The fourth instalment in Lauren St John's heartwarming White Giraffe series in which Martine must travel to Namibia to save an elephant & the home she has come to love It's the first day of the December school holidays & Martine has lots of fun planned for the next few weeks not least spending time with Jemmy her beloved white giraffe & her best friend Ben But her plans for a peaceful holiday are soon shattered when a sinister man informs Martine & her grandmother that Sabuwona is about to be repossessed The nature reserve & everything in it will no longer belong to them Martine is determined to save the home she's grown to love When Grace has a vision about a unique herd of Namibian elephants she knows she must travel to Namibia to learn their secrets This could be the answer to all their troubles The fourth thrilling African adventure written with all the zest & skill that has endeared so many readers to THE WHITE GIRAFFE DOLPHIN SONG & THE LAST LEOPARD ...

Drawing closely on Bulgakov's personal experiences of the horrors of civil war as a young doctor The White Guard takes place in Kiev 1918 a time of turmoil & suffocating uncertainty as the Bolsheviks Socialists & Germans fight for control of the city It tells the story of the Turbins a once-wealthy Russian family as they are forced to come to terms with revolution & a new regime ...

A beautifully written coming-of-age novel from an acclaimed literary voice A lost boy A dead girl & one who is left behind A village full of whispers & secrets When the white hare appears magical & fleet in the silvery moonlight she leads them all into a legend a chase But who is the hunter & who the hunted? ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Based on the critically acclaimed award-winning novel by György Dragomán The White King set in a fictitious dictatorship can be described as 1984 meets Empire of the Sun with its startling & all- too-timely exploration of what the world would & could look like Djata is a 12-year-old boy coming to grips with his father&s imprisonment by the totalitarian state he calls home Preyed upon by the secret police & venal dignitaries Djata & his mother are forced to navigate a world of propaganda abuse & vicious gangs making them risk everything to reunite their family The White King stars Jonathan Pryce (Game of Thrones) Agyness Deyn (Sunset Song) Greta Scacchi (War & Peace) & Oacute;lafur Darri & Oacute;lafsson (The BFG) Fiona Shaw (Harry Potter) & in an vocal cameo Olivia Williams (Maps to the Stars) Bonus materials reversible cover Festival Featurette & World Of Homeland ...

Machen's weird tales of the creepy & fantastic finally come to Penguin Classics With an introduction from ST Joshi editor of American Supernatural Tales The White People & Other Weird Stories is the perfect introduction to the father of weird fiction The title story The White People is an exercise in the bizarre leaving the reader disoriented & on edge From the first page Machen turns even fundamental truths upside-down as his character Ambrose explains there have been those who have sounded the very depths of sin who all their lives have never done an 'ill deed' setting the stage for a tale entirely without logic ...

Internationally bestselling author Philippa Gregory brings the tumult & intrigue of The Wars of the Roses to vivid life through the women of the House of Lancaster & the House of York beginning with the story of Elizabeth Woodville the White Queen A woman who won the love of a king & ascended to royalty by virtue of her beauty Elizabeth fought tenaciously for the success of her family -- her daughter who would one day unite the warring dynasties & her two sons whose eventual fate has confounded historians for centuries the Princes in the Tower An active player in the power struggles that surrounded her she made hard & courageous choices always trying to protect those whom she loved Informed by impeccable research & framed by her inimitable storytelling skills Philippa Gregory gives an unforgettable voice to an extraordinary woman at the heart of a devastating conflict ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Based on Philippa Gregory&s best selling The Cousin&s War series The White Queen is a stunningly rich tale of love & loss seduction & deception betrayal & murder vibrantly woven through the stories of three different yet equally driven women
- Elizabeth Woodville Margaret Beaufort & Anne Neville The year is 1464 & England has been at war for nine years battling over who is the rightful King of England This is a war between two sides of the same family The House of York & The House of Lancaster in the War of the Roses The House of York&s young & devilishly handsome Edward IV (Max Irons
- Red Riding Hood) is crowned King of England with the help of the master manipulator Lord Warwick The Kingmaker (James Frain
- True Blood The Tudors) But when Edward falls in love & secretly marries a beautiful young widow the commoner Elizabeth Woodville played by newcomer Rebecca Ferguson Warwick&s plan for control over the English throne comes crashing down around him Frustrated by the new Queen&s influence he will stop at nothing to maintain his grip on the crown The most beautiful woman in the land Elizabeth Woodville marries for the love of her King with the help of her mother Jacquetta (Academy & Tony award nominee Janet Mc Teer) a self proclaimed sorceress Elizabeth&s most fierce adversary is the staunchly loyal Lancastrian Margaret Beaufort (Amanda Hale
- The Crimson Petal & The White)
- a damaged & highly religious woman who would willingly lay down her life to see her young son Henry Tudor take the throne & then there is Anne Neville (introducing Faye Marsay) Lord Warwick the Kingmaker&s daughter
- a pawn in her father&s battle for control; who finds her strength & ambition when she takes control of her destiny & marries Edward&s younger brother Richard Duke of Gloucester (Aneurin Bernard
- Ironclad) The White Queen is based on Philippa Gregory&s The White Queen The Red Queen & The Kingmaker&s Daughter & is set against the backdrop of the turbulent War of the Roses
- the real life inspiration for George R R Martin&s Game of Thrones Actors Max Irons James Frain David Oakes Juliet Aubrey Eleanor Tomlinson Frances Tomelty Michael Maloney Caroline Goodall Tom Mckay Ben Lamb Robert Pugh Veerle Baetens Nick Hendrix Lizzy Mc Innerny & Leo Bill Director James Kent Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English







