HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS is the fifth volume in the series. A beautifully presented slipcased edition of A DANCE WITH DRAGONS. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In the east Daenerys last scion of House Targaryen her dragons grown to terrifying maturity rules as queen of a city built on dust & death beset by enemies. Now that her whereabouts are known many are seeking Daenerys & her dragons. Among them the dwarf Tyrion Lannister who has escaped King's Landing with a price on his head wrongfully condemned to death for the murder of his nephew King Joffrey. But not before killing his hated father Lord Tywin. To the north lies the great Wall of ice & stone
- a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch but he has enemies both in the Watch & beyond the Wall where the wildling armies are massing for an assault. On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting played out by a grand cast of outlaws & priests soldiers & skinchangers nobles & slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all...
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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: DREAMS & DUST is the FIRST part of the fifth volume in the series. In the aftermath of a colossal battle new threats are emerging from every direction. Tyrion Lannister having killed his father & wrongfully accused of killing his nephew King Joffrey has escaped from King's Landing with a price on his head. To the north lies the great Wall of ice & stone
- a structure only as strong as those guarding it. Eddard Stark's bastard son Jon Snow has been elected 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch. But Jon has enemies both inside & beyond the Wall. & in the east Daenerys Targaryen struggles to hold a city built on dreams & dust.
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HBO's hit series A GAME OF THRONES is based on George R R Martin's internationally bestselling series A SONG OF ICE & FIRE the greatest fantasy epic of the modern age. A DANCE WITH DRAGONS: AFTER THE FEAST is the SECOND part of the fifth volume in the series. The future of the Seven Kingdoms hangs in the balance. In King's Landing the Queen Regent Cersei Lannister awaits trial abandoned by all those she trusted; while in the eastern city of Yunkai her brother Tyrion has been sold as a slave. From the Wall having left his wife & the Red Priestess Melisandre under the protection of Jon Snow Stannis Baratheon marches south to confront the Boltons at Winterfell. But beyond the Wall the wildling armies are massing for an assault... On all sides bitter conflicts are reigniting played out by a grand cast of outlaws & priests soldiers & skinchangers nobles & slaves. The tides of destiny will inevitably lead to the greatest dance of all. ...

Jane Austen loved to put on her satin slippers with shoe-roses her white gloves & muslin gown & go off for an evening of fun at the Basingstoke assemblies. The Bennet girls share their creators delight & go off joyfully to dance & of course to meet future husbands. Drawing on contemporary accounts & illustrations & a close reading of the novels as well as Austens correspondence Susannah Fullerton takes the reader through all the stages of a Regency Ball as Jane Austen & her characters would have known it. Her subjects learn their steps dress in readiness find transport to convey them to a ball choose between public & private balls worry over a shortage of men prefer a cotillion to a quadrille talk & flirt with their partners sustain themselves with supper fall in love & then go home to talk it all over at the end. ...

Zarek is the most dangerous of all the Dark-Hunters. He endured a lifetime as a Roman slave & centuries as a Dark-Hunter in exile. Zarek trusts no one. Because of his steadfast denial to follow any orders he is kept in isolation in Alaska where his activity is seriously limited & closely monitored. There are many who fear he will one day unleash his powers against humans as well as vampires. Have nine hundred years of exile made Zarek too vicious to be redeemed? The gods want Zarek dead but reluctantly agree to allow justice goddess Astrid to judge him. Astrid has never yet judged a man innocent & yet there is something about Zarek that tugs at her heart. He views even the smallest act of kindness with shock & suspicion. But while Astrid struggles to maintain her impartiality in the face of her growing attraction to Zarek an executioner has already been dispatched... ...

This novel opens on a battlefield: trudging back from the front through a ravaged & icy wasteland their horses dying around them their own hunger rendering them almost savage the Russian soldiers are exhausted as they reach the city of Ufa desperate for food & shelter. They find both & then music & dance. & there spinning unafraid among them dancing for the soldiers & anyone else who'll watch him is one small pale boy Rudolf. This is Colum Mc Cann's dancer: Rudolf a prodigy at six years old who became the greatest dancer of the century who redefined dance rewrote his own life & died of AIDS before anyone knew he had it. This is an extraordinary life transformed into extraordinary fiction by one of the most acclaimed writers of his generation. One kind of masculine grace is perfectly matched to another in Colum Mc Cann's beautiful & daring new novel. ...

London during the Blitz was a time of hardship heroism & hope. For Gillian Lynne
- a budding ballerina
- it was also a time

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Gillian Lynne is one of the world's pre-eminent choreographers the groundbreaking creative force behind blockbusters such as Cats & The Phantom of the Opera. But she started her career as a ballerina & learnt to dance alongside Margot Fonteyn Moira Shearer Beryl Grey & Frederick Ashton during the Second World War. A Dancer in Wartime tells the story of Gillian's extraordinary childhood. From Miss Madeleine Sharp's Ballet Class for Young Ladies in Bromley to being evacuated with her theatre school to rural Leicestershire; from performing in the West End with doodlebugs falling to touring a devastated Europe the early years were hard exciting & dramatic. & when the call came to join Sadler's Wells
- well what ballerina hopeful could have asked for more?
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Part of Sticker Dolly Dressing" series this title helps the men & women look their best when they go out to perform their best dance performances. It

Includes:: costumes for dances performed all around the world such as Ballet Irish dancing Flamenco Jazz-Tap & many more."

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The mystery of the body in motion. The surprise of seeing what seems impossible. & the pure joyful optimism of it all. Dancers Among Us" presents one thrilling photograph after another of dancers leaping spinning lifting kicking
- but in the midst of daily life: on the beach at a construction site in a library a restaurant a park. With each image the reader feels buoyed up eager to see the next bit of magic. Photographer Jordan Matter started his Dancers Among Us Project by asking a member of the Paul Taylor Dance Company to dance for him in a place where dance is unexpected. So dressed in a commuters suit & tie the dancer flew across a Times Square subway platform. & in that image Matter found what hed been searching for: a way to express the feeling of being fully alive in the moment unself-conscious present. Organized around themes of work play love exploration dreaming & more " Dancers Among Us" celebrates life in a way thats fresh surprising original universal. Theres no photo-shopping here no trampolines no gimmicks no tricks. Just a photographer his vision & the serendipity of what happens when the shutter clicks."
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