Unlike the majority of popular & academic books on war movies, this unique volume will cover all aspects of the war cinema genre. As well as examining movies focussing upon specific conflicts, it also places each work within a wider social context, exploring related themes & issues of the time. Written by a number of informed & well-respected journalists & academics dealing with their own specific subject areas, viewpoints & interests, this detailed work will be essential reading for all movie fans, as well as social historians. A number of the contributing writers are also authors of their own war books. ...

An epic historical adventure set in an alternate 8th century China, from the author of the 2008 World Fantasy winner, Ysabel. Under Heaven is a novel of heroes, assassins, concubines & emperors set against a majestic & unforgiving landscape. Honour is beyond measure But its price may be an empire? For two years Shen Tai has mourned his celebrated father & lived like a hermit beyond the borders of the Kitan Empire. There, by a mountain lake, the bones of the soldiers killed in great battles between the Kitai & the Tagurans lie unburied & their wailing ghosts strike terror into the living. Tai has laboured alone, laying to rest the mingled dead of both empires, until a letter arrives. It contains the promise of a poisoned chalice: Tai will be given two hundred & fifty Sardian horses by the Tagurans, legendary steeds from the far west, as a reward for his courage & piety. Now, Tai must try to return alive from solitude to a glittering, dangerous court. For to give a man even one of the famed Sardians is to honour him greatly; to give him so many is a reward which would overwhelm an emperor, & could be Tai's death warrant. ...

It seems too good to be true… When struggling writer Sebastian finds a room to let in a palatial Hampstead residence he cannot believe his luck. The rent is ridiculously cheap & he immediately feels a connection with his beautiful widowed landlady, Adriana. It is. Things take a dark turn when he finds out what happened to the last lodger. Could this be why the house is a fortress of security, & why Adriana seems so fragile? Adriana doesn’t want to talk about the death & sadness that seem to follow her wherever she goes & Sebastian has secrets of his own. Now someone is watching their every move & there is nowhere to hide. This house of light becomes a dark nightmare as the threat ramps up
- what does the watcher want? & how far will they go to get it? A gripping, twisty thriller perfect for fans of B.A. Paris, Shari Lapena & Lucy Foley. If you were hooked by Netflix series You or The Watcher then you will love this. Product Information:  •†ISBN: 9781804362952 •†Aut...
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This screen adaptation of Dylan Thomas's 'play for voices' tells the story of the inhabitants of a Welsh village called Llareggub as they go about their daily lives, whilst giving voice to their innermost thoughts. The inhabitants include blind sea captai ...

In 1951, two years before his death at the age of thirty-nine, Dylan Thomas wrote of his plan to complete a radio play, 'an impression for voices, an entertainment out of the darkness, of the town I live in, & to write it simply & warmly & comically with lots of movement & varieties of moods, so that, at many levels... you come to know the town as an inhabitant of 'it'. The work was Under Milk Wood
- an orchestration of voices, sights & sounds that conjure up the dreams & waking hours of an imagined Welsh seaside village within the cycle of one day.
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Despite winning a resounding victory at the battle of Oudenarde, the Duke of Marlborough finds his position as captain-general threatened by political enemies back in Engl&, & his campaign to strike deeper into French Flanders is stalled at the seige of Lille, the 'pearl of fortresses'. To help facilitate the new Allied strategy, Captain Daniel Rawson is given the daunting task of entering Lille undercover to steal vital plans. Meanwhile, in Engl&, Daniel's beloved Amalia is herself under siege
- a fangerous admirer is determined to have her, even if he has to have Daniel murdered first.
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Portsmouth, January 1941. When the Luftwaffe unleashes its full fury on the city in the first of three major blitzes, the Taylor family are bombed out. Judy finds her job relocated from the gutted Guildhall to a hotel in Southsea, & home is now a small terraced house in April Grove, with one fewer bedroom & no bathroom or inside lavatory. & then there is the news she has been dreading: her sailor fiance has been killed. Judy & her young, recently widowed aunt Polly decide to turn their grief to good account, & join the WVS
- running canteens, accompanying evacuee children, & helping the families of servicemen, often in the face of danger from air raids, flying bombs & V2 rockets. Gradually, Judy & Polly find their own grief healing as they take part not only in their war work but in the life of April Grove, & although both are at first convinced they will never know love again, they both find it in the least likely manner.
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A small town of Chester's Mill, Maine is inexplicably & suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field.

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Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters
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' Let's get one thing straight: I'm not an outdoorsy type. If I was offered the choice between white-water rafting & being savaged

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