A chilling tale from two of the greatest storytellers of our time Twelve-year-old Jack spends his days alone in a deserted coastal town his father gone his mother dying Then he meets a stranger
- & embarks on a terrifying journey For Jack must find the Talisman the only thing that can save his mother His quest takes him into the menacing Territories a parallel world where violence surprise & the titanic struggle between good & evil reach across a mythic landscape
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The 30th Anniversary edition of the sequel to Lynda La Plante's original bestseller The Legacy 752 pages La Plante Lynda ...

The legend of the Headless Horseman & a proposed marriage de convenance both have their impact on the mystery of a golden talisman ring & Lord Lavenham's young heir Ludovic Neither Sir Tristram Shield nor Eustacie his young French cousin share the slightest inclination to marry one another yet it is Lord Lavenham's dying wish For there is no one else to provide for the old man's granddaughter while Ludovic remains a fugitive from justice Yet again Georgette Heyer shows the qualities that made her one of the most successful & best-loved romantic novelists of her age & why her popularity endures to this day ...

The descendants of the Elven house of Shannara have all completed their quests Paranor the Druid's Keep has been restored; the Elves have been returned to the Four Lands; & Par Ohmsford has found what he believes to be the legendary Sword of Shannara But their work is not yet done The Shadowen still swarm over the Four Lands poisoning all with their dark magic & their leader is determined to prevent the scions of Shannara from sharing the knowledge that will end the sickness To this end he sets his traps For Walker he will dispatch the Four Horsemen; for Wren he sends an untrue friend; & for Par he devises the most terrible fate of all The charges given by the shade of the Druid Allanon seem doomed to failure
- unless the Shannara children can escape the traps being laid for them & Par can unlock the secret of the Sword of Shannara
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Artists The Tallest Man On Earth Label Dead Oceans Format Vinyl 12 Album Coloured Vinyl Running Time Vinyl 12 Album Coloured Vinyl Tracks 1 Fields of Our Home 2 Darkness of the Dream 3 Singers 4 Slow Dance 5 Little Nowhere Towns 6 Sagres 7 Timothy 8 Beginners 9 Seventeen 10 Dark Bird Is Home ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A captivating romantic drama unfolds against a backdrop of Cold War paranoia in this acclaimed feature by multi-award-winning director Blake Edwards Featuring an outstanding score by multiple Oscar winner John Barry & presented here in a br&-new transfer from original film elements The Tamarind Seed stars Julie Andrews as a Home Office minister&s assistant & Omar Sharif as the Paris-based Soviet attache with whom she falls in love; among an outstanding support cast are Anthony Quayle & Sylvia Syms whose performance earned her a BAFTA Award in 1974 Holidaying in Barbados in the hope of overcoming the unhappiness of a broken love affair Englishwoman Judith Farrow meets debonair Russian Feodor Sverdlov As they explore the island paradise together & their mutual feelings grow so too do the suspicions of the intelligence agencies in both London & Moscow In a world where no-one is to be trusted & appearances can be fatally deceptive every move they make is being watched ...

Why would a woman marry a serial killer? Because she cannot refuse Kateryn Parr a thirty-year-old widow in a secret affair with a new lover has no choice when a man old enough to be her father who has buried four wives
- King Henry VIII
- commands her to marry him Kateryn has no doubt about the danger she faces the previous queen lasted sixteen months the one before barely half a year But Henry adores his new bride & Kateryn's trust in him grows as she unites the royal family creates a radical study circle at the heart of the court & rules the kingdom as Regent But is this enough to keep her safe? A leader of religious reform & the first woman to publish in English Kateryn stands out as an independent woman with a mind of her own But she cannot save the Protestants under threat for their faith & Henry's dangerous gaze turns on her The traditional churchmen & rivals for power accuse her of heresy
- the punishment is death by fire & the king's name is on the warrant From an author who has described all of Henry's queens comes a deeply intimate portrayal of the last a woman who longed for passion power & education at the court of a medieval killer


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Harper Collins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved essential classics Bianca is beautiful & demure with a plethora of wood-be suitors but marriage is forbidden until her older sister Katherina finds a suitable match The hitch? Fiery Katherina has sworn to deny the hand or demands of any would-be suitor That is until she meets her match in the wily Petrucio As Katherina's own sharp tongue is met by Petrucio's feigned cruelty the shrew' apparently capitulates Or does she? This controversial comic tale famously adapted into Cole Porter's Kiss Me Kate & 10 Things I Hate About You has divided & amused audiences for over 400 years in an unforgettable battle of wits ...

Edited introduced & annotated by Cedric Watts Research Professor of English Literature University of Sussex The Wordsworth Classics' Shakespeare's Series presents a newly-edited sequence of William Shakespeare's works The textual editing takes account of recent scholarship while giving the material a careful reappraisal The Taming of the Shrew is one of the most famous & controversial of Shakespeare's comedies The central relationship in which Petruchio boisterously tames' a rebellious Kate has often appeared problematic In the theatre it has been treated in a diversity of ways so that Kate's apparent capitulation varies between the ironic & the sincere Feminists have been divided in their responses The provocative vitality of this comedy has been transmitted by numerous adaptations for stage & screen notably the film directed by Franco Zeffirelli & the Cole Porter musical Kiss Me Kate ...

The Taming of the Shrew is unique among Shakespeare's plays & is a perennial & compelling success in the theatre Its reception is marked however by ongoing polarised debate over the meaning & worth of the play This edition disengages Shakespeare's exuberant & disturbing marital farce from the tangled history of its reception It views the two sixteenth-century Shrew plays as textually independent but theatrically interdependent & so

Includes:: the full text of The Taming of A Shrew in an appendix While the Introduction & Commentary focus on the critical & theatrical debate surrounding the play the original & comprehensive editing of the playtext makes available a 'different' Shrew more open to the reader's interpretation than is usually the case Barbara Hodgdon is a distinguished feminist scholar whose reading of the play offers a stimulating array of ideas & questions about this enduringly popular yet challenging comedy

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