"Morgan is too preoccupied with alcohol and women to know what to do with the oil. To make matters worse, a woman is struck by lightning on the British compound, creating a tense political situation with the local government. The movie received mixed to poor reviews. Focus Features released an Amazon.com exclusive DVD of the film on January 11, 2010. A Good Man in Africa A Good Man in Africa is a 1994 film, based on William Boyd's 1981 novel ""A Good Man in Africa"" and directed by Bruce Beresford. The film starred Colin Friels, Sean Connery, John Lithgow, Joanne"
"Les Inrockuptibles (France) May, 2001; Books in Canada February, 1997 / September, 2001; Le Soir (Belgium) October, 2002. Trevor Ferguson Trevor Ferguson, a.k.a. John Farrow, (born 11 November 1947) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Hudson, Quebec. He is the author of thirteen novels and four plays. He has been called Canada's best novelist both in ""Books in Canada"" and the ""Toronto Star"". Born in Seaforth, Huron County, Ontario in 1947, he was raised in Montreal from the age of three. In his mid-teens, he gravitated towards Canada's northwest where he worked on railway gangs, and also began to"
"Guy Vanderhaeghe Guy Clarence Vanderhaeghe, OC, SOM (born April 5, 1951) is a Canadian novelist and short story writer, best known for his Western novels trilogy, ""The Englishman's Boy"", ""The Last Crossing"", and ""A Good Man"" set in the 19th-century American and Canadian West. Vanderhaeghe has won three Governor General's Awards for his fiction, one for his short story collection ""Man Descending"" in 1982, the second for his novel ""The Englishman's Boy"" in 1996, and the third for his short story collection ""Daddy Lenin and Other Stories"" in 2015. Guy Vanderhaeghe was born on April 5, 1951 in Esterhazy, a"
"John Adams lecture in Amsterdam. On April 9, 2014, Johnston was placed on the shortlist for the Stephen Leacock Memorial Medal for Humour in Canadian Literature for his novel ""The Son of a Certain Woman"". Wayne Johnston (writer) Wayne Johnston (born 1958) is a Canadian novelist. His fiction deals primarily with the province of Newfoundland and Labrador, often in a historical setting. He has been called ""this continent's best writer"" by Kirkus Review. Johnston was born in Goulds, Newfoundland, and graduated from Memorial University of Newfoundland in 1978 with a degree in English literature. He then worked for three years"
"Richard E. Grant and Gillian Anderson. ""The Courage Consort"" has been adapted for radio twice, by the BBC (UK) and the ABC (Australia). ""Under the Skin"" was adapted into a Scottish film, directed by Jonathan Glazer and starring Scarlett Johansson. It premièred at the Venice Film Festival on 3 September 2013. ""The Book of Strange New Things"" was adapted as ten 15 minute episodes for BBC Radio 4 in 2014, and as a pilot for an Amazon Prime TV Series called Oasis. Michel Faber Michel Faber (born 13 April 1960) is a Dutch-born writer of English-language fiction, including his 2002"
"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"
"(Big Finish Productions 2010), in which this demonic figure assumes the pose of a Minister of the Kirk. Thomas Wilson's Opera, ""The Confessions of a Justified Sinner"" (1972–75), commissioned by Scottish Opera, is based on the novel. James Hogg James Hogg (1770 – 21 November 1835) was a Scottish poet, novelist and essayist who wrote in both Scots and English. As a young man he worked as a shepherd and farmhand, and was largely self-educated through reading. He was a friend of many of the great writers of his day, including Sir Walter Scott, of whom he later wrote an"
"after his 69th birthday. His novels ""Assassins & Victims"" and ""The Punctual Rape"" won Scottish Arts Council Awards. ""The Last Darkness"" and ""White Rage"" were nominated for the Prix du Polar. His quartet of Glasgow novels consists of ""The Bad Fire"", ""The Last Darkness"", ""White Rage"", and ""Butcher"". He also wrote a memoir titled ""All That Really Matters"", retitled in the United States as ""I Hope You Have a Good Life"". His work has mainly been influenced by R L Stevenson and he ascribes a certain 'dark aspect' of his writing to the opening scenes of Treasure Island. Among other"
"world in general and present-day Britain in particular, but also enjoys disabusing moderns who tend to romanticize the Elizabethan Age. Gordon is especially harsh in his mocking of the political paranoia that infected the United States during the Cold War. Gordon, a Scotsman, does manage to have Gilbert, an Englishman, visit the author’s home town of Buckie on the northeastern coast of Scotland. Fire in the Abyss Fire in the Abyss is a science fiction novel by Stuart Gordon, pen name of Richard Gordon, (1983), having as its main character the Elizabethan adventurer Humphrey Gilbert, an actual historical figure, as"
