 | Saving Grace
Buy new: $20.99 / Used from: $5.94 A prim and proper English gardner turns to growing pot when she realizes her husband has left her nothing but a 400,000 pound mortgage. Hilarious. Gorgeous scenery.
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 | Foyle's War: Set 1 (The German Woman / The White Feather / A Lesson In Murder / Eagle Day)
Buy new: $47.99 / Used from: $36.48 WW2, Britain, one man must do his best to maintain the law while War rages. This, in my opinion, is the best tv series ever made. Ever.
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 | Crocodile on the Sandbank (Amelia Peabody, Book 1) by Elizabeth Peters
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Amelia Peabody is a no nonsense, Mary Poppins meets Indiana Jones in Victorian England who sets off to Egypt for some real adventure. Hilarious. Mysterious. So romantic!
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 | North & South
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $17.25 If you've never met Mr. Thornton... oh. What joy lies ahead for you. Possibly one of the most romantic movies I've ever seen!!
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 | Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $1.43 Every girl needs a little Mary Stewart in her life. Touch Not the Cat is delicious. Our heroine has a very peculiar ability to mentally communicate with her lover, someone she hasn't met.
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 | David Copperfield (Modern Library Classics) by Charles Dickens
Buy new: $8.95 / Used from: $2.18 This my favorite book of ALL TIME! The most fabulous, endearing, hilarious and tragic characters, people you feel you know as well as your family.
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 | The Scarlet Pimpernel (Book 1 of The Scarlet Pimpernel Series) by Baroness Orczy
Buy new: $9.95 / Used from: $8.62 It's the French Revolution and someone is making off with doomed French Aristocrats. The French know it is an Englishman but they have no idea who. Neither does his wife.
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 | The Scarlet Pimpernel
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.75 The movie!!! Not only is Anthony Andrews amazingly dashing and Jane Seymour ridiculously beautiful, the French and English countryside, the costumes, and the houses are to die for.
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 | Hamish MacBeth: Series 1-3 Collection
Buy new: $42.49 / Used from: $40.22 True, you might have to watch the first episode twice because of the thick Scottish accents, but you will be well rewarded. What makes this series a must see are the hilarious Scottish townspeople, the romantic Scottish Highlands, a beloved little Westie named Wee Jock, riveting story telling and the fabulous Robert Carlyle as Hamish himself.
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 | Billy Elliot
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $4.84 What a triumph this movie is. Billy is a sturdy little scrapper in the mining community of Durham during the strikes of the 1980's. But Billy doesn't want to follow in his father's footsteps. He'd rather be a ballerina. This movie is laugh out loud funny and then turns around and squeezes the tears out of you. Some of the truest moments in cinema and you will be dancing by the end.
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 | Upstairs, Downstairs - Collector's Edition Megaset (The Complete Series plus Thomas and Sarah)
Buy used from: $82.60 This is a must see on every British list and that's because it's not only fabulously acted, fabulously written and directed but because it is one of the only really true windows into life for Victorian/Edwardian upper class and their faithful and hardworking servants.
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 | The Book of Secrets by Loreena McKennitt
Buy new: $34.99 / Used from: $11.95 If you're a fan of Celtic music, Loreena McKennitt is the for-runner in this genre. She mixes ancient sounds of the Middle East and Ancient Anglia to weave and mysterious and richly moving tapestry.
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 | Legacy by Susan Kay
Buy used from: $14.72 Everyone has this on their list. That's because it is by far and away the best historical fiction most of us have ever read. A masterpiece on life in the Elizabethan court, Elizabeth feels real and glorious just as she feels fragile and alone. Real insight, real poignancy. Love it!
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 | Arson and Old Lace (Far Wychwood Mysteries, No. 1) by Patricia Harwin
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $0.01 This series of only two books (what the heck???) typifies the cozy cottage mysteries. Our heroine is a New York librarian who retires after her husband leaves her. She starts over in the Cotswolds where her daughter and grandson live. Of course, life is not what it seems in this quiet village and soon she's bumbling into intrigue and mystery. Fabulous!
