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Percival Everett's blistering satire about race and publishing, now adapted for the screen as the Academy Award-winning AMERICAN FICTION, directed by Cord Jefferson and starring Jeffrey Wright
Thelonious "Monk" Ellison's writing career has bottomed out: his latest manuscript has been rejected by seventeen publishers, which stings all the more because his previous novels have been "critically acclaimed." He seethes on the sidelines of
6) The Paradise
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
Denise Lovett, a young and ambitious country girl with only her wits to live on, arrives in a booming Northern city to take up a long-held promise of work in her uncle's drapery shop. But she soon discovers that her uncle cannot afford to employ her as most of his customers have been seduced away by The Paradise, England's first department store, right across the street.
8) Mistresses
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
You don't wake up wanting to be someone's mistress - somehow it just happens. Mistresses follows the lives and loves of a group of thirty-something friends who met at university. Katie is a doctor who has been having an affair with one of her patients. Her best friend Trudie grieves the loss of her husband who was killed in 9/11. Then there's Jessica whose anarchic lifestyle supplies lots of gossip and humour, and the happily married Siobhan - but...
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The beautiful Yorkshire village of Keldale is scandalised by the gruesome murder of local farmer, William Tey. The Yorkshire police are obliged to team one of their investigators with a London Superintendent, which places well spoken Superintendent Thomas Lynley with the tricky and resentful detective, Barbara Havers. While their relationship struggles, their findings become ever more interesting and when the investigators organise a reunion between...
10) Curiosa
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
Français
Description
Paris 1895. Pierre Louÿs is a Parisian dandy and poet on the verge of fame. Pierre and his friend Henri De Régnier are both madly in love with Marie de Heredia (Noemie Merlant), the cheeky daughter of their mentor. Despite her feelings for Pierre, Marie eventually marries Henri who has a better situation. Badly hurt, Pierre leaves for Algeria where he meets Zohra, a bewitching local girl with whom he shares a tumultuous relationship and a passion...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Divorce may be the end of their marriages, but it's the beginning of a fresh start for Kate and Allie, lifelong friends who combine two halves from two different households by moving into one New York City home. If they thought living with their ex-husbands was a headache, wait until their own personalities clash while trying to raise three children. Freely outspoken Kate and hilariously uptight Allie have their hands full juggling new romances, new...
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Series
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18 years old and fresh out of high school, Karl Ove Knausgaard moves to a tiny fisherman's village far north of the polar circle to work as a school teacher. He has no interest in the job itself - or in any other job for that matter. His intention is to save up enough money to travel while finding the space and time to start his writing career. Initially everything looks fine: He writes his first few short stories, finds himself accepted by the hospitable...
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"Disorder in the court! That's the order of the day when a parade of zany--and often bizarre--characters passes before unconventional and unpredictable Judge Harry T. Stone (Harry Anderson) in the hilarious comedy Night Court."--Container
16) In the Club
Publisher
BBC Studios
Language
English
Description
The return of Kay Mellor's warm series follows the relationship dramas of a group of very different new parents who first bonded in a parentcraft class. The story picks up 10 months on, with all the babies born - and in some cases second ones on the way. In storylines packed with secrets, heartbreak, comedy and pathos, life is proving to be just as much of a rollercoaster for these compelling characters as they emerge from the world of pregnancy and...
17) Ordinary Lies
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Exploring the lives, loves and lies of a brand new workforce, this popular series returns with more compelling stories of what can happen when an apparently simple deception spirals out of control. Packed with humour and shock revelations, this drama series considers the way we don't truly know the person working next to us. The action moves to the call centre and warehouse of a sports sales company in Wales as it delves into the lives of a group...
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Born in New Orleans, Mahalia began singing at an early age and went on to become one of the most revered gospel figures in U.S. history, melding her music with the civil rights movement. Her recording of the song “Move on Up a Little Higher” sold millions of copies, skyrocketing her to international fame and gave her the opportunity to perform at diverse settings including in front of a racially integrated audience at the prestigious Carnegie...
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Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"In her stage-writing debut, celebrated novelist and essayist Zadie Smith brings to life a comedic and cutting twenty-first century translation of Geoffrey Chaucer's classic The Wife of Bath. The Wife of Willesden follows Alvita, a Jamaican-born British woman in her mid-50s, as she tells her life story to a band of strangers in a small pub on the Kilburn High Road. Wearing fake gold chains, dressed in knock-off designer clothes, and speaking in a...
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