Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The Royle Family is a real-life comedy set in a Manchester council house Imagine a secret camera placed in the living room of an average working class family The intense drama & emotions of everyday life such as whose turn it is to go to the off-licence is set against the continuous hum of the television The rosy hue of their life is yellowed only by a nicotine haze Box Set Comprises Series 1 1 Bills Bills Bills 2 Making Ends Meet 3 Sunday Afternoon 4 Jim&s Birthday 5 Another Woman? 6 The Wedding Day Series 2 1 Pregnancy 2 Sunday Lunch 3 Nana&s Coming To Stay 4 Nana&s Staying! 5 Barbara&s Finally Had Enough Series 3 1 Hello Baby Dave 2 Babysitting Again 3 Decorating 4 Elise Funeral 5 Antony&s Going To London 6 The Christening The Queen Of Sheba In Wythenshawe Manchester life goes on as always in the familiar surroundings of the Royle&s sitting room Years after we were first introduced to the much-loved family however there have been some noticeable changes This one-off episode of the celebrated British sitcom reveals all The New Sofa Jim Barbara Denise & Dave return for another Christmas special of the popular sitcom about a working class family in northern England During the episode the Royles receive visits from Dave&s parents & Twiggy as well as buying a brand new sofa for their living room The Golden Egg Cup There&s a new buzz in the Royle Family household as it&s a special time for Jim & Barbara & a celebration (including hoola-hoops twiglets & scotch eggs) is planned Poor Mary from next door can&t be present though as sadly she has lost all bladder control & has leaked in both the Pound Shop & John Lewis We Love The Royle Family An hour long documentary with celebs talking about why they love RF) Children In Need Royle Family skit ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All 25 episodes from the British sitcom written by & starring Caroline Aherne & Craig Cash In the first series we are introduced to the domestic conflicts of the Liverpudlian Royle clan with Aherne as Denise daughter of Jim (Ricky Tomlinson) & Barbara (Sue Johnston) & soon-to-be-wed-to boyfriend Dave (Cash) In the second series Denise has now married Dave but the Royle family sofa is no less crowded for that The third series sees the addition of Denise & Dave&s first child which brings its share of new trials & tribulations to the semi-inert world of now-grandparents Jim & Barbara The 1999 & 2000 Christmas specials are also included as well as the five one-off episodes & The Queen of Sheba& & The New Sofa& & The Golden Egg Cup& ...

The third series of THE ROYLE FAMILY presents more unflinching & funny glimpses into the lives of working class families ...

Developed in partnership with The Royal Shakespeare Company this edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with elegant writing & design Sir Jonathan Bate & Professor Eric Rasmussen two of today's most accomplished Shakespearean scholars lead the expert editorial team Bate's excellent general introduction & essays on each play draw on a unique wealth of experience & resources & will help the reader to understand Shakespeare's plays as they were originally intended
- as living theatre to be enjoyed & performed The text is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio the first & original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeare's fellow actors & the version of Shakespeare's text preferred by many actors & directors today The result is a fresh & definitive Complete Works for the twenty-first century that will inspire students teachers & lovers of Shakespeare everywhere
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Inspire young naturalists with the RSPB Bumper Book of Wildlife Stories This full-colour beautifully illustrated title is packed full of wonderful tales of wildlife fascinating facts puzzles games & much much more ...

A Sunday Times Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Of all the great novelists writing today none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction
- his essays literary criticism & journalism are justly acclaimed As Rachel Cusk wrote in the The Times reviewing a previous collection Amis is as talented a journalist as he is a novelist but these essays all manifest an unusual extra quality one that is not unlike friendship He makes an effort; he makes readers feel that they are the only person there' The essays in The Rub of Time range from superb critical pieces on Amis's heroes Nabokov Bellow & Larkin to brilliantly funny ruminations on sport Las Vegas John Travolta & the pornography industry The collection

Includes:: his essay on Princess Diana & a tribute to his great friend Christopher Hitchens but at the centre of the book perhaps inevitably are essays on politics & in particular the American election campaigns of 2012 & 2016 One of the very few consolations of Donald Trump's rise to power is that Martin Amis is there to write about him


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Of all the great novelists writing today none shows the same gift as Martin Amis for writing non-fiction
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In the renowned translation by Edward Fitz Gerald with an introduction by Professor Cedric Watts Here is Edward Fitz Gerald's original translation of the Rubaiyat the collection of poems attributed to the Persian astronomer & mathematician Omar Khayyam Fitz Gerald's distinctive version (1859) with its oriental imagery & sensual warmth made an exotic appeal to the Victorian imagination Its scepticism fitted a time of increasing religious doubt; its romantic melancholy resonated with the writings of Matthew Arnold & Thomas Hardy; & its epicureanism heralded the Aesthetic Movement It has inspired composers rock groups artists & film-makers As rendered by Fitz Gerald the Rubaiyat remains a seductively subversive poem ...

Two men two empires Jaibriol ruled the Eubian Concord over two trillion people across more than a thousand worlds & habitats Kelric ruled the Skolian Imperialate War had come before-ten years ago Jaibriol had lost his parents in the final battle of the Radiance War between the Concord & the Imperialate-and it might come again devastating vast swathes of the galaxy Neither Jaibriol nor Kelric wanted war but neither was complete master of his realm & each hid a secret that if revealed might be his downfall Jaibriol was a secret psion with telepathic abilities & to be a psion in the Eubian Concord was to be a contemptible slave eventually to be tortured for the pleasure of the slave&s owner Kelric years ago had disappeared for nearly two decades He had been a prisoner & slave on the planet Coban part of neither empire until he had managed to escape & if the Skolian Imperialate knew of his captivity there would be demands for vengeance ravaging Coban-and killing the wife & children Kelric had left behind when he escaped Neither man knew how much longer he could keep his secret-nor how much longer they could hold back the threat of a war that could incinerate hundreds of inhabited worlds ...

The first book in Philip Pullman's classic SALLY LOCKHART quartet in a beautiful new edition to celebrate the 30 year anniversary Soon after Sally Lockhart's father drowns at sea she receives an anonymous letter The dire warning it contains makes a man die of fear at her feet Determined to discover the truth about her father's death Sally is plunged into a terrifying mystery in the dark heart of Victorian London at the centre of which lies a deadly blood-soaked jewel Philip Pullman's ever-popular action-packed Victorian melodramas are rejacketed for the bicentenary of Charles Dickens in 2012 ...