"Doug Johnstone Doug Johnstone (born 22 July 1970) is a Scottish crime writer based in Edinburgh. His ninth novel ""Fault Lines"" was published by Orenda Books in May 2018. His 2015 book ""The Jump"" (published by Faber & Faber) was shortlisted for the McIlvanney Prize for Best Scottish Crime Novel. He published two novels with Penguin, ""Tombstoning"" (2006) and ""The Ossians"" (2008), which received praise from the likes of Irvine Welsh, Ian Rankin and Christopher Brookmyre. ""The Scotsman"" described him as ""a master of the page-turning, heart-gripping, plot-driven tale."" Johnstone is a Royal Literary Fund Consultant Fellow and he was"
"Christopher Brookmyre Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was ""Quite Ugly One Morning"" and subsequent works have included ""One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night"", which he said ""was just the sort of book he needed to write before he turned 30"", and ""All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye"" (2005). Between April 2008 and December 2015, he was the President of Humanist Society Scotland. Brookmyre"
"Christopher Brookmyre Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was ""Quite Ugly One Morning"" and subsequent works have included ""One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night"", which he said ""was just the sort of book he needed to write before he turned 30"", and ""All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye"" (2005). Between April 2008 and December 2015, he was the President of Humanist Society Scotland. Brookmyre"
"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"
"""Man at Leisure"" (1972), complete with the original introduction by William Burroughs, and in 2011 Oneworld Publications also re-released ""Cain's Book"", with a foreword by Tom McCarthy. Alexander Trocchi Alexander Whitelaw Robertson Trocchi ( ; 30 July 1925 – 15 April 1984) was a Scottish novelist. Trocchi was born in Glasgow to a Scottish mother and Italian father. After working as a seaman on the Murmansk convoys, he attended the University of Glasgow. On graduation he obtained a travelling grant that enabled him to relocate to continental Europe. In the early 1950s he lived in Paris and edited the literary"
"Trevor Ferguson Trevor Ferguson, a.k.a. John Farrow, (born 11 November 1947) is a Canadian novelist who lives in Hudson, Quebec. He is the author of thirteen novels and four plays. He has been called Canada's best novelist both in ""Books in Canada"" and the ""Toronto Star"". Born in Seaforth, Huron County, Ontario in 1947, he was raised in Montreal from the age of three. In his mid-teens, he gravitated towards Canada's northwest where he worked on railway gangs, and also began to write, working at night in the bunkhouses. In his early twenties, he travelled and worked throughout Europe and"
"with the overall title ""Case Histories"". This novel was covered as the second two parts of the series. One Good Turn (novel) One Good Turn (subtitled ""A Jolly Murder Mystery"") is a 2006 crime novel by Kate Atkinson set in Edinburgh during the Festival. 'People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a brutal road rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved.' It is the second novel to feature former private investigator Jackson Brodie and is set two years after the earlier ""Case Histories"". Reviews were mostly positive. Justine Jordan of ""The Guardian"" enjoyed the novel,"
"might be ""Wuthering Heights"" gothic without the psychological speed, a novel in black and grey, but for those who enjoy slow-burning melodrama and their history re-enacted in hi-res minutiae, this will please."" The Good People The Good People is a 2016 novel by Australian author Hannah Kent. While researching her first novel, ""Burial Rites"", Hannah Kent came across a story in a newspaper about a woman named Anne Roche who was tried for the death of a young boy called Michael Leahy by drowning him in the Flesk. A witness against Anne Roche was Mary Clifford, a servant for the"
"adopted into his family who has fled to live in a slum as a prostitute. It was a New York Times Notable Book. A second novel, ""The Genius of the Sea"", explores the fears and failures of a social-worker coming to terms with his life by talking with a man who now occupies his dead mother's apartment. His most recent book ""The Perfect Man"" was published in 2007 to critical acclaim. The novel was awarded The Commonwealth Writers' Prize for the Best Book of Europe/South Asia, and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize. Set in the 1950s, ""The Perfect"
