What type of novel was the 2008 British Comedy called How to Lose Friends & Alienate People?
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How to Lose Friends &amp; Alienate People (film) How to Lose Friends & Alienate People is a 2008 British comedy film based upon Toby Young's 2001 memoir of the same name. The film follows a similar storyline, about his five-year struggle to make it in the United States after employment at "Sharps Magazine". The names of the magazine and people Young came into contact with during the time were changed for the film adaptation. The film version (adapted by Peter Straughan) is a highly fictionalized account, and differs greatly from the work upon which it was built.
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Roman à clef Roman à clef (] , ), French for "novel with a key", is a novel about real life, overlaid with a façade of fiction. The fictitious names in the novel represent real people, and the "key" is the relationship between the nonfiction and the fiction. The "key" may be produced separately by the author or implied through the use of epigraphs or other literary techniques.
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Small World (Beaumont novel) Small World is a novel by Matt Beaumont, published in 2008. It tells the story of a group of people living in North London as their paths cross and collide in unexpected ways.
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Tragedy Day Tragedy Day is an original novel written by Gareth Roberts and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Seventh Doctor, Ace and Bernice. A prelude to the novel, also penned by Roberts, appeared in "Doctor Who Magazine" #210.
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Small Island (novel) Small Island is a 2004 prize-winning novel by British author Andrea Levy. It was adapted for television in two episodes by the BBC in 2009.
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How to be an Alien How to be an Alien (1946) is a humorous book by George Mikes, illustrated by Nicolas Bentley. It was Mikes' second book and is the most famous of the 44 he wrote. It is a classic of British humour and by its 32nd impression in 1966 had sold over 300,000 copies. It pokes gentle fun at the English and their relationship with foreigners, "alien" meaning in this context any non-English person. The book is characterised by much humour, affection and a total lack of rancour or bitterness. Mikes, an immigrant from Hungary, demonstrated not only his knowledge of English society but an insight into the English language.
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My Bollywood Wedding My Bollywood Wedding is a 2010 romantic comedy novel written by Rekha Waheed about a British Asian women's attempt to plan the perfect wedding.
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Every Eye Every Eye is a 1956 novel by the British author Isobel English. The novel describes the life of a girl who eventually marries a younger man and travels with him to the Spanish island of Ibiza. It is written in both the present and past tense, alternating between the two as Hatty describes her immediate experiences and, as a result, is prompted to revisit memories of her past.
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Lucky You (theatre adaptation) Lucky You is a theatre adaptation of the bestselling novel by Carl Hiaasen that premiered at the 2008 Edinburgh Festival Fringe.
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Invasion of the Cat-People Invasion of the Cat-People is an original novel written by Gary Russell and based on the long-running British science fiction television series "Doctor Who". It features the Second Doctor, Ben and Polly.
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What Was Lost What Was Lost is the 2007 début novel by Catherine O'Flynn. The novel is about a girl who goes missing in a shopping centre in 1984, and the people who try to discover what happened to her twenty years later. "What Was Lost" won the First Novel Award at the 2007 Costa Book Awards, and was short-listed for the overall Costa Book of the Year Award.
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The Good Thief (novel) The Good Thief, by Hannah Tinti, is a debut novel published in 2008 by Dial Press. It is the story of Ren, an orphan adopted by a pair of gentleman rogues in early American New England and led willingly into a life of crime. Ren, who is missing his left hand, is taught to lie, steal and run confidence games by his new mentor, Benjamin Nab, and they travel to the city of North Umbridge, where a mousetrap factory owner reigns supreme using his army of hired thugs ("hat boys") and the unmarried, dowdy girls who work in the factory ("mousetrap girls").
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Crime Is Our Business Crime Is Our Business (French: Le Crime est notre affaire ) is a 2008 French comedy mystery film directed by Pascal Thomas and starring Catherine Frot, André Dussollier and Claude Rich. It is based on the Agatha Christie novel "4.50 from Paddington" (but with a change of detectives from Miss Marple to Tommy and Tuppence).
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Just Henry Just Henry is a 2011 television film based on the 2008 Costa Book Award novel, "Just Henry" by Michelle Magorian.
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The Seven Sisters (novel) The Seven Sisters is a 1992 novel by British novelist Margaret Drabble. The novel reflects on a mid-life crisis of an estranged Candida, when she moves to a rundown London apartment. The novel largely follows Candida's evasive and sometimes deceptive representation of events, including a epistolary section which is her "computer diary".
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Sex and the City (film) Sex and the City (advertised as Sex and the City: The Movie) is a 2008 American romantic comedy film written and directed by Michael Patrick King in his feature film directorial debut, and a sequel to the 1998-2004 HBO comedy series of the same name (itself based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell) about four female friends: Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha Jones (Kim Cattrall), Charlotte York Goldenblatt (Kristin Davis), and Miranda Hobbes (Cynthia Nixon), dealing with their lives as single women in New York City. The series often portrayed frank discussions about romance and sexuality.
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Shameless (2008 film) Shameless (), is a 2008 Czech comedy film directed by Jan Hřebejk. Following their collaborations on "A Novel for Women" and "The Holiday Makers", Czech filmmaker Hřebejk and author Michal Viewegh reunited for "Shameless", a comic romp based on Viewegh’s bestselling "Tales of Marriage and Sex".
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Snobs (novel) Snobs is a novel written by Julian Fellowes. It is Fellowes' debut novel and was first published in the UK in 2004. It centres on Britain's modern aristocracy and the courtship and marriage of Charles, Earl Broughton, and Miss Edith Lavery. It is written from the perspective of a male character (without name) who bears more than a passing resemblance to Fellowes himself.
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Crime (novel) Crime is a 2008 novel by Scottish writer Irvine Welsh. It is the sequel to his earlier novel, "Filth".
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How to Deal How to Deal is a 2003 romantic comedy-drama film directed by Clare Kilner and starring Mandy Moore, Allison Janney and Trent Ford. It is based on Sarah Dessen's novels "That Summer" and "Someone like You".
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Why We Suck Why We Suck: A Feel Good Guide to Staying Fat, Loud, Lazy and Stupid is a 2008 book written by actor and comedian Denis Leary.
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Jeeves in the Offing Jeeves in the Offing is a novel by P. G. Wodehouse, first published in the United States on 4 April 1960 by Simon & Schuster, Inc., New York, under the title "How Right You Are, Jeeves", and in the United Kingdom on 12 August 1960 by Herbert Jenkins, London.