During the sixty-odd years of her reign Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. This book follows the lives of six members of her household from the governess to the royal children, to her maid-of-honour, chaplain & pers ...

During the sixty-odd years of her reign, Queen Victoria gathered around her a household dedicated to her service. By following the lives of six members of her household
- from governess to maid-of-honour, chaplain to personal physician
- Serving Victoria offers a unique insight into the Victorian court with all its frustrations & absurdities. Sitting squarely at its centre is Victoria, & through the eyes of her household we see a Queen who is more vulnerable, more emotional, more selfish & more comical than is generally supposed. A woman who was prone to fits of giggles, who wept easily & often, who gobbled her food & shrank from confrontation, while insisting on controlling the lives of those around her. Serving Victoria provides a glimpse of what it meant & what it was like to serve the Queen. It is shortlisted for the 2012 Costa Biography Award.

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Get ready to move & dance with Elmo & friends! Join Elmo & Zoe in this double DVD release to help children get off the sofa & moving to fun exercises. Learn how to dance, bend, twist, hop & jump into shape. Gues star guests include Cyndi Lauper & Paula Abdul. Approx Run Time 70 Minutes ...

Have you ever heard of an Elmosaurus? How about a Telly Rex? Join Sesame Street's curious red monster as he explores dinosaurs! What did dinosaurs eat? How did they move? What did they look like? & what would happen if Elmo, Telly, & Abby became dinosaurs?!? All these questions & more are answered in this charming & informative story which features Dorothy, Mr. Noodle, new songs, & a dinosaur on Sesame Street!

Includes:: DVD extra
- Journey to Ernie: Dinosaurs


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Once upon a time on Sesame Street, there lived a fairy in training named Abby Cadabby who loved playing princess with friends like Rosita. But what happens when a misguided Prince (Paul Rudd) tries to rescue them? Pretending & the letter P are the focus of more stories in this enchanting DVD, which also features fun with Elmo & Natalie Portman in the ' The Princess & The Elephant'. Included as a special bonus are two episodes of Sesame Street's new animated show, Abby's Flying Fairy School. ...

On a frosty winter's morning, DI John Rebus & a group of colleagues are in the company of an expert archaeologist on a tour of Queensbury House
- an ex-hospital about to house Her Majesty's parliament in Scotland
- when they stumble across a mummified body secreted behind a wall. Later that same day, a tramp jumps off the North Bridge though the glass roof of Waverly Station, a not unusual occurrence except that ' Supertramp' had in his possession a building society passbook with a balance of over 400, 000 in it. The two cases seem unconnected until a third death
- of a high-profile prospective Member of the Scottish Parliament
- is discovered in Queensbury House's disused summer-house. As Rebus & his h&-picked crew dig up secrets twenty years buried, it begins to look as if Scotland's second attempt at devolution though more successful will be just as dirty... Read by Samuel Gillies



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Edinburgh is about to become the home of the first Scottish parliament in 300 years. As political passions run high, DI John

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Samuel Godwin, an art tutor has two tutees, Marianne & Juliana. Assisted by their governess, Samuel begins to uncover why Marianne is emotionally fragile. But his discoveries lead to revenge & betrayal
- & lives all around are turned upside down. This work is a novel in diary style, combining different voices & a different century.
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Recovering from the tragic death of his wife, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with his sister-in-law, Lucy, & her husb&. Their home is a bizarre moated house deep in the Rutland countryside, known as Otherways. Disturbed by memories of his wife, & a growing attraction to Lucy, Sheridan is also troubled by weird & vivid dreams. Soon he learns that Otherways is a house steeped in a history of murder & wartime treason. & it seems that these crimes hold an eerie influence over the present inhabitants. ...

Recovering from the recent death of his wife in a cliff fall, Tony Sheridan goes to stay with her sister & her husband at their house in Rutl&. The house, called Otherways, is in some senses a character in the story: a strange, circular, moted construction dating from Edwardian times. Disturbed by memories of his wife & a growing attraction to her sister, & troubled by vivid dreams, Sheridan learns that a murder committed at the house in 1939 still has resonances for those living in the neighbourhood, including the sister of the murdered woman. There is a scandal surrounding the murderer ...