Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play A Film by Bill Morrison An elegy in film & music to the coal mining history of North East England & a unique creative collaboration between the renowned American filmmaker Bill Morrison (Decasia) & acclaimed Icelandic musician & composer Jóhann Jóhannsson Created from archive & newly-shot film footage The Miners Hymns celebrates the sense of vibrant community rich self-organised culture & the forbearance that characterised the lives of those who worked underground & the places in which they lived Accompanying Morrison s filmic collage Jóhannsson s newly composed modern classical score draws upon the region s brass music culture image & sound combine to create a rich homage to Britain s coal mining heritage Extra Features New orchestral score presented in both stereo & 51 surround sound mixes Interview with filmmakers Durham premiere coverage Fully illustrated booklet features newly commissioned sleeve notes ...

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The mini-lathe is a useful tool in the model engineer's workshop With more choice than ever of more compact machines a mini-lathe is able to accommodate a wide range of engineering requirements projects & techniques as well as being suitable for the novice engineer & for those with limited workshop space Author & model engineer Neil Wyatt provides a practical guide to purchasing & using a mini-lathe as well as examining more advanced techniques The book

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The phenomenal Number One Bestseller Winner of the Specsavers National Book Award & Waterstones Book of the Year A Richard & Judy Book Club selection There is nothing hidden that will not be revealed On an autumn day in 1686 eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife of illustrious merchant trader Johannes Brandt but instead she is met by his sharp-tongued sister Marin Only later does Johannes appear & present her with an extraordinary wedding gift a cabinet-sized replica of their home It is to be furnished by an elusive miniaturist whose tiny creations mirror their real-life counterparts in unexpected ways Nella is at first mystified by the closed world of the Brandt household but as she uncovers its secrets she realizes the escalating dangers that await them all Does the miniaturist hold their fate in her hands? & will she be the key to their salvation or the architect of their downfall? Beautiful intoxicating & filled with heart-pounding suspense Jessie Burton's magnificent debut novel The Miniaturist is a story of love & obsession betrayal & retribution appearance & truth ...

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It is 1941 & bombs have turned London into the front line of a world war In the shadows of the Blitz Hitler's agents are running a blackmail operation to obtain documents that could bring the nation to instant defeat Arthur Rowe a man once convicted of a notorious mercy killing stumbles onto a German spy operation in Bloomsbury & must be silenced But even with his memory taken from him he is still a very dangerous witness A taut thriller & a haunting exploration of pity love & guilt The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene is universally acknowledged as one of the greatest of all spy novels With an introduction by the biographer & editor Professor Richard Greene Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautifully bound gift editions of much loved classic titles ...

LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NOMINATED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONLonglisted for the Carnegie Medal 2018THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 & THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'A sprawling kaleidoscopic fable' Guardian Books of the Year' Roy's second novel proves as remarkable as her first' Financial Times'A great tempest of a novel which will leave you awed by the heat of its anger & the depth of its compassion' Washington Post The first novel in 20 years from the Booker-prize winning author of The God of Small Things The Ministry of Utmost Happiness takes us on a journey of many years-the story spooling outwards from the cramped neighbourhoods of Old Delhi into the burgeoning new metropolis & beyond to the Valley of Kashmir & the forests of Central India where war is peace & peace is war & where from time to time 'normalcy' is declared Anjum who used to be Aftab unrolls a threadbare carpet in a city graveyard that she calls home A baby appears quite suddenly on a pavement a little after midnight in a crib of litter The enigmatic S Tilottama is as much of a presence as she is an absence in the lives of the three men who loved her The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once an aching love story & a decisive remonstration It is told in a whisper in a shout through tears & sometimes with a laugh Its heroes are people who have been broken by the world they live in & then rescued mended by love-and by hope For this reason they are as steely as they are fragile & they never surrender This ravishing magnificent book reinvents what a novel can do & can be & it demonstrates on every page the miracle of Arundhati Roy's storytelling gifts'A novel that demands & rewards the reader's concentration this is a dazzling return to form' Independent' This novel is a freedom song Every page has the stamp of Roy's originality Such brutality such beauty' Amitva Kumar the author of Immigrant Montana ' Intricately layered & passionate studded with jokes & with horrors This is a work of extraordinary intricacy & grace' Prospect Magazine' Gorgeous supple playful Roy writes with astonishing vividness Again & again beautiful images refresh our sense of the world' The New York Times Book Review'A masterpiece Roy joins Dickens Naipaul Garcia Marquez & Rushdie in her abiding compassion storytelling magic & piquant wit An entrancing imaginative & wrenching epic' Booklist starred review' Magnificent
- unlike anything I've read in years An absolutely dazzling original & ultimately profound novel A masterpiece Very few writers can write with such intense & yet precise emotional intelligence Arundhati Roy is properly special We should be grateful to have her among us' Mirza Waheed author of The Book of Gold Leaves
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LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017THE SUNDAY TIMES 1 BESTSELLER & THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER' Magnificent
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