David Bamber
Author
Language
English
Description
A group of urbanites are seduced by a brochure offering change personal growth and a break from overcrowded and polluted London. They will be ensconced in yurts and tipis on a farm far away from the city. The weekend is facilitated by a husband and wife combo who immediately confiscate all mobile phones. While their female host genuinely seeks to help unpack the group's emotional baggage her husband is less amenable confidently quoting from the poet...
4) Episode 4
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The release of prisoner Harry Canwell horrifies Tolin and reveals the tragedy in his own life. Christine struggles to come to terms with her mother's death. The search for Daniel Rampton comes to an unexpected conclusion.
5) Episode 5
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
The secret of Sidney's computer is unlocked and at last we find out what made him swerve. Jane prepares to run away with Richard, and Tolin finds closure with Ann. The truth about the collision is revealed.
6) Episode 3
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
DI Tolin already knows that there's more to the collision than meets the eye. But as the mysteries pile up, he has to deal with his own tangled relationships and secret past.
7) Collision
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After a major road accident, Detective Inspector Tolin uncovers the events that led the victims to be on this road at the same time and he finds himself drawn into government cover-ups, smuggling, torn relationships and murder.
8) Episode 2
Language
English
Description
El Shazly and Rashad continue their investigation into the boy king's life, looking closely at his advisors as he sought to reverse his infamous father's religious and cultural revolution, and the factors surrounding his untimely death. Featuring commentary from leading Egyptologists Dr. Zahi Hawass, Fayza Haikal, Salima Ikram and more.
9) What Remains
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Two years after her disappearance, the badly decomposed body of Melissa Young - a single woman in her early thirties - is discovered in the loft of her former apartment. How is it that no one missed her, or even noticed that she was gone? What does that say about the life she lived or the society we occupy? And what of her killer? Are they still at large?
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Series
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English
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"Commemorating the 150th anniversary of one of the most beloved classics of children's literature, this illustrated edition presents Alice like you've never seen her before. In 1865, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, an Oxford mathematician and Anglican deacon, published a story about a little girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole. Thus was the world first introduced to Alice and her pseudonymous creator, Lewis Carroll. This beautiful new edition of Alice's...
11) Miss Potter
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In an effort to give their younger brother, Norman a project to keep him busy now that he has joined the family publishing house, the older Warne brothers agree to publish Miss Beatrix Potter's first children's book. They don't expect the book to sell well, but they need to keep Norman busy. As a single woman living in Edwardian London, Beatrix suspects this endeavor may provide her with a small measure of freedom. But she also has very specific ideas...
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
The Hollow crown: New adaptations of Shakespeare's tetralogy of history plays comprising the 'Henriad' for the BBC's 2012 Cultural Olympiad: King Richard; II King Henry IV, Part 1; King Henry IV, Part 2 and King Henry V. The plays chronicle a continuous period in British history from the end of the 14th century to the aftermath of the Battle of Agincourt in 1415. Together, the plays comprise a story with recurring themes of power struggles, redemption,...
17) Mad To Be Normal
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English
Description
David Tennant of Doctor Who fame stars as 1960's celebrity psychiatrist R.D.Laing who revolutionised the treatment of people diagnosed as 'mad'. Mad To Be Normal reveals the story of R.D. Laing, the famous psychiatrist and one of Scotland's greatest ever minds. Working out of Kingsley Hall in East London throughout the 1960s and 1970s, Laing performed various daring experiments on people who were diagnosed as mentally disturbed. His revolutionary...
18) Valkyrie
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Language
English
Description
At the height of WWII, a group of German officers hatched a plot to assassinate Hitler and seize control of the military command in order to end the war. The operation was code-named "Valkyrie," for the emergency plan that was meant to be used in case of a revolt against the Nazi government. This plan had been modified by the conspirators to ensure their success, but for various reasons the plot failed when finally carried out on 20 July 1944. The...
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Four hundred years after the founding of the Republic, Rome is the wealthiest city in the world, a cosmopolitan metropolis of one million people, epicenter of a sprawling empire. The Republic was founded on principles of shared power and fierce personal competition, never allowing one man to seize absolute control. But now, those foundations are crumbling, eaten away by corruption and excess. After eight years of war, soldiers Lucius Vorenus and Titus...
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