Four animated adventures featuring Nick Park's inimitable pair of plasticine heroes: cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit. In 'A Grand Day Out' (1993), Wallace runs out of his favourite Wensleydale cheese on Boxing Day and cannot find a shop open to replenish his stock. The only solution is to get in his homemade rocket and head for the biggest block of cheese in the universe: the moon. In 'The Wrong Trousers' (1993), Wallace and Gromit encounter difficulties with the demonstration of the inventor's 'Techno Trousers' and encounter a rogue chicken. In 'A Close Shave' (1995), Wallace and Gromit set up a lucrative window cleaning business and get involved with a lady from a wool shop. Wallace becomes infatuated with her, but Gromit becomes interested in the case of some disappearing sheep, and blames the wool-shop owner's dog. However, the devious dog frames Gromit for the disappearing sheep, and Wallace must pull himself together in time to save the reputation of his old pal. In 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' (2008), the pair have converted their home into the 'Top Bun' bakery - complete with rooftop windmill - but with 12 local bakers having gone mysteriously missing, Gromit worries that they'll soon make up the baker's dozen. Wallace, meanwhile, is oblivious to the danger, having fallen head over heels for former Bake-O-Lite bread babe, Piella Bakewell. With his master otherwise engaged, it's up to Gromit to rise to the occasion and solve the mystery before Wallace becomes the next victim of the 'cereal' killer.

Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant write and direct this nostalgic coming-of-age comedy set in 1970s Reading. Three 20-something friends work together at the local building society and spend their free time larking about, drinking, fighting and chasing girls. While smooth-talking ladies' man Bruce (Tom Hughes) and lovable loser Snork (Jack Doolan) are satisfied with their lives, Freddie (Christian Cooke) harbours dreams of escaping his working-class background. When he gets a new job as a door-to-door salesman and is reunited with his childhood sweetheart Julie (Felicity Jones), Freddie is forced to make important choices about his future.

All 16 episodes of the BBC sitcom set in a factory canteen, written by and starring comedienne Victoria Wood. In 'Monday', the dinnerladies are unimpressed by the attempts of Philippa (Celia Imrie) - the new 'HR' woman - to motivate them. 'Scandal' sees the factory visited by a television crew making a docu-soap. In 'Royals', the canteen goes into overdrive when it is announced that HRH Prince James is to pay them a visit. In 'Moods', tensions run high in the canteen and Stan (Duncan Preston) seeks solace by locking himself in the loo. 'Party' sees Bren (Victoria Wood) dolling herself up for the Japanese-themed Christmas party, but will tonight be her night? In 'Night Shift', the staff walk out in protest at the methods employed by Tony's (Andrew Dunn) stand-in canteen supervisor, Nicola Bodeux (Sue Wallace). In 'Catering', Bren has her work cut out when a team of decorators, who are supposed to be painting the canteen over the weekend, arrive early. In 'Trouble', Jean (Anne Reid) is struggling to cope with the fact that her husband has run off with a younger woman. 'Holidays' sees Bren looking forward to going to Marbella with Tony. In 'Fog', Bren has a bad day, not helped by a visiting blood donor unit, a prisoner on the run - and a compromising photo taken by Tony on holiday. 'Gamble' finds the dinner ladies looking forward to Christmas - but Bren's festive plans are unambitious to say the least. In 'Christmas', Bren and Tony are having problems, and Bren considers handing in her notice at work. 'Minnellium' sees Philippa getting herself into a tizzy over the factory's New Year celebrations. In 'Christine', a new employee comes to replace Anita, but her chronic flatulence causes more than a few problems in her new workplace. 'Gravy' sees Petula (Julie Walters) delivering some shocking news. Finally, in 'Toast', Bren's success on 'Totally Trivial' has healed the rift between her and Tony. But the canteen's future could be in jeopardy...

2016 Christmas Special of the BBC drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as an ageing man and woman who rediscover the feelings they once had for each other. Widowed 70-somethings Alan Buttershaw (Jacobi) and Celia Dawson (Reid) became reacquainted after their respective grandsons created Facebook accounts for them and rekindled the love they shared almost 60 years previous. In this instalment, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) prepares to host her family on Christmas Day but, with all the recent changes in her life, the pressure soon gets to her.

