![]() ![]() A body has been found on the beach near to Matthew's new home: a man with the tattoo of an albatross on his neck, has been stabbed to death. "Now he's back, not just to mourn his father at a distance, but to take charge of his first major murder. Sadly, the day Matthew turned his back on the strict evangelical community in which he grew up, he lost his family too. ITV's synopsis reads: "We first meet the reserved, but intense Matthew Venn outside the local church as his father's funeral takes place. Kelly has written a wonderful adaptation and this promises to be a really distinctive and original new crime series." The Long Call plot "It's very different to Vera, but I think audiences will take to DI Matthew Venn and this compelling story in the same way. ITV's head of drama Polly Hill said: "I'm delighted that ITV is working with Silverprint Pictures to bring another of Ann's brilliant novels to screen. The four-part series, written by Des screenwriter Kelly Jones, is described as a character-led crime drama driven by a flawed protagonist, Detective Inspector Matthew Venn, who has returned to live in a small community in North Devon with his husband, Jonathan.Ĭleeves created Shetland and the long-running detective drama Vera, based on her Vera Stanhope series of novels, and starring Brenda Blethyn. ITV has announced a new crime drama The Long Call, adapted from Vera creator Ann Cleeves' best-selling novel of the same title. ![]()
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![]() Since Star Trek and Star Wars, and with the explosion of the genres of science fiction and fantasy literature, children today are far more sophisticated in taste than we were 50 years ago. It was her first children’s book and it gained such popularity that several sequels about David and his adventures on the Mushroom Planet ensued. This was the world in which Cameron’s eight-year-old son lived in the early 1950’s when he asked his mother to write a space story with himself as the main character. ![]() We built rockets in school and the boys became their own living action figures on the playgrounds as astronauts. ![]() I remember the tension-filled moments of NASA’s first blast-offs, and the fearful excitement listening to reports of landings. Those were the pioneering days in venturing off Planet Earth into the unknown. Today, it’s hard to imagine how obsessed the children of the 1950-1960’s were with space travel. ![]() ![]() In this case, my destination was The Wonderful Flight to the Mushroom Planet by Eleanor Cameron (1954). Well, you do if you are me – You pick up a children’s book you’ve never read and go away for a few hours. What do you do when spring’s precocious mood throws winter back in your face? You take a trip to another planet! ![]() ![]() ![]() Victor and Roser’s marriage begins as one of convenience, not love. Originally Catalonian Spanish, Victor and Roser become Chilean. Their story explains what it means to belong to family and community. Ultimately, the pair return to Chile, where they have made their home when the political atmosphere allows it. Both times, reactionary forces overturned democratically elected leaders via force, and Victor and Roser stood with democracy. Exiled from Spain in 1939, Victor and Roser are again exiled from their home in Chile years later. Through their relationship, Victor and Roser expose the true meaning of love, as their love for each other strengthens throughout their lives. Beginning in the last years of the Spanish Civil War, the novel uses the characters Victor Dalmau and Roser Bruguera to depict the pain of war and exile and the hope of new beginnings. ![]() ![]() ![]() The resolute PI up against crime, danger, and beautiful dames. ![]() With an assistant who mocks him relentlessly, an obese cat that loathes him, a romantic life that's deader than Elvis, money problems, booze, nicotine, and anger management issues, how much worse can it get? When he takes a case that's supposed to be easy money working for a celebrity whose colleagues and surrounding paparazzi are dropping faster than interest in the star's big comeback, the cakewalk turns ugly and Black finds himself in a web of deceit, betrayal, and murder - and bad hair days.The first in a new series from bestselling author Russell Blake, Black is a detective mystery with a difference that fans of the genre are sure to enjoy.+++Q&A with Russell BlakeQ: Why delve into detective mystery? You're an action/adventure thriller author.RB: I've always loved books by authors like Michael Connelly, Elmore Leonard and the rest. Perennially down-on-his-luck Hollywood PI whose Bogie fixation is as dated as his wardrobe. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Later, she graduated from Emerson College with an MFA degree in Creative Writing. Stolarz studied at Merrimack College and obtained her bachelor’s degree. The influence of the trials can be effectively seen in the witchcraft/Wiccan and magical elements of Stolarz’s books. She was brought up in her home city, which is widely famous for its 1692 witch trials. Author Stolarz was born on May 5, 1972, in Salem, Massachusetts, United States. Stolarz’s works mostly consist of teenage protagonists and include elements found in romance and mystery novels. Besides these, Stolarz has also written several standalone books, a couple of short story collections in collaboration with Melissa Marr, Gabrielle Zevin, Justine Larbalestier, and Scott Westerfeld, and has contributed to Amanda Valentino’s series called Amanda Project. The other popular book series penned by Stolarz include the Torch series and the Dark House series. She is best known for writing the Blue is for Nightmares book series. Laurie Faria Stolarz is a renowned American novelist of young adult, fiction, and fantasy novels. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The IRD’s effort did not attack Carmichael as a pro-Soviet or communist stooge, a hitherto frequent line of attack. “Enough is enough – why Stokely must go! – and do his thing elsewhere,” read the pamphlet, alleging Carmichael was “weaving a bloody trail of chaos in the name of Pan-Africanism” and was controlled by Kwame Nkrumah, the independence leader and former president of Ghana who had been deposed in a coup in 1966.