![]() |
![]() |
Your cart is empty |
||
Showing 1 - 18 of 18 matches in All Departments
Just look at the winning combination of Peter's qualities: top culinary qualifications, a passionate interest in nutrition, experience in high-class restaurants in Britain, France and the Caribbean, plus running his own restaurant and health food shop. With a sharp eye on the realities of our busy lives, Peter creates unique and delicious recipes packed with optimum-energy ingredients. You can try Roasted Couscous with Peppers and Sweetcorn, or Mushroom Fricasee with Cranberry and Creme Fraiche. Stunning and sexy, cosy and reassuring, or packed with energy - they all make delicious eating.
All eight episodes of the maritime adventure series based on the novels by C.S. Forester. Full of action, intrigue and romance, Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) battles against the sins of the sea and discovers the true relationship between the French, the English and the Irish. Episodes comprise: 'The Even Chance', 'The Examination for Lieutenant', 'The Duchess and the Devil', 'The Frogs and the Lobsters', 'Mutiny', 'Retribution', 'Loyalty' and 'Duty'.
This book brings together twenty of the most important papers by the last Professor Peter Rolfe Vaughan on geotechnical engineering. Selected by Peter's closest colleagues at Imperial College and the Geotechnical Consulting Group, these papers are reproduced along with the obituary published in Geotechnique, a full listing of his bibliography, some photographs and personal reflections by David Hight, David Potts, Nebojsa Kova; and Finlay Jardine on working with Peter.
The legendary comedy duo's Christmas Specials began in 1969, but the phenomenon exploded in 1971 when the first, lavish, extended Christmas production was broadcast. Shirley Bassey sang in hobnail boots; Glenda Jackson was serenaded by an assortment of BBC Presenters and the Andre Previn sketch stole the show. From then on, every subsequent year demanded new stars and great sketches. Diana Rigg played Nell Gwynne, Elton John was sent the wrong way round Television Centre, Vanessa Redgrave starred in a Latin-American extravaganza and a leggy Angela Rippon emerged from behind the news desk to perform a legendary dance routine. In their last year at the BBC, the show reached its peak as a record 28 million people tuned in to see a chorus line of newsreaders acrobatically dance and sing 'There Ain't Nothing Like a Dame', Penelope Keith climb awkwardly from an unfinished stairway and an unexpected return for Elton John.
In the future, a clerk at the all-powerful Ministry of Information sticks to his ideals and ends up crushed by the system in this half comedy, half horror story from former 'Monty Python' animator Terry Gilliam. Like Orwell's novel '1984', which it echoes, the future is seen from a 1940's perspective. Jonathan Pryce stars, with Robert De Niro making a cameo appearance as an excessively diligent sewage inspector.
Schoolboy Kevin is rescued from his dull suburban life when a gang of dwarves emerge from his wardrobe and carry him off through space and time. Their travels bring them into contact with some leading historical figures; John Cleese is Robin Hood and Sean Connery is Agamemnon in this bizarre comedy made by several Monty Python members.
Ken Russell directs this biographical drama starring Rudolf Nureyev as Italian-American actor Rudolph Valentino. The film begins at the 31-year-old actor's funeral in 1926 in New York and, using flashbacks, backtracks to his glory days when the former ballroom dancer used his good looks and charm to mould a successful silent movie career and become one of the first male screen idols in Hollywood.
Lawrence Gordon Clark directs this double bill of horror dramas adaptated by the BBC from two of M.R. James's classic ghost stories. In 'A Warning to the Curious' (1972) Mr Paxton (Peter Vaughan) travels to English seaside town Seaburg hoping to find the last of three Anglo Saxon crowns belonging to the Agers family whose last descendant has recently died. When he uncovers the crown, however, he finds himself haunted by a ghostly figure. In 'The Stalls of Barchester' (1971) Dr. Black (Clive Swift) is cataloguing the Barchester Cathedral Library when he comes across an old diary belonging to Archdeacon Haynes (Robert Hardy) who died mysteriously. Whilst reading the entries Black soon discovers that Haynes may have been cursed upon the death of his predecessor after which he was tormented by supernatural goings-on.
