"Last Orders Last Orders is a 1996 Booker Prize-winning novel by British writer Graham Swift. In 2001 it was adapted for the film ""Last Orders"" by Australian writer and director Fred Schepisi. The story makes much use of flashbacks to tell the convoluted story of the relationships between a group of war veterans who live in the same corner of London, the backbone of the story being the journey of the group from Bermondsey to Margate to scatter the ashes of Jack Dodds into the sea, in accord with his last wishes. The narrative is split into short sections told"
"good humour and a smart sense of self-awareness."" Last Days (Nevill novel) Last Days is a 2012 horror novel by the British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012 by Pan Macmillan and was published in the United States on 26 February 2013 through St. Martin's Griffin. It won the 2013 ""August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel"" and film rights for ""Last Days"" were first optioned by Adam Storke in early 2014. The option has subsequently passed to another film production company. The book follows Kyle Freeman, a guerrilla documentary"
"Last Days (Nevill novel) Last Days is a 2012 horror novel by the British author Adam Nevill. The book was first published in the United Kingdom on 24 May 2012 by Pan Macmillan and was published in the United States on 26 February 2013 through St. Martin's Griffin. It won the 2013 ""August Derleth Award for Best Horror Novel"" and film rights for ""Last Days"" were first optioned by Adam Storke in early 2014. The option has subsequently passed to another film production company. The book follows Kyle Freeman, a guerrilla documentary maker that has been hired to make a"
"as his bodyguard. It was Fox who had killed Pounds and Conklin. The police finally arrive, and Fox is shot while trying to escape. The Library Journal said that ""The Last Coyote"" had ""prose that cuts to the quick, a masterfully interwoven plot and gripping suspense"". ""The Last Coyote"" won the 1996 Dilys Award given by the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association ""The Last Coyote"" was a nominee for the 1996 Anthony Award, the 1996 Macavity Award and the 1996 Hammett Prize.<ref name=""urlIACW/NA: Hammett Prize: Past Years""></ref> The Last Coyote The Last Coyote is the fourth novel by American crime author"
"on 27 March 2017 in London at the age of 83. The cause was Parkinson's disease and dementia. Survivors include his two sons, Jake and Sean; two daughters, Helen and Kate; a brother, Anthony; and six grandchildren. David Storey David Malcolm Storey (13 July 1933 – 27 March 2017) was an English playwright, screenwriter, award-winning novelist and a professional rugby league footballer. He won the Booker Prize in 1976 for his novel ""Saville"". He also won the MacMillan Fiction Award for ""This Sporting Life"" in 1960. Storey was born on 13 July 1933 in Wakefield, West Riding of Yorkshire, the"
"Last Men in London Last Men in London (1932) is a science fiction novel by British writer Olaf Stapledon. The narrator is the same member of the eighteenth and final human species who purportedly induced Stapledon to write ""Last and First Men"". ""Last Men in London"" is the story of this being's exploration of the consciousness of a present-day Englishman named Paul, from childhood through service with an ambulance crew in the First World War (mirroring Stapledon's own personal history) to adult life as a schoolteacher faced with a ""submerged superman"" in his class nicknamed Humpty. The inadequacies of Paul's"
"Penelope Fitzgerald Penelope Fitzgerald (17 December 1916 – 28 April 2000) was an English Booker Prize-winning novelist, poet, essayist and biographer. In 2008, ""The Times"" included her in a list of ""the 50 greatest British writers since 1945"". In 2012, ""The Observer"" named her final novel, ""The Blue Flower"" one of ""the ten best historical novels"". Penelope Fitzgerald was born Penelope Mary Knox at the Old Bishop's Palace, Lincoln, the daughter of Edmund Knox, later editor of ""Punch"", and Christina Hicks, daughter of Edward Hicks, the bishop of Lincoln, and one of the first women students at Oxford. She was"
"The Last Frontier (novel) The Last Frontier is a novel written by Scottish author Alistair MacLean, and was first published in 1959. It was released in the United States under the title The Secret Ways. This novel marks MacLean's first foray into the espionage thriller genre, and was inspired by the events surrounding the Hungarian Revolution of 1956. Writing in the third person narrative, MacLean described the physical and political surroundings with more attention than he has in previous novels, and there are moments when MacLean purposely slows the action down to build character development. Michael Reynolds, MacLean's protagonist, is"
"Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"" (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998), and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels, Barnes has published collections of essays and short stories. In 2004 he became a Commandeur of L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. His honours also include the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey"
"""If I hadn't had an operation, in a couple of years from now I wouldn't have been able to open my eyes at all,"" he said. Since 2000, Rushdie has ""lived mostly near Union Square"" in New York City. He is a fan of the English football club Tottenham Hotspur. Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th"
"The Last Rune The Last Rune is a series of six epic fantasy novels written by American author Mark Anthony. It concerns the exploits of two earthlings, tavern owner Travis Wilder and ER doctor Grace Beckett, as well as those of their allies, both throughout their homeworld of Earth and the otherworld of Eldh. Travis soon discovers that he has a wild talent for the magic of runes, which gives him power over the material world, while Grace learns that she is a witch, with power over nature. The series comprises the following titles: First book of the series. Published"
"The Last Resort (novel) The Last Resort is a BBC Books original novel written by Paul Leonard and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Eighth Doctor, Fitz, Anji and Trix. This story begins with Fitz and Anji working for the Good Times Inc. Company. They are working undercover for the Doctor, who is shocked to discover a company that is selling holidays in time. The climax of the story results in the destruction of billions of universes. The Doctor and Sabbath realise all time travellers must be stopped, to prevent these events"
"relate to one another in the following chronological order, according to the author: ""Substantively different"" versions of these stories form the basis of the fix-up novel Central Station. Lavie Tidhar Lavie Tidhar () (born 16 November 1976) is an Israeli-born writer, working across multiple genres. He has lived in the United Kingdom and South Africa for long periods of time, as well as Laos and Vanuatu. As of 2013, Tidhar lives in London. His novel ""Osama"" won the 2012 World Fantasy Award for Best Novel, beating Stephen King's ""11/22/63"" and George R. R. Martin's ""A Dance with Dragons"". His novel"
"few real masterpieces of late 20th century British fiction."" In 1995 the final book in the trilogy, ""The Ghost Road"", won the Booker Prize. In 1983, Barker won the Fawcett Society prize for fiction for ""Union Street"". In 1993 she won the Guardian Fiction Prize for the ""Eye in the Door"", and in 1995 she won the Booker Prize for ""The Ghost Road"". In May 1997, Barker was awarded an honorary degree by the Open University as Doctor of the University. In 2000, she was named a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE). In the review of"
"Last Day in Limbo Last Day in Limbo is the title of the eighth novel chronicling the adventures of crime lord-turned-secret agent Modesty Blaise. The novel was first published in 1976 and was written by Peter O'Donnell, who had created the character for a comic strip in the early 1960s. The book was first published in the United Kingdom by Souvenir Press. Maude Tiller, one of the few female agents in Sir Gerald Tarrant's secret service, is miserable. Her last assignment involved her having to submit to sexually degrading treatment by Paxero, the man she had been sent to spy"
"The Final Sanction (novel) The Final Sanction is a BBC Books original novel written by Steve Lyons and based on the long-running British science fiction television series ""Doctor Who"". It features the Second Doctor, Zoe and Jamie. It was the last book in the series to use the ""silver"" version of the film logo. It is the second and so far final encounter between the Doctor and the Selachians, first introduced by Lyons in his previous Second Doctor novel, ""The Murder Game"". The year is 2204. The Doctor is caught in human history. When the TARDIS is stolen and Zoe"
"The Last Command (short story) ""The Last Command"" is a science fiction short story by English writer Arthur C. Clarke, first published in 1965. It describes events on a distant space station after a devastating nuclear war. The story supposed that the USSR would decisively win the space race; that the Russians were not inhuman monsters willing to destroy everything if it meant killing other people; and the implication that the United States attacked with atomic bombs first. The story consists of a taped message from the leader of the country that launched a space station into a highly elliptical"
