Alan Rickman remains one of the most beloved actors of all time across almost every genre, from his breakout role as Die Hard's villainous Hans Gruber to his heart-wrenching run as Professor Severus Snape, & beyond. His air of dignity, his sonorous voice & the knowing wit he brought to each role continue to captivate new audiences today. But Rickman's artistry wasn't confined to just his performances. Rickman's writing details the extraordinary & the ordinary in a way that is anecdotal, indiscreet, witty, gossipy & utterly candid. He takes us behind the scenes on films & plays ranging from Sense & Sensibility, the Harry Potter series, Private Lives, My Name Is Rachel Corrie & many more. The diaries run from 1993 to his death in 2016 & offer insight into both a public & private life. Here is Rickman the consummate professional actor, but also the friend, the traveller, the fan, the director, the enthusiast: in short, the real Alan Rickman. Here is a life fully lived, a... ...

Howard Henley is not a killer.

That seems obvious to lawyer Janet Moodie when she's called in to work his appeal.

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Madness is something that frightens & fascinates us all. It is a word with which we are universally familiar, & a condition that haunts the human imagination. In this Very Short Introduction, Andrew Scull examines the social, historical & culturally ...

Madresfield Court is an arrestingly romantic stately home in the Malvern Hills in Worcestershire. It has been continuously owned & lived in by the same family, the Lygons, back to the time of the Domesday Book. This book explores its treasures & secrets. ...

Marco Polo Madrid City Map: the ideal map for your trip
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An enormous tidal wave on the west coast of North America has just killed millions. Lenie Clarke, in a black wetsuit, walks out of the ocean onto a Pacific Northwest beach filled with the oppressed & drugged homeless of the Asian world, who have gotten only this far in their attempt to reach America. Is she a monster or a goddess? ...

By day Judith Rashleigh is a put-upon assistant at a London auction house. By night she's a hostess in one of the capital's unsavoury

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Here are 5 heartwarming tales from Maeve Binchy full of love, loss, change & reflection perfect for fans of great fiction & a greater author. Night of Rain & Stars. In a Greek taverna, high over the small village of Aghia Anna, four people meet for the first time: Fiona, an Irish nurse, Thomas, a Californian academic; Elsa, a German television presenter; & David a shy English boy. Along with Andreas, the old man who runs the taverna, they become close to each other after witnessing a tragedy when a pleasure steamer catches fire in the harbour. Whitehorn Woods. The town of Rossmore is a special place, full of character charm. Nestled beside the Whitethorn Woods, the town has grown since the days when it was small & friendly & everyone knew everyone else; now it has chain stories & traffic problems & housing estates. But still, there are the woods, full of spiky bushes & criss-crossed with paths; & there's St Ann's Well, where generations have come to pray or make wishes or just to look back at the pretty little town. Which is why there is going to be such a fuss about the plans for the new motorway. It's going to by-pass Rossmore, cutting through Whitethorn Woods & endangering the well itself. The new road will bring jobs & relieve traffic in the town; for others, it will destroy businesses & leave the town a backwater. The people of Rossmore are divided. There is a lot of land standing in the way of the great road of progress. Quite by accident the decision rests on Neddy Nolan
- the most honest man in Rossmore. A man determined to do the right thing. Evening Class. The Italian evening class at Mountainview School is like hundreds of others starting up all over the city. But this class has its own special quality
- as the focus for the varied hopes & dreams of teacher & pupils alike. Aidan Dunne needs his new evening class project to succeed almost as much as his pupils do. They too are looking for something more: Bill to find a way to keep spendthrift Lizzie at his side & Fran to make sure that young Kathy finds her way out from behind the kitchen sink. The key to their success lies with the Signora. Her passion has drawn her from Ireland to Italy & back home again with a burning desire to share her love of all things Italian
- & a secret hidden in her heart.. . This Year It Will Be Different. There are step-families grappling with exes; long-married couples faced with in-law problems; a wandering husband choosing between the other woman & his wife; a child caught up in a grown-up tug-of-war... The Return Journey. A secretary's silent passion for her boss meets the acid test on a business trip; a man & a woman's mutual disdain at first sight shows how deceptive appearances can be; an insecure wife clings to the illusion of order, only to discover chaos at the hands of a house-sitter who opens the wrong doors; a pair of star-crossed travellers pick up each other's bags, & then learn when you unlock a stranger's suitcase, you enter a stranger's life. Approx size is 18cm x 11.3cm x 10.6cm


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Stateless & destitute after the Second World War, Magda Janek settles in the Welsh town of Pontypridd, in the hope of building a new life for herself & her baby daughter, Helena. All Magda has to give Helena are the ambitions she had once cherished for herself; dreams cruelly snatched from her by the war & its terrible aftermath. But 1960s Pontypridd is a place of opportunity
- at twenty-one, Magda's daughter has beauty, confidence & prospects beyond even her mother's wildest imaginings. With a university degree behind her, a coveted teaching post in her old Grammar school, & marriage to the love of her life, Dr Eddie John, the son of an old Pontypridd family to look forward to, Helena couldn't have been happier. Until tragedy strikes. A tragedy that robs Helena of the only family she has ever known & everything she has ever believed in; Helena uncovers a bitter secret, so explosive that her mother carried it to the grave.
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Dozens of inventive ways to use rubber stamps, inks, papers, & festive embellishments to great effect from Magenta, the world-renowned paper craft company. Techniques include: ghost stamping, colouring & embossing, making paper beads, die-cut windows, pieced paper, Bargello, swivel panel card, layered Peel Off ...