Four animated adventures featuring Nick Park's inimitable pair of plasticine heroes: cheese-loving inventor Wallace and his long-suffering dog Gromit. In 'A Grand Day Out' (1993), Wallace runs out of his favourite Wensleydale cheese on Boxing Day and cannot find a shop open to replenish his stock. The only solution is to get in his homemade rocket and head for the biggest block of cheese in the universe: the moon.

In 'The Wrong Trousers' (1993), Wallace and Gromit encounter difficulties with the demonstration of the inventor's 'Techno Trousers' and encounter a rogue chicken.

In 'A Close Shave' (1995), Wallace and Gromit set up a lucrative window cleaning business and get involved with a lady from a wool shop. Wallace becomes infatuated with her, but Gromit becomes interested in the case of some disappearing sheep, and blames the wool-shop owner's dog. However, the devious dog frames Gromit for the disappearing sheep, and Wallace must pull himself together in time to save the reputation of his old pal.

In 'A Matter of Loaf and Death' (2008), the pair have converted their home into the 'Top Bun' bakery - complete with rooftop windmill - but with 12 local bakers having gone mysteriously missing, Gromit worries that they'll soon make up the baker's dozen. Wallace, meanwhile, is oblivious to the danger, having fallen head over heels for former Bake-O-Lite bread babe, Piella Bakewell. With his master otherwise engaged, it's up to Gromit to rise to the occasion and solve the mystery before Wallace becomes the next victim of the 'cereal' killer.

The complete first three series of the BBC drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as an ageing man and woman who rediscover the feelings they once had for each other. Widowed 70-somethings Alan Buttershaw (Jacobi) and Celia Dawson (Reid) become reacquainted after their respective grandsons create Facebook accounts for them. 60 years previously, during their teenage years, the two fell in love and despite having since gone their separate ways in life, they find their feelings are as strong as ever. However, problems arise for the happily reunited couple when their feuding daughters are forced to come together and dark secrets from their separate pasts come to light.

The debt owed by Shakespeare to Ovid is a major and important topic in scholarship. This book offers a fresh approach to the subject, in aiming to account for the Middle English literary lenses through which Shakespeare and his contemporaries often approached Greco-Roman mythology. Drawing its principal examples from The Two Gentlemen of Verona, The Taming of the Shrew, Romeo and Juliet, Lucrece, and Twelfth Night, it reinvestigates a selection of moments in Shakespeare's works that have been widely identified in previous criticism as "Ovidian", scrutinising their literary alchemy with an eye to uncovering how ostensibly classical references may be haunted by the under-acknowledged, spectral presences of medieval intertexts and traditions. Its central concern is the mutual hauntings of Ovid, Geoffrey Chaucer, and John Gower in the early modern literary imagination; it demonstrates that "Ovidian" allusions to mythological figures such as Ariadne, Philomela, or Narcissus in Shakespeare's dramatic and poetic works were sometimes simultaneously mediated by the hermeneutic and affective legacies of earlier vernacular texts, including The Legend of Good Women, Troilus and Criseyde, and the Confessio Amantis. LINDSAY ANN REID is a Lecturer in English at the National University of Ireland, Galway.

'We have been given the first partial, though still substantive, look at Obama's words, and it is a political partisan's dream to see them so finely gathered here' Washington Post

We Are the Change We Seek is a collection of Barack Obama's greatest addresses, beginning with his 2002 speech opposing the Iraq War and closing with his emotional farewell address in Chicago in January 2017. As president, Obama's words had the power to move the country, and often the world, as few presidents before him. Whether acting as Commander in Chief or Consoler in Chief, Obama's unique rhetorical style could simultaneously speak to the national mood and change the course of public events. Obama's enduring eloquence, both written and spoken, propelled him to international prominence and ultimately made it possible for the son of a Kenyan man and a white woman from Kansas to become the first black president of the United States.

