A searing account of George Orwell's observations of working-class life in the bleak industrial heartlands of Yorkshire & Lancashire in the 1930s The Road to Wigan Pier is a brilliant & bitter polemic that has lost none of its political impact over time His graphically unforgettable descriptions of social injustice cramped slum housing dangerous mining conditions squalor hunger & growing unemployment are written with unblinking honesty fury & great humanity It crystallized the ideas that would be found in Orwell's later works & novels & remains a powerful portrait of poverty injustice & class divisions in Britain Published with an introduction by Richard Hoggart in Penguin Modern Classics' It is easy to see why the book created & still creates so sharp an impact exceptional immediacy freshness & vigour opinionated & bold Above all it is a study of poverty & behind that of the strength of class-divisions' Richard Hoggart ...

Guaranteed to challenge delight & amuse Dahl enthusiasts everywhere Here are over 300 questions & answers based on six of Dahl's best-loved titles Charlie & the Chocolate Factory George's Marvellous Medicine Fantastic Mr Fox Esio Trot The Giraffe & the Pelly & Me & Matilda With Quentin Blake's illustrations throughout Fascinating facts about Roald Dahl & his world ...

The Roald Dahl Treasury is a delightful collection by & about the World's Number One Storyteller Four exciting sections
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THE 1 EBOOK BESTSELLER' Darkly sexy & compelling' HEAT' Fans of The Girls will love this' RED ONLINE' You'll be gripped' RICHARD MADELEY' One of the best books I've read' REBECCA DONE' This book is stunning Wow' CRESSIDA MCLAUGHLINEVERYONE WANTS TO BE A ROANOKE GIRL BUT YOU WON'T WHEN YOU KNOW THE TRUTHThe girls of the Roanoke family
- beautiful rich mysterious
- seem to have it all But there's a dark truth about them that's never spoken Either the girls run away or they die Lane is one of the lucky ones When she was fifteen over one long hot summer at her grandparents' estate in rural Kansas she found out what it really means to be a Roanoke girl Lane ran far & fast Until eleven years later when her cousin Allegra goes missing
- & Lane has no choice but to go back She is a Roanoke girl Is she strong enough to escape a second time?FOR FANS OF SWEET LITTLE LIES GOOD ME BAD ME & THE COUPLE NEXT DOOR THIS IS THE MOST SHOCKING THRILLER YOU'LL READ ALL YEAR'A must-have' SUNDAY EXPRESS'A mini-masterpiece' JUDY FINNIGAN' One of the most unsettling & thought-provoking books I've read stunning & gripping' LISA CUTTS' You won't stop reading until you've unraveled the darkest of Roanoke's shocking secrets' LAURA MCHUGH' Deliciously writtenpulls you relentlessly into its twisted heart' AVA MARSH' Deeply darkly twisted I loved it' SARAH HILARY' One of the most disturbingly gripping books I have ever read' RUTH DUGDALL


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Millions watched the 2015 Women's World Cup as the England Lionesses roared in Canada winning bronze Their fighting spirit & fabulous skill captured the fascination of the entire country as their campaign unfolded in the small hours of the 2015 summer mornings On the back of this success attendances in the FA Women's Super League increased as interest in women's football accelerated Top stars talked enthusiastically about the dawn of a new era for women's football Carrie Dunn spent a year following some of the most famous
- & not so famous
- female footballers in the country to see what the future holds for women's football Can the smaller lower-profile teams ever compete with the big bucks & big names of the Women's Super League? How are grassroots clubs going to rise to the top when elite divisions of women's football depend on the award of licences? Can the women win a World Cup before the men do? & if they do what reward & recognition will they get? Roar of the Lionesses tells the tale of an increasingly popular yet still woefully underrepresented sport

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By the author of The Handmaid's Tale & Alias Grace Zenia is beautiful smart & greedy by turns manipulative & vulnerable needy & ruthless; a man's dream & a woman''s nightmare She is also dead Just to make sure Tony Roz andd Charis are there for the funeral But five years on as the three women share an indulgent sisterly lunch the unthinkable happens; 'with waves of ill will flowing out of her like cosmic radiation' Zenia is back ...

