"Birdsong (play) Birdsong was a 2010 adaptation of the novel of the same title by Sebastian Faulks. The text was written by Rachel Wagstaff and the premiere production was directed by Trevor Nunn. That production began previews at the Comedy Theatre in London on September 18, 2010, and opened on September 28, 2010. The West End stage production's cast included Ben Barnes as Stephen Wraysford, Genevieve O'Reilly as Isabelle, Nicholas Farrell as René Azaire, Iain Mitchell as Bérard, Lee Ross as Jack Firebrace and Zoe Waites as Jeanne. Other cast members included Owain Arthur, Billy Carter, Florence Hall, Paul Hawkyard,"
"Firesong Firesong is a book written by William Nicholson first published in 2002, and is the third part of the ""Wind On Fire"" trilogy. ""Firesong"" begins with the Manth people deliberating over what action to take, now that the Mastery is in ruins. After the defeat of the Master, alone and displaced, they seek a new homeland but have no real destination and very little food. Ira Hath, descendant of Ira Manth, and a great prophetess who is also Kestrel and Bowman's mother, has a vision of the Manth people's true homeland. Throughout the book the Manth people travel with"
"Birdshot (film) Birdshot is a 2016 Philippine coming-of-age thriller film written, directed and edited by Mikhail Red. Starring Mary Joy Apostol, Arnold Reyes, Ku Aquino, and John Arcilla, its story revolves around a farm girl (Apostol) in the countryside, who unwittingly kills a Philippine eagle (an endangered species locally known as the ""haribon""), and two police officers (Aquino and Arcilla) assigned to track down the haribon's killer while investigating the mysterious disappearance of a busload of farmers en route to Manila. The film was selected as the Filipino entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the 90th Academy Awards,"
"Israel, Sweden, Estonia, Japan, Turkey, Bulgaria, Serbia, Finland and the Netherlands. Globally, sales were strong, and as of 2010, the novel had sold over 3 million copies. ""Birdsong"" has an episodic structure, and is split into seven sections which move between three different periods of time before, during and after the war in the Stephen Wraysford plot, and three different windows of time in the 1970s Benson plot. The first stage starts in pre-war Amiens, France. Stephen Wraysford visits and lives with René Azaire, his wife Isabelle and their children. Azaire teaches Stephen about the French textile industry. He witnesses"
"Frog and the Birdsong Frog and the Birdsong (Dutch: """"Kikker en het vogeltje"""") is a 1991 children's book by Dutch author and illustrator Max Velthuijs. It is one of the books in the ""Frog"" series. The main character, Frog, finds a dead bird, and with the help of his friends investigates death and buries the bird, after which funerary games lead to insight on life. The book won the 1992 ""Gouden Griffel"" and is frequently used in classrooms and therapeutic settings to teach children how to cope with death. Frog runs to Pig to tell her he has found a"
"Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis in the late 19th century, by way of excursions into first alienism then metaphysics, human"
"Sunday Telegraph"", ""The Times Literary Supplement"", ""The Spectator"" and ""The Scotsman"". American and other international press reviews were similarly positive. The novel's popular reception was similarly positive. ""Birdsong"" came 13th in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read, which aimed to find Britain's favourite book. It received an ""Also Mentioned"" credit in ""The Observer"" 2005 poll of critics and writers to find the ""Best British book of the last 25 years"" (1980–2005). ""Birdsong"" was listed in ""The Telegraph"" as one of the most consistently high selling books of 1998–2008, continuously in the top 5,000 sales figures. Reviews of the"
"things plastered all over the walls), the act of finishing it felt like a bereavement. Human Traces Human Traces is a 2005 novel by Sebastian Faulks, best known as the British author of ""Birdsong"" and ""Charlotte Gray"". The novel took Faulks five years to write. It tells of two friends who set up a pioneering asylum in 19th-century Austria, in tandem with the evolution of psychiatry and the start of the First World War. Tracing the intertwined lives of Doctors Thomas Midwinter, who is English, and Jacques Rebière, from Brittany, France, ""Human Traces"" explores the development of psychiatry and psychoanalysis"
"a success, with international impact and attention. The hardback print-run, first issued in 1993, sold 14,000 copies. The novel featured in many ""Best of the Year lists"" in the United Kingdom during 1993. Subsequently, the novel has become one of the most checked-out works from British libraries. Though Faulks's fourth published novel in the United Kingdom, ""Birdsong"" was only his second republished in the United States. In New Zealand and Australia, the novel was popular, reaching best seller and ""what's hot"" lists. The novel was also sold in translation in Italy, France, Spain, Latin America, Germany, Portugal, Brazil, Denmark, Poland,"
