Tim McInnerny
1) The Odyssey
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"The first great adventure story in the Western canon, The Odyssey is a poem about violence and the aftermath of war; about wealth, poverty, and power; about marriage and family; about travelers, hospitality, and the yearning for home. In this fresh, authoritative version--the first English translation of The Odyssey by a woman--this stirring tale of shipwrecks, monsters, and magic comes alive in an entirely new way. Written in iambic pentameter verse...
3) Black Death
Publisher
Magnet
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
As the Black Death decimates Europe in 1348, the Church enlists a knight to investigate rumors of a village that the plague has not touched and where the dead are brought back to life.
4) Notting Hill
Language
English
Formats
Description
Every man's dream comes true for William Thacker, a successless Notting Hill bookstore owner, when Anna Scott, the world's most beautiful woman and best-liked actress, enters his shop. A little later, he still can't believe it himself, William runs into her again - this time spilling orange juice over her. Anna accepts his offer to change in his nearby apartment, and thanks him with a kiss, which seems to surprise her even more than him. Eventually,...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Inspired by true events, it is a feel-good story about Michael 'Eddie' Edwards, an unlikely but courageous British ski-jumper who never stopped believing in himself, even as an entire nation was counting him out. With the help of a rebellious and charismatic coach, Eddie takes on the establishment and wins the hearts of sports fans around the world by making an improbable and historic showing at the 1988 Calgary Winter Olympics.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
Blackadder I, 1380: Set during the really dark part of the Dark Ages, this premiere season chronicles the wickedly funny misadventures of the terminally treacherous Edmund, Duke of Edinburgh.
Blackadder II, 1558-1603: The nasty genes of the Blackadder dynasty bubble back to the surface as Lord Edmund swaggers around town with a big head and a little beard in search of grace and favor from the stark raving mad Queen Bess.
Blackadder III, 1768-1815:...
10) MI-5
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When a terrorist escapes custody during a routine handover, Will Holloway must team with disgraced MI5 Intelligence Chief Harry Pearce to track him down before an imminent terrorist attack on London.
11) Automata
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
In a future where Earth's ecosystem verges on collapse, man-made robots roam the city to protect dwindling human life. When a robot overrides a key protocol put in place to protect human life, ROC Robotics insurance agent Jacq Vaucan is assigned to locate the source of the manipulation and eliminate the threat. What he discovers leads Vaucan, ROC Robotics and the police into a battle with profound consequences for the future of humanity.
12) Wetherby
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Jean Travers is a schoolteacher whose life changes completely when a young man breaks into her home, and then kills himself right in front of her for no apparent reason. As Jean's friends struggle to help her, Jean is drawn deeper and deeper into a web of memories and deceptions.
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Agatha Christie becomes involved in solving the murder of a woman bludgeoned on a train; in the winter of 1928, Agatha Christie travels to Iraq, where she falls in love with an attractive archaeologist and has to unravel a series of murders; in the midst of personal turmoil, Agatha Christie decides to kill off her famous character, Hercule Poirot, and sell the manuscript to a wealthy businessman, but the businessman mysteriously dies and the manuscript...
Author
Language
English
Description
"1660 England. General Edward Whalley and his son-in law Colonel William Goffe board a ship bound for the New World. They are on the run, wanted for the murder of King Charles I--a brazen execution that marked the culmination of the English Civil War, in which parliamentarians successfully battled royalists for control. But now, ten years after Charles' beheading, the royalists have returned to power. Under the provisions of the Act of Oblivion, the...