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John Frederick Burke (1922–2011)

Autor/a de Life in the Castle in Medieval England

124+ obres 1,153 Membres 15 Ressenyes

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Obres de John Frederick Burke

An Illustrated History of England (1974) 112 exemplars
Roman England (1983) 84 exemplars
U. F. O.: 1 (1970) 53 exemplars
UFO-2: Sporting Blood (1971) 51 exemplars
Moon Zero Two (1969) 32 exemplars
Places to Visit in Britain (1988) 26 exemplars
The Hammer Horror Omnibus (1966) 24 exemplars
Look back on England (1980) 21 exemplars
Tales of Unease (1966) — Editor — 18 exemplars
The Bill (1976) 17 exemplars
Dr Terror's House of Horrors (1965) 13 exemplars
Privilege (1967) 11 exemplars
Dad's Army (1971) 11 exemplars
We've Been Waiting For You and Other Tales of Unease (2000) — Autor — 10 exemplars
The English Inn (1981) 10 exemplars
The Devil's Footsteps (1978) 10 exemplars
The Bill 4 (1990) 8 exemplars
The Bill 2 (1987) 8 exemplars
Nurse is a Neighbour (1958) 8 exemplars
The 300 Spartans (1962) 7 exemplars
The Bill 5 (1991) 7 exemplars
The Weekend Girls (1966) 7 exemplars
The Black Charade (1977) 7 exemplars
Beautiful Britain (1976) 7 exemplars
Dead Letters (2014) 6 exemplars
Suffolk (1971) 6 exemplars
The Bill 6 (1992) 6 exemplars
Musical Landscapes (1983) 6 exemplars
Only The Ruthless Can Play (2012) 6 exemplars
Stalking Widow (2017) 5 exemplars
New Tales of Unease (1976) 5 exemplars
The lion of Sparta (1961) 5 exemplars
The Sorcerers (2013) 5 exemplars
The Bill: Three Novels in One (1994) 5 exemplars
The Bill 3 (1989) 4 exemplars
Nurse on the District (1959) 4 exemplars
Strange Report (1970) 4 exemplars
Luke's Kingdom (1976) 4 exemplars
Revolt of the Humans (1955) 4 exemplars
Teach Yourself Treachery (2013) 3 exemplars
Someone Lying, Someone Dying (2016) 3 exemplars
London's Burning (1992) 3 exemplars
The Echoing Worlds (1953) 3 exemplars
Gossip to the Grave (1967) 3 exemplars
Death by Marzipan (1999) 3 exemplars
English Villages (1975) 3 exemplars
Kill Jason King (1972) 3 exemplars
Czechoslovakia (1976) 3 exemplars
Prince Regent (1979) 3 exemplars
THE ARTLESS COMMUTER. (1965) 3 exemplars
The Bill: Omnibus (1992) 3 exemplars
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968) 2 exemplars
C'mon Have a Smashing Time (1968) 2 exemplars
Fear by Instalments (2012) 2 exemplars
The Florian Signet (2018) 2 exemplars
Exodus From Elysium 2 exemplars
Jason King (1972) 2 exemplars
Vražda z rozmaru (1992) 2 exemplars
Handfast (2018) 2 exemplars
The Poison Cupboard (1956) 2 exemplars
Suffolk in Photographs (1976) 2 exemplars
Four Stars For Danger (2017) 2 exemplars
Skräckens timmar (1982) — Editor — 2 exemplars
Sussex (1974) 2 exemplars
Look back in anger (1960) 2 exemplars
Fourth Floor (1986) 2 exemplars
The System 2 exemplars
The Man Who Finally Died (1963) 2 exemplars
Pattern of Shadows (1965) 2 exemplars
The Trap (1966) 2 exemplars
Stel av fasa (1981) — Editor — 2 exemplars
The Angry Silence 1 exemplars
Private Satellite (2016) 1 exemplars
The Suburbs of Pleasure (1969) 1 exemplars
Colour bar [short fiction] (1958) 1 exemplars
Echo of treason 1 exemplars
The Boys (1962) 1 exemplars
EXPO '80 (1973) 1 exemplars
Random Acts: A Novel (2013) 1 exemplars
Don't You Dare 1 exemplars
The Devil's Tritone 1 exemplars
Party Games (1965) 1 exemplars
The power game (1966) 1 exemplars
The Envied (2015) 1 exemplars
The Twisted Tongues (2017) 1 exemplars
The Right Ending 1 exemplars
Hang time (2018) 1 exemplars
Historic Britain 1 exemplars
THE ADVENTURER (1973) 1 exemplars
Hra na Barbaru 1 exemplars

Obres associades

65 Great Tales of the Supernatural (1979) — Col·laborador — 60 exemplars
The Mammoth Book of Best New Horror 09 (1998) — Col·laborador — 54 exemplars
After Midnight (1986) — Col·laborador — 29 exemplars
Dark Terrors 6 (2002) — Col·laborador — 27 exemplars
The Young Oxford Book of Nightmares (2000) — Col·laborador — 23 exemplars
Lie Ten Nights Awake: Ten Tales of Horror (1967) — Col·laborador — 20 exemplars
Splinters (1968) — Col·laborador — 15 exemplars
Brighton Shock (2010) — Col·laborador — 9 exemplars
Darklands: No. 2 (1992) — Col·laborador — 6 exemplars
Back from the Dead: The Legacy of the Pan Book of Horror Stories (2010) — Col·laborador — 5 exemplars
Don't Turn Out the Light (2005) — Col·laborador — 4 exemplars
Scaremongers (1997) — Col·laborador — 2 exemplars
Authentic Science Fiction Monthly No. 43 — Autor — 2 exemplars

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I picked this up on a lark from Old Inlet Bookshop in Homer, AK. It is essentially a word-for-word episode adaptation of Gerry Anderson's 1970 TV series "UFO." As such, there isn't much to review. Instead, I'd recommend you stream the series instead -- the visuals are great (if not cheesy), the stilted dialogue is just wonderful, and you can't beat Gabrielle Drake in her off-duty Moonbase outfit!

If you want some very mindless entertainment, you can find the full PDF of the book (and its complementary second volume) on the UFO Series Homepage *ufoseries dot com."… (més)
 
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howermj | Sep 2, 2023 |
https://fromtheheartofeurope.eu/moon-zero-two-by-john-burke/

The novelisation is by John Burke, author of over a hundred books (mostly novelisations and tie-ins), of which the best known is his treatment of the Beatles film A Hard Day’s Night. I was very pleasantly surprised. Where the film stuttered a bit in terns of style and tone, Burke has gone for a relentless noir vibe in the novelisation, which also enables him to smoothe over some of the awkward bits in the story. I thought it came across much better on the page than on screen.… (més)
 
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nwhyte | Aug 22, 2022 |
First published in 1968.
What is the connection between a disappearance in 1913, a body discovered fifty years later, and a murdered man.
This book was okay, not really that interesting, the story or the characters or the writing style. It got the two stars because I finished it.
A NetGalley Book
 
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Vesper1931 | Jul 29, 2021 |

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Obres
124
També de
14
Membres
1,153
Popularitat
#22,291
Valoració
½ 3.4
Ressenyes
15
ISBN
134
Llengües
3

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