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 ...

John Grimes will one day command his own starship & change the course of Galactic history But right now he a wet-behind-the-ears junior officer who finds that he keeps running into problems which were never covered in his courses at the Academy Introducing three John Grimes novels (The Road to the Rim To Prime the Pump The Broken Cycle) by A Bertram Chandler & a story collection (The Hard Way Up) all in one attractively-priced volume of space adventure ...

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 ...

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 ...

When Mrs Ramsay tells her guests at her summer house on the Isle of Skye that they will be able to visit the nearby lighthouse the following day little does she know that this trip will only be completed ten years later by her husband & that a gulf of war grief & loss will have opened in the meantime ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hot on the heels of her acclaimed success in The Good Life Penelope Keith undertook a role that would further confirm her place as one of Britain&s leading comic actors the role of Audrey Fforbes-Hamilton in To The Manor Born Series One first broadcast in 1979 finds Audrey mourning the death of her husband but more importantly mourning his inability to handle his financial affairs Forced to sell her beloved Grantleigh Manor she is equally distressed to find it bought by upstart businessman Richard De Vere a man with no concept of the history or the valued place of the Estate in the community Audrey must roll her sleeves up It&s time for the ex-Lady of the Manor to put the new Lord in his place or vice versa A battle of wits is about to take place that will find the winner To The Manor Born ...

From 1 New York Times-bestselling author Kingsbury comes a new love story in the Baxter Family collection about two people who lost their parents in the same national tragedy--two people desperate to find each other & the connection they shared for a single day that changed everythinghing 384 pages Kingsbury Karen ...

Climb up to the moon with this amazing fold-out colouring book the tallest in the world! Colour an amazing tower all the way from your house down on the ground past dragons witches space ports & flying elephants to reach the moon at the very top! Grab your pens & let's get going! Can you climb all the way to the moon? ...