Investigator Cal Mc Gill uses his knowledge of tides winds & currents to solve mysteries no-one else can Five years ago fourteen-year-old Max Wheeler disappeared from a remote Scottish island None of the six police & private investigations since have shed any light on what happened Unable to let go Max's family call in Cal Mc Gill
- known as ' The Sea Detective'
- hoping he'll force the sea to give up its secrets Yet Cal finds he is an outsider to a broken family & an unwelcome stranger in a village which has endured years of suspicion Cal knows that a violent storm is approaching But what he doesn't know is that when it cuts off the island a killer will see their chance' The Malice of Waves is the first novel literally to give me nightmares for a crime novel that's surely a mark of distinction' Herald ' Stewing pot of intrigue & mystery another super read' Lovereading' Really good stuff full of atmosphere & accomplished in both prose & plot' Morning Star' Raises the bar for Scottish crime fiction elegantly written & compelling' Scotsman Praise for the series' Promises to be a fine series of detective novels' Sunday Times Crime Book of the Month' This always entertaining & gripping mystery' Herald' Simply intoxicating' Library Review

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A deadly race for the Vatican's oldest secret fuels New York Times bestseller Steve Berry's latest international Cotton Malone thriller 416 pages Berry Steve ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A gallery of high-living lowlifes will stop at nothing to get their sweaty hands on a jewel-encrusted falcon Detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) wants to find out why
- & who&s gonna take the fall This third screen version of Dashiell Hammett&s novel is a film of firsts John Huston&s directorial debut rotund 62-year-old Sydney Greenstreet&s screen debut film history&s first film noir & Bogart&s breakthrough role after years as a Warner contract player When George Raft refused to work with a first-time director Bogart took on the role of Spade
- & launched the most acclaimed period of his career An all-star cast (including Greenstreet Mary Astor Peter Lorre & Elisha Cook Jr) join Bogart in this crisply written sizzler that placed in the top quarter of the American Film Institute&s 100 Greatest American Films list Many say it&s the best detective drama ever Each time you see it you&ll find it hard to disagree Actors Humphrey Bogart Ward Bond Mary Astor Gladys George Peter Lorre Barton Mac Lane Lee Patrick Sydney Greenstreet Elisha Cook Jr & Jerome Cowan Director John Huston Certificate PGYear 1941 Screen Fullscreen 43 Languages English
- Dolby (10) Mono Additional Languages Italian Subtitles English ; French ; Italian ; Dutch ; Arabic ; Spanish ; Portuguese ; German ; Romanian ; Bulgarian Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx)


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Over 30 landmark interviews accounts & memoirs of The Beatles & their entourage recording how they inadvertently became counter-cultures figureheads & changed society The pieces include Paul Johnsons ? The Menace of Beatlism? Maureen Cleaves ? Beatles Bigger than Christ? feature the News of the World feature suggesting The Beatles were spent forces ? just before they unleashed Sergeant Pepper on the world ? interviews with their entourage & main loves; plus latter-day contributions from the likes of Paul Gambacinni Dave Marsh Greil Marcus Also included is a chronological tracing of each Beatles album & single & analysis of all Beatles movie releases & television appearances ...

Improve your chess by studying the greatest games of all time from Adolf Anderssen's ' Immortal Game' to Anand versus Kramnik 2008 704 pages Burgess Graham ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play One guy walks the walk The other talks & talks! ; ; Special Agent Derrick Vann (Jackson) is a man out to get the man who killed his partner but a case of mistaken identity leads him to Andy Fidler (Levy) a salesman with too many questions & a knack of getting in Vann&s way! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play On a cold night in a remote cabin Professor John Oldman (David Lee Smith of CSI Miami) gathers his most trusted colleagues for an extraordinary announcement He is an immortal who has migrated through 140 centuries of evolution & must now move on Is Oldman truly Cro-Magnon or simply insane? Now one man will force these scientists & scholars to confront their own notions of history religion & humanity all leading to a final revelation that may shatter their world forever Actors John Billingsley Ellen Crawford William Katt Annika Peterson Richard Riehle David Lee Smith Alexis Thorpe Tony Todd Steven Littles Chase Sprague & Robbie Bryan Director Richard Schenkman Certificate 12 years & over Year 2007 Languages English
- Dolby (20) Stereo Duration 1 hour & 27 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A failed novelist&s inability to pay the bills strains relations with his wife & leads him to work at an escort service where he becomes entwined with a wealthy woman whose husband is a successful writer ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Espionage romance & action combine in this World War II thriller starring Anton Walbrook as the leader of a group of freedom fighters & Margaretta Scott as the courageous French agent who plays a vital role in their struggle against the Vichy regime Based on a story by Rudolph Cartier
- whose pioneering work for the BBC during the 1950s included Nineteen Eighty-Four & the Quatermass series
- The Man from Morocco is presented here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements in its original as-exhibited theatrical aspect ratio With the ending of the Spanish Civil War a dispirited band of volunteers from the International Brigades seeks refuge in France But on reaching the frontier the band is disarmed & all are detained as political prisoners Then come instructions from Vichy that all fit prisoners are to be sent to Morocco to work on the Sahara railway for the Germans However one man manages to escape to London with vital information for the Allies Actors Anton Walbrooke & Margaretta Scott Director Max Greene Certificate PGYear 1945 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 51 minutes (approx)

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Award-winning original fiction for learners of English At seven levels from Starter to Advanced this impressive selection of carefully graded readers offers exciting reading for every student's capabilities A plane crashes in the middle of the desert in Oman leaving a pilot & his family hurt & stranded The pilot begins a journey across the desert to get help but collapses from exhaustion He is found & taken to a nearby hospital but he is unconscious & no one has any idea who he is or where he has come from Meanwhile time is running out for his wife & son who are waiting in the desert for help to arrive Contains adult content Paperback-only version Also available with Audio CD including complete text recordings from the book ...