwarted by Magua the sinister ' Indian runner' they find help in the person of Hawkeye the white woodsman & his companions the Mohican Chingachgook & Uncas his son the last of his tribe Cooper's novel is full of vivid incident- pursuits through wild terrain skirmishes treachery & brutality- but reflects also on the interaction between the colonists & the native peoples Through the character of Hawkeye Cooper raises lasting questions about the practises of the American frontier & the eclipse of the indigenous cultures ...

Sam & Lizzie are freezing & hungry on the streets of Victorian London When Sam asks a wealthy man for some coins he is rudely turned away Months of struggle suddenly find their focus & Sam resolves to kill the man Huddling in a graveyard for warmth Sam & Lizzie are horrified to see the earth around one of the tombs begin to shift shortly followed by the wraithlike figure of a ghostly man He warns Sam about the future which awaits such a bitter heart & so begins Sam's journey led by terrifying spirits through the past present & future after which Sam must decide whether to take the man Scrooge's life or not A perfectly layered tense & supremely satisfying twist on one of Dickens' most popular books cleverly reinvented to entice a younger readership ...

A timely & important book he brings to it rare clarity & common sense His book is a fast-paced account of the last sixteen months of the tsar's life; brief sharp but laced with well-judged feeling for the dramas of the time' Catherine Merridale Observer In March 1917 Nicholas II the last Tsar of All the Russias abdicated & the dynasty that had ruled an empire for three hundred years was forced from power by revolution In this masterful & forensic study Robert Service examines the last year Nicholas's reign & the months between that momentous abdication & his death with his family in Ekaterinburg in July 1918 Drawing on the Tsar's own diaries & other hitherto unexamined contemporary records The Last of the Tsars reveals a man who was almost entirely out of his depth perhaps even willfully so It is also a compelling account of the social economic & political foment in Russia in the aftermath of Alexander Kerensky's February Revolution the Bolshevik seizure of power in October 1917 & the beginnings of Lenin's Soviet republic ...

Selected for the QI Book of the Year Award 2016 ' Gripping & utterly believable' IAN RANKIN Guardian Books of the Year A story about the strength & fragility of human nature Rob Ewing's writing is powerful compassionate & brilliant I absolutely loved it' JOANNA CANNON the authorof THE TROUBLE WITH GOATS & SHEEP Eight-year-old Rona lives in an empty house with her friends Elizabeth & Alex Home is a deserted island off Scotland where days are filled by playing school & 'shopping' for food & batteries There are other children too
- Calum Ian & Duncan
- & the cats that follow them around But for the last ones left the path to survival is paved with dangers & decisions that risk extinguishing the hope they've so carefully kept alive

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Naughty Dog creative director Neil Druckmann & rising comics star Faith Erin Hicks team up for the comics-exclusive first chapter of the wildly anticipated new game The Last of Us! Nineteen years ago a parasitic fungal outbreak killed the majority of the world&s population forcing survivors into a handful of quarantine zones Thirteen-year-old Ellie has grown up in this violent post pandemic world & her disrespect for the military authority running her boarding school earns her new enemies a new friend in fellow rebel Riley & her first trip into the outside world where she is confronted with a dangerous insurgent group
- & with the monstrous victims of infection!
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