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 | The House of Eliott - Series One
Buy new: $53.99 / Used from: $29.89 Two sisters in post WW1 London set out to set up their own Coture fashion line. Witty, quick and habit forming, I loved every episode of this series (note, get through the first one -- slowest one of the series). Wish it would have continued!!
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 | Confessions of a Shopaholic (Movie Tie-in Edition) by Sophie Kinsella
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.01 Hilarious. HILARIOUS. I didn't even see the movie as the preview alone told me it had nothing to do with the clever and painfully true antics of Rebecca Bloomwood.
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 | Signature by Moya Brennan
Buy used from: $15.75 Most people know Enya but most folks haven't heard of her equally talented sister, Moya (or Maire). Formerlly of the Celtic group Clannad, Moya is a haunting Celtic siren.
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 | The Boxer (Collector's Edition)
Buy used from: $11.50 This is also one of the most romantic movies ever. Daniel Day Lewis plays Danny Flynn, a 30 something former IRA militant finally released from prison after 14 years. He wants nothing more to do with the IRA and tries to rebuild his broken life with the woman he left behind. Poignant, haunting, and difficult, this is longing at its best.
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 | This Rough Magic by Mary Stewart
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $0.54 Another Mary Stewart and really, all Mary Stewart 60's romance/msyteries should be on this list. Always about young British women on vacation in exotic places (this one is on the island of Crete)who stumble into intrigue and romance, these books are like well-written candy.
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 | Jane Eyre (Masterpiece Theatre, 2006)
Buy new: $16.99 / Used from: $15.41 Finally, a version of Jane Eyre with some passion!!! After so many renditions of this melodramatic classic, at last Jane Eyre is hot.
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 | Without a Clue
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $5.96 If you're a fan of Sherlock Holmes or Michael Caine, this will be a sure favorite. A hilarious but well done interpretation of the detective that has Watson the brains behind the outfit, dragging "Sherlock"(an out of work actor) through Victorian London on the heels of Moriarty.
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 | Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Granada Television Series (12 DVD)
Buy new: $186.49 / Used from: $123.28 Jeremy Brett is Sherlock Holmes. There is no other. This production is exquisite from costumes, acting, scenery and sheer atmosphere. The ultimate in Victoriana.
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 | Paul McCartney: Many Years From Now by Barry Miles
Buy new: $16.50 / Used from: $6.70 For Beatle fans everywhere, this is a must, must, read. Not only is it a revelation of Paul McCartney's visionary methods through out the Beatle years(much of what John gets credit for)but it is chalk full of delicious tidbits on England during the swinging 60's. Hilarious, tragic, and absolutely addicting.
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 | Dear Frankie
Buy new: $23.99 / Used from: $11.94 Gerard Butler at his sexy sensitive best!
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 | Pride & Prejudice by Dario Marianelli
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $10.25 The most beautiful soundtrack ever.
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 | Mr. Timothy: A Novel by Louis Bayard
Buy new: $10.04 / Used from: $0.01 If you haven't read Louis Bayard, you are missing out!!!! In this novel, Bayard explores Timothy Cratchit from "A Christmas Carol" now that he's grown up. In a Victorian suspense laced with humor, intrigue and tragedy, the black underbelly of London reveals itself in these pages of identity and loss.
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 | The Ruby in the Smoke: A Sally Lockhart Mystery by Philip Pullman
Buy new: $7.99 / Used from: $3.06 It's really too bad the other books in the series don't live up to this first one. Excellent, excellent YA novel about a young heroine in Victorian England who stumbles into the dark mysteries of the opium trade with China. Fabulous and fast.
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 | About a Boy (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $1.63 Loved this movie! Loved it! Some of the most quotable moments of all time and Hugh at his absolute most convincing best. Gem. Love.
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 | About a Boy
Buy new: $11.98 / Used from: $3.32 Fabulous fabulous soundtrack. One of the best ever in original music scored for a movie.
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