WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2017WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C CLARKE AWARD 2017LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER 2016AMAZONCOM 1 BOOK OF THE YEAR 20161 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR ' Whitehead is on a roll the reviews have been sublime' Guardian' Luminous furious wildly inventive' Observer' Hands down one of the best if not the best book I've read this year' Stylist ' Dazzling' New York Review of Books Praised by Barack Obama & an Oprah Book Club Pick The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead won the National Book Award 2016 & the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction 2017 Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia All the slaves lead a hellish existence but Cora has it worse than most; she is an outcast even among her fellow Africans & she is approaching womanhood where it is clear even greater pain awaits When Caesar a slave recently arrived from Virginia tells her about the Underground Railroad they take the perilous decision to escape to the North In Whitehead's razor-sharp imagining of the antebellum South the Underground Railroad has assumed a physical form a dilapidated box car pulled along subterranean tracks by a steam locomotive picking up fugitives wherever it can Cora & Caesar's first stop is South Carolina in a city that initially seems like a haven But its placid surface masks an infernal scheme designed for its unknowing black inhabitants & even worse Ridgeway the relentless slave catcher sent to find Cora is close on their heels Forced to flee again Cora embarks on a harrowing flight state by state seeking true freedom At each stop on her journey Cora encounters a different world As Whitehead brilliantly recreates the unique terrors for black people in the pre-Civil War era his narrative seamlessly weaves the saga of America from the brutal importation of Africans to the unfulfilled promises of the present day The Underground Railroad is at once the story of one woman's ferocious will to escape the horrors of bondage & a shatteringly powerful meditation on history ...

Tracklist Sins Last Exit To Nowhere The Death Of The Author This Is But A Dream Too Innocent To Be True Blind IBlind III Can't Resist This Anaesthetised World ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A charming drifter returns to his "home" where he makes a desperate & very dangerous deal in order to reclaim his ex-girlfriend When passion ignites into obsession a treacherous game of "who can you trust?" spins a deadly web of intrigue & murder
- from which no one escapes unscathed Actors Peter Gallagher Elisabeth Shue Joe Don Baker Alison Elliott William Fichtner Adam Trese Paul Dooley Shelley Duvall Harry Goaz & Dennis Hill Director Steven Soderbergh Certificate 15 years & over Year 1994 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (50) Stereo Additional Languages French ; German ; Italian ; Spanish ; Russian Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; French ; Italian ; Spanish ; Czech ; Danish ; Finnish ; Greek ; Hungarian ; Norwegian ; Polish ; Swedish ; Russian Duration 1 hour & 35 minutes (approx)

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Tracklist You've Got My Number (Why Don't You Use It!) Male Model Hypnotised Billy's Third The Way Girls Talk True Confessions Wednesday Week (She's A) Runaround There Goes Norman Teenage Kicks Tearproof Jump Boys The Love Parade Soul Seven Girls Don't Like It You're Welcome Listening In Jimmy Jimmy When Saturday Comes Julie Ocean My Perfect Cousin Family Entertainment Beautiful Friend I Know A Girl Get Over You (Kevin Shields Remix 2016) Girls That Don't Talk Forever Paradise Here Comes The Summer It's Going To Happen Bittersweet ...

The day before the underwater fancy-dress parade Alfie got that feeling Sometimes it's hard to be brave Sometimes you get that feeling Sometimes you're just not ready until one day you are From a dynamic new picture-book partnership comes the story of Alfie & a big octopus wearing a tiny hat & the things you can only whisper to the cowboys on your wallpaper ...

As an underwater welder on an oilrig off the coast of Nova Scotia Jack Joseph is used to the immense pressures of deep-sea work — but not the pressures of impending fatherhood While Jack dives deeper & deeper he seems to pull further & further away from his young wife & their unborn son Then one night deep in the icy solitude of the ocean floor Jack has a mysterious & supernatural encounter that will change the course of his life forever Equal parts blue-collar character study & mind-bending mystery The Underwater Welder is a graphic novel about fathers & sons birth & death memory & reality & the treasures we all bury deep below the surface ...

THE NEW INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER FROM THE AUTHOR OF THE BIG SHORT & FLASH BOYS'A gripping account of how two psychologists reshaped the way we think What a story it is' Sunday Times ' You'll love it full of surprises & no small degree of tragedy' Tim Harford In 1969 two men met on a university campus Their names were Daniel Kahneman & Amos Tversky They were different in every way But they were both obsessed with the human mind
- & both happened to be geniuses Together they would change the way we see the world' An enchanted collaboration During the final pages I was blinking back tears' The New York Times ' My favourite writer full stop Engages both heart & brain like no other' Daily Telegraph' Brilliant a wonderful book a masterclass' Spectator ' Psychology's Lennon & Mc Cartney Lewis is exactly the storyteller they deserve' Observer
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A young man broken down in the fog witnesses a murder he is asked to conceal A full-length novel adapted by Charles Osborne from Agatha Christie's acclaimed play When a stranger runs his car into a ditch in dense fog in South Wales & makes his way to an isolated house he discovers a woman standing over the dead body of her wheelchair-bound husband gun in her hand She admits to murder & the unexpected guest offers to help her concoct a cover story But is it possible that Laura Warwick did not commit the murder after all? If so who is she shielding? The victim's young half-brother or his dying matriarchal mother? Laura's lover? Perhaps the father of the little boy killed in an accident for which Warwick was responsible? The house seems full of possible suspects THE UNEXPECTED GUEST is considered to be one of the finest of Christie's plays Hailed as another Mousetrap' when it opened on 12 August 1958 in the West End it ran for 604 performances over the succeeding 18 months & has been staged many times around the world over the last 40 years ...

Mumbai murder & a baby elephant combine in a charming joyful mystery for fans of Alexander Mc Call Smith & Rachel Joyce On the day he retires Inspector Ashwin Chopra discovers that he has inherited an elephant an unlikely gift that could not be more inconvenient For Chopra has one last case to solve But as his murder investigation leads him across Mumbai
- from its richest mansions to its murky underworld
- he quickly discovers that a baby elephant may be exactly what an honest man needs So begins the start of a quite unexpected partnership & an utterly delightful new series

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THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER ' Not remotely preachy'
- The Times ' Jaunty shrewd & convincing'
- Sunday Telegraph ' Admirably

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