Toni inherits a manor house in Hertfordshire What she needs is cash to save her business but all she finds is a crumbling building & overgrown gardens Soon the history of the house & those who tended the gardens over centuries reveal the stories of those who loved this garden across the centuries & how those lives still touch us ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The threads that hold civilisation together are blasted away in this critically acclaimed no-holds-barred docudrama about a nuclear attack on a British city during the 1980s Ruth (Karen Meagher) & Jimmy (Reece Dinsdale) live in Sheffield & are preparing to get married Tension is rising between the Western powers & Russia but the couple are blissfully unconcerned with world events as they carry on with their wedding plans When Russia invades Iran events take a dramatic turn With no prior warning Russia fires two nuclear warheads over Sheffield obliterating the city & creating a radioactive wasteland The few survivors are reduced to living in medieval conditions scavenging for survival as they combat starvation disease mental trauma & nuclear winter Actors Reece Dinsdale Karen Meagher David Brierly Rita May Nicholas Lane Directors Mick Jackson Language English Subtitles English Number of discs 1 ...

In the French port town of Calais the historic home of the lace industry a city within a city has arisen This new town known as the Jungle is the home of thousands of refugees mainly from the Middle East & Africa all hoping somehow to get to the UK Into this squalid shantytown of shipping containers & tents full of rats & trash & devoid of toilets & safety the artist Kate Evans brought a sketchbook & an open mind Combining the techniques of eyewitness reportage with the medium of comic-book storytelling Evans has produced this unforgettable book filled with poignant images by turns shocking angering wry & heartbreaking Weaving into the story hostile comments about the migrants from nativist politicians & Internet trolls Threads addresses one of the most pressing issues of modern times making a compelling case through intimate evidence for compassionate treatment of refugees & the free movement of peoples Evans's creativity & passion as an artist activist & mother shine through ...

Winner of the East Anglian Book of the Year 2015 Winner of the New Angle Book Prize 2017 John Craske a Norfok fisherman was born in 1881 & in 1917 when he had just turned thirty-six he fell seriously ill For the rest of his life he kept moving in & out of what was described as a stuporous state& In 1923 he started making paintings of the sea & boats & the coastline seen from the sea & later when he was too ill to stand & paint he turned to embroidery which he could do lying in bed His embroideries were also the sea including his masterpiece a huge embroidery of The Evacuation of Dunkirk Very few facts about Craske are known & only a few scattered photographs have survived together with accounts by the writer Sylvia Townsend Warner & her lover Valentine Ackland who discovered Craske in 1937 So
- as with all her books
- Julia Blackburn&s account of his life is far from a conventional biography Instead it is a quest which takes her in many strange directions
- to fishermen&s cottages in Sheringham a grand hotel fallen on hard times in Great Yarmouth & to the isolated Watch House far out in the Blakeney estuary; to Cromer & the bizarre story of Einstein&s stay there guarded by dashing young women in jodhpurs with shotguns Threads is a book about life & death & the strange country between the two where John Craske seemed to live It is also about life after death as Julia&s beloved husband Herman a vivid presence in the early pages of the book dies before it is finished In a gentle meditation on art & fame; on the nature of time & the fact of mortality; & illustrated with Craske&s paintings & embroideries Threads shows yet again that Julia Blackburn can conjure a magic that is spellbinding & utterly her own


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London 1961 In the dying days of the Mac Millan government George Preston is in control of crime in West London & Rina Walker is his favoured contract killer Now 21 she is living next door to her lover Lizzie herself a fearsome dominatrix whose clients include a senior member of the government Rina is approached by Tony Farina one of the vicious Maltese brothers who control vice in Soho Seven girls have disappeared & Rina discovers they are being killed & supplied to a member of the English aristocracy for the gratification of his macabre sexual tastes Rina's pursuit of the girls' murderer becomes increasingly desperate as she grapples with corruption & betrayal at the highest levels of society & heads towards a deadly & depraved final confrontation ...

The only security book to be chosen as a Dr Dobbs Jolt Award Finalist since Bruce Schneier's Secrets & Lies & Applied Cryptography! Adam Shostack is responsible for security development lifecycle threat modeling at Microsoft & is one of a handful of threat modeling experts in the world Now he is sharing his considerable expertise into this unique book With pages of specific actionable advice he details how to build better security into the design of systems software or services from the outset You'll explore various threat modeling approaches find out how to test your designs against threats & learn effective ways to address threats that have been validated at Microsoft & other top companies Systems security managers you'll find tools & a framework for structured thinking about what can go wrong Software developers you'll appreciate the jargon-free & accessible introduction to this essential skill Security professionals you'll learn to discern changing threats & discover the easiest ways to adopt a structured approach to threat modeling Provides a unique how-to for security & software developers who need to design secure products & systems & test their designs Explains how to threat model & explores various threat modeling approaches such as asset-centric attacker-centric & software-centric Provides effective approaches & techniques that have been proven at Microsoft & elsewhere Offers actionable how-to advice not tied to any specific software operating system or programming language Authored by a Microsoft professional who is one of the most prominent threat modeling experts in the world As more software is delivered on the Internet or operates on Internet-connected devices the design of secure software is absolutely critical Make sure you're ready with Threat Modeling Designing for Security ...

Giving you a plethora of villains to challenge your players this book compiles most of Green Ronin&s Threat Report PDF series of villain profiles along with new content created just for this collection ...

A Trio SIM has all SIM types on one card so whether you need a standard micro or nano-SIM you can just pop out the one you need It will work in any unlocked 3G or 4G phone This product has 12GB of preloaded data ...

A Trio SIM has all SIM types on one card so whether you need a standard micro or nano-SIM you can just pop out the one you need It will work in any unlocked 3G or 4G phone This product has 3GB of preloaded data SRRP (March 2016) ...

At an apparently respectable dinner party a vicar is the first to die Thirteen guests arrived at dinner at the actor's house It was to be a particularly unlucky evening for the mild-mannered Reverend Stephen Babbington who choked on his cocktail went into convulsions & died But when his martini glass was sent for chemical analysis there was no trace of poison
- just as Poirot had predicted Even more troubling for the great detective there was absolutely no motive
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