"Brighton Rock (novel) Charles ""Fred"" Hale comes to Brighton on assignment to distribute cards anonymously for a newspaper competition (a variant of ""Lobby Lud""; in this case, the name of the person to be spotted is ""Kolley Kibber""). The antihero of the novel, Pinkie Brown, is a teenage sociopath and up-and-coming gangster. Hale had betrayed the former leader of the gang Pinkie now controls, by writing an article in the ""Daily Messenger"" about a slot machine racket for which the gang was responsible. Ida Arnold, a plump, kind-hearted and decent woman, is drawn into the action by a chance meeting"
"with the terrified Hale after he has been threatened by Pinkie's gang. After being chased through the streets and lanes of Brighton, Hale accidentally meets Ida again on the Palace Pier, but eventually Pinkie murders Hale. Pinkie's subsequent attempts to cover his tracks and remove evidence of Hale's Brighton visit lead to a chain of fresh crimes and to Pinkie's ill-fated marriage to a waitress called Rose, who unknowingly has the power to destroy his alibi. Ida decides to pursue Pinkie relentlessly, because she believes it is the right thing to do, as well as to protect Rose from the"
"once raped by Patrick Graham, both friend and rival to Julian. Emily longs to become pregnant with a child, and Julian wants to name the child Horace. The three names are prominent in his family, but its men never name sons for themselves. The novel's inciting incident is when one-legged Clive Wilmot, an Englishman (England is out of money, and Eton-educated British often work as servants to wealthy Americans) arrives uninvited at the Grahams' Midsummer Party, telling Patrick that President Lockwood, who is supposedly liberal and a champion of the people, had Ibn Awad executed. Patrick Graham goes to visit"
"way towards Brighton, as well as Bunny's own mortality. The novel is set in Brighton in 2003, around the time the West Pier was destroyed by fire. Many of the locations and street names used in the book relate to real places close to Cave's own home. The novel was also released as an audiobook, using a 3D audio effect produced and sound directed by British artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard, with a soundtrack by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis and in a number of Ebook formats including an iPhone application that synchronised the audiobook with the text, and"
"on the character's school-days at Eton. Higson was himself educated at Sevenoaks School, where he was a contemporary of Jonathan Evans, former Director General of MI5. The first novel, ""SilverFin"", was released on 3 March 2005 in the UK and on 27 April 2005 in the US. A second novel, ""Blood Fever"", was released on 5 January 2006 in the UK and 1 June in the US. The third novel, ""Double or Die"", was published on 4 January 2007 having had its title announced the day before. The next, ""Hurricane Gold"", came out in hardcover in the UK in September"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"England Made Me (novel) England Made Me or The Shipwrecked is an early novel by Graham Greene. It was first published in 1935, and was republished as ""The Shipwrecked"" in 1953. It is set in Stockholm (which Greene visited in 1933 to prepare for writing the novel) and concerns the travails of ne'er-do-well Anthony Farrant who finds himself working as a bodyguard to a dubious Swedish financier whose character is loosely inspired by Ivar Kreuger. In typical Greene fashion, the seedy antihero wrestles with his conscience as murky moral dilemmas begin to trouble even his disreputable soul. Anthony, in his"
"Rumour at Nightfall Rumour at Nightfall is the third novel by Graham Greene, published in 1931. Like his second novel, ""The Name of Action"", it failed to repeat the success of his first novel, ""The Man Within""; Greene was to suppress both his second and third novels. ""O ye that stand upon the brink,<br> Whom I so near me through the chink<br> With wonder see: What faces there,<br> Whose fcet, whose bodies, do ye wear?<br> They seeméd others, but are we;<br> Our second selves those shadows be."" - Thomas Traherne The regime of Carlos the Pretender is coming to an"
"Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from ""Good Morning -- Midnight"", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, ""Houdini's Ghost"" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local businessman Palinurus 'Pal' Maciver, who has killed himself in similar circumstances to those of his father, who shot himself ten years earlier. However, what begins as a routine"
"Hallam. Clare starts roaming about in the woods of Epping Forest coming in contact with local gypsies. He treasures these wanderings where he finds time for his poems, if he is not claiming to be a prize fighter or Lord Byron or Shakespeare. Tennyson loses much of his family fortunes in the wrong investments and decides to return to London determined to write about Hallam and Clare runs away from the institute and sets on his four-day walking journey back to his home finally reaching to his wife. John Clare was born in a poor farming family. In 1820 he"
"even murder. Orton left Hobart as a passenger on schooner 'Eclipse' on 16 November 1855 bound for Port Albert on the coast of Gippsland, Victoria. He worked for some time on squatters 'runs' in the district. While employed at one he was said to have written 'on a fly-leaf of one of the station novels' and this was later offered as evidence that Orton did not have the education that would have been expected of Tichborne: ""This day i have received a letter from Donald MacDonald. With the Seal Broken. i Arthur Orton here make a vow on this Book."
