'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
There are three interesting biographies of Patrick Hamilton – few writers who work in the crime genre are so blessed, although maybe this is because Hamilton is not always described as a ‘crime writer’ (though he would be if he were working today, I think.) One of the books is Through a Glass Darkly , by Nigel Jones, a sound piece of work that is well worth reading....
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
The first book in the Patrick Hamilton’s Gorse trilogy, part of which sourced the excellent tv series The Charmer, was The West Pier . Graham Greene generously described it as ‘the best book written about Brighton’. It was published in 1951, and was followed by Mr Stimpson and Mr Gorse (1953) and Unknown Assailant (1955). The series was actually meant to be a quartet,...
So anyway, (Free subscription) | 11/27/2009
Time for another of the freebie classics The Times was giving away a couple of months ago. One week's theme was "London" which was inexplicably colour-coded pink. Patrick Hamilton wrote the play Rope , which I'm going to see in January and which Hitchcock filmed. He must have had an interest in crime because his novel Hangover Square opens with a definition of schizophrenia,...
Rob's Blog (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
... you remember paying £1 a pint *"back in the day". The book was Hangover Square, by Patrick Hamilton, who I always want to call Peter Hamilton (who is a spectacular sci-fi talent.) We had enjoyed the book, all of us, and with some trepidation I announced my choice of book. It was to be A Time To Die: The Kursk Disaster by Robert Moore. A strange choice, and one...
A Welsh Born Icon (Free subscription) | 11/08/2009
Much ink has been spilled on the question of why so many writers are alcoholics. Of America’s seven Nobel laureates, five were lushes—to whom we can add an equally drunk-and-disorderly line of Brits: Dylan Thomas, Malcolm Lowry, Brendan Behan, Patrick Hamilton, Philip Larkin, Kingsley Amis, all doing the conga to (in most cases) an early grave. Yet: Writing involves fantasy;...
Blog My Wiki! (Free subscription) | 11/05/2009
Just started reading Hangover Square by Patrick Hamilton this morning. It’s a much darker, more modern book than Craven House. So far, it’s wonderful. I stopped reading it on the train when I got to what I thought was an unimprovably good sentence: Then he remembered, without any difficulty, what it was he had to do: [...]
Zada News (Free subscription) | 10/31/2009
View company contact information for Gaslight on IMDbPro. [1] When later remade as Gaslight (1944) with Charles Boyer and Ingrid Bergman, the studio (MGM) attempted to have all prints of this earlier version destroyed. [2] Gaslight is a 1944 mystery -thriller film adapted from Patrick Hamilton ’s play Angel Street. [...] The perpetrator bolted, without the jewels [...]
'Do You Write Under Your Own Name?' (Free subscription) | 10/26/2009
... singer from Steeleye Span.) The source material for the scripts was extracted from the books that Patrick Hamilton wrote about Gorse. The incidents in the books are somewhat different, but The Charmer is a real success, which can still be viewed with a great deal of pleasure a generation after it was made. Hamilton was a fascinating writer, by the way, and I’ll say more...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
It changes all the time but at the moment, I'm working my way through everything by Patrick Hamilton, a greatly underrated novelist and dramatist. Like me, he also loved pubs. He wrote a series of novels; Slaves of Solitude is one of the best books I have read for a long time.
The Daily Sentinel (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... and Tiffany Sauls2nd Place – Corrections Knowledge – Tony Malone2nd Place – Overall Firearms – Patrick Hamilton3rd Place – Team Firearms – Team Captain Tracie Hamilton, Joseph Bramblett, and Jonathon Farmer4th Place – Physical Agility – Jonathan Easler5th Place – Physical Agility – Cody Willingham“Being Northeast’s first time to attend, the students represented the college...
Whatsonstage.com (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
Patrick Hamilton’s classic thriller Rope is being revived at the Almeida Theatre later in the year. The production, which is directed by Roger Michell, runs from 16 December 2009 to 6 February 2010 (previews from 10 December), with a cast led b...
