Gemma Arterton
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Puffin
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English
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Penguin presents the audiobook edition of First Prize for the Worst Witch by Jill Murphy, read by Gemma Arterton. Accident-prone Mildred Hubble is the Worst Witch at Miss Cackle's Academy. She's always getting her spells wrong and landing herself in trouble. But Mildred is in the last term of Fourth Year and determined to prove that she's not as useless as everyone thinks - could it be First Prize for the worst witch after all? The Worst Witch is...
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Hold on to your broom for magical mayhem! Lovable but disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is a trainee at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches, but she's making an awful mess of it. She keeps getting her spells wrong and crashing her broomstick. Yet she manages to get by until she turns Ethel, the teacher's pet, into her deadly enemy and chaos ensues . . .
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Series
The Worst Witch volume 2
Publisher
Puffin
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Summer term at Miss Cackle's Academy for Witches has just begun and disaster-prone Mildred Hubble is in deep trouble again - all because of the new girl, Enid Nightshade, who isn't nearly as placid as she looks . . .
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Bolinda/Audible audio
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
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Berlin, 1989. As the wall between East and West falls, Miriam Winter cares for her dying father, Henryk. When he cries out for someone named Frieda - and Miriam discovers an Auschwitz tattoo hidden under his watch strap - Henryk's secret history begins to unravel. Searching for more clues of her father's past, Miriam finds an inmate uniform from the Ravensbrück women's camp concealed among her mother's things. Within its seams are dozens of letters...
5) Their finest
Publisher
Lionsgate UK
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Lone Scherfig directs this British romantic comedy drama starring Gemma Arterton, Sam Claflin and Bill Nighy. Set during World War II with London coming under sustained attack during the Blitz, young Welsh copywriter Catrin Cole (Arterton) is employed by the British Ministry of Information to bring a female perspective to their latest propaganda film aimed at raising the morale of the British people. Assigned to co-write a project based around the...
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Thunderbird Releasing
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Biographical romantic drama based on the relationship between writers Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (Gemma Arterton and Elizabeth Debicki) during the 1920s. After meeting at a party in Bloomsbury, the pair strike up a romantic relationship despite their respective marriages and begin writing love letters to one another. As the relationship develops, it inspires each to reach new artistic heights, culminating in the publication of Woolf's...
7) The escape
Publisher
Vertigo Films
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Gemma Arterton and Dominic Cooper star in this British drama written and directed by Dominic Savage. After becoming disillusioned with her life as a stay-at-home mother, Tara (Arterton) decides to leave her husband Mark (Cooper) and their kids behind in order to travel to Paris and reassess her future. However, after spending some time on her own, Tara soon comes to realise that walking out on her family is much more difficult than she initially thought....
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
Sennia Nanua, Gemma Arterton and Glenn Close star in this sci-fi drama based on M.R. Carey's novel. In a post-apocalyptic future, humanity has been devastated by a mutated fungal disease that has turned most of the Earth's population into ravenous zombies, known as 'hungries'. In a secure army base in Birmingham, a group of scientists experiment on part-human, part-hungry, hybrid children in the hope of finding a possible cure to the epidemic. In...