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Half Broken Things
''Half Broken Things'' is a 2003 psychological thriller novel by Scottish writer Morag Joss. It won the CWA Silver Dagger in 2003. Plot The lives of three very lonely people—pregnant Steph, on the run from her violent boyfriend; Michael, a petty thief who becomes her knight in shining armour; and Jean, a sixty-year-old spinster nearing the end of her career as a house sitter—collide dramatically within the grounds of the illustrious Walden Manor, where together they seal themselves away from the outside world and build a new life together. The fantasy cannot last forever though, and events take a murderous turn when the first unexpected guest arrives. Reception ''Half Broken Things'' received starred reviews from ''Booklist'' and ''Publishers Weekly'', who said it is a " brilliantly conceived, finely executed novel". ''Kirkus Reviews'' called the novel "a grim, courageous work that crosses into dark, interior regions American readers rarely dare to tread". Film adaptat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Morag Joss
Morag Joss is a British writer. She became an author in 1996 after an early career in arts and museum management. Life and career Joss was born in England in 1955 and from the age of four, grew up in Ayrshire, Scotland. She is the author of eight novels, including the Sara Selkirk series, and '' Half Broken Things'', which won the Crime Writers' Association's (CWA) Silver Dagger. She began writing in 1996 after a short story of hers was runner-up in a national competition sponsored by ''Good Housekeeping'' magazine. A visit to the Roman Baths with crime writer P. D. James germinated the plot of her first novel, ''Funeral Music'' (1998), the first in the Sara Selkirk series. It was nominated for a Dilys Award for the year's best mystery published in the USA. Her later novels have moved increasingly towards literary fiction. In 2008 she was a Heinrich Böll writer-in-residence on Achill Island, County Mayo, Ireland. ''Half Broken Things'' was adapted as a television film in 20 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Daniel Mays
Daniel Mays (born 31 March 1978) is an English actor having had television roles in ''EastEnders'' (2000), ''Rehab'' (2005), '' Red Riding'' (2008), '' Ashes to Ashes'' (2010), '' Outcasts'' (2011), '' Mrs Biggs'', ''Line of Duty'', '' Des'' and '' White Lines'' (2020), and film roles in ''Pearl Harbor'' (2001), '' All or Nothing'' (2002), ''Vera Drake'' (2004), '' Shifty'', ''Made in Dagenham'', ''Byzantium'' (2012), and '' Rogue One: A Star Wars Story'' (2016). Mays has been nominated for best supporting actor at both the BIFAs (2008), and the BAFTAs (2017), as well as having extensive experience in theatre. In 2024, he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical for his performance in ''Guys and Dolls'' at the Bridge Theatre. Early life Born in Epping, Essex, the third of four boys, Mays was brought up in Buckhurst Hill, Essex, by his electrician father and bank cashier mother. He attended the Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts, before g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hodder & Stoughton Books
Hodder is an English surname, derived from the Old English word "hod", meaning hood. Therefore, the original bearer of the name was a seller or maker of hoods. People * Alfred Hodder (1866–1907), American author, attorney and academic * Bill Hodder (1865–1897), English footballer * Christopher Hodder-Williams (1926–1995), British writer * Clark Hodder (1903–1968), American athlete, coach and administrator * Courtney Hodder (born 2000), Australian rules footballer * Daria Hodder, Australian professional wrestler known as Zaria * Dick Hodder (1923–2006), British geographer and academic * Errol Hodder (born 1938), Australian trade unionist * Francis Hodder (1906–1943), Irish cricketer, rugby union player and Royal Air Force officer * Frank Heywood Hodder (1860–1935), American historian * Harvey Hodder (1943–2020), Canadian politician * Ian Hodder (born 1948), British archaeologist * Jessie Donaldson Hodder (1867–1931), American women's prison reformer * Jim Hodder ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
2003 British Novels
