In The Waters of Eternal Youth the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter Manuela was found drowning in a canal She was rescued from the canal at the last moment but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage & her life was never the same again Once a passionate horse rider Manuela now aged thirty cannot remember the accident or her beloved horse & lives trapped in an eternal youth The Contessa unconvinced that this was an accident implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life Out of a mixture of curiosity pity & a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother Brunetti reopens the case But once he starts to investigate Brunetti finds a murky past & a dark story at its heart The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms & concerns of contemporary Venetian life from historical preservation to housing to new waves of African migrants all circling the haunting story of a woman trapped in a perpetual childhood ...

In The Waters of Eternal Youth the twenty-fifth instalment in the bestselling Brunetti series our Commissario finds himself drawn into a case that may not be a crime at all Brunetti is investigating a cold case by request of the grand Contessa Lando-Continui a friend of Brunetti's mother-in-law Fifteen years ago the Contessa's teenage granddaughter Manuela was found drowning in a canal She was rescued from the canal at the last moment but in many ways it was too late; she suffered severe brain damage & her life was never the same again Once a passionate horse rider Manuela now aged thirty cannot remember the accident or her beloved horse & lives trapped in an eternal youth The Contessa unconvinced that this was an accident implores Brunetti to find the culprit she believes was responsible for ruining Manuela's life Out of a mixture of curiosity pity & a willingness to fulfil the wishes of a loving grandmother Brunetti reopens the case But once he starts to investigate Brunetti finds a murky past & a dark story at its heart The Waters of Eternal Youth is awash in the rhythms & concerns of contemporary Venetian life from historical preservation to housing to new waves of African migrants all circling the haunting story of a woman trapped in a perpetual childhood ...

THE FIRST NOVEL IN MILLY ADAMS' BRAND NEW SAGA SERIES Perfect for fans of Daisy Styles & Nancy Revell War lands them in the same boat Can they pull together? October 1943 West London Nineteen-year-old Polly Holmes is leaving poor bombed London behind to join the war effort on Britain's canals Stepping aboard the Marigold amid pouring rain there's lots for Polly to get to grips with Not least her fellow crew strong & impetuous Verity whose bark is worse than her bite & seasoned skipper Bet With her sweetheart away fighting in the RAF & her beloved brother killed in action there's plenty of heartache to be healed on the waterway & as Polly rolls up her sleeves & gets stuck into life on board the narrowboat
- making the gruelling journey London up to Birmingham
- she will soon discover that a world of new beginnings awaits amid the anguish of the war Praise for Milly Adams' Well researched with an engaging heroine & a delightful ending' Anna Jacobs ' Milly Adams' readers will find the story & its rich cast of characters very appealing' Lizzie Lane

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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 Based on a real-life experiment that took place in a Californian high school The Wave tells the story of a high school teacher&s unusual class experiment In an attempt to demonstrate what life is like under a dictatorship the teacher comes up with an experiment to explain to his students how totalitarian governments work A role-playing game with tragic results Within a few days what began with harmless notions like discipline & community builds into a real movement The Wave As the students boundaries are pushed things begin to spiral out of control & this newly found cult starts to take on a life of its own Actors Jurgen Vogel Frederick Lau Max Riemelt Jennifer Ulrich Christiane Paul Jacob Matschenz Cristina do Rego Elyas M& Barek Maximilian Vollmar Max Mauff Ferdinand Schmidt-Modrow Tim Oliver Schultz Amelie Kiefer & Fabian Preger Director Dennis Gansel Certificate 15 years & over Year 2008 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages German
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English Duration 1 hour & 40 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Tracklist A Season In Hull Remains The Coaster In Santa Cruz Slick Black River From The Rain Thin Lizzy Live & Dangerous Don't Worry My Friend Dont Worry At All Tropical Fish Memphis Slim In Paris Flow My Tears The Musician Said A Letter From Hull (Dom's Song) The Pharmacy Cross Hot Rain Riding On The Salt Lake David In A Field Of Pumpkins ...

Introduction & Notes by Deborah Parsons University of Birmingham 'I am writing to a rhythm & not to a plot' Virginia Woolf stated of her eighth novel The Waves Widely regarded as one of her greatest & most original works it conveys the rhythms of life in synchrony with the cycle of nature & the passage of time Six children
- Bernard Susan Rhoda Neville Jinny & Louis
- meet in a garden close to the sea their voices sounding over the constant echo of the waves that roll back & forth from the shore The subsequent continuity of these six main characters as they develop from childhood to maturity & follow different passions & ambitions is interspersed with interludes from the timeless & unifying chorus of nature In pure stream-of-consciousness style Woolf presents a cross-section of multiple yet parallel lives each marked by the disintegrating force of a mutual tragedy The Waves is her searching exploration of individual & collective identity & the observations & emotions of life from the simplicity & surging optimism of youth to the vacancy & despair of middle-age

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The Waves is an astonishingly beautiful & poetic novel It begins with six children playing in a garden by the sea & follows their lives as they grow up & experience friendship love & grief at the death of their beloved friend Percival Regarded by many as her greatest work The Waves is also seen as Virginia Woolf's response to the loss of her brother Thoby who died when he was twenty-six ...

A formally innovative work of modernist fiction Virginia Woolf's The Waves is edited with an introduction by Kate Flint in Penguin Modern Classics More than any of Virginia Woolf's other novels The Waves conveys the full complexity & richness of human experience Tracing the lives of a group of friends The Waves follows their development from childhood to youth & middle age While social events individual achievements & disappointments form its narrative the novel is most remarkable for the rich poetic language that expresses the inner life of its characters their aspirations their triumphs & regrets their awareness of unity & isolation Separately & together they query the relationship of past to present & the meaning of life itself Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' This informal collective of artists & writers which included Lytton Strachey & Roger Fry exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed The Waves you might like Woolf's Mrs Dalloway also available in Penguin Classics'A book of great beauty & a prose poem of genius' Stephen Spender' Full of sensuous touches the sounds of her words can be velvet on the page' Maggie Gee Daily Telegraph ...

'I who would wish to feel close over me the protective waves of the ordinary catch with the tail of my eye some far horizon' Intensely visionary yet absorbed with the everyday; experimental daring & challenging The Waves is regarded by many as Virginia Woolf's greatest achievement It follows a set of six friends from childhood to middle age as they experience the world around them & explore who they are & what it means to be alive As the contours of their lives are revealed a unique novel is slowly unveiled Enfolded within Woolf's lyrical & mysterious language the mundane takes on a startling new significance while distant pasts are no less in play than the clamorous sounds & kaleidoscopic sights of the modern city Yet precisely where the alluringly enigmatic pages of The Waves are leading & what deeper meanings are held within its undulant chapters & shimmering interludes are questions that have never ceased to enthral readers & critics alike In this new edition David Bradshaw considers the spellbinding oddness & originality of The Waves helping the reader to negotiate a way though this most poetic & haunting of novels 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 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Inspired by an incredible true story this epic film of survival against-the-odds tells the story of a group of seven prisoners who escaped from a Soviet gulag in Stalin-era Russia & walked over 4000 miles across some of the most unforgiving terrain in the world crossing the Siberian Arctic the Gobi desert & the Himalayas before finally arriving in British-ruled India Actors Colin Farrell Ed Harris Jim Sturgess Saoirse Ronan Directors Peter Weir Format PALLanguage English Subtitles English Subtitles For The Hearing Impaired English Number of discs 2 ...