There is Balor of the evil eye whose very glance meant death; the wicked queen Aoife who turned children into swans; & Oisin who followed his love to her city beneath the waves Featuring beautiful colour illustrations by Irish Children's Laureate & twice Kate Greenaway winner P J Lynch & a previously unpublished poem by Seamus Heaney this is a stunning collection to cherish forever ...

The Namesake' is the story of a boy brought up Indian in America' When her grandmother learned of Ashima's pregnancy she was particularly thrilled at the prospect of naming the family's first sahib & so Ashima & Ashoke have agreed to put off the decision of what to name the baby until a letter comes' For now the label on his hospital cot reads simply BABY BOY GANGULI But as time passes & still no letter arrives from India American bureaucracy takes over & demands that 'baby boy Ganguli' be given a name In a panic his father decides to nickname him ' Gogol'
- after his favourite writer Brought up as an Indian in suburban America Gogol Ganguli soon finds himself itching to cast off his awkward name just as he longs to leave behind the inherited values of his Bengali parents & so he sets off on his own path through life a path strewn with conflicting loyalties love & loss Spanning three decades & crossing continents Jhumpa Lahiri's much-anticipated first novel is a triumph of humane story-telling Elegant subtle & moving The Namesake' is for everyone who loved the clarity sympathy & grace of Lahiri's Pulitzer Prize-winning debut story collection Interpreter of Maladies'
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THE NAMES is a contemporary thriller that starts off as a revenge story A deadly heroine ticks off--and kills--each "name" that brings her closer to knowing who killed her husband It will become much more than that The world of THE NAMES is Big Money Hedge funds leveraged buyouts market raids flash buys Incredibly high end deals that ruin lives & economies where secret cabals gamble with people&s lives & jaded billionaires find their kicks the only way they know how The idea is to take what&s REALLY GOING in the poisonous deadly world of high speed high stakes finance but really TURN IT UP push it to the edge & make it sexy dramatic & thoroughly deadly It&s about righting all the wrongs by any means necessary It&s KILL BILL meets WOLF OF WALL ST in a world that&s become Too Big to Fail It&s a relentless thriller that seeks to unlock the DA VINCI CODE that lies at the center of the world&s finances as the people who really pull the strings in the world finally get what&s coming to them The world of high finance has a profound but mysterious effect on all of our lives yet is understood by too few of us PETER MILLIGAN an incredibly talented writer who&s always been able to mine the zeitgeist for memorable stories wants to create a compelling drama set in this world LEO FERNANDEZ will bring a slick sexy visual appeal & together make this another must-read book for VERTIGO Collects THE NAMES 1-8 ...

The sixteenth Inspector Rebus novel from ' Britain's No 1 crime writer' DAILY MIRRORA murder has been committed
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Following Mindstar Rising & A Quantum Murder the final book in the Greg Mandel trilogy The Nano Flower by Peter F Hamilton is a gripping & heart-stopping sci-fi detective story Julia Evans billionairess owner of Event Horizon has for fifteen years been the power behind England's economic renaissance
- but now she's in trouble With her husband missing & rival companies suddenly claiming to have acquired a technology impossibly superior to anything on Earth she has no time to take notice of a single flower delivered anonymously But this flower possesses genes millions of years in advance of any terrestrial DNA Is it a cryptic alien message or a poignant farewell token from her husband? One man might discover its origin
- but Greg Mandel will not be alone in his desperate search & as they both now discover simply being first in the race isn't nearly good enough when the Nano Flower begins to bloom

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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2014 Forever after there were for them only two sorts of men the men who were on the Line & the rest of humanity who were not In the despair of a Japanese POW camp on the Burma Death Railway surgeon Dorrigo Evans is haunted by his love affair with his uncle's young wife two years earlier Struggling to save the men under his command from starvation from cholera from beatings he receives a letter that will change his life forever This is a story about the many forms of love & death of war & truth as one man comes of age prospers only to discover all that he has lost ...

In his perfectly crafted haiku poems Basho described the natural world with great simplicity & delicacy of feeling When he composed The Narrow Road to the Deep North he was a serious student of Zen Buddhism setting off on a series of travels designed to strip away the trappings of the material world & bring spiritual enlightenment He wrote of the seasons changing of the smell of the rain the brightness of the moon & the beauty of the waterfall through which he sensed the mysteries of the universe These travel writings not only chronicle Basho's perilous journeys through Japan but they also capture his vision of eternity in the transient world around him ...

He's back Private investigator Harry Bosch confronts a villain who's long been in hiding
- a fiend known as The Poet 400 pages
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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 Mike is a 17 year old Brooklyn boy torn between two worlds After he wins a scholarship to NYU he must figure out how to balance his tight knit Italian family roots with the opportunity to enter into the exciting & sophisticated new world of college In order to fund his college place he starts making deliveries for Tony
- the local mob boss He also finds himself attracted to fellow student Kathy which puts him at odds with his long term girlfriend from the neighbor hood The stakes grow higher as he faces consequential choices in turning his back on all he knows & pursuing a new life This compelling coming-of-age story combines suspense murder & loyalty Actors Kevin Zegers Vincent D& Onofrio Sophia Bush Eddie Cahill Monica Keena Roger Rees Michael Kelly Titus Welliver Tony Cucci Anthony Fazio Louis Mustillo Esau Pritchett Radu Spinghel Melina Lizette Jeff Skowron & Kate Rogal Director François Velle Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 46 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 SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS (1961)
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