Demons
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'The most innovative and challenging writer of fiction in his generation in Russia' Guardian ...
On Wings of Silence: Mexico '68
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Master story-teller and poet Dede Fox offers readers this remarkable novel in verse. It is the story...
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Tom Brown's Schooldays
Thomas Hughes and Jamie Parker
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Tom Brown's Schooldays is the story of an energetic, good-hearted boy and his adventures at public...
The Legend of Hell House (1973)
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Horror movie, based on a novel by Richard Matheson (who wrote the screenplay). A millionaire pays a...
The Stranger
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Based on Harlan Coben's novel of the same name, the series will follow Adam Price, who seems to be...
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2012)
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A film adaptation based on Lionel Shriver's dramatic, epistolary novel, We Need to Talk About Kevin...
The Chocolate Lady (94 KP) rated Bottomland in Books
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David McK (3801 KP) rated Sharpe's Honour in TV
Nov 14, 2021 (Updated Nov 14, 2021)
I say 'based on' as, because while the main thrust of the storyline is the same, the TV movie of necessity abbreviates the novel somewhat: most noticeably (I felt) watering down quite substantially the role of El Matarife in the proceedings.
As this starts, Sharpe is still mourning the death of his wife Teresa, while Napoleon - in his first appearance in the series - is in retreat from Russia, and with Major Pierre Ducos hatching a plan to drive a wedge between the Spanish and British allies while also getting his revenge on Sharpe by provoking a duel between Sharpe and a Spanish nobleman who he (Ducos) later murders, with Sharpe then taking the rap for said murder (until he is later able to prove his innocence).
David McK (3801 KP) rated Backwards (Red Dwarf #4) in Books
Jan 28, 2019 (Updated Sep 17, 2019)
More so than either of the previous two books, this novel has a plot all of its own, with that plot containing elements of the TV show on which it is based. Nowhere is this more obvious than in the final portion of the book, which takes the episode 'Gunmen of the Apocalypse' as it's basis. The novel also has a role to play for 'Ace' Rimmer, tracing how his life differed from Arnold Rimmer's back to a single event in his childhood.
Written by only one of the two authors responsible for the previous books, this is also not quite as funny as either of those books.
Blaze (2018)
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Blaze is an upcoming American biographical drama film directed by Ethan Hawke based on the life of...
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