Kevin Whately
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
Home from a two-year assignment in the British Virgin Islands, Inspector Robert Lewis, protégé of the legendary Inspector Morse, returns to Oxford, England in the series pilot, where he is teamed with a brilliant new partner, Detective Sergeant James Hathaway. Lewis barely makes it out of the airport before falling into his first murder investigation. But even if he solves the case, will his new boss still move him from the front lines to a training...
Author
Description
Braine's first and most successful novel of working-class 'angst' and the struggle of 'angry young man' Joe Lampton to climb the social ladder by whatever means possible.
The story of an ambitious young man, Joe Lampton, of humble origin, and the socio-economic struggles undergone in realising his social ambitions in post-war Britain. He is determined to make something of himself, targeting a high-paid job. He notices a young man with an expensive...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
At the end of World War II, a mysterious, horribly burned man who claims not to remember his name, known only as the "English patient," lies near death in an Italian villa. He is cared for by a quietly desperate young nurse, Hana, herself a victim of the war. With her at the villa are Kip, a young Sikh bomb-disposal expert, and a shadowy thief with bandaged hands named Caravaggio. The key to the burned man's past may lie in his commonplace book, a...