Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Philip Madoc gives a career-best performance as one of Britain&s most revered inspiring & controversial leaders in this celebrated BBC series Scripted by BAFTA-winning Elaine Morgan with input from leading historian AJP Taylor & with famously haunting theme music by Ennio Morricone The Life & Times of David Lloyd George paints a multifaceted portrait of a political icon who steered Britain through the First World War & its aftermath & whose pioneering reforms laid the foundations of the welfare state Brought up in a remote Welsh village on his way to the top Lloyd George inspires both hysterical adoration & an enmity bordering on bloodlust A passionate social reformer his struggle to lift the spectres of poverty & the workhouse provokes the ire of the political establishment while his indefatigable womanising fills many a gossip column; his political dexterity as the Liberal prime minister of a wartime coalition government however will raise him to a new level of power & influence ...

Bill Bryson's first travel book opened with the immortal line I come from Des Moines Somebody had to' In this deeply funny & personal memoir he travels back in time to explore the ordinary kid he once was in the curious world of 1950s Middle America It was a happy time when almost everything was good for you including DDT cigarettes & nuclear fallout This is a book about one boy's growing up But in Bryson's hands it becomes everyone's story one that will speak volumes
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The Chippendale cabinet-making firm founded by Thomas Chippendale senior in about 1750 became famous partly through the succesful publication of his The Gentleman & Cabinet-Maker's Director (1754 re-published 1755 & 1762) & partly through the fine furniture supplied to a number of illustrious clients Chippendale senior ran the workshop for just over twenty years His eldest son Thomas Chippendale junior continued the business for over forty the first two decades in partnership with Thomas Haig Chippendale senior's work has been well documents Chippendale junior's work has never until now been thoroughly researched The Life & Work of Thomas Chippendale Junior repairs the omission His patrons included members of the Royal Family aristocrats landed gentry & antiquarians He was adept at satisfying their demands whether they required lavish gilt or simpler often mahogany pieces Where family archives & original settings survive as at Harewood House Paxton House & Stourhead they reveal the variety & quality of Chippendale's output Analysis of client's invoices even when the furniture can no longer be traced for the first time provides a colourful view of what customers chose & what prices they paid ...

Wes Anderson&s THE LIFE AQUATIC a group of oceanic explorers who call themselves Team Zissou embark on a journey to hunt down the &jaguar shark& that ate one of their crew members (Seymour Cassel) Determined to avenge the death of his dear friend team leader Steve Zissou (Bill Murray) is melancholic about the journey he&s about to make Meanwhile financial troubles & nostalgia for his past make Zissou behave like a reckless playboy an ageing softy & a past-his-prime tyrant Surrounding Zissou are a hodgepodge of eccentrics--a pregnant journalist doing a magazine feature (Cate Blanchett) an airline pilot from Kentucky who claims he is Zissou&s son (Owen Wilson) an emotionally needy European (Willem Dafoe) an acoustic guitarist who sings David Bowie songs in Brazilian Portuguese (Seu Jorge) Zissou&s brilliant wife (Anjelica Houston) & her ex-husband who is Zissou&s seafaring nemesis (Jeff Goldblum) Clad in baby-blue polyester uniforms Adidas sneakers & red stocking caps Team Zissou is a sight to see & as their deep-sea adventure takes them into dangerous waters where they are attacked by pirates & dazzled by CGI fish the group finds magic both in their bonds to each other & in the colourful world around them In keeping with Anderson&s unique brand of escapist humour these caricatured characters are nothing short of fascinating While their lives are extraordinary they act bored dwelling on banalities like hurt feelings jealousy & loneliness The more absurd their stories are the more believable their quirky personalities become With plenty of hilarious moments offsetting the film&s tongue-in-cheek sentimentalism THE LIFE AQUATIC is sure to please seasoned Anderson fans & make new ones of the uninitiated ...

Do you want to live forever? Ben Ferguson-Cripps is a struggling writer with a surname that gets more comments than his waning blog In desperation Ben sets aside his literary ambitions to join the newly established & enigmatic Life Assistance Agency The agency's first case is to trace a missing person with links to the Elizabethan angel-caller Dr John Dee Pursued by a shadowy organisation
- & the ghosts of Ben's past
- the trail leads them on a white-knuckle ride through Europe into the historic streets of Prague As forces meet in a deadly climax the long-buried secrets of Dr Dee's achievements are finally revealedand Ben will discover there is always more to life

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Imagine a world in which the Axis forces of World War II suddenly were propelled to victory over the Alliesprompted by aid from the ancient gods of Norse mythology! Welcome to the alternate reality of The Life Eaters written by award-winning author David Brin with lush painted art by Scott Hampton ...

She's dead but she's the only one who knows what really happened; What your friends have said What the police missed Who attacked you So if you want the truth who else are you going to turn to? ...

Perfect for fans of Cecelia Ahern & Jojo Moyes a beautiful & moving story about the unbreakable bond between a mother & daughter Brett's Life List 1 Go to Paris 2 Perform live on a super big stage 3 Have a baby maybe two 4 Fall in love Brett Bohlinger seems to have it all a plum job a spacious loft an irresistibly handsome boyfriend All in all a charmed life That is until her beloved mother passes away leaving behind a will with one big stipulation In order to receive her inheritance Brett must first complete the life list of goals she'd written when she was a naive girl of fourteen Grief-stricken Brett can barely make sense of her mother's decision-her childhood dreams don't resemble her ambitions at age thirty-four in the slightest Some seem impossible How can she possibly have a relationship with a father who died seven years ago? Other goals (Be an awesome teacher!) would require her to reinvent her entire future As Brett reluctantly embarks on a perplexing journey in search of her adolescent dreams one thing becomes clear Sometimes life's sweetest gifts can be found in the most unexpected places ...

The true heart-rending story of a sick kitten rescued from the streets of Manchester by a small Rescue Charity ...

Follow the life of a car from the production line to being sold driven cleaned crashed mended scrapped & finally recycled to make another car! Featuring an assortment of brightly coloured vehicles including tow-trucks transporters & lifting machines this is the perfect book for all car & machine-mad readers See if you can spot the little red mini from Susan's first book ON THE ROAD travelling through the book! ...