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Ambrose Parry
Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noir author. His debut novel was '' Quite Ugly One Morning''; subsequent works have included '' All Fun and Games Until Somebody Loses an Eye'' (2005), ''Black Widow'' (2016) and ''Bedlam'' (2013), which was written in parallel with the development of a first-person shooter videogame, also called ''Bedlam''. He also writes historical fiction with his wife, Dr Marisa Haetzman, under the pseudonym Ambrose Parry. Biography Brookmyre was born in Glasgow and raised and schooled in Barrhead, attending St. Mark's Primary School and St Luke's High School, before attending the University of Glasgow. Brookmyre is married to Dr. Marisa Haetzman, an anaesthetist, with whom he has a son, and supports St Mirren F.C., references to Scottish football ('f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Glasgow
Glasgow is the Cities of Scotland, most populous city in Scotland, located on the banks of the River Clyde in Strathclyde, west central Scotland. It is the List of cities in the United Kingdom, third-most-populous city in the United Kingdom and the 27th-most-populous city in Europe, and comprises Wards of Glasgow, 23 wards which represent the areas of the city within Glasgow City Council. Glasgow is a leading city in Scotland for finance, shopping, industry, culture and fashion, and was commonly referred to as the "second city of the British Empire" for much of the Victorian era, Victorian and Edwardian eras. In , it had an estimated population as a defined locality of . More than 1,000,000 people live in the Greater Glasgow contiguous urban area, while the wider Glasgow City Region is home to more than 1,800,000 people (its defined functional urban area total was almost the same in 2020), around a third of Scotland's population. The city has a population density of 3,562 p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stuart Neville
Stuart Neville (born 1972) is a Northern Irish author best known for his novel ''The Twelve'' or, as it is known in the United States, ''The Ghosts of Belfast''. He was born and grew up in Armagh, Northern Ireland. Works ''The Twelve'' was placed on the ''Best of 2009'' lists by both ''The New York Times'' and ''Los Angeles Times''. The book has been given full reviews in a number of publications in the United States, Ireland and the United Kingdom, appearing in ''The New York Times'', ''The Irish Times'', ''Los Angeles Times'', ''Publishers Weekly'' and ''The Guardian'', among others. ''Collusion'', the sequel to ''The Twelve'', was published in the United Kingdom by Harvill Secker in August 2010, and in the US by Soho Press in October 2010. The book was reviewed in ''New York Journal of Books''. ''Ratlines'' was published in January 2013 in the US by Soho Crime. It was reviewed in ''New York Journal of Books''. Critic Stuart Neville has written review essays and book revie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
When The Devil Drives (novel)
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''When the Devil Drives'' may refer to: * ''When the Devil Drives'', serialised version of '' Shoal Water'', 1940 novel by Dornford Yates * ''When the Devil Drives'' (film), 1922 American silent film * ''When the Devil Drives'', 2023 album by Econoline Crush Econoline Crush is a Canadian rock band from Vancouver, British Columbia, formed in 1992. They have released five studio albums and three studio EPs, and are best known for their charting singles such as " You Don't Know What It's Like", "Home", ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Where The Bodies Are Buried
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Where may refer to: * Where?, one of the Five Ws in journalism * where (command), a shell command * Where.com, a provider of location-based applications via mobile phones * ''Where'' (magazine), a series of magazines for tourists * "Where?", a song by Nickelback from the album ''Curb'', 1996 * ''Where'', a 2022 documentary film directed by Tsai Ming-liang See also *Ware (other) *Wear (other) *Were (other) ''Were'' is an archaic term for an adult male human, now used as a prefix to indicate a type of shapeshifter. Were may also refer to: * ''were'', a preterite and irrealis form of the English copular verb copula (linguistics)#English, ''to be'' * W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Daily Telegraph
''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a British daily broadsheet conservative newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed in the United Kingdom and internationally. It was founded by Arthur B. Sleigh in 1855 as ''The Daily Telegraph and Courier''. ''The Telegraph'' is considered a newspaper of record in the UK. The paper's motto, "Was, is, and will be", was included in its emblem which was used for over a century starting in 1858. In 2013, ''The Daily Telegraph'' and ''The Sunday Telegraph'', which started in 1961, were merged, although the latter retains its own editor. It is politically conservative and supports the Conservative Party (UK), Conservative Party. It was moderately Liberalism, liberal politically before the late 1870s.Dictionary of Nineteenth Century Journalismp 159 ''The Telegraph'' has had a number of news scoops, including the outbreak of World War II by rookie reporter Clare Hollingworth, desc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Snowball In Hell
