We all know who The Girl is She holds The Hero's hand as he runs through the Pyramids chasing robots Or she nags him or foils him plays the uptight straight man to his charming loser She's idealised degraded dismissed objectified & almost always dehumanised How do we process these insidious portrayals & how do they shape our sense of who we are & what we can become? Part memoir part cultural commentary part call to arms to women everywhere You Play The Girl flips the perspective on the past thirty-five years in pop culture
- from the progressive 70s through the backlash 80s the triumphalist 90s & the pornified 'bro culture' of the early twenty-first century
- providing a firsthand chronicle of the experience of growing up inside this funhouse Always incisive Chocano brilliantly shows that our identities are more iterative than we think & certainly more complex than anything we see on any kind of screen

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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 All 25 episodes from Series 1-4 of the BBC comedy from writers Jimmy Perry & David Croft When Alf Stokes (Paul Shane) & James Twelvetrees (Jeffrey Holland) meet in the trenches of World War One they help save the life of a wounded officer Years later they both find themselves working on the household staff of that officer&s brother Lord Meldrum (Donald Hewlett) Episodes are The Phantom Sign Writer& &A Deed of Gift& & Love & Money& & Fair Shares& & Beg Borrow or Steal& & Labour of Love& & Trouble at Mill& & Money Talks& & The Meldrum Vases& & The Wounds of War& & Stranger in the Night& & Royal Flush& & Please Help the Orphans& & Current Affairs& & Mrs Lipton&s Nasty Turn& & Meet the Workers& & Gretna Green or Bust& & The Night of Reckoning& &A Day in the Country& & Yes SIr That&s My Baby& & Requiem for a Parrot& & Come to the Ball& & The Truth Revealed& & Fall of the House of Meldrum& & & Well There You Are Then!& ...

Charlotte Goodman is living the dream Surrounded by family friends & a stunning vineyard overlooking the ocean it would be ...

At 2 am on the morning of her fortieth birthday Sophie wakes to find an intruder in her bedroom The stranger hands Sophie a letter & issues an threat open the letter at her party that evening in front of family & friends at exactly 8 pm or those she loves will be in grave danger What can the letter possibly contain? This will be no ordinary party; Sophie is not the only person keeping a secret about the evening ahead When the clock strikes eight the course of several people's lives will be altered for ever ...

What happens when you get in the way of your happiness? If you enjoy drama intrigue exploring human nature & conflict
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Challenge your friends! Do your friends know what your dream holiday destination is or which celebrity would you choose to dine with? Test them by offering them a question & a set of alternatives & let them answer with answering cards All players in majority group win a card & first to 5 cards wins! For 3-6 players Contents 200 cards & rules Do your friends know what your dream holiday destination is or which celebrity you would choose to dine with? Test them by offering them a question & a set of alternatives & let them answer using the cards Simple fun & fast game play Country of origin- Finland ...

Glenn Armstrong is known as ' The Millionaire Maker'
- not just making millions for himself but guiding others to follow their
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The next voice of a generation' Elle LONGLISTED FOR THE GORDON BURN PRIZE A young woman called A lives with a young woman called B B is becoming more & more like A wearing her clothes using her make-up If A's boyfriend C likes A because A is A but now B is the same is A where does that leave A? Brilliant A contemporary take on Single White Female as scripted by Miranda July shot through with elements of a distinctly Atwoodian dystopia' Observer A disturbing super-smart mystery' Daily Mail As good a debut as I've ever read' Zadie Smith ...

You Took the Last Bus Home is the first & long-awaited collection of ingeniously hilarious & surprisingly touching poems from Brian Bilston the mysterious Poet Laureate of Twitter' With endless wit imaginative wordplay & underlying heartache he offers profound insights into modern life exploring themes as diverse as love death the inestimable value of a mobile phone charger the unbearable torment of forgetting to put the rubbish out & the improbable nuances of the English language Constantly experimenting with literary form Bilston's words have been known to float off the page take the shape of the subjects they explore & reflect our contemporary world in the form of Excel spreadsheets Venn diagrams & Scrabble tiles This irresistibly charming collection of his best-loved poems will make you question the very essence of the human condition in the twenty-first century YOU TOOK THE LAST BUS HOMEyou tookthe last bus homedon't know howyou got it through the dooryou're always doing amazing stufflike the timewhen you caught that train ...

YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGET OFF GET OFF GET OFF! Well what would you say if your brother kept whacking you with a spoon or the spider made it all the way up the toilet bowl or your mum made you wear that horrible shirt? Find out in this fantastically funny collection of poems all about growing up from the brilliant Michael Rosen Children's Laureate 2007
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