"Last Human Last Human is the title of a 1995 science fiction comedy novel written by Doug Naylor. It is part of the ""Red Dwarf"" series of novels, based on the popular television show created by Naylor and his partner Rob Grant. Like the other novels, it does not take place within the television series continuity, but instead adapts situations presented on the series to occur within an alternative universe. The novel focuses on Dave Lister and his crewmates as they attempt to return to their home universe through the myriad of parallel universes that exist, becoming distracted by the"
"work on ""Last Week Tonight"", Oliver has won six Emmy Awards and two Peabody Awards and was included in the 2015 ""Time"" 100, being described as a 'comedic agent of change...powerful because he isn’t afraid to tackle important issues thoughtfully, without fear or apology.' Oliver was born on 23 April 1977 in Erdington, West Midlands, England, to Carole and Jim Oliver. His father worked as both a school headmaster and social worker, his mother was a music teacher. Both of his parents are originally from Liverpool, Merseyside. His uncle was the composer Stephen Oliver, and a paternal great-great-grandfather was William"
"Last Post (novel) Last Post is the fourth and final novel of Ford Madox Ford's highly regarded sequence of four novels, ""Parade's End"". It was published in January 1928 in the UK by Duckworth, and in the US under the title ""The Last Post"" by Albert and Charles Boni, and also the Literary Guild of America. ""Last Post"" is set during a few hours of a June day, in the years following the First World War. As the earlier volumes traced the approach of war and the war itself, both in the trenches and on the home front, so ""Last"
"is a novel on military interest in meteorology in the Second World War. His wife, Matilda, is the sister of Tristram Hunt, director of the Victoria and Albert Museum. Giles Foden Giles Foden (born 11 January 1967) is an English author, best known for his novel ""The Last King of Scotland"" (1998). Giles William Thomas Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967, the son of Jonathan, an agricultural adviser, and Mary, a farmer. On his grandfather's death, the family sold their farm and moved to Malawi in 1972. Foden was educated at Yarlet Hall and Malvern College boarding schools, then"
"Eoin McNamee Eoin McNamee (1961 in Kilkeel, County Down) is an Irish writer of novels and screenplays. He has written two novellas: ""The Last of Deeds"" (Dublin, Raven Arts Press, 1989), which was shortlisted for the 1989 Irish Times/Aer Lingus Award for Irish Literature, and ""Love in History"" (Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1992). His novels are ""Resurrection Man"" (London, Picador, 1994), which detailed the bloodletting of the Ulster Volunteer Force gang, the Shankill Butchers; Booker-nominated ""The Blue Tango"" (London, Faber & Faber, 2001), which examined the murder of Lancelot Curran's 19-year-old daughter; ""The Ultras"" (Faber & Faber, 2004), about the killing of"
"To the Ends of the Earth To the Ends of the Earth is the name given to a trilogy of nautical, relational novels—""Rites of Passage"" (1980), ""Close Quarters"" (1987), and ""Fire Down Below"" (1989)—by British author William Golding. Set on a former British man-of-war transporting migrants to Australia in the early 19th century, the novels explore themes of class (assumed status) and man's reversion to savagery when isolated, in this case, the closed society of the ship's passengers and crew. The first of the books, ""Rites of Passage,"" was awarded the Man Booker Prize in 1980. The trilogy as a"
"nearer London. They were offered The Garden House in Windsor Great Park by the Queen, where his wife continued to live until her own death in 2016, and where she wrote her 2011 memoir, ""The Final Curtsey"". Denys Rhodes Denys Gravenor Rhodes (9 July 1919 – 30 October 1981) was an English writer. He was best known for his novel ""The Syndicate"", which was adapted into a 1968 film. Rhodes was born in Ireland, the son of (Arthur) Tahu Gravenor Rhodes, MVO (d. 1947), a solicitor and Captain in the Grenadier Guards, by his wife, Hon. Helen Cecil Olive, eldest"
"1994) and visiting one of his favourite cities, Istanbul (1996). He died at age 86 in Guildford. Eric Newby George Eric Newby (6 December 1919 – 20 October 2006) was an English travel author. Newby's best known works include ""A Short Walk in the Hindu Kush"", ""The Last Grain Race"", and ""Round Ireland in Low Gear"". Newby was born at Barnes and grew up near Hammersmith Bridge, London. His father, George, was a partner in a firm of wholesale dressmakers, and his mother, (Minnie) Hilda (née Pomeroy) had been a dress model at Harrods. Newby was educated at St Paul's"