"novels in England came after their popularity in the US. The novels have been reviewed other languages than the original English; for example, this generally favorable review of the series up to the novel published in 2014, ""The Handsome Man's De Luxe Café"", in a Czech online magazine: ""Alexander McCall Smith, however, can enrich the stories of his everyday heroes with a profoundly human understanding of man's weaknesses"". In 2004, the year of the sixth novel's publication, Alexander McCall Smith won the Author of the Year award at the British Book Awards and the Crime Writers Association Dagger in the"
"crash of a British Wellington bomber, and Eliot goes on to write his poem utilising this incident. At the initial public reading of the poem, Jim, the pilot of the crashed aircraft, happens to be in the audience and recognises his accident being depicted in the poem. <poem> Our interest's on the dangerous edge of things. The honest thief, the tender murderer, The superstitious atheist...</poem> – ""Bishop Blougram's Apology"", Robert Browning. A World of Other People A World of Other People (2013) is a novel by Australian author Steven Carroll. It was the joint winner of the 2014 Prime Minister's"
"Grant Morrison Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics's ""Animal Man"", ""Batman"", ""JLA"", ""Action Comics"", ""All-Star Superman"", Vertigo's ""The Invisibles"", and Fleetway's ""2000 AD"". He is the current editor-in-chief of ""Heavy Metal"". He is also the co-creator of the Syfy TV series ""Happy!"" starring Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt. Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in 1960. He was educated at Allan Glen's School where his first portfolio of art was rejected by"
"Evil"". She sees the structure of the novel, with its loose narration interspersed with letter sections, as both a major departure for Murdoch and evidence of her ""genuine narrative skills"". An Accidental Man An Accidental Man is a novel by Iris Murdoch. Published in 1971, it was her fourteenth novel. The complex story is set in London and involves a large number of characters, many of whom are related to each other by family or marriage. The ""accidental man"" is the hapless but charming Austin Gibson Grey, whose actions drive much of the plot. His long-estranged wealthy older brother, recently"
"a bad guy at all, was just misunderstood. People just assumed he was a villan or a monster, so he was viewed by many people as evil. Is the only one resistant to Max Dalton’s mind control. Villains throughout the novels: The New Heroes The New Heroes (US series title: Quantum Prophecy) is a series of novels and short stories by Michael Carroll, first published in January 2006 by HarperCollins in the UK. The stories centre on realistic depictions of superhuman abilities manifesting in the world and the subsequent appearance of superheroes and villains. The first trilogy follows young adolescents"
"Ireland, Portugal and London, he has lived and worked in Italy since then. His occupations have included academic translator, university language teacher, journalist and editor for international organizations. His first novel, ""Little Monsters"", a Good Housekeeping selection and described by John Harding of the Daily Mail as ""beautifully written and crafted, and more compelling than many thrillers"", was published in 2008, the same year as his collection of prize-winning stories, ""The Scent of Cinnamon and Other Stories""; the title story won an O. Henry Prize. ""Any Human Face"", his second novel and the first in a trilogy set in modern-day"
"novelists, including James Kelman who like Samuel Beckett can create humour out of the most grim situations; A. L. Kennedy whose 2007 novel ""Day"" was named Book of the Year in the Costa Book Awards.; Alasdair Gray whose """" (1981) is a dystopian fantasy set in his home town Glasgow. Highly anglicised Lowland Scots is often used in contemporary Scottish fiction, for example, the Edinburgh dialect of Lowland Scots used in ""Trainspotting"" by Irvine Welsh to give a brutal depiction of the lives of working class Edinburgh drug users. In Northern Ireland, James Fenton's poetry is written in contemporary Ulster"
"Henry Mackenzie's ""The Man of Feeling"" (1771) and Maria Edgeworth's ""Castle Rackrent"" (1800). Continental examples are Jean-Jacques Rousseau's novel ""Julie, or the New Heloise"", his autobiography ""The Confessions"" (1764–70) and Goethe's novel ""The Sorrows of Young Werther"" (1774). Although there were novels in the interim, Samuel Richardson's ""Pamela; or, Virtue Rewarded"" (1740) is the next landmark development in the English novel. Richardson's generic models were quite distinct from those of Defoe. Instead of working from the journalistic biography, Richardson had in mind the books of improvement that were popular at the time. Pamela Andrews enters the employ of a ""Mr."
