Set in the Alaskan landscape that she brought to stunningly vivid life in THE SNOW CHILD (a Sunday Times bestseller Richard & Judy pick & finalist for the Pulitzer Prize) Eowyn Ivey's TO THE BRIGHT EDGE OF THE WORLD is a breathtaking story of discovery set at the end of the nineteenth century sure to appeal to fans of A PLACE CALLED WINTERNOMINATED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL DUBLIN LITERARY AWARD 2017'A clever ambitious novel' The Sunday Times' Persuasive & vivid Breathtaking' Guardian Winter 1885 Lieutenant Colonel Allen Forrester accepts the mission of a lifetime to navigate Alaska's Wolverine River It is a journey that promises to open up a land shrouded in mystery but there's no telling what awaits Allen & his small band of men Allen leaves behind his young wife Sophie newly pregnant with the child he had never expected to have Sophie would have loved nothing more than to carve a path through the wilderness alongside Allen
- what she does not anticipate is that their year apart will demand every ounce of courage of her that it does of her husband
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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 Christopher Lee stars in this British horror directed by Peter Sykes The film follows Michael Rayner (Lee) an excommunicated priest turned Satanist who places young girl Catherine Beddows (Nastassja Kinski) under his spell hoping that she will bear a child that will be the offspring of Satan However when Catherine&s father Henry (Denholm Elliott) asks occult novelist John Verney (Richard Widmark) for help Verney springs into action & does all he can to take down the evil Rayner & get Catherine out alive ...

Please note this is a region B Blu-ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-ray player in order to play Television drama charting the dazzling & hazardous sea journey from England to Australia in 1812 as experienced through the eyes of a young Englishman Edmund Talbot Based on the trilogy by William Golding the bulk of the story is set on board a ship on the high seas towards the end of the Napoleonic War ...

Come on a new magical colouring adventure from your home right the way to the ends of the earth! Colour your way through a riotous world of dragons witches lagoons mountains & deserts inspired by folk tales & landscapes from around the globe With a beautiful scene that folds horizontally & stretches to an amazing 17 feet (5 metres) this is the longest colouring adventure in the world! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play From Nobel Laureate William Golding&s (Lord of the Flies) epic sea-voyage trilogy comes the story of an ambitious British aristocrat humbled by the lives of his fellow passengers as he embarks on an ocean voyage for Australia where he is to be an official in the colonial government ...

Samuel Johnson & James Boswell spent the autumn of 1773 touring through the Lowlands & Highlands of Scotland as far west as the islands of Skye Raasay Coll Mull Inchkenneth & Iona Here they paint a picture of a society which was still almost unknown to the Europe of the Enlightenment 640 pages Maps; 16 Plates black & white ...

'I am making up " To the Lighthouse"
- the sea is to be heard all through it' Inspired by the lost bliss of her childhood summers
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Mr & Mrs Ramsay & their eight children have always holidayed at their summer house in Skye surrounded by family friends The novel's opening section teems with the noise complications bruised emotions joys & quiet tragedies of everyday family life that might go on forever But time passes bringing with it war & death & the summer home stands empty until one day many years later when the family return to make the long-postponed visit to the lighthouse One of the great literary achievements of the twentieth century To the Lighthouse is at once an intensely autobiographical & universally moving masterpiece ...

With an Introduction & Notes by Dr Nicola Bradbury University of Reading This simple & haunting story captures the transcience of life & its surrounding emotions To the Lighthouse is the most autobiographical of Virginia Woolf's novels It is based on her own early experiences & while it touches on childhood & children's perceptions & desires it is at its most trenchant when exploring adult relationships marriage & the changing class-structure in the period spanning the Great War ...

A pioneering work of modernist fiction using her unique stream-of-consciousness technique to explore the inner lives of her characters Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse is widely regarded as one of the greatest artistic achievements of the twentieth century This Penguin Classics edition is edited by Stella Mc Nichol with an introduction & notes by Hermione Lee To the Lighthouse is at once a vivid impressionistic depiction of a family holiday & a meditation on marriage on parenthood & childhood on grief tyranny & bitterness For years now the Ramsays have spent every summer in their holiday home in Scotland & they expect these summers will go on forever; but as the First World War looms the integrity of family & society will be fatally challenged With a psychologically introspective mode the use of memory reminiscence & shifting perspectives gives the novel an intimate poetic essence & at the time of publication in 1927 it represented an utter rejection of Victorian & Edwardian literary values Virginia Woolf (1882-1941) is regarded as a major 20th century author & essayist a key figure in literary history as a feminist & modernist & the centre of ' The Bloomsbury Group' an informal collective of artists & writers that exerted a powerful influence over early twentieth-century British culture Between 1925 & 1931 Virginia Woolf produced what are now regarded as her finest masterpieces from Mrs Dalloway (1925) to the poetic & highly experimental novel The Waves (1931) She also maintained an astonishing output of literary criticism short fiction journalism & biography including the playfully subversive Orlando (1928) & A Room of One's Own (1929) a passionate feminist essay If you enjoyed To the Lighthouse you might like James Joyce's A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man also available in Penguin Classics' Bears endless re-reading the sea encircles the story in a brilliant ebb & flow' Rachel Billington ...