Two films by multi-Oscar nominated director Billy Wilder. Wilder's films were known for having substance as well as mass appeal
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Lottie Brooks is BACK & she's as BRILLIANT as ever! At long last Lottie & Daniel are an official couple & everything seems to be going brilliantly (except for Amber being increasingly mean & jealous, but what's new there?). Meanwhile Toby's new year's resolution is to get a dog, & for once Lottie & him see eye to eye. Pot Noodle, the cockapoo, becomes the newest member of the Brooks family. He's VERY cute but also not toilet trained AT ALL. Lottie soon finds having a new boyfriend & a new dog means she has little time for anyone else, leaving her best friends pretty upset. How is Lottie meant to keep everybody happy & stop Pot Noodle from pooing on the carpet?! Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9780241647257 •†Author: Katie Kirby •†Publisher: Puffin •†Format:†Hardback •†Pages:†448 •†Dimensions: 16 x 4 x 22cm ...

Celebrate & experience the creation of director Christopher Nolans gripping new war thriller Dunkirk with this in-depth look at how it was brought to the screen.

Featuring interviews with the director & key department heads, this book delves into every aspect of the production.

Filled with never-seen-before set photography from the shoot in this comprehensive, & revelatory, The Making of Dunkirk ultimate insiders look book!

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• ISBN: 9781785656798
• Author: James Mottram
• Publisher: Titan Books
• Format: Hardback
• Pages: 144
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In " The Making of Modern Britain", Andrew Marr paints a fascinating portrait of life in Britain during the first half of the twentieth century as the country recovered from the grand wreckage of the British Empire. Between the death of Queen Victoria & the end of the Second World War, the nation was shaken by war & peace. The two wars were the worst we had ever known & the episodes of peace among the most turbulent & surprising. As the political forum moved from Edwardian smoking rooms to an increasingly democratic Westminster, the people of Britain experimented with extreme ideas as they struggled to answer the question ' How should we live?' Socialism? Fascism? Feminism? Meanwhile, fads such as eugenics, vegetarianism & nudism were gripping the nation, while the popularity of the music hall soared. It was also a time that witnessed the birth of the media as we know it today & the beginnings of the welfare state. Beyond trenches, flappers & Spitfires, this is a story of strange cults & economic madness, of revolutionaries & heroic inventors, sexual experiments & raucous stage heroines. From organic food to drugs, nightclubs & celebrities to package holidays, crooked bankers to sleazy politicians, the echoes of today's Britain ring from almost every page. ...

Just as Star Wars: Episode VI Return of the Jedi completed the most successful cinematic trilogy of its generation, perhaps of all time, this splendid thirtieth-anniversary tribute concludes New York Times bestselling author J. W. Rinzler’s trio of breathtaking books celebrating George Lucas’s classic saga.
Once again, the author’s unprecedented access to the Lucasfilm Archives has yielded a mother lode of fascinating & often unexpected revelations from behind the scenes of a blockbuster in the making. Brimming with previously unpublished photos, concept artwork, script excerpts, storyboards, on-set interviews & present-day commentary, The Making of Return of the Jedi chronicles ‘how George Lucas & his crew of extroverted artists, misfits & expert craftspeople roused themselves to great heights for a third time’ to create the next unforgettable chapter in one of the most beloved stories in movie history. Get up close to the action & feel like a studio insider as:

* George Lucas, Oscar-nominated screenwriter Lawrence Kasdan & director Richard Marquand huddle in a script conference to debate the destinies of iconic Star Wars characters

* The artists & technicians at the ground-breaking Industrial Light & Magic facility surpass their own revolutionary innovations with boundary-pushing new visual effects

* A crack team of sculptors, puppeteers, actors & ‘monstermakers’ brings Jabba the Hutt & his unsavoury cohorts to startling, slobbering life

* Actors & crew race to the finish line at Elstree Studios, in a fiery desert & beneath the canopy of a dense redwood forest to provide answers to the questions that audiences had waited three years to find out: Is Darth Vader really Luke’s father? Who is the mysterious ‘other’? & who, or what, is the Emperor?

Star Wars luminaries from both sides of the camera, including Mark Hamill, Harrison Ford, Carrie Fisher, Anthony Daniels, Peter Mayhew, David Prowse, Alec Guinness, director R










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Lydia, Robyn & Dean don't know each other
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Details: Rosie Goodwin's dramatic addition to Catherine Cookson's series. Each & every generation of the Mallen family
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The Malvern Hills, an official Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, have fired the imagination of painters, poets, writers, composers & scientists for many years. & the area has not lost any of its power to surprise, charm & thrill. The Malverns run almost directly north-south along the Herefordshire-Worcestershire border, dipping into Gloucestershire at its southern most end. The special quality of the Malverns lies in the contrasts. They make up an easily identifiable narrow ridge that thrust above the patchwork farmland of the Severn Vale 600 million years ago, producing a mountain range in miniature. Mike Smart's collection of photographs capture the spirit of these hills. ...

Despite our tendency to think of the demonic as evil & the angelic as good, our own legends don't always bear this out. Angels can be the incarnation of light & salvation, but they can also fall
- Satan himself is a fallen angel. Demons can be truly demonic, but these unearthly creatures can also, on occasion, lend humankind a h&. Temptation can lead to revelation, supernatural messengers who bring true justice may not be welcomed, & beings seeking redemption can be blind to mortal needs. Stories from world-renowned authors of science fiction & fantasy
- including Neil Gaiman, George R. R. Martin & Joyce Carol Oates
- & rising stars portray angels in all their glory, demons at their most dreadful, & a surprising variety of modern interpretations of ancient myth.


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If you're just intrigued or a lover of manga, The Mammoth Book of Best New Manga continues to break new ground with this latest volume. With award winning contributors such as Paul Duffield, Satanasov, Yishan Li & Niki Smith there's plenty for everyone. With 23 stand alone stories in every genre you can imagine including romantic mystery, action adventure, super spy sci fi & many more, this is the biggest & best collection of new manga. ...