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About this book Made into a 2009 film starring Robin Wright and Winona Ryder, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is an intelligent and moving story about an unforgettable heroine. At fifty, Pippa Lee seems just fine. She is the devoted wife of a brilliant publisher thirty years her senior, the mother of successful twins and she is adored by her friends and neighbours. But when her husband decides they are to abandon their Gramercy Park life for Marigold Village retirement home, Pippa soon finds her...

Rebecca Miller writes and directs this drama based on her own novel. Robin Wright Penn stars as the eponymous Pippa, who at the age of 50 seems to have everything in life: security, happiness, a brilliant publisher husband 30 years her senior and successful grown-up twins. But when her husband (Alan Arkin) first decides that they should both leave New York and move to a retirement home in Connecticut, and then embarks on an affair with a woman even younger than she is, Pippa finds herself re-assessing...

TRACKS: Requiem - Nine Spiritual Concerti for solo piano concertante trumpet and large chamber orchestra. Mirjam Wiesemann in conversation with Hans Werner Henze. Mirjam Wiesemann in conversation with Michael Kerstan.

Pippa Lee is the devoted wife of a brilliant man thirty years her senior, the proud mother of grown up twins, and an adored friend and neighbour. But where once she was content with this seemingly enviable world, Pippa now finds her life beginning to unravel. She starts to wonder, how did she find herself in this place?

Compiles a selection of 40 extracts from contemporary sources, in modernised English. Includes 68 illustrations, monochrome and colour. Contents: Henry VII; Henry VIII; Edward VI; Jane Grey; Mary Tudor; Queen Elizabeth.

Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced from one another five years previously, arrive coincidentally at the same French hotel. They are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses, but find that the old bond between them cannot be swept aside.

In conjunction with a major series for BBC2, this work presents the scandalous saga of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood. Their Bohemian lifestyle and intertwined love affairs shockingly broke 19th Century class barriers and bent the rules that governed the roles of the sexes. They became defined by love triangles, played out against the austere moral climate of Victorian England; they outraged their contemporaries with their loves, jealousies and betrayals, and they stunned society when their complex...

PRIVATE LIVES Break The Chains (1983 EX/EX Portuguese EMI 7 Inch - Pic Sleeve , 1078077)

PRIVATE LIVES Where Do I Go (1980 /VG+ UK PYE 7 Inch - Original Hand Written Acetate B/W On Your Own But Has Slight Warp)

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From all outward appearances, Pippa Lee leads a charmed existence. She is the devoted wife of an accomplished publisher 30 years her senior, the proud mother of two grown children, and a trusted friend and confidant to all who cross her path. But as Pippa dutifully follows her husband to a new life in a staid Connecticut retirement community, her idyllic world and the persona she has built over the course of her marriage will be put to the ultimate test. In truth, looks are deceiving, and this picture...

The latest an this excellent series of nature books from the National University of Singapore, this volume covers the denizens of Singapore's streams, swamps, reservoirs and other freshwaterways, both native and non-native. The focus is on interesting and exciting new case stories relating to freshwater ecosystems, plants and animals, their ecology and the many challenges facing them. Illustrated throughout with stunning new colour photographs on every page.

"* 'Like Jonathan Franzen's The Corrections without the bitterness, mixed with Jeffrey Eugenides's The Virgin Suicides without the eccentricity, The Private Lives of Pippa Lee is a thoroughly enjoyable and engrossing read" - Sunday Telegraph * 'Miller is a luminous writer... gazing into these multiple private Pippas is like opening a series of Russian dolls, each intricately wrought, self-contained and self-revealing.' - Olivia Laing, Observer * 'A beautifully layered and subtle novel of identity...

Details This fascinating investigation, which accompanies a television series, uses the results of modern scientific analytical techniques to uncover new personal details about Egypt's most famous pharaohs. Tyldesley focuses on three mysteries: the identity of the builders of the Great Pyramids, including questions of how and why they did it, reasons why the 18th dynasty died out, and the identity of a mummified female temple singer. The scientific material, including DNA research and facial reconstruction...

He was a lion of a man who helped shape the course of this century with his relentless ambition and fierce political instincts. Few have matched Winston Churchill's cunning or force of will. Few have seen the equal of his audacity on the battlefield or the determination with which he strove toward his own ideal of greatness. At the height of his power, he seemed to embody the ideals of the empire he helped sustain: valor, pride, and above all, tradition. His sense of personal destiny was rooted deeply...

Private Lives [play] - Gielgud Theatre, London - Friday 28 June - prices from £25.00

Release Date: 2009-11-02, Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over

About this item Manet, Monet, Pissarro, Cezanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt. Though they were often ridiculed or ignored by their contemporaries, astonishing sums are paid today for the works of these artists. Their dazzling pictures are familiar - but how well does the world know the Impressionists as people? In a vivid and moving narrative, biographer Sue Roe shows the Impressionists in the studios of Paris, rural lanes of Montmartre and rowdy riverside bars as Paris...

Now the curtain is lifted with Chiaroscuro, an original historical drama following the life of Leonardo as witnessed by his 'Little Devil', Salai - a low-born youth whose beauty entranced da Vinci, and whose quest for acceptance from the great maestro led him to both love and betray the man who adopted him as a son and used him as a muse. This sweeping tale of art, passion and politics brings to brilliant life one of the most exciting eras in European history, and opens a new window onto the soul...

PRIVATE LIVES Where Do I Go (1980 EX/EX UK WEA 7 Inch - Pic Sleeve , K18303)

This intimate, colorful, superbly researched account of the world's most popular artists, the Impressionists, takes readers into the artists' homes, as well as their studios and describes their unconventional, volatile, and precarious lives, as well as their canvasses and theories. 8-page color insert. 8-page B&W insert.

Details The plays in this volume demonstrate the extraordinary skill and versatility Coward's writing achieved in the late 1920s. The volume contains his best-loved classic, Private Lives, which was an immeditate hit when it was first staged in 1930. Coward's sparkling dialogue and repartee have ensured the play's popularity ever since. Of Bitter-Sweet in 1929 Noel Coward wrote that it was "a musical that gave me more complete satisfaction than anything else I had yet written. Not especially on...

Heat of the Sun - Private Lives (Episode 1) [VHS] [1998]

Few people know about Curie's close friendship with American journalist Missy Meloney, who arranged speaking tours across the country for Marie and Eve and Irene. Months on the road, charming audiences both large and small, endeared the Curies to American women and established a lifelong relationship with the United States that formed one of the strongest connections of Marie's life. Without the financial support of American women, Marie might not have been able to go on with her research.

OTHER INFORMATION: Robin Wright Penn, Mike Binder, Alan Arkin, Winona Ryder, Directed by Rebecca Miller