The Island 1980

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is…

Hercule Poirot is called in to investigate a case for an insurance company regarding firstly a dead woman's body found on a moor and then a important diamond sent to the company to be insured turns out to be a fake. Poirot discovers that the diamond was bought for Arlena Marshall by Sir Horace Platt and Arlena is on her honeymoon with her husband and step-daughter on a tropical island hotel. He joins them on the island and finds that everybody else starts to hate Arlena for different reasons - refusing to do a stage show, stopping a book, and for having an open affair with Patrick Redfern, another guest, in full view of his shy wife. So it's only a matter of time before Arlena turns up dead, strangled and Poirot must find out who it is…

A pair of children befriend an accentric old man, who lives isolated on the far shore of their island home. But it turns out that the old man knows a terrible secret about the island and the narwhales who sometimes come. Meanwhile WWI is making life hard in the village.

Boasting 50 tracks across three CDs, "The Ultimate Collection" is an in-depth overview of Bonnie's career. Disc One focuses on Bonnie in her 80s and 90s pomp, across six albums recorded for the CBS and Hansa labels. 'Total Eclipse Of The Heart', a transatlantic #1 single as well as a huge seller across Europe, is a natural place to start, and her signature song. Other highlights include 'Holding Out For A Hero' from the Footloose soundtrack. Disc Two turns its attention to original material from the first four studio albums, recorded for RCA Records between 1976 and 1981. The two top ten smashes were 'Lost In France' and 'It's A Heartache', with many more high quality songs to discover. Casual fans will find plenty to delve into. Disc Three looks at Classics and Duets.

20 tracks new to CD. Includes dub versions of numerous major dancehall hits. Most tracks unavailable for over 45 years. By 1980, the roots sound that had dominated Jamaican music for much of the 70s had been largely superseded by dancehall, a new, driving style that would remain in favour until the arrival of the digital era in 1985. In the years leading up to dancehall’s arrival, few, if any of the island’s producers had enjoyed greater success than Joe Gibbs, whose hit-rate throughout the previous decade included international chartbusters from the likes of Nicky Thomas, Dennis Brown, Althea and Donna and Culture. Determined to retain his position at the top of the Jamaica music tree, Gibbs was swift to embrace the new dancehall sound, securing the talents of its most accomplished exponents as well as almost every up-and- coming young artist of note. As a result, he remained one of reggae music’s premier producers until his dramatic retirement in 1984, by which time he had released numerous major hits in the style.

A collection of hit tracks that wooed and wowed the charts during a specific and exciting year in Rock and Pop history. The phrase Top Of The Pops was not only a long-running music television show in the UK, but also a term that meant that a release was a certified hit!

Peter Glahn is released after years of incarceration as a political prisoner and is now returning to his homeland, the mythical Mandragora where the sun never sets. On board the ship home, he meets the mysterious Juliana Kossel who vanishes after stealing his heart. Once he arrives on the island, he goes to the family ostrich farm run by his sister Amelia. He finds Amelia living with a farmhand named Cain Ball who fears that Peter's return will endanger the agreement he made with Amelia that will see him inherit the farm. Amelia has since fallen for the vain Dr. Isaac Solti who controls the island and has a hold on both Zephyr Eccles, the widow of a local fisherman, and Juliana, Peter's dream girl from the ship. Solti's true obsession is a recently discovered statue of Venus that possesses strange powers. All the characters meet at Solti's lab where the sexual tensions erupt.