The fourth in the award winning British Comedy TV series featuring two elderly residents at the ' Bay view Retirement Village' who refuse to succumb to old age & the lifestyle that expectedly goes with it ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play All seven episodes from the first series of the BBC sitcom starring Stephanie Cole as Diana Trent & Graham Crowden as Tom Ballard two prickly residents of the Bayview Retirement Village who aren&t quite ready to give up on life yet In this series Diana has to do all she can to cheer up Tom after a health scare Diana might be in trouble after covering up her medical information & Diana tries to restart her career as a photojournalist Episodes are & Welcome to Bayview&; &A Trip to Brighton&; & Cheering Up Tom&; & The Christening&; & Fraulein Mueller&; & The Psychiatrist&; & & The Helicopter& ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play The fifth & final series of the award-winning British Comedy show featuring two elderly residents at the & Bayview Retirement Village& who refuse to succumb to old age & the expectations that go with it In Series Five Tom lands in jail after a driving lesson goes awry Meanwhile following Diana&s rejection of his marriage proposal Tom decides to go bungee jumping At the edge of his leap Diana withdraws her refusal but lays doewstrict ground rules for their future married life ...

Nothing happens nobody comes nobody goes it's awful' This line from the play was adopted by Jean Anouilh to characterize the first production of Waiting for Godot at the Theatre de Babylone in 1953 He went on to predict that the play would in time represent the most important premiere to be staged in Paris for forty years Nobody acquainted with Beckett's masterly black comedy would now question this prescient recognition of a classic of twentieth-century literature ...

Subtitled 'A tragicomedy in two Acts' & famously described by the Irish critic Vivien Mercier as a play in which 'nothing happens twice' En attendant Godot was first performed at the Theatre de Babylone in Paris in 1953 It was translated into English by Samuel Beckett & Waiting for Godot opened at the Arts Theatre in London in 1955 ' Go & see Waiting for Godot At the worst you will discover a curiosity a four-leaved clover a black tulip; at the best something that will securely lodge in a corner of your mind for as long as you live' Harold Hobson 7 August 1955'I told him that if by Godot I had meant God I would have said God & not Godot This seemed to disappoint him greatly' Samuel Beckett 1955 ...

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLERVienna 1913 Lysander Rief a young English actor sits in the waiting room of the city's preeminent psychiatrist as he anxiously ponders the particularly intimate nature of his neurosis When the enigmatic intensely beautiful Hettie Bull walks in Lysander is immediately drawn to her unaware of how destructive the consequences of their subsequent affair will be One year later home in London Lysander finds himself entangled in the dangerous web of wartime intelligence
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A personal exploration of the mysterious world of birds through a single year 368 pages Richardson Rosamond ...

For decades the Magistrate has run the affairs of a tiny frontier settlement ignoring the impending war between the barbarians & the Empire whose servant he is But when the interrogation experts arrive he is jolted into sympathy with the victims & into a quixotic act of rebellion which lands him in prison branded as an enemy of the state Waiting for the Barbarians is an allegory of oppressor & oppressed Not just a man living through a crisis of conscience in an obscure place in remote times the Magistrate is an analogue of all men living in complicity with regimes that ignore justice & decency ...

A moving & profound exploration of life's greatest mystery from one of the most revered religious figures of our time 176 pages Holloway Richard ...

Waiting For Wednesday by Nicci French is the thrilling third novel in the highly acclaimed Frieda Klein series Ruth Lennox beloved mother of three is found by her daughter in a pool of her own blood Who would want to murder an ordinary housewife? & why? Psychotherapist Frieda Klein finds she has an unusually personal connection with DCI Karlsson's latest case She is no longer working with him in an official capacity but when her niece befriends Ruth Lennox's son Ted she finds herself in the awkward position of confidante to both Karlsson & Ted When it emerges that Ruth was leading a secret life her family closes ranks & Karlsson finds he needs Frieda's help more than ever before But Frieda is distracted Having survived an attack on her life she is struggling to stay in control & when a patient's chance remark rings an alarm bell she finds herself chasing down a path that seems to lead to a serial killer who has long escaped detection Or is it merely a symptom of her own increasingly fragile mind? Because as Frieda knows every step closer to a killer is one more step into a darkness from which there may be no return Praise for Nicci French' Nicci French's sophisticated compassionate & gripping crime novels stand head & shoulders above the competition No one understands human psychological frailty better No one writes better about grief love fear or emotional damage Not many books are as insightful as they are addictive; Nicci French's are' Sophie Hannah' Brilliantly crafted' Daily Mirror' Full of dark psychology & tension nerve-tingling & addictive' Daily Express' Magnificent' Evening Standard ...