David Threlfall
5) Nowhere boy
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Language
English
Description
Set in Liverpool in 1955, chronicles the adolescent years of John Lennon being raised by his straight-laced Aunt Mimi when his free-spirited mother re-enters his life, opening up old wounds and encouraging his love for writing and music.
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
George Smiley goes to the aid of his former colleague, Ailsa Brimley after she receives a letter from a woman predicting her own murder and naming her husband as the killer. After the woman is found dead, they uncover secret societies, sexual abuse, and a mysterious boy.
9) King Lear
Publisher
Kultur
Pub. Date
[199-?]
Language
English
Description
Play about a foolish king who divides his realm between two ungrateful daughters.
10) Conspiracy
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001.
Language
English
Description
On January 20, 1942, 15 German officials attended a conference at Wannsee on the outskirts of Berlin. The meeting comprised of mid-ranking SS commanders and a variety of government ministers. The meeting was organized by SS Major Adolf Eichmann under the direction of Chief of Security Reinhard Heydrich. It was a polite conference, but under this thin veneer of manners lay an evil intent. By the end of the meeting, the fate of six million lives would...
12) Funny woman
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Description
It's the height of the swinging 60s and Barbara Parker has just been crowned Miss Blackpool but there's got to be more to life than being a beauty queen in a seaside town, right? She wants to be someone. The bright lights of London are calling, and our determined hero sets off to find out who that someone is. The London she encounters is not as quite as swinging as the one she'd read about and seen on TV. However, after a series of setbacks, Barbara...
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Three years have passed since the Leman Street locomotive disaster, when DI Edmund Reid is forced to return to Whitechapel to help clear his former associate's name. Once again Reid finds himself, along with DS Drake, plunged into a criminal underworld that threatens to overtake London's East End on the eve of Queen Victoria's diamond jubilee celebration.
15) The last dance
Author
Series
Detective Miller novel volume 1
Publisher
Atlantic Monthly Press
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Maverick sleuth Declan Miller is back at work following the murder of his wife (and amateur ballroom dancing partner), Alex. Working with new partner and heavy metal enthusiast DS Sara Xiu, he is tasked with investigating the double killing of gangland family scion Adrian Cutler and IT consultant Barry Shepherd at the Sands Hotel. Initial evidence suggests a hired gun and a botched job. The search for the hitman begins and Miller begins to reconnect...
16) Othello
Author
Publisher
Blackstone Publishing
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
This great tragedy confronts the mystery at the heart of evil and contains some of Shakespeare's most magnificent dramatic verse.
Othello, a Moorish general in the service of Venice, has married Desdemona, beautiful daughter of a Venetian senator. But Iago, Othello's malignant ensign, is determined to destroy their happiness. Cunningly bending Othello to his own purposes, Iago persuades the Moor that Desdemona is unfaithful to him. Tormented
...