Shortlisted for the 2017 T S Eliot Prize In her fourth collection Leontia Flynn rehearses & resolves the concerns & forms of previous books beginning with a sequence written in the aftermath of her father's death from Alzheimer's disease & during the care of her daughter in infancy Moving on to explore the constructed nature of childhood via a long poem imagining her mother's experiences in Northern Ireland during the Troubles & in an elegy for Seamus Heaney the poems also seek to contrast the isolation & privacy of an experience of family life with increasingly pervasive & relentless digital technologies Drawing on a range of other voices & literary exemplars including a tradition of verse drama & dialogues & particularly Plath's Three Women' The Radio sees writing poems as a communication that begins with an act of interior listening for sounds & forms & to personal sources of meaning The Radio explores the pressure the interior life faces from both the usual"idian struggles & the new stridency & quick-fire certainties of virtual communication Showing her superb mastery of form Leontia Flynn's poems are fragile funny observant & engaging
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Darkly comic fiction from the bestselling author of Reasons to Stay Alive The Humans & How to Stop Time 368 pages Haig Matt ...

The Royal Air Force was formed in 1918 to defend the skies over Britain during the First World War & made a major contribution to winning one of the largest & most devastating conflicts of the twentieth century Yet when the war ended its existence as an independent air service came under threat from severe defence cuts & intense scrutiny from some quarters as to whether it was needed at all The Second World War put paid to all the uncertainty & sealed the RAF's place in the armed services It has since played a vital role in many large-scale conflicts as well as in peacekeeping & international aid operations Celebrating a century of the world's oldest independent air force The RAF at 100 showcases vivid & evocative images from the Mirrorpix archive that trace the story of the RAF from its earliest days through wartime & peacetime & into the modern age ...

It was in the closing year of the First World War on 1 April 1918 that the Royal Air Force was born from the amalgamation of the Royal Flying Corps & Royal Naval Air Service Since then the RAF has helped lead the world in the development of aviation & air warfare From the fighters & bombers of the Second World War through the early jet age & into modern remotely piloted air systems the last hundred years' development has been astronomical & the human story no less impressive Here Peter Jacobs gathers the most poignant objects of the RAF's proud history & displays them together in full splendid colour for the first time Aircraft memorials uniforms equipment & some items you would never expect
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When Millie's mother abandons her one late afternoon in 1854 fate brings the seven-year-old to Aggie's door
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The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists is a classic representation of the impoverished & politically powerless underclass of British society in Edwardian England ruthlessly exploited by the institutionalized corruption of their employers & the civic & religious authorities Epic in scale the novel charts the ruinous effects of the laissez-faire mercantilist ethics on the men women & children of the working classes & through its emblematic characters argues for a socialist politics as the only hope for a civilized & humane life for all This Wordsworth edition

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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 The Raid Deep in the heart of one of Jakarta&s most deprived slums stands an impenetrable high-rise apartment block To most it is 30 floors of Hell to be avoided at all costs & is considered a no-go area by even the bravest & most experienced police officers In a desperate bid to flush these violent criminals & their leader from their haven once & for all an elite SWAT team is tasked with infiltrating the building & raiding the apartments floor by floor taking out anyone who stands in their way Once inside it soon becomes terrifyingly apparent that the real problem at hand is surviving long enough to be able to get out again Actors Iko Uwais Joe Taslim Donny Alamsyah Yayan Ruhian Pierre Gruno Ray Sahetapy Tegar Satrya Iang Darmawan Eka & Piranha& Rahmadia Verdi Solaiman Alfridus Godfred Rully Santoso Melkias Ronald Torobi Johanes Tuname & Sofyan Alop Director Gareth Evans Certificate 18 years & over Year 2011 Languages Indonesian Additional Languages English Subtitles English The Raid 2 Only a short time after the first raid Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta & plans to bring down the syndicate & uncover the corruption within his police force Actors Iko Uwais Julie Estelle & Yayan Ruhian Director Gareth Evans Year 2014 Languages Indonesian Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Only a short time after the first raid Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta & plans to bring down the syndicate & uncover the corruption within his police force Actors Iko Uwais Julie Estelle & Yayan Ruhian Director Gareth Evans Year 2014 Languages Indonesian Subtitles English ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Only a short time after the first raid Rama goes undercover with the thugs of Jakarta & plans to bring down the syndicate & uncover the corruption within his police force Actors Iko Uwais Julie Estelle & Yayan Ruhian Director Gareth Evans Year 2014 Languages Indonesian Subtitles English ...