At the outbreak of World War One, Joey, young Albert's beloved horse, is sold to the cavalry and shipped to France. He's soon caught up in enemy fire, and fate takes him on an extraordinary odyssey, serving on both sides before finding himself alone in no man's land.

When the young Ishmael gets on board Captain Ahab's whaling ship, little does he suspect that the mission on which he is about to embark is the fulfilment of his master's obsessive desire for revenge on Moby Dick, a white whale who has already claimed countless human victims and destroyed many fleets.

Lady Chatterley?s Lover was banned on its publication in 1928, creating a storm of controversy. Lawrence tells the story of Constance Chatterley?s marriage to Sir Clifford, an aristocratic and an intellectual who is paralysed from the waist down after the First World War. Desperate for an heir and embarrassed by his inability to satisfy his wife, Clifford suggests that she have an affair. Constance, troubled by her husband?s words, finds herself involved...

Paddington Bear knows just what he wants for Christmas and is anxious to make sure that Santa Claus knows too. A trip to Santa's grotto at the department store is his perfect chance to tell him - but everything doesn't go quite according to plan.

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