3 (three) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number following 2 and preceding 4, and is the smallest odd prime number and the only prime preceding a square number. It has religious and cultural significance in many societies. Evolution of the Arabic digit The use of three lines to denote the number 3 occurred in many writing systems, including some (like Roman and Chinese numerals) that are still in use. That was also the original representation of 3 in the Brahmic (Indian) numerical notation, its earliest forms aligned vertically. However, during the Gupta Empire the sign was modified by the addition of a curve on each line. The Nāgarī script rotated the lines clockwise, so they appeared horizontally, and ended each line with a short downward stroke on the right. In cursive script, the three strokes were eventually connected to form a glyph resembling a with an additional stroke at the bottom: ३. The Indian digits spread to the Caliphate in the 9th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Crime Novels
British may refer to: Peoples, culture, and language * British people, nationals or natives of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. * British national identity, the characteristics of British people and culture * British English, the English language as spoken and written in United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and, more broadly, throughout the British Isles * Celtic Britons, an ancient ethno-linguistic group * Brittonic languages, a branch of the Insular Celtic language family (formerly called British) ** Common Brittonic, an ancient language Other uses *People or things associated with: ** Great Britain, an island ** British Isles, an island group ** United Kingdom, a sovereign state ** British Empire, a historical global colonial empire ** Kingdom of Great Britain (1707–1800) ** United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (1801–1922) * British Raj, colonial India under the British Empire * British Hong Kong, colonial ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Teston
Teston The Place Names of Kent,Judith Glover,1976,Batsford. or BBC Pronouncing Dictionary of British Names — is a is a village and civil parish in the Maidstone (borough), Maidstone District of Kent, England. It is located on the A26 road out of Maidstone, four miles (6.4 km) from Maidstone town centre. There is a Teston Bridge, narrow stone bridge over the River Medway here. History Barham Court, a large country house, has now been converted into offices and apartments. It was once the home of Reginald Fitzurse, Randall Fitz Urse, one of the knights who murdered Thomas Becket in 1170. It passed to the de Berham family now called the Barhams, and then the Boteler (or Butler) family. They were English Civil War, Royalists, William Butler was imprisoned for supporting the Roger Twysden, Kentish Royalist Petition 1642, which indirectly led to the Battle of Maidstone in 1648. Sir Philip Boteler, baronet of Teston, died without issue in 1772, bequeathing Teston House ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Herne Bay
Herne Bay is a seaside town on the north coast of Kent in South East England. It is north of Canterbury and east of Whitstable. It neighbours the ancient villages of Herne, Kent, Herne and Reculver and is part of the City of Canterbury local government district, although it remains a separate town with countryside between it and Canterbury. Herne Bay's seafront is home to the world's first freestanding purpose-built Clock Tower, Herne Bay, Clock Tower, built in 1837. From the late Victorian period until 1978, the town had the second-longest Herne Bay Pier, pier in the United Kingdom.Herne Bay Pier at www.theheritagetrail.co.uk (accessed 7 July 2008) The town began as a small shipping community, receiving goods and passengers from London en route to Canterbury and Dover. The town rose to prominence as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Boughton Monchelsea Place
Boughton Monchelsea Place, previously Boughton Court, is a 16th-century country house in Boughton Monchelsea, Kent, England. The first part of the house was built by Robert Rudston circa 1567–75 on the site of an earlier manor house. It has been modified a number of times during its history achieving its present form in 1819. It has been a home to a number of members of parliament for Maidstone or for Kent, including Sir Francis Barnham (owner 1613–46), Sir Robert Barnham (1646–85) Sir Barnham Rider (1698–1728) and Thomas Rider (1805–47). The house sits on a south facing slope giving views across the extensive deer park and the Weald beyond. Kitchen gardens to the north of the house remain as remnants of 16th-century formal garden planting. The house is a Grade I listed building and its barn is listed Grade II. The parks and gardens are listed Grade II. History Prior to the sixteenth century, the manor of Boughton Monchelsea passed by marriage ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kent
