Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a prominent French politician is found dead on the border between the UK & France detectives Karl Roebuck (Stephen Dillane) & Elise Wassermann (Clemence Poesy) are sent to investigate on behalf of their respective countries However as the case takes a surreal turn a series of elaborate killings force the French & British police into uneasy partnership Despite cultural divides they find common ground in the race to stop a serial killer who has no boundaries Using increasingly ingenious methods to highlight five &truths& about our morally bankrupt society the murderer draws Karl & Elise ever deeper into a powerful personal & deadly agenda A compelling & sophisticated thriller set against the backdrop of Europe in crisis from the makers of Broadchurch Spooks & Life on Mars Actors Stephen Dillane Clemence Poesy & Alexander Hathaway Certificate 15 years & over Languages English ; French Subtitles English Duration 8 hours & 20 minutes (approx) ...

'A story with so much inherent drama a kaleidoscopic cold war story' The Guardian In the summer of 1962 one year after the rise of the Berlin Wall a group of daring young West Germans risked prison Stasi torture & even death to liberate friends lovers & strangers in East Berlin by digging tunnels under the Wall Then as the world's press heard about the secret projects two television networks raced to be the first to document them from the inside funding two separate tunnels for exclusive rights to film the escapes In response President John F Kennedy & his administration wary of anything that might raise tensions & force a military confrontation with the Soviets maneuvered to quash both documentaries As Greg Mitchell's riveting narrative unfolds we meet extraordinary characters the legendary cyclist who became East Berlin's most wanted man; the tunneller who had already served four years in the East German gulag; the Stasi informer who betrays the CBS tunnel'; the young East Berliner who escapes with her baby then marries one of the tunnellers; & an engineer who would later help build the tunnel under the English Channel Capturing the hopes & fears of everyday Berliners the chilling reach of the Stasi secret police & the political tensions of the Cold War The Tunnels is breaking history a propulsive read whose themes still reverberate today ...

The Turbulent Term of Tyke Tiler is considered one of the children's classics of the twentieth century & contains one of the most amazing & affirming twists in all of literature Tyke Tiler & Danny Price are best friends much to the despair of the headmaster of Cricklepit Combined School
- because wherever the pair go trouble is never far behind Stolen money a sheep's skeleton fights in class & somehow it's always trouble that Tyke has to sort out Can Tyke help the hapless Danny stay out of trouble for their last term? & what final surprise does Tyke have in store? Mischief & astonishment abound in this hilariously funny classic story from award-winning author Gene Kemp
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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 The self-declared last film of renowned Hungarian filmmaker Bela Tarr The Turin Horse seeks to capture the rhythm of life in real time & to raise a sharp awareness of the moment In Turin in 1889 Nietzsche flings his arms around an exhausted carriagehorse then loses consciousness & his mind Somewhere in the countryside a farmer his daughter a cart & the oldhorse Outside a windstorm rises Actors János Derzsi Erika Bók Mihály Kormos & Ricsi Director Bela Tarr & & Aacute;gnes Hranitzky Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages Hungarian Subtitles English Duration 2 hours & 26 minutes (approx) ...

In 1716 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's husband Edward Montagu was appointed British ambassador to the Sublime Porte of the Ottoman Empire Montagu accompanied her husband to Turkey & wrote an extraordinary series of letters that recorded her experiences as a traveller & her impressions of Ottoman culture & society 300 pages Montagu Lady Mary Wortley ...

The exquisitely wrought & thrillingly gripping second novel set during the time of the Black Death from Minette Walters 464 pages Walters Minette ...

Harper Collins is proud to present its new range of best-loved essential classics The place with its grey sky & withered garlands its bared spaces & scattered dead leaves was like a theatre after the performance-all strewn with crumpled playbills' Revered as one of the greatest ghost stories ever told James's The Turn of the Screw is an eerie Victorian masterpiece When an inexperienced governess goes to work at Bly a country house in Essex to look after a young boy Miles & his sister Flora all manner of strange events begin to occur The governess spots a ghostly man & woman around the grounds & is told by the housekeeper that the valet & previous governess haunt the house It soon becomes clear that the children are inexplicably connected to these ghosts in some way & the young governess struggles to protect the children although from exactly what she is not sure Exploring the psychological & sexual fears of an era this ambiguous suspenseful & anxiety-inspiring novella remains one of Henry James's most well-known tales ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Claire Seymour University of Kent at Canterbury The Turn of the Screw is the classic ghost story for which James is most remembered Set in a country house it is a chilling tale of the supernatural told by a master of the genre The Aspern Papers is a tale of Americans in Europe a theme in which Henry James is at his most assured & accomplished The author cleverly evokes the drama of comedie humaine against the settings of a Venetian palace ...

An unsettling new collection of Henry James's best short stories exploring ghosts & the uncanny' There had been a moment when I believed I recognised faint & far the cry of a child; there had been another when I found myself just consciously starting as at the passage before my door of a light footstep''I see ghosts everywhere' wrote Henry James who retained a fascination with the supernatural & sensational throughout his writing career This new collection brings together eight of James's tales exploring the uncanny including his infamous ghost story ' The Turn of the Screw' a work saturated with evil in which a fraught governess becomes convinced that malicious spirits are menacing the children in her care The other masterly works here include ' The Jolly Corner' ' Owen Wingrave' & further tales of visitations premonitions madness grief & family secrets where the living are just as mysterious & unknowable as the dead With an introduction & notes by Susie Boyt General Editor Philip Horne ...

A young inexperienced governess is charged with the care of Miles & Flora two small children abandoned by their uncle at his grand country house She sees the figure of an unknown man on the tower & his face at the window It is Peter Quint the master's dissolute valet & he has come for little Miles But Peter Quint is dead Like the other tales collected here
- ' Sir Edmund Orme' ' Owen Wingrave' & ' The Friends of the Friends'
- ' The Turn of the Screw' is to all immediate appearances a ghost story But are the appearances what they seem? Is what appears to the governess a ghost or a hallucination? Who else sees what she sees? The reader may wonder whether the children are victims of corruption from beyond the grave or victims of the governess's 'infernal imagination' which torments but also entrals her? ' The Turn of the Screw' is probably the most famous certainly the most eerily equivocal of all ghostly tales Is it a subtle self-conscious exploration of the haunted house of Victorian culture filled with echoes of sexual & social unease? Or is it simply 'the most hopelessly evil story that we have ever read'? The texts are those of the New York Edition with a new Introduction & Notes ABOUT THE SERIES For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features including expert introductions by leading authorities helpful notes to clarify the text up-to-date bibliographies for further study & much more

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