Five Roundabouts To Heaven

Author : John Bingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416545033

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Five Roundabouts to Heaven by John Bingham Pdf

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye." Nineteen years is a long time. But when Peter Harding and Philip Bartels meet up again in the French countryside of their youth, the history and the dark secrets it holds are still there, tempered only slightly by time. The two men share more than a past friendship. Decades earlier, trapped in a disenchanted marriage with his wife, Beatrice, Philip meets and falls in love with the graceful, charming Lorna Dickson. Overcome by the prospect of a humiliating divorce, Philip makes the decision to poison Beatrice. But when he invites his best friend, Peter, to meet his mistress at lunch one day, he unwittingly sets off a shocking chain of events that will forever change the lives of everyone involved. Now available for the first time in over twenty years, Five Roundabouts to Heaven is one of master writer and storyteller John Bingham's greatest works. With a chilling, expertly calibrated plot and mesmerizing prose, it is the powerful study of how murder can so easily enter the minds of ordinary people.

Author : John Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Adultery
ISBN : 1842625136

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Five Roundabouts to Heaven by John Bingham Pdf

This novel tells of Philip Bartel's attempts to leave his beautiful but cold wife Beatrice for passionate Lorna. His friend Peter Harding offers advice, then he too meets Lorna, with fatal results.

Author : John Michael Ward Bingham
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1959
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:458439282

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Cinque strade... ["Five roundabouts to heaven".]. by John Michael Ward Bingham Pdf

Author : Michael Jago
Publisher : Biteback Publishing
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-14
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781849545570

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The Man Who Was George Smiley by Michael Jago Pdf

Investigator, interrogator, intellectual hero: the perfect inspiration for the perfect spy. This first full-length biography traces the life of the remarkable and engaging John Bingham, the man behind John le Carré's George Smiley. The heir to an Irish barony and a spirited young journalist, John Bingham joined MI5 in 1940; his quiet intellect, wry wit and knack for observation made him a natural. He took part in many of MI5's greatest wartime missions - from the tracking of Nazi agents in Britain to Operation double cross that ensured the success of D-Day - and later spent three decades running agents in Britain against the Communist target. Among his colleagues his skills were legendary and he soon became a mentor to many a novice spy - including one David Cornwell, the later le Carré. Bingham, too, was an innovative writer who perfected the psychological thriller, marrying cold objectivity with an explanation of the darkest reaches of human behaviour. His early novels were applauded but, for all his success, Bingham struggled to match the fame of the man he had inspired. Drawing on Bingham's published and unpublished writings, as well as interviews with his family, Michael Jago skilfully tells the riveting yet poignant tale of the man who was George Smiley.

Author : John Bingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416559795

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My Name is Michael Sibley by John Bingham Pdf

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist....What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye." Michael Sibley and John Prosset shared a history that dated back to their first years at boarding school, and so the news of Prosset's murder came as a great shock to his old friend -- especially because Sibley had been staying only the day before at Prosset's country house, where the body was found. When the police arrive to question him in connection with the murder, Sibley finds himself lying about his recent visit, and thus begins to reveal the true nature of a longstanding but volatile friendship, fraught with mutual deception and distrust. As he tells his version of the truth to the police -- and to the reader -- Sibley makes the first of many fateful mistakes and finds himself not only under suspicion, but a primary suspect in the investigation. Seen through the eyes of Sibley himself, My Name Is Michael Sibley is a mesmerizing account of murder, as the narrator purposefully attempts to elude the police and prove his innocence to the reader in the same breath.

Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1046 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1954
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105011809196

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Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series by Library of Congress. Copyright Office Pdf

Includes Part 1A, Number 1: Books (January - June) and Part 1B, Number 1: Pamphlets, Serials and Contributions to Periodicals (January - June)

Author : Roger M Sobin
Publisher : Poisoned Pen Press Inc
Page : 591 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2011-09-30
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781615952038

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The Essential Mystery Lists by Roger M Sobin Pdf

For the first time in one place, Roger M. Sobin has compiled a list of nominees and award winners of virtually every mystery award ever presented. He has also included many of the “best of” lists by more than fifty of the most important contributors to the genre.; Mr. Sobin spent more than two decades gathering the data and lists in this volume, much of that time he used to recheck the accuracy of the material he had collected. Several of the “best of” lists appear here for the first time in book form. Several others have been unavailable for a number of years.; Of special note, are Anthony Boucher’s “Best Picks for the Year.” Boucher, one of the major mystery reviewers of all time, reviewed for The San Francisco Chronicle, Ellery Queen Mystery Magazine, and The New York Times. From these resources Mr. Sobin created “Boucher’s Best” and “Important Lists to Consider,” lists that provide insight into important writing in the field from 1942 through Boucher’s death in 1968.? This is a great resource for all mystery readers and collectors.; ; Winner of the 2008 Macavity Awards for Best Mystery Nonfiction.

