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Anthony McCarten’s debut novel, Spinners, won international acclaim, and was followed by The English Harem and the award winning Death of a Superhero, and Show of Hands, all four books being translated into fourteen languages. McCarten has also written twelve stage plays, including the worldwide success Ladies’ Night, which won France’s Molière Prize, the Meilleure Pièce Comique, in 2001, and Via Satellite, which he adapted into a feature film and directed, premiered at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. Also a filmmaker, he has thrice adapted his own plays or novels into feature films, most recently Death Of A Superhero (2011) which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival. Anthony divides his time between London and Los Angeles.

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The film of the script of the book.

Anyone who ever saw the movies of Norman Mailer might conclude that novelists should never personally adapt their books for the big screen, and under no circumstances should they ever, ever, accept the director’s chair. Such a delusional ego-trip might pay some short-term writer’s bills but the artistic plane won’t ever leave the runway. The sheer freight of verbiage, interior narration, absence Read more of this blog post »

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	Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink 4.04 avg rating — 5,080 ratings — published 2017 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Two Popes: Francis, Benedict, and the Decision That Shook the World 3.78 avg rating — 926 ratings — published 2019 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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“Finally, it's not the lies we tell others that do the most damage, it's those we tell ourselves. From this all troubles rise.”
― Anthony McCarten

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“Titanic orator. Drunk. Wit. Patriot. Imperialist. Visionary. Tank designer. Blunderer. Swashbuckler. Aristocrat. Prisoner. War hero. War criminal. Conqueror. Laughing stock. Bricklayer. Racehorse-owner. Soldier. Painter. Politician. Journalist. Nobel Prize-winning author. The list goes on and on, but each label, when taken alone, fails to do him justice; when taken together, they offer a challenge on a par with tossing twenty jigsaw puzzles together and expecting a single unified picture.”
― Anthony McCarten, Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

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“We shall go on and we shall fight it out, here or elsewhere, and if this long island story of ours is to end at last, let it end only when each one of us lies choking in his own blood upon the ground.”
― Anthony McCarten, Darkest Hour: How Churchill Brought England Back from the Brink

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