"and 24 hours of ""Rosemary & Thyme"", starring Felicity Kendal and Pam Ferris. In the action/adventure genre it produced ""BUGS"", ""Oktober"" and ""The Grid"", in comedy drama it produced ""Jeeves and Wooster"" starring Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry, teenage drama-comedy ""As If"", as well as the adaptations of Tom Sharpe's novels ""Blott on the Landscape"" and ""Porterhouse Blue"". In 2004 the BBC's former Head of Drama Commissioning Gareth Neame joined Carnival as managing director. In 2007 former Creative Director of BBC Drama Sally Woodward Gentle joined the company as Creative Director. The two had previously worked together on ""Spooks"" (MI:5),"
"Skullion Skullion is a central character in ""Porterhouse Blue"" (1974) and ""Grantchester Grind"" (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by British novelist Tom Sharpe. For centuries, Porterhouse College has been renowned for its cuisine, the prowess of its rowers and the low level of its academic achievements. Since the College was founded there have been Skullions at Porterhouse. Skullion is the Head Porter at the College, a responsibility he has held for many years and which he takes very seriously indeed. James Skullion's first contact with Porterhouse College came when, as a young boy,"
"Sir Godber Evans Sir Godber Evans is a central character in ""Porterhouse Blue"" (1974) and, posthumously, ""Grantchester Grind"" (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by British novelist Tom Sharpe. For centuries, Porterhouse College has been renowned for its cuisine, the prowess of its rowers and the low level of its academic achievements. The son of a butcher, Godber Evans went to the College from his grammar school, which immediately marked him out as 'not a gentleman'. Where the other 'scholars' at Porterhouse drink and dine and row, Evans studies, determined to make something of"
"The Blue Castle The Blue Castle is a 1926 novel by Canadian author Lucy Maud Montgomery, best known for her novel ""Anne of Green Gables"" (1908). The story takes place prior to World War I in the fictional town of Deerwood, located in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada. Deerwood is based on Bala, Ontario, which Montgomery visited in 1922. Maps of the two towns show similarities. This novel is considered one of L.M. Montgomery's few adult works of fiction, along with ""A Tangled Web"", and is the only book she wrote that is entirely set outside of Prince Edward"
"Marion Holland Marion Holland (July 17, 1908 – April 6, 1989) was an American children's book writer and illustrator from Washington, DC. Holland's best-known books were ""A Big Ball of String""; ""No Children, No Pets""; ""Billy Had a System""; and ""The Secret Horse."" ""A Big Ball of String"" (1958), which sold more than a million copies, was one of the six original Beginner Books published by Random House, along with ""The Cat in the Hat"" by Dr. Seuss. Holland was born July 17, 1908, in Washington, D.C. Holland graduated from Central High School and Swarthmore College. She had five children."
"As is his right as Master, Skullion nominates the new Master of the College, the alcoholic Lord Pimpole. In 1987 ""Porterhouse Blue"" was adapted for television as ""Porterhouse Blue"" by Malcolm Bradbury for Channel 4, with David Jason playing the role of Skullion, and winning a BAFTA for Best Actor for the role. Skullion Skullion is a central character in ""Porterhouse Blue"" (1974) and ""Grantchester Grind"" (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by British novelist Tom Sharpe. For centuries, Porterhouse College has been renowned for its cuisine, the prowess of its rowers and the"
"Peter Boston Peter Shakerley Boston (10 September 1918 – 19 November 1999) was a British architect and illustrator, best known for the illustrations he made to the books written by his mother, author Lucy M. Boston (1892–1990), who wrote under the name L.M. Boston. The best known of these books were the Green Knowe books. In those illustrations, Peter Boston included items from his mother's home, The Manor in Hemingford Grey, Cambridgeshire, one of the oldest continuously inhabited houses in Britain. Boston was born in Looe, Cornwall, to Harold and Lucy Maria Boston. Peter's father left his wife in 1935,"
"Robert Blue Robert D. Blue (1946 – January 22, 1998) was a painter noted for his images of pin-up girls in the 1980s and later his cowgirls of the New West series. He was the son of comedic actor Ben Blue. Although fans maintain his work precedes that of Patrick Nagel,the opposite is true, with Nagel already being a commercial success by 1977. Collectors of Blue's art have included Jack Nicholson, Barbra Streisand and Hugh Hefner, as well as numerous corporate collectors, including the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Los Angeles, and the Atlanta Hilton Motel. Blue was born in Los"