Author : W. B. Stevenson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 35 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107622210

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Detective Fiction by W. B. Stevenson Pdf

This 1958 guide to detective fiction is divided into 'The Old Masters' and 'The Moderns'.

Author : John Le Carré
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1578066697

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Conversations with John Le Carré by John Le Carré Pdf

Collected interviews in which the acclaimed writer talks about his craft, the nature of language, the literature that he loves, and the ways in which his own life influences the creation of, and characters within, his novels

Author : Jeanine Basinger
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 434 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2014-03-11
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780804169745

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I Do and I Don't by Jeanine Basinger Pdf

Here is “happily ever after”—except when things aren’t happy, and when “ever after” is abruptly terminated by divorce, tragedy . . . or even murder. With her large-hearted understanding of how movies—and audiences—work, leading film historian Jeanine Basinger traces the many ways Hollywood has tussled with the tricky subject of marriage, explicating the relationships of countless marriages from Blondie and Dagwood to the heartrending couple in the Iranian A Separation, from Coach and his wife in Friday Night Lights to Tracy and Hepburn, and even to Laurel and Hardy (a marriage if ever there was one). A treasure trove of insight and sympathy, illustrated with scores of wonderfully telling movie stills, posters, and ads.

Author : Roger Ebert
Publisher : Andrews McMeel Publishing
Page : 1141 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2010-12-14
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780740797699

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Roger Ebert's Movie Yearbook 2011 by Roger Ebert Pdf

Reviews originally appeared in the Chicago sun-times.

Author : NA NA
Publisher : Springer
Page : 1585 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-25
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781349813667

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Twentieth Century Crime & Mystery Writers by NA NA Pdf

Author : Susan Morris
Publisher : eBook Partnership
Page : 7460 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-04-20
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781999767051

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Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019 by Susan Morris Pdf

Debrett's Peerage & Baronetage is the only up-to-date printed reference guide to the United Kingdom's titled families: the hereditary peers, life peers and peeresses, and baronets, and their descendants who form the fascinating tapestry of the peerage. This is the first ebook edition of Debrett's Peerage &Baronetage, and it also contains information relating to:The Royal FamilyCoats of ArmsPrincipal British Commonwealth OrdersCourtesy titlesForms of addressExtinct, dormant, abeyant and disclaimed titles.Special features for this anniversary edition include:The Roll of Honour, 1920: a list of the 3,150 people whose names appeared in the volume who were killed in action or died as a result of injuries sustained during the First World War.A number of specially commissioned articles, including an account of John Debrett's life and the early history of Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage, a history of the royal dukedoms, and an in-depth feature exploring the implications of modern legislation and mores on the ancient traditions of succession.

Author : John Bingham
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2007-07-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781416559719

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A Fragment of Fear by John Bingham Pdf

FROM THE INTRODUCTION BY JOHN LE CARRÉ "This novel comprises some of the best work of an extremely gifted and perhaps under-regarded British crime novelist.... What gave John Bingham his magic was something we look for in every writer, too often in vain: an absolute command of the internal landscape of his characters, acutely observed by a humane but wonderfully corrosive eye." "On a recuperative trip in Italy after a car accident, reporter and novelist James Compton is witness to the discovery of a murder victim, a woman who had been vacationing at the same hotel. Lucy Dawson seemed like a gentle old lady, and so the motive for her death appeared to be unmeditated assault. But when he returns to England and makes a benign inquiry into her background, Compton receives a note warning him to leave the past alone -- a note clearly written on his own typewriter, though his apartment shows no sign of a break-in. Unable to resist pursuing the unfinished story, Compton's own investigation reveals a sinister side to Lucy Dawson and a cold-blooded conspiracy she may have helped to perpetrate while alive. Suddenly Compton finds a dangerous net closing in around him: threatening phone calls, terrifying invasions of privacy, and no way of proving to the police that anyone is responsible but himself. In the tradition of Agatha Christie and Patricia Highsmith, John Bingham's writing has earned him a place amongst the great suspense writers of the twentieth century. With taut, compelling prose, A Fragment of Fear is a captivating thriller by a master storyteller at the height of his powers.

Author : Alan Burton
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2016-04-04
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781442255876

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Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction by Alan Burton Pdf

The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction is a detailed overview of the rich history and achievements of the British espionage story in literature, cinema and television. It provides detailed yet accessible information on numerous individual authors, novels, films, filmmakers, television dramas and significant themes within the broader field of the British spy story. It contains a wealth of facts, insights and perspectives, and represents the best single source for the study and appreciation of British spy fiction. British spy fiction is widely regarded as the most significant and accomplished in the world and this book is the first attempt to bring together an informed survey of the achievements in the British spy story in literature, cinema and television. The Historical Dictionary of British Spy Fiction contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 200 cross-referenced entries on individual authors, stories, films, filmmakers, television shows and the various sub-genres of the British spy story. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about British spy fiction.