Results for: books tagged ‘Scandal’
Arcadia: Tom Stoppard
In a large country house in Derbyshire in April 1809 sits Lady Thomasina Coverly, aged thirteen, and her tutor, Septimus Hodge. Through the window may be seen some of the ... More
Frank Capra: The Catastrophe of Success: Joseph McBride
Frank Capra directed some of the most enduring films in the history of the cinema: It Happened One Night, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town and It's a Wonderful Life, to ... More
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A Doll's House: Henrik Ibsen and Frank McGuinness
The Helmers are all set to enjoy Christmas. Torvald has been promoted and Nora is delighted. Everything at last seems to be going right, until a visitor arrives uninvited and ... More
Peeping Tom: Leo Marks
Peeping Tom tells the story of a film cameraman who kills prostitutes by impaling them with the sharp point of his camera. The pleasure he gets from the murders comes ... More
The F Word: Jesse Sheidlower
Here in one convenient, comprehensive volume is the complete history of the word still considered the most vulgar and offensive utterance in the English language. Rather than tired cliches or ... More
Burning Issues: Ron Hutchinson
Mallowan is a living legend: a moral and literary giant. The anticipated publication of his journals promises to be one of the major events of the year. However, the journals ... More
Diana Mosley: Jan Dalley
Diana Mosley (née Mitford) had brains, beauty and charm, wealth and social position: she risked everything to follow the dark new creed of fascism when, at twenty-two, she fell in ... More
Wainewright the Poisoner: Andrew Motion
A dazzling and boldly original biography by Andrew Motion, Poet Laureate and the celebrated biographer of Larkin and Keats.Thomas Griffiths Wainewright was an ingenious and unscrupulous criminal.In 1828 he inherited ... More
N.P.: Banana Yoshimoto
N.P. is the title of a last collection of short stories by a celebrated Japanese writer. Written in English while he was living in Boston, the book may never see ... More
The Mother: Hanif Kureishi
‘Kureishi’s screenplay is one of his most focused and engaging since My Beautiful Laundrette.’ Allan Hunter, Screen InternationalAt sixty-five years of age, May fears that life has passed her by ... More
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