In the sleepy English village of Midwich a mysterious silver object appears & all the inhabitants fall unconscious A day later the object is gone & everyone awakens unharmed
- except that all the women in the village are discovered to be pregnant The resultant children of Midwich do not belong to their parents all are blonde all are golden eyed They grow up too fast & their minds exhibit frightening abilities that give them control over others & brings them into conflict with the villagers just as a chilling realisation dawns on the world outside The Midwich Cuckoos is the classic tale of aliens in our midst exploring how we respond when confronted by those who are innately superior to us in every conceivable way
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' Our childhood came to an end when our parents parted & from then on Jennifer was placed in the impossible position of having to be a parent to me her sister I shall always be grateful for her protection ' Millions have fallen in love with Jennifer Worth & her experiences in the East End as chronicled in Call the Midwife but little is known about her life outside this period Now in this moving & evocative memoir Jennifer's sister Christine takes us from their early idyllic years to the cruelty & neglect they suffered after their parents divorced from Jennifer being forced to leave home at fourteen to their training as nurses After leaving nursing Jennifer took up a career in music her first love & Christine became a sculptor but through marriages & children joy & heartbreak their lives remained intertwined Absorbing & emotional The Midwife's Sister by Christine Lee is testimony to an enduring bond between two extraordinary women ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Vince Noir & Howard Moon return for a third series of this cult comedy hit featuring another fantabulous mix of surreal humour musical interludes shiny clothes & strange haircuts Now working in Naboo&s second hand shop & Nabootique& Howard mainly whiles away the hours in delusions of grandeur whilst unsuccessfully trying to sell his esoteric jazz records while Vince lays around in a hammock playing loud music trying on wigs & finding Howard ludicrous They assemble their usual accomplices including Naboo the enigma & Bollo the ape reunite us with some familiar faces including the Hitcher the Moon & Bob Fossil as well as introducing us to a whole host of new characters ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Are you ready to set sail into the future? Climb aboard HMS Boosh hoist the Perspex anchor set the controls for the heart of the sun & come navigate the electrical seas with Cyborg Patrick & his neon barnacles In this live boosh presentation you will see Howard wrestle with the problems of the universe in tiny shorts while Vince gets his hair extra big & flounces about Bob fossil&s dance moves will turn you on then anger you over & over until you puke You shall then weep with salty joy as Bollo & Naboo move about & say stuff in their own special way The Boosh are mighty & sailing at you strap your eyes onto your brain double tight cos its gonna get choppy like electric sushi Actors Julian Barratt Noel Fielding Michael Fielding Dave Brown & Rich Fulcher Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 169 Languages English
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Longlisted for the 2014 Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction A thrilling & complex book enlarges our view of Homer There's something that hits the mark on every page' Claire Tomalin Books of the Year New Statesman Where does Homer come from? & why does Homer matter? His epic poems of war & suffering can still speak to us of the role of destiny in life of cruelty of humanity & its frailty but why they do is a mystery How can we be so intimate with something so distant? The Mighty Dead' is a magical journey of discovery across wide stretches of the past sewn together by some of the oldest stories we have
- the great ancient poems of Homer & their metaphors of life & trouble In this provocative & enthralling book Adam Nicolson explains why Homer still matters & how these vital epic verses
- with their focus on the eternal questions about the individual versus the community honour & service love & war
- tell us how we became who we are


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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 Oscar winner Denzel Washington & Mimi Rogers star in this witty romantic entertaining & light-hearted who-dun-it Filled with spice & adventure & The Mighty Quinn& is a sunny Caribbean caper Actors Denzel Washington Robert Townsend James Fox Mimi Rogers M Emmet Walsh Directors Carl Schenkel Writers AHZ Carr Hampton Fancher Producers Dale Pollock Ed Elbert Jeffrey Bydalek Sanford Lieberson Language English Subtitles French Italian Spanish Dutch Swedish Finnish Norwegian Danish Polish Greek Hungarian Dubbed French Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English German Number of discs 1 ...

One dark & quiet night in Gaya six stars fall from the sky Master Long the ailing leader of the Mighty Zodiac sends his warriors out to collect the stars before the Moon Rabbit Army can get their paws on them first If the Rabbits get the stars the balance of nature—and the fate of all of Gaya—will be in danger But Long&s plans to use the stars to "cure" his illness may be just as dangerous—and bring an end to the Mighty Zodiac itself ...

From his humble troubled beginnings at age 10 in New York to his discovery by Cus D' Amato his rise to Champ his marriage divorce rape conviction prison term & release Tyson's life is profiled ...

'A fascinating book by turns riveting & unsettling & wonderfully rich in period detail' Craig Brown Mail on Sunday In 1860 a 70 year old widow turned landlady named Mary Emsley was found dead in her own home killed by a blow to the back of her head What followed was a murder case that gripped the nation a veritable locked room mystery which baffled even legendary Sherlock Holmes author Arthur Conan Doyle With an abundance of suspects from disgruntled step children concerned about their inheritance & a spurned admirer repeatedly rejected by the widow to a trusted employee former police officer & spy the case led to a public trial dominated by surprise revelations & shock witnesses before culminating with one of the final public executions at Newgate This is the case Conan Doyle couldn't solve & after confounding the best detectives for years has finally be solved by author Sinclair Mc Kay Discover 'whodunit' as the real murderer is revealed for the first time exclusively in this captivating study of a murder case in the nineteenth century a story never told before ...

Miles Davis's Bitches Brew is one of the most iconic albums in American music the preeminent landmark & fertile seedbed of jazz-fusion Fans have been fortunate in the past few years to gain access to Davis's live recordings from this time when he was working with an ensemble that has come to be known as the Lost Quintet In this book jazz historian & musician Bob Gluck explores the performances of this revolutionary group Davis's first electric band to illuminate the thinking of one of our rarest geniuses & by extension the extraordinary transition in American music that he & his fellow players ushered in Gluck listens deeply to the uneasy tension between this group's driving rhythmic groove & the sonic & structural openness surprise & experimentation they were always pushing toward There he hears & outlines a fascinating web of musical interconnection that brings Davis's funk-inflected sensibilities into conversation with the avant-garde worlds that players like Ornette Coleman & John Coltrane were developing Going on to analyze the little-known experimental groups Circle & the Revolutionary Ensemble Gluck traces deep resonances across a commercial gap between the celebrity Miles Davis & his less famous but profoundly innovative peers The result is a deeply attuned look at a pivotal moment when once-disparate worlds of American music came together in explosively creative combinations ...