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Cal McCrystal is an Irish theatre director and actor. He is the brother of the journalist Damien McCrystal and the son of the journalist and writer Cal McCrystal. Following an early career acting in theatre, television, radio plays and commercials, McCrystal became a director specialising in comedy.
Smith dedicated the book to his father, whom the author idolized. "When I showed him he was a bit taken aback but Mum said that he always used to carry it around with him to show his mates", said Smith. [7] The character of Waite Courtney was modelled on Smith's grandfather Courtney James Smith. [4]
Sir Geoffrey Johnson-Smith, DL (16 April 1924 – 11 August 2010) was a British Conservative politician. He was a Member of Parliament (MP) from 1959 to 2001, with ...
The book plays a part in the 2024 novel The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley. The 'expat' or time traveler Lt. Graham Gore (also known as 'eighteen forty seven') reads it more than once during his training to become a twenty-first century citizen. At the end of the book Rogue Male appears as a token of the love between the two main characters.
Sadleir, Michael, The Evolution of Publishers' Binding Styles 1770-1900 (London: Constable and New York: Richard R. Smith, 1930) Topham, Jonathan R., Reading the Book of Nature : How Eight Best Sellers Reconnected Christianity and the Sciences on the Eve of the Victorian Age. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2022) - a discussion of The ...
The book ends with Sean's brother Garrick forgiving him and Dirk running away, promising to ruin the Courtneys. A Sparrow Falls is the concluding part of Sean Courtney's life story. It begins with a young soldier named Mark Anders being sent out to kill a German sniper in the First World War .
This is the second of the Ballantyne sequence of books, which gives a fictionalized account of the origins of Rhodesia and its later violent transformation into Zimbabwe. In this novel, the Ballantyne saga continues with the interaction between Zouga Ballantyne, Cecil Rhodes and the other whites who took over southern Africa. Zouga now has a ...
The novel was a favourite of Smith's, who claimed it was heavily influenced by H. Rider Haggard. [3] Smith: It was a very important book for me in my development as a writer because at that stage I was starting to become enchanted by the lure of Hollywood. There had been some movies made of my books and I thought "whoa, what a way to go…