"The Ghost (Harris novel) The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, ""The Ghost Writer"", directed by Roman Polanski and starring Pierce Brosnan, for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel, and to his immediate predecessor who, as the action opens, has just"
"premiered at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival on 12 February 2010. The Ghost (Harris novel) The Ghost is a contemporary political thriller by the best-selling English novelist and journalist Robert Harris. In 2010, the novel was adapted into a film, ""The Ghost Writer"", directed by Roman Polanski and starring Pierce Brosnan, for which Polanski and Harris co-wrote the screenplay. In 2007 British prime minister Tony Blair resigned. Harris, a former Fleet Street political editor, dropped his other work to write the book. The ghost of the title refers both to a professional ghostwriter, whose lengthy memorandum forms the novel,"
"The Ghosts The Ghosts is a novel written by Antonia Barber in 1969. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It was filmed in 1972 as ""The Amazing Mr Blunden"" with Laurence Naismith as Mr Blunden and Diana Dors as Mrs Wickens. Mr Blunden, an elderly solicitor, visits Mrs Allen, a widow who lives with her three children Jamie, Lucy and the baby, in Camden Town, London, England. He tells her that his firm are looking for a suitable person to act as a caretaker to an old, abandoned house in the country until such time as the descendants of"
"Linnea Sinclair Linnea Sinclair (born 1954 in New Jersey, United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's ""Gabriel's Ghost"" was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective. Linnea Sinclair was born in New Jersey, USA. She studied journalism and criminology at Indiana University Bloomington (1972–1975) and Florida State University. Sinclair is a former investigative news reporter and private investigator in the Central Florida area who has written"
"The Ghost Writer (film) The Ghost Writer (released as The Ghost in the United Kingdom and Ireland) is a 2010 Franco-German-British political thriller film directed by Roman Polanski. The film is an adaptation of a Robert Harris novel, ""The Ghost"", with the screenplay written by Polanski and Harris. It stars Ewan McGregor, Pierce Brosnan, Kim Cattrall and Olivia Williams. The film was a critical and commercial success and won numerous cinematic awards including Best Director for Polanski at the 60th Berlin International Film Festival and also at the 23rd European Film Awards in 2010. A British ghostwriter (Ewan McGregor) is"
"about plot but about language, and she found it more satisfying and well done than ""The Book of Evidence"". Banville described this as the second novel in a ""triptych"", saying he wanted to focus and reveal characters in language, as figures in a triptych are revealed in paint. Ghosts (Banville novel) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since ""The Book of Evidence"" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a ""triptych"", to make ""an investigation of the way in which the"
"The Ghost Writer The Ghost Writer is a 1979 novel by the American author Philip Roth. It is the first of Roth's novels narrated by Nathan Zuckerman, one of the author's putative fictional alter egos, and constitutes the first book in his ""Zuckerman Bound"" trilogy. The novel touches on themes common to many Roth works, including identity, the responsibilities of authors to their subjects, and the condition of Jews in America. Parts of the novel are a reprise of ""The Diary of Anne Frank"". Nathan Zuckerman is a promising young writer who spends a night in the home of E.I."
"send in an idea for a Ghost to feature in the third story. The fourth book, ""The Creeping Shadow"", was published in 2016, and the last book in the series, ""The Empty Grave"", was published in 2017. """"""The Dagger in the Desk"""""" (short story, 2015) Jonathan Stroud Jonathan Anthony Stroud (born 27 October 1970) is a British writer of fantasy fiction, mainly for children and young adults. Born in 1970 in Bedford, England, Stroud began to write stories at a very young age. He grew up in St Albans where he attended Wheatfields Junior School and St Albans Boys' School."
