Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 or region free DVD player in order to play Oscar-nominated drama starring Shirley Mac Laine & Anne Bancroft As young dancers they were best friends & fierce rivals Deedee (Mac Laine) left the stage for marriage & motherhood while Emma (Bancroft) would become an international ballet icon When Deedee&s teenage daughter (Leslie Browne) is invited to join Emma&s dance company & begins an affair with a young Russian star (Mikhail Baryshnikov) the two women are forced to confront the choices they&ve made the resentments they&ve hidden & the emotional truths they must face ...

Erykah Macdonald has a nice life
- the kind of life you're meant to want But on her twentieth wedding anniversary she's about to
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A rare discovery in the world of fairy tales
- now for the first time in English With this volume the holy trinity of fairy tales
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1 Ice Cream Sundae 2 Wide Awake 3 The Neighbour 4 Either Way 5 Push The Ghosts 6 Reap What You Sow 7 Loosely Dancing 8 Two Lovers 9 Don&t Wait Up 10 Got Me Sussed 11 Cloudy Room 12 Website Link ...

The Twelfth Day of July is first of Joan Lingard's influential Kevin & Sadie books set in Belfast during the Troubles It is one of The Originals from Penguin
- iconic outspoken first Sadie is Protestant Kevin is Catholic
- & on the tense streets of Belfast their lives collide It starts with a dare
- kids fooling around
- but soon becomes something dangerous Getting to know Sadie Jackson will change Kevin's life forever But will the world around them change too? The Originals are the pioneers of fiction for young adults From political awakening war & unrequited love to addiction teenage pregnancy & nuclear holocaust The Originals confront big issues & articulate difficult truths The collection

Includes:: The Outsiders
- SE Hinton I Capture the Castle
- Dodie Smith Postcards from No Man's Land
- Aidan Chambers After the First Death
- Robert Cormier Dear Nobody
- Berlie Doherty The Endless Steppe
- Esther Hautzig Buddy
- Nigel Hinton Across the Barricades
- Joan Lingard The Twelfth Day of July
- Joan Lingard No Turning Back
- Beverley Naidoo Z for Zachariah
- Richard C O' Brien The Wave
- Morton Rhue The Red Pony
- John Steinbeck The Pearl
- John Steinbeck Stone Cold
- Robert Swindells




















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Sooner or later everybody pays Gerry Fegan a former paramilitary contract killer is haunted by the ghosts of the 12 people he has slaughtered Every night on the point of losing his mind he drowns their screams in drink His solution is to kill those who engineered their deaths From the greedy politicians to the corrupt security forces the street thugs to the complacent bystanders who let it happen all are called to account But when Fegan's vendetta threatens to derail a hard-won truce & destabilise the government old comrades & enemies alike want him dead Winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Best Thriller ...

The eagerly anticipated sequel to the global bestseller The Passage soon to be an epic drama on Fox from writer Elizabeth Heldens & executive producer Ridley Scott THE TWELVEDeath-row prisoners with nightmare pasts & no future THE TWELVEUntil they were selected for a secret experiment THE TWELVETo create something more than human THE TWELVENow they are the future & humanity's worst nightmare has begun THE TWELVEThe epic sequel to THE PASSAGE ...

An essential primary source on Roman history Suetonius' The Twelve Caesars is a fascinating achievement of scholarship covering a critical period in the Empire This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Latin by Robert Graves author of I Claudius revised with an introduction & notes by James B Rives As private secretary to the Emperor Hadrian the scholar Suetonius had access to the imperial archives & used them (along with eyewitness accounts) to produce one of the most colourful biographical works in history The Twelve Caesars chronicles the public careers & private lives of the men who wielded absolute power over Rome from the foundation of the empire under Julius Caesar & Augustus to the decline into depravity & civil war under Nero & the recovery that came with his successors A masterpiece of observation anecdote & detailed physical description The Twelve Caesars presents us with a gallery of vividly drawn
- & all too human
- individuals James B Rives has sensitively updated Robert Graves's now classic translation reinstating Latin terms & updating vocabulary while retaining the liveliness of the original This edition contains a new chronology further reading glossaries maps notes & an introduction discussing Suetonius' life & works Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus was probably born in AD69
- the famous 'year of the four Emperors' From the letters of Suetonius' close friend Pliny the Younger we learn that he practiced briefly at the bar avoided political life & became chief secretary to the Emperor Hadrian (AD117-38) Suetonius seems to have lived to a good age & probably died around the year AD140 If you enjoyed The Twelve Caesars you might like Tacitus's The Annals of Imperial Rome also available in Penguin Classics' Suetonius in holding up a mirror to those Caesars of diverting legend reflects not only them but ourselves half-tempted creatures whose great moral task is to hold in balance the angel & the monster within' Gore Vidal


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Anna Wright has rapidly developed a following across the UK for her print collage work & paintings following in the footsteps of Emma Bridgewater Tricia Guild & Liberty as she takes her designs across stationery & homeware She is now embarking on her third picture book for children Anna brings humour beauty & sophistication to this perennially popular Christmas hymn with her signature style Exquisitely rendered in pen ink watercolour & collage The twelve days of Christmas are beautifully & playfully reimagined for today's readership
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My dearest darling- That partridge in that lovely little pear tree! What an enchanting romantic poetic present! Bless you & thank you Your deeply loving Emily Everyone knows the ' Twelve Days of Christmas' but not as rewritten by John Julius Norwich in this delightful correspondence which records the daily thank-you letters from one increasingly bemused young lady to her unseen admirer & who but Quentin Blake could exploit the full comic possibilities of this hilarious debacle as first birds then maids & finally the full percussion section of the Liverpool Philharmonic bring mayhem to the calm of an English country Christmas? ...