Alex Jennings
1) The fury
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"This is a tale of murder. Or maybe that's not quite true. At its heart, it's a love story, isn't it? Lana Farrar is one of the most famous women in the world. Every year, she invites her closest friends to her private Greek island. You may think you know this story. It had all the necessary ingredients for a press sensation: a celebrity, a private island, and a murder. We found ourselves trapped there overnight. What followed was a game of cat and...
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Celebrate the lasting impact of Return of the Jedi with this exciting reimagining of the timeless Star Wars film featuring new perspectives from forty contributors. On May 25, 1983, Star Wars cemented its legacy as the greatest movie franchise of all time with the release of Return of the Jedi. In honor of its fortieth anniversary, forty storytellers re-create an iconic scene from Return of the Jedi through the eyes of a supporting character, from...
3) The Psalms
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The 150 Psalms contain some of the most inspiring lines in the Old Testament - Psalm 23 'The Lord is My Shepherd' and Psalm 121 'I will lift up mine eyes unto the hills'. Their variety is part of their strength and their power, especially in the magisterial language of the King James Bible used here.
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The incredible true story of the greatest illusionist of modern times and the man who altered the course of the second world war.
Soon to be a major film starring Benedict Cumberbatch
'A richly entertaining read' SUNDAY TIMES
Jasper Maskelyne was a world famous magician and illusionist in the 1930s. When war broke out, he volunteered his services to the British Army and was sent to Egypt when the desert war began.
Here, he used his unique skills...
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A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.