"century, who were known as 'resurrectionists' or 'resurrection men'. Resurrection Men Resurrection Men is a 2002 novel by Ian Rankin. It is the thirteenth of the Inspector Rebus novels. It won the Edgar Award for Best Novel in 2004. Detective Inspector John Rebus is thrown off a murder inquiry, just days after the brutal death of an Edinburgh art dealer, for throwing a cup of tea at DCS Gill Templer. He is sent to the Scottish Police College for 'retraining' - this is his 'Last Chance Saloon'. He is put with a team of officers in similar circumstances and together"
"Resurrection Man (film) Resurrection Man is a 1998 British film, directed by Marc Evans with a screenplay written by Eoin McNamee based on his novel of the same name. The story is loosely based on the real-life ""Shankill Butchers"", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings of Catholic civilians until their leader, Lenny Murphy, was assassinated by a Provisional IRA hit squad. Although set in Belfast, ""Resurrection Man"" was not filmed there, with the English cities of Manchester, Liverpool and Warrington serving as the film's locations. In an essay entitled ""Vampire Troubles: Loyalism and Resurrection Man"","
"Resurrection (U.S. TV series) Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series about dead people who return to life. It is based on Jason Mott's novel ""The Returned"" (2013). It was co-produced by ABC Studios and Plan B Entertainment, led by Brad Pitt, Aaron Zelman, JoAnn Alfano, Jon Liebman, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Michele Fazekas, and Tara Butters, and aired from March 9, 2014 to January 25, 2015. On May 7, 2015, ABC cancelled it after two seasons. The series follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones return from the dead, unaged since"
"Revolution of 1917 and was banned from 1945 to 1989 in communist Poland, along with George Orwell's similar novella, ""Animal Farm"" (published in Britain in 1945). It is unknown whether Orwell knew of Reymont's ""Revolt"" of over two decades earlier. Reymont's novel was reprinted in Poland in 2004. Władysław Reymont Władysław Stanisław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel ""Chłopi"" (""The Peasants""). Reymont's baptism certificate gives his birth name as Stanisław Władysław Rejment. The"
"the Restoration, developed into a major art form. Daniel Defoe turned from journalism and writing criminal lives for the press to writing fictional criminal lives with """" and ""Moll Flanders."" The English novel has generally been seen as beginning with Daniel Defoe's ""Robinson Crusoe"" (1719) and ""Moll Flanders"" (1722), though John Bunyan's ""The Pilgrim's Progress"" (1678) and Aphra Behn's, ""Oroonoko"" (1688) are also contenders. Other major 18th-century British novelists are Samuel Richardson (1689–1761), author of the epistolary novels ""Pamela, or Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) and ""Clarissa"" (1747–48); Henry Fielding (1707–54), who wrote ""Joseph Andrews"" (1742) and ""The History of Tom Jones,"
"a Mystery"", bloopers, and deleted scenes. Resurrection (U.S. TV series) Resurrection is an American fantasy drama television series about dead people who return to life. It is based on Jason Mott's novel ""The Returned"" (2013). It was co-produced by ABC Studios and Plan B Entertainment, led by Brad Pitt, Aaron Zelman, JoAnn Alfano, Jon Liebman, Dede Gardner, Jeremy Kleiner, Michele Fazekas, and Tara Butters, and aired from March 9, 2014 to January 25, 2015. On May 7, 2015, ABC cancelled it after two seasons. The series follows the residents of Arcadia, Missouri, whose lives are upended when their loved ones"
"and a Murder"". Bob Biderman Bob Biderman (1940–2018) was a British-American novelist and publisher known for his coming-of-age novels, ""Red Dreams"" – an obverse view of 50s America – and ""Letters to Nanette"", about a young man drafted into the army at the start of the Vietnam War. Biderman is considered one of the wave of literary oppositionists who were active in May 68 and attempted to redefine popular genres, exemplified in his Joseph Radkin Investigation series which combined social and political history in a mystery format. He also was the founding editor and publisher of several magazines – Café"
"The Righteous Men The Righteous Men is a novel written by Sam Bourne, a pseudonym of English journalist Jonathan Freedland. The story is about a half-British news reporter, Will Monroe (Jr), Jewish Occult Mysticism, Kabbalah, Hasidic Judaism, and the nefarious Christian sect known as ""Church of the Reborn Jesus"". It has been described as ""The biggest challenger to Dan Brown's (author of The Da Vinci Code) crown"" by the British newspaper ""The Mirror"". Will Monroe's normal life is disrupted when his wife is kidnapped while he is reporting on a story of a militia man found dead in his isolated"
"People Who Knock on the Door People Who Knock on the Door (1983) is a novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was the nineteenth of her 22 novels. Highsmith drew inspiration from the revival of fundamentalist Christianity that achieved notoriety in the late 1970s in the US with the prominence of Jerry Falwell and other televangelists and the organization of its political arm, the Moral Majority. She watched US television programs in search of details for depicting preachers and advocates of religious fundamentalism. She traveled from Europe for several weeks in 1981 to visit New York City, Indianapolis, and Bloomington and"
