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(0)Hugh Bonneville
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"A moving, laugh-out-loud memoir from one of today's best-loved British actors, whose credits include Downton Abbey, Notting Hill, and Paddington. From getting his big break as Third Shepherd in the school nativity play, to navigating Highclere Castle's complex Labrador policies, to bizarre Hollywood encounters, Hugh Bonneville creates a brilliantly vivid picture of a career on stage and screen. What is it like working with Judi Dench and Julia Roberts,...
Author
Series
Shakespeare Uncovered volume 1
Language
English
Description
Bonneville started his career at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park, understudying Ralph Fiennes as Lysander, one of the four lovers in A Midsummer Night's Dream. He and Fiennes meet up again to try to untangle the extraordinary plot of one of Shakespeare's most enduringly popular plays, a great comedy of love and enchantment.
3) To Olivia
Author
Language
English
Description
The story of the tumultuous marriage between actress Patricia Neal and renowned writer Roald Dahl.
4) Silent Hours
Author
Language
English
Description
Private detective John Duval, an ex-lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy and Naval Intelligence, finds himself the prime suspect in a police hunt for a sexual killer when three women are brutally murdered
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 5
Language
English
Description
Can The Family Gorgeous help Dominique rediscover her self-confidence by becoming an intergalactic space queen? They also meet Jacob who recently came out to his family, and a 61-year-old trans woman named Alison.
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 4
Language
English
Description
The Family Gorgeous visit the West Midlands, home turf for the head of the Family Cheddar, where they meet Sam who wants to reclaim her confidence, as well as a rugby team captain named Matthew.
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 2
Language
English
Description
The Family Gorgeous head to the Suffolk town of Ipswich to find three locals in need of a dose of fabulous in their lives, including a grumpy farmer, a wife who wants to show her husband how wonderful he is, and an individual with a dream.
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 1
Language
English
Description
In Dover, The Family Gorgeous are on a mission to bring a touch of glamour to a single mom named Abbey, to a student named Nico, and a budding drag queen named Owen with the goal of training the three for a show-stopping drag performance.
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 6
Language
English
Description
Can The Family Gorgeous assist ex-dancer Ashley in rediscovering the person he once was? Or what about Christian who suffers from anxiety and hopes drag might build his confidence, and Chloe who wants to find her inner drag diva?
Author
Series
Drag SOS volume 3
Language
English
Description
In the Yorkshire seaside town of Scarborough, The Family Gorgeous help a fitness instructor named Mark be less of a control freak, as well as David who has missed out on caring for his mom, and Fleur who seeks to rediscover her confidence.
11) Notting Hill
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
A famous movie star and a travel bookstore owner meet for the first time and wonder if they can fall in love while the whole world is watching.
12) Martin Luther
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
In 1517, power was in the hands of the few, thought was controlled by the chosen, and common people lived lives without hope. On October 31 of that year, a penniless monk named Martin Luther sparked the revolution that would change everything. He had no army. In fact, he preached nonviolence so powerfully that — 400 years later — Michael King would change his name to Martin Luther King to show solidarity with the original movement. This movement,...
13) Iris
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The War is over and a long-awaited engagement is on, but all is not tranquil at Downton Abbey as wrenching social changes, romantic intrigues, and personal crises grip the majestic English country estate for a third thrilling season. In the wake of World War I, Robert, Earl of Grantham, sticks to his duty to maintain Downton more firmly than ever.
15) Breathe
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
When Robin (Andrew Garfield) is struck down by polio at the age of 28, he is confined to a hospital bed and given only a few months to live. With the help of his wife Diana (Claire Foy) and her twin brothers, Robin and Diana dare to escape the hospital ward to seek out a full and passionate life together — raising their young son, traveling and devoting their lives to helping other polio patients. BREATHE is a heartwarming celebration of love and...
16) Iris
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
Judi Dench and Kate Winslet star in this powerful true story based on John Bayley's novels. One of the most extraordinary women of the 20th century, celebrated English author Iris Murdoch first became known as a brilliant young scholar at Oxford whose boundless spirit dazzled those around her. Then, during a remarkable career as a novelist and philosopher, she continued to prove herself a woman ahead of her time. Even in later life, as age and illness...
17) To Olivia
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
1962, Roald Dahl was a upcoming children’s author, his wife, Patricia Neal, was a Hollywood movie star. Their lives are turned upside down when their daughter Olivia contracted measles and died. Her death devastated the couple, yet their shared grief became a source of redemption and strength.
18) Bank of Dave
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true-life experiences of Dave Fishwick; BANK OF DAVE tells the story of how a working class Burnley man and self-made millionaire fought to set up a community bank.
19) Viceroy's House
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Follow the dramatic true story of Indian independence from 300 years of British rule in this sweeping epic starring Hugh Bonneville, Gillian Anderson.
20) The Robinsons
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
Sitcom starring Martin Freeman as a newly divorced man searching for meaning in his life. But trying to make sense of your own identity isn't easy when you've got a family like his. The Robinsons aren't related to any of the famous Robinsons. Sugar Ray, Edward G, Smokey or even Anne. No, they're a bog standard, run-of-the-mill family from Wimbledon, South London who have 'done quite well'. All of them, that is, except Ed. He's doing a job that he...