Brian Cox and Toby Stephens star in this sporting drama directed by David Scheinmann. Loosely based on the aftermath of the tragedy of the Busby Babes, Brian Cox stars as Matt Busby, the longest serving manager of the world-famous football club Manchester United. When an opportunistic child snatches a wallet out of Busby's hand as he pays his taxi fare, the 74-year-old retired manager results to chasing after him to reclaim his goods. When he finally catches up with the child Busby spies him playing football with his friends and sees an opportunity to use the talented delinquent to start a new team.

The third series of the BBC drama starring Derek Jacobi and Anne Reid as an ageing man and woman who rediscover the feelings they once had for each other. Widowed 70-somethings Alan Buttershaw (Jacobi) and Celia Dawson (Reid) became reacquainted after their respective grandsons created Facebook accounts for them and rekindled the love they shared almost 60 years previous. In this series, Alan and Celia prepare to embark on the trip of their lives but are stopped by the sudden reappearance of a son Alan never knew existed (Rupert Graves). Meanwhile, Caroline (Sarah Lancashire) prepares for marriage but tensions between her mother and Alan, surrounding the new revelations, threaten to overshadow the joyous family occasion.

All four episodes from the second series of the BBC crime drama following the lives of women whose loved ones are serving prison sentences. In this series, two new characters appear - happily married Kim (Sally Carman), whose world is rocked when her husband is remanded after being accused of a hideous crime - and bride-to-be Aisling (Karla Crome), who wants her father to behave in prison so that he'll get out in time for the wedding. Meanwhile, with her gangster husband Paul (Iain Glen) still inside, Francesca (Polly Walker) is left feeling vulnerable when her home suffers an arson attack; and Harriet (Pippa Haywood) is relieved when her inmate son Gavin (Adam Gillen) manages to befriend a group of Muslims. However, as she soon discovers, things are not always what they seem.

Black poets of the Harlem Renaissance (1920-1929) relied heavily upon traditional rhetorical devices, specifically irony and paradox. In contrast, their counterparts of the sixties adopted a more radical approach, employing instead street idiom and other modes of Black discourse. While the poets' strategies of the two periods differ, one element remained constant - the theme of protest. It is this similarity in purpose that marks the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance as a precursor of the revolutionary poetry of the sixties. « I thoroughly enjoyed reading this insightful and skillfully woven study of the rhetorical strategies of the protest poetry from the Harlem Renaissance and the revolutionary sixties. As a product of the revolutionary sixties, I think Dr. Margaret Reid makes excellent commentaries and comparisons that shed new literary light on both dynamic periods. (Carolyn Rodgers, Poet, Teacher) « Margaret Ann Reid's book resonates with brilliance and scholarship. She offers a vision of Black literature that is vital to our understanding of the Black Arts Movement and beyond. A major study. (Sonia Sanchez, Poet, Essayist, Teacher, Activist) « Dr. Reid's book is structured as a quintessential poetry/literature course textbook, which is destined to become a standard. The context for understanding the words of poetry on their paper is pointedly, excellently established. The historical perspectives provide a sure footing for students of black literature (and others who are interested) from which to see the chronicle of these movements which ebb and then flow with unremitting force. (Johari Amini, Poet, Teacher)

Widely considered one of the leading experts on the works of J. R. R. Tolkien, Thomas Alan Shippey has informed and enlightened a generation of Tolkien scholars and fans. In this collection, former students and colleagues honour Shippey with 15 essays that reflect their mentor's research interests, methods of literary criticism and attention to Tolkien's shorter works. In a wide-ranging consideration of Tolkien's oeuvre, the contributors explore the influence of 19th and 20th century book illustrations on Tolkien's work; utopia and fantasy in Tolkien's Middle-earth; the Silmarils, the Arkenstone and the One Ring as thematic vehicles; the pattern of decline in Middle-earth as reflected in the diminishing power of language; Tolkien's interest in medieval genres; the heroism of secondary characters and numerous other topics. Also included are brief memoirs by Shippey's colleagues and friends in academia and fandom and a bibliography of Shippey's work.

