' Told with Townsend's trademark deadpan humour To people of a certain age Adrian Mole was their Harry Potter' News of the World Celebrate Adrian Mole's 50th Birthday with this new edition of the SIXTH BOOK in his diaries where Adrian Leicester's most unlikely ex-con faces the nit-infested reality of being a single parent--------------------------- Monday January 3 2000 So how do I greet the New Millennium? In despair I'm a single parent I live with my mother I have a bald spot the size of a jaffa cake on the back of my head I can't go on like this drifting into early middle-age I need a Life Plan The 'same age as Jesus when he died' Adrian Mole has become a martyr a single-father bringing up two young boys in an uncaring world With the ever-unattainable Pandora pursuing her ambition to become Labour's first female PM; his over-achieving half-brother Brett sponging off him; & literary success ever-elusive Adrian tries to make ends meet & find a purpose But little does he realise that his own modest life is about to come to the attention of those charged with policing The War Against Terror ' An achingly funny anti-hero' Daily Mail ' One of the great comic creations of our time Almost every page of his diaries bring a smile to the face' Scotsman ' The funniest person in the world' Caitlin Moran ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Horror based on the novel by Jack Ketchum Ray Pye (Marc Senter) is a mysterious & charismatic young man who murders two innocent campers during a weekend away with his girlfriend Jennifer (Shay Astar) & best friend Tim (Alex Frost) Forcing his friends not to tell the police the case goes unsolved much to the annoyance of local detective Charlie Schilling (Michael Bowen) Four years later Ray has turned his attentions to new girl in town Katherine (Robin Sydney) & a young high school graduate who is now working in the motel that Ray manages When both girls reject Ray&s advances & Tim & Jennifer&s loyalty begins to slip Ray&s behaviour threatens to spiral out of control once again ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Horror starring Haylie Duff in which a TV crew enters a long-deserted lunatic asylum that is said to be haunted & get more than they bargained for Pennhurst State School & Mental Hospital has been abandoned since the 1980s & has become a popular destination for ghost hunters A local TV show decide to head to the institution with their cameras in a bid to capture the mysterious spirits that lurk within Wishing to be visited by ghosts is a dangerous business though & the crew may have cause to regret their decision as the atmosphere becomes increasingly hostile & violent ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play For decades Pennhurst psychiatric hospital has been haunted by turbulent supernatural forces When a local TV show embarks on a mission to capture this paranormal activity one by one they are gruesomely murdered In a surprising revelation they unveil something far more terrifying than ghosts is at the source of their fear ...

The Lost Estate is Robin Buss's translation of Henri Alain-Fournier's poignant study of lost love Le Grand Meaulnes This Penguin Classics edition also contains an introduction by Adam Gopnik When Meaulnes first arrives at the local school in Sologne everyone is captivated by his good looks daring & charisma But when Meaulnes disappears for several days & returns with tales of a strange party at a mysterious house
- & his love for the beautiful girl hidden within it Yvonne de Galais
- his life has been changed forever In his restless search for his Lost Estate & the happiness he found there Meaulnes observed by his loyal friend Francois may risk losing everything he ever had Poised between youthful admiration & adult resignation Alain-Fournier's compelling narrator carries the reader through this evocative & unbearably poignant portrayal of desperate friendship & vanished adolescence Robin Buss's translation of Le Grand Meaulnes sensitively & accurately renders Alain-Fournier's poetically charged expressive & deceptively simple style In his introduction New Yorker writer Adam Gopnik discusses the life of Alain-Fournier who was killed in the First World War after writing this his only novel Henri Alban-Fournier (1886-1914) better known by the pseudonym Alain-Fournier was born in La Chapelle d' Angillon the son of a country school-master He was educated at Brest & Paris where he met the original Yvonne who left a lasting impression on his life & work Le Grand Meaulnes was published in 1912 Alan-Fournier joined the army as a Lieutenant in August 1914 & was killed in action on the Meuse less than a month later Les Miracles a volume of poems & essays appeared posthumously in 1924 If you liked Le Grand Meaulnes you might enjoy Gustave Flaubert's Sentimental Education also available in Penguin Classics'I read it for the first time when I was seventeen & loved every page I find its depiction of a golden time & place just as poignant now as I did then' Nick Hornby

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Explorers have been returning from the Amazon with extraordinary tales – conquistadors withered with age marching through the rainforest unidentified beasts stalking expeditions & an ominous mountain that is said to be more perilous than the jungle itself! Only the most reckless adventurers would ignore these warnings but even they might find that they need some help The Fountain of Youth & Other Adventures contains four new expansions for The Lost Expedition which can be added separately or combined to provide a host of new challenges for your intrepid explorers Number of Players 1-5 Ages 14 Playing Time 30-50 minutes Components 4 Character cards 18 Adventure cards 10 Expedition cards ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In a world of jungles deserts & primeval wetlands that have obliterated civilization the post-apocalyptic survivors are fighting to survive When one of the last settlements gets attacked by genetically mutating beasts & a mysterious disease spreads a group of warriors set out to find other humans in a desperate attempt to save the human race ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The gardens of Heligan in Cornwall were a thriving paradise until the First World War killed most of the gardening staff & the grounds fell into decay The 1990s saw archaeologist Tim Smith set about restoring them to their former glory his efforts described by The Times as &the garden restoration of the century& This video based on the Channel Four series charts the development of the garden over a 12 month cycle Certificate Exempt from Classification Languages English Duration 1 hour & 30 minutes (approx) ...

What if you were trapped between two cultures? Life is tough in 1870s Wyoming But it's tougher still when you're a girl who looks Chinese but speaks like an American Orphaned as a baby & taken in by an American family Charity Walker knows this only too well The mounting tensions between the new Chinese immigrants & the locals in the mining town of Carter see her shunned by both communities When Charity's one friend Joe leaves town she finds herself isolated However in his absence a new friendship with the only other Chinese girl in Carter makes her feel like she finally belongs somewhere But for a lost girl like Charity finding a place to call home was never going to be that easy ...

What would happen if we lost the happy endings to stories
- imagine the tears at bedtime! A fantastic & magical tale about what
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