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Children of Ruin is a 2019 science fiction novel by British author Adrian Tchaikovsky, the second in his Children of Time series. The novel was well received, winning the 2019 BSFA Award for Best Novel. [1] The book was followed by the third book in the series, Children of Memory, in 2022.
The Rúin (2018) is the debut crime novel by Irish/Australian writer Dervla McTiernan.It was originally published by HarperCollins in Australia in 2018. [1]It is the first in the author's Cormac Reilly series of novels, later following by The Scholar and The Good Turn.
The Touch is a historical novel by Colleen McCullough published in 2003. It is about the life of a Scotswoman, Elizabeth Drummond, who travels from her home in Kinross, Scotland to New South Wales in order to marry her wealthy cousin, Alexander Kinross. The story takes place over the latter half of the 19th century.
(p. 457) "And, of course," she added, "there is a great conceit hidden at the heart of the book to do with fiction and the imagination, which is revealed only at the end but which is in a way the whole raison d'etre of the novel."(p. 458) Stephanie Merritt commented in The Guardian review, "At first glance A God in Ruins appears to be a more ...
A Touch of Sin (Chinese: 天注定; lit. 'Destiny') is a 2013 Chinese anthology thriller film written and directed by Jia Zhangke and starring Jiang Wu , Wang Baoqiang , Luo Lanshan, and Zhao Tao , Jia's wife and longtime collaborator.
The book is loosely based on Shute's own experience at Howden in Yorkshire as Calculator of the R100 project [2] and his experience as a director of Airspeed Ltd. [3]In 1935, Airspeed signed a manufacturing licensing agreement with Fokker and considered making the Fokker D.XVII fighter for Greece, who wanted to buy from Britain for currency reasons.
Roseanne A. Brown (born August 26, 1995) is a Ghanaian American writer of fantasy, science fiction and young adult fiction. [1] She is best known for her debut novel A Song of Wraiths and Ruin, which became a New York Times best seller, [2] [3] and its sequel, A Psalm of Storms and Silence.
A Touch of Zen (Chinese: 俠女; pinyin: Xiá Nǚ; lit. 'Chivalrous woman') is a two-part wuxia film written, co-edited and directed by King Hu , originally released in 1970 and 1971. Its screenplay is based on a classic Chinese story " Xianü " in the book Strange Stories from a Chinese Studio by Pu Songling .