My favourite story of the week – the kind that makes you instantly want to hug the protagonist – features Scottish comic Kevin Bridges, and an invitation to 10 Downing Street.
In "Nightingales," Gill mined newly discovered family correspondence as well as the extensive public record of Nightingale's work from the Crimean War onward, establishing without question the heroic nature and extraordinary accomplishment of her protagonist — features of the life story that were first cast into doubt with Strachey's debunking portrayal in "Eminent Victorians".
In her explicit book, the Argentinian-born Iacub does not name Strauss-Kahn, but has publicly stated the protagonist featured in it is the former politician.
Set in Medellin, Colombia and shot from the POV of the protagonist, it features a world of existential Googling, where a walk through the supermarket is fraught with manifold digital displays, bleeps, emails, chat windows, virtual adverts, singing fruit, and digital Tamagotchi.
That its ne'er-do-well protagonists previously featured in Jackie Brown invites comparisons with Quentin Tarantino's 1997 film that do Daniel Schechter's no favours.
Perfect Dark Zero retains Perfect Darks mission objective system and Joanna Dark as the protagonist, but other features were not carried over.
I spoke of a desire to see more stories featuring protagonists with disabilities, protagonists who are LGBT, protagonists of colour, travellers, and British protagonists of different cultural heritages and diverse religions.
Zambra often features protagonists who are writers, and often these writers are seen to be writing the stories we are reading.
After more than three decades of directing, Scott has created a stir by revealing that he is returning to the project that first made his name – the sci-fi action thriller Blade Runner, this time with a female lead protagonist (the original featured all-action lead Harrison Ford).
We will also be able to alter the appearance of the main protagonist, Lone Wolf, a feature new to the Halo series.
The protagonist Jill was featured in the 2010 platform game Super Meat Boy along with several characters from other games.
