Sentence examples for fictionalisation from inspiring English sources

Ellroy's novel isn't a straight fictionalisation of the murder investigation.

'Occupied City' is published tomorrow by Faber & Faber Well red: From Yorkshire Ripper to Year Zero Nineteen Seventy-Seven (2000) This fictionalisation of the Yorkshire Ripper case in the Jubilee year of 1977 is the second in the Red Riding Quartet that documents a decade of fear in Yorkshire.

Jackie Kay's 1998 novel, Trumpet is the fictionalisation of the life of Billy Tipton, an American jazz pianist who lived his life as a man.

But he's also keen to stress that it's not a documentary but a dramatic fictionalisation.

In the end, Broomfield and Churchill's search for truth inevitably trumps Jenkins's fictionalisation.

They're teaming up for a fictionalisation of a 2005 documentary about American PR flacks and spin doctors who are hired by Bolivian politicians to organise their presidential campaign.

As Tillyard herself comments, "Why did she seem to disappear... just when he needed her most; why was there no seabed within her, no plateau on which he could rest?" Both Harriet and James are too insubstantial to carry a narrative as wide-ranging as Tillyard's, and the laurels of Tides of War fall to fictionalisations of real people – Kitty, Lady Wellington, and Nathan Rothschild.

Robinson's Mars trilogy (1993-96) mapped out a future colonisation of Mars so detailed and convincing that later fictionalisations covering the same territory almost inevitably feel thin.

Her main fictional material was her own early life, until in 2005 she published Quicksands, a memoir that illuminated but did not transcend her intense and dazzling fictionalisations.

Early fictionalisations of the Ilford case are pervaded by a sniffiness about the crime's suburban location: Thompson is ridiculed as a poor man's Madame Bovary and a Messalina of the Suburbs, as EM Delafield entitled her 1924 novel inspired by the murder; "a sort of suburban vamp", as Dorothy L Sayers and Robert Eustace witheringly put it in The Documents in the Case (1930).

While this may be philosophically admirable, it doesn't make for great drama, and for all its simplifications and fictionalisations, The Fifth Estate feels strangely unfocused, uncertain of how to deal with its slippery enigma.