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Music

           Michelle Branch - The Spirit Room Michelle Branch

"Everywhere", "You Get Me", "All You Wanted", "You Set Me Free"... 12 top songs from this rocking girl who plays their own instruments and loves very much Dylan, Neil Young, Led Zeppelin, Cat Stevens and The Beatles. Michelle Branch: a name to remember.

                      Badly Drown Boy - Have You Fed the Fish? Badly Drown Boy

It's hard to remember, listening to Have You Fed the Fish, that Badly Drawn Boy was once derided as lo-fi. On Damon Gough's third album, everything is writ large, his wobbly and whimsical songs transformed into bombastic epics. Finally, his much-vaunted Springsteen obsession starts making sense.

 

                    Brand New Boots and Panties  (Tribute to Ian Dury)

 

                     The Best of Black Sabbath  Black Sabbath 2 Discs

A massive collection of Black Sabbath great songs with singer Ozzy Osbourne.

                    
                      Bring on the Night  Sting Sting

When Sting embarked on his solo career, he didn't throw his tenure with the Police out the window; on this live double album from his Dream of the Blue Turtles tour, he reworks some odd selections from his old band's catalogue in the expansive, jazz-inflected style of his new crew (which included saxophonist Branford Marsalis).

Books

      Blackberry Wine by Joanne Harris

Ken Bruen - The McDead: The White Trilogy, Final Part (Bloodlines) bruen 

Ken Bruen - London Boulevard (Bloodlines) bruen 

                                

Brian Michael Bendis, Marc Andreyko - Torso: The Definitive Collection
(Image Comics Paperback)

 

                    Armadillo by William Boyd William Boyd - Armadillo

'Mr. Dupree was simultaneously the first dead person he had encountered in his life, his first suicide and his first hanged man and Lorimer found this congruence of firsts deceptively troubling.' As a London dweller and life-observer, Boyd picks up on some of the great morass of variety that this capital has to offer. Lorimer Black is a protagonist we can feel sympathy for in the way in which he is treated by his unscrupulous employers and his emotionally blackmailing family.

            Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange Burgess, Anthony

When A Clockwork Orange was published in 1962, it was considered sheer Science Fiction. But Anthony Burgess intended this novel, properly novella, to be a study on free will and psychological behaviourism. Burgess's nightmare vision of youth culture, which made him famous as a satirical novelist, offers a gripping insight into the life of a disturbed young man. The imagery is superb, and the details with which the violence is described are never gratuitous. The reader is left breathless, outraged, excited, concerned.

                         Biographer's Tale by A. S. Byatt A. S. Byatt - The Biographer's Tale

         William S. Burroughs William S. Burroughs - NOVA EXPRESS

The place is Planet Earth. The time: in five minutes or five minutes ago. somewhere there must have been an explosion... To read Nova Express is like stepping through Blake's doors of perception.   

 

         Wine The Bluffer's Guide to Wine 

One of the best numbers of the Bluffer's series (The Bluffer's Guide to Law; The Bluffer's Guide to Golf; The Bluffer's Guide to Stocks and Shares)

         Sales & Marketing: Brand Manners Brand Manners

Computers: Programming: Sham Bhangal - Foundation ActionScript Computer

 

Erotic Fiction
Bettina's Tales by Bettina Varese

DVDs & Videos

             Beautiful Girls Beautiful girls

Starring: Matt Dillon, Max Perlich, et al.
Director: Ted Demme

Braveheart   Special 2 Disc Edition

      Bridget Jones's Diary Bridget Jones

 

                    Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 2    DVD

 

Woody Allen's  Woody Allen's Bananas Bananas                 1971

           Starring: Woody Allen, Carlos Montalban
           Director: Woody Allen
           Edition Details: DVD (Region 2 encoding)

Woody Allen's second film as a director, co-writer and star. Great satire on the US American mass-media society, much more than on Latin American politics. Cult!

          

          film The Beach 

Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton
Edition Details: DVD (Region 2 encoding)

Leonardo DiCaprio sought to distance himself from the cloying wholesomeness of his character in Titanic, and his role in The Beach is in many ways a polar opposite. Here he is Richard, a young American seeking to "suck in the experience" of freestyle travel.

 

          Blade 

Starring: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff
Edition Details: DVD (Region 2 encoding)
 

          Blackadder - The Third  Blackadder - 3Rowan Atkinson, Hugh Laurie DVD

          bringing out the dead Bringing Out the Dead

         Starring: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette
         Director: Martin Scorsese
         Edition Details: DVD (Region 2 encoding)

Reunion of the "dream team" Martin Scorsese (director) and Paul Schrader (screenwriter), the men who brought you Taxi Driver and Raging Bull. Superb performance from Cage in a very disturbing, gritty and in some parts funny movie.

 

         Britain At War In Colour  DVD

Contains the entire TV series plus features and footage exclusive to DVD.
The three episodes Darkest Hour, The Beginning of the End, and Unknown Warriors . Exclusive footage not seen on TV. Five letter and diary pieces with additional footage.

           The Blue Planet   Blue Planet  3 DVD Box Set

           Band of Brothers   Band of Brothers  Box Set

Starring: Damian Lewis, Ron Livingston, et al.
Director: Phil Alden Robinson, Richard Loncraine

                     Region 2 encoding (Europe, Middle East & Japan only)

Unbelieveably moving tale of war and comradeship that shows that the Americans CAN and DO make excellent TV. A truly epic show! What makes this drama unusual is the refusal to Hollywoodise events or to gloss over mistakes.
What makes Band of Brothers so special, is that it focuses on the bonds of brotherhood that are forged in basic training, and on the fields of battle, and shows how this relates to each character, and shows the personal battle each man must face, and conquer, with only himself, and the men next to him.
Brilliant acting, and a care for detail are what make this a series above par, with any other series on television. Coproduced by Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks.
 

 

    the brothers mcmullen The Brothers McMullen     VHS

Edward Burns's debut film as an actor-director.

   

Children's Video: Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

                 Buffy The Vampire Slayer - Season 4  VHS   Box Set 1

         Bagpuss Bagpuss  VHS

One of the best classic children's TV shows. Now on video.

Software & Games     

           Bagpuss Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance 2    (PS2)

 
                

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