In cinemas April 2009 Coraline" is a stop-motion fantasy film animated & co-directed by Henry Selick based on Neil Gaimans Hugo & Nebula Award-winning novella. Shortly after moving into her new home a young girl named Coraline is drawn to a mysterious locked door. Behind the door & down a gloomy corridor she finds a strange duplicate world with an eerie duplicate flat & a duplicate but off-kilter Other Mother & Other Father with black button eyes who wont let her return to the real world. A stunning full-colour guide to the making of the movie featuring hoards of rare & exclusive photos & illustrations & interviews with the cast & crew this book takes the reader on an in-depth tour of a movie that is destined to be a fantasy classic." ...

When a young girl ventures through a hidden door she finds another life with shocking similarities to her own. Coraline has moved to a new house with her parents & she is fascinated by the fact that their house is in fact only half a house! Divided into flats years before there is a brick wall behind a door where once there was a corridor. One day it is a corridor again & the intrepid Coraline wanders down it. & so a nightmare-ish mystery begins that takes Coraline into the arms of counterfeit parents & a life that isnt quite right. Can Coraline get out? Can she find her real parents? Will life ever be the same again? ...

Otis takes babies & money off desperate mothers promising to deliver them to the Coram Foundling Hospital in London. Instead he murders them & buries them by the roadside to the helpless horror of his mentally ill son Mish. When Melissa beloved of Alexander Ashbrook & daughter of his governess becomes pregnant by him her mother arranges for the Otis to take the child telling Melissa it was stillborn. Alexander not knowing Melissa's condition has fled his home for a career in music. But Mish manages to save Melissa's baby Aaron & he grows up with Toby the son of an African slave inseparable friends. Toby is a plaything at the house of rich Mr Gaddarn who is in fact Otis. When Mish sees Aaron & Alexander together & realises the family link he takes Aaron & Toby to Otis who rejects them. A way must be found to rescue them but a great friend must die before the family can be reunited. ...

The National Theatres 2005 Christmas show: an expert dramatisation of this Whitbread Childrens Book Award-winner. A fitting follow-up to His Dark Materials" Jamila Gavins Whitbread Award-winning " Coram Boy" set in the 18th century is a tale of two cities
- Gloucester & London
- & of two boys: Toby saved from an African slave ship & Aaron illegitimate heir to a great estate. Also a tale of fathers & sons: slave-trader Otis & his son Meshak; & landowner Sir William Ashbrook & the son he disinherits. This is the story where the National Theatre has chosen its Christmas show on its biggest stage: last occupied at this time of year by His Dark Materials. Cleverly they have also chosen Helen Edmundson to adapt it who has already fashioned magnificent plays out of " The Mill on the Floss" " Anna Karenina" & " War & Peace". The result
- with a cast of twenty & sumptuous sets & costumes
- is set fair to be another box-office smash."



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Cal has struggled to cope with his mothers drinking & her psychotic episodes since he was six; cooped up in their dirty council flat he dreams of a new life. So when he leaves to live with his uncle Trevor in Chepstow he is ruthless about breaking with the past despite his mothers despair. But getting off the train at the wrong station he finds himself at the castle of the Fisher King & from then on moves in a nightmare spiral of predetermined descent into a wasteland of desolation & adventure always seeking the way back to the Grail he has betrayed. Catherine Fisher has created a gripping & highly moving novel that moves between myth & a contemporary journey of self-knowledge until one becomes indistinguishable from the other. Drawing in Arthurian themes historical re-enactments & the Four Hallows Cals quest for a return to peace of mind is an elaborate & ambitious Grail novel for our time. This is an important new work from the author of the Book of the Crow"." ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities like walking horse riding & off-road cycling. Providing complete GB coverage the series details essential information such as youth hostels pubs & visitor information as well as rights of way permissive paths & bridleways. ...

OS Explorer Map is the Ordnance Survey's most detailed map & is recommended for anyone enjoying outdoor activities such as walking horse riding & off-road cycling. The series provides complete GB coverage & can now be used in all weathers thanks to OS Explorer Map
- Active a tough versatile version of the OS Explorer Map.
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One day I CORDELIA CODD am going to be the greatest costume designer in the history of cinema. I will live in exotic places have fabulous friends & spend my days relaxing at the spa. But for now I'm stuck in the d...u...l...l...e...s...t village on planet Earth with a best friend a QUILLION-TRILLION miles away not-quite-together parents a pretend boyfriend/supposed thief/real bully shield & an epic war with THE MOST UNFRIENDLY GIRL IN THE UNIVERSE. Whoever said tomorrow is another day" hasn't lived a day in my life..." ...

Corduroy" was first published in 1930. It was followed by " Silver Ley" in 1931 & " The Cherry Tree" in 1932. Together they form a trilogy that has been described as the classic account of a twentieth-century Englishmans conversion to rural life. In " Corduroy" the authors experiences as a farm apprentice in Suffolk are described. The tone is affectionate humourous & not in the least patronizing. At times there is an elegiac strain not dissimilar to Edward Thomas. The three books constitute a threnody for what was then a vanishing pre-mechanized way of farming & rural life." ...

Welcome to Corduroy Mansions in Pimlico: a temple of Arts & Crafts architecture with comforting weathered brickwork & frankly frivolous dormer windows it is home to a delightfully eccentric cast of Londoners. In the top flat lives William with a faithful ex-vegetarian dog named Freddie de la Hay & a freeloading son who he hopes will soon fly the nest. Four lively young women share the first-floor flat including twinset-&-pearls Caroline from Cheltenham Dee vitamin addict & avid subscriber to Anti-oxidant News & Jenny a put-upon PA. & round the corner lives Oedipus Snark MP possibly the worlds only loathsome Lib Dem who has succeeded in offending everyone he knows & many others besides. But what dark revenge is being plotted by his mother Berthea Snark & by his girlfriend Barbara Ragg...? ...