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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The pulse-pounding conclusion to the Top Ten bestselling THIS MAN trilogyperfect for fans of Crossfire & Fifty Shades of Grey 528 pages Malpas Jodi Ellen ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require either a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play STAR TREK&S Chris Pine & Tom Hardy (BRONSON) portray two spies whose close friendship is torn when an alluring female (Reese Witherspoon) comes between them in this 20th Century Fox comedy Mc G directs from a script by Timothy Dowling ...

Chris Pine (Star Trek) & Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) co-star with Oscar-Winner Reese Witherspoon in this fast-paced mix of explosive action & laugh-out-loud comedy FDR (Pine) & Tuck (Hardy) both fall for the charming & lovely Lauren (Witherspoon) As Lauren struggles to choose between them
- with help from her sassy friend Trish (Chelsea Handler)
- FDR & Tuck wage an epic battle for Lauren&s affection Using their surveillance skills & an array of high-tech gadgetry
- may the best spy win! Actors Tom Hardy Reese Witherspoon Chris Pine Rebel Wilson Laura Vandervoort Til Schweiger Angela Bassett David Koechner Marie Avgeropoulos Chelsea Handler Warren Christie Leela Savasta Kevan Ohtsji & Aleks Paunovic Director Mc G Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Screen 2401 Languages English Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx)


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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 STAR TREK&S Chris Pine & Tom Hardy (BRONSON) portray two spies whose close friendship is torn when an alluring female (Reese Witherspoon) comes between them in this 20th Century Fox comedy Mc G directs from a script by Timothy Dowling ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Chris Pine (Star Trek) & Tom Hardy (The Dark Knight Rises) co-star with Oscar-Winner Reese Witherspoon in this fast-paced mix of explosive action & laugh-out-loud comedy FDR (Pine) & Tuck (Hardy) both fall for the charming & lovely Lauren (Witherspoon) As Lauren struggles to choose between them
- with help from her sassy friend Trish (Chelsea Handler)
- FDR & Tuck wage an epic battle for Lauren&s affection Using their surveillance skills & an array of high-tech gadgetry
- may the best spy win! Actors Tom Hardy Reese Witherspoon Chris Pine Rebel Wilson Laura Vandervoort Til Schweiger Angela Bassett David Koechner Marie Avgeropoulos Chelsea Handler Warren Christie Leela Savasta Kevan Ohtsji & Aleks Paunovic Director Mc G Certificate 12 years & over Year 2011 Screen 169 Letterbox 2401 Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Additional Languages English Audio Description Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 33 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players




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THE NUMBER ONE BESTSELLER This Modern Love is a unique crowdsourced book of letters stories & photographs about the state of modern romance by You Tuber Will Darbyshire Question 1 What would you say to your ex without judgement?' Seeking closure after a tough break-up Will Darbyshire was driven to strike up an intimate conversation with his online audience Posting a series of questions via his You Tube Twitter & Instagram channels Will asked his followers to share their innermost thoughts about their relationship experiences in the form of h&-written letters poems photographs & emails After 6 months & over 15000 heartfelt submissions later from over 100 countries This Modern Love collects these letters together to form a compendium of 21st century love structured into the beginning middle & end of a relationship Tender funny & cathartic This Modern Love is a compelling portrait of individual desires resentments & fears that reminds us that whether we're in or out of love we're not alone ...

WINNER of the Irish Book Awards Children's Book of the Year 2012 & the Honour Award for Illustration from Childrens' Books Ireland 2013 An exquisite new book featuring a boy & his moose from internationally bestselling multi-prize-winning picture book creator Oliver Jeffers Wilfred owned a moose He hadn't always owned a moose The moose came to him a while ago & he knew just KNEW that it was meant to be his He thought he would call him Marcel Most of the time Marcel is very obedient abiding by the many rules on How to Be a Good Pet But one dark day while deep in the woods someone else claims the moose as their own Is Marcel really Wilfred's pet after all? An beautifully-illustrated witty & thought-provoking story exploring the concept of ownership ...

A fictional account of the day a whale swam up the Thames in which the whale makes an environmental plea to the boy who first sees him At sunrise young Michael spots a whale on the shores of the Thames & thinks he must be dreaming But the creature is real & it has a message for him
- one that only an open-minded child can deliver to the rest of the world The whale warns that the earth's days are numbered & that humans must put right the damage they are doing but how can Michael fulfil his promise to tell others when neither his teacher nor his classmates will believe his story? Within hours the city & the wider world have learned of London's remarkable visitor & all eyes are on the whale's struggle against the receding tide Michael must now join his new friend in a race against time to reach the ocean & hold fast to his promise in the race to save the world itself
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