Geography with the gritty bits left in! Inside you'll find out what happens when a volcano turns nasty whether you'd survive at the frozen poles how a frog can help you get a drink in the desert Hold on tight as you embark on a whistle-stop trip around the globe taking in everything from the perishing poles to desperate deserts stormy weather to earth-shattering earthquakes Crammed full of far-out facts it's the ultimate Horrible Geography guide to the planet Geography has never been so horrible! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A policeman is called to an insular island community to find a missing girl What appears to be a straight forward search for information soon turns into something sinister when he discovers things are not quiet what they seem ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Passion never dies Young Chicago investment banker Matthew (Hartnett) believes a woman he sees in a cafe is his long-lost love His fascination quickly leads to obsession as he puts his life on hold to follow her leading him down a dangerous path that will end in Wicker Park A stylish US remake of the French thriller L& Appartement Actors Rose Byrne Josh Hartnett Matthew Lillard Diane Kruger Christopher Cousins & Jessica Pare Director Paul Mc Guigan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2004 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired Duration 1 hour & 50 minutes (approx)
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Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play Director Robin Hardy revisits his 1974 cult classic The Wicker Man with this related horror film concerning a cowboy (Henry Garrett) & a gospel singer (Brittania Nicol) who stop in Ireland on a missionary excursion only to come in contact with an aristocrat (Graham Mc Tavish) whose nefarious plans don&t include being reformed by their Christian ways Age Rating 15 ...

Director Robin Hardy revisits his 1974 cult classic The Wicker Man with this related horror film concerning a cowboy (Henry Garrett) & a gospel singer (Brittania Nicol) who stop in Ireland on a missionary excursion only to come in contact with an aristocrat (Graham Mc Tavish) whose nefarious plans don&t include being reformed by their Christian ways ...

These stories are adapted from the Wide Eye TV series & feature a cast of unusual & endearing animal characters who live in the Natterjack Forest ...

A gorgeous clothbound edition of Jean Rhys's great masterpiece of desire & madness in the Caribbean published for the novel's fiftieth anniversary Born into the oppressive colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality After their marriage however disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness & her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine This classic study of betrayal a seminal work of postcolonial literature is Jean Rhys's brief beautiful masterpiece' She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century & turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts The Times ...

Jean Rhys's spell-binding novel Wide Sargasso Sea inspired by Jane Eyre & winner the Royal Society of Literature Award is beautifully repackaged as part of the Penguin Essentials range' There is no looking glass here & I don't know what I am like now Now they have taken everything away What am I doing in this place & who am I?' If Antoinette Cosway a spirited Creole heiress could have foreseen the terrible future that awaited her she would not have married the young Englishman Initially drawn to her beauty & sensuality he becomes increasingly frustrated by his inability to reach into her soul He forces Antoinette to conform to his rigid Victorian ideals unaware that in taking away her identity he is destroying a part of himself as well as pushing her towards madness Set against the lush backdrop of 1830s Jamaica Jean Rhys's powerful haunting masterpiece was inspired by her fascination with the first Mrs Rochester the mad wife in Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre' Compelling painful & exquisite' Guardian' Brilliant A tale of dislocation & dispossession which Rhys writes with a kind of romantic cynicism desperate & pungent' The Times' Rhys turns a menacing cipher into a grieving plausible young woman & one whose story says whole worlds about global mixtures about the misunderstandings between the colonized the colonizers & the people who can't easily say which they are' Time Jean Rhys was born in Dominica in 1890 the daughter of a Welsh doctor & a white Creole mother & came to England when she was sixteen Her first book a collection of stories called The Left Bank was published in 1927 This was followed by Quartet (originally Postures 1928) After Leaving Mr Mackenzie (1930) Voyage in the Dark (1934) & Good Morning Midnight (1939) None of these books was particularly successful & with the outbreak of war they went out of print Jean Rhys dropped from sight until nearly twenty years later she was discovered living reclusively in Cornwall During those years she had accumulated the stories collected in Tigers are Better-Looking In 1966 she made a sensational reappearance with Wide Sargasso Sea which won the Royal Society of Literature Award & the W H Smith Award Her final collection of stories Sleep It Off Lady appeared in 1976 & Smile Please her unfinished autobiography was published posthumously in 1979 Jean Rhys died in 1979 ...

Her grand attempt to tell what she felt was the story of Jane Eyre's 'madwoman in the attic' Bertha Rochester Jean Rhys's Wide Sargasso Sea is edited with an introduction & notes by Angela Smith in Penguin Classics Born into the oppressive colonialist society of 1930s Jamaica white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality After their marriage however disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness & her husband into the arms of another novel's heroine This classic study of betrayal a seminal work of postcolonial literature is Jean Rhys's brief beautiful masterpiece Jean Rhys (1894-1979) was born in Dominica Coming to England aged 16 she drifted into various jobs before moving to Paris where she began writing & was 'discovered' by Ford Madox Ford Her novels often portraying women as underdogs out to exploit their sexualities were ahead of their time & only modestly successful From 1939 (when Good Morning Midnight was written) onwards she lived reclusively & was largely forgotten when she made a sensational comeback with her account of Jane Eyre's Bertha Rochester Wide Sargasso Sea in 1966 If you enjoyed Wide Sargasso Sea you might like Charlotte Bronte's Jane Eyre also available in Penguin Classics' She took one of the works of genius of the nineteenth century & turned it inside-out to create one of the works of genius of the twentieth century' Michele Roberts The Times ...

Inspired by Charlotte Bronte's ' Jane Eyre' WIDE SARGASSO SEA is set in 1830's Jamaica Born into an oppressive colonialist society white Creole heiress Antoinette Cosway meets a young Englishman who is drawn to her innocent beauty & sensuality After their marriage however disturbing rumours begin to circulate which poison her husband against her Caught between his demands & her own precarious sense of belonging Antoinette is inexorably driven towards madness This classic study of betrayal is Jean Rhys' brief beautiful masterpiece ...