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The novel Body Surfing by Anita Shreve is being offered this week for £2.99 when you buy it with the Times Newspaper.

Plot wise The action takes place in and around A beach house in New Hampshire which is the summer home of the Edwards family, Anna and Mark and daughter Julie. There are also two older brothers, Jeff and Ben, who suddenly arrive there too

Mrs. Edwards has great hopes for Julie, who has a learning disability, so she hires a woman named Sydney to tutor her. Sydney is 29, twice married, once divorced, and once a widow. She is floundering, not sure what she wants to do, accepting whatever job comes along and then moving on. She answers the ad for a tutor and finds herself in the Edwards household, where she discovers that Julie has undiscovered artistic talent.

However Mrs. Edwards takes an instant dislike to Sydney, is dismissive, and treats her like a servant. Mr. Edwards befriends her, shows her his roses and talks to her about the history of the house.

Then Late one night Sydney goes body surfing with Jeff and Ben, and is sure that Ben groped her underwater, So takes immediate umbrage at this and treats him coldly thereafter, Julie comes home drunk one evening and won’t talk about it and there is also an illicit liaison between Sydney and Jeff which is complicated further when Jeff’s girlfriend arrives on the scene…

If like me you are big fan of comedy programs like “Knowing Me Knowing You”, “I’m Alan Partridge” & “The Day Today” This free download of the spoof radio current affairs show “On The Hour” should be just your thing.

It can be downloaded today from the Guardian website, and was the precurser to the television progeram “The Day Today” and features the first appearance of Alan Partridge (Steve Coogan).

Go here for Details.

Having recently offered readers the soundtrack to The Sound of Music , the Mail Newspaper is offering readers another great soundtrack this Sunday. This time there is a free copy of the Soundtrack to the classic musical Oliver with the paper. Containing these great tracks:

FOOD, GLORIOUS FOOD
BOY FOR SALE
WHERE IS LOVE?
PICK A POCKET OR TWO
CONSIDER YOURSELF
I’D DO ANYTHING
BE BACK SOON
AS LONG AS HE NEEDS ME
WHO WILL BUY?
REVIEWING THE SITUATION
OOM-PAH-PAH

The Mirror newspaper recently offered a wonderful series of DVDs entitled “David Attenborough - The Essential DVD Collection” and Being fascinated by Nature & wildlife, I decided to send off for them. This morning they finally arrived & I awoke to find them on my doorstep, which I thought was a rather good start to the day. They should keep me enthralled during the cold winter months ahead, anyway Titles in the collection are:

The Life of Mammals - Opportunists, Chisellers, Meat Eaters
Life in Cold Blood - Dragons of the Dry
The Life of Mammals - Life in the Trees
The Life of Birds - To Fly or Not to Fly
Life in the Undergrowth - Intimate Relations
The First Eden - Strangers in The Garden
Planet Earth - Great Plains
Planet Earth - From Pole To Pole
Trials of Life - Hunt9ing & Escaping
Life on Earth - Life in the Trees
Life in the Freezer - The Bountiful Sea
The Living Planet - Northern Forests
The Blue Planet - The Blue Planet
The Private Life of Plants - Surviving

This historical epic is being offered for £2.99 this week when you buy it with the Times Newspaper. It is Kate Funivall’s second novel & concerns a character named Sofia Morozova, who has been imprisoned at Davinsky Labour Camp, Siberia and wants to escape. Only two things have sustained her through the bitter cold, aching hunger and hard labour - the prospect of one day walking free, and the stories told by her friend Anna- beguiling tales of a charmed upbringing in Petrograd and of Anna’s fervent love for a passionate revolutionary named Vasily.

Unfortunately Anna falls gravely ill, So Sofia makes a promise to escape the camp and find Vasily. But Sofia knows that times have changed. Russia is gripped by the iron fist of Communism and is no longer the country it once was.

Her perilous search takes her from industrial factories to remote villages, where she discovers a web of secrecy and lies, but also bonds of courage and loyalty and an overwhelming love that threatens her promise to Anna….

Starting on Saturday 8th November with The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - there are 11 free Children’s Classic DVDs inside the Daily Mail, which can be collected daily from either WHSMith, Tesco or Eason (Or Ebay if you are patient). DVDs in the series are:

The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe
This film takes you through the back of an old wardrobe on an extraordinary adventure with Aslan, the great lion, where you will discover talking fauns, friendly beavers, giants and flying horses, all in the enchanted land of Narnia!

Prince Caspian
The rightful heir to the Kingdom of Narnia, Prince Caspian, is forced into battle with wicked King Miraz. With the help and guidance of Aslan, will the Pevensie children succeed in ridding Narnia of this evil force?

Beatrix Potter - Peter Rabbit
Beutifully Animated stories Featuring The Tale of Peter Rabbit and Benjamin Bunny, The Tale of Flopsy Bunnies and Mrs Tittlemouse and The Tale of Tom Kitten and Jemima Puddle-Duck.