"and Sir Guillaume is nearly killed by the English, though Thomas rescues him. Guy manages to escape, though not before he recognises Thomas. Skeat is sent to Mordecai to recover and Sir Guillaume is set free to help him. Harlequin (novel) Harlequin (in US ""The Archer's Tale"") is the first novel in The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell. It begins a series of stories set in the middle of the fourteenth century, an age when the four horsemen of the apocalypse seem to have been released over Europe. The narrative tells how Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset"
"and then Trinity College, Cambridge. After attending Wixenford and Harrow, where he specialised in history, Trevelyan studied at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a member of the secret society, the Cambridge Apostles and founder of the still existing Lake Hunt, a hare and hounds chase where both hounds and hares are human. In 1898 he won a fellowship at Trinity with a dissertation that was published the following year as ""England in the Age of Wycliffe"". One professor at the university, Lord Acton, enchanted the young Trevelyan with his great wisdom and his belief in moral judgement and individual"
"in the year 603. In the third novel, ""Princes in Exile"", Cerdic accompanies Princes Edwin and Hereric of Northumbria into Exile. Young Adult Time Travel adventure series. The first book of the Hourglass series is ""Tomorrow's Guardian"". The main character Tom Oakley experiences disturbing episodes of déjà-vu and believes he is going mad. Then he discovers that he's a “Walker” – someone who can transport himself to other times and places. Tom dreams about other “Walkers” in moments of mortal danger: Edward Dyson killed in a battle in 1879; Mary Brown who perished in the Great Fire of London; and"
"by John Hawkwood. At the age of twenty, young Alleyne, son of Edric, leaves the Catholic abbey where he has been raised—intelligent, skilled, and well-liked, though sheltered and naive—and goes out to see the world, in accordance with the terms of his father's will. The same day, the abbot banishes John of Hordle for worldly behavior: great appetite, teasing, and flirting. They meet at the Pied Merlin inn as they each rest for the night. There, they make friends with veteran archer Sam Aylward who has returned to England from France to recruit for the White Company of mercenaries. Aylward"
"Guy Clinch, the foil; Keith Talent, the cheat; and Nicola Six, the murderee, who knows she will be murdered a few minutes after midnight on 5 November 1999—her 35th birthday—and who goes in search of her killer. ""London Fields"" is set in London in 1999 against a backdrop of environmental, social and moral degradation, and the looming threat of world instability and nuclear war (referred to as ""The Crisis""). The novel opens with Samson explaining how grateful he is to have found this story, already formed, already happening, waiting to be written down. This is the story of a murder."
