William Boyd
Author
Language
English
Description
A masterful, riveting espionage novel about a mother whose secret life as a WWII spy is at last revealed to her daughter. Full of tension and drama, emotion and history, this is storytelling at its finest by one of the great literary writers of his generation.
Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sundance Channel and the BBC starring Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell....
Now a major TV movie adaptation by The Sundance Channel and the BBC starring Michelle Dockery, Michael Gambon, Charlotte Rampling, Hayley Atwell and Rufus Sewell....
2) Sweet Caress
Author
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Formats
Description
Born into Edwardian England, Amory's first memory is of her father standing on his head. She has memories of him returning on leave during the First World War. But his absences, both actual and emotional, are what she chiefly remembers. It is her photographer uncle Greville who supplies the emotional bond she needs, who, when he gives her a camera and some rudimentary lessons in photography, unleashes a passion that will irrevocably shape her future.A...
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
In the small African republic of Kinjanja, British diplomat Morgan Leafy bumbles heavily through his job. His love of women, his fondness for drink, and his loathing for the country prove formidable obstacles on his road to any kind of success. But when he becomes an operative in Operation Kingpin and is charged with monitoring the front runner in Kinjanja’s national elections, Morgan senses an opportunity to achieve real professional recognition...
Author
Publisher
HarperCollins
Language
English
Formats
Description
Adam Kindred is in London for a job interview and looking at a bright future. Then he has a chance meeting in a restaurant that results in a series of actions that cost him his family, his money, his very identity. Utterly alone, Adam joins London's underground society of dispossessed and tries to figure out what happened to his life
Author
Series
James Bond series volume 42
Publisher
HarperCollins
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
James Bond--British special agent 007--is summoned to headquarters to receive an unusual assignment. Zanzarim, a troubled West African nation, is being ravaged by a bitter civil war, and M directs Bond to quash the rebels threatening the established regime
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
"From the award-winning, best-selling author comes a rollicking novel with a dark undertow, set around three unforgettable individuals and a doomed movie set. A producer. A novelist. An actress. It's summer 1968--a time of war and assassinations, protests and riots. While the world is reeling, our trio is involved in making a disaster-plagued, Swingin' Sixties British movie in sunny Brighton. All are leading secret lives. As the movie shoot zigs and...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
The Book of Disquiet is the Portuguese modernist master Fernando Pessoa's greatest literary achievement. An "autobiography" or "diary" containing exquisite melancholy observations, aphorisms, and ruminations, this classic work grapples with all the eternal questions. Now, for the first time the texts are presented chronologically, in a complete English edition by master translator Margaret Jull Costa. Most of the texts in The Book of Disquiet are...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"Brodie Moncur is a brilliant piano tuner, as brilliant in his own way as John Kilbarron--"The Irish Liszt"--the pianist Brodie accompanies on all of his tours from Paris to Saint Petersburg, as essential to Kilbarron as the pianist's own hands. It is a luxurious life, and a level of success Brodie could hardly have dreamed of growing up in a remote Scottish village, in a household ruled by a tyrannical father. But Brodie would gladly give it all...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
"When Amory Clay was born, in the decade before the Great War, her disappointed father gave her an androgynous name and announced the birth of a son. But this daughter was not one to let others define her; Amory became a woman who accepted no limits to what that could mean, and, from the time she picked up her first camera, one who would record her own version of events. Moving freely between London and New York, between photojournalism and fashion...
13) Scoop
Publisher
Distributed by Granada International
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
Mistaken for a foreign correspondent, a mild-mannered wildlife writer is sent to a fictional African country on the eve of a war. He flounders through a sea of wild rumors and sleazy journalists desperate for a story.
Publisher
U.S. Television Office
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Pride of the West (1938) -- Hoppy and his sidekick Windy leave their cattle herd to track down the men who robbed a stagecoach. After investigating, Hoppy discovers that all the ranches in the area, with the exception of six, are owned by the Nixon Realty Co., and that NIxon holds mortgages on the remaining six. The local banker was going to pay off the mortgages with money coming in on the stagecoach. Hoppy believes that NIxon is tied in with the...
Publisher
U.S. Television Office
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Range War (1939) -- Railroad builder Jim Marlow wants to build a spur into Tonto Valley so when the ranchers want to load their cattle, they won't have to pay a heavy toll to cross the land of Buck Collins. But bandits stealing the railroad payroll scare off the bank from making any more loans to Marlow. Unable to meet his payroll, Marlow asks Hoppy to help solve the mystery of the payroll robbery. (65 Min - B&W) -- Silver on the Sage (1939) -- Lucky...
Publisher
U.S. Television Office
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Bar 20 Justice (1938) -- Hoppy investigates the shaft of a mine owned by his friend Dennis shortly after he learns of his death. What he finds is a secret passageway leading to the neighboring mine and Hoppy catches the neighbors in the act of stealing. But when he is about to bust them, he gets captured an is left to die in a burning building. (70 Min - B&W) -- The Frontiersman (1938) -- When the local schoolmistress quits due to the unruly behavior...
Publisher
U.S. Television Office
Pub. Date
©2006
Language
English
Description
Sunset Trail (1939) -- A crooked saloonkeeper, Monte Keller, pays a rancher $30,000 for his cattle, then has him killed to steal back the money. The rancher's widow decides to stay on by running a dude ranch to attract Easterners wanting to get a taste of the West. One of her first guests is one William H. Cassidy (Boyd in disguise as a milquetost from the East) and E. Prescott Furbush (the mock Mulford character). The interchange of comedy, with...
19) Any human heart
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Every life is ordinary and extraordinary. Logan Mountstuart's is a rich tapestry of both. Experience Logan at different points in his life in this provocative glimpse at one man's quest for glory and bliss. Any Human Heart is the story of a full life, lived with passion; expansive, rich, unsentimental, comic, and profoundly moving