"Barry England Barry England (16 March 1932 – 21 May 2009) was an English novelist and playwright. He is chiefly known for his 1968 thriller ""Figures in a Landscape"", which was nominated for the inaugural Booker Prize. England was raised in a Roman Catholic household and studied at Downside School. He joined the British Army and served in the Far Eastern theatre, where he did his share of arduous marches ""over two or three mountains in a day"". His stint in the army would serve England well later in his literary career. He studied at RADA as a playwright, and"
"Charterhouse in 1973 when Kluger left publishing to become a full-time writer. Kluger has written books of fiction and social history. He is the author of six novels (and two others with his wife, Phyllis). Two of his books were National Book Award finalists, ""Simple Justice"" and ""The Paper"" (a history of the Herald Tribune). His historical study of the American cigarette business, """", won the Pulitzer Prize in 1997. In 2011, Kluger published ""The Bitter Waters of Medicine Creek: A Tragic Clash Between White and Native America"". In 2006, Kluger published ""Seizing Destiny: How America Grew from Sea to"
"Pat Hall Beryl Patricia Hall, née Woodhouse (13 June 1917 – 26 August 2010) (cited in ornithological literature as B.P. Hall and in self-published works as Pat Hall), was a British ornithologist, associated with the Natural History Museum. She is best known for her work on African birds. She also wrote a book of whimsical poems with Derek Goodwin called the ""Bird Room Ballads"" (1969). Pat grew up in Epson, Surrey, born in an upper-middle-class family. Her ambition was to study mathematics at Cambridge but she failed to pursue it due to opposition from her parents. Forced to spend several"
"short stories Ken Catran Ken Catran (born 16 May 1944) is a children's novelist and television screenwriter from New Zealand. Catran is the author of many teen novels, including ""Taken at the Flood"", ""Voyage with Jason"", ""Doomfire on Venus"", ""Space Wolf"", ""Jacko Moran: Sniper"", ""Talking to Blue"" and its sequels ""Blue Murder"" and ""Blue Blood"". He is perhaps best known for his ""Deepwater trilogy"" series and his contribution to the television drama ""Shortland Street"". However, Catran became frustrated with a lack of recognition within the industry (in particular, he penned the famous line, ""You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata,"""
"Grantchester Grind Grantchester Grind is a novel written by Tom Sharpe, a British novelist born in 1928 who was educated at Lancing College and then at Pembroke College, Cambridge. ""Grantchester Grind"" follows on from the story of the fictitious Porterhouse College, Cambridge, started in the previous book, ""Porterhouse Blue"". Porterhouse is a college which had an incident involving a bedder and the college's only research graduate student which caused the Bull Tower to be severely damaged. Since the college's funds were exhausted by a previous bursar with a tendency to gamble, one of the story's central themes is guided by"
"on the novel ""Slaughterhouse 5, or the children's crusade"", by Kurt Vonnegut. Bridge-building between modernism and post-modernism appears as a significant aspect of Bose's work. The French philosophy and its theory of ""Death of the Author"" (Roland Barthes) make this its influence significantly, as the ""personal style"" of Bose as a ""hopefully soon to be overcome relic of the 19th Century"". Significant for Bose's creativity in general, and ""Slaughterhouse 5"" in particular, is the treatment of temporal complexity. The linear understanding of time is replaced by simultaneity, zeitspastischen analogous to the understanding of the protagonist Billy Pilgrim. Bose also permits"
"Porter Emerson Browne Porter Emerson Browne was an American playwright (June 22, 1879 – September 20, 1934), born Beverly, Massachusetts. He was the author of numerous plays, including ""A Fool There Was"" (1909), which was adapted for film twice, in 1915 and 1922; ""The Spendthrift"" (1910); ""Chains"" (1912); and ""The Bad Man"" (1920), adapted for film three times, in 1923, 1930 and 1941. The Mabel Normand dramatic vehicle ""Joan of Plattsburg"" (1918) was also based on a Browne play. John Toland, the historian, wrote in his autobiography a loving portrait of Browne. Barely a teenager, Toland aspired to be a"
"Ken Catran Ken Catran (born 16 May 1944) is a children's novelist and television screenwriter from New Zealand. Catran is the author of many teen novels, including ""Taken at the Flood"", ""Voyage with Jason"", ""Doomfire on Venus"", ""Space Wolf"", ""Jacko Moran: Sniper"", ""Talking to Blue"" and its sequels ""Blue Murder"" and ""Blue Blood"". He is perhaps best known for his ""Deepwater trilogy"" series and his contribution to the television drama ""Shortland Street"". However, Catran became frustrated with a lack of recognition within the industry (in particular, he penned the famous line, ""You're not in Guatemala now, Dr. Ropata,"" but has"