Beatrix Potter - Mrs Tiggy-Winkle
More Beutifully Animated stories Featuring The Tale of Mrs Tiggy-Winkle and Mr Jeremy Fisher, The Tale of Mr Tod and The Tale of Two Bad Mice and Johnny Town-Mouse.

Beatrix Potter- Pigling Band
Even more Beutifully Animated stories featuring The Tale of Pigling Bland, The Tale of Samuel Whiskers or The Roly-Poly Pudding and The Tailor of Glucester.

The Secret Garden
This beautifully filmed BBC production of the all time favourite, children’s classic tells the story of a spoilt, lonely orphan girl whose life is transformed by a secret garden. The DVD brings together for the first time, all seven delightful episodes.

The Railway Children
Adapted from the much loved bestseller from E. Nesbit, this timeless classic tells the tale of three Edwardian children who move to the country where the local railway becomes a source of hope and adventure.

Wind In The Willows - Series 1
This DVD comprises six classic episodes. Join Mr Toad and chums Ratty, Badger and Mole in these exciting and unpredictable adventures

Wind In The Willows - Autumn & Winter
Join Ratty, Badger, Mole and Mr Toad in another six exciting stories; The Harvest, Monster of the Wild Wood, Remember Remember, Winter Sports, The Rescue and The Yuletide Entertainment.

Wind In The Willows - Spring & Summer
this DVD comprises a further six tales in the Wind in the Willows collection; The Great Steamer, The Lost River, Paper Chase, Grand Annual Show, Toad; Photographer and The Great Golfing Gamble.

Voyage of the Dawn Treader
The Pevensie children return to the Kingdom of Narnia where King Caspian needs their help once again. On their adventure aboard the Dawn Treader, they encounter sea serpents, dragons and invisible enemies - join them on this momentous voyage.

The Silver Chair
Eustace Scrubb, his bullied school friend and their reptilian companion, Puddlegum embark on a journey to the Giants of Garfang and underground to the land of the earthmen where they face the fearful Queen of the Deep Realm.

There is a series of seven Free DVDS Entitled ‘World War 2 in Colour’inside next weeks Telegraph newspaper. This series looks fascinating & Having already seen “The World At War” and “World War I in Colour” I would like to get these too.

This Award-winning Series narrated by John Thaw features hours of previously unseen colour film which has been unearthed after years of painstaking research, and offers a completely new and remarkable insight into the events that shaped our modern world during this tumultuous time.

The first two DVDs are free with the paper and the next five can be collected with the paper at WHSmith (or you can have the entire collection sent to you by post) or bid for them on Ebay next week

Titles in the series are:

1) A NEW WORLD ORDER
2) TOTAL WAR
3) TRIUMPH AND DESPAIR
4) DARKEST HOUR
5) THE BEGINNING OF THE END
6) UNKNOWN WARRIORS
7) DAM BUSTERS - THE TRUE STORY

This novel by Kate Morton - a story of tragedy, secrets, and discovery, has been described as a cross between The Secret Carden & Rebecca, and is being offered for £2.99 when you buy this weeks Times newspaper.

It starts on the eve of the First World War, when a little girl named Nell is found wondering alone on a ship bound for Australia. Fast forward to the night of her twenty-first birthday, and Nell learns a family secret that will change her life forever. Decades later, she embarks upon a search for the truth that leads her to the windswept Cornish coast and the strange and beautiful Blackhurst Manor, once owned by the aristocratic Mountrachet family.

On Nell’s death, her granddaughter, Cassandra, comes into an unexpected inheritance. Cliff Cottage and its forgotten garden, which are notorious amongst the Cornish locals for the secrets they hold - secrets about the doomed Mountrachet family and their ward Eliza Makepeace, a writer of dark Victorian fairytales. It is here that Cassandra must uncover the
truth about the family, and solve a century-old mystery…

This is the latest novel to be offered for £2.99 when you buy the Times Newspaper.

It is the story of a boy who has a near-death experience one day during a football game and finds himself cursed with the ability to foresee the deaths of the people closest to him.

These visions follow him into adulthood and after some disastrous attempts to thwart destiny, he is ultimately left with the dilemma of having to decide whether or not he should try to save a little girl that he has grown to love.

This award-winning, inspirational story is free with today’s Daily Mail newspaper as part of their Romantic Comedy DVD Promotion. It features a bloke named Brian Herzlinger, a broke 27-year-old aspiring filmmaker from New Jersey, who has had a crush on Drew Barrymore since the second grade when he first saw her in E.T. The Extraterrestrial,

Now, 20 years later he has decided to try to fulfill his lifelong dream by asking her out on a date. So Brian and his film school pals try to think of ways to convince Barrymore to go out with him - documenting their quest along the way…