"Resurrection (1980 film) Resurrection is a 1980 American drama film which tells the story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an unwitting celebrity, the hope of those in desperate need of healing, and a lightning rod for religious beliefs and skeptics. The film stars Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Richard Farnsworth, Roberts Blossom and Eva Le Gallienne. The movie was written by Lewis John Carlino and directed by Daniel Petrie. It was nominated for two Academy Awards; one for Best Actress in"
"Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he was a Professor"
"Jules Eckert Goodman Jules Eckert Goodman (November 2, 1876 – July 10, 1962) was an American playwright and author. He was best known for his plays ""The Man Who Came Back"" (1916), ""The Silent Voice"" (1914), ""Chains"" (1923), and a series of plays featuring Potash and Permutter written with Montague Glass. Goodman was born in Gervais, Oregon in 1876. He received an undergraduate degree from Harvard University in 1899 and master's degree from Columbia University in 1901. He was managing editor for four years of ""Current Literature"" and also wrote for ""Outing"" and the ""Dramatic Mirror"". He had his first"
"Berry Fleming Berry Fleming (19 March 1899 - 15 September 1989) was an American novelist. He is best known for his 1943 novel ""Colonel Effingham's Raid"". Fleming was born in Augusta, Georgia and lived in that city for most of his life. In 1922 he graduated from Harvard University and in 1923 he worked as a reporter for an Augusta newspaper. In 1924 he moved to New York City to pursue his career as a writer. His first novel, ""The Conqueror's Stone"", was published in 1927. He enjoyed a considerable amount of success with a series of novels in the"
"Nobody Lives in Bloomsbury"" (2006), a fictional study of the Bloomsbury Group. Gillian Freeman Gillian Freeman (born 5 December 1929) is a British writer. Born to Jewish parents Dr. Jack Freeman and his wife Freda (née Davids) in North London, she graduated in English Language and Literature from the University of Reading in 1951. She married Edward Thorpe, novelist and ballet critic of the ""Evening Standard"", in 1955. They have two daughters, the actresses Harriet Thorpe and Matilda Thorpe. One of her best known books was the 1961 novel ""The Leather Boys"" (published under the pseudonym Eliot George, a reference"
"Bob Biderman Bob Biderman (1940–2018) was a British-American novelist and publisher known for his coming-of-age novels, ""Red Dreams"" – an obverse view of 50s America – and ""Letters to Nanette"", about a young man drafted into the army at the start of the Vietnam War. Biderman is considered one of the wave of literary oppositionists who were active in May 68 and attempted to redefine popular genres, exemplified in his Joseph Radkin Investigation series which combined social and political history in a mystery format. He also was the founding editor and publisher of several magazines – Café Magazine, where he"
"were stolen from his face by a gate-crasher, who jokingly attempted to ransom them for $100,000 before being apprehended by police elsewhere in Hyde Park. Jonathan Franzen Jonathan Earl Franzen (born August 17, 1959) is an American novelist and essayist. His 2001 novel ""The Corrections"", a sprawling, satirical family drama, drew widespread critical acclaim, earned Franzen a National Book Award, was a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction finalist, earned a James Tait Black Memorial Prize and was shortlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His novel ""Freedom"" (2010) garnered similar praise and led to an appearance on the cover of ""Time"""
"Best Novel for ""Survivor"" and for the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel for ""Lullaby"" in 2002 and for ""Haunted"" in 2005. Chuck Palahniuk Charles Michael Palahniuk (; born February 21, 1962) is an American novelist and freelance journalist, who describes his work as transgressional fiction. He is the author of the award-winning novel ""Fight Club"", which also was made into a popular film of the same name. Palahniuk was born in Pasco, Washington, the son of Carol Adele (née Tallent) and Fred Palahniuk. He has French and Ukrainian ancestry. His paternal grandfather was Ukrainian and migrated to New York"
"promotion of contraception. Edward Charles Edward Charles Edmond Hemsted (born Anacapri, Isola de Capri, 1898), better known by the pen name Edward Charles, was an English author, educator, social advocate and sexologist. His most famous writings are ""The Sexual Impulse"", ""Mens Gods"", ""Those Thoughtful People"", ""Sand & the Blue Moss"", ""Apple Pie Bed"", ""Indian Patchwork"" (with ""Mary Charles"", a pseudonym for his wife, Dorothy Mary Chance), ""Portrait of the Artist's Children"" and ""Idle Hands"". He was educated at Lancing College, St John's College, University of Oxford (where he took a double first) and Louvain University. During the early 1920s, he"