"The Ghost and the Goth The Ghost and the Goth is a 2010 paranormal romance young adult novel written by Stacey Kade and published by Hyperion Books. It is the first book in The Ghost and the Goth Trilogy. The book follows two different view points, Alona Dare (The Ghost) and Will Killian (The Goth), Alona was run over and Will is the only one who can see her. Will this blossom into something great or disastrous? Alona Dare was the most popular girl in school, at least she was until she was hit by a bus. Returning to the"
"would rather not know this stuff. I'd rather do it because it's true and because I accidentally wind up creating something that falls into this pattern than be told what the pattern is."" Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery"
"Crofts's ghostwriting book at the start of every chapter of his bestselling ""The Ghost"". The book was subsequently filmed by Roman Polanski with Ewan McGregor playing the ghostwriter. Crofts, in turn, has commented that ""The Ghost"" was ""a gift from the gods. Harris did us all a huge favour."" Crofts' ghostwriting career has involved writing for dictators, politicians, arms dealers and billionaires, and visits to palaces and tax havens in Monaco and Bermuda. His experiences led to ""Secrets of the Italian Gardner"", a novel set inside a dictator's palace during the Arab Spring, narrated by the dictator's ghostwriter. Crofts' fees"
"Alan Turing: The Enigma Alan Turing: The Enigma (1983) is a biography of the British mathematician, codebreaker, and early computer scientist, Alan Turing (1912–1954) by Andrew Hodges. The book covers Alan Turing's life and work. The American 2014 film ""The Imitation Game"" is loosely based on the book, with dramatization. The following editions of the book exist: New editions appeared in 2012, for the centenary of Turing's birth, and 2014, the year the film ""The Imitation Game"" was released. The book has been widely reviewed by newspapers and magazines including ""The Guardian"", ""The Independent"", ""Los Angeles Times"", ""Nature"", ""New Statesman"","
"Robin Spriggs Robin Spriggs (born April 1, 1974) is an American writer, actor, and poet. Known primarily as a dark fabulist, he is the author of the critically acclaimed ""The Untold Tales of Ozman Droom,"" ""Diary of a Gentleman Diabolist,"" and ""Wondrous Strange: Tales of the Uncanny."" He is the co-author of ""The Dracula Poems: A Poetic Encounter with the Lord of Vampires"" and the creator of "","" a ""book-in-a-box"" superhero board game based on his illustrated series, ""Capes & Cowls: The Wyrd City Chronicles."" Spriggs holds degrees in both English and Theatre. He has been nominated for a Pushcart"
"The Ghost (2008 film) The Ghost () is a 2008 Russian thriller film directed by Karen Oganesyan. Crime fiction author Anton Prachenko is experiencing a creative crisis. New books are not written, old ones are badly sold. In addition there are problems with his small son and beloved woman which does not help with creating masterpieces. The legendary hired killer nicknamed as ""Ghost"" mercilessly shoots up a car with two people inside before his very eyes and helps Prachenko get out of his crisis in an unusual way. The killer becomes his ideological mastermind, brutally and visually revealing to him"
"The Enola Holmes Mysteries The Enola Holmes Mysteries is a young adult fiction series of detective novels by American author Nancy Springer, starring Enola Holmes as the fourteen-year-old sister of an already-famous Sherlock Holmes, twenty years her senior. This pastiche series borrows characters and settings from the established canon of Sherlock Holmes, but the Enola character is Springer's creation and specific to this series. The first book, ""The Case of the Missing Marquess"", and the fifth, ""The Case of the Cryptic Crinoline"", were nominated for the Edgar Awards for Best Juvenile Mystery in 2007 and 2010, respectively. On Enola's fourteenth"
"Enigma (Vertigo) Enigma is an American comic book series written by Peter Milligan, with artwork by Duncan Fegredo, featuring a superhero named ""The Enigma"". It was published as an eight-issue limited series by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, in 1993. Writer Peter Milligan and artist Duncan Fegredo created ""Enigma"" for Disney Comics' planned Touchmark imprint. When the Touchmark line was canceled, the project moved to DC's newly launched Vertigo line in 1993. A new edition of ""Enigma"" was released in 2015. A 2007 review by Comic Book Resources praised the series for the handling of its subject matter. The"