' Then she began to run & she ran over the sharp stones & through the thorns & the wild animals bounded past her ' Four weird dark & enchanting fairy-tales from the Brothers Grimm Introducing Little Black Classics 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range & diversity of Penguin Classics with books from around the world & across many centuries They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California & the Russian steppe Here are stories lyrical & savage; poems epic & intimate; essays satirical & inspirational; & ideas that have shaped the lives of millions Jacob Ludwig Karl (1785-1863) & Wilhelm Karl (1786-1859) are the Brothers Grimm Their Selected Tales are also available in Penguin Classics ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The first movie ever filmed in Cinema Scope The Robe was nominated for five Academy Awards in 1953 including Best picture & Best Actor for Richard Burton Burton stars as Marcellus Gallio the Roman centurion charged with overseeing the crucifixion but when he wins Christ&s robe in a gambling game at the foot of the cross his life is forever changed An inspiring story set to a spectacular score & featuring an all-star cast including Victor Mature & Jean Simmons The Robe remains one of the screen&s greatest Biblical epics Actors Richard Burton Jean Simmons Victor Mature Michael Rennie Jay Robinson Directors Henry Koster Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Czech Danish Finnish Hebrew Hungarian Icelandic Norwegian Polish Portuguese Swedish Turkish Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Region Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe Read more about DVD formats) Number of discs 1 Classification UStudio 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment DVD Release Date 12 Mar 2012 Run Time 135 minutes ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Collection of four films starring Robert De Niro In & Once Upon a Time in America& (1984) set in 1968 gangster Noodles (De Niro) returns to New York after 35 years in exile His return prompts memories of his & three others& rise to power from the streets of New York&s Lower East Side during Prohibition Also starring James Woods Elizabeth Mc Govern & Treat Williams In & Heat& (1995) De Niro stars as Neil Mc Cauley the criminal mastermind in a gang of professional thieves (which

Includes:: Tom Sizemore & Val Kilmer) who unwittingly attract the attention of super-cop Vincent Hanna (Al Pacino) Hanna will not stop until he catches the gang in the midst of committing a crime an obsession that alienates him from those he is close to & Goodfellas& (1990) Martin Scorsese&s violent true-life gangster epic follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises through the ranks of the Mafia Upon turning FBI informant to help pay for his drug addiction Hill recalls how he got started in the Mob following the 6 million robbery of a Lufthansa cargo at a New York airport Hill & his partners Jimmy Conway (De Niro) & Tommy De Vito (Joe Pesci) became increasingly powerful members of the Mafia over three decades eventually eliminating Paul Cicero (Paul Sorvino) the neighbourhood godfather who originally took Hill under his wing Joe Pesci won an Oscar for Best Supporting Actor & The Mission& (1986) follows the conflict between slave-traders & Jesuits during the colonisation of South America by Spain & Portugal In 1750 Jesuit priest Gabriel (Jeremy Irons) arrives in the Amazon to build a mission for the Guarani Indians He comes into conflict with slave trader Mendoza (De Niro) who kills or captures many of the tribe but escapes punishment due to the fact that he is an aristocrat However it transpires that even Mendoza has a conscience when he comes to Gabriel asking for penance

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The Boston Strangler & the Zodiac Killer are alive & well living amongst the old & dying of the Shady Land Retirement Center Surrounded by Bingo tournaments & tea times these two notorious serial killers quietly trade war stories about their golden years
- two seemingly parallel pasts filled with violence & victims But while friendly on the outside they're both masters at deception & when one of them comes clean with a secret the other struggles internally aboutmurder! Featuring both critically acclaimed issues of The Roberts complete with extras this collection also

Includes:: correspondence between the author & serial killers Richard Rodriguez & Charles Manson!


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