Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Elegant tale based on James Fox&s book about the British colony living in Kenya&s Happy Valley during the early days of WW2 & the true story of a husband&s response to the local stud stealing his beautiful wife Diana falls in love with Joss Hay (Charles Dance) who publicly flaunts his desire for Broughton&s wife ...

Explaining the process & energetics of Daoist internal alchemy the author describes in detail the practice of Nei Dan the alchemical firing practice of Daoism that has until very recently been a closely guarded secret Drawing together a huge amount of esoteric material on the hidden aspects of Daoist practice he presents theory & practice coherently for western practitioners He offers his own experiences of each stage of attainment describing the tangible results that should appear & provides guidance on the practicalities & potential pitfalls of alchemical training ...

Home to mythical kingdoms wars & expeditions & strange & magical beasts the Himalayas have always loomed tall in our imagination Overrun at different times by Buddhism Taoism shamanism Islam & Christianity they are a grand central station of the world's religions They are also a plant hunter's paradise a climber's challenge & a traveller's dream In his quest to explore the region's seismic history Twigger seeks out the Nagas who helped his grandfather build a camp for Allied soldiers near Imphal during the Second World War & takes the most scenic bike ride in the world from Lhasa to Kathmandu The result is a sweeping fascinating & surprising journey through the history of the world's greatest mountain range ...

From the author of the Samuel Johnson prize-shortlisted Return of a King' the romantic & ultimately tragic tale of a passionate love affair that transcended all the cultural religious & political boundaries of its time James Achilles Kirkpatrick was the British Resident at the court of Hyderabad when he met Khair un-Nissa
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- the great-niece of the Prime Minister of Hyderabad He fell in love with her & overcame many obstacles to marry her converting to Islam & according to Indian sources becoming a double-agent working against the East India Company It is a remarkable story but such things were not unknown from the early sixteenth century to the eve of the Indian Mutiny the white Mughals' who wore local dress & adopted Indian ways were a source of embarrassment to successive colonial administrations Dalrymple unearths such colourful figures as Hindoo Stuart' who travelled with his own team of Brahmins to maintain his temple of idols & Sir David Auchterlony who took all 13 of his Indian wives out for evening promenades each on the back of her own elephant In White Mughals' William Dalrymple discovers a world almost entirely unexplored by history & places at its centre a compelling tale of seduction & betrayal

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Following on from the award-winning Raven Black White Nights is the second title in Ann Cleeves' popular Shetland crime series featuring Detective Jimmy Perez When Shetland detective Jimmy Perez finds a body in a hut used by fishermen it seems to be a straightforward case of suicide He recognizes the victim
- a stranger with amnesia who had disrupted a local party the night before his death Yet this is no desperate act of anguish but the work of a cold & calculating killer As Perez investigates he finds himself mired in the hidden secrets of the small Biddista community Then another body is found Perez knows he must break the cycle before another death occurs But this is a crazy time of year when night blurs into day & nothing is quite as it seems
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' My God! A whole minute of bliss! Is that really so little for the whole of a man's life?'A poignant tale of love & loneliness from Russia's foremost writer One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range & diversity with works from around the world & across the centuries
- including fables decadence heartbreak tall tales satire ghosts battles & elephants
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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 An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her He is to become a dancer for the Bolshoi again but he wishes to escape but can he trust the American? ...

Supernatural thriller based on the phenomenon known as EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena) Jonathan Rivers (Michael Keaton) lives a peaceful life until his wife Anna (Chandra West) is murdered When he is contacted by a man (Ian Mc Neice) who claims to be receiving messages from Anna through EVP Jonathan becomes convinced that the messages are real & sets about trying to contact her on his own ...