From the novels by Ruth Rendell, comes a collection of three psychological thrillers ... more
written under the pseudonym Barbara Vine. Each has a tale of deceit, obsession, hidden lies and characters that are far from what they seem, often clinging to a delica...
Blamed by her parents for the tragic death of a friend, Clodagh has been banished from ... more
their home in the countryside to a dingy basement flat in the city. Her life is transformed when she meets the inhabitants on the top floor of 15 Russia Road.
Kerstin Kvist enters crumbling Lydstep Old Hall to live with the Cosways and to act as ... more
nurse to John: a grown man fed drugs by his family to control his lunatic episodes. But John's strangeness is grotesquely mirrored in that of his four sisters who roam the dark, mazy Essex country house under the strict gaze of eighty-year-old Mrs Cosway.
A love affair is flourishing between Ivor Tesham, a rising star of Margaret Thatcher's ... more
Conservative government, and Hebe, a stunning housewife stuck in a dull marriage. On the eve of her birthday, Tesham decides to give her a present to remember. He arranges for her to be snatched from the street, and delivered to him at a mutually agreed venue.
Production Year: 2002 - Thriller - Director: Bharat Nalluri, Rob Bailey, Andy Wilson - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Matthew MacFadyen, Keeley Hawes, David Oyelowo, Peter Firth, Jenny Agutter, Lisa Faulkner
Thriller - Original Language: English - Classification: 15 years and over - Starring: Timothy West, Neil Morrissey, Tara Fitzgerald, Annette Crosbie, Pauline Quirke, Rob Brydon, Denise Van Outen, John Thomson, Kevin Whately, David Suchet
Advantages: An excellent book by a versatile writer Disadvantages: Some may find it a little slow-moving
Introduction
I have been quite critical of Ruth Rendell in some past reviews - her books range from the brilliant to the really bad - but I have to admit she is the most versatile of writers. I knew before I started this book that BarbaraVine was a pen-name for Ruth Rendell; had I not known, there is no way in a million years I would have guessed that this book was by the same author as the Wexford novels. I have not read any of BarbaraVine's books before, but expected something along the lines of a psychological thriller, such as those by Nicci French. What I got was a really well-written novel describing one man's efforts to write a biography of his great-grandfather, who happened to be a top physician to Queen Victoria, and who turns out to have some complicated happenings in his life. The writing is altogether of a different level ...
Advantages: Engrossing psychological drama Disadvantages: Pace may be too slow for some readers
"The Minotaur" is the twelfth and most recent novel by BarbaraVine, who is, of course, the alter ego of the highly successful crime novelist Ruth Rendell. The Vine novels are, I think, intended to be the darker, more psychological, less crime-genre side of Rendell's writing, giving her the opportunity to branch out in new directions? although to be honest, I'm not convinced they are really all that much different from the (non-Wexford) novels she writes under her own name.
The story is narrated by Kerstin Kvist, who as a young woman in the late 1960s comes from Sweden to the Essex countryside in order to work for the Cosway family; ostensibly, as a carer for John, the mentally-ill thirty-nine year old son of the family. Kerstin's main motivation is to be closer to her London-based boyfriend; however, she is also intrigued by ...
Advantages: Lennard Pearce as Grandad, & Classic Episodes Disadvantages: Not all the Best & Special Episodes, No Extras
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The First Series 1 to 7 BoxSet is stuffed with over 50 different episodes listed below. The great thing about this BoxSet is that there is no particular order you must follow.
There is a vast range of story lines for you to follow which do not overlap with episodes. You could start in reverse order and I guarantee unlike other programmes,
you will fully understand from scene to scene without having a specific order to follow.
This will allow you and others to view episodes individually at your own choice and leisure.
Here you have an almost complete package of Classic British Comedy for both teenagers and adults.
The only thing missing is that it does not feature each & every episode ever made for BBC Television.
But the BoxSet is a great introduction to those who have unfortunately not as of yet discovered 'Only Fools & Horses' as ...
Three features. Adaptations from the crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under the name of Barbara Vine. In 'A Fatal Inversion', two friends are reunited after ten years when the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the pet cemetery near on one of the friend's country house estate. Can they stay one step ahead of the police or will the police discover the truth? Also includes: 'A Dark Adapted Eye', and 'Gallowglass'.
Release details
DVD Region
DVD
Studio(s)
CINEMA CLUB; SONY DADC
Release date
31/10/2005
No of Discs
3
Catalogue No
CCTV 30231
Barcode
5014138302313
Languages
Main Language
English
DVD Description
Three features. Adaptations from the crime writer Ruth Rendell writing under the name of Barbara Vine. In 'A Fatal Inversion', two friends are reunited after ten years when the bodies of a woman and a child are discovered in the pet cemetery near on one of the friend's country house estate. Can they stay one step ahead of the police or will the police discover the truth? Also includes: 'A Dark Adapted Eye', and 'Gallowglass'.
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