Where is David Pemberton? It's 1971 Thirteen year old David has been missing for two years It's now up to Laurel Bowman & Frank Diamond partners in the newly formed Anglian Detective Agency to find him 384 pages Morris Vera ...

Cesare is a seventy-seven-year-old widower & cynical troublemaker He has lived his whole life by his own rules & has no intention of changing now Aside from an intermittent fling with a nurse called Rossana he spends his days avoiding the old cat lady next door & screening calls from his children But when the enigmatic Emma moves in next door with her strange & sinister husband Cesare suspects there is more to their relationship than meets the eye He enlists the other residents to help him investigate & soon discovers a new & unexpected sense of purpose that leads him to risk everything for a future he had never thought possible Laced with humour & pathos in equal measure this is a delightful book to savour for young & old alike ...

Britain's culinary Moses brings us the new foodie rules to live by celebrating what & how we eat The Ten Commandments may have had a lot going for them but they don't offer those of us located in the 21st Century much in the way of guidance when it comes to our relationship with our food & Lord knows we need it Enter our new culinary Moses the legendary restaurant critic Jay Rayner with a new set of h&-tooled commandments for this food-obsessed age He deals once & for all with questions like whether it is ever okay to covet thy neighbour's oxen (it is) eating with your hands (very important indeed) & if you should cut off the fat (no) Combining reportage & anecdotes with recipes worthy of adoration Jay Rayner brings us the new foodie rules to live by ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Throughout film history Hollywood has produced a number of sweeping epics & generation-defining movies However one film
- Cecil B De Mille&s The Ten Commandments
- has stood the test of time Universally recognised among critics as a cinematic masterpiece this unforgettable motion picture has also been recognised by The American Film Institute as one of the " Top Ten" epics of all time From its Academy Award-winning director & revolutionary Oscar-winning special effects to its memorable music score & all-star cast The Ten Commandments presents the story of Moses in all of its stunning glory Starring Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Anne Baxter & a "who&s who" of legendary screen talent the film was nominated for seven Academy Awards including Best Picture of 1956 Actors Charlton Heston Yul Brynner Anne Baxter Edward G Robinson Yvonne De Carlo Debra Paget John Derek Cedric Hardwicke Nina Foch Martha Scott Judith Anderson Vincent Price John Carradine Olive Deering & Douglass Dumbrille Director Cecil B De Mille Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 1956 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish Subtitles English ; English for the hearing impaired ; French ; German ; Swedish ; Danish ; Norwegian ; Finnish ; Dutch ; Icelandic ; European Portuguese ; Hebrew ; Greek ; Croat ; Turkish ; Italian ; Spanish ; Polish ; Hungarian Czech Closed Captions Yes Duration 3 hours & 42 minutes (approx)


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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play An Ordinary Man An Extraordinary Calling The Ten Commandments showcases Moses the reluctant prophet who was the only man to see the face of God & call him "friend" Condemned to die by the Pharoah while just a baby Hebrew Moses is set adrift on the river Nile by his mother & his sister Rescued by the daughter of the Pharoah he grows up thinking he&s an Egyptian prince Eventually exiled from Egypt when he is exposed as a Jew he is touched by God & told that he will lead his enslaved people to the Promised Land After 40 years of leading the Chosen Ones to the Promised Land Moses is embraced by God & led to a better place This special animated version is filled with high adventure miraculous events & a gentle sense of humor Actors Ben Kingsley Christian Slater Alfred Molina Elliott Gould Kathleen Barr Jeremy Birchell Trevor Devall Lorrie Dungey Christopher Gaze Nico Ghisi Bruce Hopkins Jane Mortifee Colin Murdock & Michelle O& Brian Director Bill Boyce & John Stronach Certificate Universal Suitable for All Year 2007 Screen Widescreen 1851 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Duration 1 hour & 28 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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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 A lonely young man rents a flat that was formerly occupied by a girl who committed suicide Gradually he begins to assume her ident ity dressing in her clothes & eventually throwing himself out of the same window from which she jumped to her death ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When Chloe (Kristen Dalton
- Jack Reacher) & Michael Carpenter rent out the cottage behind their house to charming novelist Robert Mars (David Arquette
- ) the whole family are delighted but soon after he moves in the family start to fear they are being stalked & watched Their fears are heightened when a family friend goes missing but with no evidence & the law against them they struggle to fight a deadly threat in their own backyard Actors David Arquette Kristen Dalton Victor Browne & Morissa O& Mara Director Chris Jaymes Certificate 18 years & over Year 2012 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 28 minutes (approx)

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With an Introduction & Notes by Peter Merchant Canterbury Christchurch University College The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful & sometimes violent novel of expectation love oppression sin religion & betrayal It portrays the disintegration of the marriage of Helen Huntingdon the mysterious tenant' of the title & her dissolute alcoholic husband Defying convention Helen leaves her husband to protect their young son from his father's influence & earns her own living as an artist Whilst in hiding at Wildfell Hall she encounters Gilbert Markham who falls in love with her On its first publication in 1848 Anne Bronte's second novel was criticised for being coarse' & brutal' The Tenant of Wildfell Hall challenges the social conventions of the early nineteenth century in a strong defence of women's rights in the face of psychological abuse from their husbands Anne Bronte's style is bold naturalistic & passionate & this novel which her sister Charlotte considered an entire mistake' has earned Anne a position in English literature in her own right not just as the youngest member of the Bronte family This newly reset text is taken from a copy of the 1848 second edition in the Library of the Bronte Parsonage Museum & has been edited to correct known errors in that edition ...

A beautiful edition of Anne Bronte's most enduring novel to accompany her sisters' greatest books in Penguin Clothbound Classics Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful & secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip & speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed & the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge Told with great immediacy combined with wit & irony The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence & creative freedom The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall has been designed by Coralie Bickford-Smith & is edited with an introduction & notes by the novelist Stevie Davies ...

The Penguin Classics edition of Anne Bronte's The Tenant of Wildfell Hall her groundbreaking study of a woman's valiant struggle for independence from an abusive husband is edited with an introduction & notes by Stevie Davis Gilbert Markham is deeply intrigued by Helen Graham a beautiful & secretive young woman who has moved into nearby Wildfell Hall with her young son He is quick to offer Helen his friendship but when her reclusive behaviour becomes the subject of local gossip & speculation Gilbert begins to wonder whether his trust in her has been misplaced It is only when she allows Gilbert to read her diary that the truth is revealed & the shocking details of the disastrous marriage she has left behind emerge Told with great immediacy combined with wit & irony The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is a powerful depiction of a woman's fight for domestic independence & creative freedom In her introduction Stevie Davies discusses The Tenant of Wildfell Hall as feminist testament inspired by Anne Bronte's experiences as a governess & by the death of her brother Branwell Bronte & examines the novel's language biblical references & narrative styles Anne Bronte (1820-1849) youngest of the Bronte sisters was born at Thornton West Yorkshire Her father was a curate & her mother died when she was a baby leaving five daughters & one son After the death of her sisters Maria & Elizabeth from tuberculosis in 1825 the Bronte children were homeschooled & together they created fantasy worlds & kingdoms which they explored in writing Anne worked as a governess between 1840 & 1845 after which she published Agnes Grey (1847) & The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (1848) under the pen-name Acton Bell Anne Bronte died in 1849 If you enjoyed The Tenant of Wildfell Hall you might also like Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence also available in Penguin Classics ...