Rachel Hurd-Wood
1) Peter Pan
Language
English
Formats
Description
In stifling Edwardian London, Wendy Darling mesmerizes her brothers every night with bedtime tales of swordplay, swashbucker skills and the ever fearsome Captain Hook. But the children become real heroes of an even greater story when Peter Pan flies into their nursery one night and takes them on a journey over moonlit rooftops to the lush jungles of Neverland. Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life, free of grown-up...
Series
Tomorrow volume 1
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Follows the journey of eight high school friends in a remote country town whose lives are suddenly and violently upended by a war that no one saw coming. Cut off from their families, these eight teenagers must learn to escape, survive and fight back against a hostile military force.
4) Home fires
Pub. Date
2015
Edition
Full UK-length edition.
Language
English
Description
Bitter rivals fight for control of the Women's Institute in a rural English town as it struggles with the onset of World War II. Separated from husbands, fathers, sons and brothers for years at a time, some permanently, they find themselves under extraordinary pressures in a rapidly fragmenting world.
5) Solomon Kane
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
Captain Solomon Kane is a brutally efficient 16th Century killing machine. When Kane decides to attack a mysterious nearby castle to plunder its rumored riches, his men are picked off by demonic creatures until he alone is left to face the Devil's own Reaper-dispatched from the depths of Hell to lay claim to his hopelessly corrupt soul. Though Kane manages to escape, he knows that he now must redeem himself by renouncing violence and devoting himself...
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
In 1738 in Paris, a baby is born under a fishmonger's bloody table in a marketplace and abandoned. Orphaned, passed over to the monks as a charity case, already there is something about the tiny infant that is unsettling. No one will look after him; he is somehow too demanding and, even more disturbing, something is missing: he doesn't smell the way a baby should; indeed, he has no scent at all. Yet Jean-Baptiste Grenouille clings stubbornly to life,...
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
In Peter Pan, Wendy and her brothers join Peter and the Lost Boys in an exhilarating life-- free of grown-up rules-- while also facing the inevitable showdown with Hook and his bloodthirsty pirates.
In Thunderbirds, the Tracy family tackles global rescue operations on a daily basis.
In The borrowers, the owner of a house occupied by four-inch high "little people" dies and evil realtor Ocious Potter wants to destroy the house to build luxury apartments....