![]() ![]() I was born in and grew up in Pontypridd, but remained close to my Prussian grandmother who resettled in West Germany. They fell in love and married in Cardiff in July 1947. My father, Glyn Jones, was a Welsh soldier serving in the British sector in Germany when he met Gerda who sought refuge there in 1946. She was fortunate to escape with her life. Like most surviving East Prussians she lost everything except the clothes she was wearing when the Russians invaded in January 1945. ![]() My mother was born in Allenstein East Prussia in 1926. Fascinated by the history of the workhouse and Pontypridd it seemed logical to draw on both when I was commissioned to write a book set in the thirties because “If you don’t write it now no one ever will. Many of the stories in my “Hearts of Gold” series were related to me by my father when I asked him about her. My father’s mother (who died when I was three) was Katherine (Kitty) Jones nee John who nursed in the Graig hospital from the late twenties, to the early forties. She was quick to add I was born on the maternity ward and as it was a few months before the introduction of the NHS she had to pay for her care. I used to irritate my mother by telling everyone I was born in the Graig workhouse. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Scarlett Thomas (Wikipedia page 'PopCo') 2004.Dominic Selwood 'The Sword of Moses' (2013).Alex Scarrow 'Time Riders: The Doomsday Code'.Rollins 'The Voynich Project: Nephilim Rising' ![]() Jeremy Robinson with Sean Ellis 'Prime'(2013).Linda Sue Park The 39 Clues: Trust No One (2012).Jonathan Maberry Assassin's Code (2012).Leena Krohn 'Datura, or a delusion we all see' (Datura tai harha jonka jokainen, Finnish version, 2001).Brad Kelln 'In Tongues of the Dead' (2008).Enrique Joven 'The Book of God and Physics: A Novel of the Voynich Mystery'.Deborah Harkness The Book of Life (2014).Lev Grossman (Wikipedia article 'Codex') 2004.The list can be added to and/or brief descriptions added - there should be more than mere passing mentions: Like other such lists it is unlikely to ever be complete. The following list, based on a previous version of the Wikipedia Voynich Manuscript page is a list of novels and other material which make use of the Manuscript. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Turns out there’s a Site B on Isla Sorna and dinosaurs are still running riot, even after InGen has shut down. We can’t help but feel he was resurrected thanks to Jeff Goldblum’s immense popularity from the first film, so that he could return to his role.Īnyway, we catch up with the chaos theorist and mathematician, who reluctantly teams up with paleontologist Richard Levine to search for a “lost world”. Now at this point we should point out Ian Malcolm is declared dead in the closing epilogue of Jurassic Park. He set the plot six years after the original in 1995. Why? Obviously because he wanted material for a new film (more on that below).Ĭrichton eventually relented and got to work on The Lost World. The Lost World (Michael Crichton’s novel)Ĭrichton (1942-2008) didn’t actually want to write a sequel to the first outing, but Spielberg pressured him into doing so. But eventually gave in and had the thing penned and published by 1995, which immediately became a techno thriller bestseller. ![]() After the Jurassic Park novel in 1990, author Michael Crichton came under pressure from Steven Spielberg to write a sequel.Ĭrichton didn’t want to. ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Squad is also a victory for representation. ![]() Becca’s inner conflict between wanting to be a part of something bigger and wanting to stay true to herself is certainly relatable, and the werewolf twist raises the stakes. While the squad’s mission of only eating the worst of the worst predators seems admirable at first, it soon becomes apparent that not everyone in the group has the same metrics for measuring culpability. The most interesting aspect of Squad is the way author Maggie Tokuda-Hall plays with moral gray areas and characters. Becca’s desperate to belong, but how far will she go to remain a part of this squad? After all, who doesn’t want the chance to take out a few predators and gain super strength in the bargain? But soon, it becomes clear that there’s more to this crew than meets the eye. When Becca is offered the chance to be one of them, she takes it, wanting to feel invincible. They are secretly werewolves who eat the obnoxious and predatory boys in the surrounding towns. They’re popular in an effortless way, and Becca is thrilled when they take an interest in her. Their lives are like something out of a movie. Squad follows Becca, a teenager who moves to a new school and immediately finds herself befriending the popular trio of Marley, Arianna, and Mandy. If Mean Girls and Jennifer’s Body had a baby, that baby would be Squad. ![]() |