"Neil Gaiman Neil Richard MacKinnon Gaiman (; born Neil Richard Gaiman, 10 November 1960) is an English author of short fiction, novels, comic books, graphic novels, audio theatre, and films. His works include the comic book series ""The Sandman"" and novels ""Stardust"", ""American Gods"", ""Coraline"", and ""The Graveyard Book"". He has won numerous awards, including the Hugo, Nebula, and Bram Stoker awards, as well as the Newbery and Carnegie medals. He is the first author to win both the Newbery and the Carnegie medals for the same work, ""The Graveyard Book"" (2008). In 2013, ""The Ocean at the End of"
"Principal photography was completed in March 2012. The movie stars Nathalie Biermans, Jay Mitsch, and Derek Partridge. Release date was set for 2013. Linnea Sinclair Linnea Sinclair (born 1954 in New Jersey, United States) is an American writer of Science Fiction Romance, Fantasy romance and Paranormal romance. Sinclair's ""Gabriel's Ghost"" was the winner of the 2006 RITA Award in the Best Paranormal Romance category. She has used the pseudonym Megan Sybil Baker. Formerly, she has been a news reporter and a private detective. Linnea Sinclair was born in New Jersey, USA. She studied journalism and criminology at Indiana University Bloomington"
"Obert Skye Obert Skye is the pseudonym of Robert Farrell Smith. He is a bestselling American children's writer known for the ""Leven Thumps"" series, the ""Pillage"" trilogy,[1] and ""The Creature from My Closet"" series. He is also the author of ""Witherwood Reform School"" and ""Beyond Foo"". Skye is known for novels that emphasize the power of imagination and importance of discovering the impossible in the mundane. Even the Obert Skye pen name, which is used to further ""research"" on the world of Foo in Leven Thumps and the existence of dragons in Pillage, is “all about imagination” and “thinking bigger"
"Lee Thomas (horror writer) Lee Thomas is an American author of horror fiction. He is best known for his novels ""The Dust of Wonderland"" and ""The German"", both of which have won the Lambda Literary Award for SF/Fantasy/Horror. In addition to numerous magazines, his short fiction has appeared in dozens of anthologies and magazines both in print and in digital formats. He has won the Bram Stoker Award for his novel ""Stained"". Writing as Thomas Pendleton and Dallas Reed, he is the author of the ""Wicked Dead"" series of novels for Young Adults (with Stefan Petrucha), and the novels, ""Mason"","
"Death of a Ghost Death of a Ghost is a crime novel by Margery Allingham, first published in February 1934, in the United Kingdom by Heinemann, London and in the United States by Doubleday, Doran, New York. It is the sixth novel with the mysterious Albert Campion, aided by his policeman friend Stanislaus Oates. At the former home of John Lafcadio, the great painter dead some 18 years, the annual ceremony to unveil a painting he left behind to keep his memory alive is interrupted by a murder. Suspicion falls on a family member, but with no proof the police"
"Herbert Adams (novelist) Herbert Adams (1874–1958) was an English writer of fifty 'cosy' mystery novels, mostly featuring the detective Roger Bennion, which were often set in or around golfing competitions. He also wrote short stories, humorous verse and two other mystery novels under the pseudonym Jonathan Gray. Herbert Adams is the creator of: 1. 'Jimmie Haswell', a lawyer in London. 2. 'Roger Bennion', a golfer and amateur sleuth. Adams also wrote under the pseudonym 'Jonathan Gray'. 'Jimmie Haswell' Novels: 1) The Secret of Bogey House 1924 2) The Crooked Lip 1926 3) The Queen's Gate Mystery 1927 4) The Empty"
"Ghosts (Banville novel) Ghosts is a novel by Irish writer John Banville. Published in 1993, it was his first novel since ""The Book of Evidence"" (1989), which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. The second in what Banville described as a ""triptych"", to make ""an investigation of the way in which the imagination works."" This novel features many of the same characters and relates to events of the previous novel. The novel is somewhat unconventional and non-linear in its construction. It begins with a group of travelers disembarking on a small island in the Irish Sea after their ship runs"
"and that – in fact – the true owner of the house is Jamie. Sara was their great-great grandmother. Jamie runs off to explore the grounds anew, now as their owner. Lucy goes upstairs to the attic where she hopes, now she belongs to the house, that she will understand what the voices of the ghosts are saying... The Ghosts The Ghosts is a novel written by Antonia Barber in 1969. It was shortlisted for the Carnegie Medal. It was filmed in 1972 as ""The Amazing Mr Blunden"" with Laurence Naismith as Mr Blunden and Diana Dors as Mrs Wickens."