Kent is a Ceremonial counties of England, ceremonial county in South East England. It is bordered by Essex across the Thames Estuary to the north, the Strait of Dover to the south-east, East Sussex to the south-west, Surrey to the west, and Greater London to the north-west. The county town is Maidstone. The county has an area of and had population of 1,875,893 in 2022, making it the Ceremonial counties of England#Lieutenancy areas since 1997, fifth most populous county in England. The north of the county contains a conurbation which includes the towns of Chatham, Kent, Chatham, Gillingham, Kent, Gillingham, and Rochester, Kent, Rochester. Other large towns are Maidstone and Ashford, Kent, Ashford, and the City of Canterbury, borough of Canterbury holds City status in the United Kingdom, city status. For local government purposes Kent consists of a non-metropolitan county, with twelve districts, and the unitary authority area of Medway. The county historically included south-ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
ITV (TV Network)
ITV, legally known as Channel 3, is a British free-to-air public service broadcasting in the United Kingdom, public broadcast television network. It is branded as ITV1 in most of the UK except for central and northern Scotland, where it is branded as STV (TV channel), STV. It was launched in 1955 as Independent Television to provide competition to BBC Television (established in 1936). ITV is the oldest commercial network in the UK. Since the passing of the Broadcasting Act 1990, it has been Legal name, legally known as Channel 3 to distinguish it from the other analogue channels at the time: BBC1, BBC2 and Channel 4. ITV was, for decades, a network of separate companies that provided regional television services and also shared programmes among themselves to be shown on the entire network. Each franchise was originally owned by a different company. After several mergers, the fifteen regional franchises are now held by two companies: ITV plc, which runs ITV1, the ITV1 cha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Festival Film & TV
Festival Film & TV is an independent UK based production company founded in 1992 by award-winning producer Ray Marshall. The company is best known for producing ''The Cookson Dramas'' for ITV. Between 1992 and 2000, Festival produced 15 mini-series, based on books by bestselling novelist Catherine Cookson. ''The Cookson Dramas'' became one of ITV's major brands, regularly bringing in audiences over 12 million and attracting the cream of Britain's acting talent, including Catherine Zeta-Jones, Sean Bean, Robson Green, Ray Stevenson, Emilia Fox, Nigel Havers, Samantha Bond, Denholm Elliott, Emily Mortimer, and Bob Peck. FESTIVAL FILMS, Festival's feature film arm is involved in the development and production of feature films. Credits Half Broken Things - TV Movie (2007) Man Dancin' (2004) A Dinner Of Herbs - TV mini-series, 6 episodes (2000) The Secret - TV movie (2000) Tilly Trotter - TV series (1999) Colour Blind - TV mini-series, 2 episodes (1998) The Round Tower - TV mo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tim Fywell
Tim Fywell is an English television and film director. In 2003 he made his first feature debut with ''I Capture the Castle'', an adaptation of the novel of the same title by Dodie Smith. Fywell directed his first Hollywood feature, ''Ice Princess'' starring Michelle Trachtenberg, in 2005. Fywell started his career in British television, directing episodes of ''Brookside''. Selected filmography *''Brookside'' (TV Series, unknown episodes) *'' Bergerac'' (TV Series, one episode: "All the Sad Songs", 1990) *''Gallowglass'' (TV, 1993) *''Cracker'' (TV series, episodes: 1994–95; serials: "To Be A Somebody" and "True Romance") *''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' (TV, 1996) *'' The Woman in White'' (TV, 1997) *''Madame Bovary'' (TV, 2000) *''I Capture the Castle'' (2003) *''Cambridge Spies'' (TV, 2003) * '' Hear the Silence'' (TV, 2003) *''Ice Princess'' (2005) *'' Half Broken Things'' (TV, 2007) *'' Waking the Dead'' (TV, 8 episodes, 2007–2011) *''Affinity'' (TV, 2008) *'' The No. 1 Ladies' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
