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A Penknife In My Heart, by NIcholas Blake (Fontana, 1960).
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A Penknife In My Heart, by NIcholas Blake (Fontana, 1960).
From a second-hand bookshop in London.
By 1793, most boys went to sea at about eleven, in the rate of captain’s servant, seaman or able seaman. ‘Captain’s servant’ was a relic of an earlier age, when officers took their followers aboard, four for every hundred of the ship’s complement, and most were not servants; in 1794 this was reformed, servants were really servants, and the rate of boy (often volunteer) first class was created instead. From there they could eventually be rated midshipman, when they would move from the gunroom to the midshipmen’s mess. (In frigates, they were always there.) Some, like Nelson, joined in the rate of midshipman, but like him they could be rated captain’s servant or able seamen on joining another ship. If there were more young gentlemen than the ship’s rate allowed midshipmen, the excess could be rated midshipman ordinary, as were those who joined a ship after three years at the Royal Navy Academy (1806 renamed College), Portsmouth; they were paid as able seamen but their time counted in their qualifying service for lieutenant.
— Nicholas Blake and Richard Lawrence, The Illustrated Companion to Nelson's Navy
'The Midshipman': print by Henry Robinson after Alfred Edward Chalon (1780-1860)
Like many highly intelligent people, Georgia was inclined to underestimate the enormous potential strength of stupidity. Like herself, millions of men and women in England, though the last ten years had given them so many object lessons in the way a few really determined, unscrupulous men can exploit this stupidity and apathy, were still saying “That sort of thing cannot happen here.”
- Nicholas Blake
AMC Networks has acquired the six-part revenge thriller The Beast Must Die, which will premiere on AMC and AMC+ later this year.
“Ardet nec consumitur," Melina said. "Burned but not destroyed.” ― Ransom Riggs, Hollow City
Supervivientes del foro. Parte 5 de 6
The Beast Must Die - Not the Peter Cushing one but new AMC / BritBox series
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The Beast Must Die - Not the Peter Cushing one but new AMC / BritBox series
AMC has this original five-part revenge thriller The Beast Must Die debuting sometime this spring 2021. It’s a revenge thriller which tells the story of a grieving mother who infiltrates the life of the man she believes killed her son.
The thriller is the first drama to shoot specifically for BritBox UK. It therefore will also be available on that streaming channel sometime in 2021.
This is not The Beast Must Die from 1974 which starred Peter Cushing! It’s actually based on the novel by Nicholas Blake, the pen name of Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis CBE!
The Beast Must Die -Dr Christopher Lundgren (Peter Cushing ©1974 Amicus Productions
Director & Screenwriter
Dome Karukoski directed the series from a screenwriter by Gaby Chiappe.
Gaby explains, “What captured me when I read the novel was the combination of a thriller pulse and complex, nuanced characters”.
Dome reveals that, “Gaby tricked me. I never anticipated to get so engaged with this evocative vendetta. Suddenly The Beast Must Die became an obsession for me”.
He goes on to say, “I find the story intriguing as to whether the beast is the person we want to take revenge upon or if the beast is within us – one who wants to replace grief with hate”.
The production team used the UK 2020 national lockdown to refine the scripts and narrative. Then the series was filmed, safely, for eleven weeks around the UK’s Isle of Wight.
The Beast Must Die Cast & Producers
The cast of the five episodes include:-
Bafta, Golden Globe and Emmy-nominated Jared Harris (Chernobyl, The Crown, Mad Men)
Cush Jumbo OBE (The Good Wife, The Good Fight)
Billy Howle (MotherFatherSon, On Chesil Beach)
and Nathaniel Parker (The Inspector Lynley Mysteries, The Outcast)
Executive Producers are:-
Ed Rubin and Emma Broughton for New Regency
Marina Brackenbury and David Zucker for Scott Free
plus Nathaniel Parker and Gaby Chiapp
This min-series is produced by New Regency Television and Ridley Scott’s Scott Free Films.
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1947 Collins hardcover
1949 Pocket reissue, first print
cover art by Elmore Brown
Seattle Mystery Bookshop
This Man Must Die