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The novel is set in 1937, with the growing threat from Nazi Germany as the backdrop. The two candidates for election as new Master are Crawford, who is politically radical and prepared to make sure the college makes a stand against appeasing Hitler, but who Eliot believes will not be good at dealing with people; and Jago, who Eliot believes would make a good master, but whose wife is seen by ...
A children's cartoon where, using books, three children travel through time and space. Based on the books by Jon Scieszka. 2006 2011 Torchwood: Russell T Davies Chris Chibnall Jane Espenson John Fay: Humans and aliens from different periods in time start to come to Earth by means of a rift in the space/time continuum. (Spin-off from Doctor Who ...
The Dark Chateau - Clark Ashton Smith ; The Dark Frigate - Charles Hawes (1924 Newbery Medal) The Dark Frontier - Eric Ambler ; The Dark Green Tunnel - Allan W. Eckert ; The Dark Man and Others - Robert E. Howard ; Dark Mind, Dark Heart - edited by August Derleth
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Corridors of Power is the ninth book in C. P. Snow's Strangers and Brothers series. Its title had become a household phrase referring to the centres of government and power after Snow coined it in his earlier novel, Homecomings. (A slightly rueful Foreword to Corridors of Power expresses the hope that he is at least entitled to use his own ...
Snow analyses the professional world, scrutinising microscopic shifts of power within the enclosed settings of a Cambridge college, a Whitehall ministry, a law firm. For example, in the novels set in the Cambridge college (a thinly veiled Christ's ), a small, disparate group of men is typically required to reach a collective decision on an ...
The Killing is the fourth novel of the CHERUB series by Robert Muchamore. The book chronicles the adventures of the CHERUB agents investigating a small-time crook who suddenly makes it big. [1] Muchamore named the book after the film The Killing. [1] The novel was generally well received, but, unlike its predecessor, received no awards.
Lord Snow of Leicester was born at 40 Richmond Road Leicester. This plaque is displayed opposite his birthplace. Charles Percy Snow, Baron Snow (15 October 1905 – 1 July 1980 [1]) was an English novelist and physical chemist who also served in several important positions in the British Civil Service and briefly in the UK government.