"made into a film starring Cate Blanchett and directed by Gillian Armstrong. In 2010 a stage version of ""Birdsong"", adapted by Rachel Wagstaff (who had previously adapted ""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"" for radio) and directed by Trevor Nunn, opened at the Comedy Theatre in London; the production ran for only 4 months. It was subsequently rewritten by Wagstaff and made four successful nationwide tours. In 2012, ""Birdsong"" was made into a two-part BBC TV serial, written by Abi Morgan, directed by Philip Martin and starring Eddie Redmayne. This followed several attempts to film the novel. Sebastian Faulks Sebastian"
"Award, and the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize. The Assassin's Song The Assassin's Song is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. It is the story of a young Indian boy (Karsan Dargawalla) whose dream is to escape his family's religious legacy. He wants to be ordinary: to go to school, play cricket, talk to girls, and make his own choices. He tries to escape by traveling to the United States for college (at Harvard) and eventually settling in Canada (in B.C.). The novel also contains the in-depth narrative of his ancient forebear. It was"
"Dogsong Dogsong is a 1985 young adult novel by Gary Paulsen and is a Newbery Honor Book winner. Inspired by the Eskimo shaman Oogruk, Russel Susskit takes a dog team and sled to escape the modern ways of his village and to find his own ""song"" of himself hating the sound of snowmobiles and his fathers coughing in the morning. He travels across ice floes, tundra, and mountains, haunted along the way by a dream of a long-ago self whose adventures parallel his own. Reality melds with the dream when he finds an Eskimo girl named Nancy, who has run"
"Ravensong Ravensong is a novel written by the contemporary Canadian author, Lee Maracle. It was published by Press Gang Publishers in 1993 and reissued by Canadian Scholars' Press/Women's Press in 2011. The novel takes place in 1954, in two small Canadian villages in British Columbia, one largely populated by First Nations people and the other with a largely white Euro-Canadian population. The protagonist of the novel is Stacey, a First Nations girl in her late teens who is attending a high school for nonnative residents. Some other important characters include Stacey's sister Celia and brother Young Jim; Rena a ""two-spirit"""
"The Assassin's Song The Assassin's Song is a novel by M. G. Vassanji, published in 2007 by Doubleday Canada. It is the story of a young Indian boy (Karsan Dargawalla) whose dream is to escape his family's religious legacy. He wants to be ordinary: to go to school, play cricket, talk to girls, and make his own choices. He tries to escape by traveling to the United States for college (at Harvard) and eventually settling in Canada (in B.C.). The novel also contains the in-depth narrative of his ancient forebear. It was shortlisted for the Giller Prize, the Governor General's"
"""The Girl at the Lion d'Or"", was published in 1989. This was followed by ""Birdsong"" (1993), and ""Charlotte Gray"" (1998). The latter two were best-sellers, and ""Charlotte Gray"" was shortlisted for the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. In April 2003 ""Birdsong"" came 13th in the BBC's ""Big Read"" initiative which aimed to identify Britain's best loved novels. In 2007, Faulks published ""Engleby"". Set in Cambridge in the 1970s, it is narrated by Cambridge University fresher Mike Engleby. Engleby is a loner, and the reader is led to suspect that he may be unreliable, particularly when a fellow student disappears. Faulks"
"""Charlotte Gray""; the three are linked through location, history and several minor characters. ""Birdsong"" is one of Faulks's best received works, earning both critical and popular praise, including being listed as the 13th favourite book in Britain in a 2003 BBC survey called the Big Read. It has also been adapted three times under the same title: for radio (1997), the stage (2010) and television (2012). Faulks wrote the novel partly because he felt that the First World War had not been discussed enough in both literary and historical contexts. Reflecting on the novel twenty years later, Faulks felt that"
"2018, marking 100 years of the end of World War One, Millington appeared as Evans in the stage adaptation by of Birdsong, a novel written by Sebastian Faulks. travelling the length and breadth of the UK with Mesh Theatre Co Millington, from Stretford, studied drama at Eccles Sixth Form Centre and on the BA (Hons) Acting at the University of Central Lancashire before being cast in EastEnders. His character, Kyle, is also transgender. Millington's casting was praised by presenter Paris Lees as ""the biggest thing to happen for the transgender community in Britain this decade. ... As a pop culture"
