Subtitled An Anglo-American Tragedy Evelyn Waugh's The Loved One is a witty satirical novel on artistic integrity & the British expat community in Hollywood published in Penguin Modern Classics The more startling for the economy of its prose & plot this novel's story set among the manicured lawns & euphemisms of Whispering Glades Memorial Park in Hollywood satirizes the American way of death & offers Waugh's memento mori Following the death of a friend poet & pets' mortician Dennis Barlow finds himself entering into the artificial Hollywood paradise of the Whispering Glades Memorial Park Within its golden gates death American-style is wrapped up & sold like a package holiday There Dennis enters the fragile & bizarre world of Aimee the naive Californian corpse beautician & Mr Joyboy the master of the embalmer's art A dark & savage satire on the Anglo-American cultural divide The Loved One depicts a world where love reputation & death cost a very great deal Evelyn Waugh (1903-66) was born in Hampstead second son of Arthur Waugh publisher & literary critic & brother of Alec Waugh the popular novelist In 1928 he published his first work a life of Dante Gabriel Rossetti & his first novel Decline & Fall which was soon followed by Vile Bodies (1930) A Handful of Dust (1934) & Scoop (1938) In 1942 he published Put Out More Flags & then in 1945 Brideshead Revisited Men at Arms (1952) was the first volume of ' The Sword of Honour' trilogy & won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize; the other volumes Officers & Gentlemen & Unconditional Surrender followed in 1955 & 1961 If you enjoyed The Loved One you might like Waugh's Vile Bodies also available in Penguin Modern Classics' The master of black comedy' Sunday Times' One of the funniest & most significant books of the century' Alice Thomas Ellis Daily Telegraph ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Whatever Lola wants Lola gets & pretty boy unhinged Lola wants you! The coolest Ozploitation horror in ages is director Sean Byrne&s hilariously dark & supremely confident mash-up of Misery Saw & Carrie in the outback Cute young Brent is still traumatized over the car crash death of his beloved father when he&s picked out by classmate Lola to attend her gore-soaked private prom Kidnapped by her devoted nut-job father who will do absolutely anything Lola requests Brent soon finds himself strapped to a chair & being tortured into submission by the deadliest pair since Burke & Hare But as Brent struggles with the horrific advances of Lola & her slavish slobbering dad his girlfriend & high school mates are slowly putting the puzzle pieces of his disappearance together Slick quick & sick Byrne&s stylish twist on teen horror provides fresh jolts graphic gasps & superior scream &n& squeal shocks Actors Xavier Samuel Robin Mc Leavy John Brumpton Victoria Thaine & Jessica Mc Namee Director Sean Byrne Certificate 18 years & over Year 2009 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 Kathryn Bigelow & Monty Montgomery co-write & co-direct this outlaw biker drama starring Willem Dafoe Dafoe plays Vance the leader of a gang of motorcyclists on their way to the races at Daytona who stop off in a small Southern town to have some repairs done However the locals don&t take well to the group of wild outsiders who seem to encourage rebellion in those they come into contact with ...

Mouth-watering recipes inside! As dawn breaks over the Pont Neuf & the cobbled alleyways of Paris come to life Anna Trent is already awake & at work; mixing & stirring the finest smoothest richest chocolate; made entirely by hand it is sold to the grandes dames of Paris It's a huge shift from the chocolate factory she worked in at home in the north of England But when an accident changed everything Anna was thrown back in touch with her French teacher Claire who offered her the chance of a lifetime
- to work in Paris with her former sweetheart Thierry a master chocolatier With old wounds about to be uncovered & healed Anna is set to discover more about real chocolate
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With an introduction by Karen Thompson Walker The internationally bestselling novel that inspired the acclaimed film directed by Peter Jackson My name was Salmon like the fish; first name Susie I was fourteen when I was murdered on December 6 1973 In heaven Susie Salmon can have whatever she wishes for
- except what she most wants which is to be back with the people she loved on earth In the wake of her murder Susie watches as her happy suburban family is torn apart by grief; as her friends grow up fall in love & do all the things she never had the chance to do herself But as Susie will come to realize even in death life is not quite out of reach A luminous astonishing novel about life & death memory & forgetting & finding light in the darkest places Alice Sebold's The Lovely Bones became an instant classic when it was first published in 2002 There are now over ten million copies in print It inspired the film starring Mark Wahlberg Rachel Weisz Susan Sarandon & Saoirse Ronan
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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 From Academy Award winning director Peter Jackson (Lord Of The Rings King Kong) & producer Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan) comes the extraordinary story about one girl&s life & everything that came after When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered she left her unfinished life behind But now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world she must help her father catch her killer & protect her family before she can finally move on Filled with thrilling suspense hope & the redeeming power of love it&s one of the best films of the year! Based on the critically acclaimed novel by Alice Sebold ...

Tracklist Minibus People Are Twats Panic Plants Print An Imprint Dont Look At Me (I Dont Like It) Hey Scraggletooth Fuck It Muhammad Ali & His Friends Why Dont You Like Me?I'm A Journalist Books Ting! Alphabet Song Watermelons Pets Oregon Real Good Man Mexico Cant Make You Smile ...

Tracklist Long Stem Carnations You Can Go Now This Decision You've Got The Ball Bear Pit I Wanna 24 Eyes The Mothership Insect Repellent The Digital Hair Still Second Rate New Dawn ...

Tracklist Sexual Cowboy I Like Birds But I Like Other Animals Too Mices Luna Cafe Where's My Animal? If You Were Fruit Oh The Stars O Death Have You Ever Heard A Digital Accordion? Big Red Car Baulk Cushion Hey There Woodsman! The Best Moon This Side Of Town America I Collect Snails I Want To Fall Off My Bike Today I Want To Be In Your Fire Oh Weird Heart ...

Tracklist Hello I Am Your Sun Wiggy Giggy Dickhead I Shouldn't Have Said That Return Of Witchcraft I'm With You Repeat It Witchcraft Big Sea Let Me Observe Would You Fuck! ...