A long time ago Magic faded away leaving behind only yo-yos the extremely useful compass-pointing-to-North enchantment & the spell that keeps bicycles from falling over Things are about to change Magical power is on the rise & King Snodd IV of Hereford has realised that he who controls Magic controls almost anything Only one person stands between Snodd & his plans for unimaginable power & riches Meet Jennifer Strange sixteen-year-old acting manager of Kazam the employment agency for sorcerers & soothsayers She may only have one functioning Wizard & her faithful assistant ' Tiger' Prawns to help her But one thing is certain she will not relinquish the noble powers of Magic to big business & commerce without a fight ...

A rebel who becomes a queen The hotly anticipated third book in the bestselling Bone Season series
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Can new hopes bloom when summer begins again? When Mattie invites her old friend Tim to stay in one of her family cottages on the edge of Dartmoor she senses there is something he is not telling her But as he gets to know the rest of the warm jumble of family by the moor Tim begins to relax again & he discovers that everyone there has their own secrets There is Kat a retired ballet dancer who longs for the stage again; Charlotte a young navy wife struggling to bring up her son while her husband is at sea; William who guards a dark past he cannot share with the others; & Mattie who has loved Tim in silence for years As Tim begins to open up Mattie falls deeper in love & as summer warms the wild Dartmoor landscape new hopes begin to bloom If you like books by Lucy Diamond Trisha Ashley & Carole Matthews you'll love Marcia Willett's gloriously warm novels set in the West Country ...

From the ashes of war rose a song of hope A warm-hearted nostalgic & uplifting saga The Songbirds of Colliers Row by Jennifer Hart is perfect for fans of Call the Midwife Donna Douglas Kate Thompson's Secrets of the Singer Girls & for anyone with a song in their heart A village without a voice That's what the locals are saying about Llandegwen deep in the Welsh valleys The village choir once a source of pride for the small mining community has been forced to disband; the elderly choirmaster heartbroken by the empty seats belonging to those who'll never return from the battlefields The arrival of a young war widow from the East End with her little boy sets tongues wagging not least when rumours abound that she's looking to revive the choir Can the community set aside their grief & lift their voices & the village's hopes once more? ...

The songlines are the invisible pathways that criss-cross Australia ancient tracks connecting communities & following ancient boundaries Along these lines Aboriginals passed the songs which revealed the creation of the land & the secrets of its past In this magical account Chatwin recalls his travels across the length & breadth of Australia seeking to find the truth about the songs & unravel the mysteries of their stories ...

The Sonnets of William Shakespeare a cycle of 154 linked poems were first published in 1609 Filled with ideas about love beauty & mortality the sonnets are written in the same beautiful & innovative language that we have come to know from Shakespeare's plays The first 126 sonnets are addressed to a young man known as the ' Fair Youth' while others are directed at a ' Rival Poet' & a ' Dark Lady' This Macmillan Collector's Library edition contains all of the poems which explore many of Shakespeare's most common themes jealousy betrayal melancholy They ache with unfulfilled longing & for many they are the most complete & moving meditations on love ever written With an afterword by Peter Harness Designed to appeal to the booklover the Macmillan Collector's Library is a series of beautiful special gift editions of much loved classic titles Macmillan Collector's Library are books to love & treasure ...

' Unique & stunning One of the most powerful novels you'll read this year' Stephen Booth on The Father In the second part of ...

' Unique & stunning One of the most powerful novels you'll read this year' Stephen Booth on The Father In the second part of ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Katie Elder bore four sons The day she is buried they all return home to Clearwater Texas to pay their last respects John Wayne is the eldest & toughest son the gunslinger Tom (Dean Martin) is good with a deck of cards & good with a gun when he has to be Matt (Earl Holliman) is the quiet one
- nobody ever called him yellow twice Bud (Michael Anderson Jr) is the youngest Any hope for respectability lies with him Directed by Henry Hathaway (True Grit) an acknowledged master of the western the story has a dual theme not only is this a he-man&s story but it is also a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder movingly portrayed from beginning to conclusion Actors Dean Martin John Wayne Michael Anderson Earl Holliman Martha Hyer & Jeremy Slate Director Henry Hathaway Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1965 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages Italian German French Spanish English
- Dolby Digital (10) Mono Subtitles Arabic ; Croatian ; Czech ; Danish ; Dutch ; English ; English for the hearing impaired ; Finnish ; French ; German ; Greek ; Hebrew ; Hungarian ; Icelandic ; Italian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Portuguese ; Romanian ; Slovenian ; Spanish ; Swedish Duration 1 hour anf 56 minutes (approx)

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play The four rowdy sons of Katie Elder return home for her funeral & to avenge her death ...