![]() ![]() A revival of his critically acclaimed work ‘The Potsdam Quartet’ is on at Jermyn Street Theatre this month, so what better occasion to ask him some questions about the play, his career, and what it’s like to be responsible for the birth of a cult classic…ĬM: What inspired you to write The Potsdam Quartet? Where did the idea come from?ĭP: My father-in-law, Sidney Griller, was the leader of the famous Griller String Quartet, and he told me that he and his quartet played at the Potsdam Conference as part the RAF orchestra. ![]() He’s become known for a great deal more than just that, of course, during his career as an actor, playwright and novelist. ![]() If you don’t recognise the name David Pinner (though many of you will), then you will definitely recognise his most famous output, because he’s the writer of the novel ‘The Ritual’, the book on which the film ‘The Wicker Man’ is based. Caro Meets Theatre Interview David Pinner: The Potsdam Quartet By TW Editorial | Published on Saturday 9 November 2013 ![]()
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![]() The Cocky Bastard Series is a series of standalone novels that I have owned for longer than I would like to admit. The Cocky Bastard Series by Penelope Ward and Vi Keeland So without further ado, the third series in my Summer of Series…. I started this summer wanting a forbidden romance, then found myself in the middle of a paranormal romance that I became fully obsessed with, and now I’ve just finished a series that’s a bit on the cocky side and all kinds of incredible. ![]() But have I had the chance to read some amazing stories this summer that have owned my heart something fierce? YES!Īnd it truly doesn’t get better than that. So am I going to even read a quarter of the series I set off to read? Probably not. It really doesn’t get much better than that. And that, well that is just kind of the best. And here we are just 2 weeks before Labor Day and I’ve read 3 series…but you know what, I am 100% okay with it.īecause this summer I have read 3 new and utterly amazing series by 4 authors I had never read before. I mean I think I picked 20 different series that I was hoping to somehow read between Memorial Day and Labor Day. ![]() ![]() Let me tell y’all, when I first started this blog post series I knew I had lofty goals. ![]() ![]() ![]() They don’t fight fair…and neither will Desmon. Even battle neighboring wolves using anything at their disposal to start a war. However, instead of a medical career she finds herself drafted. The story sees Olivia Waterhouse as she has just graduated from nursing school and has her whole life ahead of her. He’ll do whatever it takes to claim and protect his human mate. Laurann Dohner Ruby Dixon Christine Feehan Claimed is the first book in the Brides of the Kindred book series. ![]() No amount of pack politics, family strife, or alpha obligations will make him let her go a second time. Now pack alpha, he’s no longer an untried teen, but still wholly unprepared for Amber’s return to Hollow Mountain. But Amber’s older, wiser, and unwilling to be burned yet again.ĭesmon Nightwind was an angry youth the night his world exploded and he lost his mate. One hot look and the pain returns…overshadowed only by the desire. ![]() It takes one day before she finds herself in trouble with the local werewolves-and being rescued by her childhood crush. With a bitter divorce under her belt, she returns home to support her sisters and dying mother. ![]() Shattered (Nightwind Pack #2) by Kele Moon, Laurann Dohner – Free eBooks Downloadīetrayed by the love of her life at sixteen, causing her to flee her home, Amber Daniels’ taste in men hasn’t improved over time. ![]() ![]() But Lady Mara must contend with battles on two fronts: in the hotbed of intrigue and treachery that is the court of Tsurani and in her heart, where her affection for a barbarian slave from the enemy world of Midkemia leads her to question the principles by which she lives. ![]() Through bloody political manoeuvring she has become a powerful force within the Empire but surrounded by deadly rivals, Mara has to be the best simply to stay alive. Nobody knows how to play the Game of the Council better than Mara of the Acoma. īook two in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by bestselling authors Raymond E. But Lady Mara must contend with battles on two fronts: in the hotbed of intrigue and treachery that is the court of Tsurani and in her heart, where her affection. ![]() ![]() Book two in the magnificent Empire Trilogy by bestselling authors Raymond E. ![]() ![]() ![]() His escapades continue when he returns to Paris and reunites with Mercedes, his first love. As Sinbad, he marries Haydee, previously a slave in Dumas’ book, and declares himself the Sultan of Albania. ![]() Not only does he quickly decide to accept all his identities, he decides to create new ones. He can’t determine whether he must let go of his previous lives as Edmond and the Count in order to move forward. The Holy Ghost Writer (That Girl Started Her Own Country, 2012) begins this sequel with Dantes (first introduced in the series as Sinbad the Sailor), who’s struggling with an identity crisis. Each of these is the same man, originally known as Edmond Dantes from Alexander Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo. Edmond Dantes, and his many identities, traverses the world in this whirlwind of a sequel.