Tender sad funny & riveting this is an astonishing collection of work by one of Britain's finest contemporary writers A man builds a tree house by a river in anticipation of the coming flood A sugar-beet crashes through a young woman's windscreen A boy sets fire to a barn These aren't the sort of things you imagine happening to someone like you But sometimes they do Set in the flat & threatened fenland landscape where the sky is dominant & the sea lurks just beyond the horizon these delicate dangerous & sometimes deeply funny stories tell of things buried & unearthed of familiar places made strange & of lives where much is hidden much is at risk & tender moments are hard-won ...

Tracklist A1 Immigration Song Bass Backing Vocals
- Maxine Fleming Lyrics By
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Joe Cornish is widely acknowledged as Britain's finest landscape photographer In this new collection he explores fifty of the most amazing landscapes in Britain Taking its cue from these Isles' extraordinarily diverse geology This Land ranges from the ancient quartzite rocks of the Scottish Highlands to the gritstones & limestones of the English Pennines & the rolling chalk downs of Southern England There are sections on Mountains Islands Forests & Coasts & the book concludes with a fascinating look at the ways in which British people have shaped the landscape over thousands of years Accompanying text by leading outdoors writer & campaigner Roly Smith explains how each type of rock creates its own distinctive landforms & vegetation & how these have often been made the subject of local folklore & legend There is room for some personal recollections from Joe & Roly about their own experiences in these magical places ...

The exploits of Miles Anna Egg Milly & Warren became one of BBC2&s biggest hits when it was broadcast in 1996 Now for the first time This Life will be available on DVD for everyone to enjoy the fights sex & arguments all over again Follow the burgeoning careers of these five newly qualified solicitors & the house they share in South London Anna & Miles have some history & it&s obvious there is still some attraction The only problem is that neither of them can admit it & seem intent on winding the other up as much as they can Milly & Egg are deeply in love but their relationship is put under stress as Egg realises that he doesn&t want to be a solicitor & Milly begins an affair with her boss Warren is gay & in therapy to help him come to terms with his sexuality He is terrified of letting his family know as they wouldn&t understand When his ex-army brother finds out he has trouble understanding as well ...

Featuring a group of twenty-something lawyers living in London This Life broke new ground with its realistic portrayal of their lifestyle including drug-taking & ‘casual sex’ Starring Daniella Nardini Jack Davenport Andrew Lincoln Amita Dhiri Jason Hughes & Ramon Tikaram This Life The Complete Collection brings together Series 1 2 & This Life 10 for the first time SERIES 1 This multi-award-winning cult series eavesdrops on the lives of a group of young lawyers sharing a London house Wild child Anna has trouble with men Arrogant Miles is torn between two women Control-freak Milly is torn between two men Egg can&t decide what to do with his life Ferdy is bisexual & confused & Warren is proud to be gay as long as it doesn&t mean telling his family SERIES 2 Wild child Anna has trouble with men Arrogant Miles is torn between two women Control-freak Milly is torn between two men Egg can&t decide what to do with his life Ferdy is bisexual & confused & Warren is proud to be gay as long as it doesn&t mean telling his family Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play ...

The little bird is flying all about the garden Read to find out where the little bird goes 16 pages Gaffney Kelly ...

This Little Pebble begins with a child finding a small forgotten pebble in his pocket It uses this simple premise as a jumping-off point to explore what rocks are where they come from & how fundamental they are to life here on Earth For readers aged six & up This Little Pebble uses beautiful artwork to show the rich diversity of rocks all around us with friendly narrative text by award-winning children's writer Anna Claybourne making the book feel like a journey It explores topics as fascinating & as wide-ranging as Earth's formation the rock cycle volcanoes & earthquakes where precious stones come from & what fossils are It also provides great support for for the topic of rocks in both the geography & science curriculum ...

No parent teacher or nursery group should be without this classic treasury There are songs rhymes & games for every occasion all chosen for their proven popularity with young children Collected from all over Britain the contents reflect the cultural diversity of the nation making it an outstandingly rich & stimulating collection Since the first edition of This Little Puffin was published over thirty years ago it has been revised & updated allowing it to remain the most invaluable book of its kind ...

A masterly performance by the greatest literary biographer of his generation' Oldie In this kaleidoscope of stories spanning art science & poetry award-winning writer Richard Holmes travels across three centuries through much of Europe & into the lively company of many earlier biographers Central to this pursuit is a powerful evocation of the lives of women both scientific & literary some well-known & others almost lost Margaret Cavendish Mary Somerville Germaine de Stael Mary Wollstonecraft & Zelide He investigates the love-stunned John Keats the waterlogged Percy Bysshe Shelley the chocolate-box painter Thomas Lawrence the opium-soaked genius Coleridge & the mad-visionary bard William Blake The diversity of Holmes's material is testimony to his empathy erudition & at times his mischievous streak This is his most personal & seductive writing yet ...

If you don't know where to turn next after the Fifty Shades movie welcome to the sensual world of This Man Young interior designer Ava O' Shea has no idea what awaits her at the Manor A run-of-the-mill consultation with a stodgy country gent seems likely but what Ava finds instead is Jesse Ward
- a devastatingly handsome utterly confident pleasure-seeking playboy who knows no boundaries Ava doesn't want to be attracted to this man & yet she can't control the overwhelming desire he stirs in her She knows that her heart will never survive him & her instinct is telling her to run but Jesse is not willing to let her go He wants her & is determined to have her
Includes: a br&-new bonus scene from Jesse's perspective

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