Ingmar Bergman (Sweden 1918-2007) is in the world of cinema a giant whose stature is comparable to that of Beethoven or Dostoyevsky. He made around fifty feature films that caught the spirit of his times while endlessly reworking his private obsessions & anguish in the face of a silent God. In Summer with Monika (1953) Harriet Andersson plays a scandalously unconventional & sensual young woman a breath of freedom epitomizing a new modernity in film. The 1960s saw Bergman in experimental mode with Persona (1966) one of the most powerful depictions of the ambiguity of evil. Later in Scenes from a Marriage (1973) he offers a lucid examination of a couple whose mutual attraction turns to destruction while Fanny & Alexander (1982) is a joyful & nostalgic evocation of childhood memories. Bergmans last film Saraband (2003) is a spare masterpiece at once an object lesson in how to make a film & an existential exploration. ...

Stunning reissue in beautiful new cover-look of this magical & award-winning novel
- the first of the spellbinding Ingo Chronicles...
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An atmospheric & beautifully written adventure from the award-winning author of the Ingo series. Morveren lives with her parents & twin sister Jenna on an island off the coast of Cornwall. As Morveren & Jenna's relationship shifts & changes like driftwood on the tide Morveren finds a beautiful teenage boy in a rock pool after a storm. Going to his rescue she is shocked to see that he is not human but a Mer boy. With Jenna refusing to face the truth Morveren finds herself alone at the worst possible time. Because when the worlds of Air & Mer meet the consequences can be terrible... ...

Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this fourth novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles Sapphire Conor & their Mer friends Faro & Elvira are ready to make the Crossing of Ingo
- a long & dangerous journey that only the strongest young Mer are called upon to make. No human being has ever attempted this thrilling voyage to the bottom of the world. Ervys his followers & new recruits the sharks are determined that Sapphire & Conor must be stopped
- dead or alive...

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Stunning reissue in a beautiful new cover-look of this third novel in the critically acclaimed Ingo Chronicles A devastating flood has torn through the worlds of Air & Ingo & now deep in the ocean a monster is stirring. Mer legend says that only those with dual blood
- half Mer half human
- can overcome the Kraken. Sapphy must return to the Deep with the help of her friend the whale & face this terrifying creature
- & her brother Conor & Mer friend Faro will not let her go alone...


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Part noir part psychedelic romp all Thomas Pynchon
- private eye Doc Sportello comes occasionally out of a marijuana haze to watch
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It began with Eragon.. . It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago Eragon
- Shadeslayer Dragon Rider
- was nothing more

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A collection of novellas & stories from one of the most critically acclaimed authors in the fantasy genre Robin Hobb. Including work written under her pseudonym Megan Lindholm. Bingtown heiresses rub shoulders in this wonderful collection with vampires & alien musicians tramps & feral cats. In The Homecoming Lady Carillion Carrock & a number of other Jamaillian nobles are sailing to the Cursed Shores. Their journey is not by choice: for plotting against the Satrap their wealth has been confiscated & they have been exiled. Until now Carillion has done nothing but lead a life of privilege. She believes they are bound for wondrous cities cities where ancient kings & queens dusted their skin with gold & wore jewels above their eyes. But when she is marooned by the ship s unscrupulous captain she will soon discover the grim reality of what survival in the Rain Wilds entails. The Silver Lady is a would-be writer eking out a dull existence by working in a Sears store. The one day a man comes in: forty-ish pleasant-looking. Nothing out of the ordinary. Except he says his name is Merlin & he s about to change her life. Rosemary got involved with the wrong man. Pell is lazy good for nothing a bully. Her best friend Hilia knew it & so did her tom cat Marmalade. But love is blind: Rosemary had Pell s baby renovated the cottage his grandfather left in his will turned its land to good use; & then he left her for another woman. Now he s back & something must be done... ...

It began with Eragon... It ends with Inheritance. Not so very long ago Eragon
- Shadeslayer Dragon Rider
- was nothing more

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Simon Tolkien's gripping Oxford-based thriller which sees Inspector Trave in a race for justice against deception conspiracy & the long shadow of the past. When an eminent art historian is found dead in his study all the evidence points to his estranged son Stephen. With his fingerprints on the murder weapon Stephen's guilt seems undeniable. As the police begin to question five other people who were in the house at the time it is revealed that Stephen's father was involved at the end of World War II in a deadly hunt for a priceless relic in northern France & the case begins to unravel. As Stephen's trial unfolds at the Old Bailey Inspector Trave of the Oxford police decides he must go to France & find out what really happened in 1944. What artefact could be so valuable it would be worth killing for? But Trave has very little time
- the race is on to save Stephen from the gallows.
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