A compellingly-narrated thrillingly-portrayed account account of an epic motorcycle journey taken in 2014 from Singapore to Sweden over 100 days Philip's aim to increase breast cancer awareness makes it more than the run-of-the-mill adventure holiday but a ride with a cause Written as an internal monologue much in keeping with long motorcycle rides where hours are spent alone in a helmet with one's thoughts this chronicle runs through 17 countries & the entire sweep of the Silk Road The motorcycles give the author an immediate access to different peoples & cultures with a unique chance to meet breast cancer patients across different Asian countries Time pressures in order to meet collaborators leads to mental collapse & near failure As he falters from a mental breakdown & perseveres it makes this journey more about cancer survival than ever intended ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Jesse James & his gang of outlaws ride again in this extraordinary western that pulsates with hard-driving action & electrifying drama Four sets of acclaimed actor brothers
- Dennis & Randy Quaid Stacy & James Keach Christopher & Nicholas Guest & Keith Robert & David Carradine
- each depict real-life siblings in emotionally charged portrayals of the Old West&s legendary bandits The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country robbing banks trains & stagecoaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to track them down these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind barsor dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty & blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits unexpected betrayals & blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride Actors David Carradine Keith Carradine Robert Carradine James Keach Stacy Keach Dennis Quaid Randy Quaid Kevin Brophy Harry Carey Jr Christopher Guest Nicholas Guest Shelby Leverington Felice Orlandi Pamela Reed & James Remar Director Walter Hill Certificate 15 years & over Year 1980 Screen 1851 Languages English
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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 Jesse James & his gang of outlaws ride again in this extraordinary western that pulsates with hard-driving action & electrifying drama Four sets of acclaimed actor brothers
- Dennis & Randy Quaid Stacy & James Keach Christopher & Nicholas Guest & Keith Robert & David Carradine
- each depict real-life siblings in emotionally charged portrayals of the Old West&s legendary bandits The notorious James-Younger gang is the most famous group of outlaws in the country robbing banks trains & stage coaches with a sense of daring that makes them folk heroes throughout the land But when the mighty Pinkerton detective agency swears to back them down these criminals must face an awesome enemy that will stop at nothing to see them behind bars or dead! Only through the strength of their loyalty & blood ties can the outlaws hope to survive the brutal pursuits unexpected betrayals & blistering showdowns that mark the end of their dangerous ride

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What happens to a man who has his ear pressed to the lives of others but not much life of his own? When Stephen Donaldson joins the Institute he anticipates excitement romance & new status Instead he gets the tape-recorded conversations of ancient communists & ineffectual revolutionaries until the day he is assigned a new case the ultra-secret PHOENIX Is PHOENIX really working for a foreign power? Stephen hardly cares; it is the voice of the target's wife that mesmerises him This is December 1981 Bombs are exploding a cold war is being waged another war is just over the horizon & the nation is transfixed by weekly instalments of Brideshead Revisited Dangerously in love & lonely Stephen sets himself up for a vertiginous fall that will forever change his life As beautiful as it is intense The Long Room is the dazzling new novel from an award-winning writer With her mastery of the perfect detail Francesca Kay explores a mind under pressure & the compelling power of imagination ...

Marking the centenary of World War One historian David Reynolds explores the enduring shadow the conflict has cast over Britain & Europe in the century that followed Travelling to locations across Europe from Slovenia to the Sudetenland Belfast to Berlin David Reynolds traces the war s legacy arguing that it unleashed forces we still grapple with today This remarkable series also looks again at how the experience of war haunted the generation who lived through it in particular the soldiers who survived it dynamic characters such as Benito Mussolini Eamon de Valera Philippe Petain James Ramsey Mac Donald & Thomas Masaryk Reynolds examines how these men shaped the peace that followed war often in unpredictable ways Format PALLanguage English Region Region 2 Number of discs 1 Classification Exempt Studio Simply Media DVD Release Date 4 July 2016 Run Time 180 minutes ...

Shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize The Long Song by multi-million-copy bestselling author Andrea Levy is a hauntingly beautiful heartbreaking & unputdownable novel which will resonate with everyone who went to see the Oscar-winning film 12 Years a Slave & fans of Sue Monk Kidd's The Secret Life of Bees 'A marvel of luminous storytelling' Financial Times You do not know me yet My son Thomas who is publishing this book tells me it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages As your storyteller I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery & the early years of freedom that followed July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity & it is her life that is the subject of this tale She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831 & she was present when slavery was declared no more My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty of the negroes that worked the plantation land of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation & many more persons besides
- far too many for me to list here But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse Perhaps my son suggests I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a novel they might care to consider Cha I tell my son what fuss-fuss Come let them just read it for themselves
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A noir narrative written with the intensity & power of poetry The Long Take is one of the most remarkable
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2045-2059 After the cataclysmic upheavals of Step Day & the Yellowstone eruption humanity is spreading further into the Long Earth & society on a battered Datum Earth & beyond continues to evolve Now an elderly & cantankerous AI Lobsang lives in disguise with Agnes in an exotic far-distant world He's convinced they're leading a normal life in New Springfield
- they even adopt a child
- but it seems they have been guided there for a reason As rumours of strange sightings & hauntings proliferate it becomes clear that something is very awry with this particular world Millions of steps away Joshua is on a personal journey of discovery learning about the father he never knew & a secret family history But then he receives a summons from New Springfield Lobsang now understands the enormity of what's taking place beneath the surface of his earth
- a threat to all the worlds of the Long Earth To counter this threat will require the combined efforts of humankind machine & the super-intelligent Next & some must make the ultimate sacrifice


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With an introduction by Hilary Mantel One of his secret pleasures was the loading of social dice against himself He did not seem for one moment to consider the efforts made by kind or sensitive people to even things up or if such notions ever occurred to him he would have observed them with detached amusement & reloaded more dice In 1950s London Antonia Fleming faces the prospect of a life lived alone Her children are now adults; her husband Conrad a domineering & emotionally complex man is a stranger As Antonia looks towards her future the novel steadily moves backwards in time tracing Antonia's relationship with Conrad to its beginning in the 1920s through years of mistake & motherhood dreams & war Originally published in 1956 The Long View is Elizabeth Jane Howard's uncannily authentic portrait of one marriage & one woman Observant & heartbreaking written with exhilarating wit it is a gut-wrenching account of the birth & death of a relationship
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Slavomir Rawicz was a young Polish cavalry officer On 19th November 1939 he was arrested by the Russians & after brutal interrogation he was sentenced to 25 years in the Gulags After a three month journey to Siberia in the depths of winter he escaped with six companions realising that to stay in the camp meant almost certain death In June 1941 they crossed the trans-Siberian railway & headed south climbing into Tibet & freedom nine months later in March 1942 after travelling on foot through some of the harshest regions in the world including the Gobi Desert First published in 1956 this is one of the world's greatest true stories of adventure survival & escape has been the inspiration for the film The Way Back directed by Peter Weir & starring Colin Farrell & Ed Harris ...