The Sunday Times Number One Bestseller from the author of CLOUD ATLAS & THE BONE CLOCKSLonglisted for the Man Booker Prize 2010 In your hands is a place like no other a tiny man-made island in the bay of Nagasaki for two hundred years the sole gateway between Japan & the West Here in the dying days of the 18th century a young Dutch clerk arrives to make his fortune Instead he loses his heart Step onto the streets of Dejima & mingle with scheming traders spies interpreters servants & concubines as two cultures converge In a tale of integrity & corruption passion & power the key is control
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THE THOUSAND LIGHTS HOTEL is the gorgeous new novel from Emylia Hall author of Richard & Judy Summer Pick THE BOOK OF SUMMERS Set in idyllic Italy it's the perfect holiday read for fans of Louise Douglas & Hannah Richell When Kit loses her mother in tragic circumstances she feels drawn to finally connect with the father she has never met That search brings her to the Thousand Lights Hotel the perfect holiday escape perched upon a cliff on the island of Elba Within this idyllic setting a devastating truth is brought to light shaking the foundations upon which the hotel is built & shattering the lives of the people within it A heartbreaking story of loss betrayal & redemption told with all the warmth & beauty of an Italian summer ...

In the desert colony of Khandar a dark & mysterious magic hidden for centuries is about to emerge from darkness Marcus d' Ivoire senior captain of the Vordanai Colonials is resigned to serving out his days in a sleepy remote outpost when a rebellion leaves him in charge of a demoralised force in a broken down fortress Winter Ihernglass fleeing her past & masquerading as a man just wants to go unnoticed Finding herself promoted to a command she must rise to the challenge & fight impossible odds to survive Their fates rest in the hands of an enigmatic new Colonel sent to restore order while following his own mysterious agenda into the realm of the supernatural ...

Welcome to Manhattan 2118 A thous&-storey tower stretching into the sky A glittering vision of the future where anything is possible
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The enthralling novel from Victoria Hislop the million-copy bestselling author of THE ISLAND & THE RETURNThessaloniki 1917 As Dimitri Komninos is born a devastating fire sweeps through the thriving Greek city where Christians Jews & Muslims live side by side Five years later Katerina Sarafoglou's home in Asia Minor is destroyed by the Turkish army Losing her mother in the chaos she flees across the sea to an unknown destination in Greece Soon her life will become entwined with Dimitri's & with the story of the city itself as war fear & persecution begin to divide its people Thessaloniki 2007 A young Anglo-Greek hears his grandparents' life story for the first time & realises he has a decision to make For many decades they have looked after the memories & treasures of the people who were forced to leave Should he become their next custodian & make this city his home? ...

When three billy goat brothers reach the bridge to the meadow a slobbering troll blocks their path The brothers are no fools
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The classic fairy tale
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The Three Broomsticks is the place to go in Hogsmeade for good food friendly conversation & a Butterbeer & is often visited by students from the neighbouring Hogwarts School of Witchcraft & Wizardry Each piece is hand painted & slight colour variations are to be expected which makes each piece unique Supplied in branded gift box This light up figurine features a standard light cord with a UK 3-pin plug Coordinates with Professor Slughorn & his students figurine ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Tommy Lee Jones directs & stars in this modern-day western as Peter Perkins an old-fashioned cowboy in a small Texas town near the border with Mexico He hires Melquiades (Julio Cedillo) to work as a ranch hand & the two men form a laconic friendship But when Melquiades is shot & killed in suspicious circumstances Peter decides to take the law into his own hands He kidnaps psychotic border patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) & forces him to dig up Melquiades& body & to accompany him on horseback on the long & difficult road to Mexico to deliver his friend&s body to his family ...

Tommy Lee Jones takes his second turn in the director's chair with THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA the follow-up to his 1995 western THE GOOD OLD BOYS The action takes place on the border between West Texas & Northern Chihuahua in Mexico which is a hot spot for illegal crossings But Jones' movie ingeniously flips this dangerous yet all-too-common practice on its head with a tale of a man hell-bent on crossing the border in the opposite direction The journey to Mexico begins when Pete Perkins (Jones) uncovers the identity of a Border Patrolman Mike Norton (Barry Pepper) who has shot & killed his best friend Melquiades Estrada (Julio Cedillo) Kidnapping Norton & forcing him to dig up Estrada's body Perkins straps the corpse to a horse & informs Norton that he will be travelling with them to Mexico Once there they will bury Estrada according to instructions he gave Perkins prior to his death Jones paints Norton as a mean-spirited individual; caught up in a loveless relationship with his wife Lou Ann (January Jones) Norton's day job frequently involves him either exploding in a violent rage or idly masturbating over a well-thumbed copy of Hustler The two men don't exactly bond on their journey the wedge that's been forced between them being far too great for them to reconcile their differences But Jones coerces a riveting tale from Guillermo Arriaga script with a choppy chronology reminiscent of Arriaga's own 21 GRAMS Comparisons to Sam Peckinpah's masterfully bleak 1974 movie BRING ME THE HEAD OF ALFREDO GARCIA are inevitable although Jones' film has a tender edge that Peckinpah's nihilistic epic was never quite capable of reaching A film that suggests Jones has a bright future ahead of him as a director THE THREE BURIALS OF MELQUIADES ESTRADA is one of the most absorbing pieces of cinema to emerge in 2005 ...