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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It’s been a year since Poppy’s husb&, Jack, was brutally murdered during his morning run.

She’s trying to move on but

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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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Celebrated storyteller Stephen King returns to his roots in this tour de force featuring more than 100 characters
- some heroic,
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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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Wanted: companion to escort a young, orphaned child home to Australia.

All expenses as well as passage covered.



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Part of the See Inside series, this book enables readers to go on a journey to the centre of the earth & back. It uses embedded flaps to explain the world under our feet, from plants & animals to underground trains & pipes, right through to the earth's core past gold mines, stalagmites & fossils. ...

The first ever in-depth study of one of the world's most enigmatic artists, Under the Ivy combines a wealth of new research with vigorous critical scrutiny. Featuring over 70 new interviews with those who have viewed from close quarters both the public artist & the private woman, this compelling biography offers numerous fresh perspectives on a unique & elusive talent. ...