"Dust"", is based on the 'extreme danger of putting power into the hands of those who believe in some absolute creed, whether that is Christianity or Islam or Marxism'. Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Pullman one of the ""50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most"
"Restoration (Ólafsson novel) Restoration is a novel by author Olaf Olafsson. A sweeping story of love tested by the terrors and tragedies of war set in the gorgeous hills of Tuscany in the 1940s. Having grown up in an exclusive circle of British ex-pats in Florence in the 1920s, Alice shocks everyone when she marries Claudio, the son of a minor landowner, and moves to San Martino, a crumbling villa in Tuscany. Settling into their new paradise, husband and wife begin to build their future, restoring San Martino and giving birth to a son. But as time passes, Alice grows"
"Chris Claremont Christopher S. Claremont (; born November 25, 1950) is a British-born American comic book writer and novelist, known for his 1975–1991 stint on ""Uncanny X-Men"", far longer than that of any other writer, during which he is credited with developing strong female characters as well as introducing complex literary themes into superhero narratives, turning the once underachieving comic into one of Marvel's most popular series. During his tenure at Marvel, Claremont co-created numerous X-Men characters, such as Rogue, Psylocke, Shadowcat, Phoenix, The Brood, Lockheed, Shi'ar, Shi'ar Imperial Guard, Mystique, Destiny, Selene, Reverend William Stryker, Lady Mastermind, Emma Frost,"
"Władysław Reymont Władysław Stanisław Reymont (, born Rejment; 7 May 1867 – 5 December 1925) was a Polish novelist and the 1924 laureate of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His best-known work is the award-winning four-volume novel ""Chłopi"" (""The Peasants""). Reymont's baptism certificate gives his birth name as Stanisław Władysław Rejment. The change of surname from ""Rejment"" to ""Reymont"" was made by the author himself during his publishing debut, as it was supposed to protect him, in the Russian part of Poland, from any potential trouble for having already published in Galicia a work not allowed under the Tsar's censorship."
"James Fleming (author) James R. Fleming, born (London) 26 February 1944, is an English author (related to spy author Ian Fleming and travel writer Peter Fleming). He recently lived for the last twenty years in the remote North of Scotland in order to concentrate on his writing.This is where his Charlie Doig Russian series gestated.Well respected in the nearest town to his estate he became an honoury ""Wicker"" and fully emershed himself in community life. He has written two historical novels, ""Thomas Gage"" and ""The Temple Of Optimism"" and three thrillers, ""Cold Blood"", ""White Blood"" and ""Rising Blood"" that feature"
"on December 12, 1960. He was one of the three men claiming to be Jack Benny's violen teacher. He received two votes. Lester Cohen Lester Cohen (August 17, 1901 - July 17, 1963) was an American novelist, screenwriter and author of non-fiction. He is best known as the author of the novels ""Sweepings"" and ""Coming Home"", and the screen play for ""Of Human Bondage"". Cohen was born in Chicago, Illinois, to Annie Harchovsky and Hyman Cohen from Minsk. Both emigrated to the United States in their early teens and worked in sweatshops. Hyman Cohen became a doctor, was a pioneer"
"Up Country Up Country is a 2002 thriller novel by American author Nelson DeMille. It is the second novel featuring protagonist Paul Brenner. One of the last things that Chief Warrant Officer Paul Brenner wanted to do was return to work for the Army's Criminal Investigation Division-an organization that thanked him for his many years of dedicated service by forcing him into early retirement. But when his former boss calls in a career's worth of favors, Paul finds himself having to do the last thing he ever wanted-return to Vietnam. His mission: Investigate a murder that took place during the"
"academic Steve Baker argues that the film can be interpreted as a vampire film, ""situating it within a loyalist self image of vampirism"". In fact, Stuart Townsend's performance in this film was what prompted Michael Rymer to cast him the role of the Vampire Lestat in ""Queen of the Damned"". Resurrection Man (film) Resurrection Man is a 1998 British film, directed by Marc Evans with a screenplay written by Eoin McNamee based on his novel of the same name. The story is loosely based on the real-life ""Shankill Butchers"", an Ulster loyalist gang in 1970s Belfast who conducted random killings"
"Blake Crouch Blake Crouch is an American author, best known for his ""Wayward Pines Trilogy"", which was adapted into the 2015 television series ""Wayward Pines"". Crouch was born near the piedmont town of Statesville, North Carolina in 1978. He attended the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and graduated in 2000 with degrees in English and Creative Writing. Crouch published his first two novels, ""Desert Places"" and ""Locked Doors"", in 2004 and 2005. His stories have appeared in ""Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine"", ""Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine"", ""Thriller 2"", and other anthologies. In 2016, he released his novel, ""Dark Matter""."
