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The Rest of Their Lives

Ros Schwartz and Jean-Paul Didierlaurent

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Filled with all the larger-than-life characters and enchanting storytelling that made readers fall...

The Witness for the Prosecution: And Other Stories

Agatha Christie

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Agatha Christie's classic short story collection, published to tie-in with a new BBC TV adaptation...

Death on a Longship

Marsali Taylor

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When she wangles the job of skippering a Viking longship for a film, Cass Lynch thinks her big break...

Blood Wedding

Frank Wynne and Pierre Lemaitre

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Sophie is haunted by the things she can't remember - and visions from the past she will never...

Palmerston

Denis Judd

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British Prime Minister Lord Palmerston has enjoyed a rakish reputation as a womanizer, a careless...

Skyfall (2012)

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MI6 agents James Bond (007) and Eve assist on a mission in Turkey in which an MI6 operative has been...

Christopher Hobbs recommended Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Mr.Hulot's Holiday) (1953) in Movies (curated)

"This is art concealing art. On the face of it, the film is a gentle satire of French bourgeois life on holiday. There is no story, just Hulot (Jacques Tati himself) drifting innocently through a holiday resort, leaving a trail of confusion behind him. The gags are wonderful, apparently effortless, the situations natural. In reality, the film is the extraordinary creation of a man obsessed with perfection. Each move, each image was planned in detail by Tati until the gags were immaculate; the tennis ball that bounces off the head of the serious little girl curtsying to her elders, the paint pot that floats out to sea, then back on the opposite side of the beached fishing boat; everything apparently natural, everything the product of intense creativity."

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