A story of four people set in Malaysia against the backdrop of the second world war.
The two-day sale in September, conducted against the backdrop of the unfolding world financial crisis, brought in a total of $200.7 million.
When dreaming up the series a few years ago, Mr. Jinkins and Mr. Campbell settled on the rich, colorful backdrop of the circus world as the perfect setting.
This play is a welcome interlude for Weeks in between filming Foyle's War – a detective series set against the backdrop of the Second World War – the last series of which finished last month.
In the panoramic Two Solitudes (1945) and The Watch That Ends the Night (1959), framed against the backdrop of the two world wars, Hugh MacLennan attempted to capture moral, social, and religious conflicts that rent individuals, families, and the French and English communities in Quebec.
How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff Puffin £6.99, pp211 Meg Rosoff's impressive debut blurs the boundary between youth and adult fiction, the result being a compelling exploration of the teenage psyche, in which the backdrop of the Third World War offers a poignant setting for the chronicle of protagonist Daisy's coming of age.
An adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's story of a boy and his horse set against the backdrop of the first world war, it was directed by Marianne Elliott and Tom Morris and played two seasons at the NT before its West End opening in 2009.
I've just finished a feature film, Ali & Nino, directed by Asif Kapadia [Amy], based on the 1930s Azerbaijan novel, about a Muslim boy who is in love with a Georgian Christian girl, set against the backdrop of the first world war.
Richard E Grant presented the prize to Parade's End - Tom Stoppard's adaptation of Ford Maddox Ford's books about a love triangle set against the backdrop of the First World War.