"Philip Pullman Philip Pullman CBE, FRSL (born 19 October 1946) is an English novelist. He is the author of several best-selling books, including the fantasy trilogy ""His Dark Materials"" and the fictionalised biography of Jesus, ""The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ"". In 2008, ""The Times"" named Pullman one of the ""50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In a 2004 poll for the BBC, Pullman was named the eleventh most influential person in British culture. The first book of Pullman's ""His Dark Materials"" trilogy, ""Northern Lights"", won the 1995 Carnegie Medal from the Library Association, recognising the year's outstanding"
"but faulted the denouement: ""It is some kind of solution, but not a comfortable one; Miss Highsmith can do much better than this callous if skilful story."" People Who Knock on the Door People Who Knock on the Door (1983) is a novel by Patricia Highsmith. It was the nineteenth of her 22 novels. Highsmith drew inspiration from the revival of fundamentalist Christianity that achieved notoriety in the late 1970s in the US with the prominence of Jerry Falwell and other televangelists and the organization of its political arm, the Moral Majority. She watched US television programs in search of"
"""Fall of Cthulhu"". Michael Alan Nelson Michael Alan Nelson (born June 6, 1971) is an American comic book writer and novelist. He is best known for the comic book and novel series ""Hexed"", ""Supergirl"" comics, and co-writing the ""Day Men"" comics series. Nelson has written over 30 graphic novels. Nelson has co-written a variety of graphic novels with notable collaborators from ""Malignant Man"" with film director James Wan to ""Insurrection 3.6"" with screenwriter Blake Masters to actor Peter Facinelli on ""Protocol Orphans"" to ""The Last Reign: Kings of War"" with Wild Hogs director Walt Becker. Nelson has worked with some"
"Paul Sussman Paul Nicholas Sussman (11 July 1966 in Beaconsfield – 31 May 2012 in London) was a best-selling English author, archaeologist and journalist. His novels have been described as ""the intelligent reader's answer to ""The Da Vinci Code"""" by ""The Independent"". Paul Sussman was the only son of Stanley, a sales manager for a textile manufacturer, and Sue, an actress-turned-psychoanalyst. After a few years in Hampstead the family moved to Northwood in north-west London. Paul was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and St. John's College, Cambridge, where he won a Joseph Larmor Award and a boxing blue and was"
"FROMMER, TO: Florence & Tuscany NOVELS ""Blood Moon"" (1999), ""Butterflies in Heat"" (1976), ""Hollywood’s Silent Closet"" (2001), ""Marika"" (1977), with its Dutch translation, ""De weg naar de Top"" (1977), ""Midnight in Savannah"" (2000), ""Razzle-Dazzle"" (1995), ""Rhinestone Country"" (2002), and ""Venus"" (1982) BIOGRAPHIES ""Brando Unzipped"" (2005); ""Damn You Scarlett O’Hara, The Private Lives of Vivien Leigh and Laurence Olivier"" (co-authored with Roy Moseley, 2011); ""Elizabeth Taylor, There is Nothing Like a Dame"" (2012); ""Frank Sinatra, The Boudoir Singer"" (2011); ""Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again!"" (2010); ""Hollywood Babylon—It’s Back!"" (2008); ""Howard Hughes, Hell’s Angel"" (2005); ""Humphrey Bogart, the Making of a Legend"" (2010);"
"Joan Fleming Joan Fleming (27 March 1908 – 15 November 1980) was a British writer of crime and thriller novels. Her novel ""The Deeds of Dr Deadcert"" was made into the film ""Rx Murder"" (1958), and she won the Gold Dagger award twice, for ""When I Grow Rich"" (1962) and ""Young Man I Think You're Dying"" (1970). She was born at Horwich, Lancashire to Elizabeth and David Gibson, her father being then managing director of the Horwich Locomotive Works. She attended the Brighthelmstone School for Girls, but left without qualifications and moved to London at the age of 18 when"