In discussions that begin in 1971 and end in 2009, Allen talks about every facet of moviemaking through the prism of his own work as well as the larger world of film, and in so doing reveals an artist’s development over the course of his career. He speaks about his influences and about the genesis of his ideas; about writing, casting, acting, shooting, directing, editing, and scoring—and throughout shows himself to be thoughtful, honest, self-deprecating, always witty, and often hilarious.
THE EDGAR AWARD FINALIST FOR BEST FIRST NOVEL - NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE!
Victor Gischler's legendary first novel, originally published as GUN MONKEYS,
tells the story of Charlie Swift, loyal Mob enforcer to a Central Florida
crime boss, who goes ballistic when a rival gangster murders his crew, his
boss goes missing, the FBI swarms the scene, and a cadre of killers come after
him with everything they've got. No one's quicker on the trigger than Charlie
Swift - but is Charlie fast enough to get himself out alive...? Now a major
motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan, Morena Baccarin, and (in his final
role) James Caan, FAST CHARLIE is a breathless, top-velocity tale of
treachery, taxidermy, and family ties.
In 1883, Thaniel Steepleton returns to his tiny flat to find a gold pocketwatch on his pillow. But he has worse fears than generous burglars; he is a telegraphist at the Home Office, which has just received a threat for what could be the largest-scale Fenian bombing in history. When the watch saves Thaniel's life in a blast that destroys Scotland Yard, he goes in search of its maker, Keita Mori a kind, lonely immigrant who sweeps him into a new world of clockwork and music. Although Mori seems harmless at first, a chain of unexpected slips soon proves that he must be hiding something. Meanwhile, Grace Carrow is sneaking into an Oxford library dressed as a man. A theoretical physicist, she is desperate to prove the existence of the luminiferous ether before her mother can force her to marry. As the lives of these three characters become entwined, events spiral out of control until Thaniel is torn between loyalties, futures and opposing geniuses. Utterly beguiling, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street blends historical events with dazzling flights of fancy to plunge readers into a strange and magical past, where time, destiny, genius - and a clockwork octopus - collide
It began with a simple note: a letter of rejection from Miss Temple’s fiancé, written on crisp Ministry paper and delivered on her maid’s silver tray. But for Miss Temple, Roger Bascombe’s cruel rejection will ignite a harrowing quest for answers, plunging her into a mystery as dizzying as a hall of mirrors—and a remote estate where danger abounds and all inhibitions are stripped bare.Nothing could have prepared Miss Temple for where her pursuit of Roger Bascombe would take her—or for the shocking things she would find behind the closed doors of forbidding Harschmort Manor: men and women in provocative disguise, acts of licentiousness and violence, heroism and awakening. But she will also find two allies: Cardinal Chang, a brutal assassin with the heart of a poet, and a royal doctor named Svenson, at once fumbling and heroic—both of whom, like her, lost someone at Harschmort Manor. As the unlikely trio search for answers—hurtling them from elegant brothels to gaslit alleyways to shocking moments of self-discovery-- they are confronted by puzzles within puzzles. And the closer they get to the truth, the more their lives are in danger. For the conspiracy they face—an astonishing alchemy of science, perverted religion, and lust for power—is so terrifying as to be beyond belief.
The Wardrobe Mistress isn't just an entertaining ghost story, assembled by a
master-manipulator to be full of narrative trapdoors, tantalising at one
moment and agreeably grotesque the next: it's also an exploration of the deep
mythology of theatre . . . McGrath himself seems ambivalent about the
sentimentality he depicts. But there's no political ambivalence here: by the
end of the novel, the icy postwar alleys, the shattered theatres and public
houses are under the malign enchantment of a quietly resurgent politics. The
plentiful mirrorings, the doppelgangers and dybbuks both real and false, make
that plain, and make plain that fascism is also a kind of theatre - always
already a re-enactment of itself. Guardian
