Toby Jones
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
2017
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In 1920s London, brutal and bloodthirsty murder has stained the plush carpets of a handsome London townhouse. The victim is the glamorous and rich Emily French. All the evidence points to Leonard Vole, a young chancer to whom the heiress left her vast fortune and who ruthlessly took her life. At least, this is the story that Emily's dedicated housekeeper Janet Mcintyre stands by in court. Leonard however, is adamant that his partner, the enigmatic...
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The young boy, who loved taking adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood with a gang of spirited and loveable stuffed animals, has grown up and lost his way. Now it is up to his childhood friends to venture into that world and help Christopher Robin remember the loving and playful boy who is still inside.
23) Empire of light
Publisher
Searchlight Pictures
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A drama about the power of human connection during turbulent times, set in an English coastal town in the early 1980s.
24) The secret agent
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The Russians are furious with the English establishment's indifference to the anarchist threat gripping the rest of Europe. So Verloc, a Russian spy, is assigned a mission: blow up the Greenwich Observatory and make it look like a terrorist attack to provoke a crackdown. Should he fail, Verloc's real identity as a spy could be exposed to his vicious comrades.
25) City of Ember
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Fullscreen (side A) and widescreen (side B).
Language
English
Description
For centuries, the residents of the underground City of Ember have flourished in an amazing world of glittering lights and quiet contentment. But when the City's massive power generator begins to fail, the streetlamps fade - along with the hopes of the townspeople. Now it will be up to two courageous teenagers to follow a trail of clues left by the ancient builders to find the way out of Ember before their world is plunged into complete darkness.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
It's been three years since the theme park and luxury resort was destroyed by dinosaurs out of containment. Isla Nublar now sits abandoned by humans while surviving dinosaurs fend for themselves in the jungles. When the island's dormant volcano begins roaring to life, Owen and Claire mount a campaign to rescue the remaining dinosaurs from this extinction-level event.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Unquenchably curious young reporter Tintin and his fiercely loyal dog Snowy discover a model ship carrying an explosive secret. Drawn into a centuries-old mystery, Tintin find himself in the sightlines of Ivan Ivanovitch Sakharine, a diabolical villain who believes Tintin has stolen a priceless treasure tied to a dastardly pirate. With the help of Snowy, Captain Haddock, and bumbling detectives Thompson & Thompson, Tintin will travel half the world...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
At the height of the Cold War, a precarious operation goes deadly wrong, and the head of British Intelligence wonders if a double agent is leaking vital secrets. Brought out of retirement to expose the potential mole, master spy George Smiley is the only one who can be trusted to expose one of their own. Or can he? As the emotional and physical tolls mount on the high-ranking suspects, Smiley will be forced into the ultimate international spy game...
29) Silverview
Author
Language
English
Description
Julian Lawndsley has renounced his high-flying job in the city for a simpler life running a bookshop in a small English seaside town. But only a couple of months into his new career, Julian's evening is disrupted by a visitor. Edward, a Polish émigré living in Silverview, the big house on the edge of town, seems to know a lot about Julian's family and is rather too interested in the inner workings of his modest new enterprise. When a letter turns...
30) We: a novel
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
A dystopian novel, completed in 1921 as a response to the author's experience with the Russian revolutions of 1905 and 1917 which foreshadows the terrors of Stalinism.
Author
Publisher
BBC Audio
Pub. Date
2016
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
Toby Jones and Holliday Grainger star in a new BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation of Dodie Smith's enduringly popular coming-of-age novel In the 1930s, seventeen-year-old Cassandra Mortmain lives in a crumbling ruin of a castle in the Suffolk countryside. Her father, an author wrestling with writer's block, spends his time reading detective stories; her bohemian stepmother Topaz is an artist's model, and her beautiful older sister Rose is determined
...Author
Series
Detectorists volume 2
Language
English
Description
Sophie and Peter begin researching the lost plane, while it appears Lance has finally gotten a date. Wanting to start anew with her family, Becky contemplates joining a volunteer program in Africa, but Andy remains oblivious to her desires.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 5
Language
English
Description
Andy and Lance's spirits are at an all-time low when they're betrayed by a friend. To make matters worse, Becky and Andy's relationship has deteriorated. Will Andy be able to repair all the damage he's done?
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 3
Language
English
Description
Sophie suspects Lance may be seeing someone and follows him, reporting her findings to Andy. When the DMDC discovers that the plane may be on the mayor's land, they are forced to help him recover his missing chain of office, which was lost under shady circumstances.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 3
Language
English
Description
With the Antiquisearchers hot on Andy and Lance's trail, the duo turn to ex-cop Terry for backup, with disastrous results. Similarly catastrophic is their open-mic performance at the White Horse pub.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 6
Language
English
Description
Many pressing questions confront the Danebury detectorists: Will farmer Bishop be charged with murder? Will Lance stand up to his scheming ex-wife? And will Andy sacrifice the thing he loves most to keep Becky?
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 4
Language
English
Description
With the Danebury Metal Detecting Club in need of a new president, Andy steps up to the challenge. But his blossoming relationship with Sophie rubs both Lance and Becky the wrong way and turns a routine trivia night toxic.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 1
Language
English
Description
Still unemployed, Andy worries about providing for his wife, Becky, and new son, Stanley. Unlucky-in-love Lance continues to pine after his ex-wife, Maggie. And a young German man enlists the help of the Danebury Metal Detecting Club to find the lost WWII plane his grandfather piloted.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 4
Language
English
Description
Andy anxiously prepares for his job interview. Russell and Hugh blackmail the mayor into giving them permission to detect on his land, but there may be more to the crash site than originally thought.
Author
Series
Detectorists volume 7
Language
English
Description
Since unearthing the jeweled Saxon astel, Lance has been plagued by misfortune. When the DMDC spot a mysterious cloaked figure in a picture of the astel on exhibit at the British Museum, they begin to suspect Lance may be suffering from "the curse of the gold."