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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Philip Larkin's second collection The Less Deceived was published by The Marvell Press in 1955 & now appears for the first time in Faber covers The eye can hardly pick them out From the cold shade they shelter in Till wind distresses tail & mane; Then one crops grass & moves about
- The other seeming to look on
- & stands anonymous again from ' At Grass'

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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 ...

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 ...

A new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough&s letters The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture In this Penguin Classics edition the letters are selected & edited by Ronald de Leeuw & translated by Arnold Pomerans in Penguin Classics Few artists& letters are as self-revelatory as Vincent van Gogh&s & this selection spanning his artistic career sheds light on every facet of the life & work of this complex & tortured man Engaging candidly & movingly with his religious struggles his ill-fated search for love his attacks of mental illness & his relation with his brother Theo the letters contradict the popular myth of van Gogh as an anti-social madman & a martyr to art showing instead a man of great emotional & spiritual depths Above all they stand as an intense personal narrative of artistic development & a unique account of the process of creation The letters are linked by explanatory biographical passages revealing van Gogh&s inner journey as well as the outer facts of his life This edition also

Includes:: the drawings that originally illustrated the letters Vincent Willem van Gogh (1853-1890) was born in Holland In 1885 he painted his first masterpiece The Potato Eaters a haunting scene of domestic poverty A year later he began studying in Paris where he met Gauguin Toulouse-Lautrec & Seurat who became very important influences on his work In 1888 he left Paris for the Provencal landscape at Arles the subject of many of his best works including Sunflowers If you enjoyed The Letters of Vincent van Gogh you might also like 100 Artists Manifestos available in Penguin Modern Classics& If there was ever any doubt that Van Gogh&s letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation Cellini&s autobiography & Delacroix&s journal this excellent new edition dispels it& The Times

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The classic World War II trilogy ' The finest fictional record of the war produced by a British writer' Anthony Burgess As Rommel advances in wartorn Egypt the lives of the civilian population come under threat One such couple are Guy & Harriet Pringle who have escaped the war in Europe only to find the conflict once more on their doorstep providing a volatile backdrop to their own personal battles The civilian world meets the military through the figure of Simon Boulderstone a young army officer who will witness the tragedy & tension of war on the frontier at first hand An outstanding author of wartime fiction Olivia Manning brilliantly evokes here the world of the Levant
- Egypt Jerusalem & Syria
- with perception & subtlety humour & humanity

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