"shoot them, Snowman checks his broken watch, thinks ""Time to go"" and makes up his mind. Margaret Atwood started writing the novel much earlier than she expected, while still on a book tour for her previous novel, ""The Blind Assassin"". In March 2001, Atwood found herself in the Northern region of Australia, birdwatching with her partner during a break from the book tour. Here, while watching the red-necked crakes in their natural habitat, she was struck with inspiration for the story. However, Atwood explained that the work was also a product of her lingering thoughts on such a scenario throughout"
"plays ""Pinkie"", the role originally played by Richard Attenborough. Filming began in October 2009. It was largely filmed in the nearby town of Eastbourne, with Eastbourne Pier standing in for Brighton Pier, and at Beachy Head. Some scenes were shot at Hedsor House in Buckinghamshire and in Brighton itself. In 1964, Pinkie Brown, the sociopathic enforcer of a Brighton gang, murders Fred Hale, who has himself killed the gang leader, Kite. Brown befriends Rose, a young waitress who witnessed the gang's activity, to keep an eye on her. She falls in love with him. To prevent her from being compelled"
"Huntingtower (novel) Huntingtower is a 1922 novel by the Scottish author John Buchan. It is the first of his three Dickson McCunn books. The action takes place in Scotland, in the district of Carrick in Galloway. Having sold his Glasgow grocery-store business, 55-year-old Dickson McCunn decides to start his retirement with a walking holiday in the district of Carrick in Galloway. At a local inn he meets John Heritage, a poet and ex-soldier, as well as an unnamed young man who asks after a place called 'Darkwater' that nobody has heard of. McCunn and Heritage decide to spend the next"
"Hannibal (Leckie novel) Hannibal is a 1995 historical novel by Scottish writer Ross Leckie. The book relates the exploits of Hannibal's invasion of Rome beginning in 218 BC, narrated by the Carthaginian general in his retirement. It was the first of the ""Carthage"" trilogy, covering the Punic Wars. The novel received mixed reviews, mainly due to the extreme violence occasionally described in the narrative. Beginning with the general’s youth and a potted history of Carthage in an attempt to explain Hannibal’s hatred of Rome, the bulk of the story is confined to the invasion of Italy and the epic journey"
"Pinkie Brown Pinkie Brown is a fictional character, the main character and antihero in Graham Greene's 1938 novel ""Brighton Rock"". In the novel, Brown is portrayed as the 17-year-old leader and enforcer of a small-time gang in the Brighton underworld that runs numbers and protection rackets for Colleoni, the local kingpin. A violent sociopath, he brutalizes and murders people, even his own henchmen, without remorse, and is incapable of feeling love or taking pleasure in life. In the beginning of the novel, he kills Fred Hale, a chronic gambler who assisted a rival gang in dispatching Brown's predecessor; that crime"
"it as a longer third-person narrative under the title ""The Wooden Horse"", which was filmed as ""The Wooden Horse"" in 1950. He included many details omitted in his first book, but changed his name to ""Peter Howard"", Michael Codner to ""John Clinton"" and Oliver Philpot to ""Philip Rowe"". Williams also wrote a prequel, ""The Tunnel"", an extended study of the mentalities of life as a prisoner of war. Although not an escape novel, it shows the profound urge to escape, and explores the ways that camp life affected men's emotions. Paul Brickhill was an Australian-born Spitfire pilot, shot down in"
"of darkness I acknowledge mine"" in Act V, Scene 1 of William Shakespeare’s ""The Tempest"". Born to an aristocratic family, Robert FitzRoy joined the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth aged 12 and entered the Royal Navy the following year, rising rapidly through the ranks. The novel begins in 1828 with the suicide of the commander of ""HMS Beagle"", Pringle Stokes, and FitzRoy’s subsequent appointment as the vessel’s (temporary) captain at the age of twenty-three. Whilst conducting ""Beagle""’s mission of surveying Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego, during which he proved to be a meticulous surveyor, he captured four native Fuegians and brought"
"case of an apparent copycat suicide soon develops into something of a more sinister nature, revealing family secrets, corporate chicanery involving the arms trade, government agents and Iraq. Good Morning, Midnight (Hill novel) Good Morning, Midnight is a 2004 crime novel by British crime writer Reginald Hill, and part of the Dalziel and Pascoe series. The title takes its name from ""Good Morning -- Midnight"", a poem by Emily Dickinson which is quoted throughout the story. Its adaptation for the TV series is Episode 37, ""Houdini's Ghost"" (2006). The plot involves Dalziel and Pascoe's investigation into the suicide of local"
