William Boyd
Author
Series
Publisher
Longman
Pub. Date
1994.
Language
English
Description
"Sozaboy describes the fortunes of a young naive recruit in the Nigerian Civil War: from the first proud days of recruitment to the disillusionment, confusion and horror that follows. The author's use of 'rotten English'--a mixture of Nigerian pidgin English, broken English and idiomatic English--makes this a unique and powerful novel"--Back cover
42) The Trench
Publisher
Vision Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
In the vein of 1917, this epic drama is set against the ill-fated WWI backdrop where a restless platoon receives word that they will soon join the first wave of an attack. Led by a war-hardened Sargent, these young men, confined to a trench on the front lines and the dark abyss, face their destiny on the day the British Army lost the greatest number of soldiers in a single day in history.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Random House
Pub. Date
1995
Language
English
Description
In 1936, an elderly doctor travels to Lisbon to find the love of his life. He is Dr. Salvador Carriscant of Los Angeles, who as a young man worked in the Philippines when it was a U.S. colony. Tired of his wife, he developed a liaison with the wife of an American officer, quelling a rebellion, and the two planned to flee abroad to start life anew. While she succeeded, he failed and for 30 years they have not seen each other. By the author of A Good...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
c2015.
Language
English
Description
A 2-part miniseries, based on the bestselling novel by William Boyd. Enter a cloak and dagger world where everyone and everything is under suspicion. Haunted by the death of her brother at the hands of fascist thugs, Russian émigré Eva Delectorskaya is recruited to be a British secret agent by the shadowy figure, Lucas Romer. After proving her merit in the field, she is sent on the most dangerous mission of her life. She must use any means necessary...
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A comedy about sex, power and the colliding cultures of British imperialism and West African independence. As punishment for bedding the wife of a corrupt Kinjanjan presidential candidate, a womanizing British diplomat must somehow bribe an incorruptable official on the politician's behalf.
Author
Series
Wen xue ren sheng volume 68
Publisher
Tian xia yuan jian chu ban gu fen you xian gong si
Pub. Date
2008
Language
中文
52) Trío
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
Description
"Estamos en el verano de 1968, el año de los asesinatos de Robert Kennedy y Martin Luther King, de las barricadas en París y del caos en Vietnam. En este mundo convulso, en el que en cada día parecen pasar semanas y en cada semana parecen concentrarse años, coinciden los tres protagonistas de esta historia: un productor, una novelista y una actriz. Talbot, que lucha por sacar adelante una película, oculta algo en su apartamento; Elfrida intenta...
Publisher
U.S. Television Office
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
The dark-garbed Hopalong Cassidy was a wildly popular matinee idol of the '30s and '40s and one of the most iconic cowboy heroes of all time. Astride his white steed Topper with a black, 10-gallon hat perched on his head Hopalong (so named for a limp caused by a bullet wound) made a striking figure. Includes all 52 TV episodes.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
MODERN & CONTEMPORARY FICTION (POST C 1945). 'Probably the greatest novel of the century' Observer 'Remarkable ... A work of loving and vivid imagination, yielding copious riches' WILLIAM BOYD Lanark, a modern vision of hell, is set in the disintegrating cities of Unthank and Glasgow, and tells the interwoven stories of Lanark and Duncan Thaw. A work of extraordinary imagination and wide range, its playful narrative techniques convey a profound message,...
59) Mister Johnson
Series
Criterion collection volume 774
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
A decade after he broke through with Breaker Morant, Australian director Bruce Beresford made another acclaimed film about the effects of colonialism on the individual. In a performance that earned him the Berlin Film Festival’s Silver Bear for best actor, Maynard Eziashi plays the title character, a Nigerian villager eager to work as a civil servant for the British authorities, including a sympathetic district officer (Pierce Brosnan), in the hope...
60) The trench
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
France, July 1916. Amidst the heat and stench of the front lines, a group of young men - boys, really - nervously await the signal that will send them straight into Hell. This tense, wartime drama takes place in the hours leading up to the catastrophic Battle of the Somme, when British soldiers rushed the German army.
