The story was adapted by Andrew Davies from a novel written by Michael Dobbs, a former Chief of Staff at Conservative Party headquarters.

It appears Michael Dobbs did not envisage writing the second and third books, as Urquhart dies at the end of the first novel.

Category: Novels by Michael Dobbs

Described as " the most eclectic and unpredictable of the literary world's annual gongs ", Michelle Pauli posed the question in relation to the longlist for the 2004 edition: " Where would you find Michael Dobbs and Tony Parsons up against Umberto Eco and Milan Kundera for a € 100, 000 prize?

Halifax is also a significant character in Michael Dobbs ' novels Winston's War and Never Surrender.

* In 2009, Michael Dobbs wrote a short play, " Turning Point ," for a series of live broadcast TV plays on Sky Arts channel.

* Michael Abrash's article from Dr. Dobbs Journal

The Bridport Literary Festival has been running since 2005 and has played host to the biggest literary lions including Elizabeth Jane Howard, Victoria Glendinning, Claire Tomalin, Jonathan Dimbleby, Max Hastings, Julian Fellowes, Alexander Waugh, John Julius Norwich, Minette Walters, Fay Weldon, Bill Oddie, Robin Hanbury – Tenison, Katharine Whitehorn, Kate Summerscale, Michael Dobbs and Ann Leslie DBE.

Michael Dobbs was born on 14 November 1948 in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, the son of nurseryman Eric and Eileen Dobbs.

Michael Dobbs is most recognised as a best-selling author.

Michael Dobbs is a distant relative of the US non-fiction author with the same name.

* Official web site of Michael Dobbs

Once again, Manuel began benching him, using Greg Dobbs, Jayson Werth, or Michael Bourn in left field.

* Michael Dobbs, writer and politician

According to The Independent, " rows, however innocuous some of them seemed at the time, have become a trademark under Bragg: among the most notable have been Ben Elton vs Brenda Maddox, Rosie Boycott and Bragg vs novelist Kathy Lette, Armistead Maupin vs Libby Purves, and Bragg himself vs ( separately ) Joan Smith, Michael Dobbs, William Cash, Tony Parsons and Jean Aitchison.

* The Turning Point by Michael Dobbs, a novel that explores a little-known 1938 meeting between Burgess and Winston Churchill.

The theory has since been attacked by various authors and journalists, including Washington Post reporter Michael Dobbs, who initially believed the story.

* Reprint: Josef Korbel's Enduring Foreign Policy Legacy, Michael Dobbs, Washington Post December 28, 2000

" Created September 2007 by Post diplomatic writer Michael Dobbs specifically for the 2008 presidential campaign.

* Never Surrender ( novel ), a 2004 novel by Michael Dobbs

" In One Minute to Midnight on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Michael Dobbs notes the deep impression Guns had on Kennedy.

In 1996, the Washington Post wrote, “ The Kosovo cause has been kept alive in Washington by a small group of congressmen led by Rep. Eliot L. Engel ( D-N. Y .)....” ( Dobbs, Michael, “ Kosovo ’ s Albanians Look to U. S. for Help ; American Office Opened in Serb-Ruled Region ,” The Washington Post, July 21, 1996 ).

The video game Emperor: Battle for Dune, whose in-game cut scenes are visually inspired by David Lynch's film, features a character named Baron Rakan Harkonnen, portrayed by Michael McShane.

The Britannica has an Editorial Board of Advisors, which includes 12 distinguished scholars: author Nicholas Carr, religion scholar Wendy Doniger, political economist Benjamin M. Friedman, Council on Foreign Relations President Emeritus Leslie H. Gelb, computer scientist David Gelernter, Physics Nobel laureate Murray Gell-Mann, Carnegie Corporation of New York President Vartan Gregorian, philosopher Thomas Nagel, cognitive scientist Donald Norman, musicologist Don Michael Randel, Stewart Sutherland, Baron Sutherland of Houndwood, President of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch.