In 1714 Parliament offer a £20,000 prize for anyone who can provide an accurate means of measuring longitude at sea. John Harrison (Michael Gambon) flies in the face of popular opinion by saying that the stars do not provide the answer, and provides his own solution with the invention of a mechanical clock. However, it takes Harrison forty years to prove his theory, and he is eventually forgotten in the mists of time. Centuries later, Robert Gould (Jeremy Irons) attempts to restore Harrison's reputation by tracking down and repairing the four clocks he originally constructed.
An epic BBC adaptation of Charles Dickens' last completed novel, interweaving various characters in a complex tale of greed, passion and death in Victorian London. John Harmon (Steven Mackintosh) is betrothed to the beautiful-but-spoilt Bella Wilfer (Anna Friel), who only wishes to marry for money. Then Harmon disappears, and it seems that he has drowned, but he has in fact assumed a new identity and found work with his late father's former employees, the Boffins (Peter Vaughan and Pam Ferris). Meanwhile, impoverished Lizzy Hexam (Keeley Hawes) must choose between the selfish Eugene Wrayburn (Paul McGann) and the obsessive Bradley Headstone (David Morrissey).
John Boulting directs this 1960s British crime comedy. When criminals Jelly Knight (Dudley Sutton), Scapa Flood (James Beckett) and Lennie the Dip (Kenneth Griffith) exit prison after an 18-month stint inside they expect to pick up the earnings from the job that landed them in trouble. However, Sara (Charlotte Rampling) informs them that their boss, the Duke, has passed away and all the money has been lost with him. The penniless trio quickly sense that something is amiss, though, and before long find themselves immersed in yet another criminal scheme...
A children's story set in post-war years, on a council estate in a northern industrial town that could almost be Bolton, and based on true events, with a mix of comedy and pathos. Names and places have been changed, to protect the guilty! The main character describes his recollections, and his exploits with a gang of young friends, from the age of six, up to the approach of their 11+ exams.
Accurately researched French history and bizarre elements of the supernatural collide, in this epic tale of adventure, romance and the pursuit for identity. Set against the backdrop of a troubled revolutionary France, this fascinating novel challenges Time itself, with hidden history which should keep the reader guessing to the end, and beyond...
No Way Out
The Desperate Hours
Big screen spin-off of the BBC's popular Seventies sitcom. Habitual criminal Norman Stanley Fletcher (Ronnie Barker) is currently 'doing porridge' at Slade prison, but only has a year to go. He and cellmate Lennie Godber (Richard Beckinsale, who sadly died shortly after filming was completed) are content to bide their time - until they accidentally become involved in an escape plan while playing a morale-raising football match against a 'celebrity' team. Desperate not to ruin their chances of parole, Fletcher and Godber find themselves in the unusual position of trying to break back into prison without being caught!
In Salem, Massachusetts, 1692, accusations of witchcraft are rife. John Proctor and his wife Elizabeth are innocent of any such charges, although John has committed adultery with their former serving girl, Abigail Williams. When witch expert John Hale is called in to investigate the reports of witchcraft, Abigail attempts to implicate Elizabeth, thinking that she will then be able to resume her affair with John. Arthur Miller's play was originally written as an allegory for the Joseph McCarthy American 'witch-hunt' trials of the 1950s.
|
![]() ![]() You may like...
Hidden Champions in CEE and Turkey…
Peter McKiernan, Danica Purg
Hardcover
Universities, Inclusive Development and…
Claes Brundenius, Bo Goeransson, …
Hardcover
R5,144
Discovery Miles 51 440
Harnessing the Power of Social Media and…
Anteneh Ayanso, Kaveepan Lertwachara
Hardcover
R5,412
Discovery Miles 54 120
Fantastic Beasts And Where To Find Them…
J. K. Rowling
Hardcover
![]()
Consumer Behaviour and Sustainable…
Subramanian Senthilkannan Muthu
Hardcover
R2,636
Discovery Miles 26 360
Skin We Are In - A Celebration Of The…
Sindiwe Magona, Nina G. Jablonski
Paperback
R159
Discovery Miles 1 590
|