"scholar Jerome de Groot calls ""Birdsong"" one of the first novels of its kind, creating a trend in the 1990s of literary fiction rethinking and reflecting on the World Wars and their historical legacy. Michael Gorra, a professor of English literature, argues that Faulks seeks to demonstrate that ""the past can be recovered, its code can be broken; it can be used to add meaning to contemporary life. Its limitations can be overcome and its promises fulfilled because we know it can heal."" The deliberate hiding of Stephen's stories, remaining silent to his family after the war's end and encoding"
"The Shoe Bird The Shoe Bird is a 1964 children's novel by Southern writer Eudora Welty. The novel tells the story of a Parrot in a shoe store, as he talks to other birds about shoes. Welty, who had never written any children's literature before, wrote it to satisfy a contractual obligation with her publisher Harcourt Brace and to pay for a new roof on her house. An orchestral ballet was composed by Lehman Engel and performed by the Jackson Ballet Guild in 1968. A 2002 choral piece was also commissioned by the Mississippi Boy Choir and composed by composer"
"worked as a journalist before becoming a professional illustrator. His chosen medium is acrylic paint and colored pencil. He has done illustration work for ""Star Wars"", books of the cyberpunk role-playing game ""Shadowrun"", and children's books such as ""The Halloween Hex: Hi-Tech Howard"". In addition to book covers, Birdsong's work has appeared in films, on collectors' plates for the Hamilton Collection and the Bradford Exchange, and on U.S. postage stamps, including an issuance honoring American Indian dance and six ""Celebrate The Century"" stamps that commemorated the 1960s. Birdsong has a daughter named Candice. Keith Birdsong Keith Birdsong (born in Muskogee,"
"Song"", Kessler noted: ""I started as a journalist, but I always wanted to write fiction."" He has taught at The New School in New York City and in the MFA program at Antioch University, Los Angeles. He lives on a farm in Vermont with the photographer Dona Ann McAdams. Kessler and McAdams collaborated on the 2001 book ""The Woodcutter's Christmas"", with Dona providing fourteen black and white photographs to accompany Brad's story. Brad Kessler Brad Kessler (born 1963) is an American novelist. His most recent work is 2009's ""Goat Song"". Brad Kessler is the author of the critically acclaimed novel"
"Buddy's Song (novel) Buddy's Song is a novel by British author Nigel Hinton which was first published in 1987. It is the second instalment in the Buddy trilogy, between Buddy and Buddy's Blues, and follows the story of Buddy as he started to pursue a musical career. The book was adapted into a film, directed by Claude Whatham and starring Roger Daltrey and Chesney Hawkes as Terry and Buddy respectively, in 1990. Whilst visiting the set in the television series based on the first book the author asked why they put a guitar in Buddy's bedroom. The set designer explained"
"The Birds (novel) The Birds, original Nynorsk title Fuglane, is a novel by Norwegian author Tarjei Vesaas. It was first released in 1957, and has been translated into several languages, including English. The story revolves around the inner world of Matthew, who is mentally challenged and lives with his sister. Being regarded as one of Vesaas' most important novels, it was included in the major Norwegian publisher Gyldendal Norsk Forlag's 30 picks for ""Norway's national literature"" both in 1967 and 1996. In 2007, the Norwegian Festival of Literature included it in a best-of list of 25 Norwegian literary works, picked"
"The Killing Song The Killing Song is a fantasy novel by Don Bassingthwaite, set in the world of Eberron, and based on the ""Dungeons & Dragons"" role-playing game. It is the third novel in ""The Dragon Below"" series. It was published in paperback in December 2006. The adventurers from ""The Grieving Tree"" prepare for war against the dragon Dah'mir. Pat Ferrara of mania.com comments: ""The final installment of The Dragon Below Trilogy is just as much fun as the rest of the novels. [...] Don proves he can handle two separate plotlines at the same time while smoothly integrating them"
"birdsong, was given over to a test transmission of video to mobile phones known as BT Movio. When the magazine-format digital radio station Oneword ceased in January 2008, the birdsong audio once again returned to the multiplex on the Oneword channel and the service name of the DAB channel changed to ""Birdsong"". The dawn birdsong was recorded in autumn of 1991, on the edge of Salisbury Plain in the Wiltshire garden of Quentin Howard, the chairman of Digital One. The tape was originally made for an amateur dramatics production of ""When the Wind Blows"" by Raymond Briggs, which was in"