"that opened up the door to all these thoughts."" The book contains three epigraphs from Bram Stoker's novel "" Dracula"". The novel begins in the week before Halloween in the fictional western Maryland town of Stillwater in the days after a terrible flood has washed up the body of a hairless boy along the shores of the local culvert known as the Narrows. When two young boys, Matthew Crawly and Dwight Dandridge, go down to the Narrows to inspect the body of a dead deer, Matthew sees a figure he believes to be his estranged father up on the hill"
"at 0950 hours pilot officer Richard Hillary was shot down during combat against three Messerschmitts. He landed in the sea near the North Foreland, and was rescued by the Margate lifeboat. His Spitfire (RAF serial number ""X4277"") had burst into flames and he was badly burned. Hillary, the grandson of the founder of the lifeboat service Sir William Hillary, recovered from his ordeal and later wrote the book ""The Last Enemy"". He was killed in a training flight accident in 1943, aged 24. Howard Primrose Knight, coxswain of the Ramsgate lifeboat ""Prudential"", and Edward Duke Parker,(nearly always incorrectly stated as"
"who helped to establish the Naval Intelligence Department prior to the Second World War The author Graham Greene used to come to Harston House to spend his summers with Sir William (his uncle). The garden at Harston House provided the setting for his 1963 short story ""Under the Garden"". According to Graham Greene's description of his childhood: ""It was at Harston I found quite suddenly I could read — the book was ""Dixon Brett, Detective"". I didn't want anyone to know of my discovery, so I read only in secret, in a remote attic, but my mother must have spotted"
"Harlequin (novel) Harlequin (in US ""The Archer's Tale"") is the first novel in The Grail Quest series by Bernard Cornwell. It begins a series of stories set in the middle of the fourteenth century, an age when the four horsemen of the apocalypse seem to have been released over Europe. The narrative tells how Thomas of Hookton leaves his native Dorset to fight against the French in Brittany and, afterwards, at the battle of Crecy in Picardy. It is a tale of longbows and butchery, especially when England's archers swarm into the Norman city of Caen. And over it all,"
"endeavour to secure her affections, it transpired that she and Richard were already secretly engaged. Hartley determined to make a voyage to India, and learnt with astonishment that his rival, at the instigation of Hillary, who was now a captain in the Company's service, intended to spend two years there before marrying, in the hope of realising a fortune. Having obtained the money left by his grandfather in Mr Gray's hands, and enlisted as a recruit, he sailed from Edinburgh with his friend for the depot at Ryde; but, on recovering from a drinking bout before landing, he found himself"
"1872. However, neither Blake Hall nor Thorpe Green, another house where Anne was employed as a governess, corresponds exactly with Grassdale. Linden-Car, the village that Wildfell Hall stands close to, is in Yorkshire. ""Car"" in northern dialect means pool, pond or low-lying and boggy ground. Lindenhope ""hope"" in Northeastern English means a small enclosed valley. The novel is divided into three volumes. Part One (Chapters 1 to 15): Gilbert Markham narrates how a mysterious widow, Mrs Helen Graham, arrives at Wildfell Hall, a nearby mansion. A source of curiosity for the small community, the reticent Mrs Graham and her young"
"The Redbreast The Redbreast (, 2000) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the third in the Harry Hole series (although the first in the series to be available in English). The novel begins during former President Clinton's visit to Norway, where Harry reluctantly ends up playing an important role. Ramifications of the mission Harry is tasked with lead to him investigating neo-Nazi activity in Norway, and delving into a crime that has its roots in the battlefields of the Eastern Front of World War II. A large part of the book is laid at the time of"
"of the greatest openings of any book. ""Berg"" is set in the English seaside town of Brighton, which was also where Quin grew up, and her home for most of her life, until her death by suicide in 1973; the action takes place in winter when the resort was empty and desolately atmospheric. The plot has echoes of Oedipus and Freudian theory, involving a romantic triangle between a man, his father, and the father's mistress Judith. The son attempts to murder the father, but ends up mutilating a ventriloquist's dummy and dragging it around town convinced it is his father's"
"covered up. The Redbreast The Redbreast (, 2000) is a crime novel by Norwegian writer Jo Nesbø, the third in the Harry Hole series (although the first in the series to be available in English). The novel begins during former President Clinton's visit to Norway, where Harry reluctantly ends up playing an important role. Ramifications of the mission Harry is tasked with lead to him investigating neo-Nazi activity in Norway, and delving into a crime that has its roots in the battlefields of the Eastern Front of World War II. A large part of the book is laid at the"