Joanna Lumley
Author
Language
English
Description
"The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library, with more than nine million copies sold worldwide "What looks like magic is simply a part of life we don't understand yet..." When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook and no plan....
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Edina runs a fashion agency, wears designer clothes and lives the life of a jet-setter. Her friend Patsy smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like a dream. Life would be one long party - if only Edina's swotty daughter would stop complaining and start joining in like a normal teenager…
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1992.
Language
English
Description
Edina runs a fashion agency, wears designer clothes and lives the life of a jet-setter. Her friend Patsy smokes like a chimney, drinks like a fish and dresses like a dream. Life would be one long party - if only Edina's swotty daughter would stop complaining and start joining in like a normal teenager…
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Edina has moved with the times, expanding her business interests from the world of fashion PR into the interactive medium of television production. Patsy has somehow managed to gain promotion to managing editor of her glossy magazine - despite her obvious over-indulgence in any substance or liquid that comes to hand. Saffy, Edina's daughter, continues her attempts to move out of her mother's house while Mother has taken up salsa dancing and internet...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1995.
Language
English
Description
Edina's got an electronic organiser and a plan to become a model - of efficiency that is. And what's more efficient than flying to New York on Concorde for a doorknob? On New Year's Eve, she has a full house, including Patsy's ultra-glam sister. But Edina's not going to let the crowd interfere with her resolution to have more fun. Then Edina and Patsy plan to get in touch with their inner sexuality - they've scheduled an orgy! Saffy leaves home to...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
Edina continues to battle against the unfair forces of nature and society, supported by her best friend - and outrageous lush - Patsy. Series two finds Edina looking for a new best friend after a row with Patsy, contemplating mortality after a death in the family, coping with a sudden drop in income, hospitalisation, re-birthing, and going on holiday!
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant young fund manager named Millie quits her job and ends a longterm relationship to fulfill her dream of becoming an opera singer in the Scottish Highlands. She begins intense vocal training lessons with renowned singing teacher and former opera diva Meghan Geoffrey-Bishop. It is there she meets Max, another of Meghan's students who is also training for the upcoming "Singer of Renown" contest. The competition between Millie and Max gradually...
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the role that won her Broadway’s acclaimed Tony Award, Pauline Collins is the hilariously endearing SHIRLEY VALENTINE, a wisecracking, completely unpredictable English housewife who proves it’s never too late to recapture your dreams. Bored with her suburban life, Shirley takes a chance on adventure when a friend invites her on a vacation to Greece. Within no time she’s back to her rebellious teenage roots, saying yes to a wild fling with...
10) Paddington 2
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Paddington, now happily settled with the Brown family and a popular member of the local community, picks up a series of odd jobs to buy the perfect present for his Aunt Lucy's 100th birthday, only for the gift to be stolen.
Some action and mild rude humor.
12) Corpse bride
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Victor has messed up his vows during a wedding rehearsal, and is traveling through the woods, reciting his vows. He stops to rest in the woods,and while practicing. He finally gets them right and ceremoniously puts the wedding ring on a finger-shaped stick in the ground and says his wedding vows. The stick turns out to be a rotted finger belonging to a murdered girl who has returned as a zombie and insists that she is now Victor's lawfully wedded...
13) Ella enchanted
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
14) Ella enchanted
Pub. Date
2020
Language
English
Description
Ella is under a spell to be constantly obedient, a fact she must hide from her new stepfamily in order to protect the prince of the land, her friend for whom she's falling.