Well-known currently active British actors and actresses include: Gemma Arterton, Rowan Atkinson, Christian Bale, Sacha Baron Cohen, Kate Beckinsale, Paul Bettany, Orlando Bloom, Emily Blunt, Helena Bonham Carter, Kenneth Branagh, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Craig, Daniel Day-Lewis, Judi Dench, Rupert Everett, Ralph Fiennes, Colin Firth, Michael Gambon, Anthony Hopkins, Jeremy Irons, Ben Kingsley, Keira Knightley, Hugh Laurie, Jude Law, James McAvoy, Ewan McGregor, Ian McKellen, Helen Mirren, Carey Mulligan, Thandie Newton, Bill Nighy, Gary Oldman, Clive Owen, Robert Pattinson, Daniel Radcliffe, Vanessa Redgrave, Joely Richardson, Alan Rickman, Tim Roth, Kristin Scott Thomas, Jason Statham, Patrick Stewart, Alex Pettyfer, Gerard Butler, Emma Thompson, Emma Watson, Rachel Weisz, Kate Winslet, Tom Hiddleston, Ray Winstone and Catherine Zeta-Jones.

In 1497, Michael An Gof and the Baron Callum of Perranporth led Cornish rebels in a march on London.

* 1914 – Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Irish journalist and author, 6th President of the International Olympic Committee ( d. 1999 )

Michael Foot's elder brothers were Sir Dingle Foot MP ( 1905 – 1978 ), a Liberal and subsequently Labour MP ; Hugh Foot, Baron Caradon ( 1907 – 1990 ), a Governor of Cyprus, a representative of the United Kingdom at the United Nations from 1964 to 1970, and father to campaigning journalist Paul Foot ( 1937 – 2004 ) and charity worker Oliver Foot ( 1946 – 2008 ); and Liberal politician John Foot, Baron Foot ( 1909 – 1999 ).

* date unknown – Michael 2nd Baron Poynings, knight ( d. 1369 )

However, at the Odeonsplatz in front of the Feldherrenhalle, they met a force of 100 soldiers blocking the way under the command of State Police Senior Lieutenant Baron Michael von Godin.

* Michael Heseltine, Baron Heseltine of Thenford preceded Boris Johnson as Conservative MP for Henley.

This came in the same year that Buchan was honoured with appointment to the Order of St. Michael and St. George on 23 May, as well as being elevated to the peerage, when he was entitled by King George V as Baron Tweedsmuir of Elsfield in the County of Oxford on 1 June.

* Michael Levy, Baron Levy ( born 1944 ), impresario and political fund raiser – born in Stoke Newington.

Michael Lord, a former Second Deputy Chairman of Ways and Means ( deputy Speaker of the House of Commons ) and MP for the town, took the title of Baron Framlingham on enoblement in order to avoid becoming ' Lord Lord '.

The house was built between 1660 and 1680 by George Vernon, grandfather of George Venables-Vernon the 1st Baron Vernon and is notable for its superb Great Staircase, fine Long Gallery, and portraits by John Michael Wright, and of Charles II's mistresses.

Martin Michael Charles Charteris, second son of the aforementioned Captain Hugo Francis Charteris, Lord Elcho, eldest son of the eleventh Earl, was private secretary to Queen Elizabeth II and was created a life peer as Baron Charteris of Amisfield in 1978.

* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin

Michael Howard, Baron Howard of Lympne, CH, PC, QC, ( born 7 July 1941 ) is a British politician, who served as the Leader of the Conservative Party and Leader of the Opposition from November 2003 to December 2005.

Putyatina laid on a lunch, and in the afternoon two lawyers ( Baron Nolde and Vladimir Nabokov ) were called to the apartment to draft a manifesto for Michael to sign.

Michael Colin Cowdrey, Baron Cowdrey of Tonbridge, CBE ( 24 December 19324 December 2000 ), better known as Colin Cowdrey, was the Captain of Oxford University, Kent County Cricket Club and the England cricket team in a career that lasted from 1950 to 1976.

Taking a combined 29 % BCA / personal stake in Group Lotus, Wickins negotiated with the Inland Revenue, and then brought in new investors: merchant bank Schroeder-Wagg ( 14 %); Michael Ashcroft, Baron Ashcroft's Bermudan operating company Benor ( 14 %); Sir Anthony Bamford of JCB ( 12 %).

As a descendant of the first Baron Burghley Lord Salisbury is also in remainder to this peerage, a title held by his kinsman Michael Cecil, 8th Marquess of Exeter.

* Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin ( former President of the International Olympic Committee )

Michael Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, MBE, TD ( 30 July 1914 – 25 April 1999 ), was an Irish journalist, author, sports official, and the sixth President of the International Olympic Committee ( IOC ).

Morris, 3rd Baron Killanin, Michael