"Richard Pike Bissell Richard Pike Bissell (June 27, 1913 in Dubuque, Iowa – May 4, 1977) was an American author of short stories and novels. His third book, and second novel, ""7½ Cents"", was adapted into the Broadway musical ""The Pajama Game"". This won him (along with co-author George Abbott) the 1955 Tony Award for Best Musical. He wrote a book about the experience called ""Say, Darling"", which chronicled the ins and outs of a broadway musical production and featured characters based on those (such as Harold Prince) he worked with; this book was ""also"" turned into a musical, also"
"The Bird That Drinks Blood The Bird That Drinks Blood (Korean: 피를 마시는 새 ""Pireul masineun sae"", abbreviated as 피마새 ""Pimasae"") is a series of Korean fantasy novels by Lee Yeongdo. Set in the same world of Lee's previous work ""The Bird That Drinks Tears"", the stories depict clashes between absolute power and free will with the backdrop of the Neo Arajit Empire (Korean: 신 아라짓 제국) that's ruled over by flying capital Skywhere (Korean: 하늘누리). The Empress Governheaven of the Empire secures the eternal empire against the Lekons and rebellious forces, but it is gradually revealed that behind the"
"but later progressed into an anti-war song after Corr had read the novel ""Birdsong"" by Sebastian Faulks, which describes a man's life during World War I. The novel influenced her to evaluate how the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have impacted society. Corr has called these wars an ""immense waste"" because they destroy the ""beautiful things in life"". Corr was also deeply moved by photographs of young soldiers that had been killed. She has said that these photographs made her think of the ""children [the deceased] won't have and the husband or wife they've left behind or won't marry."" ""Shame"
"The Wind Singer The Wind Singer is a young adult novel written by William Nicholson. It is the first book of the ""Wind On Fire"" Trilogy. It follows the quest of twins Kestrel and Bowman Hath, and their friend Mumpo to restore the ""Voice of the Wind Singer"" to their city and bring happiness to their cruel society. ""The Wind Singer"" won the 2000 Nestlé Smarties Book Prize and the Blue Peter Best Book Award for ""The Book I Couldn't Put Down"". The book begins in the walled city of Aramanth, an extreme meritocracy where endless exams and ratings are"
"Colleen McCullough Colleen Margaretta McCullough (; married name Robinson, previously Ion-Robinson; 1 June 193729 January 2015) was an Australian author known for her novels, her most well-known being ""The Thorn Birds"" and ""The Ladies of Missalonghi"", the latter of which was involved in a plagiarism controversy. McCullough was born in 1937 in Wellington, in the Central West region of New South Wales, to James and Laurie McCullough. Her father was of Irish descent and her mother was a New Zealander of part-Māori descent. During her childhood, the family moved around a great deal and she was also ""a voracious reader""."
"in Doris Lessing's novel, ""Briefing for a Descent into Hell"" (1971). The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise The Politics of Experience and The Bird of Paradise is a 1967 book by Scottish psychiatrist R.D. Laing, comprising two parts - the first a collection of seven articles previously published between 1962 and 1965; the second a free-flowing quasi-autobiographical piece of poetry and prose. The work was inspired in part by Laing’s extensive experimentation with LSD; but also owes a debt (among others) to Gregory Bateson and Jean-Paul Sartre. Laing examines the nature of human experience from a phenomenological"
"Dragonsong Dragonsong is a science fantasy novel by the American-Irish author Anne McCaffrey. Released by Atheneum Books in March 1976, it was the third to appear set on the world Pern of the ""Dragonriders of Pern"". In its time, however, ""Dragonsong"" brought the fictional planet Pern to a new publisher, editor, and target audience of young adults, and soon became the first book in the ""Harper Hall of Pern"" trilogy. The original ""Dragonriders of Pern"" trilogy with Ballantine Books was not completed until after the publication of ""Dragonsong"" and its sequel. ""Dragonsong"" and the second Pern book ""Dragonquest"" are set"
"Goat Song (novelette) ""Goat Song"" is a science fiction novelette by American writer Poul Anderson. Originally published in ""The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction"" issue of February 1972, it was later included in the anthologies ""Nebula Award Stories Eight"" and ""The Hugo Winners Volume 3"". This story has strong parallels to the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice In a future world humanity is dominated by a massive computer, SUM, which claims to record the soul, and promises a resurrection at an indefinite future date. A harper—who alone remembers the old songs—mourns for the loss of his love, and"