Everyone has gone away We too should no longer be here Luanda 1975 The Angolan War of Independence has been raging for at least a decade but with the collapse of the Salazar dictatorship defeat for the Portuguese is now in sight Thousands of settlers are fleeing back to Portugal to escape the brutality of the Angolan rebels Rui is fifteen years old He has lived in Luanda all his life & has never even visited the far-away homeland
- although he has heard many stories But now his family are finally accepting that they too must return & Rui is filled with a mixture of excitement & dread at the prospect But just as they are leaving for the airport his father is taken away by the rebels & the family must leave without him Not knowing if the father is alive or dead
- or if they will ever find out what has become of him Rui his mother & sister try to rebuild their lives in their new home This turns out to be a five star hotel in a quiet seaside suburb of Lisbon where returnee families are crammed into luxurious rooms by the dozen These palatial surroundings are a cruel contrast with the reality of returnee life The hotel becomes a curious form of purgatory as the families wait to discover what will become of them
- ever conscious of the fact that they are hardly welcome back in their homeland Rui has his own personal struggle with his new life growing up dropping out of school facing discrimination & the ever-present worry over his mother's deteriorating health & his father's fate And then one night Rui's father returns from the dead Translated from the Portuguese by Angel Gurria-Quintana


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Gone Set in the Australian outback Gone is a contemporary psychological thriller in which a young British couple become involved with a mysterious & charismatic American whose motive for imposing his friendship upon them becomes increasingly sinister The Return Joanna has made a successful career for herself as sales representative for a trucking company But her private life has been difficult; estranged from her father (Sam Shepard) stalked by an obsessed ex-boyfriend (Adam Scott) & with few friends Joanna fears that she is losing control She sees & feels the brutal murder of a young woman she&s never met at the hands of a heartless killer a man who appears to be making Joanna his next target Determined to fight back Joanna is guided by her nightmares to the murdered woman&s hometown Once there she will discover that some secrets can&t be buried; some spirits never die; & that the murder she is trying to solve may be her own ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play In the sequel to A Man Called Horse English nobleman Lord John Morgan (Richard Harris) returns to America to get reacquainted with his adopted Sioux tribe who are at war with the US government over their sacred land As the situation reaches breaking point can he persuade them to take direct action against their oppressors? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The sequel to Disney&s popular animated feature & Aladdin& Aladdin (Scott Weinger) is gradually getting used to being part of the inner circle of royalty He & his fiancee Princess Jasmine (Linda Larkin) have yet to marry but the pressures & duties of life in palace society have already begun Meanwhile Jafar the evil sorcerer (Jonathan Freeman) is safely trapped inside the magic lamp
- but trouble starts when a clumsy thief Abis Mal (Jason Alexander) accidently releases him & he starts to plot his revenge against Aladdin Aladdin must now put his wedding plans on hold & enlist the help of his friends to foil Jafar once & for all & save the Sultan&s kingdom
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Tense teen thriller from award-winning Keith Gray No one messes with Johnny Kemp But Dan got him kicked out of school & now word on the street is that Johnny's back
- & he's looking for Dan Will anyone help Dan face up to the bully? Particularly suitable for struggling reluctant & dyslexic readers aged 12
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With an Introduction by John S Whitley University of Sussex After Sherlock Holmes' apparently fatal encounter with the sinister Professor Moriarty at the Reichenbach Falls the great detective reappears to the delight of the faithful Dr Watson in The Adventures of the Empty House The stories are illustrated by Sidney Paget the finest of illustrators from which our images of Sherlock Holmes & his world derive This is the second of three volumes of The Complete Sherlock Holmes newly typeset from the original copies of The Strand Magazine The three books present all the Holmes stories in order of first publication ...

Venice in 1576 is a city ravaged by plague Most have fled but the beautiful & formidable Tullia Buffo once the most desired courtesan of the age has returned home Facing ruin Tullia must now fight for her life & protect her secrets The gondolier Sebastiano a keeper of secrets has plied his trade on the canals of Venice his whole life soaking up gossip & scandal & saving his family from destitution after what happened to his father After all these years his lifelong grudge against the famous painter Titian's son is as strong as ever Now with Titian dead his son has returned to Venice to claim his father's paintings & Sebastiano has a plan for revenge In the present day events from centuries earlier suddenly engulf the lives of ordinary people as far distant as London & New York as they are touched by the enduring legacy of Tullia a lost Titian masterpiece & the secrets of old Venice ...

WINNER OF THE CWA GOLD DAGGER FOR SIDETRACKEDHerbert Molin a retired police officer is living alone in a remote cottage in the vast forests of northern Sweden He has two obsessions one is the tango & the other is a conviction that he is being hunted constantly pursued by 'demons' He has no close friends no close neighbours & by the time his body is eventually found Molin is almost unrecognisable Lindman a police officer on extended sick leave hears of the death of his former colleague & to take his mind off his own problems decides to involve himself in the case What he discovers to his horror & disbelief is a network of evil almost unimaginable in this remote district & one which seems impossible to link to Molin's death ...

' Okay okay So slap my teensy little paws I messed up
- big time' Tuffy can't wait for Ellie & the family to go away on holiday
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Concluding the story begun in The Hobbit this is the final part of Tolkien's epic masterpiece The Lord of the Rings featuring an exclusive cover image from the film the definitive text & a detailed map of Middle-earth The armies of the Dark Lord Sauron are massing as his evil shadow spreads ever wider Men Dwarves Elves & Ents unite forces to do battle agains the Dark Meanwhile Frodo & Sam struggle further into Mordor in their heroic quest to destroy the One Ring The devastating conclusion of JRR Tolkien's classic tale of magic & adventure begun in The Fellowship of the Ring & The Two Towers features the definitive edition of the text &

Includes:: the Appendices & a revised Index in full To celebrate the release of the first of Peter Jackson's two-part film adaptation of The Hobbit THE HOBBIT AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY this third part of The Lord of the Rings is available for a limited time with an exclusive cover image from Peter Jackson's award-winning trilogy

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