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(0)Oliver Ford Davies
Author
Summary
The novella 'The Death of Ivan Ilyich' by Leo Tolstoy was published in 1886 and is considered a masterpiece of his late period fiction. It tells the story of a high-court judge in nineteenth century Russia. He lives a simple, carefree life with his family until he is diagnosed with a terminal illness. Confined to bed, he is disgusted that his family avoids the subject of his death by pretending that he is only sick and not dying. He finds comfort...
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most respected criminal advocates in London, has earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and opponents alike. However, the long hours, difficult cases and dedication to his work have taken their toll on his wife and two children.
Home use only.
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most respected criminal advocates in London, has earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and opponents alike. However, the long hours, difficult cases and dedication to his work have taken their toll on his wife and two children.
Home use only.
Series
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
James Kavanagh Q.C., one of the most respected criminal advocates in London, has earned the respect and admiration of colleagues and opponents alike. However, the long hours, difficult cases and dedication to his work have taken their toll on his wife and two children.
Home use only.
Pub. Date
2009
Summary
Kavanagh is acting as a Recorder at Southwark Crown Court. Lord Cranston (Nichoal Le Provost) pops in for a conversation during a trial for shop-lifting. Would he like to become a Judge? He asks Foxcott and his daughter for advice. Elsewhere, Aldermarten is prosecuting Hatton (Robert Pickavance) for the murder of Katya Zimanyi (Rachel Woolrich), a Hungarian escort in the Mortimer Hotel. The defendant is served by Miss Swithin (Samantha Bond), a Solicitor...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
Sparkling cyanide: An elderly husband and wife are unlikely looking secret agents brought in to investigate the murder of a powerful soccer club manager's beautiful trophy wife at a glitzy champagne event. Why didn't they ask Evans?: A local vicar finds a man lying fatally injured and unconscious on the rocks at the foot of a cliff. His last words before passing were spoken clearly to the vicar "Why didn't they ask Evans?".The Seven Dials mystery:...
Series
Pub. Date
c2006
Summary
In A sense of loss, Kavanagh struggles to defend a troubled youth who refuses to co-operate on his own behalf after he is accused of killing a policewoman.
In A stranger in the family, Kavanagh uncovers a web of lies, deceit and blackmail when working on a personal injury case.
In Job satisfaction, tragedy, harassment and grief hound Kavanagh as he defends a young woman, who along with her brother, is accused of murdering their father and stepmother....
11) Johnny English
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Summary
Working for the MI7 agency, Johnny English is suddenly promoted to super spy after Agent One is assassinated and every other agent is blown up at his funeral. When entrepreneur Sauvage sponsors an exhibition of the Crown Jewels and the valuable gems disappear on the opening night, the newly designated agent must jump into action. Tracking the thieves' underground escape route, English locks in on Sauvage despite repeated assurances by boss Pegasus...
12) Hamlet
Pub. Date
[2010]
Summary
This production of Shakespeare's masterpiece from Britain's renowned Royal Shakespeare Company was filmed on location rather than in the theatre. No recent stage production in Britain has attracted the excitement and nearly unanimous critical praise as this Hamlet. Dynamic, exciting, and contemporary, it breathes new life into Shakespeare's greatest play.
13) Richard II
Pub. Date
[2014]
Summary
"Richard is King. A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years"--Container.
Series
Pub. Date
2002
Summary
The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
