Caroline Graham (1) (1931–)
Autor/a de The Killings at Badger's Drift
Per altres autors anomenats Caroline Graham, vegeu la pàgina de desambiguació.
Sobre l'autor
Caroline Graham (born on July 17, 1931 in Nuneaton) is an English playwright, screenwriter and novelist. She attended the Open University, and received a degree in writing for the theatre from the University of Birmingham. Her first published book was Fire Dance, a romance novel. She is best-known mostra'n més as the writer of the Chief Inspector Barnaby series, which was made into a series for television in the UK known as Midsomer Murders. The first Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings at Badger's Drift, was published in 1988 and named as one of The Top 100 Crime Novels of All Time. Since then she has written six more, with latest novel A Ghost in the Machine published in 2004. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
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Obres de Caroline Graham
Midsomer Murders: Complete Season 22 — Autor — 5 exemplars
Midsomer Murder (Chief Inspector Barnaby) 2 exemplars
Midsomer Murders (Series 01-22) — Autor — 1 exemplars
Midsomer Murders (Kriminalkommissær Barnaby) 1 exemplars
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- Nom normalitzat
- Graham, Caroline
- Altres noms
- GRAHAM, Caroline
- Data de naixement
- 1931-07-17
- Gènere
- female
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Nuneton, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Suffolk, England, UK
- Educació
- University of Birmingham
- Professions
- novelist
screenwriter
playwright
actress
stage manager
radio broadcaster - Agent
- Anthony Goff (David Higham Associates)
- Biografia breu
- From the Web site twbooks.com.uk: Caroline Graham was born in Warwickshire and left school at age 14 to work in a factory. After a stint in the Navy she married and spent some time as a housewife. She then decided to train as an actress and at one time understudied Rita Tushingham at the Royal Court. After the birth of her son when she was 40, she began to write, producing several plays for Radio 4 and a number of scripts for Crossroads. Her first Chief Inspector Barnaby novel, The Killings At Badger’s Drift, was selected by the CWA as one of the best 100 crime novels of all time. At the age of 60, she fulfilled her life-long ambition of going to university and did an MA in Theatre Studies at Birmingham, studying with writers like David Edgar, Tom Stoppard and David Hare.
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Written in blood de Caroline Graham
This really did not age well. I disliked Sgt. Troy and found the main storyline rather sensational and weird. It was a meandering sort of story and by the end I really didn’t care whodunnit. The cat that Barnaby and his wife were cat-sitting was honestly the best part of the whole book.
½
Finished The Killings at Badger's Drift by Caroline Graham, the book that inspired Midsomer Murders, one of my favorite series. The book was well-written, and it was interesting to see how Anthony Horowitz, a favorite writer of mine, who wrote the screenplay works with Graham's story and characters.
A fantastic read. A bit satirical look at the religious community with as brilliant as usual in-depth analysis of the human nature. Sounds a bit serious but in fact it is a book that is difficult to put down. And, of course, Tom Barnaby and Gavin Troy in top form. Highly recommended!
Inspector Barnaby is a popular TV series in Germany, too, but I first encountered it on a trip to the UK when I was watching TV in my hotel room. I quite liked it and started buying the DVD sets, and it has since been one of my favourite TV series. Of course it is not great art, but it is a real comfort watch to me, and I watched it together with my husband for several months when we went through a difficult time at work and did not have any energy to read or do anything else. During that time I also bought the first three books of the original book series, but it took me until now to start reading them.
This 2016 edition contains an introduction by John Nettles, who played Barnaby in the TV series, in which he stresses the cuts and changes that need to be made in order to adapt a novel to the screen. Therefore I was prepared for the book to differ from the TV series. I was surprised, though, that the plot has been kept very faithfully. The characters have not, though - Sergeant Troy, whom I really like in the TV series despite his obvious flaws, is thoroughly loathsome in the novel. Barnaby's daughter Cully is quite different, too, and Barnaby himself is not really a contrast to his TV personality, but a deeper character, with more background and, coming with that, more difficulties. I must admit that I did have some problems with that because while on the one hand it was interesting to learn more about him, not all of it matched the fatherly and calm figure I am used to on the screen.
Now to the story itself: I have watched the first episode four times and thus reading it was not that exciting. I knew all the twists and turns, and it might be unfair to really rate this novel. Still I must say that I found it rather slow in the beginning, the characters felt exaggerated, and I just wished the plot to progress. However, it still became a page turner towards the end of the book, and then completely drew me in. It is well written, Barnaby is a sharp and funny character, and I appreciated the crafting of the case maybe even more than when watching it.… (més)
This 2016 edition contains an introduction by John Nettles, who played Barnaby in the TV series, in which he stresses the cuts and changes that need to be made in order to adapt a novel to the screen. Therefore I was prepared for the book to differ from the TV series. I was surprised, though, that the plot has been kept very faithfully. The characters have not, though - Sergeant Troy, whom I really like in the TV series despite his obvious flaws, is thoroughly loathsome in the novel. Barnaby's daughter Cully is quite different, too, and Barnaby himself is not really a contrast to his TV personality, but a deeper character, with more background and, coming with that, more difficulties. I must admit that I did have some problems with that because while on the one hand it was interesting to learn more about him, not all of it matched the fatherly and calm figure I am used to on the screen.
Now to the story itself: I have watched the first episode four times and thus reading it was not that exciting. I knew all the twists and turns, and it might be unfair to really rate this novel. Still I must say that I found it rather slow in the beginning, the characters felt exaggerated, and I just wished the plot to progress. However, it still became a page turner towards the end of the book, and then completely drew me in. It is well written, Barnaby is a sharp and funny character, and I appreciated the crafting of the case maybe even more than when watching it.… (més)
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- 3,549
- Popularitat
- #7,152
- Valoració
- 3.7
- Ressenyes
- 117
- ISBN
- 294
- Llengües
- 18
- Preferit
- 1