Ĭarmichael attends a non-violent student protest in Alabama in June 1967. The documents show the IRD created a fake west African organisation called The Black Power – Africa’s Heritage Group, which produced a pamphlet calling Carmichael an “unbidden prophet from America” who had no place on the continent. The effort against Carmichael, a firebrand orator who travelled to west Africa in part to escape harassment by US law enforcement agencies, aimed to portray the prominent Black Power leader as a foreign interloper in Africa who was contemptuous of the inhabitants of the continent.īased mainly in Guinea from July 1969, the 28-year-old activist had became a vocal advocate of socialist, pan-Africanist ideologies, which worried British officials. Photograph: © Horace Ové/Courtesy Horace Ové Archives Carmichael gives a Black Power speech at the Dialectics of Liberation Congress at the Roundhouse in London in 1967. ![]() ![]() Even as Cara wonders if she can trust Branden, the ecstasy of their love cannot be denied. ![]() Their passion for each other is unquenchable, surprising them both with its ferocity. In spite of herself, Cara is drawn to this charismatic man. Now that he's found Cara, he's not sure he can let her go. ![]() ![]() Branden is a man who seemingly has it all-except a woman who connects with him on a physical and emotional level. Then, in a moment of heat, Cara kisses a sexy stranger at a party-only later to discover that the man is Branden Duke, her new boss, an infamous operator with a wicked reputation in bed and on the Street. The occasional night out dancing soothes Cara's soul, even as a bitter need for revenge against the man who destroyed her father makes inner peace elusive. Now Cara is at the top of her game, supporting not only herself but her mother and brother. ![]() Years ago her hardworking father, a small-time investment adviser, was wrongfully accused of fraud. High finance and a sizzling office affair raise desire and passion to the boiling point in Virna DePaul's seductive new contemporary romance Filthy Rich.Ĭara Michal has had to fight every step of the way to earn her place in the glittering seven-figure world of Wall Street. ![]() ![]() "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read. Nurses.”- Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN Their stories are given the respect they deserve and are captured beautifully in E.R. They save our lives every day and represent the true life blood of any hospital. “As a trauma neurosurgeon, I have witnessed the compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of our nurses in countless situations. This book will make you laugh, make you cry, make you understand. ![]() –Sebastian Junger, author of Freedom and The Perfect StormĪround the clock, across the country, these highly skilled and compassionate men and women sacrifice and struggle for us and our families. "James Patterson's account of the twilight world between life and death that nurses inhabit is one of the most moving things I have ever read.” ![]() –Sanjay Gupta, MD, neurosurgeon and chief medical correspondent, CNN “The compassion, the work ethic, and the selflessness of nurses … are given the respect they deserve and captured beautifully here.” ![]() ![]() The life-or-death intensity of working on the front lines, from America’s greatest unsung heroes. They save our lives every day, and we’ve never heard their stories. ![]() ![]() ![]() She invites him back to her place only to reveal that she is a vampire. ![]() His life is changed forever when he meets Alt, a strange woman, on the underground. Life is not great, but is could be worse as he has a place to sleep and makes enough money to get by. One thing they do all have in common is a dislike of one another.ĭomingo lives on the streets of a neo–Mexico City. Romances, thrillers, action, horror, each vampire book was different. Silvia Moreno-Garcia embraces these differences within Certain Dark Things as she does not have just have one species of vampire, but different clans who all have their own powers and unique features. I asked her to lend me some and I realised why you can read so many ‘similar’ books and nothing else, as the books can be vastly different. She is a prolific reader and seems to exclusively read vampire books. ![]() It was not until I browsed my sister’s bookshelves that I realised that vampire fiction is its own genre. ![]() ![]() ![]() "I used to play that thing until my thumb was blistered and bleeding." But aren't bassists supposed to pluck with their fingers? "Yeah, I learned that later, when I was playing in my band Cradle. What was he thinking of? Girls (she was 14 at the time) didn't play electric basses, still less one with a really thick neck that made it particularly difficult to master. ![]() It's the 1957 Fender Precision that her dad gave her back in 1964. ![]() When she returns with coffee, however, Quatro points out the bass guitar hanging on the wall. Today, the living room carpet and rug are impeccably Hoovered. This is the woman, for crying out loud, who in 1975 released a badass-sounding album called Your Mama Won't Like Me. The Australian tour when she played bass with a broken arm. The night her father socked Chuck Berry on the jaw in her dressing room. The time Elvis invited her to Graceland and she declined. The day she shot Alice Cooper between the eyes with an arrow (it had a rubber tip, but let's not spoil the story). When she dragged her drunken guitarist husband Len Tuckey up to bed (again!) after a gig. The time she got a wasted Iggy Pop thrown off stage for trying to muscle in on her mic. " Then there are the six-hour sex sessions. ![]() One paragraph begins: "Around this time I became a go-go dancer. Having just read her new autobiography, Unzipped, this domestic felicity is not what I expected. ![]() |