A powerful fable about friendship transforming the world from the award-winning & internationally best-selling illustrator Michael Foreman A powerful & beautifully illustrated fable about friendship from the internationally-acclaimed & award-winning illustrator Michael Foreman who is best known for classics like War Boy & for illustrating Michael Morpurgo's stories In this moving story Adam feels alone in his strange new city He misses the colours & friendships of his faraway home But when a teacher at school gives him a few seeds she plants an idea in him
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WINNER OF THE 2015 CWA ENDEAVOUR HISTORICAL DAGGERLondon 1654 Oliver Cromwell is at the height of his power & has declared himself Lord Protector Yet he has many enemies at home & abroad London is a complex web of spies & merchants priests & soldiers exiles & assassins One of the web's most fearsome spiders is Damian Seeker agent of the Lord Protector No one knows where Seeker comes from who his family is or even his real name All that is known of him for certain is that he is utterly loyal to Cromwell & that nothing can be long hidden from him In the city coffee houses are springing up fashionable places where men may meet to plot & gossip Suddenly they are ringing with news of a murder John Winter hero of Cromwell's all-powerful army is dead & the lawyer Elias Ellingworth found standing over the bleeding body clutching a knife Yet despite the damning evidence Seeker is not convinced of Ellingworth's guilt He will stop at nothing to bring the killer to justice & Seeker knows better than any man where to search ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Famous for being the first ever colour film to be made in New Zealand this Rank 1954 feature is overflowing with beautiful scenery colour & set pieces It is 1821 & adventuring seafarer Philip Wayne (Jack Hawkins) & Paddy Clarke (Noel Purcell) have set ashore to explore the Bay of Plenty Stumbling upon a Maori burial cave they are captured & sentenced to death by the Maori for desecrating the resting place of their ancestors Wayne&s prowess impresses the Maori chief Hongi Tepe (Inia Te Wiata) & he offers Wayne a chance to save his life by enduring a trial by challenge When Wayne succeeds the chief adopts him as his honorary son but Wayne has to return to his ship & back to England When skullduggery breaks out on board ship Wayne finds himself at the mercy of the British authorities & decides to return to the Pacific with his new wife Marion (Glynis Johns) & a crew that

Includes:: the sexually charged Wishart (Kenneth Williams) With a tense standoff emerging between the indigenous Maoris & the colonial British the situation rises to boiling point when the beautiful Maori girl Maona (Laya Raki) rejects the advances of Wishart Actors Jack Hawkins Glynis Johns Noel Purcell Inia Te Wiata Kenneth Williams Laya Raki Patrick Warbrick Tony Erstich Eddie Baker Maharaia Winiata Thomas Heathcote Norman Mitchell James Copeland Francis De Wolff & Henry Gilbert Director Ken Annakin Certificate 15 years & over Year 1954 Screen Fullscreen 1331 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)

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RIGINAL TRADE PAPERBACK! The debut of a stunning new talent A poor young woman rises to the heights of a crumbling empire where ...

A poor young woman rises to the heights of a crumbling empire where she must speak hard truth to power in order to save a world from chaos Everybody Wants Answers No One Wants the Truth The Arunkel Empire has stood a thousand years forged by wealth & conquest but now rebellion is stirring on the borders & treachery brews in the palace halls Elsewhere in a remote mountain village a young mother sells the prophesies of her sister Amarta in order to keep them & her infant child from starving It&s a dangerous game when such revelations draw suspicion & mistrust as often as they earn coin Yet Amarta&s visions are true & often not at all what the seeker wishes to hear Now in a tapestry of loyalty intrigue magic & gold Amarta has become the key to a ruler&s ambitions But is she nothing beyond a tool? As Amarta comes into her own as a seer she realizes she must do more than predict the future She must create it Meet the Author Author Sonia Orin Lyris&s fiction

Includes:: fantasy horror mainstream SF software documentation & business plans She has a shodan in Aikido can wield a range of weapons & dances Argentine tango & Blues She has raised an emu from a hatchling been kicked & spat on by llamas & been pounced on by a cougar cub—not all at the same time She lives in the Pacific Northwest Her web site is lyris

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Booker wining novelist playwright essayist poet & critic
- even admirers rarely know John Berger in all his literary incarnations
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The Selected Letters of John Kenneth Galbraith invites readers to join in conversations with presidents & first ladies diplomats & schoolchildren the Mc Carthy 'loyalty board' foreign heads of state & fellow economists & a host of other correspondents In his long & cosmopolitan life Galbraith wrote thousands of letters & Richard P F Holt has selected the most important of these from his archival research now available in print for the first time The letters provide an intimate account of the three main political goals to which Galbraith devoted his professional life ending war fighting poverty & improving quality of life by achieving a balance between private & public goods in an affluent capitalist society Showing his thoughtful insights & charming wit this collection confirms Galbraith as a man of broad learning superb literary skills & deeply held progressive ideals ...

With an Introduction by Emma Hartnoll Initially a vivacious outgoing person Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) progressively withdrew into a reclusive existence An undiscovered genius during her lifetime only seven out of her total of 1775 poems were published prior to her death She had an immense breadth of vision & a passionate intensity & awe for life love nature time & eternity Originally branded an eccentric Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth startling originality & courage for as she wrote Assent & you are sane; Demure you're straightaway dangerous & handled with a chain' ...

Introduction Notes & Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock Senior Lecturer in English University of Hull William Blake was an engraver painter & visionary mystic as well as one of the most revolutionary of the Romantic poets His writing attracted the astonished admiration of authors as diverse as Wordsworth Ruskin WBYeats & more recently beat poet Allen Ginsberg & the 'flower power' generation He is one of England's most original artists whose works aim to liberate imaginative energies & subvert 'the mind-forged manacles' of restriction This volume contains many of his writings including ' Songs of Innocence' ' Songs of Experience' ' The Marriage of Heaven & Hell' & a generous selection from the Prophetic Books including ' Milton' & ' Jerusalem' ...

With an Introduction Notes & Bibliography by Dr Bruce Woodcock Senior Lecturer in English University of Hull Shelley's short prolific life produced some of the most memorable & well-known lyrics of the Romantic period But he was also the most radical writer in the English literary tradition of his day a fiery political visionary committed to social change & progress The generous selection in this volume represents the wide range of his writing both poetry & prose Arranged chronologically the accompanying introductory essays set Shelley's works in their historical social & political context They provide a vivid insight into the life & times of this volcanic spirit whose inspiring voice called on the people of England to Rise like lions after slumber In unvanquishable number; Shake your chains to earth like dew Which in sleep had fallen on you Ye are many they are few' (The Mask of Anarchy) ...