Penguin Doctor Who: Time Lord Fairy Tales read by Tom Baker, Paul McGann, Joanna Page, Michelle Gomez, Adjoa Andoh, Ingrid Oliver, Anne Reid, Dan Starkey, Sophie Aldred, Rachael Stirling, Samuel Anderson, Nicholas Briggs, Pippa Bennett-Warner, Yasmin Paige & Andrew Brooke. A collection of dark and ancient fairy tales from the world of Doctor Who, these captivating stories include mysterious myths and legends about heroes and monsters of all kinds, from every corner of the universe. Originally told to young Time Lords at bedtime, these twisted tales are enchanting for Doctor Who fans of all ages.

British family drama written and directed by Jonathan Newman. A young married couple, the Morrisons (Toni Collette and Ioan Gruffudd), have been in mourning for the death of their child for a number of years and are now trying desperately to have another baby. Due to difficulties conceiving they consider adoption, but as their application goes in to the adoption agency, a young boy, Eli (Maurice Cole), turns up on their dooprstep. When they take Eli in, he helps them in saving their failing toy business and in doing so becomes part of the family.

Students and general readers love science fiction and fantasy. And science fiction and fantasy works increasingly explore gender issues, feature women as central characters, and are written by women writers. Older works demonstrate attitudes toward women in times past, while more recent works grapple with contemporary social issues. This book helps students use science fiction and fantasy to understand the contributions of women writers, the representation of women in the media, and the experiences of women in society. The set covers a wide range of media and genres, including fiction, nonfiction, film, television, music, graphic novels, comics, and art. The first volume offers survey essays on topics essential to women in science fiction and fantasy, including: Art and Illustrations Arthurian Fantasy Cloning Fandom Feminist Spirituality Gaming Girls and the Fantastic Intersections of Class and Gender Men Writing Women Science Fiction Novels and Short Fiction, 1900-1960 Sexual Identities Women's Writing Groups And many more. The second offers alphabetically arranged short entries on more specific subjects, such as: Amazons Margaret Atwood Children's and Young Adult Literature China Arthur C. Clarke Nicola Griffith Hindu Mythology Magical Realism Toni Morrison Neurodiversity Quest Fantasy Utopias Vampires And many more. Entries are written by expert contributors and cite works for further reading, while the set closes with a selected, general bibliography. FEATURES AND BENEFITS: Broad survey entries help students understand the most important topics related to women in science fiction and fantasy. Short, alphabetically arranged entries help students learn about more specific subjectsrelated to women in science fiction and fantasy. Entries on a wide range of media and genres help students understand the representation of women in the arts. Entries on a wide range of topics help students challenge stereotypes of women and gain greater media literacy.

Siuna Reid is a vet with over twenty years experience working with reptiles. She holds a certi-ficate in zoo medicine (reptiles, small mammals and exotic birds). Reptiles have recently become ever more popular as a choice of pet for many people all around the world. Unfortunately, there are few books giving clear, simple care instructions regarding this exciting, and relatively new group of pets. Aimed primarily at the eight to - fifteen year age group, this book concentrates on the general care and well being of the Terrapin. Illustrated throughout with photographs and colourful drawings, demonstrating everything from housing to the essential food requirements, heat, light and even guides on when to visit the vet. Having seen many reptiles neglected due to a lack of information regarding their basic needs, Siuna has produced this book to help - ll in some vital gaps of knowledge. The book is fun to read and easy to relate to, making it a must have for terrapin owners young and old alike Look out for further books in this series REPTILES ARE COOL "

'Siuna Reid is a vet with over twenty years experience working with reptiles. She holds a certi- cate in zoo medicine (reptiles, small mammals and exotic birds). Reptiles have recently become ever more popular as a choice of pet for many people all around the world. Unfortunately, there are few books giving clear, simple care instructions regarding this exciting, and relatively new group of pets. Aimed primarily at the eight to - fteen year age group, this when to visit the vet. Siuna A Reid BVMS Cert AVP (ZM) MRCVS book concentrates on the general care and well being of the Snake. Illustrated throughout with photographs and colourful drawings, demonstrating everything from housing to the essential food requirements, heat, light and even guides on Having seen many reptiles neglected due to a lack of information regarding their basic needs, Siuna has produced this book to help - ll in some vital gaps of knowledge. The book is fun to read and easy to relate to, making it a must have for snake owners young and old alike Look out for further books in this series REPTILES ARE COOL '