Rory Kinnear
Author
Series
Hawthorne ; 1
Language
English
Description
"One bright spring morning in London, Diana Cowper the wealthy mother of a famous actor - enters a funeral parlor. She is there to plan her own service. Six hours later she is found dead, strangled with a curtain cord in her own home. Enter disgraced police detective Daniel Hawthorne, a brilliant, eccentric investigator whos as quick with an insult as he is to crack a case. Hawthorne needs a ghost writer to document his life; a Watson to his Holmes....
Author
Series
Hawthorne ; 4
Language
English
Description
"When the critic who gave his new play scathing reviews is murdered, stabbed in the heart with his ornamental dagger, author Anthony Horowitz is arrested by an old enemy out for revenge and the only man who can help him is his estranged partner in solving crime, Daniel Hawthorne." --
Author
Series
Hawthorne ; 3
Language
English
Description
"When Ex-Detective Inspector Daniel Hawthorne and his sidekick, author Anthony Horowitz, are invited to an exclusive literary festival on Alderney, an idyllic island off the south coast of England, they don't expect to find themselves in the middle of murder investigation--or to be trapped with a cold-blooded killer in a remote place with a murky, haunted past. Arriving on Alderney, Hawthorne and Horowitz soon meet the festival's other guests--an...
Author
Language
English
Description
"Trudy has betrayed her husband, John. She's still in the marital home--a dilapidated, priceless London townhouse--but John's not here. Instead, she's with his brother, the profoundly banal Claude, and the two of them have a plan. But there is a witness to their plot: the inquisitive, nine-month-old resident of Trudy's womb. Told from a perspective unlike any other, Nutshell is a classic tale of murder and deceit from one of the world's master storytellers"--...
Author
Series
Hawthorne ; 2
Language
English
Description
"You shouldn't be here. It's too late . . . " These, heard over the phone, were the last recorded words of successful celebrity-divorce lawyer Richard Pryce, found bludgeoned to death in his bachelor pad with a bottle of wine - a 1982 Chateau Lafite worth 3,000, to be precise. Odd, considering he didn't drink. Why this bottle? And why those words? And why was a three-digit number painted on the wall by the killer? And, most importantly, which of the...
6) Sweet sorrow
Author
Language
English
Description
"From the best-selling author of One Day comes a bittersweet and brilliantly funny coming-of-age tale about the heart-stopping thrill of first love-and how just one summer can forever change a life"--
Author
Language
English
Description
"Traveling behind the Iron Curtain, James Bond must convince the Russians, including a beautiful Soviet psychiatric analyst, that he is a double agent to infiltrate a group planning a major act of terrorism, which, if successful, will destabilize relations between the East and West." --
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
Sophia Leonides and Charles Hayward fall in love in Egypt during World War II, and vow to meet up again in England. When Sofia's grandfather is found dead it is up to Charles and his father, a Scotland Yard commissioner, to find out if he was murdered or not.
Series
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually incriminating the pioneer of modern-day computing. Famously leading...
10) Ridley Road
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Tells the story of a young Jewish woman living in London in the 1960s who gets involved in an anti-fascist group and infiltrates a neo-Nazi organization."--
11) Men
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"In the wake of her ex-husband's passing, a woman takes a solo vacation to the English countryside."--
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In the early hours of November 8, 1974, the 7th Earl of Lucan disappeared without a trace. What investigators subsequently found shocked the public: the body of his children's nanny, Sandra, bludgeoned to death in the basement. These two exciting dramas explore the crime and its aftermath." --
14) Brexit
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"The result of the Brexit referendum in the summer of 2016 caused a political earthquake that laid waste to the normally stable British establishment and sent political tremors across the world. This punchy and provocative feature length drama goes exclusively behind the scenes of the 'Vote Leave' campaign, unpacking the personalities, strategies, and feuds of the winning side, and exploring the new world of data driven campaign tactics." --
15) No time to die
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology." --
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Charts Catherine the Great's tumultuous reign as the cunning and ambitious empress fights off threats to her crown, wages war with the Ottoman Empire and expands Russia's borders as far as the Black Sea and Crimea." --
17) No time to die
Publisher
SDS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Bond has left active service and is enjoying a tranquil life in Jamaica. His peace is short-lived when his old friend Felix Leiter from the CIA turns up asking for help. The mission to rescue a kidnapped scientist turns out to be far more treacherous than expected, leading Bond onto the trail of a mysterious villain armed with dangerous new technology." --
18) Man up
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Nancy is mistaken for Jack's blind date, she decides to take fate into her own hands and just go with it. What could possibly go wrong?" --
19) Broken
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Skunk is an 11 year-old girl who lives a carefree life with her father, on a cul-de-sac in a very much middle-class neighborhood in Britain. At the beginning of the movie Skunk sees Rick, a young man living across the street, getting violently beaten up by yet another neighbor, Mr. Oswald. We later learn that one of Oswald's daughters, in order to save face, told her dad that Rick raped her, following which Oswalt in a rage pummels Rick. Skunk is...
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"It is set across three generations of the Cutler family who live as outlaws in their own anarchic corner of Britain's richest countryside. Chad Cutler is heir apparent to his bruising criminal father, Colby and has been groomed to spend his life hunting, thieving and tormenting the police. But with his own son, Tyson coming of age, Chad soon finds himself locked in a battle with his father for the future of his young family." --
