Osebo the leopard has a fine drum a huge drum a magnificent drum All the animals covet Osebo's drum but he won't let anyone else have it not even Nyame the Sky-God So Nyame offers a big reward to the animal that brings him the drum All try
- the monkey the elephant even the python
- & all fail Can a very small tortoise succeed in outwitting the boastful leopard? Jessica Souhami's vibrant collage illustrations full of movement & humor add additional appeal to this delightful story The short rhythmic text is perfect for reading aloud

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Includes: RECENTLY DISCOVERED NEW MATERIALIn the spring of 1860 Fabrizio the charismatic Prince of Salina still rules
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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 Box set containing three classics from acclaimed director Leos Carax
- The Night is Young Boy Meets Girl Holy Motors
- plus documentary Mr X

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Brother Cadfael sets out to visit the Saint Giles leper colony outside Shrewsbury knowing that a grand wedding is due to take place at the Abbey of Saint Peter & Saint Paul As he arrives at Saint Giles the nuptial party passes the colony's gates He sees the fragile bride looking like a prisoner between her two stern guardians & the groom an arrogant fleshy aristocrat old enough to be her grandfather With his usual astuteness he suspects that this union may be more damned than blessed He is horrifically proved right when a savage murder disrupts the May-December marriage leaving Brother Cadfael with a dark & terrible mystery to solve For the key to the killing
- & a secret
- are hidden among the lepers of Saint Giles & Brother Cadfael's skills must diagnose a sickness not of the body but of a twisted soul

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LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016 From the writer of one of the most memorable debuts of recent years An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama & falls violently in love with an older actor This older man has a disturbing past that the young girl is unprepared for The young girl has a troubling past of her own This is her story & their story The Lesser Bohemians is about sexual passion It is about innocence & the loss of it At once epic & exquisitely intimate it is a celebration of the dark & the light in love ...

WINNER OF THE JAMES TAIT BLACK MEMORIAL PRIZE 2017SHORTLISTED FOR THE GOLDSMITHS PRIZE 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE BORD GAIS IRISH NOVEL OF THE YEAR 2016SHORTLISTED FOR THE RSL ENCORE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE BAILEY'S WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD The vibrant energy of 1990s London A year of passion & discovery The anxiety & intensity of new love An eighteen-year-old Irish girl arrives in London to study drama & falls violently in love with an older actor While she is naive & thrilled by life in the big city he is haunted by demons & the clamorous relationship that ensues risks undoing them both At once epic & exquisitely intimate The Lesser Bohemians is a celebration of the dark & the light in love ...

The 1 EBook Bestseller Every so often a love story comes along to remind us that sometimes in our darkest hour hope shines a candle to light our way Discover THE LETTER by Kathryn Hughes the Number One bestseller that has captured thousands of hearts worldwide 'A wonderful uplifting story' Lesley Pearse And if you love THE LETTER you will adore Kathryn's second novel THE SECRET Tina Craig longs to escape her violent husband She works all the hours God sends to save up enough money to leave him also volunteering in a charity shop to avoid her unhappy home Whilst going through the pockets of a second-hand suit she comes across an old letter the envelope firmly sealed & unfranked Tina opens the letter & reads it
- a decision that will alter the course of her life for ever Billy Stirling knows he has been a fool but hopes he can put things right On 4th September 1939 he sits down to write the letter he hopes will change his future It does
- in more ways than he can ever imagine The Letter tells the story of two women born decades apart whose paths are destined to cross & how one woman's devastation leads to the other's salvation

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A gorgeous winter edition of the bestselling classic fantasy novel acclaimed as a Times Sunday Times & Metro Book of the Year When Tiuri answers a desperate call for help he finds himself on a perilous mission that could cost him his life He must deliver a secret letter to the King who lives across the great Mountains
- a letter upon which the future of the entire realm depends It means abandoning his home breaking all the rules & leaving everything behind
- even the knighthood he has dreamed of for so long The fate of a kingdom depends on just one person He must trust no one He must keep his true identity secret Above all he must never reveal what is in the letter

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This fourth & final volume which completes the Cambridge edition of The Letters of Samuel Beckett covers the final twenty-four years of what was as Beckett saw it a surprisingly long life During these years he produced many of his finest & most concentrated works for theatre plays that included Not I Ohio Impromptu & Catastrophe; for television he wrote Eh Joe & Ghost Trio; while in prose he produced the late 'trilogy' that comprises Company Ill Seen Ill Said & Worstward Ho In 1969 Beckett was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature & the letters from this period show him struggling to cope with the pressures created by his ever-growing international fame The letters reveal how later he turned his mind to his legacy as seen through his interactions with biographers & archivists This volume also provides chronologies explanatory notes translations & profiles of Beckett's chief correspondents ...