Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight & in the centre of this was a girl the most marvellous girl
- I knew it at once!
- that I had ever seen A saucy sensuous & multi-layered historical romance Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King
- oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom' It launched the career of one of Britain's most exciting & successful writers One of the best storytellers alive today'
- Independent Sarah Waters has written five subsequent bestselling novels all of which have been filmed or are currently in production & she has received critical & popular acclaim & prize shortlists She was awarded the Stonewall Writer of the Decade in 2016 Tipping the Velvet was adapted by Andrew Davies & filmed by Sally Head Productions for the BBC



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Piercing the shadows of the naked stage was a single shaft of rosy limelight & in the centre of this was a girl the most marvellous girl
- I knew it at once!
- that I had ever seen A saucy sensuous & multi-layered historical romance Tipping the Velvet follows the glittering career of Nan King
- oyster girl turned music-hall star turned rent boy turned East End 'tom'


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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 The most sexually explicit drama the BBC has ever broadcast! An erotically charged exploration of lesbian life in Victorian London Episode 1 The glamorous world of the 19th -century music hall provides the backdrop for Nan&s first love affair with Kitty Butler a popular male impersonator When Kitty is offered the chance to perform in London a delighted Nan accompanies her as a dresser but true success doesn&t happen until Nan becomes part of the act Episode 2 Alone & devastated by her betrayal Nan cannot return to her family in Whitstable so takes to the streets to survive In her guise as a male impersonator she finds a niche in the Victorian sexual underworld & is also drawn into the web of a rich Sapphic society widow who offers sex excitement & luxury but at a perilous price Episode 3 Diana throws out Nan & Blake & Blake disappears with all of the money leaving a totally destitute Nan The only person she can think to turn to ends up unwelcoming to her So begins a very different phase for Nan which leads ultimately to her making the most important decision of her life Actors Rachael Stirling Keeley Hawes Hugh Bonneville John Bowe Anna Chancellor & Jodhi May Director Geoffrey Sax Certificate 15 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 169 Anamorphic Languages English Subtitles None Duration 3 hours & 5 minutes (approx) ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The complete three-part BBC drama series set amidst the lesbian sub-culture of 1890s England In the first episode Nan the heroine of the series meets male impersonator Kitty Butler & begins her first affair Episode two finds Nan voyaging into the Victorian sexual underworld where she meets rich society widow Sapphie The final episode sees Nan destitute again & this time preparing to make the most important decision of her life ...

With foreword by journalist Robert Peston When Jan Robinson's husband died suddenly & unexpectedly she had the idea of asking any other widows whenever & wherever she met them for two tips about how to deal with widowhood From this advice she constructed her beautiful first volume Tips from Widows To Robinson's surprise the book generated an overwhelming response not only from widows but also from widowers From these outpourings it became evident that a second book this time for widowers was inevitable Grief is an unmanageable emotion & the form it takes is unique to every man whose wife or partner has died There are no set rules about coping with loss Some people struggle with it for years & maybe never get over it Others manage to move on This book makes no claim to be an authority on how to cope as a widower; it is quite simply tips from widowers You may be alone in your boat on the ocean but Tips from Widowers will help you to recognise that other boats are out there too ...

20 years ago bridge writer Mike Lawrence published a series of short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various aspects of bidding & card play Long unavailable this material has now been revised updated & republished in three anthology volumes each comprising about 10 of the original booklets The topics here include defence including opening leads signalling & third hand play declarer play including endplays simple squeezes loser on loser plays & timing There is also a general discussion of the mistakes we all make in cardplay but need to avoid This is the third volume in a three-volume series ' Mike Lawrence Bridge Tips' based on bridge tips for intermediate players first published twenty years ago ...

20 years ago bridge writer Mike Lawrence published a series of short pamphlets for intermediate players with advice on various aspects of bidding & card play Long unavailable this material has now been revised updated & republished in three anthology volumes each comprising about 10 of the original booklets Mike Lawrence is acknowledged as one of the two or three best writers in the world for intermediate players & there will be a ready audience for this series in its new format The second volume in a three-volume series ' Mike Lawrence Bridge Tips' based on bridge tips for intermediate players first published twenty years ago All the material has been completely revised & updated ...

A1 Midnight Party 232A2A Night On The Town 258A3 Lipstick Tree 317A4 Sweet Spot 313A5 Swingin' Spaceman 254A6 Chocolate Moon 219A7 Chop Socky 250A8 Electric Blue Eyelashes 349B1 Kitty's Daydream 232B2 Kadonka 314B3 Big Business 301B4 Good Little Demon 329B5 See The Beauty Touch The Magic 303B6 Wet Rainbow 441B7 Hot Banana 305B8 Up ' Til Dawn 252 ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play No couple could be more in love than Steven (Matthew Mc Conaughey) & Carol (Kate Beckinsale) But Steven has a little secret he&s been keeping to himself He has a twin brother (Gary Oldman) who just happens to be a dwarf In fact with the exception of Steven his entire family is made up of dwarfs So when Carol becomes pregnant & Steven is finally forced to tell her the truth
- their child may also be born a dwarf
- Carol decides to have the baby anyway knowing full well that when it comes to the important things in life it&s the little ones that truly matter Official selection at the 2004 Sundance Film Festival Actors Gary Oldman Peter Dinklage Kate Beckinsale Matthew Mc Conaughey Patricia Arquette & David Alan Grier Director Matthew Bright Certificate 15 years & over Year 2003 Languages English Duration 1 hour & 26 minutes (approx)

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As the late great Samuel Johnson sagely observed ' When a man is tired of London he is tired of life' When author Tom Jones found himself doing the same things week in week out while living in England's treasured capital he decided to heed Johnson's words & seek out a thing to do each day in London to make him fall back in love with the city Here in Tired of London Tired of Life Tom shares the fun diverting & imaginative things that you can do to keep yourself amused in London With seasonally appropriate suggestions for each day of the year you can explore East London by canoe search for Fagin's lair in Clerkenwell play petanque in Southwark seek out Aphrodite in the British Museum on Valentine's Day & enjoy a host of unusual ways to enjoy the capital So grab your A-Z & start discovering a whole other side to this majestic city ...