Įdmond Dantes, the Count of Monte Cristo, Sultan of Monte Cristo, Sinbad the Sailor, Sultan of Albania. ![]() ![]() ![]() Before you seriously start questioning your presence in the eyes of a woman, you should try to incorporate the stealth attraction methods into your dating game. If you are one of those men who just hit failure three nights in a row, the stealth attraction program is tailored for you. But impressing random women every other day might make you go through the playbook from cover to cover, and it may still not work out. ![]() There is a particular crowd of men who simply want to ‘get some’ without being involved in a serious relationship. ![]() But here are 7 techniques of stealth attraction that will guarantee success without you needing to do much show-and-tell. A strong pickup line, or the usual “Can I have your number?” Standing out amidst this mad scramble of gents is a tough task. Most men, when picking up a date, go for obvious methods of approach. ![]() ![]() ![]() When it was first published in 1764, The Castle of Otranto claimed to be a translation of an Italian manuscript from 1529 that was telling a story originally written hundreds of years before that. What did he think he was doing? One thing he was surely trying to do was to perpetrate a good hoax. That idea-which goes against the grain of the assumption that the modern novel is all about realism-runs through books like Anne Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Stephanie Meyer’s Twilight series and thousands more works of fiction, be they written as stories or novels, or filmed for cinema or television.īut of course Horace Walpole did not know that all of these works would follow from The Castle of Otranto he was not setting out to found what would become the first fully-fledged sub-genre of the English novel. Like the Gothic novels, plays, stories, and films that followed it, The Castle of Otranto teases us by suggesting that the rules of the everyday world do not always apply, that sometimes only a supernatural explanation can account for everything we see. ![]() ![]() Which is fair enough, so far as it goes Walpole’s novel did establish many key features of this genre, which has been popular with readers ever since The Castle of Otranto was first published on Christmas Eve, 1764. The Castle of Otranto is often referred to as the first Gothic novel. ![]() ![]() ![]() Not all of these mothers and daughters in the Bible were paragons of virtue. ![]() Through these stories, Shannon explains the intimate connection between faith and family-and how God’s unexpected agenda can redefine the way we think about family. And a daughter, Michal, struggled to keep her faithless father, Saul, from sin, while battling pride in herself. Another biblical mother, Rebekah, made terrible choices in an attempt to ensure her son’s place in history. Could Jochebed have imagined that God’s actual design for her son involved flight into exile and danger? And yet this was all part of the master plan to deliver Israel from slavery. She tells the story of Jochebed, a mother who took enormous risks to protect her son, Moses, from Pharaoh. ![]() But what does it actually look like to live it out? In The Mothers and Daughters of the Bible Speak, Shannon Bream examines the lives of biblical women to see how God’s plans can turn our worlds upside down. “Have faith” is a phrase we hear all the time. God always keeps His promises, but not always in the way we expect…. ![]() ![]() ![]() This omnibus chapter will explore each form of media in turn and address its central structures and themes, highlighting the key features of SF film, radio, and television. ![]() ![]() The durational canvas of film is different from the serial and series format of television, which is itself different from the radio play. That said, media specificity does have a central role to play in the way these stories are told and the future is enacted. It is not then simply a question of what film, television, and radio SF looks and sounds like, but the way it materializes in its world-building imaginings - the future, and how it critically grapples with the technological transformations of its era. While audio-visual SF is undoubtedly difficult to pin down in terms of what it may look and sound like, there is, nonetheless, a consistency in the themes it addresses, the kinds of stories it tells, and in the way its future predictions and possibilities connect it to the hopes and fears of the present. Vivian Sobchack suggests that there is a "plastic inconstancy in the types of iconography found in SF film and television, which Barry Keith Grant suggests is a necessary result of the genre’s extrapolative function, to project today’s technology into tomorrow. Audio-visual SF is particularly hard to define its codes, conventions, and repetitions are more fluid than (say) the e pansive geography of the Western film, or the sharp stabs of Gothic horror sounding their way out of the radio. ![]() ![]() Recently there has been considerable interest in Nelson's views on the slave trade and the plantation economy of the West Indies. He was used as a ‘powder monkey’, hauling gunpowder to the gun decks during battle. ![]() He served in the Seven Years WarĮquiano spent most of his teenage life onboard Naval ships engaged in the Seven Years War. ![]() It was nonetheless a name he would use for the rest of his life, apart from when writing his autobiography. Pascal renamed him ‘Gustavus Vassa’Įquiano was renamed Gustavus Vassa (after the 16th century Swedish King) by Pascal, against his will. Having been initially taken to Barbados, Equiano was eventually transported to the North American colony of Virginia, where he was bought by a Royal Navy lieutenant named Michael Henry Pascal. He embarked upon a long journey toward the Gold Coast, where he was eventually sold to an owner of a slave ship bound for the West Indies. ![]() Equiano was sold into slavery at the age of eleven, having been kidnapped from his local village along with his sister by local, African slave traders. ![]() |