Violent crime comedy directed by Academy Award-winner Martin Mc Donagh. After being ordered to murder a priest in London, hitmen Ray (Colin Farrell) & Ken (Brendan Gleeson) are told by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to hide out in Bruges, Belgium for a ...

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Intends to reconstruct the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & children. This title explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. It focuses on the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who are shown to be reprehensible, yet entirely & frighteningly human. ...

The chilling true crime non-fiction novel that made Truman Capotes name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill & powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Controversial & compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & both their children. Truman Capotes comprehensive study of the killings & subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely & frighteningly human.

Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first
- & last
- regular job. He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories, novels & novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.






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Forces us to reconsider much received wisdom about the war & illuminates an unjustly neglected period of his life the Second Wilderness Years of 1945-51, when Churchill, now over seventy, wrote himself into history, politicked himself back into Downing Street & delivered some of the most important speeches of his career. ...

Anti-American sentiments have swept the globe. But there is another side to the story. This book shows how critics of America take the best of it for granted & exaggerate the worst. It reveals a world in danger of fighting to keep the giant at bay, when the harder task is to give America good reason to keep engaged. ...

Inviting you to junk the science, ditch the diet & instead rediscover the joys of eating well, this title features a few pieces of advice (Eat at a table
- a desk doesn't count. Don't buy food where you'd buy your petrol!) that means that you can enrich your life & your palate, & enlarge your sense of what it means to be healthy & happy.
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In this volume, English historian Richard Evans offers a defence of his craft. At a time of deep scepticism about our ability to learn anything from the past, even to recapture any serious sense of past cultures & ways of life, Evans shows us why history is possible & necessary. ...

Suitable for the Drake scholar & the armchair traveller alike, this pictorial, topographical text is laced with research techniques, discoveries & adventures in reaching all the Drake places. It is written on location by an intrepid adventurer with a Drake's-eye view. ...

The author spent the year 1999 criss-crossing the continent. This book offers an account of that journey, full of diaries, newspaper reports & memoirs, & the voices of prominent figures & unknown players; from the grandson of Kaiser Wilhelm II to Adriana Warno in Pol&, with her holiday job at the gates of the camp at Birkenau. ...