"is set across Europe. The novel's hero and narrator, Bruce Driscoll, a recent Cambridge graduate, appears to be modelled upon Fletcher Robinson. ""Wheels of Anarchy by Max Pemberton"" was republished in December 2010. Pemberton was member of a criminology literary society known as 'Our Society' along with eleven other notable members including Bertram Fletcher Robinson and Arthur Conan Doyle. In 1920, Pemberton founded the London School of Journalism, wrote a biography about Alfred Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Northcliffe and was knighted. He was married to Alice Tussaud, granddaughter of Madame Marie Tussaud and daughter of Joseph Tussaud. Pemberton also wrote a"
"writing course at the University of East Anglia, and began working on ""The Underground Man"". He has been a full-time writer since 1995. He is best known for his novel ""The Underground Man"" (1997), based on the life of William Cavendish-Scott-Bentinck, 5th Duke of Portland. The book was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, and for the 1997 Whitbread Award for best first novel. Jackson's other works are the novels ""Five Boys"" (2002) ""The Widow's Tale"" (2010) and ""Yuki Chan in Bronte Country"" (2016), and the short story collections ""Ten Sorry Tales"" (2006) and ""The Bears of England"" (2009). Under"
"the play tells their tale from the perspective of Dudley Moore, by then an international film star. In 2007 two other plays followed, premiering at the Edinburgh Festival. Written with Chris Bartlett, directed by David Giles and starring Jessica Martin and Jason Wood, ""Unnatural Acts"" is a comedy about two flatmates, a gay man and a straight woman, who try to have a baby together. Written by Awde and directed by Jon Bonfiglio, ""Blood Confession"" is a violent drama about an interrogation, about a child murder from 25 years ago, that goes horribly wrong. In 1993, Awde wrote, composed and"
"One Good Turn (novel) One Good Turn (subtitled ""A Jolly Murder Mystery"") is a 2006 crime novel by Kate Atkinson set in Edinburgh during the Festival. 'People queuing for a lunchtime show witness a brutal road rage incident - an incident that changes the lives of everyone involved.' It is the second novel to feature former private investigator Jackson Brodie and is set two years after the earlier ""Case Histories"". Reviews were mostly positive. Justine Jordan of ""The Guardian"" enjoyed the novel, saying Liesl Schillinger of the ""New York Times"" said, ""Kate Atkinson shows again, in her inimitable bleakly funny"
"was confirmed that Jennifer Lawrence would play the role of Agnes Magnúsdóttir in a film adaption. ""Burial Rites"" has been translated into thirty languages. Kent's second novel ""The Good People"" (2016) is set in Ireland's County Kerry in 1825. It is the story of widow's struggle to find a cure for her grandson who has been struck down by a mysterious inability to speak and who is feared by others in this superstitious community as a changeling. ""The Good People"" has been translated into ten languages. THE GOOD PEOPLE (2016) Shortlisted for the University of Queensland Fiction Book Award 2017"
"Rucka, and Mark Waid as themselves. Morrison lives and works in Scotland and Los Angeles. Film Television Grant Morrison Grant Morrison, MBE (born 31 January 1960) is a Scottish comic book writer and playwright. He is known for his nonlinear narratives and countercultural leanings in his runs on titles including DC Comics's ""Animal Man"", ""Batman"", ""JLA"", ""Action Comics"", ""All-Star Superman"", Vertigo's ""The Invisibles"", and Fleetway's ""2000 AD"". He is the current editor-in-chief of ""Heavy Metal"". He is also the co-creator of the Syfy TV series ""Happy!"" starring Christopher Meloni and Patton Oswalt. Grant Morrison was born in Glasgow, Scotland in"
"can solve a country's problems."" He donated £294,000 to the Better Together group which campaigned for a ""no"" vote in the Scottish independence referendum, 2014. He also said that the Yes Scotland campaign had ""dubious"" financial backing. C. J. Sansom Christopher John ""C.J."" Sansom is a Scottish-born writer of historical crime novels. He was born in 1952 in Edinburgh and was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for"