Jason Flemyng
Author
Language
English
Description
"Queen Victoria's Black Prince" is the fascinating true story of the last King of the mighty Kingdom of Punjab. The King, Maharaja Duleep Singh, was placed on the throne at the age of five only to be robbed of his throne by a bloody treason at the hands of trusted courtiers. He was then torn from his mother and taken to England by the British at age fifteen. While in England, he was introduced to Queen Victoria, who took an immediate liking to him,...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
On Christmas Eve, ten-year-old Goose hides his fireman father's keys to prevent him from going to work. Instead, his mother drives his dad which has tragic results. A year later, a mysterious stranger arrives to with a special gift which enables a troubled Goose to find what he has lost on Christmas Past.
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Master of the moor: As a boy, Stephen Whalby took to his beloved moor to escape trouble at home. Trouble follows him there as an adult, however, when women's bodies begin turning up among the rocks, heather, and bogs. Stephen finds no refuge when D.I. Manciple--a rude outsider, unwelcome in the village of Vangmoor--targets him as the prime suspect.
Vanity dies hard: In the town of Salstead, the lives of two friends seem to take different trajectories....
Language
English
Formats
Description
A collection of law-dodging characters in London are brought together by coincidence when a streetwise young man loses half-a-million pounds in a card game. He has a week to get together the money or face losing some fingers. Desperate, he and his friends decide to rip off a gang who are planning to ripp off a bunch of ganja farmers. Simple. Except the drug dealers want their money back, as do the thieves, and now there are three sets of criminals...
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Language
English
Formats
Description
Benjamin Button was a not-so-ordinary man who began his life under unusual circumstances. Born in his eighties, and unable to stop time, he continued to age backwards. His life story is detailed from the end of World War I in 1918 and into the 21st century, when he discovered a love that lasted beyond time.
"...a triumph of technique."--A.O. Scott, New York Times
"...pleasures come in a series of small packages, with treats inside as tasty as they...
7) Stardust
Series
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Tristan hopes to win the heart of his beautiful, but shallow love, Victoria. He promises to recover a star that fell somewhere beyond the stony wall that sets between the mundane England and the fantasy kingdom of Stormhold. So Tristan sets forth on his own journey in Stormhold. Meanwhile in that magical land, the dying king has set his four surviving sons on a quest for the crown. And the witch Lamia is seeking the heart of the star for an entirely...
8) Hanna
Series
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
A sixteen-year-old, raised by her father in the wilds of Finland to be the perfect assassin, is dispatched on a mission across Europe and learns more about her existence as she is tracked by a ruthless intelligence agent.
12) Snatch
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A diamond heist gone haywire launches gangster, bookies and a dog on a rollicking ride through the rugged world of bare-knuckle boxing in search of the missing stone"--Container.
14) The missing
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
When five year-old Oliver Hughes disappears while on holiday in France, it sets off a nearly decade-long search for his whereabouts.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
1619. The British colony of Jamestown, Virginia is shaken up when the first women in twelve years land in this breathtaking wilderness. While love triangles, bitter rivalries, and fierce competition cause conflict for the residents and the native inhabitants, the Pamunkey, they are bound together by their resolute will to survive and thrive in their new lives.
17) Alfie
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of an unrepentant ladies' man who gradually begins to understand the consequences of his lifestyle.
Alfie sees himself as a Romeo, a ladies' man who loves 'em and leaves 'em - but underneath the cheeky humour is the poignancy of a young man who cannot find peace of mind. And if you haven't got that you've got nothing as he tells the listener in that direct and familiar style made famous by Michael Caine in the 1960s film. Jason Flemyng...
18) Creation Stories
Author
Language
English
Description
The true story of the rise and fall of Creation Records and its founder, Alan McGee, who supplied the "Brit Pop" soundtrack to the 90s.
19) Made in Romania
Author
Language
English
Description
Famous UK actors Jennifer Tilly, Jason Flemyng, Danny Huston and Elizabeth Hurley star as themselves in this mockumentary satire about a desperate film producer who makes a shady finance deal and ends up filming his Victorian epic in the heart of rural Romania.
Author
Series
SS-GB volume 3
Language
English
Description
Breaking the curfew, Archer stays the night and Barbara convinces him not to turn the Resistance down - he knows too much, they could kill him. Archer's call for a police car home is intercepted by Huth and he is driven through early morning London to a huge aerodrome. There he finds a guarded hanger and Huth together with his superior, Professor Maximilian Springer.