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The Lonely City:
Adventures In The Art
Of Being Alone
£7.49
SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2016 GORDON BURN PRIZECHOSEN AS 'BOOK OF THE YEAR' BYObserver Guardian Telegraph Irish Times New Statesman Times Literary Supplement Herald When Olivia Laing moved to New York City in her mid-thirties she found herself inhabiting loneliness on a daily basis Increasingly fascinated by this most shameful of experiences she began to explore the lonely city by way of art Moving fluidly between the works & lives of some of the city's most compelling artists Laing conducts an electric dazzling investigation into what it means to be alone illuminating not only the causes of loneliness but also how it might be resisted & redeemed ...
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The Lonely Crowd: A
Study Of The Changing
American Character By
Jarrod
Homer (Paperback,
2017)
£8.99
David Riesman's The Lonely Crowd explores the links between social character-the ways in which members of a society are similar to one another-and social structures He argues that as the United States became predominantly consumer-driven rather than production-driven-particularly after World War II-American social character changed 94 pages Homer Jarrod ...
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The Lonely Giant
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A heart-warming story about a giant who after destroying his forest home must learn the true value of the natural world A modern ...
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The Lonely Guy DVD
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Meet Larry Hubbard Lonely guy The one & only Steve Martin stars along with Charles Grodin & Tony Award winner Judith Ivey in a funny & poignant romance inspired by Bruce Jay Friedman&s tongue-in-cheek survival manual The Lonely Guy follows the progress of Larry (Steve Martin) & his buddy Warren (Charles Grodin) as they attempt to eke out a successful social life in the Big Apple They&re losers until one day Larry writes a book that turns loneliness into the ultimate love potion & life is never the same! The film features performances by Steve Lawrence & Robyn Douglass with special cameos by Merv Griffin & Dr Joyce Brothers Actors Steve Martin Charles Grodin Judith Ivey Steve Lawrence Robyn Douglass Merv Griffin Dr Joyce Brothers Candi Brough Randi Brough Julie Payne Rance Howard Loni Anderson & Andy Garcia Director Arthur Hiller Certificate 15 years & over Year 1984 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (20) Mono Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish ; Russian Subtitles English for the hard of hearing ; French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; Finnish ; Hungarian ; Norwegian ; Polish Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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The Lonely Hearts
Hotel: The Bailey's
Prize Longlisted Novel
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' Joyful funny & vividly alive' Emily St John Mandel' The Lonely Hearts Hotel sucked me right in & only got better & better I began underlining truths I had hungered for' Miranda July' Makes me think of comets & live wires raises goosebumps' Helen Oyeyemi'A fairytale laced with gunpowder' Kelly Link The Lonely Hearts Hotel is a love story with a difference Set throughout the roaring twenties it is a wicked fairytale of circus tricks & child prodigies radical chorus girls drug-addicted musicians & brooding clowns set in an underworld whose economy hinges on the price of a kiss It is the tale of two dreamers abandoned in an orphanage where they were fated to meet Here in the face of cold hunger & unpredictable beatings Rose & Pierrot create a world of their own shielding the spark of their curiosity from those whose jealousy will eventually tear them apart When they meet again each will have changed having struggled through the Depression through what they have done to fill the absence of the other But their childhood vision remains
- a dream to storm the world a spectacle an extravaganza that will lift them out of the gutter & onto a glittering stage Heather O' Neill's pyrotechnical imagination & language are like no other In this she has crafted a dazzling circus of a novel that takes us from the underbellies of war-time Montreal & Prohibition New York to a theatre of magic where anything is possible
- where an orphan girl can rule the world & a ruined innocence can be redeemed

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The Lonely Londoners
By Sam Selvon
(Paperback, 2006)
£6.49
Both devastating & funny The Lonely Londoners is an unforgettable account of immigrant experience
- & one of the great twentieth-century
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The Lonely Sea By
Alistair Mac Lean
(Paperback, 1995)
£6.49
Collection of riveting tales of the sea including the story that launched his writing career the account of the epic battle to sink the German battle ship Bismarck & two new stories collected here for the first time THE MASTER STORYTELLER IN HIS ELEMENT Alistair Mac Lean has an unmistakable & unrivalled skill in writing about the sea & its power & about the men & women who sail it & who fight & die in it His distinctive voice was evident from his very first prize-winning story The Dileas' & has been heard time & again in his international career as the author of such bestsellers as HMS Ulysses & San Andreas The Lonely Sea starts where Mac Lean's career started with The Dileas' & collects together his stories of the sea Here is a treasury of vintage Mac Lean compelling & brilliant where the master storyteller is in his element This reissue

Includes:: two new stories The Good Samaritan' & The Black Storm' which bear all the classic hallmarks of Mac Lean's finest writing & are published here for the very first time