"The Extremes The Extremes is a 1998 science fiction novel by the English writer Christopher Priest. The novel received the BSFA Award. Teresa Simons is drawn to a quiet English seaside town in the aftermath of an apparently motiveless massacre by a gunman. Her husband, Andy Simons, who was an FBI agent like Teresa, had died in a similar outburst of violence in a small Texas town, on the exact ""same day"". Similarities between the two incidents of ""spree violence"" (a term often used in the novel), apparently taking place at random, are shocking and inexplicable. Teresa finds she can"
"""Robert Downey Jr. in Chaplin"" ""Emma Thompson in Howards End"" ""Gene Hackman in Unforgiven"" ""Miranda Richardson in Damage"" ""The Crying Game - Neil Jordan"" ""Husbands and Wives - Woody Allen"" ""The Player - Michael Tolkin"" ""The Last of the Mohicans"" - Dante Spinotti ""Strictly Ballroom"" - Catherine Martin ""JFK"" ""JFK"" - Joe Hutshing ""Death Becomes Her"" ""Strictly Ballroom"" - ""David Hirschfelder"" ""Daumier's Law"" ""Omnibus"" ""The Last of the Mohicans"" - Peter Robb-King ""Strictly Ballroom"" - Catherine Martin 46th British Academy Film Awards The 46th British Film Awards, given by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in 1993, honoured"
"Salman Rushdie Sir Ahmed Salman Rushdie (born 19 June 1947) is a British Indian novelist and essayist. His second novel, ""Midnight's Children"" (1981), won the Booker Prize in 1981 and was deemed to be ""the best novel of all winners"" on two separate occasions, marking the 25th and the 40th anniversary of the prize. Much of his fiction is set on the Indian subcontinent. He combines magical realism with historical fiction; his work is concerned with the many connections, disruptions, and migrations between Eastern and Western civilizations. His fourth novel, ""The Satanic Verses"" (1988), was the subject of a major"
"close general election in 1991 (the novel was published in 1984). Labour Party leader Raymond Gould becomes Prime Minister in the original British edition of the novel, which ends with King Charles III inviting Kerslake to Buckingham Palace and informing him that he intends to make Gould his first Prime Minister. However, in the U.S. edition, Gould is invited to Buckingham Palace. King Charles III then informs him that in fact, Kerslake is to become the Prime Minister. First Among Equals (novel) First Among Equals is a 1984 novel by British author Jeffrey Archer, which follows the careers and personal"
"Last Man Standing (novel) Last Man Standing is a thriller novel written by David Baldacci. The book was initially published on November 6, 2001 by Grand Central Publishing. The novel follows the protagonist, Web London, through a series of harrowing events. London is the only member of his elite FBI Hostage Rescue Team unit to survive after they are ambushed when executing a high risk raid against an apparent drug operation. Web London and the FBI's super-elite Hostage Rescue Team are sent down an alley for a surprise attack on a drug dealer's lair. As they move with stealth precision"
"a literary agent, in 1979. She died on 20 October 2008 of a brain tumour. Barnes wrote about his grief over his wife's death in an essay in his book, ""Levels of Life"". Julian Barnes Julian Patrick Barnes (born 19 January 1946) is an English writer. Barnes won the Man Booker Prize for his book ""The Sense of an Ending"" (2011), and three of his earlier books had been shortlisted for the Booker Prize: ""Flaubert's Parrot"" (1984), ""England, England"" (1998), and ""Arthur & George"" (2005). He has also written crime fiction under the pseudonym Dan Kavanagh. In addition to novels,"
"Patrick Ness Patrick Ness (born 17 October 1971) is a British-American author, journalist, lecturer and screenwriter. Born in the United States, Ness moved to London and holds dual citizenship. He is best known for his books for young adults, including the ""Chaos Walking"" trilogy and ""A Monster Calls"". Ness won the annual Carnegie Medal from the British librarians both in 2011 and in 2012, for ""Monsters of Men"" and ""A Monster Calls"", recognising each as the best new book for children or adults published in the UK. He is one of seven writers to win two Medals (no one has"
"began as early as 1928, though her most famous work, ""Wide Sargasso Sea"", was not published until 1966. South Africa's Alan Paton's famous ""Cry, the Beloved Country"" dates from 1948. Salman Rushdie is among a number of post Second World War writers from the former British colonies who permanently settled in Britain. Rushdie achieved fame with ""Midnight's Children"" 1981, which was awarded both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and Booker prize, and was named Booker of Bookers in 1993. His most controversial novel ""The Satanic Verses"" 1989, was inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. V. S. Naipaul"