"Enigma (2001 film) Enigma is a 2001 espionage thriller film directed by Michael Apted from a screenplay by Tom Stoppard. The script was adapted from the novel ""Enigma"" by Robert Harris, about the Enigma codebreakers of Bletchley Park in the Second World War. Although the story is highly fictionalised, the process of encrypting German messages during World War II and decrypting them with the Enigma is discussed in detail, and the historical event of the Katyn massacre is highlighted. It was the last film scored by John Barry. The story, loosely based on actual events, takes place in March 1943,"
"The Notting Hill Mystery The Notting Hill Mystery (1862–63) is an English-language detective novel written under the pseudonym ""Charles Felix"", with illustrations by George du Maurier. The author's identity was never formally revealed in his lifetime, but several critics have since suggested Charles Warren Adams (1833–1903), a lawyer known to have written other novels under pseudonyms. It is arguably regarded as the very first detective novel in the English language. ""The Notting Hill Mystery"" was first published as an eight-part serial in ""Once A Week"" magazine beginning on 29 November 1862, then as a single-volume novel in 1865 by Saunders,"
"Peter Milligan's run of ""Animal Man"". The series has been collected into a trade paperback. Enigma (Vertigo) Enigma is an American comic book series written by Peter Milligan, with artwork by Duncan Fegredo, featuring a superhero named ""The Enigma"". It was published as an eight-issue limited series by Vertigo, an imprint of DC Comics, in 1993. Writer Peter Milligan and artist Duncan Fegredo created ""Enigma"" for Disney Comics' planned Touchmark imprint. When the Touchmark line was canceled, the project moved to DC's newly launched Vertigo line in 1993. A new edition of ""Enigma"" was released in 2015. A 2007 review"
"The Time of the Ghost The Time of the Ghost is a supernatural English-language children's novel by Diana Wynne Jones, published by Macmillan in 1981. Set in the English countryside, it features a teenage ghost who is one of four sisters, and observes the family, unable to remember which one she is. She is from seven years in the future, in the aftermath of her ""accident"", so it is a kind of a time slip story, but she has no memories of those seven years. Greenwillow Books (William Morrow) published the first US edition only in 1996. According to WorldCat,"
"September 2007 as a result of a looming actors' strike. Polanski and Harris then turned to Harris's bestseller, ""The Ghost"". They co-wrote a script and Polanski announced filming for early 2008, with Nicolas Cage, Pierce Brosnan, Tilda Swinton and Kim Cattrall starring. The film was then postponed by a year, with Ewan McGregor and Olivia Williams replacing Cage and Swinton. The film, retitled ""The Ghost Writer"" in all territories except the UK, was shot in early 2009 in Berlin and on the island of Sylt in the North Sea, which stood in for London and Martha's Vineyard respectively, owing to"
"The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain, A Fancy for Christmas-Time (better known as The Haunted Man and the Ghost's Bargain or simply as The Haunted Man) is a novella by Charles Dickens first published in 1848. It is the fifth and last of Dickens's Christmas novellas. The story is more about the spirit of the holidays than about the holidays themselves, harking back to the first in the series, ""A Christmas Carol"". The tale centres on a Professor Redlaw and those close to him. Redlaw is a teacher of chemistry who often"
"The Riddle (film) The Riddle is a 2007 British psychological crime thriller film directed and written by Brendan Foley. It stars Vinnie Jones, Derek Jacobi, Julie Cox, Vanessa Redgrave, and Jason Flemyng. When a woman is murdered following her discovery of an unpublished Charles Dickens manuscript, an unusual trio team up to investigate. The three are Mike (Jones), an ambitious sports tabloid journalist determined to make a name for himself, Kate (Cox), a police officer, and an eccentric old beach-combing tramp (Jacobi). Together they must track down the mystery and we are taken back to the world of Charles Dickens."
"Enigma (1982 film) Enigma is a 1982 Anglo-American thriller film directed by Jeannot Szwarc and starring Martin Sheen, Sam Neill, Brigitte Fossey, and Kevin McNally. Based on Michael Barak's novel ""Enigma Sacrifice"", the film centers on a CIA agent who tries to infiltrate Soviet intelligence in order to stop a murderous plot. Alex Holbeck (Martin Sheen) is recruited as a CIA agent. He is sent to East Berlin on a mission to steal an Enigma code scrambler. This is part of an attempt to stop the Russian assassination of five Soviet dissidents which is planned for Christmas Day. What Alex"
"and referred to himself as ""the Recorder"". The best known is the three-volume series 'The Mists Trilogy' (""Through the Mists"", ""The Life Elysian"", ""The Gate of Heaven""), written between 1898 – 1931. ""The Heretic"" was written as his only autobiographical novel which was a record of his many years in London. ""An Astral Bridegroom"" was a study into reincarnation. Skeptics consider his psychic claims to be the result of self-delusion. At the time of the Jack the Ripper murders in 1888, Lees was living in the London area. His diary entries for 1888 reveal that on 2 October, during a"