Pauline Melville
Birthday: 1948-01-01
Place of Birth: Guyana
Biography: Pauline Melville was born in Guyana in 1948 of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry. She has worked as an actress, appearing in films such as Mona Lisa and British television programmes including the BBC Television comedy series 'The Young Ones', before turning her hand to writing in 1990. Her short stories and novels have been critically acclaimed, earning her numerous awards including the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Whitbread First Novel Award, and the Guyana Prize for Literature
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and beco...
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Home Away from Home
To ease her homesickness Miriam recreates an aspect of home in her suburban British garden. Cultural...
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Rik Mayall: Lord of Misrule
Comedian Rik Mayall died suddenly on 9 June 2014. Mayall's blend of rocket-fuelled physical comedy, ...
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors...
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Love's Sweet Song
Ireland's bloody 1916 Easter Uprising, the suffragette movement in England, a Zeppelin raid, and a m...
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Mona Lisa
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Re...
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How to Get Ahead in Advertising
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck....
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Brighton Rock
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death w...
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Scrubbers
Inmates fight, pair off, try suicide and attempt escape at a British reform school for girls....
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The House of Bernarda Alba
A domineering,reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close wat...
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The Long Good Friday
In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate propert...
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Britannia Hospital
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by...
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Shadowlands
C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor, leads a passionless life until he meets spirited ...
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Ulysses
Dublin; June 16, 1904. Stephen Dedalus, who fancies himself as a poet, embarks on a day of wandering...
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Utz
Hugh Whitemore adapted Bruce Chatwin's novel for this tale of a New York antique dealer who travels ...
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Rat in the Skull
In a cell in a London police station, a suspected I.R.A. bomber, Roche, has been detained for questi...
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Didn't You Kill My Brother?
Carl Moss leaves jail,where he has taken the rap for his evil twin Sterling,and has been declared a ...
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Bottom Mindless Violence
The only word to describe the amazing duo of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edminson is genius. For the past ...
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