Sentences with phrase «author of the novels heads»

Author of the novels HEADS OR TAILS and CHEER.

Not exact matches

• Chris Mullin is the author of the novel A Very British Coup (Serpent's Tail), about the surprise election of a leftwing government headed by Harry Perkins, a Sheffield steelworker, which is destabilised by the establishment.

Adapting a novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett, also the author of The Secret Garden, the film shifts the story's setting to World War I. 10 year - old Sara Crewe (Liesel Matthews) has been left in a respected New York City boarding school while her British father heads overseas to fight.

«Tamara Drewe» (Sony), directed by Stephen Frears, has a strange and wonderful pedigree: an adaptation of the graphic novel (by Posy Simmonds) inspired by Thomas Hardy's «Far From the Madding Crowd» and whipped up with a light sex comedy froth by screenwriter Moira Buffini and the cast (headed by the Gemma Arterton as the gorgeous heroine with identity issues and Roger Allam as the philandering author who wants to bed her).

Former Royal Court Theatre head Dominic Cooke directed the adaptation of Ian McEwan's novel from the author's script.

Following the recent adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, another of the author's novels Alias Grace is heading to the small screen with a six - part miniseries, and we've got a batch of first look images for the upcoming historical drama along with a trailer.

[WARNING: PLOT SPOILERS HEAD] Then there's the fact that author Stephanie Meyer considers the novel to be unfilmable because of to Renesmee, Bella's baby.

Previously she was the head of OCR and the principal author of the controversial and novel enforcement policy now being revised by the Trump administration.

By Brian Howard (b u zz Pub FEBRUARY M ark Z. Danielewski, the author of mind - bending, paradigm - busting works House of Leaves and Only Revolutions, has made a career of turning the novel on its head.

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Sadie Jones, author of the award - winning The Outcasts, heads into new, weird territory with her third novel, The Uninvited Guests.

But the only thing I can imagine going through the head of a reader when they come upon a decently sized novel priced at ninety - nine cents is, «Okay, either this author is making a money grab or he / she realizes it isn't worth any more than one cent less than a dollar.»

Based on a novel of the same title written by the recently deceased author Tom Clancy, a CIA analyst finds himself in over his head in the middle of an international crisis.

Nothing says winter like the crackle of a roaring fire and a good Charles Dickens novel, so why not head to the author's only surviving London residence, where he wrote classics such as Oliver Twist and Nicholas Nickleby?

In 2010, the then 69 - year - old head of the most important climate entity in the world published a novel chronicling the life of a male protagonist born in the same year and in the same part of India as its author.

Perhaps your focus has changed to favour writing novels, but I hope that if that is where you're headed you won't lean as heavily on the use of metaphors — as there is already one New York Times best selling author who applies metaphors so prolifically that they form road blocks along the road to the last page in his books!