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Whitstable Pearl is a British crime drama television series broadcast and produced by Acorn TV, based on the Whitstable Pearl novels by Julie Wassmer. [1] It stars Kerry Godliman as Pearl Nolan, the single mother of a grown son, who, as well as being a private detective, runs the titular seafood restaurant with her mum in the English coastal town .
Malcolm Pettigrove in The Canberra Times was not overly impressed with the book stating: "When Miss Astley drops the prose of the stylist and begins to function simply as a writer with a tale to tell her work becomes stark, tense, and most effectively dramatic." [3] Kate Grenville reread the book in 2018, upon it being reissued. She called ...
Pearl (Middle English: Perle) is a late 14th-century Middle English poem that is considered one of the most important surviving Middle English works. With elements of medieval allegory and from the dream vision genre, the poem is written in a North-West Midlands variety of Middle English and is highly—though not consistently—alliterative; there is, among other stylistic features, a complex ...
The song "Auld Lang Syne" comes from a Robert Burns poem. Burns was the national poet of Scotland and wrote the poem in 1788, but it wasn't published until 1799—three years after his death.
EXCLUSIVE: Acorn TV’s push into originals is continuing at pace after the AMC Networks streamer commissioned Buccaneer Media, the producer behind ITV/Netflix’s Anna Friel hit Marcella, to ...
William Somerset Maugham [n 2] CH (/ m ɔː m / MAWM; 25 January 1874 – 16 December 1965) [n 1] was an English writer, known for his plays, novels and short stories. Born in Paris, where he spent his first ten years, Maugham was schooled in England and went to a German university.
The Patience Strong Bedside Book (1953) "Beyond the Rainbow" (1957) The Blessings of the Years (1963) Come Happy Day (1966) Give me a Quiet Corner (1972) A Joy Forever (1973) With a Poem in My Pocket (Autobiography, 1981) Poems from the Fighting Forties (1982) Fifty Golden Years (1985, to commemorate her fiftieth anniversary as Patience Strong)
Life can be a tricky, challenging journey. One of the many things that makes it worthwhile is the kindness of others — and showing that same kindness and compassion to yourself. There’s a ...