"the culture and soul of his enemy."" Bissell also compared Ackerman's writing to that of Ernest Hemingway for Ackerman's ""skilled, unadorned prose about men and women of action"" as well as the book's insight into the ""notions of honor and manhood."" In The Dallas Morning News, Chris Vognar described ""Green on Blue"" and Phil Klay's ""Redeployment"" as ""carrying the sting of authenticity and the sensory expression of experiences lived."" Green on Blue Green on Blue: A Novel is a 2015 work of fiction written by Elliot Ackerman. Set in modern-day Afghanistan, it is told through the point of view of"
"Blue Balliett Blue Balliett (born 1955 in New York) is an American author, best known for her award-winning novel for children, ""Chasing Vermeer"". She was born Elizabeth Balliett, but her family started calling her Blue shortly after her birth. ""Chasing Vermeer"", released by Scholastic Press in 2004, is her best-known and most highly praised book. Illustrated by Brett Helquist, it concerns the fictitious theft of a painting by 17th-century Dutch artist Jan Vermeer. The book was a bestseller and won a number of accolades and awards, including the 2005 Edgar Award in the Best Juvenile category. In addition, she was"
"of ""Grantchester Grind"" Skullion, who became Master of Porterhouse College on the death of Sir Godber Evans, nominates Lord Pimpole as the next Master of the College. Lord Jeremy Pimpole Lord Jeremy Pimpole is a fictional character created by author Tom Sharpe, a British novelist. The character of Lord Pimpole is first mentioned in ""Porterhouse Blue"" (1974), set in the fictitious Porterhouse College in Cambridge, where his name, with that of a former student, Launcelot Gutterby, is often chanted to himself by Skullion, the Head Porter, as the mantra ""Gutterby and Pimpole"", when it seems that standards at the College"
"Green on Blue Green on Blue: A Novel is a 2015 work of fiction written by Elliot Ackerman. Set in modern-day Afghanistan, it is told through the point of view of Aziz, a young boy who must join the ""Special Lashkar"" ""–"" a U.S. funded militia ""–"" in order to save his injured brother. Dr. Truman Anderson has called ""Green on Blue"" a ""morally complex debut novel"" for how Ackerman explores the themes of loyalty to family and nation, revenge, and the brutality of war throughout the novel. The novel opens with Aziz, the protagonist, and his older brother Ali"
"the architect Alfred Waterhouse R.A., and spent the rest of his life in rural seclusion, first at Yattendon, then at Boars Hill, Berkshire, where he died. He was elected to the Fellowship of the Royal College of Physicians of London in 1900. He was appointed Poet Laureate in 1913, the only medical graduate to have held the office. He was the father of poet Elizabeth Daryush and of the cabinet secretary Edward Bridges. As a poet Bridges stands rather apart from the current of modern English verse, but his work has had great influence in a select circle, by its"
"Godber Evans Memorial Fellow"". The appointee, Dr Purefoy Osbert, is to collect data proving that Sir Godber was murdered. He overhears a deliberately staged confession to the murder by Skullion, the current Master of Porterhouse. In 1987 ""Porterhouse Blue"" was adapted for television by Malcolm Bradbury for Channel 4, with Ian Richardson playing the role of Sir Godber Evans. Sir Godber Evans Sir Godber Evans is a central character in ""Porterhouse Blue"" (1974) and, posthumously, ""Grantchester Grind"" (1995), two novels about life in the fictitious Porterhouse College at Cambridge by British novelist Tom Sharpe. For centuries, Porterhouse College has been"
"Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war. This was an event in Vonnegut's own life, and the novel is considered semi-autobiographical. The story is told in a nonlinear order, and events become clear through"
"Kate Louise Brown Kate Louise Brown (May 8, 1857, Adams, Massachusetts–?) was a children’s educator and author who wrote 17 works in a total of 41 publications, in addition to poems, songs, and magazine articles. She is best known for the books, ""The Plant Baby and Its Friends"", ""Little People"", ""Alice and Tom"", and ""Stories in Songs"". Brown was born in Adams, Massachusetts and had her first poem published in print at age 9. She wrote many children’s scientific novels, poems, and periodical articles, many of which surround nature and botany themes. For example, her book ""The Plant Baby and"
"Holmes wrote several volumes of poetry: ""Along the Row"" (1929) ""Address to the Living"" (1937) ""Fair Warning"" (1939) ""The Poet's Word"" (1939) ""Map of my Country"" (1943) ""Little Treasury of Love Poems"" (1950) ""The Double Root"" (1950) ""The Symbols"" (1955) ""Writing poetry"" (1960) ""The Fortune Teller"" (1961) John Holmes (poet) John Holmes (January 6, 1904 – June 22, 1962), born John Albert Holmes Jr., was a poet and critic. He was born in Somerville, Massachusetts, and both attended and taught at Tufts University where he was a professor of literature and modern poetry for 28 years. He wrote several volumes"