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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 Based on Philippa Gregory&s best selling The Cousin&s War series The White Queen is a stunningly rich tale of love & loss seduction & deception betrayal & murder vibrantly woven through the stories of three different yet equally driven women
- Elizabeth Woodville Margaret Beaufort & Anne Neville The year is 1464 & England has been at war for nine years battling over who is the rightful King of England This is a war between two sides of the same family The House of York & The House of Lancaster in the War of the Roses The House of York&s young & devilishly handsome Edward IV (Max Irons
- Red Riding Hood) is crowned King of England with the help of the master manipulator Lord Warwick The Kingmaker (James Frain
- True Blood The Tudors) But when Edward falls in love & secretly marries a beautiful young widow the commoner Elizabeth Woodville played by newcomer Rebecca Ferguson Warwick&s plan for control over the English throne comes crashing down around him Frustrated by the new Queen&s influence he will stop at nothing to maintain his grip on the crown The most beautiful woman in the land Elizabeth Woodville marries for the love of her King with the help of her mother Jacquetta (Academy & Tony award nominee Janet Mc Teer) a self proclaimed sorceress Elizabeth&s most fierce adversary is the staunchly loyal Lancastrian Margaret Beaufort (Amanda Hale
- The Crimson Petal & The White)
- a damaged & highly religious woman who would willingly lay down her life to see her young son Henry Tudor take the throne & then there is Anne Neville (introducing Faye Marsay) Lord Warwick the Kingmaker&s daughter
- a pawn in her father&s battle for control; who finds her strength & ambition when she takes control of her destiny & marries Edward&s younger brother Richard Duke of Gloucester (Aneurin Bernard
- Ironclad) The White Queen is based on Philippa Gregory&s The White Queen The Red Queen & The Kingmaker&s Daughter & is set against the backdrop of the turbulent War of the Roses
- the real life inspiration for George R R Martin&s Game of Thrones Actors Max Irons James Frain David Oakes Juliet Aubrey Eleanor Tomlinson Frances Tomelty Michael Maloney Caroline Goodall Tom Mckay Ben Lamb Robert Pugh Veerle Baetens Nick Hendrix Lizzy Mc Innerny & Leo Bill Director James Kent Certificate 15 years & over Year 2013 Screen 1781 Anamorphic Languages English







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In a village in Protestant northern Germany on the eve of World War I the children of a church & school run by the village schoolteacher & their families experience a series of bizarre incidents that inexplicably assume the characteristics of a punishment ritual Who could be responsible for such bizarre transgressions? Leonie Benesch Josef Bierbichler & Rainer Bock star in this period drama directed by Michael Haneke (HIDDEN FUNNY GAMES) which won the Palm d' Or at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival ...

A Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller " Other things in the world are white but for me porcelain comes first"A handful of clay from a Chinese hillside carries a promise that mixed with the right materials it might survive the fire of the kiln & fuse into porcelain
- translucent luminous white Acclaimed writer & potter Edmund de Waal sets out on a quest
- a journey that begins in the dusty city of Jingdezhen in China & travels on to Venice Versailles Dublin Dresden the Appalachian Mountains of South Carolina & the hills of Cornwall to tell the history of porcelain Along the way he meets the witnesses to its creation; those who were inspired made rich or heartsick by it & the many whose livelihoods minds & bodies were broken by this obsession It spans a thousand years & reaches into some of the most tragic moments of recent times In these intimate & compelling encounters with the people & landscapes who made porcelain Edmund de Waal enriches his understanding of this rare material the white gold& he has worked with for decades Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4

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