''A Snowball in Hell'' (2008) completes Christopher Brookmyre's suspense trilogy featuring DI Angelique de Xavia. She and her antagonist, Simon Darcourt, were introduced in '' A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away'' (2001), while she was the central character in '' The Sacred Art of Stealing'' (2002), where she met the third main character of ''Snowball,'' the magician Zal Innez. Brookmyre himself sees ''Snowball'' as a sequel to two separate books. Plot summary The story is set five years after the two previous novels in the group. Angelique de Xavia is now working for an anti-terrorist squad based in Paris. Then she is needed in London, where Simon Darcourt—who was supposed to have died in their confrontation at the end of "A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away"—is back on the scene, with a new specialization: broadcasting videos of the torture (and, sometimes, deaths) of celebrities he has kidnapped. Meanwhile, Zal Innez, who is in danger from Scottish gangsters, American gangsters, and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sacred Art Of Stealing
''The Sacred Art of Stealing'' is a satirical crime novel by the Scottish writer Christopher Brookmyre. It is the author's seventh book and is a stand-alone sequel to '' A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away''. The book is a tale of the unusual romance between likable thief, half Scottish half Mexican, Zal Innez and D.I. Angelique de Xavia, the police officer whose job it is to catch him. Martial arts expert de Xavia is recovering from her recent experiences as told in ''A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away''. The book uses a blend of black humour, strong language, violence and references to literary and artistic works such as ''Waiting for Godot'' by Samuel Beckett. Plot summary The plot of ''The Sacred Art of Stealing'' tells the story of American Zal Innez, a witty and intellectual art-loving thief, who is being blackmailed by crime boss Alessandro Estabol to do one last major job for him. As a warm up to their main heist, Zal and his team of fellow failed artists rob a Glasgow bank of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Big Boy Did It And Ran Away
''A Big Boy Did It and Ran Away'' (2001) is Christopher Brookmyre's sixth novel, the first book in a suspense trilogy featuring policewoman Angelique de Xavia. She is the central character in ''The Sacred Art of Stealing'' (2002) and the main protagonist in ''A Snowball in Hell'' (2008). Her antagonist in this novel, Simon Darcourt, reappears in ''A Snowball in Hell,'' where their relationship is resolved. ''A Big Boy'' touches on a number of Brookmyre's interests, including gaming, rock and roll (especially Glaswegian), and childhood. Plot summary Anti-terrorist forces are put on alert when it is learned that the notorious international terrorist the Black Spirit plans to attack on an unknown British target on Saturday, September 6. The Black Spirit is an ingenious terrorist-for-hire known for his clever, often indirect means of achieving destruction; the terrorist organizations that hire him then claim the hit. He himself, however, claims his kills by leaving a literal "calling c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dead Girl Walking
''Dead Girl Walking'' is the nineteenth novel written by Christopher Brookmyre Christopher Brookmyre (born 6 September 1968) is a Scottish novelist whose novels, generally in a crime or police procedural frame, mix comedy, politics, social comment and action with a strong narrative. He has been referred to as a Tartan Noi ..., and the sixth featuring journalist Jack Parlabane, the writer's most used character. The novel was released in the United Kingdom on 22 January 2015. Plot Jack Parlabane is asked to locate Heike Gunn, the lead singer of the band Savage Earth Heart. Parlabane searches for Gunn throughout Europe's capitals and remote regions of the Scottish islands. ''Dead Girl Walking''. References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Attack Of The Unsinkable Rubber Ducks
Attack may refer to: Warfare and combat * Attack (fencing) * Charge (warfare) * Offensive (military) * Strike (attack) Books and publishing * ''The Attack'' (novel), a book * '' Attack No. 1'', comic and animation * Attack! Books, a publisher * ''Attack!'' (publication), a tabloid publication of the National Alliance from 1969 to 1978 * ''Der Angriff'', a.k.a. ''The Attack'', a newspaper franchise * In newspaper headlines, to save space, sometimes " criticise" Films and television * '' Attack! The Battle of New Britain'', a 1944 American armed forces documentary film * ''Attack'' (1956 film), also known as ''Attack!'', a 1956 American war film * ''Attack'' (2016 film), a 2016 Telugu film * ''Attack'' (2022 film), a 2022 Hindi film * ''The Attack'' (1966 film), an Australian television play * ''The Attack'' (2012 film), a 2012 film directed by Ziad Doueiri * "The Attack" (''Australian Playhouse'') * "The Attack", a season 7 episode of ''Lego Ninjago: Masters of Spinj ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Be My Enemy (novel)
''Planesrunner'' is a 2011 young adult science fiction novel by British author Ian McDonald, and the first installment of the ''Everness'' series. The book follows British teenager Everett Singh as he travels between alternate universes in search of his missing theoretical physicist father. Plot British teenager Everett Singh witnesses the kidnapping of his father, theoretical physicist Dr. Tejendra Singh, and begins to suspect a conspiracy when he receives from his father an automated software download called the Infundibulum. Tejendra's colleague, the offbeat research fellow Colette Harte, gives Everett video evidence that Tejendra's theoretical research into the existence of multiple universes is no longer theoretical. Using Heisenberg Gate technology, Tejendra and his team have discovered and contacted nine alternate universes so far. An alliance called the Plenitude of Known Worlds is already in place among the government leaders from these parallel universes—termed plane ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