"around the country. His illustrated design of the USMC emblem, emblazoned on a t-shirt, was worn by an astronaut in space. Waterhouse was the author and illustrator of ""Vietnam Sketchbook"", ""Delta to the DMZ Sketchbook"" and ""Marines and Others,"" and the author of ""Illustrations in Black, White and Gray by Steven R. Kidd"" and T""he Blue Book Illustrations of Herbert Morton Stoops."" During his lifetime, Colonel Waterhouse was honored with many awards, including the Legion of Merit. Waterhouse died on November 16, 2013 at the home of his daughter in Tom's River, New Jersey. He was interred at Arlington National"
"Queen Anne house, incorporating the latest architectural trends of the day. His eldest daughter Ethel Jane Foster married Irish nobleman Lucius O'Brien, 15th Baron Inchiquin and they spent some time living at Moor Park, but chose to move to Ireland instead. Members of the Salwey and O'Brien families still reside in the area. From then, Moor Park's tenants were mostly schools. During World War II, Lancing College evacuated to Moor Park from West Sussex to escape impending air raids. One notable Old Lancing from this era is novelist Tom Sharpe. His novel ""Blott on the Landscape"" was loosely based on"
"Out on Blue Six (novel) Out on Blue Six is a 1989 science fiction novel by the British writer Ian McDonald, his third novel. The plot describes the adventures of groups of outcasts and ""pain criminals"" in the Compassionate Society, a civilization in which all forms of pain and unhappiness have been made illegal. The book has a small cult following. Author Cory Doctorow (who wrote the foreword to the 2014 reprint) described the book as ""a 16-car pileup in Dr Seuss country, where the colliding zithermobiles are piloted by William Gibson's console cowboys and Mad Magazine caricatures"". Kat Hooper,"
"Raspberry wrote. ""It was in her letters that her trenchant wit and sardonic wisdom came to the fore."" Holland died of cancer on April 6, 1989, in Washington, D.C. Marion Holland Marion Holland (July 17, 1908 – April 6, 1989) was an American children's book writer and illustrator from Washington, DC. Holland's best-known books were ""A Big Ball of String""; ""No Children, No Pets""; ""Billy Had a System""; and ""The Secret Horse."" ""A Big Ball of String"" (1958), which sold more than a million copies, was one of the six original Beginner Books published by Random House, along with ""The"
"became known as Moleskine SpA. In 2014 the clothing label Burberry produced a collection inspired by Chatwin's books. The following year Burberry released a limited edition of Chatwin's books with specially designed covers. Bruce Chatwin Charles Bruce Chatwin (13 May 194018 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist, and journalist. His first book, ""In Patagonia"" (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel ""On the Black Hill"" (1982), while his novel ""Utz"" (1988) was shortlisted"
"Innocent as the Bursar and Ian Wallace as the Praelector. The title song ""Dives in Omnia"" (cod-Latin for ""Excess in everything"") was sung by a cappella group The Flying Pickets. The series won an International Emmy and two BAFTA Awards (including Best Actor for David Jason). The television adaptation has been released on DVD and VHS. Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, Sacrist's Gate near Ely Cathedral in Cambridgeshire, Knebworth House and Apethorpe Hall in Northamptonshire were used as locations in the series. The show was repeated on the UK channel GOLD in August 2017 Porterhouse Blue (TV series) Porterhouse Blue is"
"The Plague Dogs The Plague Dogs is the third novel by Richard Adams, author of ""Watership Down"", about two dogs who escape an animal testing facility and are subsequently pursued by both the government and the media. It was first published in 1977, and features a few location maps drawn by Alfred Wainwright, a fellwalker and author. The conclusion of the book involves two real-life characters, Adams' long-time friend Ronald Lockley, and the world-famous naturalist Sir Peter Scott. Having seen a manuscript, both men readily agreed to be identified with the characters and opinions that Adams had attributed to them,"
"ages. As is Book-It's practice, every word in the production was taken directly from the text of the book. Slaughterhouse-Five Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death (1969) is a science fiction-infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut about the World War II experiences and journeys through time of Billy Pilgrim, from his time as an American soldier and chaplain's assistant, to postwar and early years. It is generally recognized as Vonnegut's most influential and popular work. A central event is Pilgrim's surviving the Allies' firebombing of Dresden as a prisoner-of-war. This was an event in Vonnegut's own life,"