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The Lonely Wife
(Charulata) (Blu-Ray)
£7.99
Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Neglected by her ambitious journalist husband the lonely Charulata befriends his cousin a sensitive aspiring writer & almost inevitably their feelings for each other begin to deepen Adapted from a story by Rabindranath Tagore Ray considered this sensitively realised drama one of his finest achievements Actors Soumitra Chatterjee Madhabi Mukherjee & Shailen Mukherjee Director Satyajit Ray Certificate PG Year 1964 Languages Bengali Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 57 minutes (approx) ...
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The Loney: 'the Book
Of The Year 2016'
£7.99
THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP 10 BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE 2015 COSTA FIRST NOVEL AWARD THE BRITISH BOOK AWARDS BOOK OF THE YEAR 2016A brilliantly unsettling & atmospheric debut full of unnerving horror
- ' The Loney is not just good it's great It's an amazing piece of fiction' Stephen King Two brothers One mute the other his lifelong protector Year after year their family visits the same sacred shrine on a desolate strip of coastline known as the Loney in desperate hope of a cure In the long hours of waiting the boys are left alone & they cannot resist the causeway revealed with every turn of the treacherous tide the old house they glimpse at its end Many years on Hanny is a grown man no longer in need of his brother's care But then the child's body is found And the Loney always gives up its secrets in the end' This is a novel of the unsaid the implied the barely grasped or understood crammed with dark holes & blurry spaces that your imagination feels compelled to fill' Observer'A masterful excursion into terror' The Sunday Times
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The Long And Winding
Road
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Winner of the Parliamentary Book Award best memoir by a Parliamentarian 2016 From the condemned slums of Southam Street in West London to the corridors of power in Westminster Alan Johnson's multi-award-winning autobiography charts an extraordinary journey almost unimaginable in today's Britain This third volume tells of Alan's early political skirmishes as a trades union leader where his negotiating skills & charismatic style soon came to the notice of Tony Blair & other senior members of the Labour Party As a result Alan was chosen to stand in the constituency of Hull West & Hessle & entered Parliament as an MP after the landslide election victory for Labour in May 1997 But this is no self-aggrandizing memoir of Westminster politicking & skulduggery Supporting the struggle of his constituents the Hull trawlermen & their families for justice comes more naturally to Alan than do the byzantine complexities of Parliamentary procedure But of course he does succeed there & rises through various ministerial positions to the office of Home Secretary in 2009 In The Long & Winding Road Alan's characteristic honesty & authenticity shine through every word His book takes you into a world which is at once familiar & strange this is politics as you've never seen it before ...
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The Lonely Life Of Biddy Weir

A charming and uplifting story perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove or Jonas Jonasson 'If you're a bit of a weirdo you will love Biddy Weir' - Ian Sansom bestselling author of The Norfolk MysteryBiddy Weir is a quirky girlAbandoned by her mother as a baby and with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting Biddy lives in her own little world happy to pass her time painting by the sea and watching the birds go by That is until she meets Alison FlemmingBecause there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal you see And Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the worldAll of a sudden Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil If only there was someone to convince her that actually everyone's a little bit weird A story of abuse and survival of falling down
and of starting again and of one woman's battle to learn to love herself for who she is The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir is Lesley Allen's startlingly honest debut novelPRAISE FOR THE LONELY LIFE OF BIDDY WEIR"A wonderful debut poignant powerful and moving with ripples of dark humour" Colin Bateman"I'm a little bit in love with Biddy Weir In her Lesley Allen has created a character who is the embodiment of all our adolescent insecurities" Bernie McGill author of The Butterfly Cabinet"In Biddy Weir Lesley Allen has created one of those characters that gets under your skin and won't leave A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about life and where we fit in" Doreen Finn author ofMy Buried Life"One of my favourite reads this year raw real and authentic You will be enthralled"
Bibliomaniac"Truly uplifting I can not believe this is Lesley Allen's debut novel" Steph and Chris's Book Review
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A charming & uplifting story perfect for fans of A Man Called Ove or Jonas Jonasson ' If you're a bit of a weirdo you will love Biddy Weir'
- Ian Sansom bestselling author of The Norfolk Mystery Biddy Weir is a quirky girl Abandoned by her mother as a baby & with a father who's not quite equipped for the challenges of modern parenting Biddy lives in her own little world happy to pass her time painting by the sea & watching the birds go by That is until she meets Alison Flemming Because there are a few things about Biddy that aren't normal you see & Alison isn't afraid to point them out to the world All of a sudden Biddy's quiet life is thrown into turmoil If only there was someone to convince her that actually everyone's a little bit weird A story of abuse & survival of falling down & of starting again & of one woman's battle to learn to love herself for who she is The Lonely Life of Biddy Weir is Lesley Allen's startlingly honest debut novel PRAISE FOR THE LONELY LIFE OF BIDDY WEIR"A wonderful debut poignant powerful & moving with ripples of dark humour" Colin Bateman"I'm a little bit in love with Biddy Weir In her Lesley Allen has created a character who is the embodiment of all our adolescent insecurities" Bernie Mc Gill author of The Butterfly Cabinet" In Biddy Weir Lesley Allen has created one of those characters that gets under your skin & won't leave A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered about life & where we fit in" Doreen Finn author of My Buried Life" One of my favourite reads this year raw real & authentic You will be enthralled" Bibliomaniac" Truly uplifting I can not believe this is Lesley Allen's debut novel" Steph & Chris's Book Review

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